Item 10: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 5 January 1917-16 February 1918

Diary [front cover]

CY766 1917 [written on white sticker]

[Du?]

a joy of day begun a joy of day just done [above two lines are the beginning of a printed poem, the rest is obscured by a newspaper cutting, the text of which follows]

[the large congregation quite at home. Stella Miles Franklin, of "My Brilliant Career" and other writings, is toiling in a new sphere. After several years in Chicago as an ardent suffragist, and a year or more of London, she is now working with the Scottish Womens Hospital somewhere in Macedonia, and her immediate O.C. is Dr. Agnes Bennett, of this town. Several other Sydney women are attached to the same unit, including Dr. Helen Sexton, who was decorated the other day for work done among the Servian sick and wounded.]

[Du?]

a joy of day begun a joy of day just done lessening the time by one

P. Burke [Bourke] Marston

[above lines are a printed poem on flyleaf of diary. Newscutting is folded back]

Unborn to-morrow, and dead yesterday! Why fret about them, if to-day be sweet?

Omar Khayam

[printed poem on flyleaf of diary]

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