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Photographs of the Cotton family and friends also prints and drawing collected by them

Copies of 'Carbonate Capers' - the newsletter of the Mole Creek Caving Club, Nos. 1 - 80, November 1991 to June 1999

Copies of 'Carbonate Capers' - the newsletter of the Mole Creek Caving Club, Nos. 81 - 116, July 1999 - February 2004

Daguerreotype of statue - mounted for sterescopic viewing Picadier/Marche

Manuscript copy of a book on sail transportation by B R Broughton, “Berth of a Man" – an authentic story of ships, the sea and the shore” draft of a manuscript about sail water transport (wheat clippers) a factual picture of the world ashore and afloat as seen through the eyes of an ordinary Australian.

Manuscript notes or transcript of H. Duff's lectures on jurisprudence, Oxford University.

Manuscript notes or transcript of H. Duff's lectures on Roman law, Oxford University.

Correspondence relating to Clive Sansom.

Business correspondence postage accounts, noting postage and addresses, including publishers, ABC, schools and speech teachers, booksellers, politicians.

Acting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom, London (A. & C. Black 1947): drafts, correspondence with publisher, book, reviews, revision; Rhythm Rhymes by Ruth Sansom, London (A. & C. Black, 1965): correspondence with publisher and with Argo about possible publication of recording (and of Activity Rhymes); Speech Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom (new edition 1974): correspondence 1972-1974; Counting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom: draft, rejects, correspondence 1973-74; "Conversation Rhymes": rhymes collected for a possible collection (1970s?).

Speech in the Primary School 1965 (A. & C. Black), third edition 1974 as Speech and Communication in the Primary School: correspondence with A. & C. Black, notes, newspaper cuttings, music, notes on school speech training.

Letter from Macmillan Australia suggesting the possibility of a new collection of one act plays for the junior secondary level, and draft of play by C.S. "William Caxton".

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.

German translations of short stories

German translations of short stories

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).

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.

Page proofs, correspondence with Resurgam Books. Introduction by Clive Sansom but none of his poems included.

Including: "I bite my thumb: parodies and verses by Clive Sansom" with foreword "most of the items have either been accepted or rejected by Punch" (no date 1930s or 40s?). Manuscript and typescript papers in binder, with note at front by Ruth Sansom: "not published. These will need careful selecting and possibly revising. Those in 'I bite my thumb' were written long ago..." Also (b) "The Wet Land" (1932 a parody on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", suggested by a wet Sunday in Wales) and letter to Kathleen Stone about it; (c) draft introduction to "I bite my thumb"; (d) rhymes and limericks.

Most appear to have been written at Palmers Green, London, some at Reigate, Surrey and the last three in Tasmania (but some have no indication of date), most apparently unpublished (but see cutting book DX18/79) (1) for cuttings of a few):- The monster of the Loch (c1933 - "sent to Daily Mail" - returned, alterations made since but... story with the same name has appeared in another paper Clive Sansom January 1934"); The end of a journey; The walled garden, a fantasy; Hoddesdon's Marvel (1936); The figure head; Honour is satisfied; Thirteenth time lucky; The Church; "Good night, Gentlemen"; Jubilee, an impression; Lost and found! A Roman road at Winchmore Hill; The stream, a sketch; a monograph on teashops; These modern poets; "Tibby ; A woman's will; The little Christian; The apple tree; The lost wood [Enfield Chase]; Two shots; Freedom; Silk stockings; The butterfly; Marionettes; One man's system; sonnet XX [Shakespeare]; Detection; "... and blossom as the rose" (1940); The testament of Yalta Smith, a political short story (1944?); Voices; The water cure (or "marquees and other matters"); Keats accent; A very fishy story; Confessions of a Fairy Queen; The day the elephant passed; The Fast; Miss Emily's Teeth; Widow Finnigan's music.

Encounter at Cheal; Baronial Duologue (or Hawkesworth Hall); Grandad's Ghost; the Double Image; The man who pulled down walls; Many do imagine; The Meeting. (Some appeared in John O'London's Weekly 1943-4 - see cutting book DX18/79(1) and some appeared in German papers DX18/75.

Manuscript, typescript, Poems 1951, The prize-winning entries for the Festival of Britain competition (Penguin Poets 1951 - includes "The Witnesses), The Witnesses and Other Poems by Clive Sansom (Methuen, London 1956): proof copy and published copy (4th reprint 1965). 12 folders of notes, correspondence, cuttings of reviews, etc. of performances, essays by school children on seeing a peformance, letter about possible recording by Argo Record Co. (1962), letter about American market (1972).

Dorset Village. Sequence of poems: manuscript, typescript, proof copy, correspondence and notes, "Dorset word book" (alphabetic book of Dorset Dialect words) and notes.

