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This selection from Herbert's voluminous correspondence includes letters to forty five individuals and organizations - his wife Sadie, friends, acquaintances, political and literary figures. The letters are arranged in six individually titled sections: 'Black Betrayal' and Failure (1929-1934); Exiled in Capricornia Country (1935-1938); Literary Lion in Love and War (1938-1947); Northern Wanderer (1947-1968); Writer, Chemist and Disturbing Element (1964-1968); Poor Fellow Dreaming (1970-1979). The letters are interspersed with explanatory biographical material. The editors have also provided a glossary, biographical notes on correspondents and notes on persons mentioned in the letters.

Notes

  • Herbert's letters are preserved in a number of manuscript collections in Australian libraries. Details of these collections can be found by consulting the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscipts (RAAM) : http://www.nla.gov.au/raam/ and the Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts: http://findaid.library.uwa.edu.au/
  • Dedication: For Heather Atkinson

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    • St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,: University of Queensland Press , 2002 .
      Extent: 490p.
      Description: illus: 8 p. photographs , maps.
      Note/s:
      • Glossary pp. 457-458
      • Details of letter recipients pp. 459-463.
      • Names mentioned in letters pp.465-480.
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 0702233099
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