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Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as Treasurer dated 12 October 1899.

Part of a letter of 1826 (for first page see RS 25/4)

Cover: M.S. Thorp, The Lighter Side of Wartime Relief-Work in Central Europe. War Relief Work in Central Europe, Berlin 1921-22.
Album of black and white photographs taken in Central Europe of colleagues and friends at social activities.
Inscriptions include: Opera House, Paris; The Seine, Paris; The Luxomburg, Paris; Dorotheen Strasse 2 Berlin; Headquarters Friends; Alfred Scattergood and Caroline [illeg]; Mary Hannum; Our Berlin Centre [illeg] Relief Section 135; Beatrice Ford Smith and Margaret; Friends Meeting House Berlin; Carl and Effie Heath? and F. Howard at [illeg]; Brandenburger Thof. Berlin; At Spreewald; Tiergarten Canal; Near Duisburgruhr; Brent and Edmund? at Potsdam; MST (Margaret Sturge Thorp) Konigstein; Brent Allinson Potsdam and E. Cooper and M. Thorp in lake; Edmund Cooper; Potsdam; Wandervogel; Berlin Opera House and Art Gallery; Cathedral; Crown Prince's Palace now an art gallery; University Berlin; Violet Tillard, Mary Hannum, Von Geisburg?, Hubert [illeg], Mary Allan, Sylvia Cowles, Mrs. Morris?, Mrs. Allan; Howard ?; Frieda Burkle?; MST, 'Scottie' & John Fletcher?; ? and Mary Howard [illeg], MST and Joan Fry + 3 unnamed; Old folk dance; Prague; Wandervogel; At Spreewald. Julia Ives?, Mary Moon, Mary Connell, Doris White, Beulah Herley, [illeg]; 'Scottie', MST?, Jeusen; 'Scottie', MST, Frieda, Sylvia, Laura, Caroline, Edmund, Julia, Harriet?, Von Geisburg, Mary [illeg], Howard [illeg], Mary Hannum. Fancy dress party at Kaiserallee given by Mary and Margaret; Rufus? Jones; Wandervogel; Alice McIver 'Scottie'; Hubert Hemp; [illeg] H and Mrs P [illeg] and 'Scottie'; Mary Hannum, Beulah Herley, [illeg (3)]; Terraced vineyards; Edmund Cooper; Konigstein; Old market place [illeg]; Spreewald; Student picnics while in Berlin; Violet Tillard; Students picnic at G--walt; Berlin Cathedral; Tiergarten; Berlin Office Field Centre ? table; Mary Hannum; Unter den linden; Regatta Day; Tiergarten Berlin; [illeg]; Taken from the train going to Vienna; Munich; Dresden; Berlin strasse, Charlottenburg Berlin

Letter, John Roberts to Henry Allison, husband of Margaret dated 17 November 1854. His recent visit, won a horse race, cricket, fancy dress ball, remembrances to Mrs Harry and the small boy.

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'

Calder, J.E. Typed copies of "Some account of the Country lying between Lake St.Clair and Macquarie Harbour" (Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, Jan. 1849); "Report on the waste lands between the Mersey and Leven". (House of Assembly Journals 1860, no.84).

Standing, carte de visite photograph of Esther A. Mather dated 24 April 1868 taken by H.H. Baily, Hobart.

Notes on history from minutes and typed copy of Hudspeth's brief address on handing over school to the Salvation Army.

Barnard, R. J. A. (1932). Elementary dynamics of the particle and rigid body. London: Macmillan.

Correspondence related to tin mining , dated 1957 to 1958

Note on preaching a sermon, previously given at Port Esperance forty years earlier, at St. Johns Presbyterian Church, Macquarie St., Hobart, on his 70th birthday in November 1931.

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.

Another copy of appendix B

Includes Mercury supplement on Federal council 1886, Royal Society of Tasmania 1896, St. Matthews New Norfolk 1895

Glass plates & photographic prints of Tasmanian scenes & landscapes

Shipping consignments, 1883 -1893 - Consignment notes, invoices, bills of lading for goods shipped, through G.J. McCaul & Co. London, including Meteor tricyle, sewing machines, wicker goods, fishing tackle, Portland cement.

