NILAND (D'Arcy, 1917-1967, Australian Novelist and Short-Story Writer)

Typed Letter Signed to Miss Eileen M. Cond, at Deer Park Hotel, Honiton, thanking her for her letter "awaiting me on my recent return from New Zealand", saying he is "glad to inscribe her bookplate", and thanking her "for your kind comments on THE SHIRALEE, and for your thoughtfulness in sending the cutting, which I did not have", 1 side 4to, Box 3743, General Post Office, Sydney, Australia, 30th October a few light creases and one short closed tear in blank top margin

D'Arcy Niland had begun writing in his teens, but in the Great Depression turned to many jobs. After his marriage in 1942 to writer New Zealander Ruth Park, they travelled through the Australian outback, he shearing sheep and she as a cook. He gained fame worldwide with The Shiralee, the travels of a swagman with his four-year old daughter. Peter Finch, who played the father in the film of 1957, said it was one of the favourites of his career.

Item Date:  1955

Stock No:  56496      £75

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