Papers [manuscript]. 1935-1979.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1935-1979.

Family papers comprise correspondence of Nettie, Helen and Aileen Palmer, including letters written by Aileen Palmer during the Spanish Civil War, legal papers, passports and obituaries of Vance, Nettie and Helen Palmer. Correspondence includes letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard, Edith Young, Flora Edlershaw, Eleanor Dark, Guido Baracchi, Frank Dalby Davison, David Martin, Lesbia Harford, Stephen Murray-Smith, Lorraine Salmon, Eric Westbrook, C. Jollie-Smith and Jessie Macleod. Other papers consist of unpublished novels and poems of Aileen Palmer, diary notes, 'Nettie Palmer's book' (1948), family photographs and photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War.

2.38 m.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7074280

Libraries Australia

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Palmer, Aileen, 1915-1988

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Born in 1915; one of two children of the writers Vance and Nettie Palmer. She graduated with Honours in Arts from the University of Melbourne, spent from 1935 until 1946 in Europe (1935-1937 in Spain). Many of her later years were spent in various hospitals in Victoria. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1937-1966. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225848078 Writer. Daughter of Vance and Nettie Palmer. Served in volunteer medical corps in Spanish Civil War...

Palmer, Nettie, 1885-1964

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Nettie Palmer was a prominent Australian writer and critic. From the description of Letters : Sorrento and Armadale, to Mildred Moore, Mentone [manuscript]. 1900-1902. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223121158 This volume was a twenty-first birthday gift to Nettie Higgins in August 1906. From the description of Commonplace book [manuscript]. 1907-1936. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225785683 Nettie Palmer was born Janet Gertrude H...

Palmer, Helen G.

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