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Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, writings and poetry and speech education areligious writings and other material. Also contained in the collection are a collection of Ruth Sansom’s diaries and the personal papers and correspondence

Collection of scripts , newspaper clippings and notes also notes for Ruths autobiography

Collection of miscellaneous correspondence, Ruth Sansoms handwritten memories, newspaper and journal clippings, scipts, writings and poems

Collection of miscellaneous correspondence and copies of letters to the newspapers, autobiographical notes, genealogy and family tree, book and poetry notes

Collection of personal correspondence between Clive and Ruth Sansom. Will, marriage certificate and other miscellaneous document

Collection of newspaper clippings, articles on business and industry also teaching materials and school broadcast scripts and articles

Unpublished documents and manuscripts and published journal articles

Personal papers and correspondence, poetry and plays

Selected and introduced by Clive Sansom, published 1964 by Robert Hale, London. Typescript, page proof, published copy.

Clive Sansom's correspondence with publishers and reviewers, accounts for fund for the publication - remainder of funds for a poetry prize - cheque book, copies of advertisements and reviews including review by Judith Wright, copy of poem "your heart has an irregular beat" written shortly before she died and printed with photographs in Australian Book Review March 1965. Also manuscript music "I am no nearer proving thee" - words by Helen Power, music by Richard Graves.

Clive Sansom's correspondence with Helen Power and, as her literary executor after her death, with Mrs Rae Hogg and other relatives of Helen Power about publishing her poems. Correspondence includes comments on the broadcasts, biographical notes, reviews and correspondence about Helen Power's manuscripts and books (the manuscripts to go to the State Library, her French books to the lecturer in French at the University of Tasmania and books on poetry to the Poetry Group).

Folder containing background articles for teaching about film and television.

Brown folder marked 'Clive and Ruth's Letters, and recommendations and references in early England'. The material includes:
• Extracts from letters praising the London Speech Festival 1935, organised by Sansom.
• A personal reference, dated 25/6/1934, from the Sales Manager of the Ironworks Department of the firm Newton Chambers and Co where Sansom worked for eight years. The reference notes that Sansom began work in the firm as a junior clerk and had worked as Traveller for the Light Castings Department for the last two years of his service.
• The original of the Marjorie Gullan Certificate awarded Sansom by the London Speech Fellowship and Institute in August 1936.
• Original certificates awarded Sansom by the English Verse Speaking Association competitions in July 1934: First in Class III Dramatic Poetry; First in the Final Class; First in Lyrical Poetry.
• The original of Clive Sansom's Birth Certificate - 21 June 1910.
• Two of Sansom's curriculum vitae prepared in the 1930s and 40s.

Ten bundles of letters containing a range of material, apparently organised to some extent by Ruth Sansom after her husband's death:

Manila folder labelled 'Clive's notes to Ruth on publishing books, just after he came out of hospital about 1968 or 9', with the added note 'It is now 1993 - things have changed since these were written at least 20 years ago'. The folder contains four series of handwritten notes about the management of Sansom's published works and unpublished manuscripts should he die, and two typewritten pages dealing with house deeds, life insurance policy, royalties on published works, disposal of books and autograph letters, poetry manuscripts and publishing.

In the Midst of Death: poems by Clive Sansom (privately printed 1940), dedicated "To Ruth": printed copy, typescript, correspondence, printer's bill (O.U.P.), reviews.

Four scripts of ABC 'The Correspondence School speaks' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Brown folder of correspondence from people such as Leonard Clark, Bishop Cranswick, Archbishop Young, Ron James, Leslie Greener, Thomas Moult, Dorothy Hewlett, J.C. Trewin, Charles Kohler, Tony Allan, Peter Heam, Hugh Mack.indoe, Clifford Dyment, James Day, Vicars Bell, Alan Searle, Iva Browe[?], Ashley Dickes, Ron James, Rolf Gardiner, John Gainsworth (The Poetry Society) Val Gilgud, Redwood Anderson, Wallace Nichols, Nikolaus Pevsner, A.W.R. Milligan, Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury) and Clare Soper. One small bundle of letters groups together messages from ecelesiastics in response to Sansom's religious drama.

