Dobjects Details Document

Title: Document - Glenys Jones, to Dorothy Howard, Description of Chasing Game 'French & English', 1955
Description: Game name (and type): 'French and English' (chasing game), chasey, chasie Alternative types: running game Handwritten game description written for Dr Dorothy Howard by Glenys Jones, a 10 year old student at Carlisle Government Primary School, in 1955. Jones describes her favourite chasing game 'French and English'. She provides details of games rules, teams, and the player's positions. One of a collection of letters describing a children's game written to children's Folklorist Dorothy Howard between 1954 and 1955. Dr Howard came to Australia in 1954-55 as an American Fulbright scholar to study Australian children's folklore. She travelled across Australia for 10 months collecting children's playground rhymes, games, play artefacts, etc. This letter, together with the other original fieldwork collected by Dr Howard during this period, is preserved in the Dorothy Howard Collection manuscript files, part of the Australian Children's Folklore Collection (ACFC), Archive Series 3. The ACFC is an extensive collection documenting children's folklore and related research.
Physical description: Handwritten game description in pencil on lined paper. Text printed on one side only. Features yellow pencil border along bottom edge.
Control: HT 41064

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