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Collection of material

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• Two unpublished poems by Sansom, one written in 1936, and 'On a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'.

Clive Sansom

Collection of photographs

Collection of photographs dated 1899 to 1953

  1. Photograph album of scenes and people taken in South Africa during the Boer War including soldiers on board ship, scenery and settlers, c1899-1902 (also copy prints of 9 photos in album (ticked in album).
  2. Scenes of South Africa reprinted from Natal Mercury, no date c1902-1910.
  3. First Imperial Bushmen (mounted) in Hobart, c1899-1902.
    4-5. Soldiers on board ship, wearing forage caps or helmuts, no date.
  4. Boer War veterans by War Memorial, Hobart, c1948-1952.
    7-8. Boer War veterans by train on way to reunion, 31 May 1952.
  5. Reunion group, Hillwood, 8 March 1953.
  6. Opening R.S.L. Smithton, no date.

Tasmanian South African Returned Soldiers Association

Collection of poems

Collection of poems celebrating St. Bernadette, the discovery of the Darling River and the loss of the aircraft "Miss Hobart"

Alice Daisy Baker

Collection of Sketches and Extracts'

Folder headed 'Collection of Sketches and Extracts' that includes Sansom's note 'Return to England' and references to his 'The Abominable Trade', 'These Happy Breeds' and 'Francis of Assis'i. The folder contains some writing by Robert Gittings, other passages about 'Home', and several jokes for acting and pieces used for speaking.

Clive Sansom

Collections of journals

Collections of journals containing Sansom's poems, articles, and plays. The poems include 'Nightmare', 'Dr Donne's Unwritten Sonnet', 'Tasmanian Scene', 'The Churchyard', 'Gypsy', 'Orchard', and 'Assisi'. Articles include 'The First Teacher: the Life and Religion of Akhenaten, 'My Job, Poet, etc', and 'We the Murderers'. There is also a copy ofSansom's short play for children titled 'At the Zoo' which includes some verse.

Clive Sansom

Collector's Items

Plain/Clear plastic envelope marked 'Collector's Items' containing a list titled 'Clive Sansom Letters Index'. This is an incomplete alphabetical list of people with whom Sansom corresponded during his life.

Clive Sansom

Colonial Times and the Tasmanian

Four newspapers, Colonnial Times and the Tasmanian published by John Campbell Macdougall, Collins St., Hobart.
• 23 June 1846
• 20 Sept 1854
• 24 Dec 1855
• 4 Jan 1856

John Campbell Macdougall

Comments on the Perth Labor Conference

One pamphlet entitled "Comments on the Perth Labor Conference" Nov. 1918 by Senator J. Earle,on amendments of Defence Act. Extracts from Mercury

John Earle

Commercial Bank of Tasmania Ltd

Letter to Andrew Inglis Clark from the Commercial Bank of Tasmania Ltd, 24 Jan 1898, regarding Clark's release from a guarantee to W.J. Williams at the request of Sir E. Braddon.

Communication

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.

Clive Sansom

Complaint

Complaint

Undated complaint by the finance committee of the Hobart Town Total Abstinence Society addressed to Mr J.B. Mather and Mr Geo. Bell, of suffering grievous moral wrong and slander from Geo. W Walker

George Washington Walker

Concerning Olive Pink

Material concerning Olive Pink includes :
• Letter 11.5.63 to Lindsay from Olive Pink at Home Hut, Native Flora Reserve, Alice Springs
• Christmas card 3.1 .66 to Lindsay from Olive Pink
• Article 'She of the Never-Never' in HQ, November/December 1966
• Article 'Miss Pink's garden' in Australian Garden History, Vol 10 No 3, November/December 1998
• Newspaper article 'Tribute to desert trailblazer' in The Age, Saturday 26th May, 2018
• Newspaper article 'Where they rest in peace' in The Senior, undated
• Pamphlet: Olive Pink: Arid Zone Botanic Garden, undated
• Genealogy (3 pages). Olive Pink believed she and Lindsay were 3rd cousins

Lindsay Crawford

Conservation correspondence

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

Clive Sansom

Conservation cutting book

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

Clive Sansom

Convergence on Bethlehem

Copy of Sansom's 'Convergence on Bethlehem'- a Christmas program for Radio in 21 scenes, and poems' with explanatory notes.

