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now the Community Centre - very faded photo print

School sports or marching display. N.D. Mercury (newspaper) photo.

School exercise book belonging to Elizabeth Helen Grueber dated 1864. Includes notes on geography etc. and poetry

Short stories and articles

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

Geometrical exercise book of George Marshall, Dundee. Dated February-April 1810

Classics exercise book of William Henty when "near 12 years old", including notes in neat copybook handwriting on Roman history, Latin exercises, and Greek alphabet, declensions and exercises. At back printed tables of weights, measures etc. dated Sept. 1820.

Schedule for University of Tasmania, 1947. Physics Ill, includes handwritten diary. Physics Ill paper and questions.

Two files of correspondence and one folder of newspaper cuttings relating to the Scamander Mineral Exploration Company, dated 1967 to 1968, some newpaper cuttings from 1957

Collection of photographs of sawmills dated c1890 to 1910

Two satirical pencil drawings of Olive Pink

Letters from Sarah W. Meredith (1807-1869) to stepmother Mary Meredith from Hobart: gossip, family especially sisters Sabina and Louisa, food and clothing to be sent home by schooner and supplies such as fresh butter from Amos, poultry, beef, coffee to be sent to town fro the sisters; chaperon; L.ouisa Twamley; ball at Government House; wedding of sister Sabina to Boyes; ball on board ship; Louisa Swanston to marry Solicitor General and would pay his debts; Mr Bell [Louisa's husband] raising roof of house; loss of "The George III (12 Apr.1835) and Governor's religious ceremony, Dorcas Society formed- all respectable ladies join (16 Sept. 1835); arrival of Col. Snodgrass to hold reins of government (14 Oct. 1836); sent mother red herrings, she and Mr Poynter liked them for breakfast toasted and spread on bread and butter, instructions for making bed valances for Sarah, Learmonth's eldest son to marry, paid bill for Maria [stepsister] at Mrs Milloys, Lady Franklin's flrst dance - huge dining room fitted as drawing room, people admired curiosities spread on tables, one or two "awful quadrilles", tea coffee, cakes; Miss Woodley? engaged to Mr Bennett -both went up to top of Mt Wellington and returned the same day "a feat never yet performed by a female"; comment "I do not mention anything approaching gaiety, such a wicked thing is not thought of now and certainly Lady Franklin is worse than Mrs Arthur" (8 Dec. 1837); Charles going
to England. After her marriage in 1836 to James Peck Poynter (1790-1847) letters are signed S.W. Poynter

Letter from Sarah Westall (Meredith) Poynter to her half sister Maria Meredith dated 1859. James sailing in "Tommy", going to Cambria, placing him in Mr Kay's office for a year, George's teeth need attention and will probably go down in the "Flying Squirrel" when repaired or the "Tommy", sending frock for the baby, asks for sea shells for a cousin in London.

Letters from George Meredith's first wife, Sarah Westall Meredith , to governess Mary Ann Evans (later Mary Ann Meredith) dated 1818 . Letter from Sarah, to Mary Ann Evans, governess: the family, proposal to bring children to new home "here" written from New Hill Street
[?Birmingham] to Haverfordwest: conduct of Mr Bunt and his agent, Mrs Twamley.

Sarah Rothwell (1807-1876), who married Thomas James Crouch (1805-1890), Under-Sheriff, on 20 February 1832, was the sister of John Rothwell and aunt of Sarah (Rothwell) Morris.

Letters to Sarah from family, and a Sunday School presentation.

Letters from Sarah Rebecca (Rothwell) Morris to son Robert James Morris, mostly undated, April 1905 -1907. News of home to son travelling in England.

Letter from Sarah Meredith to Henry Meredith dated 10 May (no year). Letter to half brother Henry at Mr Giblin's School: French lessons, Mr Deane's pupils, brother John, Penrith's jigs.

