Personal Letters
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To Katy Kunst, [The Netherlands], late 1960s
Confides some of her career plans and outlines her proposed travel for overseas study. Katy, wife of the eminent ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst (whom many consider the father of ethnomusicology), remained one of Alice’s close friends even though they were geographically far apart.
(MS3501/1/17/9) click here for transcript
To Nancy Munn, Secane, Pennsylvania, 16/09/66
Gives information about Alice’s Handlist of Field Recorded Music, in which Nancy has an entry, plus general news about academia and her family. Alice and Nancy, who later became Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, carried on a lively correspondence in which Nancy included some charming drawings.
(MS3501/1/24/19)
To Jill Lowrey (nee Stubington), Department of Music, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., 20/12/70
Reflects the warmth of Alice’s relationship with her first Research Assistant who later completed a PhD thesis on Yolngu clan songs and taught musicology at the University of New South Wales. The letter gives Alice’s impressions of her time at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1971.
(MS3501/1/54/32) click here for transcript
To Fanny Langley, Mornington Island, Qld., 05/89
Shows Alice’s delight that Fanny remembered the recording sessions when Alice had visited Mornington Island in 1966. Alice wrote to Fanny in order to clarify some documentation she had prepared long ago.
(MS3501/1/139/10)