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Years of agony and joy: The Sadie and Xavier Herbert Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2015

Simon Farley*
Affiliation:
s.farley@library.uq.edu.au
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The University of Queensland's Fryer Library is home to many fine literary vintages. Established in 1927 as the J.D. Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature in honour of a former Arts student and soldier in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), John Denis Fryer, the collection includes the papers of significant Australian journalists, novelists and poets, including Ernestine Hill, John Forbes, David Malouf, Bruce Dawe, Thomas Shapcott, Peter Carey and Oodgeroo Noonuccal among others.

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Collection review
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015 

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Endnotes

1Herbert, X., Transcript of a speech delivered by Xavier Herbert on 17 Oct 1975’, in Hassall, A. (ed.), The Making of Xavier Herbert's Poor Fellow My Country (Townsville: James Cook University, 1988), 2331Google Scholar.

2 The Times Literary Supplement, 9 April 1976, 417.

3 ‘England's Famous Novelist, H.G. Wells, on Xavier Herbert's Capricornia’, The Publicist, 1 March, 2.

4 Hergenhan, L., ‘The Road to Poor Fellow My Country’, in Follett, R. (ed.), Found in Fryer: Stories from the Fryer Library Collection (Brisbane: University of Queensland Library, 2010), 158–9Google Scholar.

6 Leane, J., ‘Tracking our country in settler literature’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 14 (3)Google Scholar, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/3294/4109.

7 The Australian, 29 November 2014.