Items 29-39: Short stories

Component identifier:

File 6

Content Summary:

Comprising: Item 29: 'The frost'; Item 30: 'Spinifex'; Item 31: 'Christine'; Item 32: 'The albatross'; Item 33: 'The circus'; Item 34: 'Tsuruga'; Item 35: 'The saving of Ameer Singh'; Item 36: 'Salvage'; Item 37: 'The return'; Item 38: 'Marnie's son'; Item 39: 'The test'.

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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