Correspondence Regarding AP Elkin's Publication 'The Australian Aborigines'

The material consists of correspondence and editing notes pertaining to various editions of Elkin's book The Australian Aborigines. Included are references to photographs and their descriptions.

Bundle 1: Correspondence concerning the French edition, corrections to edition 3, (1962).

Bundle 2: Correspondence re 5th edition (1973).

Bundle 3: 1974 correspondence re editing changes for new edition, contains errata, Appendix with bibliography, additions to Index.

Bundle 4: Changes for printer, amendments for 1978 reprint of 5th edition which includes notes on the discovery and examination of Aboriginal remains, including the Talgai, Cohuna, Kow Swamp, Tartanga, Lake Nitchie, Kielor, Green Gully.

Loose pages consisting of correspondence regarding The Australian Aborigines.

Places mentioned include: Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Kow Swamp, Lower Murray Valley and Lake Nitchie.