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Letters from University of Adelaide on the procedure for applying for a grant of letters patent recognising degrees and copies
of their petition.

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

Letters from Josiah Powell Solicitor dated 1894 to 1895 and 1898. Mainly relating to accounts, costs, receipt of documents etc.

Printed rules of the Hobart Gaol dated 1894

Pencil sketches thought to be by Walter Wilson: "Lottah" on slips 1894; "His Holiness the Popes's armed screw yacht 'Immaculate Conception' (3 masted sailing vessel with funnel) 1894"; flower drawing.

Hodge, Henry, Linear Perspective ...1894
Signed Olive M. Pink, Hobart

Manuscript of two lectures delivered to the Hobart Technical School.

Summons dated 1895 for small debts owed by Frank Allison to Jane Hogg of Broadland House School for expenses in educating his daughter, and to the Executors of Dunning, draper of Launceston, for children's clothing.

Personal diary for the year 1895, refers to Hobart Cup, departure of boats, occasional references to the business

Photograph of a group of ten men, seated and standing, business suits and waistcoats, beards or
moustaches. Undated but may be c?1895-1910

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

Letters from Laura Allison, Hugh Synnot Hull's fiancee who he married in January 1880; mainly affectionate notes with occasional references to music; some addressed to Hughie of 'Shughie' and some addressed 'darling husband' and signed 'wifie' even before the date of the marriage. Most written from 48 Patrick Street.

Manuscript of six lectures delivered at the Hobart Technical School.

Letters from nieces and nephews and sister-in-law from England, including: Emily J. Morris (1896), Ada, Mary (Molly).

The story of the Cross. Hymns and music

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.

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)

Statement copied from Mercury of yields of sugar beet tried in 1896, papers and letters to press, 1919-1920 & 1931-1932 relating to the sugar industry in Tasmania.

Short articles on Federation (typescript, 11 p.)

Papers relating to the settlement of the estate after the death of A. McGregor on 4 August 1896, leaving his widow Margaret main legatee and sole executrix, although Thomas Bennison, who she later married, - acted as her agent, including notes on the settlement on marriage to Margaret Pigdon 1884 and later settlements, list of property (including Lenna, Battery Point, houses in Hampden Road, Macquarie St, Bathurst St, New Wharf warehouse, Lord Rodney hotel, and ships (Harriet McGregor, Helen, Asia, Waterwitch, Loongana, Lufra, Derwent Hunter), solicitors' accounts, balance statements, earlier accounts and documents relating, bills etc. See also M1/16 - Timaru New Zealand property (1904).

Note of names on a photo of Royal Tennis Club 1896 but photo not found.

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."

Reminiscences of John Lyne 1897. Also genealogy of Lyne made by W. l. May 1919, and genealogy notes by University Historical Research Assistant.

Photograph album presented on 23 November 1897 to Henrietta Pierce, secretary of the Missionary Helpers Union, Hobart. She had taught at Friends School for eleven years and was leaving Hobart to teach at her aunt's school in Colchester, England. Letter enclosed signed by members of the Missionary Helpers' Union.
Photographs (as identified by Nancie Hewitt):

1. Pierce family - Alice, Henrietta, John, Margaret (9 yrs)
2. Friends School party (group of girls and boys seated on ground with tennis racquets)
3. May Gould - first cousin of Henrietta Pierce
4. Gould boys left to right: Jack, Arthur, Cecil, Alan
5. Mrs W.E. Shoobridge (nee Mather)
6. Edith Shoobridge, daughter of above and missionary wife
7. Ada Gatchell, Irish Friend (blind and deaf 40 years)
8. Frank Mather, Margaret and Henrietta Pierce before Henrietta went to England 1897
9. Charles Sowden
10. Henry Propsting
11. Hannah Propsting
12. Sarah Pumphrey and Mary (daughter)
13. Elinor and Margerita Robey [as children with doll]
14. Miss Wilson (LeTall), housekeeper Friends School
15. Margaret Pierce
16. Alice Pierce - taken at Lawson by William Allen [elderly woman with stick and bundle of firewood]
17. Shoobridge family - Edith's wedding
18. Samuel Clemes - first head of Friends School
19. Isabella Jane Clemes (1840-1903) first [woman] senior wrangler of Cambridge University, Newham College
20. Ferdinand Grone, husband of Lizzie Pierce
21. Aunt Lizzie Pierce, John Pierce's sister
    24 Thomas Pierce (grandfather of Mary) "(John youngest son): and Mary Anne
22. Pierce cousin (boy) (carte de visite by G. & J. Hall, Wakefield, England]
23. Woman, spectacles, head & shoulders by William Gill of Colchester [aunt? or other relative]
24. Henrietta Pierce [Later photograph, head & shoulders by Whitfield Crosse & Co., Salisbury, Devizes & Southampton]
25. John Pierce and Elizabeth - first wife ("Gould. Her brother a Hobart chemist, grandfather of present ones")
26. John & Elizabeth Pierce [carte de visite photos by G. & J. Long, Newport Isle of Wight and Brading]
27. Friends of Ettie's in England [two young men, spectacles, 1920s or 1930s, photo by Edges Ltd., Llandudno]
28. [Young man, rustic boots and breeches no date]

