This collection is comprised of correspondence by Dick, Elsie and Lindsay Roughsey; the manuscripts of Dick Roughsey; the manuscripts of Percy Trezise; and 20 original artworks by Goobalathaldin (Dick Roughsey) and Percy Trezise, many of which were proposed illustrations for The rainbow serpent (1979). It includes some explanatory notes by Fedora Fisher.

Eighty one letters in total are in this series, fifty-six by Dick Roughsey.

Box 1
Folder 1
Letters from Dick Roughsey, 1956 to 1965 (22 items)

Folder 2
Letters from Dick Roughsey, 1965 to 1979 (21 items)

Folder 3
Letters from Dick Roughsey, undated (13 items)

Folder 4
Letters from Elsie Roughsey, 1963 to 1975 (9 items)

Folder 5
Letters from Lindsay Roughsey, 1964 to 1967 (7 items)

Folder 6
Miscellaneous, 1964 to [1994] (9 items)

Draft chapters of book (untitled); includes notes and miscellaneous writing; transcribed by Percy Trezise, undated.

‘A man of the Lardil’, published as Moon and rainbow : the autobiography of an Aboriginal : handwritten and typescript drafts. c.1971

Twenty paintings, synthetic polymer paint on paper, by Dick Roughsey and Percey Trezise. Many were proposed illustrations for The rainbow serpent (1979). Three of the paintings are accompanied by explanatory drawings.