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Photograph of Sarah Benson Walker (1812-1893 nee Mather). Seated, full length, cabinet photograph by Albert Sargeant, Hobart.

Various photographs of Murry Street Hobart. Photographed by Anson Bros. and Winter

Notice of resignation of Staff Sergeant H.M. Hull, 24 January 1880. (Note: Hugh Munro Hull died in 1881).

Photographs of the Bush Hotel, River Derwent. Taken c1880-1882. Photographed by Baily and Winter

Photographs of New Town, Austins Ferry and Mt. Direction. c1880, 1882. H H Baily photographer.

Letter received from Reuben Burden dated 30 May 1880. Baptism

Extract from the marriage register of St. John's Presbyterian Church, Hobart, of the marriage of Hugh Hull, civil servant, bachelor, to Laura Ann Race Allison, at the house of Mr. Allison, Sandy Bay, by James Scott, minister dated 10 January 1880.

Receipt counterfoil book for pew rents and sustentation fund for St. John's Presbyterian Church, signed by H. Ross, manager. On some receipts the heading St. Johns' has been changed to St. Andrews.

Various photographs of Liverpool Street, Hobart including Perkins and Nephew Wholesale & Retail Drapers and Grocers. Photographed by Anson Bros.

Letters between Edward Carr Shaw and Francis Cotton dated 10 May and 21 May 1881. Repair to log [? of jetty] damaged by "Lalah"; E.C.S. to F.C.: Little Swanport Bridge - permission to have work done.

Letters from Mark M. Shaw dated 18 January 1881 and 20 February 1883 regarding "Leven Pilgrim" paper, temperance - in an envelope with the poem "The Nazarene" by "MMS" printed on one side; health, floods.

Letters from Hannah Grueber (nee Fletcher wife of S. H. Grueber jr.) written to Helen 1881.

Transcripts in A.L.Meston's hand from James Denton Toosey's "Brief Dottings of My Life from Richmond Hill, near Launceston", Launceston, 1881.

Letters from William Knibb Morris to brother Thomas John Morris dated July 1881-1891 regarding, Hobart: death of Mr Matthews [?Cephas Matthews, Chief Officer of "Lufra", drowned at sea 13 Sep. 1880, age 36], Mrs Matthews and little child (January [1881]), February 1882), Edney Morris [son of James], appointed Council Clerk of Swansea at ?210 a year (June, July 1881), children Percy, Tom & Albert at Government School (July 1881), smallpox at Sydney, signalling by light flashes or helestaph (sic), steamer "Patena" (1881), Percy died of heart trouble following rheumatic fever (October 1881), Paris Electrical Exhibition (October 1881), geology - visit of Prof. Denton (January 1882), Russian warship and electric light, Mr Henry of Electric Light Co. has 2 Swans electric lamps and 2 Siemen's Palfreyman opposite - children had treat talking and singing through it - used porcelain cupboard handles as insulators (February 1882), accumulator batteries, Juvenile Industrial Exhibition in New Market, Hobart - lit by electricity (1882-83), electric lamp arrived (December 1882), sending photo of Rocking Stone on Mount Wellington (December 1882), telephones on Kents Group Island to connect lighthouse with superintendent's house (January 1883), small lamps for microscope (May 1883), Hobart Telephone Exchange opened (July 1883), nephew Henry Stephens visit and death from TB (1883-March 1884), photographer Harold Riise [Riise & Barnett Elite Studio] insolvent - Susman's selling stock - beautiful pictures (May 1885), Edney Morris Superintendent of Police Swansea (8/10/1883), railway debate (8/10/1883), earthquakes in N.E. Tasmania and damage to houses in Fingal (7/9/1883, 8/10/1883), Australian Graphic pictures printed from glass engravings - a Tasmanian invention (3/12/1883), religious revivalists in Hobart (12/65/84), daughter Ada born June 1884 (19/9/1884), undersea cable broken (19/9/1884) fear of war with Russia (May 1885), appointed accountant to Building Society at ?150 pa - glad to leave Susman's (August 1885), scientific lectures by S. Clemes of Friends School (May 1887), sending photo "pan" of Launceston taken from Cataract Hill, lenses for microscope, lantern slide show "footisconopliscope" - William managed lime light and dissolving, Photographic Society (1888 April, May, November), Royal Society Conversazione, sending photo of Baptist Tabernacle (March 1889), Albert a telegraph operator, phonograph in Melbourne (July 1890), polariscope (1890), his little camera (August 1891).

Various photographs of Macquarie Street, Hobart, looking south taken c1881 by photographers Baily, Beattie and Anson Bros.

