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Diary of trip from Sydney to Hastings, UK from February 21st to 23rd April 1963.
Inscription: 'from Mary & Arthur Hausch xmas 1962'.
Sailed to Naples on the "Australia" , then coach and train through Italy and Switzerland.

Contains diary entries, postcards and photos from trip to New Zealand in May 1973.
Inscription inside cover: 'To Margaret - Wishing you a happy trip - Love from Bet & Daph. May 1st 1973'.
Inscription opposite: '"Every gift conceals a task". The enclosed is my happy task MSW' underneath a picture of kiwi & egg

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

Various photographs of Murry Street Hobart. Photographed by Anson Bros. and Winter

Notice of meeting to consider transferring the control Municipal police to the Government : Glamorgan Council

Photograph of Mrs Mary Margaret Haynes ( nee Crane) and Mrs G Hayns at Loch Lomond

Letter from Mrs. M. A. Hobbes, dated 26 July 1839. Sent a drake, unable to visit as difficult to find trustworthy woman to take charge of young children.

Papers concerning xxx

Undated letter from Mr Wilkinson. Unable to dine owing to business, Captain Dalrymple indisposed.

Published in Medical Journal of Australia, Jan 1956.

Photographs of Mt Wellington, Huon Road, Fern Tree Bower, Waterworks. Taken c1870-1882 by photographers Anson Bros., Baily and Albert Sargeant Photographers

Photograph of Mount Wellington from hillside. The photographers were Anson Brothers who had studios in Liverpool, Collins, and Elizabeth Streets between 1878 and 1891.

Twenty six page typescript of a report entitled "Proposed resort development: Mount Rufus -Lake St. Clair" dated 1974 and signed by the author, A.J.W Harrison

Photograph of the Mount Bischoff in the early days, undated but thought to be c1885-1890

Rent for 350 acres at Moulting Lagoon requested by Survey Office

W.L. Dobson to Francis Cotton dated 1871: John Meredith's Cambria estate not for lease - trustees bound to sell

Photograph of the mother of Mrs Mary Margaret Hayns (nee Crane)

Mortgages dated 1881 to 1901.

1. Henry Hall of Hobart to Patrick Joseph Develyn of Cygnet, storekeeper 1894, £150 on land in Hobart.
2. Joseph Hill of Queenborough to Charles Parkinson Frodsham, solicitor 1881, £30.
3. Martha Martin to Mary Stanley Low 1901.
4. Denis Murphy of Cygnet, farmer, to Patrick Joseph Develyn, storekeeper 1893, £75.

Mortgage dated 26 August 1772 of two tenements and garden in Shaws Lane, Berwick­on-Tweed from John Cockburn to Vivian Henderson.

Mortgage: Legge to Manifold & sale to Oakden 1832, 1834
Robert Legge of Launceston, gent., mortgaged to William Manifold of Launceston, gent., for £200, his allotment and dwelling house in High St., Launceston, bounded by lands of Rev. W.H. Browne and of Capt. Harvie. 29 May 1832, signed and sealed. Reg. of Deeds No. 1685
Also written on back: 1 Sept. 1834, William Manifold to Philip Oakden of Launceston, merchant, bargain & sale of above allotment, as agreed 29 May 1834, for £200, R.L. not having repaid the £200. Noted "exd. 11.8.40 A.P."

Report of prospects for coal and gold mining on East Coast.

Typescript of a work titled "More about Aluminium" by Alice D Baker

Collection consists of three large scrapbooks of cuttings of articles on historical subjects from the Mercury and other newspapers, including many written by John Moore-Robinson .

Photocopy of a script of story by Nellie M. Buckley. entitled 'Moonaba -story of a family", dated 1965.
Typescript in file folder with photograph of elderly woman, neatly dressed in black silk suit, also younger woman.

