Original folder (now discarded) labelled Kempsey (NSW) and listing Macksville, Tilba Tilba and Wallaga Lake. There are fifty-two letters in the file, most of which are undated. There are twenty-six letters from Caroline Tennant-Kelly to Timothy Kelly, many with 'Kempsey' in the top right-hand corner and most handwritten. There are another five letters from Caroline to Timothy that are identified as being written from Wallaga Lake. In her letters Timonth, Caroline often signs off as 'Bill'. There are nine letters from Timothy to Caroline. There are twelve letters between the Department the Anthropology, Professor Elkin and Caroline Tennant-Kelly, dated 1936 including a letter of introduction for Caroline Kelly from the Secretary, Office of Board for Protection of Aborigines, 22 Apr 1936.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:
Miss Andrews
?? Bairds
Mrs Carter
?? Chapman
Mrs ?? Geddes
Mrs ?? Hough
Miss ?? Pearce
Mr ?? Watkin
Dolly Button
Dorothy Bull
Duchess
Eric Rasden
Ethel Gabriel
Frank Summerville
Lizzie (Sandy or Brown?)
Jocie Duhig
Mr and Mrs Jacobs (mission manager and wife?)
Madam von Willer
Young Glover

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Photocopy of draft of the paper The Aboriginal and his medicine chest written by FS Colliver, 20 pages, which includes two pages of bibliographic references that are referred to within the article. The article was published in 1972 in the Anthropological Society of Queensland Newsletter, no. 44, and Archaeology papers (3) 1-18. It includes quotes various authors on medicine mans powers & functions (Gippsland, Coast Murring), training (Murring, lower Lachlan River, Murray River, New England), remedies for sickness, Walbiri doctors & attitudes to them, circumcision as operation, post operative; treatment (Daly River), treatment of wounds, fractures (Gulf country, Port Keats), diseases listed with remedies given (taken mainly from Roth), use of pituri as stimulant, list of plants with scientific & popular names.

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