This collection contains manuscripts, correspondence and research material written and collected by Arthur Capell, relating to linguistics, ethnography, education, sociology, musicology, religion, mission studies and poetry covering Papua New Guinea, European, Indian sub-continent, Proto-Oceanic, Fijian, South-East and East Asian, Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian, Proto-Austronesian, Timor, Irian Jayan and Indonesian subjects.