Papers [manuscript]. 1883-1966.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1883-1966.

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Essays, lectures and discussion papers written for the Australasian Home Reading Union and for the Royal Society of Queensland. Also includes Byram's prize-winning poem of 1883 'Beethoven', the original typescript of his translation of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound', correspondence related to this translation, and summaries of Byram's career by F. W. Robinson and others.

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Aeschylus.

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Royal Society of Queensland

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Australasian Home Reading Union.

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Byram, William James

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William James Byram was born in Brisbane in the 1860s. He entered the Brisbane Grammar School in 1878 and left it in 1880 as the dux of the school. He studied for a year at the University of Sydney, gaining honours in Classics, and also the University prize for English Verse for his poem 'Beethoven.' In 1882, he became a solicitor in Brisbane. He had a distinguished career, becoming Chairman of Directors of the Brisbane Building Society, and a Trustee of the Brisbane Grammar School. In his priva...