Photograph of Sarah Island, convict settlement. Photographed "from a watercolour in the possession of James B Walker, made by a prisoner at the settlement and given to George Washington Walker on his visit
there in the year 1832" (endorsed ms by? J B Walker)

Papers of Sarah Elizabeth Clara Leake (1869-1929) usually known as Bessie, daughter of C.H. & CJ. Leake
married John Dowbiggin (Jack) Foster on 23 March 1892

Collection consists of family correspondence, miscellaneous papers, household accounts and personal mementos

File consists of a collection of personal mementos

Copies of Sansom's poems (some typewritten, others by hand): 'Woods under Grass'; 'Colombo, November 1949', 'My love we have been one so utterly... '; 'On hearing Celtic Lament'; 'Epitaph'; 'Invocation'; 'Because the sun clears in the valleys ... '; and an extract from one of Sansom's poems printed in an obituary notice for Jennie E. Milligan.

Brown document folder marked 'Sansom's Family Tree' containing:
• folder marked 'Wills'.
• collection of notes on the name 'Sansom' in a white paper cover with paper clip. Plastic folder with notes about R. Browning's assoeiation with Dorset.
• folder of pieces 'Kept by Clive for his autobiography'.
• folder 'Registers from Pentridge- - the Sansom family'.
• folder on the genealogy of 'Fry'
• folder on the genealogy of 'Thurland'.
• folder on Cranbome Chase.
• folder on Owermoigne Village.
• folder with queries on genealogy and history.
• folder on the genealogy of Sansoms.
• folder on the genealogy of the Johnson family.
• folder on the Sansom/ Owermoigne connection.
• folder on Thomas Hardy and Owermoigne
• folder on Sixpenny Handley Glassage (Sansom family).
• Paper clipping on Robert Browning.
• folder on the Sansoms, notes about the family and their locations.
• folder with letters from Sansom's family.
• Collection of letters about family history in a white paper folder clip.
• folder with Sansom's notes on forebears at Owermoigne.
• Brown foolscap envelope headed 'Clive Biography': various letters and a family tree.
• folder holding the family tree.

Photographs of Sandy Bay taken c1870-1882 by Winter photographer.

Sammy Cox (Samuel Jervis) "A Tasmanian William Buckley" by F.W. Hosken, from "Argus Cameron Supplement" 17 October 1931

Sketch by Roy Cox

Xerox copy of report and minutes of Salmon Commissioners , 1864-1865, printed report 1882, copies of humorous poems and cartoons.

Abstract of salaries (including names, signatures, and situations) of Brighton Police Office and Sorell and Prossers Plains (1849) and of Hobart Town Gaol (1854)

Poems written in three notebooks that have been joined together

Poems dedicated to his son and daughter, Lettie and Russell written in three notebooks

Letter from Sabina Meredith to brother John dated 11 July 1832. His writing better, young Gregsons read well, hopes John practices, Governor's [Arthur's] son going home to England to be educated -cannon salute on boarding ship, drawings and maps received from England for geography and history lessons.

Letters from Sabina Meredith (Mrs Boyes) to parents dated 1831-1841, some undated. "Papa" from Sabina Meredith (1810-1877, married John Boyes 9 Mar. 1833), from Hobart: articles needed for abode with her sisters in town including snuffers, tea kettle, turkeys, bottled gooseberries, account of breakages, mother's illness (1832-3); as Mrs Boyes: pregnancies, children, christening (1835), children's party for little Louisa's birthday (12 Dec.1839), Sabina's 4th birthday (Nov. 1840); baby boy fatter than ever- Dr Bedford advised weaning but not yet 9 months (28 June 1839); miscarriage (10 Jan.1840); sister Sarah's health and midwife (6 Nov. 1840); her quinsy and Dr. Bedford's treatment (28 June 1839); Boyes' illness- ordered shower baths (30 Nov. 1836); Bell's illness (1839-40); death of Boyes mother from stroke at 72 (12 Dec. 1839); shopping for mother, young stepsisters at school (1833, Jan. I839); visit to Swanport (Nov .1840, Jan. 1841); Mrs Charles [Louisa Twamley Meredith] (Oct 1839); friends: Swanstons, Youngs, Gregsons, Dr Bedford to marry Miss Selby at end of year (June 1835), dance at Barracks, visit to Government House (ND), stone of Government House laid at Govt
Garden Pt. with elegant lunch in pavilion (5 Nov.1840); servants- wages high for respectable couple (25 Oct. 1839).