Letters to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, from Moncure Daniel Conway, 11 Oct 1883 - 2 Dec 1905 about Conway's lecture tour of Australia, his visit to Tasmania, publications by Conway and others, political events in Britain and America and religious topics.
Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 – November 15, 1907) was an American abolitionist.

Collection consists of the newsletters of the Mole Creek Caving Club entitled 'Carbonate Capers'. Nos 1-155, November 1991 to August 2008.

Photograph of the model of H.M.S.Endeavour - Science Museum Melbourne

Typescript of a radio play 1938 title "Mistletoe Mischief" by Alice D Baker

Undated letter from Miss Turner, situation may be suitable but a personal interview necessary.

Short stories and articles

Miscellaneous photographic landscape views of Hobart and the West Coast taken in the late 19th century

Incomplete miscellaneous typescript pages of plays and historical matters by Alice D Baker

Miscellaneous transcripts and manuscripts

Miscellaneous tracts - temperance etc., printed poems. Including Report of VDL Bible Soc. 1839, J. Wesley's opinions, "The Sentinel May 1883", temperance tracts, rough manuscript notes of Book of Jeremiah used as a wrapper for tracts, the Lord's Prayer in Chinese

Typescripts of unpublished drafts and miscellaneous notes on publications

17 sketches

32 sketches

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 printed papers of Duncan Loane Pty. Undated.

Miscellaneous printed papers. Esk Cricket Club annual reports 1887-8, 1890-91, 1896-7; Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association report 1892-93; notice of meeting Masonic Hall, Lefroy, 1889 (list of names on back including "Allison"; By-Laws of Lodge of Perfect Unanimity (ND); "The King Island Record, Lubricating Oils advertisement (c1923).

Miscellaneous printed items including John Bradley's election notice, Sanitary Association - report of sub-committee on improvements referring especially to a suggestion that the closed burial ground should be planted with trees (no date), pages from 'The Ludgate Weekly' 1 October 1892, scrap of paper with list of fish.

Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to Tasmania.

Bundle of cuttings, notices etc., collected by William Henty and mounted on papers, including: shipping advertisements - "Fairlie" to include Sir John Franklin, Governer with his lady and suite (1836), Worthing [U.K.] regatta (1831), exhibition of whale skeleton London (ND.), Guildford Royal Grammar School prospectus (NO.), opening of Mechanics Institute Hobart (1842), "Chambers Information for the People No. 14 'Emigration to V.D.L.' ", South Australian colonisation, Launceston Horticultural Society notices W. Henty secretary (1838-9), miscellaneous cuttings on horticulture, sheep management, immigration, female immigration (1836), insurance.

Photographic portraits and 2 pencil sketches, some names from the Walker family

Miscellaneous personal papers including Christmas cards, photograph of little girl reading, copyright registration receipt (1928), Red Cross home nursing certificate (1939), embroidery transfer.

Including notice of takeover by Labor Papers Ltd., Hobart, publishers of The World (1918).

Miscellaneous papers and notes about literary and historical matters by Alice D Baker

Miscellaneous papers and items

Miscellaneous papers 1871 -1886 including welcome to Rev. J. Graham program 1871; notes on making lenses and for finding the focal distance and power of a telescope (ND); receipt for £342.15.0. paid for discharge of mortgage on Arthur Street residence (20 December 1886); notes for Sara's letter to her aunt Mary (ND); news cutting about debts of E.T. Walker stationer and manager of business of Henry Stevens (d. 1897, widow d. 1906) (ND c1906-7).

Including draft of amended rules & proposal for cookery instruction, no date; letter of resignation from Assistant Matron Spotswood, 1910; letter to Matron from Ada Hume, Macquarie Plains on health of girl in her service; and from J.S. Scarr, ironmonger, offering damaged goods; from M.D. Downie requesting girl; letters on estate of Miss C.A. Fry, 1921, 1946; list of girls in residence August 1941; R.A.C. picnic for girls, 1944; notice of meeting to confirm resolution to transfer school to Salvation Army 1944; inventories 1939, 1945; newspaper cutting on transfer of school, 1 February 1945.

