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Appointment Indenture for Robert Leslie Dunbabin, Indenture and amendments: Lecturer in English & Constitutional History, Latin
Greek (1904); English and Constitutional History, Latin & Greek and Mental & Moral Science (1906); History, Latin, Greek, Logic & Psychology (1907); Lecturer in Classics and English History (1913); Assistant Professor of Classics (1914); Professor of Classics (1917).

Note by Hugh L. Murray on R. L. Murray's birth and parentage and 'the royal connection rumour'. (typescript)

Letters from Robert James Morris to mother Sarah Rebecca (Rothwell) Morris dated 2 April 1905 -1907 regarding the voyage to England by Orient-Pacific Line SS Orontes and stay in London.

Robert James Morris (1880-1963), youngest son of William Knibb and Sarah Morris, became a bookseller in Hobart. On a visit to his relatives in England 1905-7 he corresponded with his brothers and sisters in Hobart.

Xeroxed copy of Robert Doctors account book for the years 1827 to 1851 with details of goods and services supplied by and to various residents in the Sorell area, including: boots, shoes soled and heeled, plough mould, beans, handle, tobacco, rum, sugar tea, callico, coffin, bread, repairing cart wheel, laying floor, shingles, glass, making ploughs. Also payments made.

Collection consists of papers, speeches, press cuttings and photographs relating to Sir Robert Cosgrove.

Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Cosgrove by Lilley. Endorsed: "To Gertrude with Love from Bert 16.1.1909."

Sketch thought to be by Douglas Pratt

Frederick S. Gray, Earlham, Orford. Wished to buy or rent "Ringrove" at present leased to Alexander Ferguson dated 15 March 1883

Material relating to the Richmond Police Magistrates court fr the period 1827-1868, includes cases of debt, plaints, writs and notices from muster master

Inscriptions on some graves in Richmond Anglican cemetery
copies by A.L. Meston.

Daily report for 20 Feb.1835 listing prisoners' names and charges

Collection consists of family and legal correspondence and transcripts of letters

Acting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom, London (A. & C. Black 1947): drafts, correspondence with publisher, book, reviews, revision; Rhythm Rhymes by Ruth Sansom, London (A. & C. Black, 1965): correspondence with publisher and with Argo about possible publication of recording (and of Activity Rhymes); Speech Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom (new edition 1974): correspondence 1972-1974; Counting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom: draft, rejects, correspondence 1973-74; "Conversation Rhymes": rhymes collected for a possible collection (1970s?).

Reviews of "Biology of Skin and hair growth symposium papers" 1965. The symposium was held in Canberra, August 1964

Book reviews for Nation Review

Letters from Molesworth Jeffery to his sisters Susanna and Catherine (Kate) in U.K. , small water colour of Burnbank Homestead and photographs of St. George's Chapel, Lachlan, and Richard Piggott, Lord Viscount Molesworth.

Collection consists of poetry, notes and photographs relating to Rev. Frederick A. Woods and his family.

Papers of the executors of Rev. Archibald Macarthur a Presbyterian minister who returned to England in 1836 leaving his affairs and three of his children, Mary, Henry William and John, in the care of trustees and guardians, namely John Walker, Henry Hopkins and John Geiss. The eldest son, Archibald, accompanied him to England where he apparently died before his father, who died in January 1847. Macarthur's will, made in 1836, left his property to be divided between his surviving children on reaching the age of 21. The guardians were named as executors and trustees. Collection consists of legal papers including appointment of trustees, will & property trusts also included are some miscellaneous papers of John Walker of John Walker & Son, Barrack Street, Hobart, manufacturers of fine flour.

Letter, Rev. A. Barkway to Mr & Mrs Frank Allison dated 25 May 1882, presenting a gift to Mr and Mrs Allison's wedding day in recognition of their services to the choir of St. Paul's Church, Launceston.

