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Anne McCosker Papers. File English
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Research papers 1.

Two letters and typed manuscripts of 10 short articles about life in New Britain.

Letters: Jan 1915 - Nov 1915.

Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The letters in this file begin while Martin was in training in Australia and cover his service at Gallipoli and his transfer to the United Kingdom after falling ill.

Biographical notes.

Typed and handwritten biographical information about Anne McCosker including notes on the biographical influences on her creative writing.

Business and personal papers.

Business and personal correspondence of Stan McCosker, a copy of the certificate of marriage of Stanley McCosker and Marjorie Martin, a hand-drawn map of the boundaries of the Matala plantation and a newspaper cutting by Marjorie Martin about her life on Mingan in New Guinea. Correspondence includes four letters from Rombin to Stan McCosker. Rombin was one of McCosker's plantation employees.

Correspondence 1967-1992.

Personal correspondence of Anne McCosker. Includes letters received and copies of some letters sent. Most of the correspondents are friends, family members and New Guinea associates of her family. Some of the letters contain first-hand information about events and people in the history of Australian New Guinea.

New Guinea photographs, 1925 to 1934.

Photographic prints of people, plantation life and scenery in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. Locations include Witu, Raulaurat Plantation, Kavieng (New Ireland), Ningau (Witu), Londip Plantation, and Samarai. Many of the photographs feature local people and European-Australians.

Realia.

Metal printing plate used to print the cover of a 1919 issue of The Australian at Weymouth, with accompanying provenance statement; a single bound volume of 1918 and 1919 issues of The Australian at Weymouth; three ink stamps from German New Guinea. Sample imprints of two of these stamps are located in Series C, Subseries 1, File 2.

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