[A single sheet of typewriting paper, folded, at the front of the top drawer of a steel four-drawer filing cabinet in Sarah Pellman's flat at 8 Rosemary Lane, the Heights. The key to the cabinet is concealed inside a book of essays (Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey, 1898 edition) on the bottom shelf of the reading room at the Hume Polytechnic library. Pellman added entries by hand over the years; the most recent is December 1923.]
CABINET — CONTENTS INDEX Miss S. Pellman, 8 Rosemary Lane. Begun Jan 1913. Kept under this key. Do not move the cabinet. Do not burn this sheet; it is the only index.
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FOLDER DATE ADDED ITEM KILLED BY
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01 1913-02 Dannemeyer's Iphigenia follow-up (his carbon,
given me after his firing in 1917). Original
unprintable in 1913. Still unprintable. Vantine
02 1913-03 My inquest-day coverage notes, complete set
(what I filed; what I did not file). —
03 1913-05 Transcript-copy of the Timmons deposition —
the clerk Fairfax gave me this, unofficially.
The ORIGINAL "not used" marking visible. —
04 1913-12 Malinowski petition — my version of the
unpublished article. Carbon. Short form. Dreyfoos
05 1914-04 List of the four survivors paid off and moved.
NOT published — I cannot prove movement beyond
what Dannemeyer's notebook says. Names here
as I have them. —
06 1917-06 Dannemeyer's firing — notes from my own
observation and his account to me afterwards. —
07 1919-09 THORPE, CORNELIUS — my obit follow-up,
killed by Dreyfoos 22 Sep 1919 with the red
pencil still on the carbon. Dreyfoos
08 1919-10 Ostermann's passing remark about the nurse
(noted 16 Sep 1919, written down 17 Sep).
I kept this to my shame. Ostermann never asked. —
09 1921-12 FRYE / LOUISA — the letter. Do NOT publish.
Reread annually on the anniversary. (never
for print)
10 1922-07 STRIKE — my own counter-piece to the Beacon's.
Killed, shorter than McCausland's Clarion piece. Dreyfoos
11 1922-09 Ostermann's second remark to me (about the
Cadenza voucher Brecht signed) — written down
24 Sep 1922. I have not used this. —
12 1923-01 Hargrave-Thwaite's letter to me, unpublished,
with her additional notes on the night-traffic
count. She let me keep it. —
13 1923-04 A BOX HUME piece I attempted in April — the
retrospective on August — that Corine ran at
the Clarion under a pseudonym because I cannot
write it at the Beacon. My draft is in this
folder; the printed piece is in folder 15. (pseudonym)
14 1923-10 JARZEMBEK — I attempted nothing. I have
notes. I was too tired to try. —
15 1923-04 The Clarion piece as printed. (See folder 13.) —
16 1923-11 KAMINSKI — notes from my conversation with
Kamiński the week after he began at the Clarion.
He said things I did not put in print. —
17 1923-12 An outline for a long retrospective piece —
Port Hume, 1910-1923, the pattern behind the
patterns. I have not written it. I have
thirteen years of material. I have a year of
my working life left in me. I do not know yet
whether the piece will be my last. —
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[pencil annotation at the foot:]
"If I am killed, or if I am fired and this cabinet must move — the cabinet goes to Corine Harriss at the Clarion. She will know what to do. I have left a letter with my attorney to this effect. The attorney does not know what is in the cabinet. He knows only where it is to go."
— S.P., Dec 1923.