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Words by Clive Sansom to Saint-Saens' Suite: script, correspondence - broadcast and concert performances.

Poems not published in book form (adult) collected by Ruth Sansom for possible selection for publication, including early poems, "Tasmanian Scene" (or "Hawks"), etc. Also proof of "Going, Going" (published in Young Winter's Tales 4) and letter.

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

Manila folder headed 'These Happy Breeds'.
Mock-up and typescript of the book. Letter from Sansom to David Higham Associates of 30/4/77 about this book and the last three chapters of the early autobiography, ‘I Find My Voice’. Publishers' rejection notes relating to 'These Happy Breeds' from Hamish Hamilton, Jonathon Cape and David Higham.

A cantata commissioned by the Rosny Children's Choir, music by Don Kay, words by Clive Sansom: correspondence on fees and routine matters, drafts, typescripts, news cuttings, etc. rough notes.

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.

Brown folder headed 'Clive by Ruth'
Some of Ruth Sansom's handwritten notes of her memories. These notes are in no logical order and many of the loose pages are not numbered. The material describes aspects of the Sansoms' life in England before, during and after the Second World War, life in Tasmania, work with the Education Department and return visits to England in 1961 and 1978. Topics addressed by Ruth Sansom include Sansom's unpublished work, his attitude to the Quakers and his production of T.B. Morris's play 'I Will Arise'. Mention is made of the Sansoms' association and friendship with Allan Keeling, Nan Chauncy, Martin Miles, Margaret Rutherford, Robert Gittings, Nan Delaney and Paul Scott. This file includes Sansom's letter to the Australian on the subject of arts grants (17 February 1969).

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.

Under the Tasmanian Department of Education, directed by Clive and Ruth Sansom 1950-1968: description of Centre and duties of Supervisor, reports, correspondence, practice material (not by Clive Sansom), articles by Clive Sansom, "The speech machine: some notes for candidates in the Schools Board 'Art of speech' course, prepared by Clive Sansom" 1962, "Listening" - general sheet - infant/primary, "Spoken English" from Opinion j. of South Australia English Teachers Association ND, etc., including later correspondence about speech training (1970-78) and letter to Ruth Sansom about copies of Clive Sansom Collected Poems; "Marjorie Gullan - some reminiscences" (typescript, ND). Also file relating to the migration of Maurice and Gillian (nee Lousley) Hilliard, speech educators 1955-1964 (moved to Wollongong 1964).

"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".

Orange plastic folder containing handwritten and typed copies of 'Clive's last poem, June 1979' ('Carol of the Three Nails'). Also a typed copy of a poem titled 'Jane Franklin's Journey'.

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.

Including dog ballads (see also "These happy breeds"), children's poems, correspondence with The Listener, Country Life, Poetry Review, etc., Akhenaton Poems (manuscript c1970-71 - drafts for a ? sequence, see also "Akhnaton's Hymn" in In the Midst of Death (9) and in The Poet Speaks). Some earlier poems included.

Correspondence with agent and publishers, drafts etc., including: "Green Dragon", "Hannibals Animals", "Strange goings on" and Collected Verse.

Family photographs of Clive and Ruth Sansom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Francis of Assisi: the Sun of Umbria, his life told in verse and prose, Hobart (Cat & Fiddle Press 1981). Also rough drafts of poems "St. Francis. Sun of Umbria (3 volumes), typescript, published copy, research notes including guides and postcards of Assisi (1970s), application for Commonwealth Literary Fund grant, correspondence with agent, publishers and ABC, etc. 1968-1980, poems published, script for performance and programs Winchester (1978) and St. Davids Cathedral, Hobart.

Miscellaneous correspondence on religious and Quaker matters.

Tributes to Clive Sansom by friends, edited with biographical notes on contributors by Ruth Sansom.

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.

Manila folder headed 'Autobiography' comprising:
• OHMS envelope containing extracts from Sansom's personal diaries, 1947/48, and other diary notes on loose sheets of paper.
• Copy of the Tavistock Little Theatre Bulletin, 17/18 May 1935, which includes notes on the play ‘Hassan’. There is a handwritten note next to this indicating that this was the first play production Clive and Ruth Sansom attended together.
• Clear plastic folder marked 'Very Special Autobiography Part 2' containing a draft of a section of the autobiography, a copy of Sansom's poem 'Prophesy' and the Sansom Family Tree.
• Birth Certificate for Ruth (Ruth Annie Large, 14/5/06) and Death Certificate for Clive (Royal Hobart Hospital, 29/3/81).
• Sansom's questionnaire to a family member about the history of the Sansom’s. Biographical details headed 'Dosier (sic) on Sansom 1926-1951 '.
• Handwritten and types notes relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• Sansom’s statement to the War Tribunal, opposing military service
• Clippings from newspapers/journals relating to London and associated topics. Copies of two early poems by Sansom: 'Paul's Cross' and 'The Wood'.
• Copy of 'Invocation of a Poet Seeking Inspiration' from Arthur Grimble's ‘Return to the Islands’.
• Letters from Nan [Delaney?], the Convent of Sacred Heart and from Margaret and Len Sansom (2/10/75).
• Sansom's summary notes of Rilke's letters and Rudolf Steiner's text on agriculture, as well as briefer notes about and extracts from other works.

