Items 20-28: Short stories

Component identifier:

File 5

Content Summary:

Comprising: Item 20: 'In time of war'; Item 21: 'Travelling'; Item 22: 'Renunciation'; Item 23: 'The girl and the gunboat'; Item 24: 'The marooning of Marryat'; Item 25: 'The men in the burrows'; Item 26: 'The will to live'; Item 27: 'The island of the dead'; Item 28: 'The illusion'.

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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