| Description |
xii, 146 pages ; 19 cm |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
National Library's Ferguson copy is inscribed to George Robertson, and includes extensive annotations by the author. ANL |
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National Library's HHP copy (formerly from the Derrinallum Mechanics Institute) is inscribed on a replacement free front end paper, "My first book as helped to publication by Bernard O'Dowd. Mary Gilmore, 19.12.1950." Corrections by the author appear on pages 126 and 134. A 1973 seven cent postage stamp honouring her is adhered to the title page. ANL |
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National Library's SR copy belonged to Donald Ernest Fraser (Jimmie Pannikin), and appears to have been given to him by fellow 'Bulletin' contributor Gilmore. In her hand on the rear endpaper are two four line stanzas headed 'A reject of the 'Bulletin,' with an explanatory note which gently mocks the 'Bulletin' poets' "epidemic of dreams of God." Fraser later gave the book to his wife in Easter 1911. It contains corrections initialled by Mary Gilmore (page 27 and 126); a loose eight line poem in her hand, titled 'Xmas 1917,' beginning 'For the love of friends.' It also contains a small photograph of an unidentified young woman (stamped 'Oct 12 1909 Williams'), six newspaper cuttings related to Gilmore from the 1950s and 1960s annotated in biro (probably by Fraser's daughter Doris) either loosely inserted or affixed to the free endpaper. Crosses, ticks and other marks also indicate favourite poems. ANL |
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National Library's Whelan copy signed and inscribed in ink by the author, "For Roy Alexander who wrote "The Cruise of the Raider 'Wolf'" - and made history - Mary Gilmore Sydney 25.1.42"; also inscribed, by Alexander to Whelan, "I am so proud of the inscription by Dame Mary - although I did not deserve it. But I am leaving for Brisbane, and maybe Darwin, this week-end, so I think I will give this to you." It includes a two page manuscript letter from Mary Gilmore to Philip Whelan, 14.3.42, regarding the transfer of his letters to Canberra, the war ("I got out of bed at midnight to write this, so that if bombs come you will get it all the same"), the publication and censorship of her poem "Singapore," and the identification of bomber and civilian planes by her grandson, aged 2 1/2, [William Wallace Gilmore] at Cloncurry: "He hears them fast. 'Bomber in the sky!' he says. It shows his quickness but I can't help thinking what a horrible early education for a child - for all the children of all the world ..." ANL |
| Subject |
Gilmore, Mary, 1865-1962.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Author |
Fraser, Donald E. (Donald Ernest), 1864-1918, former owner ANL
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