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Pale blue scrapbook containing copies of poems and handwritten quotes from a number of writers, compiled by Sansom.

Brown folder marked 'Poems' that comprises copies of letters Sansom received and wrote in 1939.
• Ten letters (several undated and l incomplete) from Allan Keeling and a copy of one of Sansom' s replies.
• Five letters and a post card to the Sansoms from Martin Miles, and one addressed to Ruth Sansom only. Two letters to the Sansoms from Helen Miles, mother of Martin.
• Seven letters from Rodney Bennett.
• Five letters from Anny and Herbert Gunsburg [?]
• Two post cards and six letters from Marjorie Gullan.
• Two letters from Sansom's mother.
• Two letters from Sansom's aunt (Aunt Bee).
• Two letters from Len Sansom (Sansom's brother).
• One letter from Eric Savage and Sansom's reply.
• Single letters from Rolf Maass, Ruth's mother (19 Carr Street, North Hobart), Cicely Beardsall ( including her poem and Sansom' s reply), George Buchanan, Lewis W. Phillips, Marjorie Halben, Butch Levistein, J.R. Firth, and H.W. Chapman
• Copies of Sansom's letters to John O 'London's, The Listener and Palmers Green Gazette.
• Two newspaper clippings of Sansom's letters to the editor (unidentified papers and undated).
• Letter to Barclay's Bank.

Folder marked 'Please Pass it on' comprising notes on listening and retention skills.

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".

Short plays or sketches for speech classes, etc. (unpublished?): "Interruption, a play in one act"; "The King's servants"; "Shuffled Words, a sketch"; "Friday night at the junction"; "Celestial Meeting, a stage play for three women only"; "The new Alcestis"; "The return journey, an epilogue to Flecker's epilogue - Samarkand"; "Uplift, a sketch"; "Verona to suburbia, a sketch by Clive Sansom (in collaboration with William Shakespeare)"; Untitled (brief sketch on Good Speech); "Rinaldo and St. Julian"; "The Journey, an experiment in one act"; "The Journey, a play for broadcasting"; "How it is done, a sketch for broadcasting"; "Dream Meeting, a play for broadcasting".
See also Microphone Plays (DX18/60)

Sixteen photographs taken at times between 1934 and the 1970s. One is of Ruth at Sandy Bay presumably before leaving for England. Later photographs show Ruth on her honeymoon, horse riding (presumably in England) and, later still, at Eaglehawk Neck and Orford. There are several passport photographs and one studio portrait taken in England in 1945.

Eleven photographs of Sansom taken at stages of his life from 1932 to the 1970s. Several photographs are of Sansom at home (Mt Stuart), one is taken on board a P&O liner and at least one is a passport photograph.

Apart from photographs taken in the l 970s, these eleven photographs show the Sansoms in England, on journeys to Ceylon
(1950) and the Middle East and in London during the War years. One is a passport photograph of both husband and wife.

Seven photographs show either one or both of the Sansoms with Walter Stiasny and his wife, with members of the London verse speaking choir at a choir reunion in London in 1961 and with other groups of unidentified people.

• A studio portrait of an unknown lady - an old photograph probably of a forebear.
• Two photographs of unidentified individuals, one annotated 'Tiesie Austria'.
• Postcard of Reigate Wray Common Windmill.
• Postcard of Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau.
• Pictorial folding letter card of scenes from Reigate.
• Two postcards of Reigate.
• Seven postcards of Winchmore Hill.
• Photograph of the cover designed for the Argo recording of ‘The Witnesses’.
• Envelope containing negatives of photographs.

1. Helen Power when young
2. Photograph of painting
3. "Mount Joy", Campbell Town, former home of Helen Power
4. Helen Power at home in Hobart, no date [1950-56?]
5. Helen Power's home in Hobart (photo Ben Sheppard)

Brown foolscap envelope titled 'Photographs'. Only very few of these are annotated with names, places or dates. sorted into five bundles of photographs

Family photographs of Clive and brother as children, ?parents and grandparents, ?brother's children (photographs not labelled or dated).

Family photographs of Clive and Ruth Sansom.

Folder 4, marked 'Personal letters - C.S & R.S. friends 1970s 4' contains:
• Two letters from Allan Keeling.
• Three letters from Lina Wake (Dorset Poets' Society) and one letter from Sansom in reply.
• Two letters from Ann O'Connor and one from Sansom in reply.
• Three letters from Olive Pell (Western Australia) and two from Sansom in reply.
• Two letters from Kathleen Needham-Hurst.
• Two letters from Robert Bennett (New Zealand).
• Two letters from Katherine Nix-James and copies of Sansom's replies.
• Two letters from Myfanwy Thomas and one copy of Sansom's reply.
• Single letters from Musgrave Homer, Peter Heam, Pleasaunce Holton (and Sansom's reply), Leigh Holloway, Dorothy[?], Harold Holloway, Beverly[?], Judith Wright, Margaret Roberts (and Sansom's reply), Elfrida Foulds, Margaret Willy, and Frieda [?].
• Copies of Sansom's letters to Leonard Clark, Ronald James and James and Ivy Fry.
• Letters of congratulation to Sansom on being award an Arts Fellowship from Mary Sharland, Anne Roberts, Don Kay, Eileen Connacliff [?], W.V. Tenniswood, Michael Thwaites (2), Mary[?], and Mildred[?].

Folder 3 is marked 'Personal Letters 1970s 3' and contains :
• Two letters from Michael Thwaites (Canberra).
• Three letters from Ann O'Connor and one page of Clive Sansom's letter to her.
• Single letters from Frieda[?], Stuart and Mary[?], Harold[?], Lil and Stan Johnson, Nora Potter, Eileen [?], Betty Raynor, Beverley[?], Robert Bennett, F.W. Bateson, Jean Reid, Maisie Cobby, Dorothy Aickman, Marjorie Morse, Catherine Hollingsworth, Margaret Willy, Joan Allport, Felicity [?], Sister Mary Rosalia, Ron James, Kath Needham-Hurst, Musgrave Homer, Jane[?].
• Copies of Clive Sansom's letters to Jane[?], Beth Parsons and Caitlin Constable.
• Two notes and a greeting card from unidentified writers.

