Ion Idriess Letters

In 1932 Idriess was described as 'a slight, medium-sized man, with a narrow, pale face, slightly greying hair and remarkable hazel eyes; a softvoiced man with a typical Australian drawl.' He was also a highly motivated writer. He said of himself that he wrote 'like stinking hell,' spending two hours every morning covering quarto pages of white paper with large handwriting at a desk in Angus & Robertson's old building in Castlereagh Street... -Julian Croft, Australian Dictionary of Biography
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