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Collection consists of notes for a series of text books on geology, geography and palaeontology based on the lectures A.L. Lewis gave at the University. He prepared for each a loose leaf notebook in which he entered chapter headings and notes. Most, however, did not progress far.

Art in Australia, Third series, Number 27 March 1929 - The Recent work of Elioth Gruner.

Letters from Arthur Leake to his brother Charles dated 1876 -1878. Visit to Britain and Europe: long descriptive letters about trip, Lettie's school in Brighton, U.K., old Tasmanian friends in U.K. especially Galloways and Craigs, cousin Helen Bell's affairs (including letter from H.B. 6 Nov. 1876 enclosed with AL.'s letter of 11 Nov. 1876), tour of Continent with Lettie and new wife (1878) -his marriage good for Lettie and his own comfort, wife will visit her parents at Gippsland on way home to Tasmania.

Letters received by Arthur Tilney & E. Frances Cotton

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

Press articles relating to agriculture.

Copies of articles for newspapers etc. and notes and extracts from other studies, including: "Water power in the west" (1896), notes on water power in Ontario, Sweden, Russia etc., use of water in Tasmania, power, irrigation and closer settlement (see also soldier settlement S3/26), flood prevention, Hobart and Launceston water supplies, need for a Commission, etc. (Typescript copies)

Articles about early Hobart by Alice D Baker which were probably sent to a magazine for publication

Articles on a variety of subjects, medical, historical and biographical in typescript or manuscript, many under the pen name "Exul" for publication in The Bulletin including:
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An eye for an eye (13 pp, 2 copies)
• Some aspects of heredity (8 pp)
• The mental hygiene movement, parts 1 & 2 (10 pp)
• Reign of terror at Swansea October 13 1922 (4 pp)
• The commercial awakening in Tasmania (6 pp)
• [Jokes] (2 pp)
• Insulin (3pp 2 copies)
• Recollections of a medical student (3 pp 2 copies)
• Reply to "The Deacon" on birth control; further notes on birth control
• Dermotobia (3 pp 2 copies)
• An exploded superstition (10 pp)
• The Yarra mystery, Melbourne 8 March (5 pp)
• [X-Ray] 18 September 1922
• [Anecdotes] 18 September 1922
• A journey into the fourth dimension (9 pp 2 copies)
• The treatment of criminals (5 pp) and further notes
• [Anecdotes] 24 August, 3 & 13 September 1922
• A bush tragedy (2 pp)
• Autobiography of a rheumatic (5 pp)
• Coal mine explosions (4 pp)
• Incomplete account of Royal Society of Tasmania's trip to mark the site of Tasman's landing (2 pp)
• Campaign against consumption (5 pp)
• Mediums and trances; on back: ms. The wages of virtue (5 pp)
• How I came to take up writing by Exul (5 pp)
• The Tasmanian Aborigines
• Incomplete and miscellaneous loose pages

Two articles written by by A.L. Meston on Jorgen Jorgensen.

Two copies of typescript of a play titled "Arts and Crafts" by Alice D Baker

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

Assignment F.E.D. Browne to Adam Beveridge 27 June 1833
Assignment for £45 from Francis Edward Douglas Browne of Hobart, gent, to Adam Beveridge of Launceston, merchant, of allotment in Launceston, William Lushing Goodwin of Launceston, gent., (the second party) waiving interest in an earlier agreement
to purchase for £50 not executed. Signed, sealed and witnessed.

Official appointment as Associate Commissioner of the H.E.C., 1954, and correspondence relating to his retirement (1970), staff discount on H.E.C. charges, brief notes on the history of the H.E.C.

Correspondence relating to the Australian Natives' Association and the Y.M.C.A.

Collection consists of speeches and educational enquiries.

Undated letter from Arthur Smith, Beaufront, Ross. Illness of Henry Meredith, recommended Dr. MacCreery at Ross, Edwin left for the Boyes.

