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1 typescript document of 2 MST diaries (A1 and A2). Transcribed c1989 by Belinda Marsden-Smedley, who also added some dates and notes (as Margaret didn't include many dates) to enable correlation with events reported elsewhere.
Includes regret at not being able to join in the dancing (pages 3 and 5) on the voyage; her plan to to work with women in India in 5 or 6 years 'to try to show them the meaning of love' (p7); letter from Francis Mather & Mr Gower asking Mr Thorp to substitute at the Friends School for 7 months (p9); brief preliminary visit to Hobart (p14); arrival in Hobart (p27) and concern at boys attending military drill; met Captain Amundsen who signed her autograph book (p30.

Correspondence with the Australian National University about the establishment of Labor Party and Trades Union Archives, including lists of pamphlets donated by O'Neil, November 1959.

Correspondence with the Australian National University.

Correspondence and press cuttings relating to the Trades Hall Council.

Collection consists of xeroxed minutes of committees and council

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to W.E.S. as Commissioner on a Trade mission to Canada with regard to fruit, tanning bark, and skins from Tasmania and agricultural machinery, motor engines etc. from Canada.

stereoscopic photo

One tourist map of Tasmania dated 1934. Inset map of Hobart. Produced by the Government Printer Tasmania. Scale 1 in: 10 mls , - Linen backed map, folded

Torvisosa Elementary School, Italy.

Tongue twisters, speech rhymes and associated notes either collected or written by Sansom.

Two issues of Togatus dated Thursday, 15th August, 1946 & Monday, 7th October, 1946

Tobacco growing in Tasmania: letter to Premier of Tasmania, John C. McPhee suggesting the growing of tobacco and notes.

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

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

Correspondence related to tin mining , dated 1957 to 1958

Notes of man hours spent, wages, costs, and some specifications for various vessels, including Evening Star, steam ketches Lottah and Nubeena, May Queen, Thistle, Victoria Louise, and S.S. Ronnie.

An account ledger of timber merchant (unknown but could be Risby). Ledger accounts headed by name of client. Entries, dated, record: number, description, sum (with debit and credit in columns on the same page). Items mentioned are mainly timber but also include shingles, palings, freight, cartage, painting, insurance. Payments are noted as cheque or cash, or sometimes 'goods', or bacon, tea, sugar, soap, tobacco, castor oil. The volume includes an alphabetical index of clients names. These include many well-known names and, where addresses are given, are usually, but not only, residents of Hobart. Several clients are described as builders. Sleepers were supplied for the Government railways and timber for the Hobart Exhibition. Among clients' names are, for example, W. Batt, builder, Sandy Bay; Bidencope; Burn & Son; Cascade Brewery; Clark, undertaker Brisbane Street; Currie, Murray St.; Cygnet Coal Co.; Gas Co.; Government Railways; Hobart Corporation; Marine Board, Mcgregor & Co. Mill; Oates Dock; H. Priest, Melville St.; Public Works, ;Telegraph Dept.; Risby,; R. Shoobridge, New Norfolk; E. Tolman; Walsh,; A.G. Webster.

Certificate for well conducted men embarking with tickets of leave issued to George Otway. Endorsed as hired to Douglas
River Mining Co.

Two copies of typescript of a radio play 1938 title "Thunder in the Air" by Alice D Baker

Three texts: 'Highgate and Hampshire', 'Old Southgate' and 'Winchmore Hill', publications that Sansom consulted when writing his autobiography.

1 photocopy of diary, plus 1 hand-illustrated quarter-bound leather album of black and white photographs and colour postcards

Three botanical paintings by Mildred Lovett - Olive Pink’s artist friend and fellow student

Ruth Sansom's thoughts on homosexuality. This mentions Jonathon Field and Paul Scott, and discusses changing attitudes to homosexuality in later years.

Collection consists of business correspondence and case papers of Thomas Sheehy, solicitor, barrister and proctor of Collins Street,
Hobart.

Letters from Thomas Rothwell Morris to brother Robert James Morris dated 1905 -1907 in England and some replies.

Collection consists of 1 photograph album of people met, groups and scenery and account of a visit to Australia in 1909 written by L. Violet Hodgkin describing her impressions of colonial life (not always favourable ), the meetings and social functions and detailed descriptions of the chief Friends in each place some photos stuck into the diary account.

