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Photocopy of an extract from Bateson, The Convict Ships relating to the last voyage of the "Waterloo" in 1842

Federated Iron Workers Association dated 1958

Extract of Robert Mather's letter to his brother-in-law John Benson describing his wife's death, dated 16 October 1831

Collection consists of miscellaneous business papers and other correspondence relating to shipping, banking, real estate and shares of Alexander McGregor and McGregor, Piesse & Co. Most of these papers relate to the dissolution of the partnership and Alexander McGregor's independent business ventures, the execution of estates of which he was trustee and the execution of his estate after his death

Miscellaneous business papers: Thomas Fennell mortgage (1881); J.G.W. Moir redemption of mortgage 1879-84; Wood Banks property: papers relating to bill of sale from William Brock to McGregor & Piesse including inventories of machinery, furniture and horses and estimate of value (1883); mortgage loan to Gill Ball: bill of sale (1884).

C. A. Piesse: miscellaneous papers dated 1876, 1883, 1885 - Receipt for deeds from C. Piesse as agent for Edward Ellis from solicitors (April 1876); letters from E.A. Hanson about Young's hops (April 1883) and James Smith's estate (January 1885).

Barque "Helen" refit 1893, 1894 - Survey report laid up on Domain slip since 1891, now fitted as whaler, 15 May 1894. Also letter from McGregor to Messrs. Dalgleish & Taylor, Patent Slip, Domain: Mr Dalgleish not to work on "Helen" after walking off the job (pressed copy 30 Nov. 1893).

Reports of tests on cement shipped by "Lufra" to Melbourne in 1889 and letter from Portland Cement Co., London to G.J. McCaul, London, about methods of testing.

Consists of lawyer's accounts, shares and other miscellaneous documents regarding business dealings.

Execution of the estate of George Wilson JP (1882-1896) of Hobart, who died on 29 April 1882, aged 81, including: executors' accounts, inventory of estate receipts, bank books, mine share certificates, papers relating to property rent, insurance and repairs, receipts for rates and taxes, correspondence with solicitors and others, receipts from Mrs S. George Edwards of San Francisco for legacy payments, correspondence with P.J. Wilson of Melbourne relating to A.McGregor giving up the trusteeship.

Papers relating to the settlement of the estate after the death of A. McGregor on 4 August 1896, leaving his widow Margaret main legatee and sole executrix, although Thomas Bennison, who she later married, - acted as her agent, including notes on the settlement on marriage to Margaret Pigdon 1884 and later settlements, list of property (including Lenna, Battery Point, houses in Hampden Road, Macquarie St, Bathurst St, New Wharf warehouse, Lord Rodney hotel, and ships (Harriet McGregor, Helen, Asia, Waterwitch, Loongana, Lufra, Derwent Hunter), solicitors' accounts, balance statements, earlier accounts and documents relating, bills etc. See also M1/16 - Timaru New Zealand property (1904).

Memorandum of money paid into the Union Bank, Launceston and cheques drawn for the period 1861 - 1863

Wage accounts for the Morningside Estate, Campbell Town, Tasmania, dated 1863-1876

Correspondence from Sir Henry Seymour Baker, Chancellor of the University of Tasmania dated 10th October 1960 thanking Morris Miller for sending a copy of his Occasional Publications.

Correspondence from Dietrich Borchardt, secretary of the Tasmanian Fellowship of Australian Writers. Letter dated
3 October 1959.

Correspondence in relation to the findings of the Royal Commission into the University of Tasmania, dated 17 March 1955

Correspondence from Clem Christesen, editor of the Meanjin dated between 1953 and 1960

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

Correspondence from Brian Elliott, University of Adelaide, dated 10 April 1958

Correspondence from Sir John Ferguson, dated 18 January 1961

Correspondence about revival of Victorian Association including comments on public library system and a Library Federation of Australia and New Zealand

Collection of lecture notes, papers relating to the University Library and the history of the selection of the Sandy Bay site for the University

Collection of records and correspondence, miscellaneous printed papers and typescript drafts and reprints of articles