Folder 2 is marked 'Personal Letters 1970s 2' and contains :
• Eight letters from Kathleen Needham Hurst, 1976-77.
• Eight letters from Allan Keeling.
• Six letters from Lina Wake (Dorset Poets' Society) and copy of Sansom's reply to one of these.
• One short note and a Christmas card from Leonard Clark.
• Three letters from Michael [?], South Australia, and copy of Sansom's replies to two of these.
• Three letters from Martin Seymour.
• Two letters from Geoffrey Clarke.
• Single letters from Nan Delaney, Michael Thwaites (with a copy of his poem 'A Talk to the Willow'), Carina Robins, Beatrice Desfosses, Nancy Caughley, May Ali, Maisie Cobby, Rhoda Felgate, Therese D' Arcy, Musgrave Horner, Ann f?], Katharine Nix-James, Myfanwy Thomas, Margaret Willy, and Tim Evens. A copy of Clive Sansom's letter to Joan[?].

Folder 1 is marked 'Personal Letters 1970s 1' and contains :
• Two letters from Max Angus and one letter from Sansom to Max Angus.
• Three letters from Robert Swire and one letter from Sansom to Swire.
• Two letters from Leonard Clark to Sansom and one letter from Sansom.
• Two letters from Myfanwy Thomas to Sansom.
• Eight letters from Kathleen Needham-Hurst and one reply from Sansom.
• Two letters from Ann O'Connor to Sansom and one letter in reply.
• Two letters from Margaret Willy to Sansom.
• Two letters from Christabel Bumiston and two replies from Sansom.
• Two letters from Sansom to Olegas Truchanus and two letters to the publisher David Higham about the possible publication ofTruchanus's photographs.
• Single letters from Judith Wright, Maisie Cobby, Margaret Delaney, Tim Evens, the Mercy Teachers' College, Philada Palmer, Jean Reid, Musgrave Homer, Alfred Milligan, Martin Haley, Allan Keeling and 'Beverley'.
• Single letters together with Sansom's replies from Lina Waite and Eric Wood
• A postcard depicting Salisbury Cathedral from 'Trish'.
• Two letters from unidentified writers (one from the ACT, Australia and the other from the UK).
• Copies of Sansom's letters to Peter Drombrovskis, Robert Gittings, Cedric Smith, Mrs E. Dawson (and a copy of this forwarded to Margaret Wilkinson), Joan Bennett (wife of Rodney Bennett)
• two letters to 'Peter'.

Four brown folders marked 'Personal Letters'

Drawings and sketches, family photo albums, and correspondence regarding conservation.

Clear Plastic envelope marked 'Permission to quote in ‘The World of Poetry'.
• Brief letters from writers who gave Clive Sansom permission to use extracts from their writing in his anthology ‘The World of Poetry’: Elizabeth Drew, Aldous Huxley, Basil Willey, E.M. Forster, James Devaney, E.M.W. Tillyard, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, George Whalley, G. Wilson Knight, Herbert Read, David Campbell, I.A. Richards, Richard Wilbur, John Ciardi, W.R. Rodgers, Cynthia Asquith, Rosamond E.M. Harding, John Lehman, F.R. Leavis, H.G. Garrod, Erich Heller, Sir George Hamilton, P. Gurrey, Max Eastman and three others whose signatures are indecipherable.
• Letters from James Kirkup, V.S. Pritchett and Robert Graves indicating their refusal to grant this permission.
• The file also contains correspondence from Poetry Review (acknowledging receipt of a poem), Robert Speight (commenting on The Witnesses), Dal Stivens (about copyright), Geoffrey Dutton ( acknowledging Sansom' s letter pointing to errors in one of Dutton's publications), M. Beatrice Forman (about her publication of Keats's letters), N. Pevsner (acknowledging
• Sansom's letter about errors in his publication of a text on the buildings of England), Patricia Excell of Meanjin (acknowledging a poem Sansom had submitted), Patrick Garland (acknowledging receipt of a drama script).

A novel: correspondence with Methuen and R.K.S., research notes including Oberammergau programme and postcards, newscuttings, etc. relating to Oberammergau, manuscript in notebooks, typescript.

Proofs of part of a novel titled 'Other Little Apples'. The proofs extend from pages 51 to 82, excluding pages 58 and 62 to 68. Is this Sansom's work?

Ten scripts of ABC 'Once upon a time' 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.

Originally published for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the late 1940s: letter from LAMDA asking if it could be republished (October 1977): duplicated typescript, draft, notes, correspondence with Bodley Head.

Brown envelope marked 'Odd notes in Clive's handwriting'. These include:
• Extracts from a draft travel diary describing Singapore, Bangkok, Stomboli and Bath (UK).
• Notes on brief meetings with Mr Grey (retired Principal) and Con Rhee.
• Draft of Sansom's 'Noah and the Pirates'.
• Random notes on 'Definitions'.
• Drafts of a proposed story 'Emily the Brontosaurus'.
• Extract from an issue of the Readers Digest titled 'A Toast for Tea'.
• A personal not about allergies and cats.

Manila folder titled 'Odd letters' from people such as Walter de la Mare, Norma McAuley, Thomas Moult, Nan Chauncy, John Winter (about the publication of a book of poems in honour of James McAuley), Margaret Brown, E.W. Nicholas, W. Kingdom Ward, Anne Kurt and Frieda Hodgeson (LAMDA). Tributes to Sansom from Bob Brown and Don Kay. Life Membership certificate presented to Clive and Ruth Sansom by the Tasmanian Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama. A letter from 'Dan' [Roberts?] written from Assisi in 1964, and one from 'Brigit[?] to Ruth Sansom in 1983. Section of a handwritten letter from Sansom to 'Allan' [Keeling?] dated September I 4th.

