original manuscript by William Stagg

edited by Nancy Robinson

illustrated by Jill Francis                              

Publisher: Lynton Publications, Adelaide 1973, 1st Edition

Dustjacket: none

Illustrated: yes, with b/w photos and fine line drawings

Condition:  Card-bound illustrated hardcover with title to spine & frontcover, STRAIGHT, TIGHT & CLEAN in GOOD CONDITION with the editor's inscription dated 1988. The cover shows signs of wear and rubbing (see scan), but the book is intact and ROBUST.

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William Stagg

• William Stagg was 17 and living on his parents' farm at Tarcowie, east of Port Pirie, in 1885. 

• That New Years day he wrote 'Well I think I am going to keep a diary' and did so until 1944, two years before his death.

• Nancy Robinson who edited the early diaries for publication said she had come across no other diaries that 'give the day by day pictures of the hardships, the agricultural methods, the flora and fauna, the sociological interplay of ethnic, family and religious groups together with the revelations of personal feelings' as this one.

• With fine line-drawings of tools, implements, buildings and b/w photos.