Miscellaneous material:
• A collection of letters marked 'Clive's letters to his wife Ruth' which includes a typed poem by Sansom titled 'Do you Remember?'
• The program of a public recital by members of the London Speech Fellowship and Institute, directed by Marjorie Gullen in the late 1930s (no date). Ruth Sansom featured in three of the items on the program.
• A program for a professional development seminar ('Joint Refresher Course') held in Mansfield UK 1949 at which Ruth was a lecturer.
• Copy of an undated Airgraph from Ruth Sansom to her parents in Hobart following a bombing raid in Southern England during World War II

Parcel of collected materials about the history and locale of North London, described in a note as 'Archival' material which would delight a North London Librarian, eg Winchmore Hill. These are old books and pamphlets on that area. The parcel also contains copies of Sansom' s letters about conservation issues sent to English newspapers and journals during the 1930s.

Notes for the "semi-retreat" and the "day of harmony", note on silence or "stillness".

Diaries of Ruth Sansom mostly written in carbon copy notebooks (sometimes both carbon copy and torn out top copies exist), written intermittently:-
1934 Voyage to England (2 notebooks)
1934-36 Early days at the Speech Institute - critical of friends, lonely, London, visit to Cotswolds, teaching, vacation schools, Plymouth, King's Jubilee celebrations (loose pages and notebook)
1936-37, 1938-39 Engagement to Clive, holiday in Bavaria and Austria, married Clive at Quaker Meeting House, Winchmore Hill, war impending - Chamberlain (1938) (1 notebook)
1936 Bavarian holiday. Also notes 1945, 1946 (notebook - part unused)
September 1939 War Diary (loose pages and notebook)
1940 War-time diary (notebook - partly unused)
1940 War-time diary, also typed transcription (loose pages, typescript)
1939-1942 War-time diary (carbon notebook)

Tributes to Clive Sansom by friends, edited with biographical notes on contributors by Ruth Sansom.

Clive's poem "Innsbruck Bells" one of the poems read at the memorial meeting.

Family photographs of Clive and Ruth Sansom.

Family photographs of Clive and brother as children, ?parents and grandparents, ?brother's children (photographs not labelled or dated).

Conservation, Clive Sansom patron of Tasmanian Wilderness Society (1980), newscuttings, circulars, letters, tribute to Clive Sansom (1981).

Preservation of England (1930-32), Lake Pedder (1967), stone buildings (1968-69), Lenah Valley sawmill (1970-78), Mount Stuart Community study (1977).

Drawings of countryside, life studies, still life studies; illustrated manuscript of copies of poetry; "Christmas Fun" 1923, 1924, 1925 (booklets of drawings, jokes, etc. for Christmas); topographical studies of Norfolk, Southern England, Wales, with notes.

Program of fortnightly meetings conducted by the 'Here and Now society', advertising Sansom's session on 'Poems from the Chinese'.

Seven scripts of ABC 'Journeys in Bookland' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Cutting from The Observer, The Wayfarer (Quaker magazine), West Country Magazine, Poetry Review, etc., photocopy of manuscript "Poems - tokens of my love..." (bound into little booklet), Poetry Quarterly Spring 1943 (including Clive Sansom poem "I am a leaf").

Black folder containing correspondence from Rupert Hart-Davis, Anne McAllister, Richard Flatter, T.H. Pear, Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury), Sylvia Lynd, Philip Mairet, Dennis Fry, J. Compton, Daniel Roberts (including two from Clive Sansom to Roberts), John Moore, Arthur Thompson (references herein to Walter de la Mare, and two letters from Sansom to Thompson), Gwynneth Thurbum,
M.A. Richardson, Peter Hearn and two unidentified writers. The folder is prefaced with a list of correspondents; that listed from Rex Ingarnells is not in the folder.

Typed sheets tied with white string comprising three copies of Sansom's unpublished manuscript 'Definitions, Deft and Daft'. Sansom collected most of these from other sources.

Folder titled 'What Does it Mean?' containing material Sansom collected and used for teaching the topic.

A clear plastic folder with the heading 'Letters Clive to Ruth'. This package includes a 'Triolet' and a long letter describing the Sansoms' return to England in 1962 and a photograph of Clive.

