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Author's note: The whole of the contents contained in the twenty chapters of 'The Miserable Clerk' were first published in the Brisbane Courier... S. R. Brisbane, May 1925.
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Richard Fotheringham's bibliography lists three additional 'Sheriff's Office' stories (see Courier 30/8; 25/10; 1/11) which do not appear in the novel. However, my search of the Courier did not locate the original printing of the two stories which comprise Chapters 10 and 15; the Courier issues containing these stories have not as yet been traced.
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In Search of Steele Rudd (pp. 70-75) discusses this work at length. Richard Fotheringham describes this work as a novella, 'which was based on' Rudd's 'life in the Sheriff's Office' between 1889 and 1903' (p.70). He also notes that in 1935, Rudd wrote a screenplay based on The Miserable Clerk. (p.165)
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Fellowship of Writers
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humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 June vol. 50 no. 2573 1929; (p. 5) -
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1927
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 April vol. 48 no. 2462 1927; (p. 5)
— Review of The Miserable Clerk 1924 single work novella
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Untitled
1927
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 April vol. 48 no. 2462 1927; (p. 5)
— Review of The Miserable Clerk 1924 single work novella -
Fellowship of Writers
1929
single work
column
humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 June vol. 50 no. 2573 1929; (p. 5)
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