Accession[1987.0162] Papers of the Leeper FamilyIdentifierUMA-ITE-1987016200100Scope and ContentDocuments related to the Australian Student Christian Movement, and the Young Women's Christian Association. Includes circulars and newsletters, correspondence, reports pamphlets, and service programmes. Selection of materials include [not exhaustive]: "Australian Student Christian Movement Victorian Senior Branch", Circular, April 1954; Newsletter January 1955; Secretary's Report to the Senior Branch Annual meeting [1954, 1 page, incomplete]; Correspondence from YWCA to Valentine Leeper thanking her for her comments on the revised "Australians Before the White Man"; YWCA Correspondence Courses Booklist, which includes lists under the headings 'Books on Aborigines and Aboriginal Affairs', 'Aboriginal Art', 'Aboriginal Poems', 'Novels'; Correspondence and pamphlets [contained in a brown envelope] regarding the YWCA Correspondence courses [which Leeper was involved with] and news of the courses ceasing. In the same envelope is a pamplet of "The Strehlow Research Foundation" [no.6, vol.3, November 1980], titled "Christianity and the Australian Aboriginal (Part 1)" by T.G.H. Strehlow, discussing in particular the Aranda New Testament [translated from English into Aranda language], Aranda Traditions, and "The Story of Makarinja and his two wives".
NATURAL: Mrs. Mysie Schenk [obituary]; Indonesia; India.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit1987.0162 Unit 0004
Leeper Family, [Australian Student Christian Movement / YWCA] (1954-1981), [UMA-ITE-1987016200100]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 15/09/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/261201
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