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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.

Report and history of the Peacock Convalescent Home (typed), dated 1966. The Home, situated in Swan Street North Hobart was donated to the State by W D Peacock. It was officially opened as a Convalescent Home for Women in March 1943

Poetry and verse for children

Newspaper cuttings of Amanda Radcliffe when she won the Miss Tasmania Quest, 1966. Amanda worked for the State Library of Tasmania in Hobart.

Folder of letters, notes, correspondence for the Library Association of Australia (Tasmanian Branch), 1966-1972. These papers belonged to Mrs Louisa Hamilton and include letters and notes for Library Opinion.

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

Letters of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1966

Christmas card issued by the Hobart Bureau of Meterology in 1966 of the Rossbank Observatory, Hobarton,1840.

Return to Magic c1969.
Poems of fairy tales:- correspondence and reviews 1966-1969.

Legislative Council for the Northern Territory. Report from the Select Committee on the Native and Historical Objects and Areas Preservation Ordinance 1955 –1960.Presented by Mr D. D. Smith, MLC on 10th August, 1965
Includes a handwritten letter from Olive Pink to Mr D D Smith who presented this report.

File consists of material relating to Smith’s retirement:
• a letter enquiring his entitlement from Tasmanian Government Railways;
• letter from Henry Bland with thanks and congratulations for service and best wishes for retirement;
• Department of Labour and National Service. Staff 'Regional notes' including farewell to Ron Smith;
• folder of autographs of colleagues, photographs and news cuttings of farewell presentations and presentation from Hospital Board.

Typescript biographical notes of John Henry (Jack) O'Neil (1888-1971) dated 29 July 1965

Collins pearl diary 1965, red

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.

Letters and membership lists of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1964-1965

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.

File contains 4 items:
Letter from Department of History
Report by the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on the teaching of Asian Languages and Cultures in Australia, August 1970
The Asian revolutions of the mid-twentieth century: an Australian perspective (public lecture by D A Low, May 1976)
Donation to Asian Studies Assoc of Tasmania
Letter re $5,000 donation to the Asian Studies Association of Tasmania

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.

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

Letter from McAlphin Kalkyard solicitors to Mary Hayns and Lawrence John Hayns dated 16th June 1964.

Leaflet for the Rostrum Club Launceston No. 14: rules of procedure and debate dated May 1964

Correspondence dated 17 March 1964 from Sir M. Peter Crisp.

Johnson, Robert
Central Australia, Land of Colour as seen by Australian artist Robert Johnson. 1963
Olive Pink note on the back To Olive Pink (Alice Springs) from Olive and Robert Johnson (Sydney) 1963.

Employees' Medical Union dated 1963

Letter from Zullah L. Bains to M.M. Hayns dated Dec 30th 1963

Membership lists of the Economic Society of Australia & New Zealand : Records of the Tasmanian Branch for 1963, 1965, 1971 and 1972.

3 x travel diaries

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 notes, postcards and travel brochures of Locarno and Zurich, and note from Reigate where she spent the last night of a wonderful holiday.
Friday April 5th to Monday 22nd April, 1963.

Poetry for children (pubished by Methuen 1966): draft, correspondence with Higham Authors' agents, and others 1963-1975.

Membership card of Zinc Workers' Union issued to P. Taylor, patrolman dated 1963

Material concerning Olive Pink includes :
• Letter 11.5.63 to Lindsay from Olive Pink at Home Hut, Native Flora Reserve, Alice Springs
• Christmas card 3.1 .66 to Lindsay from Olive Pink
• Article 'She of the Never-Never' in HQ, November/December 1966
• Article 'Miss Pink's garden' in Australian Garden History, Vol 10 No 3, November/December 1998
• Newspaper article 'Tribute to desert trailblazer' in The Age, Saturday 26th May, 2018
• Newspaper article 'Where they rest in peace' in The Senior, undated
• Pamphlet: Olive Pink: Arid Zone Botanic Garden, undated
• Genealogy (3 pages). Olive Pink believed she and Lindsay were 3rd cousins

Collins pocket diary 1962, red

Original manuscript of an article on Esh Lovell written by John Rowland Skemp for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

The Development of the Labor Movement in the Sydney District of New South Wales by L. Thomas, 1962.

Photographs:

1. J.H. O'Neil. Reprint from The Journal of the Building Transport & Timber Workers' Union vol. 1, no. 1
2. J.H. O'Neil addressing Trades Hall Council Meeting, c1962
3. Trades Hall Council Meeting c September 1962
4. H.E.C. Commissioner and Associate Commissioners: A. Knight, G. Newstead, L.A. Johnstone, J.H. O'Neil. Signed, no date.

Booklet entitled The Development of the Labor Movement in the Sydney District of New South Wales. by L. Thomas. 1962. Published in duplicated form by Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, for members.

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.

Correspondence and papers relating to Tasmanian Working Party, including suggested lists, rough notes on Thomas Jerome Kingston Bakhap born Ballarat; also cabinet photograph by E.M. Grimley, Birmingham [U.K] of an Edwardian gentleman.

Manila folder headed 'Poetry'
• A response from Wesley Vale Area School to Sansom's request for poems studied at the school in E, D and C classes 4/12/62.
• Letters from Longmans Green and Co, Oxford UP, Australasian Publishing Co. Thomas Nelson and Arnold advising the despatch of poetry anthologies to Sansom.
• List of poetry anthologies suitable for schools compiled by Sansom.

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.

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.

Dorset Village. Sequence of poems: manuscript, typescript, proof copy, correspondence and notes, "Dorset word book" (alphabetic book of Dorset Dialect words) and notes.

Tasmanian Historical Research Association excursion notes 1961, 1966, 1974 - Ross, Richmond, Fingal Valley.
Also Royal Society Northern Branch excursion to East Coast 1969

Federal Platform Constitution and Rules. 1961. Amended by 24th Commonwealth Conference.

Collection consists of secretary's notes, letters, membership lists and notes related to the publication "Library Opinion" of the
Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch

Letters and notes on subscriptions and exchanges for Library Opinion the journal of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1961-1963

Correspondence from Prof. Dewitt C. Ellinwood from Kansas Univesity, dated 1961, regarding imperial history.

Correspondence from Sir John Ferguson, dated 18 January 1961

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).

Two letters from John Andrew Feely, Librarian at the State Library of Victoria dated 1961

Collins pearl diary 1961, red

Strehlow, G.H.
Nomads in No-Man’s Land, 1960
Signed by Olive M. Pink October 1961

Correspondence dated 3rd December 1960 from Dr Clifford Craig

Correspondence dated c1960 from Sir William Crowther

Collins pocket diary 1960, red

One 8 page Olympic special lottery promotional leaflet, newsprint, 35x28cm

File contains 4 items:
Letter of appointment as Warden of Hytten Hall, and conditions
Letter re rent for Warden's Lodge
Black and white photograph of Hytten Hall students and Warden (1970s?)
Hyttite '74 (Hytten Hall students club magazine 1974)

The story of Tasmanian aborigines , prepared by Dr. William Bryden. Published Hobart [Tas.] : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1960.

Correspondence dated 6 October 1960 from William (Bill) Cowen thanking Morris Miller for the copy of his occasional papers

Correspondence related to Tin smelting, silica, etc. 1960 to 1963, John Reynolds & Associates

Obituary notice for W. E. Fuller from Booksellers' Association, also from the Mercury newspaper