Manila folder labelled 'Clive's notes to Ruth on publishing books, just after he came out of hospital about 1968 or 9', with the added note 'It is now 1993 - things have changed since these were written at least 20 years ago'. The folder contains four series of handwritten notes about the management of Sansom's published works and unpublished manuscripts should he die, and two typewritten pages dealing with house deeds, life insurance policy, royalties on published works, disposal of books and autograph letters, poetry manuscripts and publishing.

Brown folder marked 'Clive's Notes on Dreams'. Sansom's notes on his experiences of dreams. Draft of Sansom 's poem 'After Donne ... ', and a poem written by Ruth Sansom.

German translations of short stories

Address book - "commercial travellers journal with Newton Chambers & Co. (c1928-34); notebooks (very rough notes and drafts), word notebook.

A green and white covered notebook marked with the archive number DX 18 SAN 18/88.38 containing Sansom's handwritten poems. Contents comprise some epitaphs and poems such as 'Gordon Square', 'At This Hour', 'Flowers in Exile', 'Never Believe', 'Mozart in Vienna', 'William Blake, 'Bramble Hedge', 'Cherry Trees', 'Buchenwald', 'For a Child', 'Alun Lewis', 'Soldier in Exile (for Paul)', and 'To Walter de la Mare'.
The book opens with a dedication:
"Take, as tokens of my love -
Tide-laps from those far distant shores
Where beauty and all truth converge -
These songs, that more than half are yours.'"

Newspaper and journal clippings include
• photograph of J.R.O. Bartram,
• photograph of the comedians 'Ada and Elsie',
• 'For Sale' notice and photograph of the house at 31 Gordon Avenue, Lenah Valley, which the Sansoms subsequently bought,
• report on Sansom's publication Choric Drama,
• article from Speech News announcing the resignation of Clive and Ruth Sansom and paying tribute to their work for the Speech Institute (January 1951),
• item from the Surrey News about the crowning of the May Queen ceremony (undated).

Correspondence from the National Book Council, London.

Four scripts of ABC 'Myths and Legends' 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.

Music score for Sansom's cantata "There is an Island". Words by Sansom and music by Don Kay, dated April 1977.

Nine scripts ofmiscellancous ABC 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.

Miscellaneous notes and letters relating to the search for accommodation. Letter from Sansom to the Editor of Poetry Review on the subject of poetry and beauty (14/11/40) and one from an unidentified writer [perhaps either Rodney Bennett or Robert Gittings?] on the teaching of oral English and Keats's connection with Dorset (5/12/61).

Miscellaneous material:
• A collection of letters marked 'Clive's letters to his wife Ruth' which includes a typed poem by Sansom titled 'Do you Remember?'
• The program of a public recital by members of the London Speech Fellowship and Institute, directed by Marjorie Gullen in the late 1930s (no date). Ruth Sansom featured in three of the items on the program.
• A program for a professional development seminar ('Joint Refresher Course') held in Mansfield UK 1949 at which Ruth was a lecturer.
• Copy of an undated Airgraph from Ruth Sansom to her parents in Hobart following a bombing raid in Southern England during World War II

Green spring-back folder labelled 'Miscellaneous' containing typed manuscripts of Sansom's short story 'Old Frank' and his radio play 'Immortal Evening (December 28th, 1817)'. Characters depicted in this play include Keats, Limb and Wordsworth.

Miscellaneous items including
• freehand sketches of Sansom and John Bradford,
• photograph of Sansom on board ship,
• Christmas card from 'Mother',
• invitation from St John's Infant School to attend the crowning of the May Queen,
• photograph of a building named 'Green Gates',
• printed Christmas card from the Sansoms that contains Sansom' s poem 'Carol of Three'.

Miscellaneous items including an incomplete letter to Sansom from an unidentified writer, a Christmas card to Ruth Sansom from ''Norman and Maisie', part of a letter Ruth Sansom wrote to her parents from London during the Second World War, Sansom's handwritten note to his wife, and a note of Ezra Pound's response when the Speech Institute sought permission to reprint one of his poems.

(i)
• Handwritten notes apparently relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• The program for performances of Die Fledermaus at the Theatre Royal, 9-19 March 1955. Sansom produced the opera and wrote the dialogue. 'Our Moral Obligation'
• Copy of Sansom's address to the Tasmanian Chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
• The wedding speech Sansom wrote for Brian Paine in 1974.
• Copy of Branich's [?] poem 'The Monk in the Kitchen'.
• Short story by Reverend Howard Schode [?].
(ii) Copy of Lloyd James' pamphlet ‘Talks on English Speech’.
(iii)
• Christmas card 1946
• Sansom's statement to the Military Tribunal in which he opposed military service in the Second World War.
• Owen Reid's article on Sansom published in the journal Tasmanian Education.
• Sansom's diary notes for 1961 mentioning a visit to Dorchester, to Hardy Country, to Dorset, to Glastonbury, and his meeting with Canon Dawson (to discuss a recital of poems from The Cathedral).
• Sansom's notes for a talk on 'Writing Poetry' - 1975.
• List of poems for a reading by Sansom at Richmond, Tasmania.
• Selected quotes from reviews of The Witnesses.
• Sansom's biographical details that he provided on request to a parent. Two copies of the text of Sansom's talk titled 'One Poet's Job' with an attachment about his early life.
• Sansom's handwritten notes on God and Imagination.
• Sansom's brief notes on his life and career that he prepared for entry in the International 'Who's Who in Poetry.
• A note about Sansom's poetry reading that he presented in Canberra 8 September 1974.
• Sansom's address to the 6th Biennial Assembly of the Australian Society of Education through the Arts on 21/9/76, Also notes on a talk he gave on 22 January 1976.
• Two handwritten copies of poems from Dorset Village.
• A printed sheet containing four of Sansom's poems on Tasmanian themes, Extracts from reviews of The Unfailing Spring and The Witnesses,
• Two typed poems by Sansom: 'A Recipe for Bones' and 'At Miss Austen's Grave'.
• Typed version of Sansom's article 'Poetry Reading and Appreciation', Sansom' s article about The Witnesses.
• Several typed pages of Sansom's poems.
• Extracts from reviews of In the Midst of Death and The Witnesses
(iv)
• Sansom's notes prepared for his introduction of Judith Wright at the Town Hall - 15 March 1972.
• Sansom's speech at the memorial service for Brenda Hean - 29 September 1972.
• Copies of several small advertisements about Lake Pedder, which Sansom placed in the Mercury.
• The text of Sansom' s speech about Lake Pedder - 'A Place Apart from all Others'.
(v)
Quaker material including:
• Copy of an edition of The Australian Friend containing Sansom 's article on 'The Religious Basis of Peace Testimony'.
• Draft typescript of the above article.
• Program for Quakers' Yearly Meeting 1972 at which Sansom and his wife spoke on music and poetry.
• Two copies of a talk and reading presented to the Yearly Quaker Meeting on January 9th 1971.
• Submission to a Senate Committee on Children's Television.
• Newspaper and magazine clippings about school assemblies and religion in schools.
• Program for a presentation to Quakers on 24 November 1973 on the subject of St Francis of Assisi.
• A draft of Sansom's article titled 'York Minster'.
• Minutes of two Friends' meetings -25 July and 28 September 1975.
• 'The Timeless Moment' extracts from poets and writers and Sansom's work, compiled by Sansom.
(vi) Speech education material by Sansom and others:
• Material from University of Michigan 21/8/56.
• Zoe Community School.
• Newsletter of Tasmanian Education Department Speech Centre, October 1970.
• Topics for talks.
• Range of clippings about speech and talking.
• Noel Atkins' demonstration lesson on speech education.
• Sansom's letter of advice to Sister Canice of Thomas Moore School. Articles on group discussion, 'How we Speak', oral language and impromptu talks. Sansom wrote most of these.