Typescript of a work titled "Australia: A Company's Concession" by Alice D Baker

Grenfell Price, A.
Australia Comes of Age, Melbourne, Georgian House, 1945
Signed by the Author A. Grenfell Price, and by Olive Pink

McCarthy, F.D.
Australian Aboriginal Decorative Art, Australian Museum Sydney,1938

• signed by Olive Pink and annotated text by Olive Pink

List of Australians who graduated at Cambridge from 1811-1948. Manuscript list in chronological order. Compiled by Hilary Webster from the publication - Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 . Edited by John Venn (1834–1923) and his son John Archibald Venn (1883–1958) supplemented by records of some colleges.

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.

Collection consists of minutes and agendas, correspondence, membership lists, newsletters and other materials related to AFUW Tasmania. Also material relating to the Northern branch

Membership of Australian Institute of Secretaries and Federal Institute of Accountants dated 1917

Australian Labor Party - Report of Proceedings of annual conference of 1957.

Australian Labor Party - Report of Proceedings of annual conference of 1955.

Collection consists of photographs of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1926-1940

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1926 with their signatures on the back of the mount

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1937, mounted Barnett photograph.

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1940, Robinson photograph Devonport.

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated Launceston, 1947, Examiner photograph.

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates undated but possibly 1935 or 1937 . Barnett photograph Hobart.

Photograph of a group of Australian Labor Party members on top of Mt Wellington, Hobart. Undated J.J. Barnett mounted photograph.

Correspondence relating to the Tasmanian Magnesium industry from C.H. Grant and John Reynolds, Managing Directors Australian Magnesium Co., to the Minister for Mines

Correspondence: Australian Natives' Association 1911, 1916. Meetings; committee to consider means of arousing public interest in the timber trade (1911); congratulations on William Ebenezer Shoobridge's election as M.H.A. (5 documents)

Collection consists of archival documents of the Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project - Friends in Stitches. The documents begin at the start of the project in 2009. They include minutes of meetings, early sketches and designs, samples of woven material, quotes, early newsletters and photographs.
The Friends in Stitches - Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project seeks to provide a history of Australian Quakers. It is inspired by the British Kendal Quaker Tapestry. At the time of the donation there are 24 completed panels. This project will continue.

1 hand-illustrated quarter-bound leather album of black and white photographs; 1 hand-illustrated cardboard album of black and white photographs; inscription; 1 printed Report

Australian Wild Flowers.
National Handbook No. 9 4th edition 1944

Sulman, Annie E.,
Australian Wild Flowers. Second Series. Sydney, Angus and Robertson.1915?

Handwritten 'Chapter One' of Ruth's autobiography/ Clive Sansom's biography. The focus here is on Sansom's childhood in Palmers Green and his school days.

Manila folder containing handwritten drafts of sections of Ruth Sansom' s autobiography, covering the period in England before the war, mamage to Clive Sansom, work at the Speech Institute, Sansom's poetry, association with the Quakers, and marriage and life in the 1970s. In the final section, Ruth Sansom explores and describes her mystical experiences and her religious faith.

Folder headed 'labelled by Sansom "Auto"' [Autobiography]. This contains: newspaper and journal cuttings of background material relating to London life at the time of Sansom's childhood and early adult life; published critical responses to his first collection of verse 'In the Midst of Death'; Sansom's letters to the Times on the role of scientists in creating the atom bomb; copy of a press report about Speech in schools and the work of Ruth Sansom; a letter from 'Tim' titled 'The Second Epistle of Timothy to the Sansomonians'; copies of poems probably read by Sansom during his school days; copy of the London Speech Festival Competitions of March 25 1939; Sansom's scribbled reminders of material for the 'Auto'; an article published in 'The Friend' (1971) by Ruth Sansom titled 'The Inner Journey'; photographs of places relating to Sansom' s childhood.

