Series 3: Frederick Rose personal papers, 1915-1991

MLMSS 10167/Boxes 70, 72-80
MLMSS 10167/Box 71X

series

1915-1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Drawings, Ephemera, Photographs

9619373

2.6 metres of textual material, photographs and drawings (10 boxes and 1 outsize box)

This series contains:
Boxes 70, 72-73, 71X relating to Rose's administrative and legal papers, 1915-1990
Box 74 relating to Rose's political engagement, [ca. 1930]-1990
Box 75 relating to Rose's travels, 1966-1970
Boxes 76-80 relating to further personal correspondence, 1936-1991


BOX 70
Administrative documents (IDs, CV, degrees, and other personal data), including:
1 Australian passport, 1988-1989;
2 British passports, 1980-1990;
Savings account book from the Commonwealth Bank;
Membership card from George’s Camera Store;
‘Papers from Kaderakte held in Leipzig, received 31 May 1990’;
‘Personal’ file with CVs and biographical information about Rose’s life in the DDR, 1950-1970;
Red file stamped ‘Sozialistiche Einheitspartei Deutschlands’ containing various membership awards from SED and Humboldt University

BOX 71X
Academic awards and degrees, 1933-1940

BOX 72
Legal matters and family matters, including:
Old Age Pension applications, 1981-89;
Eulogy: ‘Kim Rose (1941-1989)’, including a few papers on research re Groote Eylandt;
‘Application for Australian Old Age Pension file (incl. papers on appeal)’, 1983-1990;
‘Key Case’ file, 1971-1973, being legal papers re Mr and Mrs Key’s divorce procedure and the prosecution of the men accused of adultery with Mrs Key, among which Rose figured;
‘Estate: Mrs. Frances Rose’, 1967-69
Papers, 1983-1988, re application for Australian age pension and related appeals to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Social Security Appeals Tribunal (2 folders)

BOX 73
Other personal papers and newspapers cuttings, including:
Album of newspapers cuttings;
‘Additional Papers’, 1960s-1990, labelled ‘To put on file’, including papers re Birgit Scheps;
Folder of German papers, 1975-1976

BOX 74
SED membership and life in the DDR, including:
‘Gruppenleitung 7.4.64’, being press cuttings and papers re SED Party;
Processed typescript of Lenin Unmasks Trotskyist Conspiracy. Progressive Publications [1930s];
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands [Socialist Unity Party of Germany] Mitgliedsbuch [membership book], 1971-1989;
FDGB [Free German Trade Union Federation] Mitgliedsbuch, 1981-1990;
‘Case of Jan Midwinter’;
“Die Hoch und Fachsungbildung der DDR” by G. Guhr;
‘Burgschaft Friede 1964’ folder, re surety contract between Rose and Ms. Friede in the DDR;
Report about G. Chapman 1974;
‘Background Material to the GDR Elections on 18 August 1990’, by Prof. Fred Rose, Berlin, 28 Feb. 1990

The Petrov Affair, including:
Folder of papers re Rose’s Protestbrief published in the Londoner Times about his visa refusal, 1963;
Folder of notes re Petrov Commission;
Folder of papers, including notes re Petrov Commission and articles sent to the Sydney CPA newspaper Tribune, 1955-61;
Red folder containing ‘reports on the Australian situation 1989’, describing the political situation and denunciating ASIO’s actions;
‘Petrov Affair 1984 news cuttings’;
Reprint of Speech by Rt. Hon. H.V. Evatt, Q.C., LL.D., D.Litt., M.P. on Royal Commission on Espionage, p.1-25 [From the Parliamentary Debates, 19 Oct. 1955]

The ACP/CPA membership, including:
‘Australia Communist Party / History and Policy’ [1960s];
Several issues of the CPA newspaper 1967, including ‘Souvenir commemorating the commencement of work by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority’, 17.10.1949

World Peace Council in Stockholm 1956, including:
Notes re Extraordinary Session of the World Peace Council, Stockholm, 5-9 Apr. 1956;
‘Notes for Talk: Peace Week 1-7 Sept. 56’, being miscellaneous papers, including notes re Extraordinary Session of the World Peace Council, Stockholm, 5-9 Apr. 1956 and typescripts of articles on Australian politics and society, possibly for Germans going to Australia for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne

BOX 75
Folders and practical documents related to Rose’s various travels, including:
‘Chicago and New York, Easter 1966: some impressions’;
Trip to USA and Canada 1970 (with plane tickets);
Various personal papers (plane tickets, brochures);
Papers re 1970 trip to USA

BOX 76
Correspondence with family and friends, including:
Folder of correspondence with friends and colleagues, mainly Eric Worsley and sometimes Ken Maddock, 1980-83;
Copies of letters from Rose to his daughter, Sonja, 1987-1988;
Correspondence re Kim Rose, 1976-1979 (2 files);
Correspondence with J.B. Ave, 1968-69;
Renee Heisler’s manuscript on Art;
Corrected processed typescript of play ‘Barbara’ by Mona Brand

Miscellaneous Correspondence, including:
Correspondence with Graham Lawton and Bert Keesing re Lawton’s visit in the DDR, 1962-1966;
5 Folders of correspondence, including, among others, ‘E. Hoffmann, 8 Apr. 1967 re Hannah Middleton’, and ‘Letters to Paul B.’;
Two bound volumes of correspondence, 1936-1943

BOX 77
Correspondence with Gertrude Heym 1966
Correspondence, 1956-1963, with, among others, Norman Freehill, Rupert Lockwood, Jessie Street, Bill Harney, H. Reim and Sid [?];
Folder of correspondence, including correspondence re visiting Australian archives, correspondence with the Mitchell Library, and correspondence re a grant from the Australian Literature Board;
1973 Australian papers and letters re Australian National University Visiting Fellowship (2 folders)

Address books, including:
Address book with handwritten entries and note by Rose on title page; ‘Then address book was closed on 21 April 1982;
Address book up to 1990-1991, with typescript entries, annotated and corrected by Rose

BOX 78
Letters and correspondence left unsorted by Rose, including:
4 folders of unsorted letters and postcards from family, friends, or Institute related, with some stray research papers, and notes and ephemera, 1940-1970

BOXES 79 & 80
8 folders of unsorted letters and postcards from family, friends, or Institute related, with some stray research papers, including some drawings made by a group of 13 y. old Aborigines in Yuendumu in 1961, and notes and ephemera, 1962-1970

German, English

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Copyright holder:: Dr Ruth Struwe is the copyright owner of her father, Professor Frederick Rose's writings
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