Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters.

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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters.

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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Personal and professional papers of Caroline Kelly, including correspondence; financial and legal papers; unpublished poetry and stories; theatre records and publications; anthropology field notes, reports and articles; photographs and newspaper cuttings.

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Approximately 900 photographs, mostly black and white, some sepia. Photographs mostly relating to Queensland people and places, but including interstate and overseas photographs. Includes photographs of Australian authors, the 1893 Brisbane floods, and Mornington Island (Queensland). There are also a number of photographs of Papua New Guinea which were originally in the Beazley collection (UQFL271). Other photographs of Queensland people and places can be found in UQFL479.

Research materials relating to Central Cape York Peninsular languages collected from 1964 to 2003. Collection includes grammars, lexical material and text material from Oykangand. Materials comprise written notes, critical literature, theses, data CDs, audio cassettes and reel to reel tape recordings.
Collection includes tape list and introduction to collection, both by Dr Sommer. Fryer Library listing provides access to relevant box.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that audio recordings in this resource contain material of a personal or sexual nature which may cause embarrassment or offence. Manuscript papers may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased and could contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms and descriptions.

The Murri School (also known as the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School) was first established in 1986. This file contains cards and letters, mostly from children to ‘Super Gran’ or Muriel Langford and a Certificate of appreciation to Muriel Langford.

Partial biography of Rita Huggins: 'Involvement in OPAL’, BA Honours Thesis, Flinders university, 1989 (1 page of unknown manuscript inserted between pages 34 and 35)

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.

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).

Manuscripts, correspondence, minutes, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, and photocopies from published items relating to Queensland Indigenous politics, campaigns and organisations. There is material about the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School in Brisbane; One People of Australia League; and accounts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders events and activities around the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Musgrave Park in the 1980s.