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Handwriten manuscript notes and copies of government correspondence concerning aborigines, 1830 - 1832 . Thought to have been compiled c. 1950 - 1970, author unknown

Printed paper presented by the Secretary of The Royal Society of Tasmania entitled 'Language & dialects spoken by the Aborigines of Tasmania, compiled from official and other vocabularies and arranged for comparison by J.E. Calder’. Published by the Parliament of Tasmania in 1901

Tasmania's vanished race : national talks delivered from 3AR Melbourne, on February 26th, 1935, March 6th, 1935 and March 12th, 1935 written by Frederic Wood Jones

The story of Tasmanian aborigines , prepared by Dr. William Bryden. Published Hobart [Tas.] : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1960.

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

Six page typescript of article by A.L Meston entitled "A Short History of Devonport"

Folder containing manuscripts of lectures and talks.
• "Introductory Talk to a Course on Australian Literature" (W. E.A. Launceston);
• two press cuttings and notes on English and Scottish localities;
• "Lost Cities of Southern Rhodesia" (Schools Broadcast, 9th February 1938);
• W.H. Hudson (Schools Broadcast, 4th December 1939);
• "A Visit to Kruger National Park", 7th July 1939;
• "Geology of Tasmania"; Talk to Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club 1949.

Fifteen page typescript article entitled "The Derwent Bank", 1829-1854. (by A.L.M.?)

Five page typescript of article by A.L Meston entitled "Settlement of the North-West Coast"

• "On Behalf of the Company: the Explanation of Henry Hellyer".Cuttings from Circular Head Chronicle, 28 April-26 May 1948.
• Typed copy of Hellyer's despatch to Edward Curr, 29 Nov.1928 with annotations by A.L.M.;
• Letters re Hellyer's ancestry, 1933.

Correspondence, including 3 letters from (J?) R. Kirkup, on finding Hellyer's Slab in the Arthur Gorge. 1927

Hurst, W.N. - Notes on the old correspondence in the Lands Department. 1943. Duplicate of RS23/1(10).

Typed copy of "King Island: Barnard's Report". Despatch to Colonial Office, 24 October 1827.

Typed copy of letter by Adam Amos dated 1826. Given to A.L. Meston by descendant, L.E. Amos in 1945.

Three page typescript "Extracts from the Diary of Mr. W.M. Crosby, late of Leith, Tasmania" 1868-74.

Description of a trip to the Frenchman Cap, in February 1887 by Mr. T.B. Moore. Copied from Mr. Moore's mss. in January 1915. (Published in Hobart Mercury, 14 Apr. 1887. See RS5/9).

Transcripts in A.L.Meston's hand from James Denton Toosey's "Brief Dottings of My Life from Richmond Hill, near Launceston", Launceston, 1881.

Van Diemen's Land Company. Transcripts from Annual Reports,1831-1854.

"Tasmania" File containing:
• Transcript from headstone on grave of Bart. B. Thomas, 1831;
• letter from Ronald Smith 1929;
• letters from W. Walker, 1927;
• note by A.W.S. Hume re J.H. Wedge;
• letter from Thomas Dunbabin, 1928, re Jorgen Jorgensen, with transcripts from Jorgensen's Diary;
• photograph of W.W. Elliston, photocopy of his handwriting and Coat of Arms;
• photograph of Stanley and The Nut;
• drawing of The Nut, Plan of Settlement Island (Sarah Island) Macquarie Harbour.

Collection of printed papers
• Van Diemen's Land Company: British Acts relating to the Company, 1825, 1847, 1863, 1877, 1916.
• Tasmanian Parliamentary Papers in re V.D.L. Co., 1859, 1889, 1911.
• Circular advertising land for sale 1858.
• Report of Emu Bay Railway Co. 1937
• V.D.L. Co. Annual Report, 1868/69, 1931/37.
• Report to V.D.L. Co. by James Bailey on the State of their properties, 10 Aug. 1881.
• Report on properties by Capt. James Rowe, 1886.

Two Parliamentary Papers entitled :
• Walker, J.B. "Deportation of the Norfolk Islanders to the Derwent in 1808" (Parl. Paper, 1895).
• "Discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642". (Parl. Paper, 1891).

Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to Tasmania.