Letters from Thomas Gregson to Mrs Meredith dated 13 March 1833. The Colonist : Mr Meredith requested to remain ten days to oversee the new administration.

Photograph of Thomas Crosby, (head and shoulders) 1880. Carte de visite , by Edward Sands, Melbourne. (see letter to S. B. Walker)

Letters from Thomas Cotton, England to his son Francis dated c1831, & 1834 regarding religion and death, son Thomas' business fallen off.

Corresponcence between Thomas Cotton and his brother Francis dated 1835, 1856, & 1865
Francis Cotton to brother Thomas: goods shipped, surgical instruments sold (see also 47), Samuel Cook, Theophilus Pollard married again, James Backhouse and G.W. Walker, cattle dieing, 30 grazing on William Lyne's marsh, harvest good (1835, letter addressed to Evans & Co. surgical instrument makers "for Thomas Cotton, junr."); Thomas Cotton to Francis Cotton.: Heather Bell shipment, George E. Broadbent efg'rating to be near James and Fanny Dickinson, Samuel Cook, death of Aunt "Hill" (1856); Thomas Ball retired
doorkeeper of Stoke Newington Friends' Meeting, nephew's business well, Anna Maria "joins with me in greeting" (1865); death notice of Thomas Cotton (1876).

Letters between Thomas Cotton in London and his brother Francis. The first one, written in 1835, was addressed to Evans & Co. surgical instrument makers in London for Thomas Cotton junior. Francis talks about goods shipped, surgical instruments sold, Samuel Cook, Theophilus Pollard married again, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, cattle dying, thirty grazing on William Lyne's marsh and a good harvest. The fragment of a letter to Francis mentions a shipment on the 'Heather Bell' and a letter of 1856 from Thomas to Francis mentions George E. Broadbent emigrating to be near James and Fanny Dickinson, Samuel Cook and the death of Aunt 'Hill'. A letter from Thomas to Francis of 1865 mentions Thomas Ball retired doorkeeper of Stoke Newington Friends' Meeting, a nephew's business doing well and Anna Maria joining with him in sending greetings. Finally there is a Remembrance Card on the death of Thomas Cotton junior in 1876.

Miscellaneous papers, including newspaper advertisements, relating to Thomas Chapman's claim to the annuity left to his first wife, Mary Ann (formerly Langhorne) by her aunt Lydia Hooley, and, The Craftsman or Say's Weekly Journal, relateing to the Gordon riots etc. dated 10 June 1780

Thomas Burbury was a tenant of the property "Ponsonby Vale Estate", owned by J W Story. Correspondence dated 1864, 1865, and 1867 Oatlands: reminder from executors of rent due (15/8/1864); rent cheque enclosed, not in a position to buy (14/1 /65); cannot pay rent until wool sent to market and could not renew the lease when the term expires without a reduction in rent (30/11/67) .

Letter from Thomas Bannister dated 16 December 1835. Richard Harrison gaoler at Norfolk Plains - conduct good, Col. Arthur "too much familiarity".

Photocopy of the last will and testament of Thomas Alcock, dated 1856, leaving legacies to his children and his second wife, Ann. Executors were Thomas Lodywyk Crowther, surgeon, and John Regan, tanner.

Two red spring-back folders containing Sansom's unpublished manuscript titled 'This Quiet Dust: Epitaphs Real and Imagined' and two copies.

Typescripts and notes, letter.

List of members at Reunion August 1958; statement of Receipts and Expenditure for period ending 19 August 1959.

Members list, receipts and expenditure for the Third Australian Light Horse Reunion 1958-9

"Dog doggerel" by Clive Sansom, drawings by Max Angus: typescript of text, photocopies book including drawings. Not published as a book but some poems published separately.

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

Manila folder headed 'These Happy Breeds'.
Mock-up and typescript of the book. Letter from Sansom to David Higham Associates of 30/4/77 about this book and the last three chapters of the early autobiography, ‘I Find My Voice’. Publishers' rejection notes relating to 'These Happy Breeds' from Hamish Hamilton, Jonathon Cape and David Higham.