Miscellaneous programmes and printed material mainly relating to Returned Soldiers' activities dated c1915 -1956

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

Letters and statements in tribute to his work (1967-1970), including minutes of Federated Confectioners' Association of Australia Conference, Adelaide, 20-24 April 1970.

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.

Letter (dated February 1895) of dismissal to office staff as reducing staff; letters (dated June 1895) to London agents, Staley & Radford and Gilbert McCaul announcing his intention to retire on 1 September 1895

File contains 4 items:
Occasional address to graduand assembly, April 1974 (4 drafts)
Cutting from University of Tasmania News, 22 November 1974 - George Wilson retires, by Tony Manley
Cutting from University of Tasmania News, 25 April 1975 - Wilson's Promontories
Letter from University of Tasmania Superannuation Board, 8 May 1978

Correspondence relating to John Henry O'Neil's resignation as secretary and delegate to State Executive owing to ill health and eye operation dated March-May 1958.

Photo by Albert Sargeant of Hunter's design Maylands, Pirie St., New Town.

Five folders of research notes, transcripts and rough drafts for "Van Diemen's Land Company, 1825-1842".

Alice Daisy Baker's research notes for "The Life and Times of Sir Richard Dry", mainly arranged by subject but including copied extracts from general works.

Research notes for the book "The history of the Van Diemen's Land Company"." edited for publication by W.M. Meston, 1958. Includes copies of dispatches, minutes of the council and miscellaneous notes and correspondence of the V.D.L. Co.

Research notes relating to articles on Alfred Joseph Taylor (1849-1921) , G.L.A. Thirkell and Tichborne Case. Also tape recording and typescript of interview of Sir Robert Cosgrove, and Letter from Professor Sir Isaiah Berlin

Research notes for "Van Diemen's Land Company, 1825-1842".

Research material on Van Diemen's Land Company including:
• Brochure advertising land for sale, ca.1920;
• Sydney Stock Exchange, Investment Service. [Report] on Emu Railway Co., 1938;
• Mining Services [Report] on Mount Lyell Mining &Railway Co., Nov. 1939;
• copies of letters from J. Norton Smith, V.D.L. Co. to James Smith re Mt. Bischoff Tin Mine, 1873-79;
• Transcripts from Bigge's Report, 1820;
• Baptist Magazine, 1832; "Authentic Information regarding Van Diemen's Land Company" by F. Boucher, 1859 (Ferguson no. 7296).

Collection consists of research notes on various subjects compiled by the research assistant of the UTAS History Department.

Reprint from the Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1913 entitled 'The foundation and early work of the society; with some account of earlier institutions and societies in Tasmania' , by Edmund Leolin Piesse. Read on 13th October, 1913, at a Meeting held in celebration of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Society. An account of the works of earlier Institutions and Societies, including the Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Society (1821), and the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1843-1848.

Journal article reprint entitled Two Tropical Volcanoes: the First Complete Ascents of Balbi and Bagana Bougainvillell , by Roland Rodda. Reprinted from N.Z. Alpine Journal vol.11, 1946, pp.118-125

Printed reports of directors of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce, including names of officers and members, bound with copies of reports of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce for the years 1854, 1855, 1858, 1859, 1860 & 1869. Also included are Rules and Constitution for the years 1851 & 1854. Printed copies, bound with Abstracts of Council relating to Port and Customs regulations and with Reports
• Half yearly report 1852
• Annual reports 1855-1864, 1869
• Reports for 1870-1909 missing

Various reports including handbooks and annual reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1851 to 1984. Also includes Rules and Constitution dated 1851 & 1854.

Australian Labor Party - Tasmania - Reports of annual conferences. 1947, 1956, 1957.

Reports to Campbell Town Police Magistrate about bushrangers, including robbery at Henry Stieglitz place (1843); report
from the Police Magistrate at Fingal that his district Constable [?Ward] had been shot by bushrangers at Mr. Gilligan's near Avoca (1843)

Survey reports, annual reports, newspaper articles.