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Scrapbook of Myrtle Walker c.1913 -1965. Cuttings pasted into ledger book of W A Walker, grocer, c.1903 -1905. Some loose cuttings. Contains also ms. copies of light verse attributed to A. A. Walker. After 1929 entries fall off in number and many relate to family and descendants (e.g news of an underground lake located at Tyenna in the Ross Walker cave).

Letter from William C. Blyth, of Plenty, to J. Waldie dated 5 September 1869.
Hops likely to be a remunerative speculation as they had failed in England, but there was no blight in the Huon which was likely to be the future hop garden of Tasmania and he urged J . Waldie and Frank Tappes to try. His father had sent a load of hop sets to Victoria. Blyth had received the apple trees from Frank Tappes. His school was giving him a comfortable living - he had all the children of the neighbourhood except some of the very lowest and dirtiest he had got rid of and the Read children who had a governess.

Copies of 'Carbonate Capers' - the newsletter of the Mole Creek Caving Club, Nos. 1 - 80, November 1991 to June 1999

Daguerreotype of statue - mounted for sterescopic viewing Picadier/Marche

Law Degree awarded to Erskine Clarence Watchorn from the University of Tasmania, dated 7 April 1909

Physics lecture notes c1945-1950

Appointment Indenture for William Jethro Brown, lecturer in Law and Moden History

Transcripts of ten articles on the history of North West Tasmania by Richard Hilder. Published in newspapers. n.d.

Typescript copy of UTAS M.A. thesis by B.P. Andrews entitled "The Life, Position and Influence of Women in the Early Settlement of Van Diemen's Land (1803-1850)".

Diary belonging to Steward James Anderson of Black River, Stanley, dated January to September 1889. Some entries in another hand and some pages damaged by damp and defective.

Housekeeping accounts kept by a Hobart housewife for the period June 1939 to September 1941

Letter: Henry Allison to Margaret Gunn dated 29 January 1852 regarding journey, cricket game, tea with Dryburgh, friends, Mackersey wanted an oppossum to send to Stephenson's wedding as there would be a good many blacks there dancing round a fire and they could roast one, the children, love to Gunn family.

9 sketches in pencil and crayon, 3 of which are water coloured. Sketches made along the railway between Quorn and Alice Springs at places where railway workers reported flowers and in Darwin.

A.R.Clark's letter book: copies of letters received and replies relating to engineering contracts, including a water and tread corn mill at Port Arthur and other works on Tasman's Peninsula and the Coal Mines, also water works at Launceston
(1846), very neatly written. Also, in reverse of volume: Ledger 1858 - 1861

Hugh Munro Hull's membership card for the Southern Tasmanian Rifle Association.

Copy of William Johnstone's diary of his voyage to Launceston, dated November 1841 to March 1842 on board the barque "Arab".

The Report of the Council of the High School of Hobart Town, at the general meeting of shareholders and subscribers (printed booklet, H. & G. Best printers 'Courier' office).

Appeals to Supreme Court 1931. Reports of appeal cases put to Supreme Court by A.G. Ogilvie or John Morris, heard before Chief Justice Herbert Nichols, Justice Harold Crisp or Justice A.I. Clark.
Typed carbon copies, some signed by Ogilvie or Morris, bound into volume and indexed.

A green and white covered notebook marked with the archive number DX 18 SAN 18/88.38 containing Sansom's handwritten poems. Contents comprise some epitaphs and poems such as 'Gordon Square', 'At This Hour', 'Flowers in Exile', 'Never Believe', 'Mozart in Vienna', 'William Blake, 'Bramble Hedge', 'Cherry Trees', 'Buchenwald', 'For a Child', 'Alun Lewis', 'Soldier in Exile (for Paul)', and 'To Walter de la Mare'.
The book opens with a dedication:
"Take, as tokens of my love -
Tide-laps from those far distant shores
Where beauty and all truth converge -
These songs, that more than half are yours.'"

Proofs of part of a novel titled 'Other Little Apples'. The proofs extend from pages 51 to 82, excluding pages 58 and 62 to 68. Is this Sansom's work?

Correspondence including draft letter to Anderson from Edmund Morris Miller

Letter written by Richard Stickney to his sister, Sarah dated 21 June 1834. Sorry he had not written more often but he was ashamed of his flight and past errors, description of Colony and Sydney life.

Typescript copy of a diary entitled Memorandum of a voyage to Van Diemen's Land 1822. It is the diary of Peter Harrisson's voyage to Van Diemen's Land during the period 1 February to 8 September 1822, with such observations as may prove useful to future migrants. Original diary is a 96 pp notebook held in Royal Society of Tasmania archives (RS47). This is a typescript copy of the original with index.

Desk diaries dated 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1976 detailing appointments and memoranda.