Collection of photographs of Edmund Morris Miller and his family

Letters from William Knibb Morris to his mother dated 1855. Description of embarkation at Liverpool on the "Boomerang", signing bounty tickets, etc. (incomplete letter, undated c Jan. 1855); part of letter describing voyage from Melbourne to Hobart in screw steamer "City of Hobart" and arrival, met by James and Isaac Cash "dressed in colonial style with large slouching white felt hats", James had only one child James William "a most beautiful little chap just running alone", another expected, landed on Queen's birthday - kept as strict holiday, rumours of Mr Bryan drinking false, Mr Freer proprietor of low theatre [25 May 1855]; Hobart: business depressed but father got job immediately with R.A. Mather, W.K.M. working for ironmonger Mr Marsh, serving in shop and keeping books, went to live with James and Mr Bryant but James charged 18s for lodging, not paid Mather for tickets but "James thinks he would not take it", Jim had daughter born last Friday [ie 13 July 1855] (16 July 1855); sorry to hear brother Tom had smallpox, sending money, kindness of employer, gathering "beautiful yellow flower of the wattle tree", father and James had built little shop in backyard to work at shoemaking - at work on pair of wellingtons (9 September 1855).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to his brother Thomas John Morris dated 2 February 1855-18 October 1855. Journey by rail to Liverpool to embark on "Boomerang", voyage - very healthy, did not lose a single adult and only five children, arrival, job with Marsh & Brother, made galvanic battery, not done much photography as it was winter, glad to hear brother converting shed to dark chamber, several photography places in Hobart to get collodion, one [Walter] Dickenson showed his collection of pictures and hinted he needed assistant but "it would require great inducements for me to leave the commercial for the artistic .. ", photography processes, enclosing small sodium chloride print (July & August 1855), James' new baby daughter born (July 1855), description of job, Marsh's tokens - shortage of copper coins (August 1855), Isaac Cash, sending money, glad Tom recovering (October 1855).

Letters written by William Knibb Morris to his brother Thomas John Morris dated 19 September 1864-1866. Fingal: family, Sarah ill [sister died November 1864], sending money but not much - his business doing well but started on credit, American war, New Zealand war, Annie [sister] ill at Port Albert, Annie had still born child, Fingal goldfields hopeful (description), James appointed Landing Waiter at Swansea - will not interfere with employment with Graham but gives him extra ?100 a year (c 1866).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to his brother Thomas John Morris dated 6 September 1872-June 1877. Fingal: store business, cost of transport and import of goods, elections, parents at Mangana, Willie [William James Morris, son of James] helping, Annie Ashton [sister] in hospital at Melbourne - skin graft on leg, Collis schoolmaster on Islands [ie Furneaux Islands], family: wife Sarah, son Percy, baby Thomas (April 1872), daughter Celia Sarah born 27 March 1876 (April, May 1976), brother James and his family, visit of Anthony Trollope to Hobart - "they make quite a lion of him" (January 1872), gold mining, gold at Mangana (1872), Wesleyan chapel built (1872), telegraph across Australia from Adelaide to Darwin, talk of railway (September 1872), bought large building in centre of town formerly Highland Inn (February [1873]), Governor's visit, coal mines - Mt. Nicholas, Seymour, transit of Venus (November 1874), telegraph coming - learning alphabet in preparation (November 1874, August-October 1875, April 1876), death of father Thomas Morris (December 1874), description of district and journeys, Clifford the photographer visited Fingal - William had views taken - borrowed C's camera to take views of parents' house Mangana (October 1875), measles (September-November 1875), "little single needle instrument" [?electromagnetic telegraph], description of St. Helens (April 1876), death of mother (20/12/1876) and Mary Marshall [daughter of James Morris] (December 1876), scientific experiments, papyrograph [copying] process (1876-77), business quiet - thinking of looking for another occupation (February 1877), business closed, creditors treated him kindly except P.O. Fysh (April 1877).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris dated July 1877-1880. Regarding, Hobart: auction at Fingal successful, Sunday School gave Sarah purse of money - invested in small "Friend" sewing machine, train, job on Railways, Jerusalem [Colebrook] station, accident on line, going back to Susmans, Rev. Wade, temporary job with R. Lewis & Son then back to Susman (March 1878), experiments with telephone, Dr. Smart's telephone connected to another doctor's surgery across road (March 1878), value of electric telegraph, Mr Henry [Robert H. jr.] head of telegraph office, experiments with microphones - meeting at telegraph office, daughter born - "a regular Morris" dark eyes and black hair (30 August 1878), Prof. Pepper's lecture on electricity, Canon [Marcus Blake] Brownrigg missionary formerly at Lachlan goldfields 1860-1, sending photo of railway line at Jerusalem, also sending Father and Mother's cockatoo - they taught it to speak - on "Windward" which was carrying 2000 birds, electric pen (April-May 1879), winding up Duncan's estate at Fingal (May 1879), Cowper's writing telegraph, Edison's loud speaking telephone, Mr Henry to establish telephone circuit, experiments with telephone between New Norfolk-Hobart-Sandy Bay (31 August 1879), progress at telegraph office Mt. Nelson - connected with office by Bell/Siemen telephone, Collis family, Ackerman's museum at Launceston, Sydney Exhibition (August 1879), scientific experiments at conversazione in aid of organ fund (September 1879), Percy had rheumatic fever, Charles Bryant drowned in Derwent (February 1880), parrot skins and frames made by Martha Rothwell of Quorn Hall sent by Lufra for children (February 1880), "Star" newspaper, James Morris' tin mine (March 1880).

