Perryman, C. Elliott

THE CAPTAIN'S HEAD [cover title].

Single stiff paper sheet folded to form a small octavo greeting card, with author, title and illustration on the first page (verso blank), printed text of the title poem above a handwritten inscription and date, the last page blank; the paper faintly browned and a trifle creased; [the author, Mount Gambier, South Australia?], 1941. Not listed separately in Farmer; BAL P-Z p. 54. *The inscription is to 'Harry' [Muir] from 'C. Elliott Perryman Xmas 1941'. The illustration is also by Perryman. 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 Magazine and The Advertiser, and that he also published poems and drawings in the form of greeting cards for his friends. Item #137991

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