Five folders regarding letters and document to do with the war tribunal and Spiceland Camp'

Brown manila folder headed 'Copies'. This contains:
• Reviews of Francis of Assisi by Martin Flanagan, Fred J. Nicholson and Norman Talbot.
• A tribute to Sansom by Dr Richard Jones (Tasmanian Wilderness Society).
• A letter from Dr Bob Brown inviting Sansom to be Patron of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society (18/5/80) and a newspaper article announcing this.
• A press release from the Wilderness Society on the death of Sansom (30/5/81). A copy of Lina Wake's entry for Forty Friends.
• A poem in tribute to Sansom by Gerda Shelton.
• Some additional biographical information.

Cuttings of published poems, reviews, articles, short stories, letters to newspapers.

1. 1934-1970s: including "An evening with the Quakers" 1937 (p.12), introduction to Paul Scott's "I Gerontius" (p.32), statement to tribunal (conscientious objection c1940); drawing of Clive 1975.
2. 1930s-1970s: Including biographical details, "faith and service", short stories of 1940s, Quaker funeral testimony 1981, etc. (not entered in any particular order).
3. Reviews of Clive Sansom's work 1943-1950.
4. Poems and letters to newspapers 1958-1976.
5. Letters to newspapers 1974-1976.

Cardboard clock to teach children to tell time (hours and hour hand in red, minute hand and minutes "past" and "to" in black), correspondence with agent Higham Associates - suggested an article for Child Education rather than trying to patent and market as toy.

Address book - "commercial travellers journal with Newton Chambers & Co. (c1928-34); notebooks (very rough notes and drafts), word notebook.

Clive Sansom's notes of ideas for works, often just a brief note together with press cuttings etc. of background information relating to a subject or a setting which had caught his eye [the cuttings have not been retained for archival preservation]. Topics include: Ideas for a novel "Psychiatry Hall"; miscellaneous notes of ideas; "Quaker family in America" (rough notes for a novel for children); "More things in Heaven and Earth" (anthology of supernatural happenings); "They saw it first" (anthology of historical anecdotes); "The voyage without return" (novel based on Keats journey to Naples); Anthologies (notes, list of titles for); "Drama" (rough notes for a novel with a theatrical setting - cuttings (not retained included "The actor's life from Observer Magazine 1966, "Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama - the first ten years", "memories of the Old Vic" by E. Phillips from The Listener 14 February 1957, "learning to be an actor" The Sphere 25 December 1954, etc.); Anthology of theatrical occasions "All wrong on the night"; "Arabs" - possible play or opera (numerous cuttings on oil rich Arab sheiks, "Ben Ayed's Harem" in the Tunisian Desert - Picture Post 5 January 1952, Kuwait etc. not retained); "Tea" for an anthology (cuttings not retained included photographs of antique tea pots and tea caddies, articles on tea, Osbert Lancaster: "The story of tea" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London), Olive Warner "The English teapot" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London 1948); "Last words"; stories for children; music hall and ballet (very rough notes - news cuttings on old music hall artists not retained); "By word of mouth" anthology for reading aloud (cuttings from Listener, Reader's Digest, Countryman, Countrylife etc. not retained); "In such a time" etc. (miscellaneous drafts); miscellaneous notes and diary extracts c1930s).

Including "The double image" published in Neue Illustrierte, "Encounter in Cheale" in Die Frau, and others in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Wesdeutsche Allgemine, correspondence and cuttings. See also ghost stories DX18/33 and scrapbook DX18/79(1).

Clive Sansom's reviews: typescripts, cuttings and some correspondence.

Early autobiography by Clive Sansom (family and childhood to 1926), and copy of first chapter sent to Australian Literature Board (typescript).

Publication for the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, including typescript, notes, correspondence.

Attempts to write the Gospel in plainer English, including notebooks, typed extracts, notes, letter from David Danbe of All Souls College, Oxford, referring to his lecture and his book on the New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism (25 December 1952). Note a bundle of newscuttings on various Bible translations not retained.

Including: Edward Bonner (February 1938 manuscript); Behold this Dreamer (typescript no date); The head and the heart (Farnham 1948 typescript); Religion and Art (1949 typescript), Friends School (1951); Friends Annual Conference 1952: Our faith and service (see also cutting book DX18/79 (2)); peace testimony Town Hall, Hobart (30 July 1958); religious broadcasts, Word and Vision (1960); Meditations (21 December 1961, 2 January, 31 January, 28 February, 26 August, 1 November 1962); Quakerism and the Arts (September 1963); Quakers and Peace (December 1963); The religious basis of our Peace Testimony (no date, typescript); Quakers and the Sacraments (no date, typescript); Should religious education be abolished? (no date, typescript notes for discussion); The First Teacher (no date, typescript); "Spiritual Canticles". See also "An evening with the Quakers" June 1937 in cutting book DX18/79(1) p.12).

