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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Journal articles authored by Caroline Kelly, AP Elkin, SF Nadel, AR Radcliffe Brown and others, as well as a trifold brochure from the Housing Commission of New South Wales containing an interview with Margaret Mead.

Some of the articles include:
'Tribes on Cherburg [Cherbourg] Settlement, Queensland' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Oceania, 1935;
'Former numbers and distribution of the Australian Aborigines' by AR Radcliffe brown, reprinted from The official yearbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1930;
'Some aspects of culture content in eastern Australia' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Oceania, 1945 [2 copies];
'The reaction of white groups in country towns of New South Wales to Aborigines' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Social horizons, 1943;
'The typological approach to culture : chance and rationality in culture' by SF Nadel, reprinted from Character and personality, 1937;
'Native languages and the field worker in Australia' by AP Elkin, reprinted from The American anthropologist, 1941; Social science research in Australia: history and functions of the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, Australian National Research Council, 1945;
'AIE bulletin no. 3' bulletin letter by Margaret Mead, Lorengau, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, 1953.

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Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten. Contains two typed papers; the first, four pages, is titled 'Role of the individual in the settlement'; the second, inconsistently paginated by hand, 33 leaves, is titled 'The Queensland reserve'.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file.

Alice Weasal
Bruce Mather
Charlotte Costello
Eddie Gilbert
Irell Embrey [? spelling of first name], (father from Bribie)
Fred Embury
Freda Hegarty
Harriet Mummin (Kangalu)
Jack Beatty [? spelling of last name]
Bradley - Kangalu
May Hegarty
Sunny Sunflower

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Handwritten anthropological field notes and reports.

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Handwritten anthropological field notes and reports.

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Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten. Contains three typed papers, four leaves total, respectively titled 'Wierdi. (Abraham Johnson). Wedding'; 'Gurang-Gurang. (Abraham Johnson)'; and 'Wierdi. (Abraham Johnson)'.

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Handwritten anthropological field notes and reports. Contains a typed paper, four leaves, titled 'The Dunkibura and Dunkijow'; only the third and fourth pages are paginated.

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Handwritten anthropological field notes and reports.

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Anthropological field notes and reports.

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Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten.

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