Clive Sansom

"Convergence on Bethlehem"

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

Clive Sansom

Convict seizure of brig Frederick

A narrative of the sufferings of certain of the ten convicts who piratically seized the brig Frederick at Macquarie Harbour in Van Diernen's Land , as related by one of the said convicts whilst lying under sentence of death for this offence in the Gaol at Hobart Town. Ms. note: 'written by James Porter a convict who arrived by the 'Asia' in Nov. 1827'.

James Porter

Convolvulus

Convolvulus

Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 50 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory 26/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as a creeper Convolvulus? "from an almost dead specimen when brought to me"

Olive Pink

Convolvulus erubescen

Convolvulus erubescen

Water colour and pencil on dark card sketched by Olive Pink, (no place or date) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Convolvulus erubescen.

Olive Pink

Copies

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.

Clive Sansom

Copies of books

Copies made of books -
• "Degraves Centenary - Cascade Brewery 1824 - 1924" by Cecil Allport (unbound);
• J. Moore Robinson,"Tasmanians Government Houses I 1923 (typed copy;)
• David Burn, Vindication of Van Diemen's Land, London1840 (photocopy),
• Mundy, Our Antipodes (chapters xx,xxl, (xerox copy from Mitchell Library) - Govt. House (1850), prisons etc, Mona Vale

Donald Davie

Copies of Calders writings

Xerox copies of articles, reports etc. by James Erskine Calder (1808-1882) surveyor, from Tasmania State Archives, Mitchell Library, Latrobe Library, including correspondence Government reports, articles in newspapers . Also copies of Calder's obituary notices.

NOTE: Mr. Davie also made handwritten copies of all Calder's writings, in the course of his study but these have not been retained.

Donald Davie

Copies of poems

A dark blue album compiled by Sansom containing copies of poems by writers such as Margaret Willey, Walter de la Mare, Rosemary Dobson, A.SJ. Tessimond and C. Day Lewis.

Clive Sansom

Copper etching plate of Olive Pink's bookplate

Copper etching plate of Olive Pink's bookplate

Includes -
Annotated envelope containing original printing plate of Olive Pink bookplate by Adrian Feint and letter from Feint to Olive Pink by the Society of Artists.

  1. Copper etching plate of bookplate , “Simplicity, Beauty, Honesty, Trust –Olive Pink”.
    2 .Letter from Adrian Feint to Olive Pink 28. 5. 1929
  2. Envelope containing the above items -written on by Olive Pink

Olive Pink

Copy of a verse play

Copy of a verse play titled "Culbin Sands" by Gordon Bottomley. This appears to be the director's copy. Sansom may have directed or acted in the play.

Clive Sansom

Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections

Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections

Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections. Letter to Arthur Perry (Member of the Legislative Council) dated 5 March 1855 from the committee of the Tasmanian Temperance and Total Abstinence Association bringing to his consideration the very demoralising effect of treating Electors with intoxicating drinks and the vile system of supplying the means of drunkenness and debauchery at elections

George Washington Walker

Coronation Elizabeth II

Miscellaneous papers including programmes, souvenir booklets, relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgrove's visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

Robert Cosgrove

Coronation Elizabeth II

Scrapbook of invitation cards relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgroves visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

Robert Cosgrove

Coronation Medal - Department of Labour

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.

