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[Portrait of American Negro Sailor] 1943
pencil drawing; 22.8 x l7.5 cm
Manuscript Collection MS5959/13/42

When Donald Friend donated his 44 extraordinary diaries to the Library in 1983, he expressed the wish that the Library publish them at some time in the future. Edited by Dr Anne Gray and published under the auspices of the Morris West Trust Fund, The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume One realises this long-standing commitment. This volume, the first of four, covers Friend’s early life as a student, his time spent in Nigeria and his experiences in the army during World War II, and also reveals him to be a wonderfully gifted writer. Coming soon, this beautiful publication contains 100 images from the diaries.

 

February 2002 Volume XII Number 5

DRAWING THE NEW NATION

Elizabeth Willis discusses the iconography of nationhood, as depicted in the Library’s Watson Papers

THE KOREAN COLLECTION: A NATIONAL ASSET

Andrew Gosling describes a major component of the Library’s Asian Collections

THE TIME OF THEIR PNG LIVES

Judy Cannon looks at Una Voce, a newsletter in the Library’s Collection

AN OBJECT LESSON TO FAIR VISITORS: AUSTRALIA AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 1893

Roslyn Russell connects some Library treasures to a celebrated exhibition

LOOKING AT 'THE SECRET SELF'

Ann Nugent reports on the Library’s biography conference, held late last year

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

TREASURES FROM THE WORLD'S GREAT LIBRARIES

Special talks and events given in connection with the Library’s Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries exhibition

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