Curlewis family papers, [ca. 1881]-1966

MLMSS 2159

fonds

[ca. 1881]-1966

Textual Records, Clippings

422766

Microfilm : CY 2583 (MLMSS 2159/1 and MLMSS 2159/10)
Microfilm : MAV/FM4/10979 (H. R. Curlewis, Letters sent, 1880-1942)

9 boxes of textual material, some newspaper cuttings - manuscript, typescript, carbon typescript, and printed

Ethel Sibyl Curlewis, better known by her maiden name, Ethel Turner, author of children's stories, was born in England, on 24 January 1870. In 1881, she migrated to Australia with her parents and was educated at Sydney Girls High School, N.S.W. In conjunction with her sister Lilian, Ethel Turner published the Parthenon, a school-girl magazine, between 1889-1892. When this ceased publication, Ethel Turner wrote for other magazines including the Illustrated Sydney News. Her first novel, Seven Little Australians, was published in 1894 and a sequel, the Family at Misrule was published in 1895. Ethel Turner wrote numerous other novels, as well as some poetry. In 1896, she married Herbert Raine Curlewis and they lived in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. Their daughter, Jean, was born in 1899 and their son, Adrian Herbert, on 13 January, 1901. Jean Curlewis, later Mrs Leonard Charlton, died in 1930. Ethel Turner died in Sydney on the 8 April 1958.

As did his father, Sir Adrian Herbert Curlewis had a distinguished legal career and was District Court Judge in N.S.W. from 1948 until 1971 when he retired. In 1927, Sir Adrian Curlewis was called to the Bar and in the following year married Beatrice M. Carr. He served in World War II as a General Staff Officer 3, in the Eighth Division, Australian Imperial Forces, Malaya, and was a Prisoner of War, 1942-1945. Sir Adrian Curlewis was a member of numerous bodies and committees and was President of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, 1933-1973, and its sole Life Governor from 1974 ; President of the International Council of Surf Life Saving, 1956-1973 ; Chairman of the N.S.W. National Fitness Council, 1948-1971, and member of the Commonwealth National Fitness Council ; President of the N.S.W. Association for Prevention of Tuberculosis ; Chairman of the N.S.W. Government Shark Menace Advisory Committee, 1936 ; Royal Commissioner of the inquiry into Claremont Mental Hospital, Western Australia, 1951 ; Chairman of the Red Cross Appeals Committee ; and Chairman of the Youth Policy Advisory Committee to the N.S.W. Government, 1961.

SERIES I: Ethel Turner, ca. 1881-1958

MLMSS 2159/1
A. Correspondence, ca. 1890-ca. 1954, including letters from her husband, Herbert Raine Curlewis, 1890 and Andrew Barton Paterson, 1896-1906

Index to selected correspondents compiled in the mitchell library in Vol. MLMSS 2159/1.

MLMSS 2159/2
B. Newspaper cuttings scrapbook with manuscript annotations, ca. 1894-194- (Item 1).
C. Miscellaneous papers, ca. 1881-1958 (Items 2-6).

SERIES 2: Sir Adrian Herbert Curlewis, 1922-1966

MLMSS 2159/3-4
A. Papers re Shark Menace Advisory Committee to the N.S.W. Government, 1922-1935.

MLMSS 2159/5
B. Papers re Council of the 8th Division and Service Associates-Returned British Prisoners-of-War Food Parcel Appeal, N.S.W., ca. 1948-1950.

MLMSS 2159/6
C. Papers re Roentgen Oration on juvenile delinquency given at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the College of Radiologists of Australasia, Cranbrook School Memorial Hall, Friday, 19 Aug. 1955, compiled in ca. 1955 (Item 1).

D. Papers re National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Australia, ca. 1955-1957. Includes an interim report of future activities, ca. 1955 (Item 2).

E. Papers re National Playing Fields Association, 1957 (Items 3-4).

F. Correspondence, 1952-1966, with i.a. N.S.W. Division of Australian Red Cross Society concerning resignation from position as Chairman and member of Red Cross Appeals Committee, 1952 (Item 5).

MLMSS 2159/7-9 (RESTRICTED)
G. Report of the Royal Commission to inquire into certain allegations as to the ill-treatment of the inmates of the Claremont Asylum for the insane, Western Australia, 1950. Carbon typescript with some manuscript annotations.

SERIES 3: Miscellaneous material, ca. 1888-1941

MLMSS 2159/10
Includes letter received by Herbert Raine Curlewis, ca. 1922-1941, and Jean Charlton nee Curlewis, 29 Jan. 1925, a menu for a luncheon to the Trans Pacific Airmen, held by the N.S.W. Institute of Journalists, 1928, with the autographs of Charles Kingsford Smith, C. P. T. Ulm and Harry Lyon, and part of a letter to unidentified correspondent from Andrew Barton Paterson, n.d.

This collection includes 26 bookplates of Ethel Turner and Ian Curlewis

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Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-680C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project – Pictorial material transferred from Pic.Acc.4176 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012