Clive's poem "Innsbruck Bells" one of the poems read at the memorial meeting.

Correspondence about fees, copyright, "Convergence on Bethlehem" etc.

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

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.

Brown manila folder titled 'Biographical' and containing a number of Sansom's letters to others, including letters to and from Hermann Pleschmann and Robert Swire, Sansom's letters about Speech and Drama activities and the teaching of poetry, Sansom's letters to teachers in response to numerous requests for advice and information, to 'Aunt Bee', to the ABC, to Allan Keeling (references here to Truchanas, B. Hean, Max Oldaker and Sansom's personal writing).

Notes for the "semi-retreat" and the "day of harmony", note on silence or "stillness".

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.

Green and red display folders headed 'To do with 'Clive Sansom by 40 Friends' for Archives University Library'. Papers, drafts and proofs for the publication Clive Sansom by Forty Friends (1990).
Book 1 (Green) comprises the draft text of the Forty Friends book. Here, Ruth Sansom's script and 'Absent Friends' contain more material than that published in the final text.
Book 2 (Red) contains the original scripts from the contributors to the publication.

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.

Green folder of letters from Ian Serraillier, Musgrave Horner, Doris Harding, Frederick Tomlin, M.M. Lewis, Leopold Stein, Teresa Hooley, E. Martin Brown (The Pilgrim Players), Catherine Hollingsworth, Perey Hitchman, E.V. Knox, Herbert Palmer, Hal Ward, E.V. Rieu, Martin Armstrong, Shirley Holtham, Wilson Midgley, Mary Somerville, Robert Swire, Bernard Canter, John Hampden, and J. Donald Adams.

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

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?].

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.

Typed sheets tied with red ribbon of Sansom's unpublished manuscript 'The Voice that Tempted Eve and other Auditory Observations'. This comprises quotations from various writers containing references to the ways in which people speak - descriptions of their voice quality, facial expressions and gestures.

Folder marked 'Business / Industry' containing six articles by others on oral communication in the business world.

Folder containing background articles for teaching about film and television.

Folder marked 'Tape-Recording' containing a range of relevant British and Australian newspaper clippings and pamphlets.

Folder marked 'Tunes' containing clippings from newspapers and journals on pitch and inflection and Sansom 's notes on these topics.

Folder marked 'Written English' containing many articles on the topic including one by Sansom, and copies of Sansom's letters to the Principal of Launceston Technical College and Sister Canice of Thomas Moore's School.

Folder with newspaper clippings on sound in speech.

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

Folder marked 'Reading Aloud' containing newspaper and magazine clippings on the topic and Sansom's article 'Is Your Reading too Fast?'

Green scrapbook containing more poems from a number of writers.

Black/ grey scrapbook containing clippings of paintings and sketches.

Brown envelope containing testimonials to Ruth Sansom's work in England.

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.

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.

Group of letters labelled 'About Clive's death' from Peter Leonard, Hugh Macindoe, James Darling, Olive Woolman, Geoffrey[?] and William Ridden.

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

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.

Twenty-two scripts of ABC 'Speaking and Listening' 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.

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.

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.

Seven radio plays and parts thereof written for schools by Sansom.

Sound rhymes and various related notes by Sansom.

Handwritten notes by Ruth Sansom, including her draft autobiography about life with Clive, and section of a typed manuscript titled 'Married Life'. Additional pages of material relating to the Sansoms' experiences during World War II and mentioning contacts with writers and absent friends including Allan Keeling, Kathleen Needham­Hurst, Marjorie Gullan, Gordon Bottomley, Robert Gittings, Frieda Hodgson, Margaret Rutherford, Judith Wright, Dorothy Gear, Walter de la Mare and the young actor Martin Miles. A handwritten biography of Clive Sansom focussing on his childhood and his mother with a further section titled 'Clive 16 to 27'. Ruth Sansom also describes the Sansoms' holiday in the Tyrol and her work in a Jewish refugee school.

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 that describes the Sansoms' last year in London (1950) and travel to Tasmania and early years in that State.

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.

A collection of sayings on speech collected by Clive Sansom manuscript and typescript draft (not published).

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).

Manila Folder headed 'Poems Doubles and Children's Rhymes'
This contains thirty poems and a verse-drama written by Ruth Sansom. Most are typed, but several are handwritten: 'Christ Triumphant'; 'The Way'; 'May the World be born in Oneness'; 'Taipan'; 'We met on a Journey'; 'Testament of inner Experience'; 'Sitting at the Wellhead'; 'The Adversary'; 'The New Man'; 'Song of the Holy Spirit'; 'The Hand that Swept the Lyre'; 'Son of Man'; 'The Three Kings'; 'One Note of Music'; 'The Grace of His Coming'; 'Philomel'; 'His Voice'; 'The Word was Shared'; 'Eternal Spirit', 'Drifting', 'Divine Spirit'; 'The Return'; 'The New Dawn'; 'All is at Onement'; 'J Search for my Spirit'; 'The Bridge'; 'In the Valley of Death'; 'The Selfless One'; 'Who am I"; 'The Visitation'.
The file also contains preliminary drafts of some of these poems

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.

