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Briar Rose and other plays with choruses edited by Clive Sansom, The Children's Theatre No. 10, London (A. & C. Black, no date), including "Briar Rose" and "The May Queen" by Clive Sansom, "The play of the Pleiades" by Mona Swann, "The Gentle Squire" by Eleanor Farjeon, and acting notes: book, typescript of "Briar Rose", manuscript music.

Senior English: "Imagery in poetry", draft and script.

Return to Magic c1969.
Poems of fairy tales:- correspondence and reviews 1966-1969.

Manila folder labelled 'Clive's notes to Ruth on publishing books, just after he came out of hospital about 1968 or 9', with the added note 'It is now 1993 - things have changed since these were written at least 20 years ago'. The folder contains four series of handwritten notes about the management of Sansom's published works and unpublished manuscripts should he die, and two typewritten pages dealing with house deeds, life insurance policy, royalties on published works, disposal of books and autograph letters, poetry manuscripts and publishing.

Letters in tribute from Cadbury Fry Pascall, Tasmanian Employees Federation, Eric Reece.

Report and history of the Peacock Convalescent Home (typed), dated 1966. The Home, situated in Swan Street North Hobart was donated to the State by W D Peacock. It was officially opened as a Convalescent Home for Women in March 1943

Printing blocks of the Tasmanian maps used in "A guide to Tasmanian government administration " by R. L. Wettenhall - Morris Miller-Rare-Book JQ 5131 .W46

Death of Mrs. M.M. Hayns, newspaper cuttings and Death Certificate. dated December 24th 1968

Personal book of inspirational quotations, in poor condition - loose pages and inserts, stained edges.
Inscription in front cover: 'Margaret S. Thorp, with loving wishes for June 12.1906. from E.B. Emmott'.
Miscellaneous writings and notes, inspirational verses.
Interfiled is letter from ABC Chairman, March 14, 61 re compensation cheque for eight pounds - money stolen at Canberra hotel

Copy of article by J. Moore Robinson on old Hobart, St. David's Cemetery and Collins.

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

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

Stanner, Professor, W.E.H.,
After the Dreaming. Boyer Lectures 1968
Signed by author and inscribed by Olive Pink

Lecture entitled "History of Launceston: fluctuating fortunes in commerce". Prepared for the Adult Education Board, 15th November 1968

Letters and statements in tribute to his work (1967-1970), including minutes of Federated Confectioners' Association of Australia Conference, Adelaide, 20-24 April 1970.

Letters and notes of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1968

Illustrated progamme of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Tasmania Regiment: Presentation of Queen' s and Regimental Colours by his excellency the Governor of Tasmania, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gairdner KCHG, KCVO, KBE, CB, (Honorary Colonel The Royal Tasmania .Regiment) at the Brighton Military Camp, Saturday 2nd March 1968' includes colour photographs of the colours, photos of Governor and officers, and list of parade

Photographs of Lawrence John Haynes on his retirement at Georgetown in 1967 and a passport photograph of L.J. Hayns

Stencilled copy of hymns chosen by Karl Von Stieglitz for his funeral Service held at St. Andrews Church of England, Evandale 28th March 1967 with notes by T.E. Burns

Collection consists of speeches and educational enquiries.

:Letters from E. Frances Cotton: Dr. Story 1956, 1969-71. Mrs Frances Cotton's correspondence relating to Dr. Story including: letter from Bill Wilson thanking her for bottle and drugs from Dr. Story's surgery
(1969), letter from A.A. Lewis that he had received mss from Mrs Wilson to deliver to University Archives (1970), letters from the Archivist: papers received from Mrs Wilson and Mrs Parker, Dr. Story's "baby" in Anatomy Dept. museum, also letter from Jack Thwaites (1956).

Article in 'Horizons', March 1967, referring to Ogilvie's Labor policy speech in 1934, R.C. Smith being chairman.

Reader's Digest 1967, brown

Copy of speech and programme for 'The dedication and opening of the Asten Wing of the Jane Franklin Hall' , 15 April 1967

Woolley, D.R.
A Layman’s Guide to the Geology of Central Australia. N.T., 1967
Signed Olive Pink, Alice Springs, NT

Collection consists of letters and papers, miscellaneous items and photographs relating to Lawrence John Hayns and Thomas Edgar Burns

Miscellaneous items collected by Thomas Edgar Burns.

Miscellaneous photographs and postcards collected by Edith Sawyer. Edith Sawyer worked as a costing clerk for J.T. Gunn in
1914 she moved to Sydney and became costing clerk for G. Dunwoodie and R. H. Montieth

Letters and notes on Library news and membership list of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1967

Green and black cover, embossed in gold 'George's Gems 1967' - (Extracts from George's philosophy), 3 pages on General Philosophy, The Student Body, India and the British, Society in General, George's Class 1967; plus page of student autographs

Woolley, D.R.
A Layman’s Guide to the Geology of Central Australia. N.T., 1967
Signed Olive Pink, Alice Springs, NT

Letters written to T.E. Burns with notes on the writers by T.E. Burns

Typescript 'Facing the future with the United Nations'. Inaugural address of H.V. Evatt Memorial Lecture. Conference of UNAA Sancta Sophia College, Sydney University, 13 January 1967

Sketch play based on the film "Hans Christian Andersen" (Danny Kaye) for St. Virgil's College, with musical numbers from the film, produced by Melba Kelly: draft script and notes.

