Authors sent their writings to Kath Walker, some in admiration, some for professional reasons. They may have been accompanied by correspondence that is filed elsewhere. Included is a thesis, prose, and poems.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of mortuary and birthing customs of Aboriginal peoples around Millaa Millaa in The Story of Emily Purcell: an Aboriginal woman born about 1890. It also may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Copy of a typescript paper of the opening address at the ANZAAS symposium on Aboriginal identity in contemporary Australian society - Brisbane - May 28, 1971, titled 'Aboriginal identity, government and the law' by WC Wentworth; 13 leaves; 1971? Differs slightly from the published version which appears in Aboriginal identity in contemporary Australian society edited by D Tugby (1973).

Photocopy of a handwritten account of Beryl Wharton, giving details of her life at Cherbourg mission, working life and the various places she lived. Undated. Author of account is a grandchild; name not supplied. There is a timeline of events in the life of Beryl are from 1924 to 1986; most likely this account was written in the late 1980s.

Journal articles authored by Caroline Kelly, AP Elkin, SF Nadel, AR Radcliffe Brown and others, as well as a trifold brochure from the Housing Commission of New South Wales containing an interview with Margaret Mead.

Some of the articles include:
'Tribes on Cherburg [Cherbourg] Settlement, Queensland' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Oceania, 1935;
'Former numbers and distribution of the Australian Aborigines' by AR Radcliffe brown, reprinted from The official yearbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1930;
'Some aspects of culture content in eastern Australia' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Oceania, 1945 [2 copies];
'The reaction of white groups in country towns of New South Wales to Aborigines' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Social horizons, 1943;
'The typological approach to culture : chance and rationality in culture' by SF Nadel, reprinted from Character and personality, 1937;
'Native languages and the field worker in Australia' by AP Elkin, reprinted from The American anthropologist, 1941; Social science research in Australia: history and functions of the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, Australian National Research Council, 1945;
'AIE bulletin no. 3' bulletin letter by Margaret Mead, Lorengau, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, 1953.

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Proof sheets and digital copies of the glass plate negatives containing images mostly of Aboriginal Australian peoples, with many taken at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement.

Parcel 2
Item 6
DVD-R containing 107 digital copies of images derived from the glass plate negatives. There are two copies of each image, in both JPG and TIF file formats.

Folder 2
Nine proof sheets of images derived from the glass plate negatives.

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Correspondence, handwritten and typed. Includes an undated handwritten statement signed by Lenard Law, possibly writing as an amanuensis. The statement is written in the first-person and contains biographical details of an Aboriginal person confined against his/her wishes at the Cherbourg settlement.
Correspondents include John Joseph Quinn, Wilfred Wragge, Maidie Ross (Restricted), Arthur Cobba Simson, Doris Crawford, W. Porteus Semple (Superintendent Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement), Leslie Wilson (Governor of Queensland), and Tom Blackman.

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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters. It is comprised of nineteen handwritten letters, twenty-one typescript letters and one incomplete letter. One of the typescript letters has attached a four leaf account of an event at Dinny Embury's [sic, should be Embery's] home. One letter started as a typescript but is mostly handwritten.

Some names mentioned in the letters include: Dinny Embery, Ada Beckett, Vincent Law, Mable Law and Charles Chavel (regarding his movie Heritage)

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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters. It is comprised of sixteen handwritten letters, twenty typescript letters (many with handwritten post-scripts), four incomplete typescript letters, three leaves with handwritten notes, and one newspaper cutting (from The Courier-Mail, 18 Aug 1934, page 12). One of the hand written notes was inside an envelope with organic matter (envelope and organic matter discarded). Many of these letters contain reference to, or personal reflections, about the people Kelly spoke with at Cherbourg.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:

? Semples [first name not provided]
McDonald [first name not provided]
Miss Dight
Mrs Ballads
Mr Bulls
? McCaffrey [first name not provided]
? McCarthy [first name not provided]
? McDonald [first name not provided]
? Mitchell [first name not provided]
Ada Beckett
Bill Dupain
Bill Robertson
Duchess
Dolly Button
Dorothy Colley
Eddie Gilbert
Frank Bell
Fred Darby
Jack Dalight
Jack Oliver
Josephine Concannon
M. Alban
Maria Dawson
Tommy Isles
Tim ? (adopted CTK) [last name not provided]
Viv Thompson

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