Item 1: Volume containing short stories

Component identifier:

File 1

Content Summary:

Including: 'Island night entertainment'; 'The big wind'; 'The right to Orioles'; 'In the track of Smith'; 'Cyclone'; 'The treasure of Stagg'; 'The island of birds'; 'Trailing'; ' Bail'; 'The Great Barrier Reef'; 'Hinchinbrook'; ['Little Girl Lost']; 'The signal'; 'Cane'; 'The King of Luggestown'; 'A northern river'; 'His second life'; 'Solomon in his glory'; 'A coral island camp' (fragment); and a draft letter to W.G. Cousins.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first and largest consignment of the Vance and Nettie Palmer collection wasreceived by the National Library in 1965 from their daughters Aileen and HelenPalmer, after some years of negotiations. Further batches arrived in 1966 and 1967.It was found necessary to house the collection in different parts of the Library, foran important part of it consisted of non-manuscript material. The large library ofbooks and pamphlets are housed as a distinct collection in the Australian book stackswith each publication bearing a special Palmer book plate. The portraits of thePalmer and Higgins families are held in the Pictorial Section.

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