Plastic bag containing:
• Black diary of pencilled notes about the Sansoms' trip to Europe.
• Record of books read by Sansom in 1928 and 1929.
• Printed Christmas card containing Sansom's poem 'The Carol of Three'.
• Sansom's diary for 1939.
• Home Office publication detailing air raid procedures during the Second World War.
• HMSO publication about national service regulations for the same period. Red diaries written by Sansom in I 940.

Brown manila folder marked 'Miscellaneous' containing:
• Sansom's typewritten 'Did Jesus have a sense of humour?'
• Typed copies of poems that Sansom submitted to journals. These include 'Genie', 'The Enchanted Wood', 'The White Horse', 'Widdershins', 'The Swan', and 'Dr Donne's Unwritten Sermon'.
• A typed article by Sansom titled 'Religion and Art'.
• Copy of the Tasmanian Association for Teachers of Drama in Education's annual report 1977-78 mentioning life membership awards to Clive and Ruth Sansom.
• Typed text of 'Swithin of Winchester'.
• Copy of Sansom's article 'Keats's Accent', published in the Keats-Shelley Memorial volume.
• Typed 'mock-up' of These Happy Breeds with drawings by Max Angus.
• The Sansom' s family tree.
• Two maps of southern England's roads.
• Copy of Daily Express edition of Tuesday 21 June 1910, the date of Clive Sansom's birth.
• Sansom 's handwritten notes on technology, on intuitive thinking, and on Jean Holm and religious education.
• Several printed copies of Sansom 's biographical and publication information. LAMDA workshop program 1978 at which Sansom spoke about ‘The Witnesses’.
• A small Croxley notebook containing Sansom's notes made during a visit to Europe in 1961 referring to cities such as Rome, Naples, and Venice, and a draft of his poem about bells.
• Cutting from the Sunday Times of21 October 1990 about Hilary Spurling,
• Paul Scott and the Sansoms.
• Draft of the Sansom family tree.
• Miscellaneous correspondence, held together by a paper clip, from publishers, the Thomas Hardy Society, R. L. Wimbush, the Francisean Herald Press, Len Sansom and an archivist about Diocesan records of the Sansom family. This includes a copy of one of Sansom's letters to his brother Len.
• A University of London folder containing a copy of Clive Sansom's birth Certificate and his School Certificate.

Manila folder marked 'Miscellaneous' that includes:
• Four reproduced pencil sketches of Sansom.
• 'The New Alcestes' - a parody on Gilbert Murray by Sansom, written Easter 1933.
• ‘Rostra’ 16/2 July 1981 containing an obituary for Sansom written by Robert Bennett.
• A handwritten article by Ruth titled 'Clive in Satire and Parody after Paul's letters'. This was written following Hilary Spurling's visit to Hobart and reflects Ruth's responses to aspects of her husband's writings.
• Two poems in Ruth Sansom's handwriting titled 'Snake' and 'Indian Play'.
• Several loose pages in Ruth's handwriting that appear to be drafts of her memories of life with her husband.

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.

Tributes to Clive Sansom.

'Love letters - Clive to Ruth' in a brown A4 envelope. This contains Sansom's letters to Ruth Sansom written in England, Tasmania, mainland Australia and New Zealand. One group of these is marked 'Some special letters from Clive to Ruth'. It also contains some of Ruth Sansom's letters to Sansom, several of which are significant, dealing as they do with life, love, beliefs and personal relationships. It contains two 'very special letters' from Ruth Sansom to her husband in 1940-41.
Other material in this folder: Program of a Speech Fellowship seminar in London 1949 at which Ruth Sansom demonstrated techniques of teaching speech. Copy of a photocopied and bound book of poems by Sansom - dedicated to Ruth. Several references to education and history recorded by Sansom. Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'The Poplars'.

