'All in the day's work: the story of a forest fire'

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Component identifier:
Item 91(c)
Content Summary:

17 pages. 4to. Inscribed: 'For Harry Chaplin from Hal Gye, January 1952'. This typescript is unsigned, but has a number of Dennis's corrections in pencil.

Together with autograph notes by Hal Gye, 'Den's Prose'. He comments upon the various articles which the author wrote for the Melbourne Weekly Times. On the subject of bush fires he relates the narrow escapes the home at Toolangi had from destruction in the frequent bush fires in the vicinity. Signed 'Hal Gye and James Hackston'.

Bound together in half-leather folder.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was purchased from Harry Chaplin in 1981.

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Available for research.
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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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