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Issue Details: First known date: 1905... 1905 Some Pearls
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Notes

  • A compilation of quotes, poems and extracts from predominantly non-Australian authors but also includes seven short extracts from Adam Lindsay Gordon and poems by Dora Wilcox, Victor Daly and Dorothy McCrae.
  • Dedication: In all Love and Humility this little book is dedicated to my Beloved Mother. July, 1905
  • Epigraph: 'I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own.'-Montaigne
  • Epigraph: 'I said of laughter ; it is vain.
    Of mirth I said : what profits it?
    Therefore I found a book, and writ
    Therein how ease and also pain,
    How health and sickness, every one
    Is vanity beneath the sun.' Christina Rossetti, A Testimony.
  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:s.n. , 1905 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Songi"Oh, little song I sang that happy summer,", Dorothy Frances McCrae , single work poetry (p. 50)
Messagei"Long is the journey from man to worm, and full of trouble and pain,", Victor J. Daley , single work poetry (p. 54)
If Love Were All! i"If love were all, I should not hestiate,", Dora Wilcox , single work poetry (p. 55)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: s.n. , 1905 .
      Printed by Atlas Press
      Extent: [viii], 96 p.p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Also includes seven very short extracts from the work of Adam Lindsay Gordon.
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