Items 7-19: Short stories

Component identifier:

File 4

Content Summary:

Comprising: Item 7: 'The knock'; Item 8: 'The last visit'; Item 9: Forward to volume 4 of Coast to Coast; Item 10: 'The loving wife'; Item 11: 'Little girl lost'; Item 12: 'Josie'; Item 13: 'Prisoners'; Item 14: 'Mountain idyll'; Item 15: 'The serenader'; Item 16: 'The brush off'; Item 17: 'The cantankerous cook'; Item 18-19: 'The seahawk'.

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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