Jack Kenny papers regarding his book ‘Before the First Fleet: Europeans in Australia 1606-1777’ (1995), 1950s-1994

MLMSS 9019/Boxes 1-10

fonds

1950s-1994

152867

1.50 metres of textual records (10 boxes)

Michael John Butler (Jack) Kenny, journalist and historian, worked for the ‘Brisbane Courier' and the ‘Daily Telegraph’ before joining ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ as supplements editor in 1952. In 1973 he accepted a position with News Ltd. In the same year he published ‘Bennelong: First Notable Aboriginal’. He died in 1987.

Reference:
Obituary, Sydney Morning Herald, 15/12/1987

Box 1 to Box 4
Various drafts including, bibliography, captions for illustrations and index, 1980s-1990s

Box 5
Notebooks
Correspondence, 1983-1994.

Box 6 to Box 10
Research files being mainly correspondence, notes, journals, newscuttings and photocopies of printed material, 1970s-1980s:
Box 6
‘Place Names – East Coast Victoria and NSW’.
‘Animals’
‘Cook’s Discoveries (used)’.
‘Plants’.
‘The Country – Cook’
‘Bibliography’
‘Lighthouses’
‘Relics’.
‘Science used’
.
Box 7
‘Aborigines – Tas.’.
‘Aborigines’.
‘Plants’.
‘Discoveries – Tas.’
‘Art’.
‘Place names – Qld.’
‘Pics’
‘Discoveries – East Coast’
‘Discoveries – Norfolk Island’
‘Dampier’
‘Cook – Landing Places’
‘Dutch’
‘Hydrography’
Letters – Cook’
‘Aborigines – French’
‘Aborigines – Cook’
‘Cook – Endeavour’

Box 8
‘Archives – Dutch’
Place names – Qld.’
‘Ships’
‘Aborigines – Dampier’
‘Animals’
‘Country – Dutch’
‘Eastern Coast Place Names’
‘Place names - Tas.’
‘Discoveries – Dutch’
‘Aborigines – Dutch’
‘Place names – N.T.’
‘Country – Dampier’
‘Plants’
‘Place names – W.A.’

Box 9
‘Banks’
‘Tasmania’
‘Miscellaneous’ (3 files)
‘Libraries’
Photocopy of chart of Baye des Chiens [Shark Bay], 1772, by Rosilly (French Expedition 1772)

Box 10
Copies of Royal Australian Historical Society Journals, 1954-1983

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright owners

Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts unprocessed eRecords Project 2013-2014