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Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as Treasurer dated 29 March 1887

Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as Treasurer dated 12 October 1899.

Pocket appointment diaries.

Apprenticeship indenture dated 28 November 1814. Andrew Downie, eldest son of John Downie, farmer of Bankend,
apprenticed to James Lucas of Stirling as writer, procurator, conveyancer, notary public for five years.

Lease for 5 years of 50 acres from George Williams to Robert Ord , Apsley River 1861

Photocopy of authority for a land grant to be made to Thomson.

"Archives" - Folder containing:
• "University of Tasmania. History Department.
• Brief General Survey of Tasmanian Historical Material in Mitchell Library, Sydney.
Typescript;
• Launceston Public Library. "List of Books in the Library on the Early History of Australia and Tasmania, Almanacs, and Tasmanian Newspaper ... Files." 1942. Duplicated.
• Hartwell, R.M. "Early Tasmanian Records and Problems, University of Sydney, 1947. 4p.
• "Tasmanian Newspaper Files in the Chief Secretary's Department, Hobart". Duplicated.
• "Shelf list of Early Tasmanian Newspapers in the State Library, Hobart, Tasmania". 6p. Typescript.

Art in Australia, Third series, Number 27 March 1929 - The Recent work of Elioth Gruner.

Original manuscript of an article on Esh Lovell written by John Rowland Skemp for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Copies of articles for newspapers etc. and notes and extracts from other studies, including: "Water power in the west" (1896), notes on water power in Ontario, Sweden, Russia etc., use of water in Tasmania, power, irrigation and closer settlement (see also soldier settlement S3/26), flood prevention, Hobart and Launceston water supplies, need for a Commission, etc. (Typescript copies)

Articles about early Hobart by Alice D Baker which were probably sent to a magazine for publication

Articles on a variety of subjects, medical, historical and biographical in typescript or manuscript, many under the pen name "Exul" for publication in The Bulletin including:
•
An eye for an eye (13 pp, 2 copies)
• Some aspects of heredity (8 pp)
• The mental hygiene movement, parts 1 & 2 (10 pp)
• Reign of terror at Swansea October 13 1922 (4 pp)
• The commercial awakening in Tasmania (6 pp)
• [Jokes] (2 pp)
• Insulin (3pp 2 copies)
• Recollections of a medical student (3 pp 2 copies)
• Reply to "The Deacon" on birth control; further notes on birth control
• Dermotobia (3 pp 2 copies)
• An exploded superstition (10 pp)
• The Yarra mystery, Melbourne 8 March (5 pp)
• [X-Ray] 18 September 1922
• [Anecdotes] 18 September 1922
• A journey into the fourth dimension (9 pp 2 copies)
• The treatment of criminals (5 pp) and further notes
• [Anecdotes] 24 August, 3 & 13 September 1922
• A bush tragedy (2 pp)
• Autobiography of a rheumatic (5 pp)
• Coal mine explosions (4 pp)
• Incomplete account of Royal Society of Tasmania's trip to mark the site of Tasman's landing (2 pp)
• Campaign against consumption (5 pp)
• Mediums and trances; on back: ms. The wages of virtue (5 pp)
• How I came to take up writing by Exul (5 pp)
• The Tasmanian Aborigines
• Incomplete and miscellaneous loose pages

Two copies of typescript of a play titled "Arts and Crafts" by Alice D Baker

File contains 4 items:
Letter from Department of History
Report by the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on the teaching of Asian Languages and Cultures in Australia, August 1970
The Asian revolutions of the mid-twentieth century: an Australian perspective (public lecture by D A Low, May 1976)
Donation to Asian Studies Assoc of Tasmania
Letter re $5,000 donation to the Asian Studies Association of Tasmania

Assignment F.E.D. Browne to Adam Beveridge 27 June 1833
Assignment for £45 from Francis Edward Douglas Browne of Hobart, gent, to Adam Beveridge of Launceston, merchant, of allotment in Launceston, William Lushing Goodwin of Launceston, gent., (the second party) waiving interest in an earlier agreement
to purchase for £50 not executed. Signed, sealed and witnessed.

Official appointment as Associate Commissioner of the H.E.C., 1954, and correspondence relating to his retirement (1970), staff discount on H.E.C. charges, brief notes on the history of the H.E.C.

Undated letter from Arthur Smith, Beaufront, Ross. Illness of Henry Meredith, recommended Dr. MacCreery at Ross, Edwin left for the Boyes.