Green folder of letters from Ian Serraillier, Musgrave Horner, Doris Harding, Frederick Tomlin, M.M. Lewis, Leopold Stein, Teresa Hooley, E. Martin Brown (The Pilgrim Players), Catherine Hollingsworth, Perey Hitchman, E.V. Knox, Herbert Palmer, Hal Ward, E.V. Rieu, Martin Armstrong, Shirley Holtham, Wilson Midgley, Mary Somerville, Robert Swire, Bernard Canter, John Hampden, and J. Donald Adams.

Folder marked 'Business / Industry' containing six articles by others on oral communication in the business world.

Brown envelope containing testimonials to Ruth Sansom's work in England.

Clear plastic envelope headed 'Important letters and articles by Clive'. A copy of Sansom's introduction to a published anthology of passages of verse set for examination purposes by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and letters from the Secretary of the Academy concerning this. Letters in response to Sansom's article 'We the Murderers', published in English in Australia. A copy of Sansom's article on the subject of copyright also published in an issue of English in Australia, and associated letters from that journal's editor.

Four scripts of ABC 'Myths and Legends' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom 's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Green spring-back folder containing the typed manuscript of Sansom's unpublished text 'These Happy Breeds' - a book of poems about dogs.

Documents relating to the Sansoms' travel to Tasmania on the Orion in 1950 including their formal application for a passage on the ship and medical testimonials supporting this.

Correspondence from the National Book Council, London.

Poetry and letters sent to newspapers, competition entries, etc. Including early poem "To Mother" (written at age 10) and school essay (at 13), and poems written for Kathleen Stone.

Extensive collection of material including:
• A brown manila folder containing letters relating to the Sansoms' marriage in 1937.
• Miscellaneous letters 1937 -1940.
• Two unpublished poems by Sansom, one written in 1936, and 'On a
• Deserted Shore' written later in Tasmania.
• An undated letter from Sansom to his wife Ruth written later in life.
• Sansom's Will written on 27/7/36.
• The Sansom marriage certificate and congratulatory letters from friends. Separate statements by Sansom and Ruth Sansom on the topic of poetic impetus.
• A typed poem by Sansom with the words 'See St Swithin' added by Ruth Sansom.
• Copy of In the Midst of Death.
• Several letters marked 'Before marriage' in a brown envelope.
• A clear plastic folder of what appear to be Ruth Sansom's writings: 'Three Songs' and other verses, together with letters from Ruth Sansom to her husband including some clipped together and headed by Sansom 'Beautiful Letters, don't lose them love'.

Including Speech Institute Course and lectures (1938, 1947), notes and quotations, Sunday School Teachers' Conference (1963).

Lecture at Friends House, London, 7 March 1948: correspondence, draft, typed copy, printed pamphlet, reprint 1978 with introduction by Charles Kohler and "afterword".

Papers relating to special war-time service by Quaker conscientious objectors and the "Spiceland" Centre. See also Clive's statement to the tribunal (conscientious objection) in cutting book DX18/79 (1) (back of volume).

Miscellaneous correspondence on religious and Quaker matters.

Notes, programs, correspondence.

"Lady Franklin's Journey": notes, draft, script, correspondence.

Christmas poems and play commissioned by the A.B.C. 1970: manuscript, typescript, correspondence, broadcast script, notes, etc.

Senior English: "Imagery in poetry", draft and script.

Correspondence about fees, copyright, "Convergence on Bethlehem" etc.

