Perryman, C. Elliott

BESIDE THE FIRE [cover title].

Single light brown stiff paper sheet, folded to form a small octavo greeting card, with author and title printed on the first page, hand-tipped photograph of the author on second page, and a two stanza poem printed on page [3], the final page blank; small mark (from the glue used to secure the photo on reverse) near top edge of first page; [the author, Mount Gambier, South Australia, 1943?]. Not listed separately in Farmer; BAL P-Z p. 54. *Inscribed 'Best wishes 1943' and signed by the author at foot of photograph. Born in 1887 at Port MacDonnell in South Australia, Charles Elliott Perryman served in World War I with the Army Medical Corps. He studied art, and worked for a time in the 1930s as a lighthouse keeper at Cape Willoughby. E. Morris Miller, Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935 records that Elliott contributed to various journals including Pearson's Magazineand The Advertiser, and that he also published poems and drawings in the form of greeting cards for his friends. Item #137989

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