Collection of miscellaneous news clippings, dated 1928-30. History, reminiscences etc. in quarto notebook

Copy of The Mercury Supplement dated 4 December 1883

Glass plates – unidentified some boxed, some loose some broken

Personal photograph album, coloured photographs and 35mm slides of Oatlands, buildings Jericho . Taken by Graeme Raphael who worked for the Department of Agriculture

• Three A3 Display booklets – Hobart & surrounds – female factory
• Central Highlands photographs – Fred Smithies
• Oversized photographs – Hobart – cricket team
• Six views of Hobart from Sketches by T Chapam (fac. 1967)
• Hobart town Gazette Aug 2 1844
• Hobart Town Courier Dec 20 1833
• DVD – Portion of the Hobart floating bridge being transported to Geilston Bay – sunk 1964
• Circular Head Heritage Centre – Calendar 1999 -Celebrating 1798-1998 – BW images of region
• Article by RC Hutchinson “ The reverend John Hutchinson & “Mrs Hutchinson and the Female Factories of early Australia
• Family History of CJ Dennison + bookplate design
• Wapping notes from HCC

Rules of the Electrolytic Zinc Workers Union dated 1959

Employees' Medical Union dated 1963

Letter from Sarah Benson Mather to her aunt describing her mother's death, dated 18 September 1831.

Shipping agreement, 21 August 1884. Memorandum of agreement between W. Crosby & Co., Macfarlane Bros. & Co. and McGregor Piesse & Co. to divide equally profits and commissions on loading of ships in direct trade between Hobart & London.

Detailed accounts for legal work by solicitors Dobson, Mitchell & Allport, including: dissolution of partnership and settlement with CA. Piesse and with debtors; raising of mortgages on property; Union Bank's threat of bankruptcy proceedings against McGregor; VDL Bank; loans; inquiry into property and settlement of late Mrs Harriet McGregor; settlement on Mrs Margaret McGregor (1888); petition to Marine Board about new pier; claim of Albert J. McGregor for wrongful dismissal (1886¬ 88); dispute with J.G. McGregor over ship Loongana and case in Admiralty court for recovery of part earnings and sale (1889); recovery of debts; Lucas estate (1889); T.S. Brown liquidation; Battery Point land; dispute with Presbyterian Church over blocking windows (1892); etc.

Van Diemens Land bank shares dated 1883, 1890-1893. Collection consists of papers relating to shares in the Bank of Van Diemen's Land and settlement in liquidation.

Advertisement and specifications for tenders for supply of iron pipes for the Glenorchy water supply, 1892

Correspondence and statement of accounts relating to the Anchor Tin Mine.

Letter (dated February 1895) of dismissal to office staff as reducing staff; letters (dated June 1895) to London agents, Staley & Radford and Gilbert McCaul announcing his intention to retire on 1 September 1895

Execution of the estate of Captain Edward Lucas (1879-1894), senior captain of the T.S.N.Co. who died on 14 July 1879, aged 54, Alex McGregor and P.J. Salier executors and trustees, widow Matilda and daughter Matilda Elizabeth Salier legatees: accounts and correspondence

Memorial of case, dated 3 June 1896, in Supreme Court in Equity between F.J. Pike and J.W. Robinson, plaintiffs, and A. McGregor, Margaret his wife and the Union Bank, defendants, over property in Battery Point etc.

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

Ledger account book number one - James Mercer for the years 1861-1871

Correspondence from Sidney John Baker (Sid) Baker dated 1956 regarding the creation of chair of Australian literature; also press cuttings on the subject

Correspondence from Sir John Vincent William Barry dated 5th March 1959

Correspondence from Alec Bolton dated 22nd September 1955

Christmas card from R.F. Bridle dated 1955. Thanking Morris Miller for the tribute to Miles Franklin

Correspondence from A. Chisholm dated 5 June 1959

Correspondence dated 6 October 1960 from William (Bill) Cowen thanking Morris Miller for the copy of his occasional papers

Correspondence dated 1952 from James Daly

Correspondence from A. Garrett, Public Library, Melbourne, dated 8 September 1959

Photograph of Edmund Morris Miller's father, David taken by the photographer W Lowden in c 1879