Plays adapted for radio by Clive Sansom and first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for schools only, including correspondence with agent and publishers, contracts, reviews, typescripts: 2 "Thunder Country" from the novel by Armstrong Sperry, adapted for radio by Clive Sansom; 4 "Lost Lagoon" from story by Armstrong Sperry; 5 "Kidnapped" from novel by R.L. Stevenson; 6 "Columbus Sails" from book by C. Walter Hodges; 7 "Lost Horizon" from novel by James Hilton; 9 "Seal Morning" from story by Rowena Farre; 11 "Oliver Twist" from the novel by Charles Dickens; 13 "Nightmare Abbey" from the fantastic novel by T.L. Peacock; 15 "The Golden Apples of the Hesperides" from the Greek legend; 16 "The wooden horse of Troy" from the Greek legend; 17 "The boy who was Afraid" from the South-Sea story by Armstrong Sperry; 18 "The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; 19 "The crowning of dreaming John" dramatisation of poem by John Drinkwater; 20 "At the Tabard Inn" based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; 21 "Town Planning" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 22 "Trees and Forestry" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 23 "A book is written" a documentary by Clive Sansom, prepared for "Book Week" in Tasmania; 24 "Conservation Day" a documentary by Clive Sansom.

Plastic bag containing:
• Black diary of pencilled notes about the Sansoms' trip to Europe.
• Record of books read by Sansom in 1928 and 1929.
• Printed Christmas card containing Sansom's poem 'The Carol of Three'.
• Sansom's diary for 1939.
• Home Office publication detailing air raid procedures during the Second World War.
• HMSO publication about national service regulations for the same period. Red diaries written by Sansom in I 940.

Group of letters labelled 'About Clive's death' from Peter Leonard, Hugh Macindoe, James Darling, Olive Woolman, Geoffrey[?] and William Ridden.

Typed text of Sansom's unpublished book on the profession and craft of poetry, titled "The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession".

Folder headed 'Autobiography' containing Sansom's short handwritten and typed drafts of the early sections of the book describing his childhood experiences, family life and school days. There are also many brief handwritten memos and quotes from writers pertinent to his autobiography, including a note that his proposed title for this was 'Finding my Words: A Poet's Beginnings'. Other material comprises several relevant letters about and reviews of Sansom's publications, including Fred Nicholson's review of 'Francis of Assisi', Sansom's review of John Fuller's 'Epistles to Several Persons', letters from his brother Len, a poem Sansom wrote at the age of 16, Sansom' s humorous letter to the artist Max Angus, and an obituary written by Ron James and published in the journal 'Speech and Drama' (England) following Sansom's death.

Two prose pieces by Sansom: 'A Discussion of Ministry' and 'Sermon in Stones and Trivia on Everything, or Mr Pearsall Smith visits his Chiropodist -a parody'.

Copy of the journal English in Australia No 1 containing Sansom's article 'Oral Tests in English'.

Clear plastic folder 'Letters especially interesting to a biographer'. This contains numerous letters to and from Sansom, some of Sansom's writings and associated material

Ten scripts of ABC 'Once upon a time' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Pocket appointment diaries.

Typescript. No date.

Typescript (for BBC 194-), letter from ABC about broadcast (1952, letter from ABC and script (1970).

A cantata commissioned by the Rosny Children's Choir, music by Don Kay, words by Clive Sansom: correspondence on fees and routine matters, drafts, typescripts, news cuttings, etc. rough notes.

Words by Clive Sansom to Saint-Saens' Suite: script, correspondence - broadcast and concert performances.

Opera for Children's Theatre, music by Don Kay: drafts.

Sketch play based on the film "Hans Christian Andersen" (Danny Kaye) for St. Virgil's College, with musical numbers from the film, produced by Melba Kelly: draft script and notes.

Clive Sansom's version of Mozart's operetta, including typescripts, published copies of original and other versions, and correspondence.

Poems written by Clive Sansom for musical setting: correspondence, drafts, printed publications etc. relating to:- "The carpenter's son" a carol, music by Richard Graves; "Stiasny": two songs, The Forest Wind, Inscription for an old tomb, poems by Clive Sansom, music by Walter Stiasny (Hinrichsen edition 1953); "The Wood", music by Walter Stiasny for a dramatic low voice (1952); "The Word made Child", music by Cecil Matheson (1956-8); "The Shepherd's Carol", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Sleep Tiny Child", lullaby from the "World Turned Upside Down", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Butterflies", music by Richard Graves (ND); "The Farmyard, ten songs, words by Clive Sansom, music by Richard Graves (Piccaninny's Lullaby, The Caterpillar, The Mice & the Cat, Fishing, The Policeman, The Rabbit and the Fox, Miss Mouse, Oak Trees, The Farmyard (1962); "The Candle Carol" (from The Cathedral request from Colin Brumby for permission to set it to music; "Blessed be that maid Mary" (Anglicised by Clive Sansom for Wilfred King; "Song" [Bramber (set to music by Richard Graves - music not published); "The Carol of Three" (1956, 1965); "The Witch and the Wizard", an operetta for young children, music by John Gordon, words by Clive Sansom (from Acting Rhymes); "The Irish Fiddler" (from the Golden Unicorn); "The shepherd's Carol", music by Mrs M.T. Smith (1971); "Mary of Nazareth" (from The Witnesses music by Ralph Middenway for Perth Festival etc. 1972). Also copy of poem [for simple musical accompaniment] "The Murder on the Lonely Farm".

