The following articles have been published on the life and work of
Charles Joseph La Trobe:
Backhouse, Megan, ‘La Trobe’s legacy takes root: a descendant of Charles La Trobe’s elm makes its own mark on Melbourne’, The Age, 29 June 2019, p.10. PDF
Barnes, John (ed.) ‘C. J. La Trobe: A Letter from ‘Jolimont en Murs’’, to Charlotte La Trobe, 2 March 1840, La Trobe Journal, No. 80, Spring 2007, pp.45-51.
_____ ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe’ – Editor’s Note. La Trobe Journal, No.80, Spring 2007, p.44.
_____ (ed.) ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: Letters from the Colony’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.130-141. (Letters written to John Murray, London.) Corrections
_____ ‘Charles La Trobe in Neuchâtel: a research report’, La Trobe Journal, No.88, December 2011, pp.92-101. Alternative link
_____ ‘Hunting the Buffalo with Washington Irving: La Trobe as Traveller and Writer’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.43-66
_____’La Trobe and the Melbourne Public Library’, La Trobe Journal, No.80, Spring 2007, pp.79-83.
_____ ‘‘More beautiful than Port Phillip’: The La Trobe Family in Van Diemen’s Land’, La Trobe Journal, No.80, Spring 2007, pp.65-74.
Blake, L. B. J. ‘Unveiling of a commemorative plaque’ – Geelong Botanical Gardens, 14th December, 1975, in Principal Addresses of the C. J. La Trobe Commemorative Celebrations. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1978, pp. 43-50. (Reprinted in La Trobeana, Vol.5, No.1, August 2006, pp.12-16.)
Blake, L. B. J. and R. Gill. ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: a Chronology’, The Genealogist (Official journal of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies), Vol.1, 1975, pp.174-185.
Brand, Ian. ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe and the Van Diemen’s Land Probation System’, Bulletin of the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol.2, 1988, pp.49-67.
Breckon, Richard, ‘Inland Mail Routes of the Port Phillip District, 1838-1851’, Philately from Australia, Vol.50, 1998, pp.22-32. (Reproduced with permission.)
Burt, Sandra (ed.) ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: Extracts from Private Journals’, 1830-1837, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.29-42.
‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: Obituary’, The Athenaeum, 18 December 1875, p.830.
Charleston, Jessica, ‘A Beloved Cottage & Garden’ – La Trobe’s Cottage, National Trust of Australia Victoria Magazine, Issue 22, Spring 2021, pp.12-15.
Clark, Ian D. ‘George Augustus Robinson on Charles Joseph La Trobe: personal insights into a problematical relationship’, La Trobe Journal, No.85, May 2010, pp.13-21
Clemente, Caroline. ‘Thomas Woolner’s Portrait Medallion of C. J. La Trobe’, La Trobe Journal, No.80, Spring 2007, pp.52-64. (Portrait is depicted on the website banner and cover of La Trobeana)
Cowen, Sir Zelman, ‘Address, on the occasion of the La Trobe Memorial Service’ – parish church of St Peter, Eastern Hill, Melbourne, 4 December 1980. State Library Victoria, MS 11162. PDF
Crawford, Robert King. ‘The La Trobe Song’, in Report of the Activities of the La Trobe Centenary Commemoration Committee, December 1975. Melbourne, Government Printer, 1976, Appendix I, [p.53] – sung by Shirley Jacobs for the centenary celebrations. Article
_____ sung by John Lidgerwood (1984), on Eureka Stockade, by Bob ‘King’ Crawford and Doug Surman, Caulfield North, Lyric, 2010, CD 1, track 2.
Davies, Caroline, ‘The Man of a Thousand Occupations and his Early Melbourne Garden’, The Mediterranean Garden, No.92, April 2018, pp.19-25.
Deane, M. E. ‘Mr La Trobe’s Perplexities: Choosing Legal Advisors’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.46, 1975, pp. 544-548.
Eastwood, Jill. ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp.89-93.
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe’— oration delivered in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria, 9 December 1975, under the auspices of the La Trobe Centenary Commemoration Committee, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.47, 1976, pp.253-264. Victorian Historical Journal. Vol. 47, 1976, pp.253-264.
Fox, Paul. ‘Cultivating Civilisation at Port Phillip: La Trobe’s Colonial Experience’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.115-129.
_____’Discovering Port Phillip’ (the pursuit of colonial natural history) in La Trobe and His Circle. Melbourne, Council of the State Library of Victoria, 1989, pp.41-49.
_____ ‘The Importance of Knowledge’ – celebrating the 150th anniversary of the arrival in Melbourne of Charles Joseph La Trobe, patron of the arts and sciences, Trust News, National Trust of Australia (Victoria), September 1989, pp.26-27.
Grant, Donald W M, ‘Genealogy of the La Trobe Family’, The Genealogist (Official journal of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies), Vol 1, 1975, pp.186-207.
