Help with this book has come from many sources and over many years. In particular we are indebted to the late Guido Baracchi, Norman Jeffery and Esmond Keogh. More recently we have been helped by Gilda Baracchi, Mrs Margaret Berry, Bob Brodney, Ray Evans, Mrs A. Boyce Gibson, Paul Gillen, David Hill, Michael Hurley, Nancy Jeffery, Sir George Lush, Lesley Parsons, Barrett Reid and Betty Roland. In particular we would like to acknowledge the contribution of the late Anne Spencer Parry who was involved in this book from the beginning.
We would also like to thank the staffs of the Melbourne University Archives and the State Library of Victoria, National Library and Mitchell Library. We would like to thank those libraries for permission to quote from their holdings, the Equity Trustees for permission to quote from the Palmer papers, and Melbourne University Press for permission to use poems first published in The Poems of Lesbia Harford. Finally we would like to thank the Literature Board of the Australia Council for a grant to help in the preparation of this book.