Handwritten notes by Ruth Sansom, including her draft autobiography about life with Clive, and section of a typed manuscript titled 'Married Life'. Additional pages of material relating to the Sansoms' experiences during World War II and mentioning contacts with writers and absent friends including Allan Keeling, Kathleen Needham­Hurst, Marjorie Gullan, Gordon Bottomley, Robert Gittings, Frieda Hodgson, Margaret Rutherford, Judith Wright, Dorothy Gear, Walter de la Mare and the young actor Martin Miles. A handwritten biography of Clive Sansom focussing on his childhood and his mother with a further section titled 'Clive 16 to 27'. Ruth Sansom also describes the Sansoms' holiday in the Tyrol and her work in a Jewish refugee school.

3 folders of loose-leaf typescript

Autobiography by Clive Sansom ND.

Folder headed 'Autobiography' containing Sansom's short handwritten and typed drafts of the early sections of the book describing his childhood experiences, family life and school days. There are also many brief handwritten memos and quotes from writers pertinent to his autobiography, including a note that his proposed title for this was 'Finding my Words: A Poet's Beginnings'. Other material comprises several relevant letters about and reviews of Sansom's publications, including Fred Nicholson's review of 'Francis of Assisi', Sansom's review of John Fuller's 'Epistles to Several Persons', letters from his brother Len, a poem Sansom wrote at the age of 16, Sansom' s humorous letter to the artist Max Angus, and an obituary written by Ron James and published in the journal 'Speech and Drama' (England) following Sansom's death.

Manila folder headed 'Autobiography' comprising:
• OHMS envelope containing extracts from Sansom's personal diaries, 1947/48, and other diary notes on loose sheets of paper.
• Copy of the Tavistock Little Theatre Bulletin, 17/18 May 1935, which includes notes on the play ‘Hassan’. There is a handwritten note next to this indicating that this was the first play production Clive and Ruth Sansom attended together.
• Clear plastic folder marked 'Very Special Autobiography Part 2' containing a draft of a section of the autobiography, a copy of Sansom's poem 'Prophesy' and the Sansom Family Tree.
• Birth Certificate for Ruth (Ruth Annie Large, 14/5/06) and Death Certificate for Clive (Royal Hobart Hospital, 29/3/81).
• Sansom's questionnaire to a family member about the history of the Sansom’s. Biographical details headed 'Dosier (sic) on Sansom 1926-1951 '.
• Handwritten and types notes relating to Sansom's autobiography.
• Sansom’s statement to the War Tribunal, opposing military service
• Clippings from newspapers/journals relating to London and associated topics. Copies of two early poems by Sansom: 'Paul's Cross' and 'The Wood'.
• Copy of 'Invocation of a Poet Seeking Inspiration' from Arthur Grimble's ‘Return to the Islands’.
• Letters from Nan [Delaney?], the Convent of Sacred Heart and from Margaret and Len Sansom (2/10/75).
• Sansom's summary notes of Rilke's letters and Rudolf Steiner's text on agriculture, as well as briefer notes about and extracts from other works.

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

1 album covered in brown paper and inscribed: M.S. Watts. Autograph Album.
Margaret S. Thorp inscribed on inside cover.
Spine in poor condition.
Inscription opposite title page (Writing Album) says: 'June 1906. Margaret S. Thorp with best wishes from Freda Brunskill'.
Includes inscriptions, cuttings, letters, watercolour paintings, pen and ink drawings and photos.
Autographs include Roald Amundsen (1911), poet Kath Walker, pianist Eileen Joyce, feminists Adela Pankhurst and Vida Goldstein, Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, politicians and many Quakers met on her travels.

Cut from various letters and documents of East Coast residents, council officers, medical practitioners, politicians etc.
(1 pkt.)

Ayers Rock –Mt Olga National Park. NT Reserves Board, 1967
Inscribed ‘Miss Pink with compliment from the Chairman (Lionel Rose) who is also the Author. 1 Aug. 1969’