Ronald Campbell Smith

Correspondence

File contains 10 items:
Marriage celebrant certificate, dated 4 March 1974
Information for civil marriage celebrants from Attorney-General's Department
Marriage Regulations (Amendment)
Marriage Counselling and Pre-Marital Education Approved Organizations - brochures from Attorney-General's Department
Letter from Minister for Justice, 5 September 1988, re concern at level of divorce in society
Letter from Association of Civil Marriage Celebrants of Victoria, 3 May 1989
Letter from Anglicare Marriage Education, 22nd April 1991
Undated list of Civil Marriage Celebrants - Tasmania
Consent form
Undated newspaper cutting - article by Martin Flanagan on Wilson's 'new-found vocation as a marriage celebrant'

George Thomas Jamieson Wilson

Correspondence

Correspondence dated 1919 to 1920 regarding; Introductions for Bushy Park Manager to California State Insectary, Messrs Clemens, Horst & Co. concerning hop picking machines, and American Blower Co. (1920); Cadbury Bros: local milk supplies (1920); Upper Derwent Farm & Garden Society - advertisement.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Correspondence dated 1919-1920, relating to the fruit industry, including the Saaz Drying Process, and lemon curing.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Papers relating to W.E. Shoobridge's interest in the development of hydro-electric power and the use of water conserved for H.E.P. for irrigation and in possible schemes for the Upper Derwent and other districts. Correspondence with Government ministers and with H.G. Rashbacher, Consulting Engineer U.S.A. (1913-1924); Samuel Fortier of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (1916-1924); the H.E.P. Commission of Ontario, Canada (1919-1924); the Westinghouse Co.; Electrolytic Zinc Co. (1917); the Aluminium Co. of America (1918); Wardens of Huon, Fingal, etc. (1919), and an introduction for the Bushy Park Manager to the Closer Settlement Board of California for information on irrigation, hydro-electric power and closer settlement (1920).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Public halls (1919); copies of letters to newspapers concerning copies of evidence William Ebenezer Shoobridge. gave before the Public Works Committee (1920); redefinition of municipalities (1920).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Letters received, with some drafts, copies or extracts of Clive Sansom's replies from:
Miscellaneous letters 1928-1934
"Babe" (first girlfriend) 1934-1936 (1 folder)
Allan Keeling (antiquarian bookseller and chicken farmer, Kent) 1932-1945 (3 folders)
Marjorie Holben (nee Morse) c1935-1943
Martin Miles (d.1944) and Helen J. Miles c1937-1958. From St. Ninians, Broadstairs, Kent; Oxford, Melbourne and army camps in Wales and England. Lance-Corp. Miles was killed in action in June 1944
Marjorie Gullan and Gertrude Kerby (speech training) c1943-1958.

Clive Sansom

Correspondence

File of the correspondence of Duncan Loane Pty, General Merchants of Devonport, dated 1945-1954 . Mainly about the technical aspects of machinery

Duncan Loane Pty.

Correspondence

Correspondence for the years 1825-1830. Including letters from Thomas Scott about purchase of rum from Capt. Dixon of the "Skelton" (13 April 1825); H. Ross (arbitration 1827); M. Robertson (sheep 1828); W. Burn (sheep and supply of doors, chairs, etc. 1828-1830); reference for E.F. Bromley RN.

Andrew Downie

Correspondence

  • AU TAS UTAS SPARC H11-419 to 424
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  • c1879-1893

    • Part of Hull Papers

Laura Hull's correspondence including:Letter from Hugh, no date (c1879) with 2 copies of 'prayer of the betrothed'; letter from 'Nance', no date (1879); part of letter from Woolmers, 23 April 1893; letter from Laura to Harry, no date; letter from Mrs Joyce giving a weeks' notice for Lily, no date.

Laura Hull (née Allison)

Correspondence

Correspondence received and miscellaneous papers including delivery notes, notes of timber etc., tax returns, employment of Clifton and Carlyle Wilson and Mervyn Cato deferring their call up for military service.

John Wilson

Correspondence

Letters regarding astronomy and aborigines.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

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