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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.

Green spring-back folder containing the typed manuscript of Sansom's unpublished text 'These Happy Breeds' - a book of poems about dogs.

Correspondence from the National Book Council, London.

Poetry and letters sent to newspapers, competition entries, etc. Including early poem "To Mother" (written at age 10) and school essay (at 13), and poems written for Kathleen Stone.

Extensive collection of material including:
• A brown manila folder containing letters relating to the Sansoms' marriage in 1937.
• Miscellaneous letters 1937 -1940.
• Two unpublished poems by Sansom, one written in 1936, and 'On a
• Deserted Shore' written later in Tasmania.
• An undated letter from Sansom to his wife Ruth written later in life.
• Sansom's Will written on 27/7/36.
• The Sansom marriage certificate and congratulatory letters from friends. Separate statements by Sansom and Ruth Sansom on the topic of poetic impetus.
• A typed poem by Sansom with the words 'See St Swithin' added by Ruth Sansom.
• Copy of In the Midst of Death.
• Several letters marked 'Before marriage' in a brown envelope.
• A clear plastic folder of what appear to be Ruth Sansom's writings: 'Three Songs' and other verses, together with letters from Ruth Sansom to her husband including some clipped together and headed by Sansom 'Beautiful Letters, don't lose them love'.

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).

Attempts to write the Gospel in plainer English, including notebooks, typed extracts, notes, letter from David Danbe of All Souls College, Oxford, referring to his lecture and his book on the New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism (25 December 1952). Note a bundle of newscuttings on various Bible translations not retained.

Publication for the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, including typescript, notes, correspondence.

Early autobiography by Clive Sansom (family and childhood to 1926), and copy of first chapter sent to Australian Literature Board (typescript).

Clive Sansom's reviews: typescripts, cuttings and some correspondence.

Including "The double image" published in Neue Illustrierte, "Encounter in Cheale" in Die Frau, and others in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Wesdeutsche Allgemine, correspondence and cuttings. See also ghost stories DX18/33 and scrapbook DX18/79(1).

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).

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

Cardboard clock to teach children to tell time (hours and hour hand in red, minute hand and minutes "past" and "to" in black), correspondence with agent Higham Associates - suggested an article for Child Education rather than trying to patent and market as toy.

Cuttings of published poems, reviews, articles, short stories, letters to newspapers.

1. 1934-1970s: including "An evening with the Quakers" 1937 (p.12), introduction to Paul Scott's "I Gerontius" (p.32), statement to tribunal (conscientious objection c1940); drawing of Clive 1975.
2. 1930s-1970s: Including biographical details, "faith and service", short stories of 1940s, Quaker funeral testimony 1981, etc. (not entered in any particular order).
3. Reviews of Clive Sansom's work 1943-1950.
4. Poems and letters to newspapers 1958-1976.
5. Letters to newspapers 1974-1976.

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

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.

Cutting from The Observer, The Wayfarer (Quaker magazine), West Country Magazine, Poetry Review, etc., photocopy of manuscript "Poems - tokens of my love..." (bound into little booklet), Poetry Quarterly Spring 1943 (including Clive Sansom poem "I am a leaf").

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.

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.

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

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.

Five folders regarding letters and document to do with the war tribunal and Spiceland Camp'

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.

Drawings of countryside, life studies, still life studies; illustrated manuscript of copies of poetry; "Christmas Fun" 1923, 1924, 1925 (booklets of drawings, jokes, etc. for Christmas); topographical studies of Norfolk, Southern England, Wales, with notes.

Preservation of England (1930-32), Lake Pedder (1967), stone buildings (1968-69), Lenah Valley sawmill (1970-78), Mount Stuart Community study (1977).

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

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.

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

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

Diaries of Ruth Sansom mostly written in carbon copy notebooks (sometimes both carbon copy and torn out top copies exist), written intermittently:-
1934 Voyage to England (2 notebooks)
1934-36 Early days at the Speech Institute - critical of friends, lonely, London, visit to Cotswolds, teaching, vacation schools, Plymouth, King's Jubilee celebrations (loose pages and notebook)
1936-37, 1938-39 Engagement to Clive, holiday in Bavaria and Austria, married Clive at Quaker Meeting House, Winchmore Hill, war impending - Chamberlain (1938) (1 notebook)
1936 Bavarian holiday. Also notes 1945, 1946 (notebook - part unused)
September 1939 War Diary (loose pages and notebook)
1940 War-time diary (notebook - partly unused)
1940 War-time diary, also typed transcription (loose pages, typescript)
1939-1942 War-time diary (carbon notebook)

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

Folder containing background articles for teaching about film and television.

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.

Ten bundles of letters containing a range of material, apparently organised to some extent by Ruth Sansom after her husband's death:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Clive Sansom's correspondence with Helen Power and, as her literary executor after her death, with Mrs Rae Hogg and other relatives of Helen Power about publishing her poems. Correspondence includes comments on the broadcasts, biographical notes, reviews and correspondence about Helen Power's manuscripts and books (the manuscripts to go to the State Library, her French books to the lecturer in French at the University of Tasmania and books on poetry to the Poetry Group).

Clive Sansom's correspondence with publishers and reviewers, accounts for fund for the publication - remainder of funds for a poetry prize - cheque book, copies of advertisements and reviews including review by Judith Wright, copy of poem "your heart has an irregular beat" written shortly before she died and printed with photographs in Australian Book Review March 1965. Also manuscript music "I am no nearer proving thee" - words by Helen Power, music by Richard Graves.

Selected and introduced by Clive Sansom, published 1964 by Robert Hale, London. Typescript, page proof, published copy.