MS Acc07.202 includes papers that relate to groups and organisations with which Clarke was associated, or on subjects in which she had an interest, dating mostly from the 1990s to 2008. Contents include cuttings, some personal and business correspondence, newsletters and ephemera. A number of files contain correspondence from family and friends and a few original family photographs.
The bulk of the papers in the Acc09/22 instalment comprise files relating to groups and organisations with which Jessie Clarke is associated, or on subjects in which she has an interest, dating mostly from the 1990s to 2008. The papers contained in the files include cuttings, some correspondence, newsletters and ephemera. There are a small number of files containing correspondence from family and friends, 1963-2008, and a group of files relating to the estate of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, ca. 1964-1977.
Jessie Clarke, daughter of Herbert and Ivy Brookes and grand-daughter of Alfred Deakin, trained in social work and was professionally active in the Port Melboure, Victoria area. She studied in New York in the 1930s, was a junior delegate to the League of Nations Union in Geneva and an activist on behalf of refugees. She founded the Nappy Wash delivery service in the period after World War II.
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