MS 4744
Papers of Charles Lydiard Aubrey (1886-1975) and Hilda Abbott


Box 1

Folder 1 Scrap books (2).
Folder 2 Family photo album - Harnett family, Eucumbene.
Folder 3 Framed photo - Jessie Eleanor Harnett.

Box 2

Folders 1-6 Hilda Abbott - articles, broadcasts, books, typescript drafts.

Box 3

Folder 1 'Life in Darwin' - Hilda Abbott. Typescript draft.
Folder 2 P. E. N. Congress, 1964. Notes, letters, reviews, 1951.
Folders 3-5 'Good night, all about' - Hilda Abbott. Typescript drafts, with some related correspondence.
Folder 6 'Among the hills' - Hilda Abbott. Letters, reviews, 1951. Talks for radio - letters, drafts, 1951 - 59.

Box 4

Folders 1-6 Correspondence, 1920's - 1960's - Hilda Abbott.
Occasional letters addressed to Mr and Mrs Abbott.

Box 5

Folders 1-6 Correspondence, 1916 - 58 - Hilda Abbott.

Box 6

Folders 1-2 Miscellaneous articles, broadcasts, typescript drafts - Hilda Abbott
Folders 3-4 Diaries - Hilda Abbott, 1937, 1945, 1946, 1960.
Folder 5 Desk calendar (with notes), 1938. Holy medals.
Folders 6-7 'The vanishing empire' - Hilda Abbott, typescript drafts.

Box 7

Folder 1 Sydney Opera House - correspondence, clippings, 1960s - Hilda Abbott.
Folders 2-6 Articles, broadcasts, books - drafts, related correspondence - Hilda Abbott.

Box 8

Folders 1-2 Correspondence, 1923 - 71 - Hilda Abbott
Folders 3-7 Articles, broadcasts, talks (unpublished), drafts and related correspondence.
Article on Darwin Raid (Feb. 1942) - Hilda Abbott.
Folder 8 Correspondence, mainly Hilda Abbott.

Box 9

Folder 1 'Fannie Victoria' - C.L.A. Abbott. Typescript draft. 1952
Folders 2-4 'Cry ho for fame' - C.L.A. Abbott. Typescript draft. 1952 (with related correspondence).
Folder 5 Family background. The upper Hunter Abbotts - typescript.
Folders 6-7 Photographs and typescripts of poetry.
Correspondence and family tree.

Box 10

Folders 1-3 Correspondence, 1927 - 46. Hilda Abbott.
Folder 4 Red Cross. Correspondence, 1915 - 71. Hilda Abbott.
Folder 5 Harnett material (Hilda Abbott's ancestors).
Folder 6 Paddington Arts Festival, Paddington Arts Centre - printed material and some correspondence. Hilda Abbott.
Folder 7 Interior design. Correspondence, clippings - Hilda Abbott.

Box 11

Folder 1 Published articles - C.L.A. Abbott. Includes copies of Abbott's answers, 1934.
Newspaper articles and Australia's frontier province, 1948.
Folder 2 Congratulatory letters, 1925 - 28 - C.L.A. Abbott.
Folder 3 Congratulatory letters, 1931 - 37 - C.L.A. Abbott.
Folder 4-5 Correspondence, 1929 - 66. C.L.A - Abbott.
Folder 6 Miscellaneous - C.L.A. and Hilda Abbott.

Box 12

Folders 1-5 Invitations, souvenir programs, official passes.

Box 13

Folders 1-2 Photographs
Folder 3 Clippings
Folder 4 An account of the part played by the Royal Air Force in dissolving the Luftwaffe. Vol 2, 1944-47 - Sir Philip Wigglesworth.
Loose Miscellaneous printed material

Box 14

Miscellaneous printed material.
Notebooks - Hilda Abbott, 1938; n.d.

Box 15 (Added 7/12/92)

Photocopies of newspaper articles (Abbott / Darwin).
Photocopies of a letter from the King's school.

Folio

Map of Darwin's defences; large photographs; architects plans.