Manila Folder marked 'LAMDA' [London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]
• Pamphlet about the Speech Fellowship's aims, objectives and activities.
• Letter from Peter [Hearn?] of 17/8/61 about Sansom's help with a LAMDA lecture on The Witnesses while on a visit to England in 1961.
• LAMDA flyers advertising a refresher course for teachers on 31 July and I August [no year given, although probably in the early 1940s because of the assurance that entrance fees would be refunded if non-attendance was the result of 'enemy action']. Sansom directed a session of Choral Speaking Practice and participated in a 'Brains Trust on Speech'.
• LAMDA flyer advertising a refresher course for teachers on 25 July and 26 July 1947 at which Clive and Ruth Sansom presented an explanatory lecture on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land followed by an oral reading of the entire poem.
• LAMDA pamphlet about training courses for teachers in elocution and dramatic art.
• Brochure of the London Co-operative Society outlining a series of twelve speech training classes conducted by the Speech Fellowship.
• Three letters to Sansom from Wilfred Foulis, Governing Director of LAMDA, about examining strategies and administrative matters relating to the Academy, 2/1/40, 4/1/40 and I 0/5/40.
• Letter dated 16/1 /? to Sansom from a teacher of elocution seeking advice about examination standards.

Sansom's notes on listening skills and a range of other material either collected or written by him.

Folder with articles on listening and discrimination, and a copy of Sansom's letter to the principal of Kingston Primary School.

Brown folder marked 'Clive and Ruth's Letters, and recommendations and references in early England'. The material includes:
• Extracts from letters praising the London Speech Festival 1935, organised by Sansom.
• A personal reference, dated 25/6/1934, from the Sales Manager of the Ironworks Department of the firm Newton Chambers and Co where Sansom worked for eight years. The reference notes that Sansom began work in the firm as a junior clerk and had worked as Traveller for the Light Castings Department for the last two years of his service.
• The original of the Marjorie Gullan Certificate awarded Sansom by the London Speech Fellowship and Institute in August 1936.
• Original certificates awarded Sansom by the English Verse Speaking Association competitions in July 1934: First in Class III Dramatic Poetry; First in the Final Class; First in Lyrical Poetry.
• The original of Clive Sansom's Birth Certificate - 21 June 1910.
• Two of Sansom's curriculum vitae prepared in the 1930s and 40s.

Letters to Ruth Sansom from Myfanwy Thomas, Kathleen Needham­-Hurst, Cedric Pearce, Hermann Peschmann, Beth Parsons, Hilary Outhwaite, Thomas Green, Peter Heam, Bruce Goodluck, Dorothy Aichrnan, Jim Ward, John Casson, May S. Ali, Therese D' Arcy, Pip Buchanan, Helen and Kenneth Brooks, Roy Chappell, Bev Dorwick, Monash University and Sylvia Read. One unsigned letter.

Brown folder marked 'Letters to keep'. These cover a range of topics including Amnesty International, the ABC, St Anne's Rest Home (where Sansom assisted with the library and donated books), Jennifer Filby of the Rosny Children's Choir, the Arts Club, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Society of Authors, and Sansom's subscription to The West Country Magazine. A letter from Rae Hogg (niece of Helen Power) thanking Sansom for his broadcast on her aunt's life and work.

A brown envelope addressed to Ruth Sansom, Mount Stuart, containing some of Sansom's letters to his wife written from the 1930s through to the 1980s.

Letters to Sansom from Richard Ailand, Rodney Bennett, Hugh Collinson, Patsy Adam Smith, Kathleen Bethley, Stanley Godman, P. Gurrey, E.M. Gunther, Alec Craig, Gertrude Kirby, Raynor C. Johnson, Clarissa Graves (sister of Robert Graves), Stella Mead, Roger Pilkington, Patricia Ledward, Alan Keeling, Fearn Rowntree, Cecil Roberts, S. George West, G. Wilson Knight, D. Metcalf (Secretary to H.G. Wells), W. Kingdom Ward, Gerald Bullett, John Yates, Elizabeth Buckmeilla [?], the University College Oxford Elizabeth Darvell (Tasmanian Association for Drama in Education), Robert Barclay Wilson, Dorothy Sayer's secretary, Father Cuthbert, the Poetry Society, and the Unity Theatre.

Letters to Clive Sansom from The London Speech Fellowship, Leslie Daiker, Joan Bennett, Madame Helen George, Marjorie Gullan, Margaret Willey, Geoffrey Clarke, Aunt Bee, Dorothy Ackman, Len Sansom, Gladys Sansom, Kathleen Needham-Hurst, Arthur Fayne, Hermann Pleschmann, Constance Rennie, D.H. Tribolet, Allan Keeling, Margaret Arnott, Edward Milligan, Martin Davies, Herbert Howells, Richard Graves, Arthur Thompson, and Uncle Harry. There are also two letters from the publishers A.C. Black, one from the editor of John O 'London's Weekly, and one from Dr R. Vaughan Hudson who treated Clive Sansom during his illness in 1948. There are several letters are from unidentified writers.

Letters to and from Walter and Sylvia Stiasny. Walter Stiasny was a musician and was appointed musical director and conductor of the National Theatre and Fine Arts Society at the Theatre Royal.

Cream folder containing letters to and from Rodney and Joan Bennett. These letters (predominantly from 1936-1948) focus on Sansom and R. Bennett's individual writing and their collaboration with school texts. The most recent letter is dated 23/11/73. The folder includes one letter from Winifred Scott about Sansom's "Speech Rhymes", and part of a letter from an unidentified correspondent.

A clear plastic folder marked 'Letters Ruth to Clive'. These letters cover several decades and include a photo, Ruth Sansom' s pen portrait of her husband, and her poems 'The New Dawn' and 'To the Deaf'.