Two copies of the script of 'There is an Island: A Cantata' (words by Sansom and music by Don Kay) and the texts of several Tasmanian poems not included in subsequent collections of his verse.

A cantata commissioned by the Rosny Children's Choir, music by Don Kay, words by Clive Sansom: correspondence on fees and routine matters, drafts, typescripts, news cuttings, etc. rough notes.

Written in carbon copy book, top on very thin paper, carbon on thicker paper, perforated for removal, both copies in book and both apparently corrected

Collection of photographs including Group in musical entertainment, including W. E. and Frances Fuller, c. 1912, with programme of "Entertainment by the Mountebanks", Moonah Mission Hall, 1912. W. E. Fuller portraying various parts (especially a rural character) for Hobart Repertory c. 1921 - 1940. Mary Fuller as Little Peter Saunders "Passers By", Theatre Royal 19~(part photograph, part
drawing by Jack Cato, framed.) Photos of broadcast for A.B.C. of "Mari.e Celeste" made on board "Lenna" in Derwent (1930s).

Print of an etching by Roy Cox

Theatre Programmes dated 1950 - 1968, mainly Theatre Royal, Hobart, also concerts and exhibitions.

Theatre program for the production of Sansom's "The Witnesses" at St David's Cathedral, Hobart, 3 June 1970.

Collection consists of:
(1) Theatre programmes and reviews etc.
(2) Theatre programmes, cutting of review of Passers By from the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, dated 7 July 1921, copy of licence and articles of Hobart Repertory Theatre, copy of Amateur Theatre with label: "Bookshelf Library", copies of Theatre News, cutting of obituary of Miss Olive Wilton of Hobart Repertory Co.

Collection consists of theatre programs and reviews

The World turned upside down, London, 1948. A morality play based on the Christmas story: draft & revised typescript, published copy (F. Muller 1948) annotated, radio script 1975, correspondence with agent (Higham), publishers 1947-8, ABC, BBC 1948-1976; reviews, registration certificate (1947).

The World of Poetry, edited by Clive Sansom. Manuscript in notebook written 1940s, correspondence 1956-1964.

One pamphlet entitled "The World at War" dated 25-26 Sept. 1918. Reprint from Parliamentary Debates

'The Newsletter" issued by The Workers' Educational Association vols II - IV.

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.

Manuscript, typescript, Poems 1951, The prize-winning entries for the Festival of Britain competition (Penguin Poets 1951 - includes "The Witnesses), The Witnesses and Other Poems by Clive Sansom (Methuen, London 1956): proof copy and published copy (4th reprint 1965). 12 folders of notes, correspondence, cuttings of reviews, etc. of performances, essays by school children on seeing a peformance, letter about possible recording by Argo Record Co. (1962), letter about American market (1972).

Mack, Amy Eleanor, The Wilderness, Sydney Angus and Robertson

Two pages only of the Weekly Courier dated 6th July 1901 . Pages 23-30 - Beattie photographs of 'Glenora' the estate of Mr L.M Shoobridge at Bushy Park, Tasmania, depicts house, man on bank and ladies in a row boat on the lake, other photos of hopfields, apple orchards, hop picking and apple picking, fruit store and hop drying klin. Eight Beattie photographs of the Royal visit to Tasmania.

A collection of sayings on speech collected by Clive Sansom manuscript and typescript draft (not published).

Typed sheets tied with red ribbon of Sansom's unpublished manuscript 'The Voice that Tempted Eve and other Auditory Observations'. This comprises quotations from various writers containing references to the ways in which people speak - descriptions of their voice quality, facial expressions and gestures.

Scrapbook of poems and thoughts entitled ''The very commonplace book of one W. E. Fuller"

The Unfailing Spring, Clive Sansom, introduction by Walter de la Mare, "Resurgam" Younger Poets, London (Favil 1943): book, some typed poems, correspondence with publishers, contract, reviews (1942-45).

Draft manuscript of "The true and complete history of Fisher's ghost" 1950, notes, press cuttings and copies of articles about ghosts.

Bolam, A. G
The Trans-Australian Wonderland. 4th ed 1924
Signed and annotated by Olive Pink. At Mrs Daisy Bates’s Native Camp, Ooldea,
South Australia, September 2nd 1927