Josiah Cocking Finding Aid

A7748

The notebook diaries of Josiah Cocking:

Introduction by Tony Laffan

• A - 14 Nov 1884 - 18 May 1893
• B - 18 May 1893 - 7 April 1894
• C - 8 April 1894 - 11 April 1899
• D - 17 March 1899 - 15 January 1910
• E - 4 December 1909 - 17 May 1920
• F - 21 May 1920 - 20 December 1921
• G - 14 October 1921 - 16 March 1923
• H - 17 March 1923 - 19 February 1926
• I - 4 September 1926 - 22 June 1928
• J - 15 June 1928 - 13 November 1929
• K - 13 November 1929 - 25 April 1931
• L - 5 June 1931 - 17 August 1932
• M - 18 August 1932 - 10 August 1933
• N - 21 August 1933 - 26 April 1934

The notebook diaries of Josiah Cocking:

• O - 27 April 1934 - 29 January 1935
• P - 31 January 1935 - 15 October 1935
• Q - 16 October 1935 - 31 July 1937
• R - 28 July 1937 - 28 June 1938
• S - 1 July 1938 - 13 December 1938
• T - 15 December 1938 - 14 September 1939
• U - 15 September 1939 - 30 May 1940
• V - 12 June 1940 - 15 January 1943
• W - 15 January 1943 - 1 January 1944
• X - 6 January 1944 - 12 January 1945
• Y - 7 February 1945 - 7 August 1947
• Z - 13 August 1947 - 26 July 1952
• ZZA2 - 9 August 1952 - 13 January 1956

The notebook diaries of Josiah Cocking:

• ZZB2 - 21 January 1956 - 11 November 1958
• ZZC2 - 22 November 1958 - 18 June 1960
• News clipping book entitled “Industrial” relating to labour, political, warfare and communist themes, Feb. 1911 – Jan. 1932.
• News clipping book entitled “Industry. Industrial” relating to labour, communism and warfare, Feb. 1911 – Jan 1932.
• [Typescript] I Call It Murder by “Taraxacum” [Josiah Cocking] in two books, Sept. 1934, together with news clipping dated 16th August 1947 and handwritten manuscript of dialogue entitled The Fourth Craft Union Meeting, 6th January 1912.
• [Anthony Hordern & Sons Palace Emporium, Sydney, Catalogue used as newspaper clipping book] Book entitled “War” consisting of cuttings relating to warfare, 1913 – 1959.

The published verse of Josiah Cocking (under a number of pseudonyms such as ‘The Soshalistik Kove’, ‘Dad’, ‘Daisy’, ‘K.N. Pepper’, ‘Capsicum’, ‘Taraxacum’, ‘Dandelion’ and ‘Violet’) in a series of news clipping exercise books entitled ‘Verses’:

1. Verses, May 1910 – May 1922, Nov.1958 – Jan. 1959.
2. Verses, Dec. 1921 – June 1960.
3. Verses, [including typescript] Jan 1919 – June 1960.
4. Verses, Feb 1911 – Oct 1937, Jan 1960.
5. Verses, Aug 1958 – June 1960.
6. Verses, Oct 1955 – Feb [1960].
7. Verses, July 1914 – Nov 1958.
8. Verses, [typescript with some clippings] July 1923 – Aug 1931.
9. Verses, Nov 1911 – June 1959.
10. Verses, Jan 1916 – June 1960.
11. Verses, Typescript of Verses written between 1887 and 1954.

Josiah Cocking scrapbooks of clippings and manuscript snippets entitled ‘Scraps’:

1. Scraps, Aug 1921 – June 1931.
2. Scraps, (entitled ‘War Against War) Sept 1910 – 1932.
3. Scraps, March 1933 – May 1935.
4. Scraps, (entitled ‘Vera’) August 1909 – June 1960.
5. Scraps, 1884 – 1889
6. Scraps, 6a 1955 – 1960, 6b Aug- Dec 1907, 6c 1885 – 1889, Dec 1918.
7. Scraps, May 1918 – Nov 1934.
8. Scraps, Dec 1918 – June 1940.
9. Scraps, June 1912 – Aug 1934.
10. Scraps, Jan 1932 – Nov 1934.

1. Twelve Months of Sedition: Harry Holland’s Speech from the Dock and the Chief Justice’s Remarks in Delivering Sentence. Wellington, 1914.
2. Samoa: The Story that Teems With Tragedy by H.E. Holland. Wellington, 1918.
3. Indentured Labour: Is It Slavery by H.E. Holland. [1910?]
4. Australia’s Part in the World Revolution [1930?]
5. An Address to the Clergy of All Denominations in Favour of Spiritualism and Freethought by W.D.C. Donovan. Melbourne, 1903.
6. History of the Steam Hammer by T.S. Rowlandson 5th Ed. [1875].
7. The Spiritualists’ Illustrated Annual, 1906.
8. Labour Leg-Ironed or Liberal and Labour Party Arbitration Acts in NSW…by H.E. Holland. Wellington, 1912.
9. .A Lecture on Village Settlements With Some Discussion of the Questions of the Unemployed, the Land and Co-Operation…by Rev Thomas Roseby. Sydney, 1894.
10. A Criticism of the Single Tax [c. 1900].

1. The Premiers’ Plan In Action [by R.A. King?] [1935].
2. Russia’s Educational Advance: The Victorious Struggle of the First Workers’ Republic Against Illiteracy by N.K. Krupskaya. Sydney, 1928.
3. The International Socialist Review for Australasia. Jan, March and April 1910.

1. Mr Howard Elliot’s Attack on the King by H.E. Holland. Wellington, 1924.
2. The Machine: Friend of Man – Or Rival by H.E. Holland. Wellington, 1931.
3. War! Points About the Fighting Powers: A Handy Catechism [Cover Title: Stead’s War Book Compiled by Henry Stead]. Melbourne, n.d.
4. Assault on China by P. Dietrich. London, [1920s]
5. Penal Servitude for Politics. London [1931?]
6. John Davidson’s Fate: A Class War Story by Tom Anderson. Sydney, n.d.
7. Reds in Congress by J. Howie. [Sydney, 1921]
8. Summary of Principal Events: The History of the Boers. [c. 1900].

Copy of:

• The Practical Home Physician & Encyclopedia of Medicine… by H.M. Lyman, C. Fenger, H. Webster Jone and W.J. Belfield. London, [c. 1910]
• How to Work With the Microscope by Lionel J. Beale. 5th Ed. London, 1880.
• Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment… by F.C. Richards and E.S. Richards. Melbourne, [c. 1912]
• The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design by Sir Charles Bell. 5th Ed Rev. London, 1852.
• The Microscope: A Practical Handbook by Lewis Wright, Enlarged and Rewritten by Aubrey H Drew. London, [1922].
• Nature’s Smallest Creatures: A Peep at an Invisible World of Life and Beauty by C. Hallam. Melbourne, [1905].
• The Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects by Thomas Davies Edited by John Matthews. London, 1890.
• CD Rom version of The Diaries of Josiah Cocking 1867 – 1960.