Correspondence with Richard Graves and David Higham (author's agent) about poems and music.

A collection of sayings on speech collected by Clive Sansom manuscript and typescript draft (not published).

Two red spring-back folders containing Sansom's unpublished manuscript titled 'This Quiet Dust: Epitaphs Real and Imagined' and two copies.

Miscellaneous items including
• freehand sketches of Sansom and John Bradford,
• photograph of Sansom on board ship,
• Christmas card from 'Mother',
• invitation from St John's Infant School to attend the crowning of the May Queen,
• photograph of a building named 'Green Gates',
• printed Christmas card from the Sansoms that contains Sansom' s poem 'Carol of Three'.

• A studio portrait of an unknown lady - an old photograph probably of a forebear.
• Two photographs of unidentified individuals, one annotated 'Tiesie Austria'.
• Postcard of Reigate Wray Common Windmill.
• Postcard of Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau.
• Pictorial folding letter card of scenes from Reigate.
• Two postcards of Reigate.
• Seven postcards of Winchmore Hill.
• Photograph of the cover designed for the Argo recording of ‘The Witnesses’.
• Envelope containing negatives of photographs.

Account of last days in England and departure on "Orion" from Tilbury (12 November 1949), Ceylon, Fremantle, Adelaide (10 December), Hobart (by plane from Melbourne 12 December), Hobart and Southern Tasmania and people met, Baptist Tabernacle, note of "Things different in Tasmania", poem "country scene in Tasmania" (note by Ruth Sansom enclosed: "I think the only poem on Tasmania", first broadcast to schools, recital, finished "Passion Play", poems: "Drought", "Oyster shells", "Deaf".

Sansom's handwritten poems in a green and violet covered notebook marked with the archive number DX 18 SAS 88.36. Frontispiece contains Ruth Sansom's poem to her husband. The book is annotated 'Before marriage' and there is at least one further annotation in Ruth Sansom's handwriting. Poems include 'Chopin Noetume', 'The Mirror', 'The Greyhound', 'Sonnet', 'The Voyager', 'Words cannot save', 'Millstream', Spring-Yellow', 'Convalescence', 'The Birds", and 'Nightingale'. Sansom has added pencilled amendments to some of the poems.

Collection of letters from Sansom to Ruth Sansom in a small stationery box marked 'Speedy Notes'.

Group of letters labelled 'To Clive' from the Thomas Hardy Society, the Tasmanian Mail, the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, Carina Robins and E.P. Holton.

Folder headed 'A.C. Black'. This contains several letters to and from the publisher about Sansom's proposed book of story rhymes and about the publisher's rejection of his book of poems 'This Happy Breed'.

Copy of the journal Good Speech (April-June 1937) containing an article by Sansom titled 'Speech Rhythm'.

Miscellaneous notes and letters relating to the search for accommodation. Letter from Sansom to the Editor of Poetry Review on the subject of poetry and beauty (14/11/40) and one from an unidentified writer [perhaps either Rodney Bennett or Robert Gittings?] on the teaching of oral English and Keats's connection with Dorset (5/12/61).

Fifteen scripts of ABC 'Communication' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Originally published for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the late 1940s: letter from LAMDA asking if it could be republished (October 1977): duplicated typescript, draft, notes, correspondence with Bodley Head.

"The quality of language" off-print from Spoken English (Journal of the English Speaking Board) London, vol. 7 no. 2 May 1974, and shortened version for New Zealand Education magazine; "Australian speech" (typescript, no date); "We the Murderers: a study in poeticide" (typescript - lecture to teachers, no date); "Why read faster?" (1970); "Professor Higgins - imposter". Also (b) foreword by Clive Sansom for Bruce Proverbs' book "Business Communication and correspondence".