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Anne McCosker Papers. File English
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Letters from Walford King.

Letters from Walford King in 1940 during his war service in Palestine and a photograph of King in AIF uniform in Jerusalem in 1940. The folder also contains a letter dated 25 December 1924 from 'Joe' to Telong, identified as G.T. Heathcote.

Correspondence 2000-2016.

Personal correspondence of Anne McCosker. Includes letters and emails received and some emails and copies of letters sent. Most of the correspondence deals with Anne McCosker's book Masked Eden and debates about aspects of the history of Australian New Guinea.

Letters: Jan 1917 - Dec 1917.

Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The correspondence in this file begins while Martin was in the trenches at the Western Front. His final letter is dated 31 August 1917. Martin was killed in action in Belgium on 20 September 1917. The final documents in this folder are an article about Martin published in The Humpybong Halcyon newspaper on 20 October 1917, a letter from the Queensland Department of Public Instruction to Martin's father, dated 6 December 1917, and a copy of a Commonwealth record detailing the actions that led to Martin being awarded the Military Medal.

Photographs.

Three photographs taken at a 1949 ceremony in Rabaul for awarding of war medals. Stan McCosker is identified in one of the photographs.

Research papers 3.

Documents relating to the eruption of volcanoes on Vulcan Island and Matupi, near Rabaul, in 1937. Documents include the 4 June 1937 issue of The Rabaul Times, three letters from around that time, a typed account of the events, and two published articles.

New Guinea photographs, 1924 to 1948.

Photographic prints of plantation life, people and scenery in Australian New Guinea. Locations include Rabaul, Witu, Matala Plantation, Gumyitke Creek (New Britain), and Vunakambi Plantation. Many of the photographs feature Stan and Marjorie McCosker and local people employed as plantation labourers and house servants. The majority of the photographs were taken in the 1920s and 1930s. A small number were taken at Matala Plantation in 1948.

Research papers 2.

Letters, newspaper cuttings and an extract from The Rabaul Times. Most of the file comprises letters written in New Guinea by Marjorie McCosker to her friend in Australia, Madge White, addressed in the letters as Whitey.

Miscellaneous notebooks.

Six notebooks containing ideas and notes for stories and plays, three greeting cards, and two typed manuscripts of a short story titled 'The Favourite Uncle'.

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