Notes
- Table Talk 20 February 1908, p 8.
- The will was dated 19 January 1908. Held David Syme papers, Box 1193/2, MS 9751/1277 1288 Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria. By 13 March, the first design proposal had been submitted by Butler to the trustees, who described it as “an improvement on the Temple of Phylae”, Syme papers, Box 1193/1, MS 9751/1275–1276 SLV.
- David Howard Alsop, ‘Walter Richmond Butler. Architect’, BArch research report, University of Melbourne, 1971.
- Additions to Architectural History Brisbane : SAHANZ . The Syme tomb has been subject of surprisingly few published studies. See Neil Clerehan's brief description, ‘Three Tombs’, Historic Environment, 2, 4 (1982): 23–29, where it is attributed to Arthur Peck, and Harriet Edquist, ‘Architecture, Mysticism and Myth. William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Arts and Crafts Movement’, in John Macarthur & Anthony Moulis (eds) 2002 (CDROM). See also Katrina Place, ‘Walter Richmond Butler: An English Arts and Crafts Architect in Australia’, M Arch thesis, University of Melbourne, 2002.
- Edquist , Harriet . ‘Harold Desbrowe-Annear, the Springthorpe Memorial, and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Melbourne’ . Fabrications , 10 (1999): 6278.
- David Syme. The Father of Protection in Australia London, Melbourne : Ward Lock & Co . See, for example, the obituary in The Argus, 15 February 1908, pp 19–20; Ambrose Pratt, 1908, p 282; C E Sayers, David Syme. A Life, Melbourne: F W Cheshire, 1965, p 211.
- Macdonald , Ranald . 1982 . David Syme Cheltenham , VIC : Vantage House . pp 37–38.
- Syme , David . “ The Soul, a study and an argument ” . In On the Modification of Organisms London : Macmillan & Company . Melbourne, 1890, and 1903.
- Butler , Walter . letter to Mrs Syme, Syme papers, Box 1180/5 (d), MS 9751/277–349 SLV.
- The Gods of the Egyptians New York : Dover . E A Wallis Budge, reprint 1969 [1904], vol 2, pp 186–193.
- Macquitty , William . 1976 . Island of Isis. Philae, Temple of the Nile New York : Charles Scribner & Sons . p 55.
- 2001 . Messages from Beyond. Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age Carlton : Melbourne University Press . Alfred J Gabay, p 3.
- Gabay . Messages from Beyond 4 – 7 .
- Gabay . Messages from Beyond 8
- Gabay . Messages from Beyond 9
- Gabay . Messages from Beyond 15
- Stuart , Lurline . 1989 . James Smith, The Making of a Colonial Culture Sydney : Allan & Unwin . p 141.
- Stuart . James Smith 136
- Stuart . James Smith 182
- Gabay , Al . 1992 . The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin Cambridge & New York : Cambridge University Press . p 26.
- Gabay . Messages from Beyond 131
- Table Talk 20 February 1908, p 7.
- Syme , David . 1903 . The Soul, a study and an argument London : Macmillan & Company . pp 205–206.
- Macquitty . Island of Isis 7
- A B Edwards, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, London, 1877, quoted in McQuitty, Island of Isis, p 8.
- Ferguson , John . 1976 . An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Mysticism and the Mystery Religions London : Thames and Hudson . p 89.
- Mcquitty . Island of Isis 153
- The Inspiration of Egypt. Its Influence on British Artists, Travellers and Designers , 1700–1900 Patrick Connor (ed), exhibition catalogue, Brighton Borough Council, 1983, p 3.
- Connor . The Inspiration of Egypt. 29
- John Lloyd Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, [V W von Hagen (ed)], Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970 [1837], p 86.
- Connor . The Inspiration of Egypt 121 – 139 .
- Fletcher , Banister . 1905 . A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method London : Batsford . [1896].
- McQuitty . Island of Isis 155 – 176 . McQuitty's book was published to commemorate the completion of the Aswan dam and the reconstruction of the temple complex on Agilkia.
- Syme , David . 1903 . The Soul, a study and an argument London : Macmillan & Company .
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead. (The Papyrus of Ani). The Egyptian Text Transliteration and Translation New York : Dover . E A Wallis Budge, reprint 1967 [1895].
- Budge . The Gods of the Egyptians 2, pp 379–380.
- Lethaby , William . 1994 . Architecture, Mysticism & Myth Wiltshire : Solos Press . pp 148–149.
- Hope , Thomas . illustrated in Connor, The Inspiration of Egypt, fig 86.
- Denon, Vivant, Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, translated by Arthur Aikin, London, 1803.
- Illustrated in Connor, The Inspiration of Egypt, fig 105.
- 1972 . The Victorian Celebration of Death London : David & Charles . James Stevens Curl, pp 92–95.
- 1990 . Victorian Architecture London : David & Charles . James Stevens Curl, p 273.
- Curl . Victorian Architecture Plate 35.
- Lethaby . Architecture, Mysticism and Myth 16
- 1991 . The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry London : Batsford . James Stevens Curl, p 151.
- Curl . The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry 222 – 3 .
- Curl . The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry 232
- In Australia, the earliest Egyptian-inspired buildings were originally religious. The style was hinted at in the tapered windows of St George's Church of England, Battery Point, Hobart (1820s) and those in Alexander Sims' Independent Church in Collins Street, Melbourne (1839). It can be seen more fully expressed in the Hobart Synagogue (1845), which had a prominent façade with a heavy cornice, battered sides, tapered windows and an entrance fashioned as a temple portal. No doubt the allusion was to the Jewish captivity in Egypt. After the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in the 1920s there was a fresh wave of secular Egyptian enthusiasm.
- Bongiorno , Frank . ‘Reputation of a Romantic’ . Meanjin , 62 2 (2003):142.
- 2001 . Radical Melbourne. A Secret History North Carlton : Vulgar Press . Jeff Sparrow & Jill Sparrow, p 141.
- Gabay . The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin 82
- Gabay . The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin 24
- Jalland , Pat . Australian Ways of Death. A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918 Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 177–198.
- Stuart . James Smith 151
- Young had collaborated with Butler on the Rutter Clark house ‘Warrawee’ in Toorak two years before.
- This argument formed the basis of my paper for the 2002 SAHANZ conference; see Edquist, ‘Architecture, Mysticism and Myth. William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Arts and Crafts Movement’.
- Lethaby . Architecture, Mysticism and Myth 12
- 1984 . Art of the Nineteenth century. Painting and Sculpture London : Thames and Hudson . Robert Rosenblum & H W Janson, p 425.
- The quotation is from Jean Moreas' Manifesto of Symbolism, 1886.
- Lethaby . Architecture, Mysticism and Myth 12
- Place , Katrina . “ Thresholds. Papers of the sixteenth SAHANZ Conference ” . In ‘An Englishman Abroad: The Arts and Crafts Gardens of Walter R Butler’ Launceston & Hobart : SAHANZ . in Richard Blythe & Rory Spence (eds.) 1999, p 269. Desbrowe-Annear's recommended list of readings to architecture students at the Atelier was even more Symbolist in sympathy, including Anatol France, De Maupassant, Maeterlinck and the anti-clerical Renan's Life of Christ.