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The Little Boy from Manly, drawn by Norman Lindsay during the 1916 Conscription Referendum

The Little Boy from Manly was a national personification of New South Wales and later Australia created by the cartoonist Livingston Hopkins of The Bulletin in April 1885.

Letter.[1][2]

Innocent Triflers.[3][4]

'Innocent Triflers' by Livingston Hopkins (The Bulletin, 4 April 1885).

In 1885 Hopkins' creative imagination produced an enduring image that evolved to symbolise and personify the colony of New South Wales and in later years, a figurative representation of the Australian nation as a whole.[5][6] In February 1885 William Bede Dalley, as acting-premier of the colony, offered to send a detachment of New South Wales troops to the Sudan to support British forces in the suppression of the Mahdist uprising.[7] After the British acceptance of Dalley's offer, a wave of patriotic enthusiasm became evident and a fund was established to receive public contributions, both monetary and in kind, in support of the expedition.[8] On 4 March 1885, the day after the troops departed from Sydney, 10-year-old Ernest Lawrence wrote to Dalley enclosing a sum of £25 from his savings (plus a contribution from his father) "with my best wishes from a little boy at Manly". The young boy's contribution received wide publicity, with his letter and Dalley's reply being published in the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers.[9] A cartoon by Hop published in The Bulletin of 4 April 1885, 'Innocent Triflers; or, the Joys of His First and Her Second Childhood', features a figure labelled "The Little Boy at Manly".[10] The boy is depicted depositing a coin into a money-box labelled "Patriotic Fund" held by "Old Granny". Behind the old woman and boy looms a spectral figure with labels including "Taxation", "War Expenses", "Pensions" and "Soldiers' Homes". Hopkins illustrated the 'Little Boy at Manly' as a young lad in early-Victorian costume in the style of English storybook schoolboys, wearing high-waisted pantaloons, a shirt with a frilled collar and a flat peaked cap. In the following decades the 'Little Boy from Manly' became a widely-known and routinely-used symbol of Australia's emerging nationhood in The Bulletin, featured in illustrations by Hopkins as well as other of the magazine's artists.[5][6]

Conscription illustration, egg-throwing incident.

In March 1885, as the New South Wales Contingent was about to depart for the Sudan, a letter was addressed to Premier William Bede Dalley containing a cheque for £25 for the Patriotic Fund 'with my best wishes from a little boy at Manly'. It was Australia's first overseas military adventure, and the little boy became a symbol either of Australian patriotism or, among opponents of the adventure, of mindless chauvinism. Hopkins put the boy in a cartoon, dressed in the pantaloons and frilled shirt associated with English storybook schoolboys of the namby-pamby kind. Over the following decades, he became The Bulletin's stock symbol of Young Australia.[6]

The 'Little Boy' has been identified as Ernest Laurence (1876-1963), later Alderman of Strathfield Council (1915-1920) and Mayor of Strathfield (1917-1918).[11]

Hop 1904.[12]

Boy by David Low.[13][14]

Boy by Norman Lindsay.[15][16]

Adverts.[17][18] Adverts by David Low.[19]

Boy by Tom Glover.[20]

Boy at Hopkins' funeral.[21]

Article.[22] Hopkins, pages 18-19.[23]

References

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  1. ^ Master Ernest Lawrence..., Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 1885, page 14; also reprinted in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, the Evening News and the Australian Town and Country Journal.
  2. ^ Mr. Dalley recently received a letter..., The Bulletin (Sydney), 14 March 1885, page 10.
  3. ^ Innocent Triflers, The Bulletin (Sydney), 4 April 1885, page 13.
  4. ^ A Story for the Marines, The Bulletin (Sydney), 26 September 1885, page 11.
  5. ^ a b Marguerite Mahood (1973), pages 181-182.
  6. ^ a b c Graeme Davison, 'The Little Boy from Manly', (in) Graeme Davison, John Hirst & Stuart Macintyre (eds.) (1998), The Oxford Companion to Australian History, page 395, ISBN 0 19 553597 9.
  7. ^ The Soudan Expedition, Freeman's Journal (Sydney), 21 February 1885, page 12.
  8. ^ The Patriotic Fund, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1885, page 8.
  9. ^ Master Ernest Lawrence..., Sydney Morning Herald, 7 March 1885, page 14; also reprinted in the Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, the Evening News and the Australian Town and Country Journal.
  10. ^ Innocent Triflers, The Bulletin (Sydney), 4 April 1885, page 13.
  11. ^ Jones, Cathy. "From "Little Boy from Manly" to Mayor of Strathfield". Strathfield Heritage. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  12. ^ Monroe Doctrine and tariffs
  13. ^ Parsons, Mephistopheles, Etc., The Bulletin (Sydney), 14 March 1912, page 15.
  14. ^ Too Well, The Bulletin (Sydney), 1 October 1914, page 15.
  15. ^ The Invasion and the Wall, The Bulletin (Sydney), 3 December 1914, page 15.
  16. ^ The Call for Plain Economy, The Bulletin (Sydney), 27 October 1921, page 5.
  17. ^ Winter Feeding for Maximum Production, The Bulletin (Sydney), 7 July 1921, page 2.
  18. ^ Buy Australian Oils, The Bulletin (Sydney), 12 October 1922, page 19.
  19. ^ The Little Boy from Manly, Leski Auctions website; accessed 9 April 2024.
  20. ^ Mostly About Melbourne, The Bulletin (Sydney), 26 October 1922, page 10.
  21. ^ John Sandes, 'A Little Boy From Manly', Smith's Weekly (Sydney), 3 September 1927, page 17.
  22. ^ A. L. Brient, 'Origin of a Symbol', The Argus (Melbourne), 2 October 1948, page 10.
  23. ^ Hop, His Confessions (part seven), The Lone Hand, 1 June 1914, pages 16-20.
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  • nla.pic-an6426507 Cartoon A jubilee featuring the Little Boy from Manly, National Library of Australia.
  • itemID=844353 Cartoon The Roll Call - or The Contingent's Return with the Little Boy from Manly in right foreground (1885) by Livingston Hopkins, State Library of New South Wales.


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