Some records of Great Swanport and the Municipality of Glamorgan 1820-1920 by G. Musgrave Parker' c.1950 . Typed draft, corrected ms., with ms notes and illustrations (snapshots or newspaper cuttings) in 16 chapters and 3 appendices. The draft is in an unfinished state; many gaps have been left for dates or other information to be added, and numerous ms. notes, clippings, etc. have been inserted or left loose in the folders.
Chapter 1 -Early history 1642-1821
Chapter 2 The pioneers 1821-1826
Chapter 3 Under military control 1826-1840
Chapter 4 The native problem in Great Swanport.
Chapter 5 Bushrangers in the district.
Chapter 6 Whaling sealing and some early exports.
Chapter 7 Civilian administration 1841-1859
Chapter 8 The Rural Municipal Council 1860-1920 (police, medical men, coroners, Registrar of Births, Deaths, Marriages).
Chapter 9 Sheep and wool, wattle bark and agriculture
Chapter 10 Coal, tin, gold and lime.
Chapter 11 Roads, bridges, jetties.
Chapter 12 Shipping on the coast.
Chapter 13 The story of the churches
Chapter 14 Parliament and the local representatives
Chapter 15 Education, postal history, societies & clubs.
Chapter 16 Growth of district and township, notable visitors, wars, other notable events and weather.
Appendix A Grants and location orders [Land].
Appendix B Local persons of note (brief biographical notes in alphabetical order)
Appendix C Diary of Adam Amos 1822-1825.
Illustrations included:
Ch. 1. J.A. Graham, first Warden 1860
Ch 2. Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria, Creek Hut (G. Meredith's first residence), Cambria, Cranbrook House, Glen Gala
Ch 3. Red Banks ~ 1890 and later, Apsley, Apslawn, Milton (J. Allen's residence), Swanwick, 'The White Hut' Little Swanport, Kebreden, Kelvedon Rocky Hills Station (including stereoscopic photos of the ruins of the tread mill and lime kiln.
Ch 4. Aborigines, Muirlands Little Swanport (residence of John Radford) , Waubadebar’s grave Bicheno.
Ch 6. Wineglass Bay, Trumpeter Bay, Schouten Island, Meredith's Fishery, a trypot.
Ch 7. Waterloo Point 1852 (watercolour sketch on grey card copied from original at Cambria by Mary Ann Walker 1928
Ch 8. Wardens (J.A. Graham, F. Shaw, Carmichael Lyne, F.C. Shaw, W.F.G. Calvert (news clippings), Council Chambers, Alfred W. Smith, Robert Gould, F. Lyne, G.F. Storey (Beattie's Studio), Dr. E.W. Pilgrim, Dr. E.C. McCarthy, Dr. G.S. Rundle (c. 1860-70)
Ch 9. Sheep, wool press, Picnic Place from Apsley, Mayfield Mill and outhouses (late 19th cent.), Oyster Bay pine.
Ch 10. Bicheno
Ch 11. Rocky Hills culvert, Spiky Bridge Swansea, Swansea jetty.
Ch 12. Cutter 'Thames', ketches 'Good Intent' - 'Foam'.
Ch 13. All Saints Church, Swansea, Bernard Shaw, Shaw memorial window, Bishops Nixon, Bromby, Sandford, Montgomery, Mercer (news clippings), Frank Morris Gill, Tomb of Rev. Thomas Dove Swansea, Swansea (including Catholic Church), Gala Kirk, Fr. Thomas Kelsh (news clipping).
Ch 14. E.T. Miles, John Lyne, F. Lyne, W.H. Bennett, James White, H. Lamb, W.W. Perkins, J. Murdoch, James Lord, J. Mitchell, J. Meredith, C. Meredith, W.J. McWilliams, A. Hearn.
Ch 16. Swansea views Appendix B Graveyard at Llandaff.

Baby's Record Book of Peter Godfrey Marshall born 1922, son of George Douglas and Beatrice (nee Terry) Marshall, went to Clemes College, 1928, married Mary Meston and died 1965.

Folder containing background articles for teaching about film and television.

Photograph of Bagana from South West - RAAF photo

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from above Torokina River - Heyward photo dated Sept. 1945.

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from the North East - RAAF photo

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from the Torokina River - Heyward photo dated Sept. 1945.

