The Australian Women's Register

MS 3077 comprises personal correspondence, including letters from Ethel Curlewis and the infant “Jo” Gullett, 1907, 1914 and 1925; legal and financial papers, 1918-1938; and miscellaneous papers, 1913 and 1929. The collection also includes items on the judicial separation from Lord Headley, 1924; Lady Headley’s will, 1928; selected pages from the published works written under the name Barbara Baynton; and newspaper cuttings (2 folders). The Acc12.114 instalment comprises the annual returns on estate funds, correspondence between trustees (business and personal) and beneficiaries of the estate of Lady Headley, and most particularly the documentation describing the ongoing involvement of chartered accountants Young and Outhwaite of Melbourne. The instalment includes a limited amount of realia (wallet), cheque book stubs, prospecti, auction catalogues and valuations of properties and assets (7 boxes, 1 fol. box).