Letter from Rev. Robert Auld, Orkney, dated 8 April. 1845. Inquiring about Joseph Welsh and a bill of exchange he sent to Gunn in 1843 for Welsh. (transcript only, original too fragile and powdery too handle)

Ms. copies of letters from Police Office, Swansea, 1853 about the prisoners Miitchell, Walsh and Martin, and O'Meagher.

One pamphlet entitled "Cheer up Australia" dated 19 July 1922.
Reprint of speech by Senator J. Earle from Parliamentary Debates.

Bank book belonging to W. E. Fuller with transactions dated 1958 to 1960

File relating to State General Election, 19 February 1955. Includes policy, platform, and broadcast speeches, list of A.L.P candidates and pamphlets advertising, campaign helpers, letters of thanks.

Photographs and slides taken Bougainville, Papua New Guinea,1945 by various photographers

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

Photograph of Launceston: Princes Square and general view.

Letters from sons and daughters: William May, son in law, dated 23 August 1866. Incomplete letter to "Father" from Wanstead, S.A. (? William May husband of Mary nee Cotton): loss of Henry and Lavinia's baby, Francis, Yearly Meeting, Adelaide Friends, price of wheat below a remunerative one, copper also low, S.A. importing beef from Queensland, wool sales reasonable, Joseph did not have the experience to manage a distant interior run on the Darling - brother Frederick took new manager, Waugh, to the run but dismissed him as intemperate, Joseph Barritt may sell - 450 sq. miles with 25 miles frontage on the river.

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.

Including: unveiling plaque in memory of Abel Tasman in Amsterdam (79); proof copies of Allied Photo Service portrait (80-82).

Photograph of the new Waterworks, Hobart showing water channel through bush.

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

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.

Three coloured polaroid photographs taken of the table outside Home Hut at Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve –thought to be Olive Pink in pink hat – and unknown friend in white hat.

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

Photographs of the Military hospital & convalescent camp, Cairo May 1915 published by the Commonwealth Gazette.

Letters from daughter Rachel Cotton dated 1872. Statement of Rachel Cotton and of Annie Barber relating to Sarah Cole's forged purchase order and Mrs Brace

Photograph of the new Waterworks, Hobart showing water channel through bush.

Letters from Maria Meredith to parents dated 1837 - 1841. Letters from school or, later, her sisters' homes in Hobart from Maria Meredith (1824-1882) to her mother, Mary Meredith, and one to her father: school under Mrs Charlotte Betts, music lessons with Mrs Logan, new governess Mrs Home (July 1838), request to have singing lessons from Mrs Elliott (Oct 1841), health - influenza and erysipelas (Nov. 1837); family: birthday of Sabina Bell [niece] (May 1837), christening party of Charles Crofton Boyes (Dec. 1838); shopping for clothes etc.for mother and brothers and sisters, wax doll for Fanny's birthday (Nov. 1841); friends: Mrs Arthur Smith, Mrs Dobson, Gregsons, Alfred Stephens married Miss Bedford (July 1838); dances, Government House functions, horticultural show (Oct. 1841).grand regatta to be in December (Oct. 1838).

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).

Poem entitled "Forget me not" written on a small scrap of paper - undated [early 19th cent]

Photograph of bush scenes round Mt Wellington, Fern Tree and Cascade

Notice of a proposal to form a Prospecting Association for the discovery of gold in the quartz reefs of Schouten Main
and Island, and receipt for £6.10 share of the balance of Glamorgan Prospecting Association paid to Lewis Amos.

Letters from sons and daughters: Anna Maria (Cotton) Mather 1848, January-February 1856. To Mother: the children, Anna very active, servant leaving, free girls difficult to obtain, Esther Mather delighted with shells (11 September1848); to Father: hopes his health improved and not affected by South Australian heat, Sarah Ball going to England, Baby still alive but very emaciated ; to Mother: she must be lonely without Mary and with Father away so long, baby a mere shadow, Joseph harrassed with Steam Company's affairs

Notice that in consequence of a domestic affliction in the family of the Governor [Sir Henry E. Fox Young] the Levee and Ball for the 24th 1855 would not take place.

Letter from Louisa Meredith (Mrs Bell) to Mary Meredith dated 17 Oct 1839. Louisa to stepmother on her husband's illness, family, Mrs Charles [L.A. Meredith], Gregsons, Kermode thrown from gig.

Photograph of bush scenes round Mt Wellington, Fern Tree and Cascade

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 14 November 1938 to 14 September 1939. Signed minutes, typed, formerly in ring binder.

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).