When you click on the link to Patrick Saul, please go to page 6 of the Playback Bulletin to find an obituary for him.

ToPatrick Saul, Director, British Institute of Recorded Sound, London, 21/10/77

Proposes a method to transfer the wax cylinder recordings from the 1898 Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Strait to tape as a project in conjunction with the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv (German Radio Archive in Frankfurt.)

(MS3501/1/91/41)

To Patrick Saul, Director, British Institute of Recorded Sound, London, 01/08/78

Request for information about the progress of the transfer of the Cambridge Expedition cylinders to tape. Written near the time of her retirement from the AIAS, Alice shows her dedication to the care and preservation of early recorded sound material.

(MS3501/1/97/1) Click here for transcript of letter

When you click on the links below to the Cambridge Expedition cylinder records, you will be taken to the Collect Britain site. Click on the link in the bottom right hand corner that says "view whole collection". A list of the cylinders will appear. Click on the one you want and a description of that item will come up. Click on the "Listen to audio" link and the recording will play.

To Alan Ward, Archive Administrator, The British National Sound Archive, London, 19/12/84

Describes how Alice auditioned and documented the Cambridge Expedition cylinder recordings. Also, it advises him on choosing conditions of access and copying for deposit at AIAS. The British Institute of Recorded Sound, which had held the Cambridge Expedition cylinder recordings, transferred its holdings to the British Library National Sound Archive in 1983. Islands visited on this expedition were Murray (Mer), Mabuiag, Saibai and Yam. recordings were also made outside the Torres Strait in Borneo and Papua New Guinea.

(MS3501/1/122/34)

To Alan Ward, Archive Administrator,British Library National Sound Archive, London, 22/05/85

This letter follows on from the letter to Alan Ward of 19/12/84 and gives further information about possible missing cylinder recordings in the Cambridge Expedition recordings and follows on from letter MS3501/1/122/34.

(MS3501/1/124/19)

To Ray Keogh, [University of Sydney], 14/11/86

Answers a query about the Cambridge Expedition cylindersand gives some insights into how Alice located them in London. In 1986, Ray Keogh was a PhD student in ethnomusicology at the University of Sydney who worked on Aboriginal music of the Broome area.

(MS3501/1/129/18)Click here for transcript of letter