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Australian VerseCollege of Arts in 1918. She moved toQueensland after marrying pastoralistAndrew Pedersen in 1921.Pedersen worked with a variety ofmedia throughout her life – includingtextiles, weavings, pottery, embroideryand paintings in oil and watercolour –but it is her skill with illumination andcalligraphy which is evident in thisbook. Each of the 17 poems chosenby Father Hayes has been written inbeautiful calligraphy by Pedersen, andthe accompanying illustrations depictthe location or subject of each poem.The Bulletin article mentions thatthe book had a cover of hand-tooledleather set with semi-precious stones –including opals and agates – collectedby Father Hayes around CrowsNest, where he was parish priest.Unfortunately the original cover, alsocrafted by Pedersen, did not surviveintact. The central panel was replacedby book restorer Anne Cloonan in theearly 2000s, with the one remaininggemstone, a chrysophase, set in.The Hadgraft Memorial Fund wasset up by friends of Cecil Hadgraftafter his death in 1987. Hadgraft was along-time academic at The Universityof Queensland, and a dedicatedsupporter of Fryer, making manycontributions to the collection. He wasinfluential in the Library obtaining theHayes collection, so it is fitting that hisFund has continued his contribution tothe development of the collection byacquiring such a unique item.Penny Whiteway is a librarian at theFryer Library.Above:The beginning of MaryHannay Foott’s famouspoem ‘Where the PelicanBuilds’Lilian Pedersen’s bookbindingtoolsJanuary 2009 6