Postcard and letter from his father T.P. Drake on board SS. Geelong.

Letter from S. B. Cruttendon to Mrs Mary Meredith dated 8 May (no year). Safely home at Prossers Plains, thanks for stay at Cambria, sending hyacinth bulbs and yellow chrysanthemums for garden by brother and would send Marriot's works when convenient, love to Maria.

Ruth Sansom's handwritten autobiography. A number of drafts relating to different stages of her life. This mentions Martin Miles, recitals given by Clive Sansom and herself, Clive Sansom 's personal appearance and character, and the Sansoms' return to Tasmania in 1950. It discusses Sansom's published and unpublished works, their experiences at Spicelands Training Centre, their speech work in England and at the Tasmanian Education Department's Speech Education Centre. It includes a description of Clive Sansom's attitude to poetry and its writing, and provides an account of Sansom's final illness, death and memorial service.

Diaries of Ruth Sansom; and notes for a Friends Meeting in 1985.

Manuscript of a poem titled "Ruth"

Report of first conference and statement of political platform (typescript 2 pages).

Photograph of Runnymede House and stables taken by George Musgrave Parker

Photograph of Runnymede House, New Town, taken by George Musgrave Parker

Rules of the Supreme Court 1856 - 1917. Printed orders bound into a volume for Gilmore & Clarke, solicitors, with ms list of contents.

Rules of the Electrolytic Zinc Workers Union dated 1959

Folder of 16 miscellaneous papers:
Heitiki Club 1931-1932 - list of members
2 entries from 'The Eagle' 1932
St John's College Rugby Union Football Club, Michaelmas Term, 1932
L.M.B.C. May races 1932, Bump Supper
Heitiki Club 1932-1933 - list of members
St John's College R.F.C. Annual dinner, 1933
St John's College Rugby Union, Football Club, Lent Term, 1933
Receipts x 2: May 1933, Nov 1934
Rugby Football, by A. E. Mitchell, 1945
University of Canterbury Rugby Football Club, Jubilee Magazine. Diamond Jubilee 1883-1958
The Skilball Trophy. Four Home Unions v Rest of Europe, April 1990
Annual Report 1990 - various papers
Rugby loan 1990 - various papers
Undated list of donations
How to play golf - 3 handwritten pages
Rugby bumph - handwritten notes

File contains realia relating to George Wilson's association with rugby

Papers concerning xxx

Royal warrant on parchment, signed by Governor R.G.C. Hamilton. Appointment of Bolton Stafford Bird to Executive Council of Tasmania dated 29 March, 1887.

Working programme of Tasmanian visit (including traffic arrangements), Tasmanian Programme, Commonwealth programme, script of documentary film, and Sequence of Events for the Opening of Parliament by Her Majesty the Queen

Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh greeting R. Cosgrove and at receptions, Parliament.

Newspaper cuttings collected by Mrs. F. R. Fuller, including Mercury photograph of W. E. Fuller and visitors at the Royal Tennis Court, Hobart on its 75th anniversary in 1950.

Illustrated progamme of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Tasmania Regiment: Presentation of Queen' s and Regimental Colours by his excellency the Governor of Tasmania, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gairdner KCHG, KCVO, KBE, CB, (Honorary Colonel The Royal Tasmania .Regiment) at the Brighton Military Camp, Saturday 2nd March 1968' includes colour photographs of the colours, photos of Governor and officers, and list of parade

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.

The collection consists of correspondence, papers, newspaper cuttings, literary manuscripts and other miscellaneous items of Roy Bridges, Tasmanian writer and newspaper reporter Including some correspondence and agreements with publishers and manuscripts or typescripts of much of his work, including unpublished material. The Collection also includes manuscripts of Hilda Bridges, Roy's sister.

Rowing Four on water N.D. Not named. ? includes R. Cosgrove jnr.

Torn part of rough draft letter relating to land

Leaflet for the Rostrum Club Launceston No. 14: rules of procedure and debate dated May 1964

Christmas card issued by the Hobart Bureau of Meterology in 1966 of the Rossbank Observatory, Hobarton,1840.

"Ross v. Gurr": transcripts from Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemens Land Almanac. 1833-35.