'On my bookshelf is a copy of Morris Miller's two-volume bibliography Australian Literature, in which Bruce Sutherland pasted his bookplate, a reproduction of a Neville Cayley painting of a kookaburra. He acquired the copy shortly after the bibliography was published in 1940 and must have been one of the few academics in US or other overseas centers of learning ever to possess one. At the time, he was a young lecturer in English on the staff of the Pennsylvania State College.' (Introduction)