See also La Trobe family tree and JHBL Family Genealogy for La Trobe genealogy.
Gross, Alan. ‘C. J. La Trobe: a Study in Heredity and Character’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.46, 1975, pp.571-588.
Haeuser, Edith, ‘A Herbarium with Australian Plants in Switzerland’, The Mediterranean Garden, No.90, October 2017, pp.31-34. Link (extract) More
Hammond, Victoria. ‘Present Position Exile’ — Charles La Trobe’s Tasmanian Months’, Island, Vol. 77, 1999, pp. 95-104.
Hancock, Marguerite. ’News from Jolimont: the Letters of Charles Joseph and Sophie La Trobe to their Daughter Agnes, 1845-1854’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.73, 2002, pp.143-154. Alternative link
_____ ‘A Note on the Text’, in Georgiana McCrae, Georgiana’s Journal, new edition, Canberra, Halstead Press, 2013, pp. 5-17. (Addresses the editor Hugh McCrae’s rewriting his grandmother’s journal in 1934 and the false impression of an intimate friendship between Georgiana McCrae and Charles Joseph La Trobe.) Additional link
Kenny, Robert. ‘La Trobe, Lake Bolga and the Enemy of Souls: the First Moravian Mission in Australia’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.97-113.
Kirsop, Joan and Wallace. ‘Vice-Regal Reading in Van Diemen’s Land’, La Trobe Journal, No. 80, Spring 2007, pp.75-77.
La Trobe, John Henry and Renate (de), ‘The Bonneval Legend’, in Les Latrobe dans le monde. The Latrobes – The La Trobes Around the World, 1462-1997, Versailles: Association Latrobe International Symposium, 1998, pp.224-230. PDF
‘A Letter from C. J. La Trobe to Count Paul de Strzelecki’, La Trobe Library Journal, No.21, April 1978, p.19.
Marsden, Anne. ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe:…first patron of the Melbourne Mechanics’ Institution’, Melbourne Athenaeum Inc. history website
Mason, John. ‘Benjamin and Christian Ignatius La Trobe in the Moravian Church’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.17-27.
McBryde, Isabel, ‘Ethnographic collections of Governor La Trobe now in the hands of the Musée d’Ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland’, The Artefact, vol.2, 1977, pp.45-61.
McCulloch, S. C. ‘Unguarded comments on the Administration of New South Wales, 1839-46: the Gipps-La Trobe private correspondence’, Historical Studies, Vol.9, No 33, November 1959, pp.30-45.
‘Melbourne’s Emerald Necklace’ – Charles La Trobe’s vision of two rings of park reserves created during the early years of settlement, National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Vic News, May 2014, pp.6-7.
Moorhead, E.W., ‘Excursion to Jolimont, 1838-1855’, Victorian Historical Magazine, vol.27, 1956, pp.57-65.
Moravian Archives, ‘Christian Ignatius LaTrobe (1758-1836)’, This Month in Moravian History, issue 64, May 2011.
Patterson, Susan E. A. (ed), ‘Eleanore La Trobe: the First Baptism at St James’ Old Cathedral’, Ancestor, Vol.26, No.6, June 2003, pp.7-9. Includes transcriptions of three letters from Eleanore La Trobe to Miss Pat Woods (Mrs Roy Applin), 1935-1937.
Pullman, Sandra, ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe’s Garden’, Part 1, Australian Garden History, Vol.28, No.3, January 2017, pp.12-14. Part 2, Vol 28, No.4 April 2017, pp.21-24.
Ramsay, T. M. ‘Historical Survey of Jolimont in East Melbourne’, Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol 36, No.2, May 1965, pp.71-79.
Regan, Desmond. ‘Mr La Trobe’s Court House: a Colonial comedy of errors’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.52, 1981, pp.113-131.
Reilly, Dianne. ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe, a Colonial Governor’, in Les Latrobe dans le monde. The Latrobes – The La Trobes Around the World, 1462-1997, Versailles: Association Latrobe International Symposium, 1998, pp.174-198. PDF
_____ ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: an Appreciation’, La Trobe Journal, No. 71, Autumn 2003. pp.5-15.
_____ ‘The Charles Joseph La Trobe Archive: an Overview’, La Trobe Library Journal, No.58, Spring 1996, pp.7-13.
_____ ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: ‘Sketcher of No Mean Pretensions’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.73, 2002, pp.181-201. Alternative link
_____ ‘La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801-1875)’, in Stitz, Charles (ed), Australian Book Collectors, Vol. 5, 2016, pp.292-297. (Appendix: First donation of books, presented to the Melbourne Public Library by Lieutenant-Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe, 10 November 1853, pp.297-300.) PDF
_____ ‘La Trobe’s Diaries’, in Charles Joseph La Trobe: Australian Notes, [edited by Dianne Reilly]. Yarra Glen, Vic., Tarcoola Press, in association with State Library of Victoria and Boz Publishing, 2006, pp.9-43.
