Guide to the Papers of Ken and Amirah Inglis
MS 10165
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: June 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
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Inglis, Ken, Professor, AO (Kenneth Stanley)
Inglis, Amirah - Title
- Papers of Ken and Amirah Inglis
- Date Range
- 1930s-2008
- Collection Number
- MS 10165
- Extent
- 3.15 metres (21 ms boxes + 6 sound/av carriers)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal correspondence between Ken and Amirah Inglis, as well as correspondence with colleagues and friends. There are drafts of writings and related research material, together with personal documents and biographical papers relating to the Inglis' school and university years. Topics represented in the collection include the ABC, military history, Indigenous Australians, Papua New Guinea and obituaries of notable Australians.
Conditions Governing Access
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7787102).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Ken and Amirah Inglis, National Library of Australia, MS 10165, [class/series/file/item number]'.
Finding Aid Source(s)
Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Item Descriptions
Series. Correspondence
Correspondence; daughter Louise and academic colleagues, 1967-1979 (File) - Box 1
Mainly from academic colleagues including Colin Mackerras, Manning Clark, Don Dickson, Jim Gunther, Judy Turner, Peter McCallum, Walley Dey amongst others
Personal correspondence, family, friends colleagues, c1980-1984 (File) - Box 1
Academic colleagues HM Griffin, AD Gilbert, Gavin Souter, Shirley Lindenbaum (sister), Manning Clark; also Telecom Australia Overseas Visit Report 1980
Decorated box personal (Europe) correspondence between Amirah Inglis and Ken Inglis; includes envelope of correspondence received by Amirah Inglis in Europe, 1968 (File) - Box 2
Personal correspondence Ken Inglis to Amirah Inglis [bundled by date/ format], 1962-1975 (File) - Box 2
Personal correspondence Ken Inglis to Amirah Inglis [bundled by date/ format], 1972-1974 (File) - Box 2
Personal correspondence Ken Inglis to Amirah Inglis [mostly ex Ireland to Washington], 1982 (File) - Box 2
Personal correspondence Ken Inglis to Amirah Inglis ["Miscellaneous" various dates and places], c1980s (File) - Box 2
Personal correspondence Ken Inglis to Amirah Inglis; Ken Inglis in Spain, Paris, London to Canberra, not known (File) - Box 2
Personal correspondence to Ken Inglis and Amirah Inglis, 1989-1992 (File) - Box 3
Includes Judith Wright, Kate Grenville, Ian Willis, Manning Clark
Folders of personal family and work correspondence: includes marked files on family letters Amirah Inglis to Ken Inglis 1990s, to Ken Inglis 1957 onwards, ANU appointment correspondence, 1957-2007 (File) - Box 4
Folders of notes, correspondence [some personal],articles and newspaper clippings relating to Queen's College, University of Melbourne, 1948-1987 (File) - Box 7
Correspondence file Ken Inglis and Jack Waterford, editor of Canberra Times, 1996-1997 (File) - Box 7
File of sorted personal correspondence [by recipient Amirah Inglis or Ken Inglis or both], c1966-1973 (File) - Box 8
Personal correspondence Ken Inglis to Amirah Inglis, Amirah Inglis to Ken Inglis, c1983-1989 (File) - Box 8
Personal correspondence from Ken Inglis to colleagues from PNG, and various family, c1974-1993 (File) - Box 8
Personal correspondence to Ken Inglis from various [emails, mostly from family], 2008 (File) - Box 8
Series. Research and correspondence files
File of papers and correspondence on the Stuart Case, 2006 (File) - Box 10
1 x DVD, 'The Stuart Case' removed to digital carriers Box 33
Probus La Trobe 2 November 2009 Guest Speaker Ken Inglis, 2/11/2009 (Item NLA.MS-DM001952) - Digital-Carriers-Box 33