Thomas Risby's promise to pay £100 to John and Henry Morrisby and Grace Smith, at the age of 21, being the consideration for premises purchased from their father, James Morrisby. Dated 1823

Copy of notice that appeared in the Hobart Town Gazette of the arrival of the "Shelton" (Capt. Dixon), listing passengers including Lieut. William Gunn and family. (ms copy) dated 28 December 1822

Draft copy of "The Story of the Development of Hydro-Electricity in Tasmania" by A.J. Gilles & F.C. Green from the papers of the
Complex Ores Company, the Hydro-Electric Power and Metallurgical Company and the private papers of J.H. Gillies 'who brought Hydro-Electricity to Tasmania'.
Typescript with ms corrections and notes

Manuscript of two lectures delivered to the Hobart Technical School.

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

Diary notes dated 24 March -24 April 1904. Describes the journey from Australia to England on board the S. S. Australia. The first half of the diary contains information on the journey as far as Marsailles, after which he travelled by train to Paris. Whilst in France he visited Versailles, the Luxembourg Palace, the Louvre (twice), Notre Dame Cathedral, and other landmarks of Paris. The diary concludes with him in London.

Letter from Charles Riddell to Miss Philemore dated 21 Sept. 1949. From Mosman N.S.W. written in pencil about publication of his story about the Fisher's ghost case, a copy of his ms. also sent to Prof. Triebel for advice. Also reference to books given by Miss Philemore to the library of the North Sydney Spiritualist Church, Charles Riddell, Hon. Librarian.

Letters dated January 1901 to February 1902 written by Dr. J.H. Patterson while on active service in South Africa during the Boer war to his mother, Sarah Patterson.

Miscellaneous personal papers including character references, First Communion card, newspaper cutting relating to introduction of Fair Rents Bill, visit to Claremont Army Camp 1915, House of Assembly notice of regret at his retirement 1958, House of Assembly and Legislative Council notices of regret at his death 1969, funeral card 1969.

Copies or drafts of letters of outward correspondence dated September 1904 to January 1905 written in pencil in an exercise book about supply of machinery, parts, repairs to engines, including notes on repairs to the boiler and engines of SS. Waldemar.

Typed copy of transcript made by Ronald E. Smith. This is a very detailed diary, noting daily work on the farm, seeds received and planted, stock sold or bought, orchard apples and other fruit, water wheel, water and drainage, trial of triangular troughs, seed drill, mowing machine. He tried a salt solution to treat the destructive parasite dodder on lucerne. As well as sheep, feed crops and orchard fruit, he tried angora goats. James Smith also noted daily payments made or received, letters sent, visits and visitors, including neighbours, E. N. C. Braddon and family, John Henry, Rev. Fairey, Col. Crawford and many others, and he even noted books or periodicals and other items borrowed or lent. His regular attendance at chapel on Sundays, usually the Congregational Chapel but sometimes the Independent or Wesleyan Methodist Churches or occasionally the Church of England, was recorded with the name of the preacher.
Prospecting trips and visits to mines are frequently mentioned and he had a laboratory built at his home. Other miners and prospectors visited to consult him, including Capt. L. Herbert Noyes of Mt. Bischoff, James Hancock and another James Smith from the Barrington Copper Mine.
James Smith took part in local activities and politics, including the School Board and the North West Railway League. He resigned from the Town Hall Committee over a proposal to establish a museum and open it on Sundays. He liberated salmon trout fry in the Forth and other rivers between 1887 and 1890. He "counselled Braddon not to be too extreme in advocating reform of the Legislative Council" (Dec. 1880).
There are occasional references to his wife and family: his wife was "delivered of a daughter about noon" on 23 September 1878, his wife and the children drove to Leven beach, the boys helped with farm work and in February 1891 Mrs Smith and her daughters went to a demonstration at the Town Hall on fixing photographs on glass by a Mrs Abrams.

Three notebooks from the Junior Technical School, Launceston.

Letters regarding astronomy and aborigines.

Correspondence received 1936-1951. Personal and business letters to Mrs. A.D. Baker

Material concerning Olive Pink includes :
• Letter 11.5.63 to Lindsay from Olive Pink at Home Hut, Native Flora Reserve, Alice Springs
• Christmas card 3.1 .66 to Lindsay from Olive Pink
• Article 'She of the Never-Never' in HQ, November/December 1966
• Article 'Miss Pink's garden' in Australian Garden History, Vol 10 No 3, November/December 1998
• Newspaper article 'Tribute to desert trailblazer' in The Age, Saturday 26th May, 2018
• Newspaper article 'Where they rest in peace' in The Senior, undated
• Pamphlet: Olive Pink: Arid Zone Botanic Garden, undated
• Genealogy (3 pages). Olive Pink believed she and Lindsay were 3rd cousins

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

• signed by Olive Pink and annotated text by Olive Pink

Letter from Charles Whitham, regarding the exploration of North West Tasmania dated 17 September 1927.

List of Calder papers with index of scrapbooks, and some transcripts of articles in A.L.M's hand. (see RSI9).

Collection of miscellaneous news clippings, dated 1928. Literary matters, in quarto note book, partly unused.

Copy of The Mercury dated 4 July 1863