Typescript of a work titled "Australia: A Company's Concession" by Alice D Baker

Grenfell Price, A.
Australia Comes of Age, Melbourne, Georgian House, 1945
Signed by the Author A. Grenfell Price, and by Olive Pink

McCarthy, F.D.
Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art, Australian Museum Sydney,1938

• signed by Olive Pink and annotated text by Olive Pink

Correspondence and papers relating to Tasmanian Working Party, including suggested lists, rough notes on Thomas Jerome Kingston Bakhap born Ballarat; also cabinet photograph by E.M. Grimley, Birmingham [U.K] of an Edwardian gentleman.

Membership of Australian Institute of Secretaries and Federal Institute of Accountants dated 1917

Australian Labor Party - Report of Proceedings of annual conference of 1957.

Australian Labor Party - Report of Proceedings of annual conference of 1955.

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1926 with their signatures on the back of the mount

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1937, mounted Barnett photograph.

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1940, Robinson photograph Devonport.

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated Launceston, 1947, Examiner photograph.

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates undated but possibly 1935 or 1937 . Barnett photograph Hobart.

Photograph of a group of Australian Labor Party members on top of Mt Wellington, Hobart. Undated J.J. Barnett mounted photograph.

Correspondence relating to the Tasmanian Magnesium industry from C.H. Grant and John Reynolds, Managing Directors Australian Magnesium Co., to the Minister for Mines

Correspondence: Australian Natives' Association 1911, 1916. Meetings; committee to consider means of arousing public interest in the timber trade (1911); congratulations on William Ebenezer Shoobridge's election as M.H.A. (5 documents)

Australian Wild Flowers.
National Handbook No. 9 4th edition 1944

Sulman, Annie E.,
Australian Wild Flowers. Second Series. Sydney, Angus and Robertson.1915?

Handwritten 'Chapter One' of Ruth's autobiography/ Clive Sansom's biography. The focus here is on Sansom's childhood in Palmers Green and his school days.

Manila folder containing handwritten drafts of sections of Ruth Sansom' s autobiography, covering the period in England before the war, mamage to Clive Sansom, work at the Speech Institute, Sansom's poetry, association with the Quakers, and marriage and life in the 1970s. In the final section, Ruth Sansom explores and describes her mystical experiences and her religious faith.

Folder headed 'labelled by Sansom "Auto"' [Autobiography]. This contains: newspaper and journal cuttings of background material relating to London life at the time of Sansom's childhood and early adult life; published critical responses to his first collection of verse 'In the Midst of Death'; Sansom's letters to the Times on the role of scientists in creating the atom bomb; copy of a press report about Speech in schools and the work of Ruth Sansom; a letter from 'Tim' titled 'The Second Epistle of Timothy to the Sansomonians'; copies of poems probably read by Sansom during his school days; copy of the London Speech Festival Competitions of March 25 1939; Sansom's scribbled reminders of material for the 'Auto'; an article published in 'The Friend' (1971) by Ruth Sansom titled 'The Inner Journey'; photographs of places relating to Sansom' s childhood.

Handwritten notes by Ruth Sansom, including her draft autobiography about life with Clive, and section of a typed manuscript titled 'Married Life'. Additional pages of material relating to the Sansoms' experiences during World War II and mentioning contacts with writers and absent friends including Allan Keeling, Kathleen Needham­Hurst, Marjorie Gullan, Gordon Bottomley, Robert Gittings, Frieda Hodgson, Margaret Rutherford, Judith Wright, Dorothy Gear, Walter de la Mare and the young actor Martin Miles. A handwritten biography of Clive Sansom focussing on his childhood and his mother with a further section titled 'Clive 16 to 27'. Ruth Sansom also describes the Sansoms' holiday in the Tyrol and her work in a Jewish refugee school.

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.