Miscellaneous papers of Edward Octavius Cotton. Includes: incomplete letter headed "Brock's Buildings" addressed "Dear
Edward" from Quaker woman, ?relative: Harry, many condemned her, many afraid to side with her for fear of grieving Ma, young man looking for job in Melbourne but might go to New Zealand after writing to Uncle Thomas Lidbetter, Arthur had called at Uncle A.G. Pollard's (11.3.81 }; incomplete letter from "Earlham": E.0.C. could not have made better choice [of bride], Helen Grueber had been "one of my patients" when others despaired of her, Lincoln and Duke broken in for ploughing, foster care for Ruby and foal, 3.6.1881 (letter incomplete from ? Edith c. daughter of John and Mary Ann (Wills) Cotton); notes for obituary of Francis Cotton 1883; draft letters
or articles, including: "national recreation grounds", "Quakerism"; typed article for the Courier, "The Schoutens" by E.0.C. 1905; poem, "Meredith Fishery Bay 1879"; note about income: "just manage to keep out of debt and provide my family with the bare necessaries of life ... more than 99 out of 100 farmers can say" 1895; New Year card: "Edward with Helen's love"; notebook containing miscellaneous memoranda in pencil, including "metallic shingles", paints needed, expenses, shorthand notes, verse on "passing of the sweetest soul", etc. (no name but probably by E.O. Cotton ). Also printed book transferred to Library: "Curfew must not ring tonight" (verse and illustrations, John Walker & Co. London, printed in Holland} inscribed ms: "with Helen's love to Edward" 1888 .

• The Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia by Loftus Hills, 1927
• Australian Pioneer Women from talks by Sheila Wignore, A.B.C. (marked "Betty Parker Va 1934")
• Forms of service 1935, 1946, 1953.

Miscellaneous notes on Catholic religion by Alice D Baker

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).

Rough notes, including an account of the 'Kassa' ship, sheep, population, photostat pages of a 'return of population and stock' from [Dr. Storey's journal in] the Mitchell Library.

Miscellaneous notes on the history of the Walker, Benson & Mather families

Undated music: ms extracts from "Lilli Lilli" and "Auld lang syne", marked ms. W.Barlow

• Three A3 Display booklets – Hobart & surrounds – female factory
• Central Highlands photographs – Fred Smithies
• Oversized photographs – Hobart – cricket team
• Six views of Hobart from Sketches by T Chapam (fac. 1967)
• Hobart town Gazette Aug 2 1844
• Hobart Town Courier Dec 20 1833
• DVD – Portion of the Hobart floating bridge being transported to Geilston Bay – sunk 1964
• Circular Head Heritage Centre – Calendar 1999 -Celebrating 1798-1998 – BW images of region
• Article by RC Hutchinson “ The reverend John Hutchinson & “Mrs Hutchinson and the Female Factories of early Australia
• Family History of CJ Dennison + bookplate design
• Wapping notes from HCC

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.

Correspondence and miscellaneous material regarding specific persons

Collection consists of miscellaneous documents from the office of Shields, Heritage, Stackhouse & Martin, solicitors of Launceston, mainly deeds of earlier solicitors Gleadow & Henty, etc., relating to land in the Launceston district, including property of Philip Oakden, Adam Beveridge, J. & W. Manifold and Robert Legge, etc., and claimed by R. Dry.

Collection consists of miscellaneous letters and documents, including the Will of Ronald C Gunn (1879); copy of a letter from Henry Hellyer to Edward Curr describing a journey and the discovery of River Mackintosh and Eldon Range(1828); genealogy of John Lyne made by WL May (1919); copies of letters of depositions relating to theft from estate of William Mawle; copies of letters from letter book of Philip Oakden, founder of the Union Bank, Launceston and extracts from letters of William Parramore who settled in VDL in 1823.

Poem on drunkenness, petition of John Coutts, convict to Govr. Arthur. ND.