Asks for access toE. Harold Davies’ recordings for her work on the intervallic structure of Australian Aboriginal music and mentions a number of people whom she hopes to contact in Adelaide.

(MS3501/1/2/11)

To Margaret Cunningham, AIAS Research Fellow, Roper River Mission, NT, 14/06/66

Asks Margaret to check some song texts; also gives comments on the use of instruments in the Roper River area. Alice and Margaret had worked with some of the same people, and Alice asks her to pass on special regards to Mr. and Mrs. Leske, Isaac and Jeff from Roper River, listing songs she recorded in 1963 with them and with Nipper, Roger, Joe, Madi and Nora, who played the didjeridu. Alice had first seen Margaret when she was an infant, and the letter shows Alice’s delight at re-establishing contact.

(MS3501/1/22/27)

To Campbell McKnight, Department of Anthropology (Prehistory), Australian National University, Canberra, 23/12/68

Discusses Macassan words to a song Alice had recorded on Groote Eylandt.

(MS3501/1/41/40)

ToTrevor Jones, [Music Department, Monash University, Clayton, Vic.], 24/03/69

Outlines Alice’s research plans for her PhD. Trevor Jones became her thesis supervisor at Monash University.

(MS3501/1/44/14)

To Richard Moyle, [Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, New Zealand], 21/02/90

Congratulates Richard on a review that he wrote that had been mistakenly sent to Alice. Richard, an ethnomusicologist, was no relation to Alice but was a Research Fellow at AIAS when Alice was Ethnomusicology Research Officer. He published several books on the music of Central Australia and the Pacific.

(MS3501/1/141/14)

To N.A. Jairazbhoy, MiddlesexEngland, 01/11/61

Thanks for an offprint on Indian music and asks about aspects of Indian music.

(MS3501/1/9/36)

To David McAllester, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 10/12/71

Gives a précis of her travels during that year and explains her vision for an international exchange program in music.

(MS3501/1/59/32)

To Mantle Hood, Director, Institute for Ethnomusicology, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 19/06/72

Comments about an entry on Australia in the section on ethnomusicology of the sixth edition of the Groves Encyclopaedia of Music and Musicians and give much valuable information about the interactions amongst Alice, Catherine Ellis and Trevor Jones.

(MS3501/1/62/1)

To Charles Osborne, Melville Island, NT, 21/09/67

Gives some interesting information about the W. Baldwin Spencer recordings made at Bathurst Island in 1912 and asks for Osborne’s help with some Tiwi song texts. Alice also speaks of a meeting with a Jiwadja group at Bagot to play a tape for their identification and mentions the information given to her by their spokesperson, Tuesday Copper.

(MS3501/1/31/23)

To A.C. van der Leeden, Rikjsmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands, 15/04/66

Thanks him for transcribing some Nunggubuyu song texts and comments upon ‘song language.’ Alice had recorded two Nunggubuyu people, Hindu and Rimili, who were visiting Groote Eylandt in 1963.

(MS3501/1/20/35)