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother George Morris, dated 1855 regarding the voyage, description of log used to ascertain speed of vessel, with diagram.

Letters written by William Knibb Morris to Henry Stevens (1875): sympathy on Mary's illness [Mary Ann Stevens nee Morris], parents, Annie's death, loss of steamer Gothernberg on way from Port Darwin to Melbourne, flood in NSW. Mary (Morris) Stevens to brother William Knibb Morris [1876], birthday wishes, family, little Henry. Also souvenir letter card with views of Bournemouth, U.K., from Ada Crouch (nee Stevens) to her uncle William Knibb Morris. Also a booklet of photographs.

Miscellaneous papers 1871 -1886 including welcome to Rev. J. Graham program 1871; notes on making lenses and for finding the focal distance and power of a telescope (ND); receipt for £342.15.0. paid for discharge of mortgage on Arthur Street residence (20 December 1886); notes for Sara's letter to her aunt Mary (ND); news cutting about debts of E.T. Walker stationer and manager of business of Henry Stevens (d. 1897, widow d. 1906) (ND c1906-7).

Letters to Sarah from family, and a Sunday School presentation.

Presentation of purse to Mrs Morris "in remembrance of friends and the teachers connected with the Wesleyan Sunday School Fingal", listing 23 contributors. Note added by Sarah Morris: "I purchased a sewing machine called the 'Friend' and it was true to the name".
Note: the back of this document was used at a much later date for family reminiscences of John Rothwell, Sarah Crouch, etc.

Collection consists of family and legal correspondence and transcripts of letters

Transcripts of letters (incomplete), probably made by Amy Rowntree.

Collection consists of a typescript copy of an original diary of Peter Harrisson's voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1822.

Correspondence and notes relating to Federal Grants to States and Taxation dated 1934-1935

Correspondence related to tin mining , dated 1957 to 1958

Correspondence related to the Tasmanian Tin Producers Committee , dated 1960 to 1963

Two files of correspondence and one folder of newspaper cuttings relating to the Scamander Mineral Exploration Company, dated 1967 to 1968, some newpaper cuttings from 1957

Files of typescript and manuscript biographies relating to mining, parliamentarians, miscellaneous bibliographies, broadcast talks and film scripts.

Historical study entitled "The silver boom"

Historical study entitled "The red metal - copper"

Historical study entitled "A study of the Federation movement in Tasmania 1825-1900"

Six typescript biographies :
(1) Isaac Alfred Isaacs (private notes ms.)
(2) John West (1809-1873) (ts.)
(3) Sir John Franklin, the Colonial Governor 1837-1843, address at Franklin Centenary Meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania 7 Feb. 1937 (ts. 13 pp.)
(4) Launceston's Dictator 1811 (Johnathan Burke McHugo) (ts. 15 pp.)
(5) James Rule (1830-1901), educationist
(6) A.I. Clark - "The Clarks of Rosebank". (ts.)

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.

Advertisement for Risby Bros. Franklin Saw & Moulding Mills, timber merchants. Designed and drawn by Thomas Midwood and published in the Illustrated Directory of Hobart.

Photograph of the Franklin Wharf Steam Saw Mills destroyed by fire 8th March 1878

Photograph of the Risby's Franklin Wharf Saw Mills, showing groups of workmen posed on weighbridge in front. Photographed by Frederick Spurling & Co. Taken pre 1878 before building destroyed by fire

Miniature souvenir edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, dated Saturday 21st May 1910, featuring the funeral of King Edward VII.

