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'.
Two prose pieces by Sansom: 'A Discussion of Ministry' and 'Sermon in Stones and Trivia on Everything, or Mr Pearsall Smith visits his Chiropodist -a parody'.
Documents relating to the Sansoms' travel to Tasmania on the Orion in 1950 including their formal application for a passage on the ship and medical testimonials supporting this.
Correspondence and information about WOODBROOKE, a 'missionary' college or 'settlement ... designed primarily to give members of the Society of Friends an opportunity of preparing for the variety of service required in the cause of Christ today': letter from the Warden, Henry T. Cadbury, with an application form (l 8/3/40); Sansom's reply (19/3/40); copy of the Prospectus, syllabus and timetable from the Secretary, D. Best, (20/3/40 and 6/4/40).
Circular letter from David Jenkin of the London Friends Local Conscription Committee offering advice and assistance to prospective conscientious objectors (30/4/40). Sansom's letter to Edgar Dunstan about a draft statement to the War Tribunal. Letters from Edgar Dunstan (8/6/40 and 12/6/40) suggesting appropriate work both the Sansoms could offer to undertake in lieu of active service. Sansom's letter of26/6/40 proposing to establish a house and property in Kent as a centre for conscientious objectors. A further letter to Capper Johnson containing a similar proposal applying to Bunce Court, Otterden (1/7/40) and Johnson's reply (17/7/40).
Letters relating to Sansom's application for registration as a conscientious objector for service with the armed forces in the Second World War (see his application to the Tribunal in 3.26 above). These include formal notice of the hearing of Sansom's application to be registered as a conscientious objector, copy of a reference from the President of the London Speech Fellowship and Institute to accompany Sansom's application, and letters of advice about his application from Eric Savage and Edgar D. Dunstan. Documents from the Ministry of Labour and National Service advising Sansom that the Tribunal 'was satisfied ... that there was a genuine conscientious objection to combatant military service; but it was not satisfied as to non-combatant service' and that Sansom must therefore undertake fulltime 'ARP or AFS work'. Letters including those to and from the City of Birmingham, the Air Raid Precautions Headquarters, the Guildhall Portsmouth, the City and County of Bristol, and the London County Council about the possibility of such employment. Copies of letters from Sansom to the Ministry of Labour indicating that he was seeking admission to the Spicelands Training Centre.
Letters and documents about Spiceland Training Centre. Circulars outlining the purpose of the Centre. Sansom' s application to undertake a training course at the Centre. Two letters from the Centre's Warden and typed extracts from 'The Fifty-Fifth Column' the Centre's newsletter compiled by the residents (including Sansom). Further letters from Sansom to the Labour Exchange, Chipping Norton, to 'Peter' describing Spicelands Centre building and the daily routines, and to Mr Foulis about LAMDA matters. Two letters from Jonathon Field to Sansom about plans to jointly operate a market garden at 'Tinker's Orchard'.
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).
Extract of a letter , from Francis Cotton on the subject of the death of his cows in Australia. Poisoned by a noxious plant that grows in damp marshy places. Suspected a small fungus that makes the mucus membranes of the stomach peel off.
A note concerning the sale of Dr Story's house at 18 Critchill Place, New North Road, London. Two thirds of the profits from the sale, after all expenses were paid, were to go to Lowe and Johnson of 30 Bishopsgate Street.
Pledge of total abstinence signed by Augustus Carp of the Dr. Syntax Hotel. The pledge is authorised by the Van Diemen's Land Total Abstinence Society of which George Washington Walker is the registrar.
Letter from Francis Cotton written to his children James, Edward, Joseph, and Rachel dated December 1867 to January 1868, while visiting South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales
Reproduction - Article from Illustrated London News, 10 August 1850. "Arctic Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin" (also Maria Island) (London Electrotype Agency Grays Inn Rd.London.WC1)
Photograph of a sketch of John Batman by Charles Nuttall from old print in possession of his grandson Mr. A.B. Weire. Inscribed "with the compliments of L. Batman Weire 11.11.34"
Souvenir booklet entitled 'Beautiful Hobart and surroundings. 81 views by J.C. Breaden'. It contains a series of black and white photographs of Hobart and places nearby
Photograph of advertisement for a facsimile edition of First Fleet Journal of Lt. Wm. Brady. [Lieutenant William Bradley (1757– 1833)?] "A Voyage to N.S.W." R.N. of H.M.S. "Sirius", 1786-1792.
BHP "History of Bass Strait" series Nos. 1-12 : reproductions of maps and pictures issued each month with The Australian Financial Review, Jan-Dec. 1972.