Brown folder of letters, some relating to the Society of Friends during a period extending from the 1940s to the 1980s. Sansom's letters to 'Uncle Harry', to Martin Miles, Martin's brother George and letters from Martin Miles and his mother Hilda Miles. Sansom's letter to an unidentified correspondent referring to Jonathan Field and Sansom's texts on speech rhymes. Letters from Rodney Bennett, Allan Keeling, W. Kingdom-Ward and Kathleen Needham-Hurst. Letter from the editor of The Aryran Path. Sansom's draft article titled 'Mutation'. Letter from the Hobart City Eisteddfod Society acknowledging receipt of money from the Helen Power Memorial Fund to be invested and used for an annual award to competitors in the poetry-writing sections of the Eisteddfod. Circular letter from Ruth Sansom in the late 1980s to members of the Society of Friends about the Society's attitude to homosexuality and aids, together with replies from various members. Ruth Sansom's correspondence with Roger and Catherine Bayes on spiritual matters and copy of a prayer of thanksgiving from the Gnostic library of the Pachomian Monastery of Nag Hammadi sent to Ruth by Roger Bayes. Draft clause of Ruth Sansom's Will bequeathing money to Sarah Buckland.

Brown folder of letters relating to Sansom's illness in 1965 and his subsequent retirement from the Tasmanian Education Department. Writers include Paul Arnott (nephew), Marlene Lette, Athol Gough (Director of Edueation), senior Education Department personnel, teachers and interstate colleagues, Joan Woodberry, Gwen Donnelly, Sylvia and Walter Stiasny, W.H. Perkins, the Minister for Education and Rose Bruford. A copy of the Newsletter of the Tasmanian Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama containing a tribute to Sansom.

Cream folder of letters to and from Mickey and Kathleen Needham-Hursts about a proposed visit to Tasmania and affairs of the London Speech lnstitute.

White folder of letters on a range of topics including the war (fireguard duties, evacuation procedures, etc), the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and Sansom's early poetry, and from Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, Aunt Bee, Norman H. Potter and Edgar G. Dunstan. Program for the performance of T.B.Morris's play " I Will Arise" produced by Sansom and performed in March 1948. Sansom's typed 'Dictionary ofCliches' and several paper cuttings on a range of subjects.

White manila folder containing letters of criticism about Sansom's poems written for his collection "An English Year" and dealing with questions such as lack of Tasmanian subjects and the poet's other works. See letter from Kathleen Needham-­Hurst and Sansom's reply. Writers include Robert Gittings, Stephen C. Schultz, Peter Heam, Constance Barrington-Smith, James Reeves, Daniel Jones, Charles Kohler, Ron Shields, Martin Haley and a postcard from W.H. Auden. Other correspondence deals with Sansom's draft autobiography "I Find My Voice", the 'Society of Dorset Men', the Thomas Hardy Society, Sansom's work at LAMDA and his joint publications with Rodney Bennett. Some letters include Sansom's comments about his and others' poetry. The folder includes letters to Ruth Sansom from Mavis and Ron James following the publication of Sansom's poems after his death and a Vice-Regal invitation to Ruth Sansom to a reception for the Seventh National Drama in Education Conference held in Hobart.

Green folder headed 'Letters -Hilary Spurling 40 Penn Road, London N7 9RE'. Contains twenty-eight letters from Hilary Spurling to Ruth Sansom during the period May 1986 to January 1993, beginning with her request to Ruth Sansom for information about Paul Scott for her biography, discussing aspects of his life and contacts with the Sansoms in London in the 1940s, considering Scott's approaches to and themes in his writing, seeking copies of Scott's letters to the Sansoms, negotiating their sale/donation to the Tulsa University, and arranging a visit to Hobart. The folder also contains drafts of parts of letters Ruth wrote to Hilary Spurling in reply to her requests for information, a copy of Scott's poem 'Tell us the Tricks' and several relevant handwritten extracts from Sansom's diaries copied by Ruth for Hilary Spurling.
Other miscellaneous items include:
• A copy of Ruth Sansom's poem 'When shall the bubble burst?"
• Letter from Graham Dalling, Local History Officer of the Enfield Borough
• Library, requesting a copy of the Clive Sansom memorial volume edited by Ruth.
• A copy of George Moore's poem 'Astrolabe'
• Letter from Jenny Scott requesting Ruth Sansom not to divulge any information about 'evil and unpleasant' incidents in Paul's early life and asking her not to release letters from Paul Scott to Sansom.

'Letters from Ruth to Clive from Bunce Court, Otterdam near Laversham Kent at the school and not long before marriage'. This comprises over twenty letters written during 193 7.

Brown folder containing letters from Rose Bruford, founder of the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. These comment on Sansom's "The Cathedral and The Witnesses" and productions and readings of these works in England.

Manila folder containing at least a dozen letters from Nan Chauncy.

Cream folder containing letters from Lina Wake about the Dorset Society and the publication of the Society's annual poetry anthologies.

Manila Folder headed 'Letters from friends not so well-known but worth keeping':
• Roger Venables 6/10/42; P.R. Bing 24/8/42;
• Stella Mead 18/10/43 and 26/1/44;
• Telfer Dennis (cousin) to Ruth Sansom 7/12/81;
• Jonathan Field 'Saturday';
• H.E. Brown of the Uni of London Press 4/11/40;
• Roger Manvell 12/8/44 and 29/8/44 about his contribution to Sansom's Speech in our Time;
• Kathleen Cunningham of LAMDA 14/5/44;
• Tim Evens 10/12/78;
• Paul Arnott (nephew) 4/7/78 and 19/7/78 (post cards);
• Harold Ripper 18/12 1966 about a poem by Sansom 'The Crib at Greecio';
• Betty Rainer in April 1959 and 6 January 1960 about Sansom' s The World of Poetry.
• Fearn Rowntree 'Friday afternoon' advising Clive Sansom on work habits and providing information about her own life;
• Nia Thomas to Ruth about Clive's death 27/7/81;
• Jim and Barbara Roberts to Ruth 28/7/81;
• Hilary Outhwaite to Ruth 20/4/82;
• Lina Wake to Ruth 22/5/82;
• Maida [?] to Ruth 8/12/81 and 19/12/81;
• Joan[?] December 1981;
• Evelyn Abraham 3/9/47;
• Dorothy Gear 4/4/79;
• W. Smith 28/9/41;
• Ralph Wightman 27/8/66;
• Eileen Holmes (nd);
• Henry Nix 10/7/41 (official notification of milk supply during the war period).
• Copies of letters from Sansom to Dorothy Belcher, Patsy Adam-Smith and Charles Kohler.

