Old Granny Sullivan. The Bookfellow, Sydney. n.d.

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Item 11

Content Summary:

Pamphlet. 6 1/4" × 4 1/2". Text 4pp, in paper covers. Gum tree design on front cover, enclosing portrait of an old lady ("Old Granny Sullivan") with a portrait of Shaw Neilson on back cover, together with the imprint.

Bound in full morocco over the original wrappers preserved as issued. Inserted in this copy are several items, as follows.

(a) Original receipt given by Shaw Neilson to A.G.Stephens for 17/6, being payment for the two poems, Old Granny Sullivan, and Maggie Tulliver.

(b) Original receipt given by Dagmar Ross to A.G. Stephens for 30/-, being payment for the portrait of the old lady on the cover. This drawing appeared as a full page illustration to the poem when it was first printed in The Bookfellow on 17 January 1907.

(c) Original receipt given by Eirene Mort to A.G. Stephens for 25/-, being payment for the drawing of the border of gum trees.

Note: This publication was issued by A.G.S. as No. 2 of Australian Poetry Books, No. 1 being Mary Gilmore's The Tale of Tiddley Winks. Morris Miller gives the date of Granny Sullivan as 1916, and that of Tiddley Winks as 1917, which seems a little puzzling. The urge in A.G.S. to "improve" was always strong. But when he reprinted this poem in pamphlet form he refrained from altering the text and satisfied himself by some minor rearrangements of the punctuation.

Names:

John Shaw Neilson

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