The Henry Lawson collection. University of Sydney Library, accessed 16/11/2025, https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/7470
Our Lawson Collection was formed by the Sydney book collector, Harry F. Chaplin over many years - up to the early 1970s. It's held in our Rare Books and Special Collections and comprises first editions of most of Henry Lawson's books. Many are autographed presentation copies.
At the heart of our Lawson collection are the original manuscripts, letters and notes; and the recollections by friends and contemporaries such as Dame Mary Gilmore, Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay and Hugh McCrae which Harry Chaplin brought together.
This selection of material from the Lawson Collection has been chosen to illustrate some of the chapters of Henry Lawson's life and how his contemporaries remembered him. A number of original Lawson manuscripts, written in his own hand with corrections, are also included.