Two scripts of ABC 'From the Library Shelf 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.

Four scripts of ABC 'The Correspondence School speaks' 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.

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.

Tongue twisters, speech rhymes and associated notes either collected or written by Sansom.

Segments of a typed manuseript 'England, The Love, Clive Sansom, by his wife Ruth'. This focuses on the Sansoms' war experiences with brief references to their association with Paul Scott. Some pages are missing.

Handwritten 'Chapter One' of Ruth's autobiography/ Clive Sansom's biography. The focus here is on Sansom's childhood in Palmers Green and his school days.

Manila folder containing handwritten drafts of sections of Ruth Sansom' s autobiography, covering the period in England before the war, mamage to Clive Sansom, work at the Speech Institute, Sansom's poetry, association with the Quakers, and marriage and life in the 1970s. In the final section, Ruth Sansom explores and describes her mystical experiences and her religious faith.

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

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.

Typescript. No date.

Typescript, notes, application for grant, agent's correspondence.

Draft (in alphabetic book), typescript.

Draft novels [1930s or 40s]
(1) "Fenley Green" a novel based on Enfield Chase (Middlesex, UK) including notes on history of Enfield, sketches, drafts, with note at front by Ruth Sansom "These notes have value in showing how Clive worked first on place backgrounds before setting his characters and writing the chapters".
(2) "To Voltaire": rough draft of a novel set in Dorsetshire involving a scientist, Dr. Barnes, and a small boy.

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.

Typed text of Sansom's unpublished book on the profession and craft of poetry, titled "The Abominable Trade: A Poet's Notes on his Profession".

Black folder containing correspondence from Rupert Hart-Davis, Anne McAllister, Richard Flatter, T.H. Pear, Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury), Sylvia Lynd, Philip Mairet, Dennis Fry, J. Compton, Daniel Roberts (including two from Clive Sansom to Roberts), John Moore, Arthur Thompson (references herein to Walter de la Mare, and two letters from Sansom to Thompson), Gwynneth Thurbum,
M.A. Richardson, Peter Hearn and two unidentified writers. The folder is prefaced with a list of correspondents; that listed from Rex Ingarnells is not in the folder.

Brown folder of correspondence from people such as Leonard Clark, Bishop Cranswick, Archbishop Young, Ron James, Leslie Greener, Thomas Moult, Dorothy Hewlett, J.C. Trewin, Charles Kohler, Tony Allan, Peter Heam, Hugh Mack.indoe, Clifford Dyment, James Day, Vicars Bell, Alan Searle, Iva Browe[?], Ashley Dickes, Ron James, Rolf Gardiner, John Gainsworth (The Poetry Society) Val Gilgud, Redwood Anderson, Wallace Nichols, Nikolaus Pevsner, A.W.R. Milligan, Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury) and Clare Soper. One small bundle of letters groups together messages from ecelesiastics in response to Sansom's religious drama.

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 of correspondence from Walter de la Mare, Ian and Anne Serraillier, E.W.F. Tomlin, Myfanwy Thomas (daughter of E.T. Thomas), Eric Savage, and S. George West of Kings College, University of London.

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.

Black spring-back folder of Sansom's unpublished document, 'Strange Goings On: Verses for Children'. This includes one titled 'The Australian Leprechaun'. Many of the poems contain handwritten corrections and amendments.

Green spring-back folder containing the typed manuscript of Sansom's unpublished text 'These Happy Breeds' - a book of poems about dogs.

Typed sheets tied with white string comprising three copies of Sansom's unpublished manuscript 'Definitions, Deft and Daft'. Sansom collected most of these from other sources.

Three texts: 'Highgate and Hampshire', 'Old Southgate' and 'Winchmore Hill', publications that Sansom consulted when writing his autobiography.

Folder labelled 'Reading Aloud' comprising passages for reading, newspaper articles on the subject, and Sansom's notes on the topic, some of which appear to be the draft of the Preface to his anthology 'By Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Prose for Reading Aloud'.

Folder labelled 'American Speech' containing newspaper cuttings and conference programs on the topic. Two unrelated items in the folder are articles by others titled 'John Clare Country' and 'The Classical Face of Bath'.

Folder titled 'What Does it Mean?' containing material Sansom collected and used for teaching the topic.

Folder marked 'Questions' containing three relevant articles taken from newspapers and magazines.

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

Typed extracts from Sansom's unpublished text 'The Abominable Trade', focussing on specifics such as rhythm in speech, pace, repetition and alliteration.

Collection of letters from Sansom to Ruth Sansom in a small stationery box marked 'Speedy Notes'.

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

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.