Pocket book and diary - entries only for 24 November.to 5 December 1881, including marriage.

Letters from Stephen Henry Grueber and his wife to daughter Helen dated 1881. The letters mainly relate to Edward Cotton, her proposed marriage, and religion, her mother hopes she will not leave the old Church (Anglican], including a letter from S.H.G. to Edward and F. Cotton to S.H.G. and a reply, also a piece of dried heather.

Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Thomas Sutton, Palmerston, New Zealand, dated 1881. Sorry to have missed seeing J.B.C. on his way to America with Hannah Hall, family, Society of Friends, asks J.B.C. when in England to visit his mother at Banbury.

Photograph of Launceston, Cataract Bridge, Tamar River. Photographers : WA Cawston, Anson Bros.

Photographs of Hobart Domain, the University (Domain House), railways, and Regatta

Letters to Francis Cotton, Kelvedon, Tasmania from Hannah Hall regarding Quaker travels, Sydney and James B. Cotton, 1880, 1882, 1883.

Unsigned letter dated 11 November 1881 from (? F. Mackie), London regarding religion, Colchester, tithes, game laws, Cumberland farming

Letter from Isaac Sharp to Anna Maria Cotton dated 1881 regarding religious sentiments

Receipts from the Land Titles Office dated between 1881 and 1894

Letters from Edward 0. Cotton to E. Helen Grueber dated 20 February - 20 November 1881, and 1883-1884
Affectionate letters written before marriage (1881) and a few later. Including a letter written on the back of a letter from J. Lyne to Councillor E.0. Cotton: Road Board's thanks for his trouble over main roads dated 13 July 81 (15.7.81). Letters addressed to Helen (as Dear Helen or Helen Love) at W.E. Shoobridge, New Norfolk. Letter of 8.5.81 gives views on plain weddings - he and Sarah had wanted "damper
wedding" (as in simple or "damper" picnics), Helen helped with the birth of Annie Shoobridge's baby (31.8.81) - mother Ann Mather grateful, rough plan of the interior of Kelvedon (23.8.81 ), reference to Eliza - brought up by Cottons but "bolted with the handsome Portuguese negro Gomez" - a "fine animal and no more (23.10.81 & 28.10.81 ).

Tasmanian Parliamentary Papers relating to harbours in the North-West. 1881-1904.

Analysis of expenditure for wages, provisions, clothing, fuel and light, stationery and printing, furniture and repairs, soap.

1. 1882-1930
2. 1930-1934

Letters from sons and daughters: Rachel Cotton and Mary (Cotton) Scholl (England) sisters of Francis Cotton, 1882-1883
Francis Cotton's bad health, wife's illness, aged friend Dr. Story, Essex, weather, lambing, family, James B. Cotton and Hannah Hall.

Letter received from George Renison Bell dated 25 November 1882 and 8 January 1883. Regarding Gladstone: tin mining - description, mine shares

Letters from Edward Octavius Cotton to his brother James dated 1882 - 1883, regarding, family, Yearly Meeting (21.5.82), Schoutens, family, death of Capt. King (21.5.82), Mother and Father's deaths and will (1883), instrument with angled mirror, love to Hannah Hall.

Letter from Robert Smeal, Glasgow dated 23 November 1882 regarding Quakers, payment for postage on books, Hannah Hall and James Backhouse.Cotton in London, external marks of Friends discarded, J.J. Dymond and H. Hipsley above being corrected .

To consider plans and estimates of repairs to Kensington House, Davey Street and tenders for roofing.

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.

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph Walton, New Zealand, dated 16 March 1882.

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.

Material relating to the Barque "Harriet McGregor" 1882-1892. Apprentice G.T.E. Allsopp receipts for wages from Capt. A.s. Leslie (1882-4); Lloyd's register certificate class Al (May 1884, noted as launched 1871, sheathed with yellow metal on felt May 1884); papers relating to accidental killing of dockman when the "Harriet McGregor", Captain Evans, docked at London docks in May 1892.

House building alteration agreement dated 3 November 1882 with William Duncan and John Crow, master masons for the erection of additions to the residence of A. McGregor at Battery Point.

Letters from William Robert Giblin, Attorney General, dated 17 April 1882, and 15 September 1882.
Real estate duty, electoral voting procedure

Letter from William Moore, Hobart , dated 1882 regarding phenology and the Campbell Town road

Articles or letters to newspapers on education and state funding (typescript articles)

Lands & Works Office: survey fee repayment dated 4 January 1883

Property query : James Munro dated 6 February 1883

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

Letter received from William Beck, London, dated 1883. Friends

Copy of The Mercury Supplement dated 4 December 1883

Van Diemens Land bank shares dated 1883, 1890-1893. Collection consists of papers relating to shares in the Bank of Van Diemen's Land and settlement in liquidation.