Geography notes made by Le Tall, 1897 documenting travel through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany,Austria, Switzerland and Italy.

Photograph of Charles Sowden, , B.A., age 28, teacher at Friends' School, Hobart, depicted ringing school bell.

Correspondence, bills, etc. for the years 1898-1899, 1904 & 1909

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).

Memoranda pocket book kept by E.O.Cotton for the years 1898 to 1906. Rough notes of roads (1898), trip in boat (1906) etc.

Miscellaneous personal papers including character references, First Communion card, newspaper cutting relating to introduction of Fair Rents Bill, visit to Claremont Army Camp 1915, House of Assembly notice of regret at his retirement 1958, House of Assembly and Legislative Council notices of regret at his death 1969, funeral card 1969.

Photograph taken of Port Davey, South West Tasmania landing from a boat, dated 28th August 1898

Document - Admission to privilege of Colonial University dated 1899

Notes of man hours spent, wages, costs, and some specifications for various vessels, including Evening Star, steam ketches Lottah and Nubeena, May Queen, Thistle, Victoria Louise, and S.S. Ronnie.

Printed copy of photograph of Sir James Willson Agnew (1815-1901) dated 1899. Seated, wearing medal and dress of KCMG .

Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as Treasurer dated 12 October 1899.

Regatta programme for 1899 printed on 'satin'

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.

Frank Allison's correspondence relating to his post office and telephone work, dated 1899, 1909 -1923

'The Furneaux Islands, their early settlement and some characteristics of their inhabitants'· by Edward William Stevens, State School teacher and catechist, 1790-1899.
Written for for the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1899. Handwritten article described as being compiled 'from a diary and notes written during many years residence in the islands and compiled at the request of the Right Rev. H. H. Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania, Launceston, October 16th 1899

• Photograph of J.H. Gillies, head and shoulders. ND ?c[1900-1910] ;
• Photographs of site of dam and power station, River Shannon, Great Lake and Ouse (? from printed paper) ;
• "Stock Exchange Journal of Australasia" 13 August 1913, photo of J.H. Gillies and article on Hydro Electric Power and Metallurgical
Co. Ltd. ;
• Official opening of Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, "Tasmanian Mail” 11 May 1916 ;
• Photo of bush scene with mud "memorial" to the Complex Ores. N.D. ;
• "Great Lake Power Development" from H.E.C. leaflet c 1954.

One newspaper, The Examiner, Christmas Supplement, published Wednesday 19th December 1900, includes historical articles and illustration on Port Arthur, Launceston and others.

Account book belonging to George Newton Levy for the years 1900 to 1917, recording sums owed to him for work done etc.

Studio portrait photograph of the head and shoulders of Bolton Stafford Bird taken in 1900 by Alfred E. Burrows, photographer of the Quadrant, Launceston.

Black and white photograph of a view of the street in Scottsdale from Grenda's

East Bay Canal 1900. Note of successful tender.

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

Two pages only of the Weekly Courier dated 6th July 1901 . Pages 23-30 - Beattie photographs of 'Glenora' the estate of Mr L.M Shoobridge at Bushy Park, Tasmania, depicts house, man on bank and ladies in a row boat on the lake, other photos of hopfields, apple orchards, hop picking and apple picking, fruit store and hop drying klin. Eight Beattie photographs of the Royal visit to Tasmania.

Letters dated January 1901 to February 1902 written by Dr. J.H. Patterson while on active service in South Africa during the Boer war to his mother, Sarah Patterson.

Diary of Dr. J.H. Patterson dated April 1901 to March 1902, written while on active service during the Boer War in South Africa, often in the form of a letter as it was sent to his mother whenever it was possible to post letters.

Newspaper cutting published in 1904 of an account of the role of the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles in the Boer War, by J.H. Patterson, originally written as a letter. Also press cutting on the Boer War and menu of Annual Reunion Dinner of 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles (with signatures).