General correspondence

Containers:

Box 6-14

Component identifier:

Series 1

Content Summary:

The correspondence is arranged in an alphabetical sequence and has not been sorted within files. The correspondence dates from 1920 to 1984 and relates to Marcel Aurousseau's research and writings on geographical names, exploration research, landscape in art, literary and art criticism and book reviews. Some correspondence relating to his research on Leichhardt and Cook, and some family correspondence may also be included but the bulk of that correspondence is in separate series.

Some typescripts are also included.

Major correspondents are: Archives of N.S.W.; Australian Academy of the Humanities; Australian Dictionary of Biography; Beale, Edgar; Crone, G.R.; Fitzgerald, Brigadier L.; Freestone, Rob; Frost, Allan; Geelan, P.; Geography Bulletin; Geographical Magazine; Goodwin family; Hakluyt Society; Hoare, Michael; Hutchinson Publishing; Martin, G.J.; Meanjin; Mesnage, G.; Middenway R.; Melbourne University Press; McCullough, Max; McLaughlin, A.G.J.; National Library of Australia; O'Sullivan, John; Australian School of Pacific Administration; Raven, Yvonne; Royal Australian Historical Society; Royal Geographical Society of Australasia; Royal Society of N.S.W.; Rutherford, Frank; Ryan, Bruce; Webster, E.M.; White, Patrick.

Other correspondents include: Astor, Lady Nancy; Aurousseau, Shane and Sally; Aurousseau, Sylvain; Backhouse, D.; Beaglehole, A.; Bergmann, Walter; Bettenson, A.J.; Bowman, Isiaah; Branagan, D.F.; Christesen, C.B.; Clark C.H. Manning; Courtenay, Key; Davison, Frank Dalby; Fitzgerald, Lawrence; Fitzhardinge, L.F.; Fitzpatrick, Kathleen; Ford, Edgar; Fowler, Beatrice; Freestone, Rob; Garran, J.C.; Hancock, W.K.; Hasluck, Paul; Hasluck, Margaret; Inglis, Ken; Jones, Phyllis; Keneally, Tom; Kennedy, Priscilla; Kramer, Leonie; La Nauze, J.; Linnean Society of N.S.W.; Lubbock, Adelaide; Mather, R.B.; Morrison, R.H.; Overland (Journal): The Pacific Geography Society; Powell, Lawrence Clark; Richardson, Geoffrey; Roderick, Colin; Roe, Michael; Ross, A.D.; Scott Polar Research Institute; Serle, Geoffrey; Smith, Bernard; Smith, Vivian; Spate, O.K.H.; Stanger, Sophia; Strehlow, T.G.H.; Swan, R.A.; Taylor, Doris; Walker, Lennox; Walker, R.B.; Whitley, Gilbert P.; Wilcox, Arthur A.; Wild, Alan; Woolnough, Ilma; Wright, John Kirkland.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first two consignments (21.4.1967 and 9.4.1980) of the Marcel Aurousseau papers were donated by Mr Aurousseau and were accessioned in 1981 at MS 1879. On the receipt of the third (and largest) consignment on 24 May 1985 from his widow, Mrs Cecily Aurousseau, for reasons of space a new number (MS 7070) was allocated to papers.

Names:

Marcel Aurousseau

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