This series is comprised of unpublished and published writings; some are drafts; some may have been later published; most are written by people other than Jackie Huggins.

This series is comprised of the reports and plans related to visits by Norman F Nelson and Joshua Thomas Robinson to the four mission stations owned by Presbyterian Church of Queensland. The typescript reports by Nelson and the sketch plans for each mission by Robinson and Nelson precede the photographs related to that part of the journey or the mission station.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource 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.

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.

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

Last days of a wilderness : drafts. Preliminary drafts : handwritten, in 6 notebooks. Final draft : typescript, 294 leaves. ca.1973

‘Rock art of south-east Cape York : drafts and notes, handwritten and typescript, ca.1970.

‘English book’ : draft, handwritten, in 4 foolscap notebooks. Unpublished. Undated.

‘The Cape York Galleries : development or destruction’ : national seminar on Aboriginal antiquities, 1972’ by P.J. Trezise and D. Roughsey. 1 notebook, handwritten.

Quinkan National Park Appeal, 1973 : folder of papers .

This series is comprised of papers of some of Dorothy Blewett's sisters: Elizabeth Melville Blewett (born Elsie Melville Blewett, also referred to as 'Bill') and Rowena Sarah May Blewett. Rowen and Elizabeth advertised in Victorian newspapers, from 1942 to 1947, for their 'Merry Days Correspondence School' for kindergarten and sub-primary children. It includes their notes used for the stories and lessons they shared on nature study stories. Elizabeth Blewett was also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and is most well known for her book Care of Breeding of Australian finches. There draft manuscripts of her writings.

Box 6
Folders 1-2
Carbon copy typescript draft drafts for Merry Days Correspondence School' nature study stores. Undated, most likely written from 1942 to 1947.

Folder 3
Handwritten draft of a children's story written in an old invoice [?] book; in the reverse an Australian alphabet story with Australian animals and places and associated drawings. Two inserted pages for the alphabet story.

Folder 4
Typescript draft with original, carbon copy and photocopied pages for Care of Breeding of Australian finches, with [83] leaves, with five leaves with maps of Australia to show location of finches and notes. Original folder with name and Victorian address of Elizabeth now discarded. Elizabeth lived in London with Dorothy from 1951 to 1959.

Folder 5
Original folder (now discarded) had label 'Children literature project':

Typescript draft of "Duffers" by Elizabeth Blewett, unpublished, with inserted b&w photograph used to base the story on, 92 leaves, undated. Original folder binding has Seaford address crossed out and London address added.

Typescript chapter drafts for unknown work or works.