_____ ‘The Creation of a Civil Servant: La Trobe in the West Indies’, La Trobe Journal, No. 71, Autumn 2003, pp.67-84.
_____ ‘‘Duties of No Ordinary Difficulty’: Charles Joseph La Trobe and the Goldfields Administration’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 72, Nos. 1 & 2, 2001, pp.173-186. Alternative link
_____’A Huguenot heritage: the French ancestry of Charles Joseph La Trobe’, Explorations: a journal of French-Australian connections, No.28, June 2000, pp.6-9.
_____ ‘La Trobe’s Marriage with his Deceased Wife’s Sister’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.143-150.
_____ ‘The Rambler’s World’, in Charles Joseph La Trobe: Landscapes and Sketches. Introduced by Dianne Reilly. Notes by Victoria Hammond. Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, in association with Tarcoola Press and National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1999, pp.2-33.
Ritchie, Joan M. ‘A Case for the Superintendent: a Defence of C. J. La Trobe’, Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol.42, 1971, pp.565-569.
_____ ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: Governor, Explorer, Naturalist and Conservationist’, Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol.43, 1972, pp.936-939.
_____ ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe in Van Diemen’s Land, 1846’, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol.23, 1976, pp.21-24.
_____ ‘Governor, Superintendent, Judge and Town Council; Aspects of the Gipps-La Trobe Administration, 1839-1846’,Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol.63, 1977, pp. 94-106.
_____ ‘Housekeeper of Jolimont: a Biographical Sketch of Charlotte Pellet (1800-76) ’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.47, 1976, pp.277-283.
_____ ‘‘The La Trobe-Amiet Letters, 1853–1934’, La Trobe Journal, No.15, April 1975, pp. 72-73.
_____ ‘The Role of C. J. La Trobe in Victoria, 1839-54’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.46, 1975, pp.497-518.
Sanderson, W. A. ‘The Alienation of Melbourne’s Parks’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 46, 1975, pp.548-570.
Serle, Geoffrey. ‘Noble Vision and Harsh Realities: C J La Trobe and Early Victoria’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.47, 1976, pp.265-276. (La Trobe University oration, 12 December 1975)
Serle, Percival, ‘La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801-1875)’, in Dictionary of Australian Biography, Vol.2, Sydney: Halstead Press, 1949, pp. 13-15 Corrected version
Shaw, A. G. L. ‘Aborigines and Settlers in the Port Phillip District 1835–1850’, La Trobe Journal, No.61, Autumn 1998, pp.5-15. (Redmond Barry Lecture, 1996)
_____ ‘Agitation for the separation of the Port Phillip District from the Colony of New South Wales, 1838-1850’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol.68, 1982, pp.1-17.
_____ ‘Foundation and Early History [of Melbourne]‘ in Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp.284-288.
_____ _____ eMelbourne, School of Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2005-
_____ [Gipps and La Trobe]. Introduction to Gipps-La Trobe Correspondence, 1839-1846, edited by A.G.L. Shaw, Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 1989, pp.xi–xxii. PDF
_____ ‘Governor La Trobe’– oration delivered at Government House on 3 October 1989 to mark the 150th anniversary of Charles La Trobe’s arrival at the Port Phillip Settlement, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.61, 1990, pp.17-32.
_____ ‘C. J. La Trobe: Victoria’s First Lieutenant-Governor’– oration delivered at Government House on 3 October 1989, in La Trobe and His Circle. Melbourne, Council of the State Library of Victoria, 1989, pp.7-27. (Enhanced with images)
_____ ’La Trobe’s Melbourne’, Victorian Historical Journal , Vol.73, 2002, pp.133-142. Alternative link
_____ ’Separation and Federation: the relationship of Port Phillip with the government of New South Wales’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.68, 1997, pp.4-15. Alternative link
_____ ’Victoria’s first Governor’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003, pp.85-95.
Thiele, Frances. ‘Superintendent La Trobe and the amenability of Aboriginal People to British Law 1839-1846’, Provenance: the journal of Public Record Office Victoria, No.8, 2009.
Turner, Henry Gyles. ‘A day of 1839: Mr La Trobe’s Arrival in Victoria’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol.46, 1975, pp.519-529.
Wegmann, S. and Thornton-Smith, C. B. ‘La Trobe and Swiss Vine Growers in Victoria’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol.74, 1988, pp.287-295.
In addition, many articles have been published in La Trobeana. See La Trobeana Index
For further items refer to:
Reilly, Dianne. La Trobe: the Making of a Governor. Melbourne University Publishing, 2006. Bibliography: monographs and periodical articles, pp.271-283.
The La Trobe Journal
1968-2011 (No.1-88) 2012- present (No.89- )
Victorian Historical Journal
Indexes database Articles: 1911-2012 (Vol 1-83) 2013- present (Vol 84- )
Port Phillip Herald, 1840-1848, Melbourne Morning Herald, 1849-1852
The Herald for these years is not included in the Trove database.