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References
- ↑ Poems and Songs by Henry Kendall
- ↑ "Review", The Freeman's Journal, 1 November 1862, p2
- ↑ Literature in New South Wales by G. B. Barton (1866) pp97-98
- ↑ "The Radiant Dream: Notes on Henry Kendall" by Adrian Mitchell, Australian Literary Studies, October vol. 4 no. 2 1969; pp. 99-114
- ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition, 1994, p608