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris dated July 1881-1891 regarding, Hobart: death of Mr Matthews [?Cephas Matthews, Chief Officer of "Lufra", drowned at sea 13 Sep. 1880, age 36], Mrs Matthews and little child (January [1881]), February 1882), Edney Morris [son of James], appointed Council Clerk of Swansea at ?210 a year (June, July 1881), children Percy, Tom & Albert at Government School (July 1881), smallpox at Sydney, signalling by light flashes or helestaph (sic), steamer "Patena" (1881), Percy died of heart trouble following rheumatic fever (October 1881), Paris Electrical Exhibition (October 1881), geology - visit of Prof. Denton (January 1882), Russian warship and electric light, Mr Henry of Electric Light Co. has 2 Swans electric lamps and 2 Siemen's Palfreyman opposite - children had treat talking and singing through it - used porcelain cupboard handles as insulators (February 1882), accumulator batteries, Juvenile Industrial Exhibition in New Market, Hobart - lit by electricity (1882-83), electric lamp arrived (December 1882), sending photo of Rocking Stone on Mount Wellington (December 1882), telephones on Kents Group Island to connect lighthouse with superintendent's house (January 1883), small lamps for microscope (May 1883), Hobart Telephone Exchange opened (July 1883), nephew Henry Stephens visit and death from TB (1883-March 1884), photographer Harold Riise [Riise & Barnett Elite Studio] insolvent - Susman's selling stock - beautiful pictures (May 1885), Edney Morris Superintendent of Police Swansea (8/10/1883), railway debate (8/10/1883), earthquakes in N.E. Tasmania and damage to houses in Fingal (7/9/1883, 8/10/1883), Australian Graphic pictures printed from glass engravings - a Tasmanian invention (3/12/1883), religious revivalists in Hobart (12/65/84), daughter Ada born June 1884 (19/9/1884), undersea cable broken (19/9/1884) fear of war with Russia (May 1885), appointed accountant to Building Society at ?150 pa - glad to leave Susman's (August 1885), scientific lectures by S. Clemes of Friends School (May 1887), sending photo "pan" of Launceston taken from Cataract Hill, lenses for microscope, lantern slide show "footisconopliscope" - William managed lime light and dissolving, Photographic Society (1888 April, May, November), Royal Society Conversazione, sending photo of Baptist Tabernacle (March 1889), Albert a telegraph operator, phonograph in Melbourne (July 1890), polariscope (1890), his little camera (August 1891).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris dated 1898-1900 regarding Hobart: family news, Craig given up Officer College and gone to Sydney - too great expense in maintaining staff to run it at a profit - Fanny and the six children and Willie Morris' daughter Bessie travelled by Oonah - large steamer lit by electricity (August 1898), old vessel Aladin laid up in river and used as gunpowder magazine had been whaler but was formerly French vessel La Mutine taken by Nelson at battle of Nile 100 years ago (August 1898), sending photos of Albert and his fretwork (September 1898), received book on "Wireless Telegraphy" - lent it to J.W. Agnew (November 1898), South African War (March 1900).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to sister dated 1855 regarding the voyage, arrival, Hobart, asks after Jane Garman and her photography - on the look out for some of her specimens. Also letter from William Knibb Morris to Uncle and Aunt dated 1855 regarding the voyage.

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 relating to limestone - Premier & Chief Secretary's Office, dated 1939

Correspondence related to Tin smelting, silica, etc. 1960 to 1963, John Reynolds & Associates

Historical study entitled "Eastern gold mines 1870-1914"

Typescript draft of the book "Countries of the mind : the biographical journey of Edmund Morris Miller 1881-1964", by John Reynolds and Margaret Giordano. Published 1987)

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes, including draft of "A.I. Clark's American sympathies and his infJuence on Australian Federation" and of "The Clark's of Rosebank"

Scrapbook of programmes dated 1927-37 compiled and donated to the Hobart Repertory Theatre Society by Maisie Fulton, and a few additional programmes dated 1938-1942

Typescript of " An account of the whaling and sealing industries of Van Diemen's Land" by Leonard C. Murray.

This is a personal diary writen by Arthur E. Risby (1856-1915) son of Joseph Edward Risby and includes notes of the weather, Huon Regatta, sailing, arrival and departure of boats; also some notes from 1878 - the mill burnt down, 'Helen' and 'Esk' started for London.

