Original records 1 - 14, 1892-2010

Containers:

Box 14

Component identifier:

File 172

Content Summary:

Numbered by Anne Cawsey (AC) following order found in KSC's study. (1) Key correspondence by G.L.S. Kerr defending Donald Macleod against passages in Neil Robinson, Lion of Scotland. This correspondence inspired KSC to find out the truth about Donald Macleod and write The Making of a Rebel; (2) Accounts and inventories e.g. goods supplied to Kerr Bros shop in Vila; (3) "Odd correspondence in Europe"; (4) Employment documents for both 1909 and 1928 Kerr Brothers companies: Krasker, Adcock, Millar, Louis Vautier; (5) Correspondence re Gus Petersen's waterfront property in Vila sold to A. Noel; (6) Labour agreement for Etablissement Ballande; (7) Documents of "Authority given"; (8) Banque de l'Indochine, Paris; (9) Historic matters of N.H. R.P. O'Reilly correspondence including notes by GLS Kerr about New Hebrides and New Caledonia that list names of people and boats and history known to him plus diary notes; (10) East Santo Plantation Taxation matters and government returns (NSW Government); (11) East Santo Plantations Labour ledger contains names and places of origin of Indigenous New Hebridean workers; (12) GLSK personal folder with diary notes and records for reference; (13) Copy of Neil Robinson, Lion of Scotland, 1952 (annotated by KSC pp. 128 - 137); (14) GLSK "New Hebrides Business" documents. (Unnumbered) East Santo Plantation Balance Sheets. (15) Certificate of Incorporation of East Santo Plantation. (16) Correspondence between KSC and John McLean on his book Sailors and Settlers where KSC takes exception to Macleod excerpts.

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Pacific
Literature
Business

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