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from Torokina, Bougainville - RNZAF photo

Photograph of Mt. Bagana volcano from from Torokina River, September - Heyward photo

Photograph of Balbi - Old Crater, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi Creek, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi from Karporai, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Balbi from Karporai, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of Mt. Balbi taken from the sea at the Laruma River mouth. Johnson photo.

Law Practice - Case Notes - Clark's Opinion in re liability of Bank of V.D.L., copies of Deed of Settlement and of Royal Commission (including copies of correspondence between G.P. Fitzgerald and Dobson, Mitchell & others)

Bank book from the Bank of Victoria Ltd, Melbourne, belonging to Mrs Margaret Bennison, wife of A McGregor for the years 1913 - 1914

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

Bank Book of Bank of Australasia in the name of William Gunn, 1857-1857

Bundle of cheques drawn by McGregor & Piesse for the period 1874-1887

Bank deposit slips from the Derwent Bank.

William Johnstone's pass book with the Bank of Australasia dated 1842-1847.

Two bank orders dated 1822 and 1823. Promise to pay £86 John Grant and A.B. Spark to Attwood & Smith also bank order from William Wilkinson to John Grant for £86.

Alphabetical file of Bankruptcy cases for the years 1872 to 1894. Miscellaneous papers, including correspondence, notices of creditors' meeting, claims, etc. Arranged in order of the name of client.

1. Michael Henry Boutcher of Sheffield, carpenter (J. Powell solr.) 1894
2. George Boyes of Hobart, gent 1874
3. William Henry Cheverton, timber merchant 1880
4. William James Cleary, builder, Hobart 1884
5. Henry Coulson 1877
6. Robert Davey, storekeeper, Weldborough 1880
7. Thomas Dillon, carpenter, Hobart 1880
8. Henry Butler Downie & William Robert Woodgate of Launceston & Evandale 1874
9. Rose Alice Eastwood, licensed victualler, Black Prince, Elizabeth St. Hobart 1880
10. Charles Edmunds, house painter, Hobart 1881
11. Richard James Edwards, tobacconist, Hobart 1872
12. Hubert Beard Evans, ship owner & timber merchant, Hobart 1880
13. Theodore Foster, tanner & fellmonger 1880-81
14. John Gill, farmer, Sorell 1876
15. Herbert Wade Gower, picture frame maker, Hobart 1883-85
16. Henry Harvey, licensed victualler, Green Ponds 1872-73
17. Charles Horton, druggist, formerly of Oatlands 1881
18. Richard Hill 1879
19. Andrew Luckman 1882
20. John O'Boyle 1881
21. Frederick Augustus Gow Packer 1879
22. John Pennyston 1894
23. William Parkins 1878
24. William Henry Rowe 1879
25. Windle Hill St. Hill 1890
26. Sydney Edward Underwood 1880-81
27. R.H. Wilmore 1878-79

Certified extract of entry of baptism and birth of William, son of Murdo Downie, Master Royal Navy, and Anne Smith his wife, parish of Foot Dee, Aberdeen, Scotland. Dated 20 October 1801

Bargain & Sale, Eddie to Oakden 31 July 1835.
John Alexander Eddie of Launceston, auctioneer, to Philip Oakden of Launceston, merchant, bargain & sale of allotments in York St., Basin Road and Hill St., Launceston, for £1200. Sealed, signed and witnessed. Reg. No. 5265

Bargain & sale: Oakden to Thomas Button 30 May 1845
Philip Oakden of Launceston, esq., to Thomas Button of Launceston, tanner, bargain & sale of 1 ac. 2 r, corner of Paterson & Hill Streets, Launceston [Cataract Hill], sold by F.E.D. Brown to A. Beverdige who sold to J.A. Eddie who sold to P.O.,for £146 in 6 bills of exchange dated between 6 and 36 months from date. Signed. Endorsed 6 June 1851 receipt of full payment and release of land. Enclosed the 6 cancelled bills. (solrs. Gleadow & Henty)

Parchment deed dated 9 May 1772. Bargain and sale of garden in Shaws Lane, Berwick-on-Tweed, U.K., from John Lawry to John Cockburn for £60. Including schdedule of deeds.