Collection of essays under the general title of A Writer’s Digest. A long introduction deals with Mickle’s life and writings

Containers:

Box 4

Component identifier:

File 18

Content Summary:

The essays are divided into five books: ook I: Thoughts and Memories: The Will to Express, Sport and Games, Achievement, The Third Player, Unity, Discontent, Fun, Golden Ages, Demi-gods, Caricature, The Dog and Cat, Cinema Stars, The Funny Story, The Rude Story, Childhood, A Business Partner, A Christmas Party, Victorians, A Book Begins, Shopping, Memories, Life, The Ideal Garden, The Fiddler, The Grey Gum, The Sun, Moon and Stars, The Sky. Book II: The Foreign Colony: The Foreign Colony, Colonists, A Foreign Colony Party, The Lady Tourist, The Bullfight. Book III: The Jervis Bay: Ginger, The ‘Tout’, Queenie, Tragedy. Book IV: The Vamp Women: Vamp Women, A Real Vamp Women. Book V: Extracts: The Dinkey-dies and The Dinkey-does, Flags, Habits, The Soldier, The Bush, Bushfires, A Walking-Stick, Prologue to The Pilgrimage of Peer.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated to the Library by Alan D. Mickle in 1967.

Names:

Alan Durwood Mickle

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