Anthropological field notes and reports.

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Two drafts of the article From an alien to his second son, published in HQ Magazine in 1993. One has 'First draft' written above title, with handwritten emendations, 6 leaves, undated. The other draft has 7 numbered leaves and is undated.

The country store, is a play for television by Dorothy Blewett adapted from a short story by Myra Morris. It is unknown when Dorothy Blewett wrote this play, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s. There is one complete version of this play: Carbon copy typescript, 32 leaves, undated.

Letters to Judy Shirlow from Peyman Darvishzadeh and a handwritten poem, 'If One Was Equal to One'.

Beige manila folder with contact details written on the cover containing:
Document listing refugee support contacts and list of 'Spare Rooms for Refugees' volunteers;
Printed pages from 'Spare Rooms for Refugees' website, 4 Feb 2004;
Emails to Kate Durham and Julian Burnside, 8 Feb 2002 to 11 Feb 2004, 27 leaves;
Letter to Kate Durham from Howard Glenn, A Just Australia, 28 Jan 2004, 2 leaves;
Copy of facsimile to Russell Skelton from Kate Durham, 22 Feb 2002, 1 leaf;
Original and copy of facsimile to Denis Nihil from Sr Mary Mackin, 15 Sept 2003, 7 leaves;
Printed pages of contacts for 'Spare Rooms for Refugees' volunteers;
Printed pages from document Senate Select Committee – Children Overboard Affair, 21 Aug 2002;
Copies of facsimile document regarding Topside camp, Nauru, 11 Mar 2002;
Copies of newspaper articles: 'Island of no Hope' The Dominion Post, 3 Jan 2004 and ‘Pacific Confusion’ The Australian, [undated];
Handwritten letter to Alan Montague from Kate Durham [undated];
Flyers regarding Spare Rooms for Refugees;
Invitation to welcome newest arrivals from Nauru.

Letter of introduction for Caroline Kelly from L. Edwards, Director-General of the Queensland Department of Public Instruction, 23 May 1946.
Letter to Caroline Kelly from [?], Commonwealth Investigation Branch, 20 Jun 1946.
Letters and telegrams to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly.

Mementos and keepsakes of war experience
• Three postcards: ‘Souvenir of Voyage of H.M.A.T “Warilda” carrying officers and troops’. Will and John D Fryer sailed from Sydney to Egypt in 1915.
• Post card of T.S.S “Star of Victoria”, ‘Ship on which one of the Fryer’s sailed to war’
• Christmas card unsent: ‘Christmas Wishes from Springsure. To My Dear Boy on Active Service’.
• Card: ‘Tell her that I love her’.
• Prayer card: ‘The Angel at the War’. CG and Rosina Fryer and Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Booklet: ‘What a British Soldier wants to say in French and how to pronounce it. An EnglishFrench booklet for the use of the expeditionary Force’
• Booklet: Poems ‘composed by Mrs L. Cameron whose husband is one of the 6th Field Engineers, Queensland Section , for the purpose of cheering those who are serving our country, also to assist funds to provide comfort for our wounded.’
• Booklet [?] Front image embroidered village centre, ‘Albert 1914’. Inside mounted Banque de France Cinq Franc note
• Cotton Bag
• Post card from [?] to Auntie [?], 30 Nov 1916
• Card: ‘From the Mayoress of Exeter and Committee’
• Army Form W3083: Transport tag accompanying Will Fryer from France to Dover aboard the Anglo-American Hospital Ship St. David. Tag describes type of wound and condition.
• Postcard: ‘Bishop’s Knoll Red Cross Hospital, Bristol’. Hospital in which Will Fryer recovered from injuries in 1916.
• Program: Bristol District Cornish Association, Entertainment to Wounded Soldiers from Bishop’s Knoll Hospital, Bristol, 24 Nov 1916
• Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force Certificate of Discharge: William Thomas Fryer, Brisbane, 21 Aug 1917
• Post card: (“M.C”) K.C.S ‘At Weymouth, Doing His Bit’ From the boys and girls of the old brigade, 1919
• Xmas Greetings, 6th Aust. C.C.S. A.A.M.C. A.I.F., 1942 [Two Cards]
• Seasons Greetings, 1943 to 1944, from Private S.R. Gerrard
• Seasons Greetings, 106 Aust. C.C.S. A.I.F., from Pte. S. R. Gerrard to Mum, Hazel and Fred, 1944

Correspondence, notes, invoices and receipts, for property in Highgate Hill, Brisbane. May include properties Mayo rented.

Income tax assessments from 1 July 1945 to 30 June 1975. Incomlete.

Correspondence between Dorothy McPhee and Joshua Peter Ferguson Bell (1907-1997) [son of Joshua Thomas Bell] regarding information for the booklet The Bell connection, 1986. The booklet: The Bell & District Progress Association Inc. (2006). The Bell connection : compiled for the Bell centenary, Peranga, Peranga Post. Newspaper cutting ‘Town celebrates centenary in style’, The Chronicle, 9 Oct 2006.