Items 40-63: Short stories

Component identifier:

File 7

Content Summary:

Comprising: Item 40: 'Island night entertainment'; Item 41: 'An island night'; Item 42: 'The present'; Item 43: 'Island night entertainment'; Item 44: 'The voice'; Item 45: 'The dog'; Item 46: 'Trochus island'; Item 47: 'A touch of colour'; Item 48: 'The shadow'; Item 49: 'The voice'; Item 50: 'Kingfish'; Item 51: 'Leo's birthday'; Item 52: 'The storm'; Item 53: 'Twenty jolly sailors'; Item 54: 'The gold digger'; Item 55: 'The patient'; Item 56: 'The seahawk'; Item 57: 'Revolt'; Item 58: 'The vision'; Item 59: 'The voice from the deep'; Item 60: 'Scorpion'; Item 61: 'Sea change'; Item 62: 'Mrs Charman's Willie'; Item 63: 'The boss'.

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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