1 item, Unbranded, Data DVD (any content on recordable DVD-R)Research and correspondence files, includes: correspondence file Allan Martin; invitation to function with Queen of Netherlands (1988); Sacred Places papers and newspaper cuttings; Black and white wars material; Varuna Fellowship c2003; Gallipoli Pilgrimage 1965; correspondence with Bill Gammage re Broken Years; ANZAC 2010; Shrine seminar; Talk for Australian Historical Studies launch (2002); AFL; Varuna Fellowship, c1965-2003 (File) - Box 11
1 x CDR (Toowoomba National Seniors APN Print Chronicle; Kingfishers, Fire and KE, Milne Bay Military Museum) removed to digital carriers Box 33; 1 x CDR 'Creating Remembrance' by Donald Richardson (recording of a talk given by Ken Inglis on the 1965 Gallipoli pilgrimage in 2013) removed to Digital Carriers Box 33; 1 x unlabelled USB removed to Digital Carriers Box 33
Toowoomba National Seniors 20 May 2010 APN Print-Chronicle Kingfishers Fire and Ice Milne Bay Military Museum, 20/05/2010 (Item NLA.MS-DM001950) - Digital-Carriers-Box 33
1 item, Verbatim Inkjet Printable CD-R, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Shirley and Trevor McIvor (contact details attached)
Creating Rememberance Donald richardson, 30/04/2013 (Item NLA.MS-DM001951) - Digital-Carriers-Box 33
1 item, Kodak CD-R 52x 700MB 80 min, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Files including background papers for series of talks on ABC, lecture papers and research notes, c1956-1978 (File) - Box 16
Series. Biographical material
Invitations to functions, Royal Visit to PNG 1972, and others, 1972-1974 (File) - Box 12
Royal visit by Her Majesty the Queen, HRH Prince Philip, HRH Princess Anne, Capt Mark Phillips and Lord Mountbatten
Reviews of Amirah Inglis's The Hammer and Sickle and the Washing Up : memories of an Australian woman communist, 1995 (File) - Box 12
Bundle of files one envelope and loose papers including newspaper cuttings, various correspondence, obituary (John Lindenbaum, Nita Murray Smith) papers relating to Don Baker, correspondence Bob and Pat Wallace; University of Melbourne Graduation Ceremony 1996 ; Whose ABC launch correspondence with Jack Waterford; other subject matter, 1994-2008 (File) - Box 12
Files relating to reunions, staff and students Northcote High School, and Melbourne High School; contains essays notes correspondence (Ray Willis, Alan Gregory), Queen's College exam papers, 1945-2001 (File) - Box 14
Temperance Physiology Examination Certificates 1942, 1943
Files including Doctorate of Philosophy University of Oxford testamur (1956), University notes essays and indexed research files; Student journals and annotations, c1948-1956 (File) - Box 15
Four ABC radio audio cassettes; Manning Clark interviews, not known (File)
4 x audio cassettes removed to Cassettes Box 472; 4 x ABC Manning Clark and Lingua Franca tapes
Transcript of Oral History interview with Ken Inglis, NLA, 1991 (File) - Box 16
3 x CDR's 'Oral History NLA Ken Inglis' exist but are not to be preserved.
Newspaper cuttings, notes, essays, passport (1966) correspondence for possible autobiography [Unpublishable Memoire], 1940s-2000s (File) - Box 17
Series. Genealogy
Files and folders, correspondence, notes, documents, legal papers, mortgages, wills etc relating to family history, c1920s-2000s (File) - Box 18
Files of correspondence, notes, extracts of registers, documents valedictories relating to genealogy of Ken Inglis and Amirah Inglis's families, 1898-2000s (File) - Box 19
Files of personal papers, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, obituaries (including John Button, the Belchers, Peter Karmel, John La Nauze, Edgar Waters, Greg Denning and others; loose material extracts of documents relating to family and friends, research document by David Meale on Harry Stead, Predominantly 2000s (File) - Box 20
Personal papers, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, loose material extracts of documents relating to family and friends, numerous obituaries, including two audio cassettes sent between Ken Inglis and Amirah Inglis, 1982- 2000s (File) - Box 21
2 x audio cassettes removed to cassette box; Letter to Ken 1 and 2; Letter Ken