Letter from Alice Pierce dated 1883 regarding visiting William and Mary May, Francis C. unwell, Helen C.'s baby.

Letter from Edward Sayce dated 5 February 1883 from Hawthorn, Victoria: death of Caroline Benson, Friend papers, state of Society of Friends in America, Hannah Hall and James B. Cotton. Also memorial card of Deborah Ann Sayce wife of Edward who died 4 January 1878.

Telegrams relating to the death of Francis Cotton in 1883, letter from E.O. Cotton to James, obituary, and brief letter from F.C. to Frank that the longest life will come to an end. Also photocopy of the testimony of Society of Friends

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from J.H. Gray, Balclutha dated 3 March 1883. Addressed to "Bro. Cotton": J.B.C.'s visit to New Zealand, Christian love to J.B.C. and Hannah Hall.

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.

Farm and estate accounts dated 1883 - 1918. Including wages, rations, stock and produce, freight, family, apples, fencing wattle bark, etc.

Letters from Mary Quinn to Mrs [Delia] Waldie dated 4 February 1883, and 7 July 188?
Written from Gawler - her new appointment at North Motton Public School (near Ulverstone, Tas.), railway to Formby opened.

Shipping agreement, 21 August 1884. Memorandum of agreement between W. Crosby & Co., Macfarlane Bros. & Co. and McGregor Piesse & Co. to divide equally profits and commissions on loading of ships in direct trade between Hobart & London.

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

Letter, Margaret Allison to son Frank and grandson Jack dated 2 October 1884. To Frank: visiting Miss Connell at Glen Connell, glad Emma well, Mary's little boy; to grandson Jack: his long walk, his prayers, hope his Mamma found grandma Hume better, M. deaf like "poor Julia".

Diary of the voyage to Australia written by William Wells, 30 April 1844 to 30 May 1884

Letters written by Elizabeth Lucy (Bessie) Wells to father, Martin Lidbetter, and mother 1884 - 1886. Bessie's letters to her parents were intended for all her family, as she says in her first letter on the voyage (6 May 1884) which was addressed to Father, Mother, Robert & Sophie, Tom & Lizzie, Willie, Harry & Mary. Her first letter was written from Greenhithe before sailing and describes their boarding, seen off by the Wells father, Prissie, Uncles James Wells, Henry & Louie and her two children, Mabel and Arthur. Her letters supplement the journal of the voyage and describe their lives on the voyage, in Hobart and later at the Don River. There are references to the children's schooling, their hopes for a Friends School and eventual arrival of Samuel Clemes and family and the start of the School and the attendance of Edith and Frank, although the expense was almost too much but Edith gained a scholarship. There are references to visits from other Friends and occasionally relatives, visits to Melbourne, etc. A letter of 13.12.1891 was written on Wells Store printed letter-head.
• Nos. 8-12, 1884 - voyage
• Nos.13-18, 1885 - January 1886 - Hobart
• Nos.19-25, 1886, February-August Don River store (including incomplete letter from Melbourne with postscript from Don, 8 June 1886 - Arnold's eye)
• Nos.26-44, 1887-1893 Don River (including two undated letters c1891- Edith got scholarship, c1892 wedding of Walter Lean at Table Cape, Minnie Furmage and 2 children, Willie going to Latrobe daily, Frank possibly not returning to Friends School after Christmas as fees £50 now he had turned twelve)

Photograph of the Mount Bischoff in the early days, undated but thought to be c1885-1890

Some papers referring to the execution of the estate of Captain Francis Allison (c1796-1857) of 'Streanshalh' (Macquarie River) Tas., grandfather of Laura Hull; including sheet of estate, 1885, and some letters to H.S. Hull from A.F.W. and F.T. Allison and others. Also recognizance binding Francis Thomas Allison of Sorell to keep the peace, especially towards Alfred Nichols, 27 February 1871.

Letters written by William Wells to Father dated 25 September 1885, 8 January 1888 Hobart: Mather family, job prospects, Thomas Lidbetter there - reminds them of Martin Lidbetter, children and new "young Tasmanian" Martin (1885); Don: birth of Hugh (1888).

Photocopies of two letters, dated June & August 1885 from Samuel Ousten Lovell written from Stanley to 'my dear Clark' [?Andrew Inglis Clark] referring to 'Modern Thought': also to Lovell's letters published under the name of Kappa [? In Mercury] and the Unitarian Church; education and 'payment by results' and other letters in the Mercury.

