Typed correspondence and reports relating to Caroline Kelly’s anthropological survey. Includes a paper titled 'Report of anthropological survey undertaken at Burnt Bridge August/September 1937', as well as an untitled paper, in which the first line reads 'This paper forms portion of a study of the impact of European culture upon the Aborigines of New South Wales'. Much of the correspondence is between Kelly and Adolphus Peter Elkin. Also includes six black-and-white photographs, 7 x 9 cm, showing a tin dwelling from different angles, as well as the 'manager's residence'; three of the photographs feature a woman and a child, both of whom are possibly Aboriginal, standing on the verandah of the tin dwelling.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:
Herbert Davis
Campbell [full name not provided]

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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters. It is comprised of nineteen handwritten letters, twenty-one typescript letters and one incomplete letter. One of the typescript letters has attached a four leaf account of an event at Dinny Embury's [sic, should be Embery's] home. One letter started as a typescript but is mostly handwritten.

Some names mentioned in the letters include: Dinny Embery, Ada Beckett, Vincent Law, Mable Law and Charles Chavel (regarding his movie Heritage)

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Letters to Timothy Kelly from Caroline Kelly, from an original folder labelled Cherbourg letters. It is comprised of sixteen handwritten letters, twenty typescript letters (many with handwritten post-scripts), four incomplete typescript letters, three leaves with handwritten notes, and one newspaper cutting (from The Courier-Mail, 18 Aug 1934, page 12). One of the hand written notes was inside an envelope with organic matter (envelope and organic matter discarded). Many of these letters contain reference to, or personal reflections, about the people Kelly spoke with at Cherbourg.

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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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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