Dorothy Jones Archive
Dorothy Jones was commissioned to write the history of the Shire of Johnstone to commemorate the discovery of the Johnstone River in 1873. She had already written a successful history of the Cardwell Shire. Hurricane Lamps and Blue Umbrellas is a history of the Johnstone Shire up to 1973. This collection consists of photocopies of correspondence and research notes collected while this book was being written.
Archive Location: 4L
Detailed Listing
DJP/1 Letter to D Jones from L G Alexander 1 June 1959 re the Cutten family. Includes a list of early selectors in the Tully, Murray, Hull and Banyan areas. Mss. 5p
DJP/2 Letter to Innes from Nesta 16 August 1959. Mss. 3p
DJP/3 Innisfail Joss House. Compiled by Jack Fossey, 4 May 1972. Mss. 2p
DJP/4 Innisfail’s monument to the pioneers of the sugar industry. Compiled by Jack Fossey, 4 May 1972. Mss. 3p
DJP/5 Letter to D Jones from Barton Campbell, 2 November 1972. Includes information about Charles E Jodrell and Johnstone Shire history. Mss. 10p
DJP/6 Letter to D Jones from the Surveyor-General, Brisbane 6 December 1972 in reply to one dated 25 November 1972. Typescript. 2p
DJP/7 Letter to D Jones from the Acting Oxley Librarian, Miss M Walker 14 March 1973 with notes on the Miskin family. Typescript. 2p
DJP/8 Letter to D Jones from N S Dempster, Officer-in-Charge, Joint Tropical Research Unit, Innisfail 20 August 1973. Includes a draft of the Research Unit brochure. Printed. 5p
DJP/9 The North Queensland Conservatorium of Music Innisfail. Mss. 1p
DJP/10 Letter to the Secretary, Centenary Committee, Innisfail, from M Mitchell, 1 January 1973 re a souvenir book. Mss. 2p
DJP/11 Letter to D Jones from P D Wilson, Archivist, State Library of Queensland, 27 December 1972. Typescript. 2p
DJP/12 Letter to G Groom from C E Jodrell. s.d. Includes notes on Mourilyan Harbour. Typescript. 2p
DJP/13 Notes from Mr A S Mellick, Draper, Innisfail. Typescript. 3p
DJP/14 The Geraldton/Innisfail Post Office. Typescript. 3p
DJP/15 History of Geraldton/Innisfail. Typescript. 7p
DJP/16 Letter to D Jones from Noel Burman, Publicity Officer, Cairns & District Centenary Celebrations, 3 February 1976. Includes a letter from J Flanagan, Director, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and note on activities of RAAF flying boat squadrons operating from Cairns, Qld, 1942-1945. Typescript. 6p
DJP/17 Letter to D Jones from Henry Scheu 6 September 1972. Includes record of oath of allegiance, marriage certificate, and one newspaper article. Printed. 1p. Mss. 6p. In toto: 7p
DJP/18 List of savings bank agencies 1913-1958. Typescript. 2p
DJP/19 Cyril Graham memoir. Typescript. 4p
DJP/20 Letter to D Jones from P D Wilson, Archivist, State Library of Queensland 26 January 1973 re early state schools. Typescript. 2p
DJP/21 Letter to D Jones from Cardwell Peters, 11 June 1959. Mss. 2p
DJP/22 Letter to D Jones from J B Stevenson, (for Under Secretary), Dept of Justice, Brisbane 22 January 1973. Typescript. 1p
DJP/23 Further letter re DJP/22. Includes records of the Public Service Commissioner’s Department, 7 September 1959. Typescript. 3p
DJP/24 Letter to D Jones from the Manager, Bank of New South Wales 1 October 1959, re Cardwell Branch of the bank. Typescript. 1p
DJP/25 Letter to the Shire Clerk, Cardwell Shire Council, from the Under-Secretary, Department of Mines, 6 July 1959, re history of shire. Typescript. 1p
DJP/26 Council Minutes, Johnstone Shire: 1817-1929, 1935-1937, 1943-1950, 1970-1971. Typescript.
DJP/27 Duplicate of DJP/3.
DJP/28 Duplicate of DJP/4.
DJP/29 Duplicate of DJP/1.
DJP/30 Duplicate of DJP/2.
DJP/31 Letter to D Jones from L G Alexander, 20 June 1959. Includes notes on the Cutten family of Bicton. Mss. 1p. Typescript. 5p
DJP/32 Letter to D Jones from R Marchant, 27 June 1961, re place names. Typescript. 2p
DJP/33 Tropical Trials establishment, Cadey Beach. Typescript. 2p
DJP/34 Particulars required by Shire Clerk, Cardwell, re certain schools. Typescript. 1p
DJP/35 Letter to the Town Clerk, Cardwell Shire Council, 23 November 1959, re opening of Land Office at Cardwell. Typescript. 2p
DJP/36 W W Campbell, Authorised Surveyor. Includes a report, 5 January 1925, by W W Campbell to the Surveyor General. Typescript. 8p
DJP/37 Letter to D Jones from L Howell, Brownhill, Kirk & Co Pty Ltd, 26 March 1973. Includes a copy of Christofero Palmerston Carandim’s marriage certificate. Typescript. 2p
DJP/38 Further letter to D Jones from Hugh Borland, 22 May 1959. Includes letter dated 30 October 1959 to D Jones, Murray-Mackay-Hull namings and notes on George Elphinstone Dalrymple. Mss. 5p
DJP/39 Cardwell’s first ten years. Mss. 15p
DJP/40 Letter to D Jones from Hugh Borland, 2 May 1959. Mss. 4p
DJP/41 Goold Island. Mss. 2p
DJP/42 Notes on George Elphinstone Dalrymple. Mss. 1p
DJP/43 First far northern sugar plantation. Mss. 1p
DJP/44 Letter to D Jones from Hugh Borland, 16 August 1959. Mss. 1p
DJP/45 Tully River. Mss. 2p
DJP/46 Letter to D Jones from Hugh Borland, 6 May 1959. Mss. 1p
DJP/47 Cardwell. Mss. 2p
DJP/48 Place names. Mss. 1p
DJP/49 Letter to D Jones from Rev F H Douglas, Secretary, Archdiocesan Office, St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, 10 March 1973, re T H Fitzgerald. Typescript. 2p
DJP/50 To whom it may concern. Information re first commercial flights from Cairns to Innisfail. Typescript. 1p
DJP/51 Letter to D Jones from A H F O’Neill, Archivist, National Bank of Australasia Ltd, 7 December 1972. Includes information relative to the bank’s two branches in Innisfail. Typescript. 5p
DJP/52 Our first school (Banyan Provisional School). Typescript. 3p
DJP/53 Frederick Odin Meyer. Includes letter to D Jones from Charles Meyer, 16 December 1972, and notes on Frederick Odin Meyer as well as D Jones's summary. Typescript. 1p. Mss. 5p
DJP/54 Notes on the Dallachy family and E R Brooke. Typescript. 1p
DJP/55 Letter to D Jones from Valentine J Murray, 30 July 1959. Includes a letter to D Jones from Matt J Murray, 30 October 1959, and notes on the Lyons family. Typescript. 1p. Mss. 2p
DJP/56 Letter to D Jones from Heather M Hassall, 4 January 1968. Includes information relating to her grandfather, Robert Arthur Johnstone. Mss. 9p
DJP/57 Duplicate of DJP/26
