Collections of letters to the Curator of the Perth Museum, either B.H. Woodward or L. Glauert, regarding ethnographic specimens which the writer would like to receive or offer to the Perth Museum:
- 1895 - 1903 (June); from the Australian (R. Ethridge), Tasmanian (Alex Morton), British (O.M. Dalton) and Cantebury Museums (F.W, Hutton), the Anthropological Society of Paris (Andre Bonnet) and private requests from C. Bleazard, M. McLay, for rare W.A animal species and ethnographical specimens from aboriginal Australians.
- 1903 (May) - 1908 (Oct). 8 detailed Letters from A.J. Williamson (Bank of Victoria, Rushworth) suggesting exchanges of Western Australian ethnographical specimens (the list is later annotated with Perth Museum specimen numbers (in 1964)) in return for material from lake dwellings in Switzerland. He asks specifically for a kadjo. He lists material (numbered) sent to him from Perth for which he requests locations. He also offers bone utensils of Aborigines from near his location in Victoria and token coinage used in australian colonies. Annotated is a list of specimens already sent from the W.A. Museum.
- 1904 (Feb - Mar). Letter from N.Oest (Telephone Dept. Perth) asking for native weapons for the Ethnographic Museum in Copenhagen, in return for Scandinavian weapons and relics. A detailed list of the specimens sent from the Perth Museum is included.
- 1905 (July) - 1907(Oct). Letter from James Thomson arranging a visit to discuss a proposed collection for Canada.
- 1906 - 1907. Letters from Harry Johnson mentioning Central African ethnological objects that he will send to the Museum. A second letter has a numbered, descriptive list of objects sent.
- 1907 (Oct) - 1913 (Jan): R. Etheridge, Australian Museum, Sydney. 7 letters regarding specimens to and from the Australian Museum, including fishes and frogs, shields. A detailed description of "Pituri", from Mulligan River, Queensland, is given in one as a sample was sent by him to the Perth Museum. 3 letters to and from Australian Museum regarding shields from Broome, Isdell Ranges and King Leopold Ranges sent from the Perth Museum per W.J. Rainbow.
- 1909 (Feb) Letter of thanks from Edward Sydney Simpson, for sundry aborigine weapons which he received from the Perth Museum.
- 1910 (July). A Letter from Woodward to the Royal Society of Edinburgh asking for copies of their January Proceedings which included a paper by Drs. Perry, Robertson and Mr. S. Cross on the physical anthropology of the races of Australia.
- 1912. Letters (2) between R.S. Newall and Reginald Smith regarding stone implements found near Roebourne with discussion about their possible age.
- 1913 (June - July). 5 letters between the Director of the Perth Museum and G. Wiltshire of Kirupp regarding the donation of Murchison Aboriginal spears or kylies (boomerangs), woomera, shields and churinga in exchange for which the Museum sent him a box of shells. The aborigine artefacts were procured at Yalgoo and were brought down by Murchison River and Gascoyne Natives.
- 1913 (July). Letter from the Smithsonian Institution (R. Rathbun) noting the receipt of material forwarded to the Perth museum in January, acknowledging Perth's intention of forwarding skins of marsupials, rodents and honeyeaters and asking for a skeleton in bark wrapper from a cave in the far interior, as offered on a letter of 15 Oct. 1910.
- 1914 (Mar). Letter of thanks from the Museum of Reading for material sent to them.
- 1914 (May). Letters between Woodward and R. Strelitz regarding exchange of Western Australian Aboriginal samples for Swedish and Lapland ethnographical material, and with Y. Laurell of the Central Museum in Stockholm.
- 1915 (Sept - Oct). 4 letters between the Chief Protector of Aborigines (A.O. Neville) and the General Secretary of the Museum regarding the exchange of 2 Lbs worth (approved by the Trustees of Goods - for possibly cotton fabric) for native weapons left by Father Nicholas (Emo) of Lombardina Mission. Mr. Neville states that the "articles which appear to please the natives most at the Moola-Bulla Station are mirrors, lollies, strings of beads, belts, handkerchiefs and fireworks". Monthly reports for September 1915 are printed on the reverse.
- 1915 (Nov). exchange of letters between Mr. H. Barrett of Tasmania and the "Albany Museum" regarding an exchange of Tasmanian chipped stone implements. Declined, as the Keeper of Ethnology believed that the collection sent to the Museum by Mr. Whittle was fairly comprehensive.
- 1915 -1916. 8 letters between the General secretary of the Perth Museum and Mr. B. H. Whittle of Tasmania, regarding the exchange of ethnographic material. A letter from Whittle of 4 Sept. 1915 includes a detailed list of 29 specimens and an exposition of the appearance, use and names of items given by local collectors in Tasmania. In exchange for the specimens from Tasmania, Glauert sent 2 ground stone tomahawks from the Kimberley district and briefly discusses the types of these articles found in W.A.
- 1916 (May - Aug). 3 letters between W. B. Spencer of the Victorian Museum and Glauert referring to the "Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection of the Victorian Museum" and discussing the possibility of exchange of Central Australian ethnographic materaial for some W.A. samples. Glauert asks for particular objects which were not held by the Perth Museum but which were described in the Victorian guide, including a knife, Tabba, Kangaroo skin cloak, Booka, Kangaroo skin bag, Goto. He says that the W.A. collection is in the main well duplicated and he offers items in a collection from Alligator River in the Northen Territory (1904), which were not mentioned in the Victorian Guide. Spencer declined to provide such specimens saying that they were purchased from Sir John Forrest after his return from his overland expedition and they had no duplicates.
- 1917 - 1919. 4 letters between C.E. Lane-Poole, the W.A. Inspector General of Forests, and Glauert regarding the exchange of ethnological specimens with the Dijon Museum. There is an extensive, itemised list of Perth Museum specimens (Museum number listed) to be sent and acknowledgement of the items received by Dijon.
- 1918 - 1920. 12 letters between C.H. Shaw, Headmaster, Public School, Lake Bathurst, N.S.W. and Glauert, General Secretary and Librarian, asking for a boomerang and shield. In exchange a model of a Fijian war canoe was sent to Perth. In 1919, Shaw asked for several carved weapons from W.A. and offered prehistoric weapons from North America (45 specimens). This suggestion was repeated in 1920 and the North American items ranging from Alaska to California, Mississippi and Ohio Valleys were sent to Perth. Museum numbered artefacts, including, spear throwers, a spear point, Uhuringa, bull roarers and pearl shell ornaments were sent from the Perth Museum.
- 1922. 2 letters between Edwin Ashby, Wittunga, Blackwood, South Australia on behalf of the museum of the West China University in Chentu requesting ethnographic specimens. A list of numbered artefacts was sent by Glauert in November.
- 1925. A request from W.L. Crowther of Tasmania for specimens form the Perth Museum was declined by Glauert.
