Historical information

David Acrum Alexander was born c1925 and died in 2015. He practiced medicine in Ballarat but also had a keen interest in sketching and painting.
The 52 books range from 1971 to 2012. They include rough outlines for characters, often with a comment re changes to be made. If a pencil sketch or water colour

Physical description

52 artist's sketch books of varying sizes, spiral bound.
Some are thematic in content; characters from novels, places, people
Some comments are written and names of people

Inscriptions & markings

Date of work written on covers and on some individual pages. Place name and those of characters from novels.