[Hume Polytechnic Library — supplementary register of readers, S.S. Iphigenia / MacLean galley book (Acc. No. 1919-A-04417). Form HPL-SR-1, ruled cream stock, 8 × 5 inches, kept clipped to the accession card per Dr. Hargrave's standing instruction. The register's header, in Mrs. Calder's hand, reads: Entered here: all persons who named the vessel and the cook together, without prompting from the catalogue. No further particulars required.]
Date of first presentation: 21 June 1923.
Reader: Miss S. Pellman, of the Beacon. Called at the reading-room desk at 11:20 a.m. and asked, without preamble, for the galley book of the cook Mary MacLean of the Iphigenia. She did not consult the catalogue. She had the accession number written in her own hand on a folded slip.
Reader admitted to the reading room. Book produced. Reader remained two hours and fourteen minutes. Made no notes. Returned the book in good condition. Declined to state her source. Left.
— H. Calder (asst.), initialled P.R.H.
No second entry as of the date of this notice. The register remains open. — H.C.
[Below, in a different ink, much later, a third hand — unidentified — has added a single line at the foot of the page:]
She came back. She did not sign.