Plastic folder of more than thirty letters from English friends including Kath Needham-Hurst, Mrs Ivy Fry, Margaret Miles, Ronald Cook, Margaret Willy, Tim Evens, Harold Holloway, Catherine Hollingsworth, Doris Harding, Hermann Peschmann, Lina Wake, Nan Delaney, Allan Keeling, Helen Linacre, Peter Hearn, Marjorie Jacklin, Ann O'Connor, Therese D' Arey, Margaret Miles, Frieda Hodgeson and Hilary [Outhwaite?].

Parcel of letters labelled 'from Clive to Ruth when on his exam tours for LAMDA'. Over thirty letters written in the l 930s both before and soon after the Sansoms married in London.

Clear plastic folder 'Letters especially interesting to a biographer'. This contains numerous letters to and from Sansom, some of Sansom's writings and associated material

A clear plastic folder with the heading 'Letters Clive to Ruth'. This package includes a 'Triolet' and a long letter describing the Sansoms' return to England in 1962 and a photograph of Clive.

Brown folder headed 'Clive- Letters' and 'Copies of Clive Sansom's Letters to Papers' including:
• Letters to various people describing Sansom' s experiences of the London bombing during the war.
• Letter to Aunt Bee.
• To "Babe' (an early girl friend), 14 April 1935.
• To Rodney Bennett referring to Miss Gullan, 28 Dec 1936.
• To Rodney Bennett, 4 January 1937.
• To Aunt Bee, 4th October[?]
• Handwritten notes on range of topics.
• To George West, 4 January and 18 December 1937.
• To Williams at Oxford Press, 26 February 1937.
• To Martin Miles about a poetry reading recital, 25 and 27 January 193 7. To Miss Gullan, 26 February 1938.
• To the Listener on choral speaking, 5 June 194 J.
• To TLS on the current war, 17 September 1941.
• Typed copies of Sansom's poems: 'Renaissance', 'Fidele Chorus, 1940', 'Sonnet July 1940',
• one untitled, 'To Gerard Manly Hopkins', 'Fidele', 'Poem – July 1940'.
• Letter to Ray[?] about the German bombing, 30 August 1940.
• Handwritten notes, which appear to be a diary of a trip.
• To News Chronicle about German sterilization claims, 24 January 1940, and on 31 January 1941 about pronunciation.
• A limerick.
• Letter to a newspaper[?] about G.M. Hopkins.
• To Richard Church on 5 October 1940 in response to his comments on Sansom's first book of poetry.
• To Sedgwick and Jackson about errors in their publication Prefaces to Shakespeare, 6 October 1940.
• Handwritten letter [incomplete] from Martin Miles to Clive while serving in the army.
• To TLS about a published review and the state of affairs in Britain, 2 November 1940.
• Letter from Air Raid Warden/Officer on 31 May 1940 advising that there were no vacancies for training.
• To Penguin Books pointing out errors in a recent publication, 2 April 1940.
• To an unidentified newspaper/journal responding to a reader's query.
• From Oscar Browne about pronunciation.
• To an unidentified correspondent about lines in poetry, 15 May 1941.
• To Christian World about the war, l May 1941.
• Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'Invocation'.
• To Hermann Pleschmann about T.S. Eliot on 26 November 1945.
• To C.A. West about the Speech Institute.
• Cutting from a newspaper, Sansom 's letter about Keats's cockney accent. Clippings from newspaper/journal correspondence columns on the subject of phonetics and Sansom's Speech Rhymes, from Sansom, Oscar Browne and Elsie Fogarty.
• Poem 'Come Harvest' in ten parts, apparently written by Sansom.
• To Stanley Godman on 27 August 1941 providing a summary of Sansom's activities during the Second World War.
• To Miss Ames about lectures on speech in the army, 22 July 1942.
• To Jordan Smallfield on 20 August 1942 about speech education at the college.
• To Stella Mead on 28 July 1942 about a proposed poetry anthology of New Zealand and Australian verse.
• To Mr Day (Landlord) about rent payments, 12 July 1943.
• To John O' London on 17 July 1943 about Keats's accent.
• To an unidentified periodical on the matter of verse versus poetry ('When is it Poetry?').
• To Mr Cole on 29 September 1943 about religious education.
• To Mr Waller-Bridge on 3 November 1943 about the sale of apples.
• To Miss Birkinshaw on 3 January 1943 about a good speech examiner.
• Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'I am a Leaf.
• To John O' London on 7 August 1940 about the title of a book, The Poet Speaks. To News Chronicle on 14 August 1940 about taxes on books.
• Letter to 'R.B.' (Rodney Bennett) about examining Speech and Margaret Mead's poems, 17 July 1945.
• Two pages of a handwritten letter to an unidentified correspondent.
• To 'R.B.' (Rodney Bennett) on 7 November 1946,
• Sansom's review of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral published in Christian Drama.
• Letter to an unidentified journal about radio announcers.
• The Sansoms' circular Christmas Letter of December 1952.
• Letter to Saturday Evening Mercury complaining about an article on the Brownings.
• The Sansoms' circular Christmas letter of November 1957.
• Two letters to The Mercury about Battery Point and conservation issues (1958).
• To the Examiner on 20 June 1962 about a local drama performance.
• The Sansoms' Christmas circular letter for 1965.
• Letter to Thomas Moult about the 1967 bushfires and Clive Sansom's retirement plans.
• To the Australian about copyright, 23 January 1968.
• To Mercury about Battery Point, 30 July 1968.
• To an unidentified newspaper/journal about censorship, 20 June 1969.
• Typed extracts from several poets and a copy of a poem by W. Cantan.
• To brother Len Sansom on 18 August 1970.
• To Rev. James Day about The Witnesses and other Sansom publications, 24 May 1976.
• To Quaker Greenwood about sound boosting in the meeting room, 23 December 1977.
• To a London Bookshop about some purchases, 15 February 1978.
• To Don Kay about a production of 'Rapunzel', 15 September 1978.
• To Charles Kohler on 15 September 1978 about copies of Poetry and Religious Experience.
• To Charles Menden at the Guildhall School of Music about an examination syllabus, 15 September 1978.
• To Senator Michael Townley about copyright matters on 15 September 1978.
• To David Higham Associates on 30 May 1979 about permission to use poems from The Cathedral.
• To TLS about propaganda and the war, 16 August 1941.
• To David Higham, publisher about reprinting The Witnesses, 30 May 1979.
• To A.D. Haigh (Mount Stuart) about the preservation of old buildings, 30 July 1979.
• To the Tasmanian Mail about an article on religion, JO August 1979.
• To Hilary Webster about two of his Tasmanian poems, 10 August 1979.
• To Sylvia (Stiasny) about Kipling's poems and references to fairies, 26 July 1979. Part of Sansom's letter about a poet whose poem 'The Dreamer' is admired.
• Part of Sansom's report on a candidate's performance.
• Program of a performance of Euripides' Alcestis by the London Verse
• Speaking Choir on April I 19[?] in which Clive Sansom spoke the part of the God Apollo.