'Rules and regulations for the guidance of the choir of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, being a revision of those drawn up by the Session under date 1st August 1882 and submitted to the Board of Management for its approval and adoption', signed as approved and adopted by James Scott, chairman, 1885.

William and Bessie Wells to Thomas and Lizzie dated 1885 – 1888. William to sister and brother in law, with notes and one letter enclosed from Bessie: Baby 12 weeks old, Frank and Edith attending Miss Johnson's school, wishes Edith could go to Ackworth school with Fanny, Father & Prissie (September 1885); Hobart house with sketch of verandah railings and "frieze" made by William L. Wells., Edward Octavius Cotton, Mr Henry's business offer, Thomas Lidbetter and son staying after birth of another son for T.L. (18.10.85); family life; birth of fourth son Hugh, business (24.1.88); Miss Greer to be married (5.9.88).

Photograph thought to be the town of Gormanston c1885-90

Copy of James Backhouse Walker's notes relating to the foundation of the University, with extracts from his diaries

Correspondence between A. McGregor and C.A. Piesse on outstanding business and debts after their partnership had been dissolved dated 1886 - 1887

Papers relating to miscellaneous property and mortgage business, including: Timaru, New Zealand, small property: letters concerning title to and attempts to sell (1886-1904); Oatlands Hotel: notice to quit from Cascade Brewery (1887) and lease to Joseph Law (1890); St. Peters Pass Estate: letters from M. Bewsher about purchase of hay (1889); 56 Hampden Road: lease to Emma Louisa Clark (1890); "Ceres" sheep run, Parattah: 4 months pasturage to John Wilson (1890); Renison Bell Silver Mining Co.: invitation to A. McGregor to be one of the provisional directors (1891); 106 Macquarie Street: John Deans agreement to take it on rent for one year for £120 pa; (1891), lease to Mrs Helen Leath (Apr. 1894); Lord Rodney Hotel, New Wharf: draft lease and transfer of licence to Catherine & Hyam Simmons (Jan.1893) and lease for three years to Joseph Aaron Phillips (July 1893); Ellenthorpe Estate mortgage (1893-5); creditors of John and Louisa Webster agreement (1894); creditors of Young Lewis, dairyman: agreement over payment (Jan. 1895); store on New Wharf: agreement to let ground and first floor to F. Bond for 6 months (Feb. 1895); house and premises on New Wharf Esplanade: lease for one month to William Honey (March 1895), miscellaneous circulars, insurance receipts, share receipts (including Renison Bell Mine), bank orders etc.

Undated reprint of cartoon produced by May while he was employed by The Bulletin magazine. No.17 "The Majesty of the Law"

Detailed accounts for legal work by solicitors Dobson, Mitchell & Allport, including: dissolution of partnership and settlement with CA. Piesse and with debtors; raising of mortgages on property; Union Bank's threat of bankruptcy proceedings against McGregor; VDL Bank; loans; inquiry into property and settlement of late Mrs Harriet McGregor; settlement on Mrs Margaret McGregor (1888); petition to Marine Board about new pier; claim of Albert J. McGregor for wrongful dismissal (1886¬ 88); dispute with J.G. McGregor over ship Loongana and case in Admiralty court for recovery of part earnings and sale (1889); recovery of debts; Lucas estate (1889); T.S. Brown liquidation; Battery Point land; dispute with Presbyterian Church over blocking windows (1892); etc.

Diary of the Don Store, 14 March 1886 - 6 June 1886. In February 1886 Wells was appointed manager of the Don branch store of the Don Trading Company by John Henry, the owner, and about 1888 he took over the store, which became William Wells & Co

Copies of articles on "land values" relating to valuation and taxation (typescript, 30 p.)

Three quarter length study of Mary Augusta Walker by Foster & Martin, Melbourne

Undated reprint of cartoon produced by May while he was employed by The Bulletin magazine. No.8 "But which is to stand in front"
Sir Henry Lock at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition banquet.

Undated reprint of cartoon produced by May while he was employed by The Bulletin magazine. No.9 "Peter"

Undated reprint of cartoon produced by May while he was employed by The Bulletin magazine. No.12 "Chinese Cheap Labour".
Cardinal Moran's reference to Chinese.

Undated reprint of cartoon produced by May while he was employed by The Bulletin magazine. No.12 "His Wife's Pocket"

Undated reprint of cartoon produced by May while he was employed by The Bulletin magazine. No.17 "The Minstrel"