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Author's note: To Have Been Spoken at the Opening of the Opera House, Sydney, August 1829.
Epigraph: - "S'death I'll print it,/ "And shame the fools, your interest, Sir, with Lintot;"' "Lintot, dull rogue, will think your price too much;"' " Not, Sir, if you revise it and retouch."/ "Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door;/ "Sir, let me see you and your works no more." - Pope.
The epigraph appears in full on 'Address of Donald Trot'. The first two lines appear on the three other 'Addresses'.
Three 'Addresses' include poetry (separately indexed).
Eric Irvine in Theatre Comes to Australia (1971) states that on 20 August 1829, Barnett Levey (q.v.) gave his first concert in the Royal Assembly Rooms, part of Levey's new Royal Hotel in George Street, Sydney, New South Wales. John McGarvie's satirical prose and accompanying poems (separately indexed) seem to be 'addressed' to this event. Levey's aim to obtain a theatrical license and build a theatre caused much divided opinion and controversy in the colony in the 1820s and 1830s.

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Address of Ben Block, Australian Chip of the Old Block John McGarvie , 1829 single work prose satire
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 12 September vol. 27 no. 1710 1829; (p. 3)

Address of Donald Trot, a Scots Emigrant John McGarvie , 1829 single work prose satire
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 17 September vol. 27 no. 1712 1829; (p. 3)

Address of John Bull, Junior, I Am a Tinker to My Trade John McGarvie , 1829 single work prose satire
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 1 October vol. 27 no. 1718 1829; (p. 3)

Address of Toby Tickler, a Lad of Current Metal, Born in the Colony John McGarvie , 1829 single work prose satire
— Appears in: Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser , 24 October vol. 27 no. 1728 1829; (p. 3)

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Australian Literature and the Reading Public in the Eighteen-Twenties Elizabeth Webby , 1969 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 29 no. 1 1969; (p. 17-42)