Brown envelope of letters to and from Sansom and his brother Len Sansom.

Clear plastic folder containing letters from Sansom to Ruth Sansom mostly before their trip to the Tyrol in the late l 930s.

"The quality of language" off-print from Spoken English (Journal of the English Speaking Board) London, vol. 7 no. 2 May 1974, and shortened version for New Zealand Education magazine; "Australian speech" (typescript, no date); "We the Murderers: a study in poeticide" (typescript - lecture to teachers, no date); "Why read faster?" (1970); "Professor Higgins - imposter". Also (b) foreword by Clive Sansom for Bruce Proverbs' book "Business Communication and correspondence".

Including: Edward Bonner (February 1938 manuscript); Behold this Dreamer (typescript no date); The head and the heart (Farnham 1948 typescript); Religion and Art (1949 typescript), Friends School (1951); Friends Annual Conference 1952: Our faith and service (see also cutting book DX18/79 (2)); peace testimony Town Hall, Hobart (30 July 1958); religious broadcasts, Word and Vision (1960); Meditations (21 December 1961, 2 January, 31 January, 28 February, 26 August, 1 November 1962); Quakerism and the Arts (September 1963); Quakers and Peace (December 1963); The religious basis of our Peace Testimony (no date, typescript); Quakers and the Sacraments (no date, typescript); Should religious education be abolished? (no date, typescript notes for discussion); The First Teacher (no date, typescript); "Spiritual Canticles". See also "An evening with the Quakers" June 1937 in cutting book DX18/79(1) p.12).

Modern poetry (5 lectures - University College, 1939); Modern poetry (Tottenham YWCA 1939?); Choral speaking (1943); T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (Progressive League 1947).

Seven scripts of ABC 'Journeys in Bookland' 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.

Account of last days in England and departure on "Orion" from Tilbury (12 November 1949), Ceylon, Fremantle, Adelaide (10 December), Hobart (by plane from Melbourne 12 December), Hobart and Southern Tasmania and people met, Baptist Tabernacle, note of "Things different in Tasmania", poem "country scene in Tasmania" (note by Ruth Sansom enclosed: "I think the only poem on Tasmania", first broadcast to schools, recital, finished "Passion Play", poems: "Drought", "Oyster shells", "Deaf".

In the Midst of Death: poems by Clive Sansom (privately printed 1940), dedicated "To Ruth": printed copy, typescript, correspondence, printer's bill (O.U.P.), reviews.

Clear plastic envelope headed 'Important letters and articles by Clive'. A copy of Sansom's introduction to a published anthology of passages of verse set for examination purposes by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and letters from the Secretary of the Academy concerning this. Letters in response to Sansom's article 'We the Murderers', published in English in Australia. A copy of Sansom's article on the subject of copyright also published in an issue of English in Australia, and associated letters from that journal's editor.

Typescript (for BBC 194-), letter from ABC about broadcast (1952, letter from ABC and script (1970).

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).

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.

Seven scripts of ABC 'History for Grades III and IV' 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.

Parcel of collected materials about the history and locale of North London, described in a note as 'Archival' material which would delight a North London Librarian, eg Winchmore Hill. These are old books and pamphlets on that area. The parcel also contains copies of Sansom' s letters about conservation issues sent to English newspapers and journals during the 1930s.

Program of fortnightly meetings conducted by the 'Here and Now society', advertising Sansom's session on 'Poems from the Chinese'.

Including: diary 1957, manuscript poetry and prose sketches, exercise book containing journal notes and poems, book of manuscript poems.

Personal papers. photographs and correspondence relating to Helen Power (1870-1957), Tasmanian poet

Sketch play based on the film "Hans Christian Andersen" (Danny Kaye) for St. Virgil's College, with musical numbers from the film, produced by Melba Kelly: draft script and notes.

Sansom's handwritten poems in a green and violet covered notebook marked with the archive number DX 18 SAS 88.36. Frontispiece contains Ruth Sansom's poem to her husband. The book is annotated 'Before marriage' and there is at least one further annotation in Ruth Sansom's handwriting. Poems include 'Chopin Noetume', 'The Mirror', 'The Greyhound', 'Sonnet', 'The Voyager', 'Words cannot save', 'Millstream', Spring-Yellow', 'Convalescence', 'The Birds", and 'Nightingale'. Sansom has added pencilled amendments to some of the poems.

Ruth Sansom' s handwritten autobiography - 'The War Years'. This describes her school days, her work in England, the Sansoms' friendship with Paul Scott, and their relationship with Jonathon Field, and Clive Sansom's illness at the end of the Second World War.

Ruth Sansom' s handwritten autobiography - '1960s and mysticism'. This mentions work at the Tasmanian Speech Education Centre.