Manila folder headed 'Autobiography' comprising:
• OHMS envelope containing extracts from Sansom's personal diaries, 1947/48, and other diary notes on loose sheets of paper.
• Copy of the Tavistock Little Theatre Bulletin, 17/18 May 1935, which includes notes on the play ‘Hassan’. There is a handwritten note next to this indicating that this was the first play production Clive and Ruth Sansom attended together.
• Clear plastic folder marked 'Very Special Autobiography Part 2' containing a draft of a section of the autobiography, a copy of Sansom's poem 'Prophesy' and the Sansom Family Tree.
• Birth Certificate for Ruth (Ruth Annie Large, 14/5/06) and Death Certificate for Clive (Royal Hobart Hospital, 29/3/81).
• Sansom's questionnaire to a family member about the history of the Sansom’s. Biographical details headed 'Dosier (sic) on Sansom 1926-1951 '.
• Handwritten and types notes relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• Sansom’s statement to the War Tribunal, opposing military service
• Clippings from newspapers/journals relating to London and associated topics. Copies of two early poems by Sansom: 'Paul's Cross' and 'The Wood'.
• Copy of 'Invocation of a Poet Seeking Inspiration' from Arthur Grimble's ‘Return to the Islands’.
• Letters from Nan [Delaney?], the Convent of Sacred Heart and from Margaret and Len Sansom (2/10/75).
• Sansom's summary notes of Rilke's letters and Rudolf Steiner's text on agriculture, as well as briefer notes about and extracts from other works.

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

1 album covered in brown paper and inscribed: M.S. Watts. Autograph Album.
Margaret S. Thorp inscribed on inside cover.
Spine in poor condition.
Inscription opposite title page (Writing Album) says: 'June 1906. Margaret S. Thorp with best wishes from Freda Brunskill'.
Includes inscriptions, cuttings, letters, watercolour paintings, pen and ink drawings and photos.
Autographs include Roald Amundsen (1911), poet Kath Walker, pianist Eileen Joyce, feminists Adela Pankhurst and Vida Goldstein, Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, politicians and many Quakers met on her travels.

Cut from various letters and documents of East Coast residents, council officers, medical practitioners, politicians etc.
(1 pkt.)

Ayers Rock –Mt Olga National Park. NT Reserves Board, 1967
Inscribed ‘Miss Pink with compliment from the Chairman (Lionel Rose) who is also the Author. 1 Aug. 1969’

Baby's Record Book of Peter Godfrey Marshall born 1922, son of George Douglas and Beatrice (nee Terry) Marshall, went to Clemes College, 1928, married Mary Meston and died 1965.

Folder containing background articles for teaching about film and television.

Photograph of Bagana from South West - RAAF photo

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from above Torokina River - Heyward photo dated Sept. 1945.

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from the North East - RAAF photo

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from the Torokina River - Heyward photo dated Sept. 1945.

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from Torokina, Bougainville - RNZAF photo

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from from Torokina River, September - Heyward photo

Photograph of Balbi - Old Crater, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi from Karporai, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi from Karporai, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Mt. Balbi taken from the sea at the Laruma River mouth. Johnson photo.

Law Practice - Case Notes - Clark's Opinion in re liability of Bank of V.D.L., copies of Deed of Settlement and of Royal Commission (including copies of correspondence between G.P. Fitzgerald and Dobson, Mitchell & others)

Bank book from the Bank of Victoria Ltd, Melbourne, belonging to Mrs Margaret Bennison, wife of A McGregor for the years 1913 - 1914

Bank book belonging to W. E. Fuller with transactions dated 1958 to 1960

Bank Book of Bank of Australasia in the name of William Gunn, 1857-1857

Bundle of cheques drawn by McGregor & Piesse for the period 1874-1887

Bank deposit slips from the Derwent Bank.

William Johnstone's pass book with the Bank of Australasia dated 1842-1847.

Two bank orders dated 1822 and 1823. Promise to pay £86 John Grant and A.B. Spark to Attwood & Smith also bank order from William Wilkinson to John Grant for £86.

Certified extract of entry of baptism and birth of William, son of Murdo Downie, Master Royal Navy, and Anne Smith his wife, parish of Foot Dee, Aberdeen, Scotland. Dated 20 October 1801

Bargain & Sale, Eddie to Oakden 31 July 1835.
John Alexander Eddie of Launceston, auctioneer, to Philip Oakden of Launceston, merchant, bargain & sale of allotments in York St., Basin Road and Hill St., Launceston, for £1200. Sealed, signed and witnessed. Reg. No. 5265

Bargain & sale: Oakden to Thomas Button 30 May 1845
Philip Oakden of Launceston, esq., to Thomas Button of Launceston, tanner, bargain & sale of 1 ac. 2 r, corner of Paterson & Hill Streets, Launceston [Cataract Hill], sold by F.E.D. Brown to A. Beverdige who sold to J.A. Eddie who sold to P.O.,for £146 in 6 bills of exchange dated between 6 and 36 months from date. Signed. Endorsed 6 June 1851 receipt of full payment and release of land. Enclosed the 6 cancelled bills. (solrs. Gleadow & Henty)