Writer, historian and bibliophile, Harry Pearce had wide-ranging interests and connections with many Australian literary figures and movements of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. Among his other folklore interests and activities, he wrote On the Origins of Waltzing Matilda (1971).
His papers in NLA at
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-343084760/findingaid
ADB entry at
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearce-harry-hastings-15047