Photograph of illuminated address to J.E. Risby thanking him for his serviced on the committee of the Hobart Town Regatta.

Collection of photographs of sawmills dated c1890 to 1910

Letter from Robert Campbell Gunn to brother William dated 6 October 1828 from Barbados regarding the want of cash for fare home in spite of economies, appointment as clerk to Royal Engineers Antigua uncertain, thinking of moving to V.D.L., Gunn's father and father-in-law recently died in Antigua

Letter from W. Wood to W. Gunn dated 1 July 1845. Nankridge: employment for Charles, Mr Swan bought horses and bullocks for ploughing, cannot offer present big rent of £650 for 2000 acres. (fragile document)

Gunn's claim against Gordon estate 1844 -1849. Papers relating to William Gunn's suit for debt against James Gordon, including: letter from Gunn to Mrs Gordon: sent 3 bags of sugar, Kelly's account, stock losses (22 Oct. 1844); letter from W. Gunn to sister in law Mrs Gordon: sending sugar, Kelly's case, been given notice to leave by Robertson etc (29 Oct. 1844); accounts of interest owed by James Gordon and Elizabeth Gordon 1841-1848; summons to E. Gordon for debt of £6000 to William Gunn (8 Sept. 1847, & Sept. 1849); letter from W. Gunn to Thomas Young about the case and Mrs Gordon (8 Nov. 1848, transcript only - original too decayed to handle) statement by William Gunn to Mrs Elizabeth Gordon of Forcett, Pitttwater, widow of James Gordon, reciting judgement in suit brought by William Gunn requiring Mrs E. Gordon as executor to pay with account attached.

Letter from Frank [?Allison] to Harry dated 13 June 1887. From Woodlands: the little mare.

Unsigned draft of letter to "Winston" dated 31 Januaary 1888: little parlour window broken open and things "put out".

Letter from George to sister Amy , undated [late 19th cent]. From Legerwood, Ringarooma: weather, walks, Willie, family.

Poem entitled "Count not the hours" dated 1851. "For Miss Gunn"

Notice that in consequence of a domestic affliction in the family of the Governor [Sir Henry E. Fox Young] the Levee and Ball for the 24th 1855 would not take place.

Photographs of the Military hospital & convalescent camp, Cairo May 1915 published by the Commonwealth Gazette.

Letters from Albert J . Gillies to Frank C. Green (1959-61) commenting on the draft manuscript and enclosing extracts from his father's papers and from news­papers that might be quoted. Includes articles in Mercury newspaper dated 9.7.1915 and 18.3.1922, undated article by A.S. Gill "The Australian zinc-industry". Letter from John Butters dated 9 July 1959.

One album containing political advertisements and propoganda c1925 -1941

Certificate of appointment as Justice of the Peace for the Hobart district, dated 1934

File consists of material relating to Smith’s Coronation Medal:
• Letter of congratulations from Henry Bland,
• letter from Department of Labour and Social Service, Melbourne, enclosing medal,
• medal in box, and certificate of award.

Certificate of merit for 23 years service, dated 1959

Report and history of the Peacock Convalescent Home (typed), dated 1966. The Home, situated in Swan Street North Hobart was donated to the State by W D Peacock. It was officially opened as a Convalescent Home for Women in March 1943

Article from 'Mercury' newspaper on Joseph Batt (d. 1897), who left a bequest to the Royal Hobart Hospital and the Presbyterian Church. R.C. Smith was one of the trustees.

Article in 'Horizons', March 1967, referring to Ogilvie's Labor policy speech in 1934, R.C. Smith being chairman.

Photograph of Naval cadet football club. Two copies of a Beattie photograph, dated 1918

Mounted photograph of group, probably railway men, in work cloths, undated

Mounted photograph of Southern Railway football team, dated 1922

Handwriten loose leaf note book, entitled "Text book of Physiography " begun in June 1937. Based on lectures to Geology 1, University of Tasmania, 1928-30, with chapter headings with some detailed notes.

Copies of printed papers including "Tasmanian plants of the upper Palaeozoic & Mesozoic coal measures" and other papers of The Royal Society of Tasmania and Linnaean Society of N.S.W. annotated ms. and bound with blank pages containing further notes and drawings.