Collection consists of correspondence, miscellaneous papers and accounts of William Gunn and family also some papers relating to James Gordon.
Note: 12 documents, too decayed and powdery to handle read, have been withdrawn and stored separately on shelf. (7) Letter from L.E. Threlkeld from Sydney to brother in law W. Gunn 7 Dept 1846 (inviting W.G. to visit, Christian Union etc.); (8) Auld letter; (15) Gunn to Young 1848; (18) statement of Gunn's claim for debt against James and Elizabeth Gordon 12 Sept. 1849; (31 (4) expenses and disbursements for sloop George and brig Venus 1805; (41) Mrs Lakeland's statement 1831; (53) information against White 8 Feb. 1831; (56) Gunn to Gordon; (68) W. Gunn to Gordon - Forcett property survey 1834; (70) Gordon to nephew John 14 Oct. 1835; (72) George A. Lloyd letter and invoice - bags of maize 8 Aug. 1840; (73) bill of lading - potatoes sent to GA. Lloyd Sept. 1840. Transcripts of all documents which could be read have been made and included in place of the originals. PSK Sept. 1992

Letters, and transcripts of letters to William Gunn, copy of notice in newspaper, Account ledger, Bank book, Executor accounts for the estate of William Gunn

Letter written 1 July 1828 from Temple Pearson, Douglas Park to Gunn: friendly letter regarding servant due a ticket of leave so needs replacement and Gunn's bull.

Letter about land purchase dated 1 April 1840. Signature illegible.

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

Letter from Frank Allison to cousin Dr John J. Gunn, Glasgow dated 13 April 1874. Shooting, athletics, cricket - Launceston beaten by all England Eleven.

Memorandum, letters, invoice, Government Notice, poem, photographs.

Memorandum about William Pickin and queries about evidence relating to his offence.

Letter and invoice from George A. Lloyd, Sydney: sending 97 bags of maize to sell on his account, proceeds to be invested in potatoes or wheat (8 August 1840); bill of lading for 80 bags of potatoes to Sydney per Eamont for G. A. Lloyd (8 September 1840)

Hand written obituary of Dr. John Coverdale 1814-1896, author unknown, entitled "Death of Dr. J Coverdale, a Colonist of 60 years" an abridged version appeared in the Mercury, Wednesday 24 June 1896.

Regatta programme for 1899 printed on 'satin'

Regatta programme for 1938 printed on 'satin'

Regatta programme for 1940 printed on 'satin'

Regatta programme for 1941 printed on 'satin'

Certificates of competency as an Engine Driver, first class, issued 1928

Certificate of admission as Free Mason of third degree of the Tasmanian Union Lodge, No. 3. dated 11 April 1935

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.

Small sections of maps of the Somme district, France, showing trenches, etc., with message forms on the back and a note (manuscript) on one: 'the sector attacked by 27th U.S.A. Division and 3rd Australian Division on 29 Sept. 18', and photographic copy of the 'Accroche Wood' sector.

Forum: Pro & Con. Note about Sydney journal Forum (1922-1924) by A. N. U. Dept. of Political Science.

Article written in 1968 about the Circular Head scientific journal article by T. Iredale and G. P. Whitley (gift of T. E. Burns) R.C. Gunn, while police magistrate at Circular Head in 1836, wrote and edited the Circular Head scientific journal.

Typed notes of the history from 1938 of the Cygnet Cooperative Canning Society written circa 1969.

Historicial notes on the association's first 50 years (20 pp). Also draft of brief historical brochure by Prof. J. McManners.

Notes on women in the Churches of Christ, Congregational Church, Methodist Women's Federation of Tasmania, Interchurch Fellowship.

Poems dedicated to his son and daughter, Lettie and Russell written in three notebooks

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.

The journals have been published as "Immense Enjoyment, the illustrated journals and letters of William L Wells 1884·1888, the life of an early Quaker family in Tasmania" edited by Faye Gardam and published by the Devon Wells Historical Soicety (1987) a copy is held at UTAS Library Cent.Quaker DU 194.3, .W45, A3 1987
Diaries, illustrated with sketches, written in duplicate copy books, using a lead point on thin copying paper with a blue "carbon" pad which printed both on the back of the copying paper to darken the faint impression made by the lead point as well as on to the slightly thicker copy paper pages which were perforated to tear out (the copy being darker and clearer writing than the "top"). In the last volume, however, the top flimsy pages were removed to send overseas (possibly now written with a pen) and the copy made with a blacker "carbon" was retained

Diary of the voyage to Australia, arrival in Hobart, 31 May 1884 - 6 July 1884, also visit to Bushy Park, 7 October 1884

Diary of Bushy Park continued, including Kelvedon visit [8] October 1884 - 12 November 1884, and River Don, 14 March 1886