Law Degree awarded to Erskine Clarence Watchorn from the University of Tasmania, dated 7 April 1909

Pass in Barristers' exam, Lincolns Inn, London dated 13th June 1911

Collection consists of booklets and and photocopies relating to Tasmanian Aborigines

Photocopy of printed poems in the memory of King Billy, the 'last of the aboriginal race'

Newpaper cutting from the Mercury newspaper about Wauba Debar's grave at Bicheno Tasmania. Article includes image of the grave of Wauba Debar (1792–1832) a female Aboriginal Tasmanian.

Notes of answers to queries, written on Letter from Major Turner Police Office. relating to amount of damages for cattle trespass in Shaw v. Meredith dated 1837.

Summons for trespass against Robert Webber, dated March 1839.

Rough, traced plans including:
(1) Rocky Hill grant and leases
(2) Sandspit River leases and grants (Glover, Mather, Radcliffe) 1855
(3) Grange, Moulting Lagoon (Amos and Cotton, crap of printed plan)
(4) Belmont (showing roads from Campbll Town to Swansea and Avoca to Swansea, Swan River)
(5) Oyster beds, Spring bay 1862 (by Ram Island, opposite Buxton property, information from ''an oyster man" Thomas Williams. Tracing signed "A.T.M.('?) 16/4/62"
(6) Miscellaneous including Cotton purchases (much torn), lot numbers (unidentified), line of a ?road unidentified).
7) South Australia. (including Adelaide, Lake Alexandrina, Burra Mines, Mt. Barker, Wanstead, Yorke Peninsula)
8) Schouten Island showing allotments and coal shafts.

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

Farm journal dated February - March 1875. Lat two pages and back cover of volume, decayed at bottom.

Farm journal dated 1892 - 1897. Also includes general diary entries, references tofamily and visitors

Farm and General journal dated 1896 -1909. Mainly farm, some general entries, boat, boating picnics, visitors etc. Spine title of volume enscribed "Log Book E.O.C."

Farm accounts dated 1911 - 1936. A.Tylney and J. Archibald Cotton. Bark, orchard etc.

Miscellaneous farm records, business correspondence and accounts

Suit for debt of £250 owed by Francis Cotton to William Woollett of Waterloo Point dated August 1838; sale contract: stock, farm equipment and household furniture (listed) from William Woollett to Francis Cotton for £115

Letter from Francis Cotton written to his children James, Edward, Joseph, and Rachel dated December 1867 to January 1868, while visiting South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales

Papers relating to the historical research of Archibald Lawrence Meston (1890-1951), including notes, drafts and copies of articles for publication, transcripts or photocopies of documents, and newspaper cuttings.

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

Research notes for "Van Diemen's Land Company, 1825-1842".

Letter from R. W. Giblin, London, to "Mr. Murray" re Governor Arthur. 6 p. holograph signed. 10 Dec. 1927.

'Report of Backhouse and Walker of a visit to the V.D.L. Cols establishment, 1833'. Copy of letter to Governor Arthur. 1833. Typescript. Also copy in A.L. Meston's hand.

Research material on Van Diemen's Land Company including:
• Brochure advertising land for sale, ca.1920;
• Sydney Stock Exchange, Investment Service. [Report] on Emu Railway Co., 1938;
• Mining Services [Report] on Mount Lyell Mining &Railway Co., Nov. 1939;
• copies of letters from J. Norton Smith, V.D.L. Co. to James Smith re Mt. Bischoff Tin Mine, 1873-79;
• Transcripts from Bigge's Report, 1820;
• Baptist Magazine, 1832; "Authentic Information regarding Van Diemen's Land Company" by F. Boucher, 1859 (Ferguson no. 7296).

Miscellaneous transcripts on historical subjects

Transcripts of ten articles on the history of North West Tasmania by Richard Hilder. Published in newspapers. n.d.

Origin, rise and progress of the V.D.L. Co. from the Colonial Advocate, 1828.

Typed copy of 'Narrative of the Overland Journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin and Party from Hobart to Macquarie Harbour' by David Burn

Transcripts from "History of the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Van Diemen's Land Company. London. (Ferguson 1302) 1829.

"Sheep". Transcripts including letter to Pastoral Review, by R.S. Sanderson, 8 June 1928; "Early History of Saxony Sheep in Australia", by A.W.L. (Pastoral Review, 16 July 1928); transcripts from Historical Records of N.S.W. concerning John Macarthur's sheep interests.

Typescript copies of University theses

Typescript copy of UTAS M.A. thesis by B.P. Andrews entitled "The Life, Position and Influence of Women in the Early Settlement of Van Diemen's Land (1803-1850)".

"Circular Head's Hotel History". Cuttings from Circular Head Chronicle, 22 Aug. 1945.

Collection of newspapers, "The Mercury" and "Tasmanian Times"

Copy of The Tasmanian Times, dated 8 July 1870

Lantern Slides – 4 up children’s coloured magic lantern slide sets & theatre advertising slide

Lantern slides- Tasmanian : Mole Creek, Sheffield, Cradle Mountain, Hobart, Port Arthur , Launceston, Southport, West Coast. Some lantern slide sets eg “Rastus at Midnight” & “From Life Models” some coloured

Glass plates & photographic prints of Tasmanian scenes & landscapes