Report and history of the Peacock Convalescent Home (typed), dated 1966. The Home, situated in Swan Street North Hobart was donated to the State by W D Peacock. It was officially opened as a Convalescent Home for Women in March 1943

Newspaper cuttings of Amanda Radcliffe when she won the Miss Tasmania Quest, 1966. Amanda worked for the State Library of Tasmania in Hobart.

Folder of letters, notes, correspondence for the Library Association of Australia (Tasmanian Branch), 1966-1972. These papers belonged to Mrs Louisa Hamilton and include letters and notes for Library Opinion.

Letters of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1966

Christmas card issued by the Hobart Bureau of Meterology in 1966 of the Rossbank Observatory, Hobarton,1840.

Legislative Council for the Northern Territory. Report from the Select Committee on the Native and Historical Objects and Areas Preservation Ordinance 1955 –1960.Presented by Mr D. D. Smith, MLC on 10th August, 1965
Includes a handwritten letter from Olive Pink to Mr D D Smith who presented this report.

File consists of material relating to Smith’s retirement:
• a letter enquiring his entitlement from Tasmanian Government Railways;
• letter from Henry Bland with thanks and congratulations for service and best wishes for retirement;
• Department of Labour and National Service. Staff 'Regional notes' including farewell to Ron Smith;
• folder of autographs of colleagues, photographs and news cuttings of farewell presentations and presentation from Hospital Board.

Diaries of Clive Sansom.

Typescript biographical notes of John Henry (Jack) O'Neil (1888-1971) dated 29 July 1965

Letters and membership lists of the Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch. Dated 1964-1965

Collection consists of two family scrapbooks compiled by sisters of Ivy Moseley (formerly Blackmore), Susanna Jane Earle and Myrtle Walker.
Both scrapbooks contain mostly undated cuttings from unidentified but chiefly local newspapers (e.g Hobart Mercury and Tasmanian Mail), and magazines (e.g Sydney Bulletin and Mirror). Often cuttings are from Saturday supplements or the 'Pink Page' of the Bulletin. Topics reflect women's interests: anecdotes and folklore; poems and stories by Australian authors {e.g article about Marie Bjelke Peterson, Tasmania, novelist(; local history (e.g paragraph about descendents living in Tasmania of Capt. Michael Connor of the First Fleet); news of members of the family (e.g brother, A R Blackmore enlists and resigns from teaching at Adventure bay School).
A few cuttings annotated in the hand of Ivy Moseley, identifying "Lassie from Nugent" and "vino of Nugent" as herself. (e.g "Labour Unity" by 'Lassie').

Collins pearl diary 1965, red

Brown folder of letters relating to Sansom's illness in 1965 and his subsequent retirement from the Tasmanian Education Department. Writers include Paul Arnott (nephew), Marlene Lette, Athol Gough (Director of Edueation), senior Education Department personnel, teachers and interstate colleagues, Joan Woodberry, Gwen Donnelly, Sylvia and Walter Stiasny, W.H. Perkins, the Minister for Education and Rose Bruford. A copy of the Newsletter of the Tasmanian Association of Teachers of Speech and Drama containing a tribute to Sansom.

Correspondence from James Hamlyn Willis of Melbourne Botanic Gardens dated 1920s, 1947 -1953, 1965.
Notes, list of Flinders Island flora Dec. 1924, letters (1947 -1953). Also letters to Miss Atkinson 1965 thanking her for biographical information on her father and grandfather.

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).

One 8 page Olympic special lottery promotional leaflet, newsprint, 35x28cm

Photographs belonging to Lawrence and Mary Hayns of family and friends

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

Collection of correspondence between Walter Stone & E. Morris Miller regarding correspondence with Walter Stone (c1905- ), publisher and book collector of Sydney and publisher of 'Biblionews' , between 1948 and 1964 about book collecting and Australian literature. Letters include references to J.K. Morris (d. 1958) ,Henry Kendall and Rev. Thornton Reed's thesis on Kendall, Fred. Bloomfield, Roderick Quinn, C.J. Brennan, W.E. Fitzhenry (editor of The Bulletin ), M. Gilmour and to The Tasmanian, Launceston's first newspaper (9). Morris Miller sometimes enclosed copies of his letters to others, including J.K. Morris (1951), and there are also
letters from W.E. Fitzhenry of The Bulletin sent by Morris. Miller to Stone for his files. Photocopies of these letters are also held in the National Library, Canberra.

Collection consists of personal scrapbook of Dorothy Mabel Ogilvie (nee Hines), a photograph and a leaflet

Collection consists of copies of the Van Diemen's Land Company annual report 1827-1964 made to the yearly meeting held at the Company's offices, London.
Held from second report 1827, printed.
Some reports include maps:
• 1833 Map of north West quarter, with proposals for tenants.
• 1844 Plan of Circular Head by John Cannon Stanley, Circular Head by John Lee Archer
• Forest Farms at Circular Head, showing tenants names, by John Lee Archer & N Kentish, 1842.
• Also 105 printed pamphlets. - 1827, 1831-1850, 1852,1854-1855,1857-1861,1863, 1866, 1868-1892, 1894-1898, 1900-1909, 1911-1920, 1923,-1964

Selected and introduced by Clive Sansom, published 1964 by Robert Hale, London. Typescript, page proof, published copy.

Letters to Lawrence and Mary Hayns from family and friends

Letter from McAlphin Kalkyard solicitors to Mary Hayns and Lawrence John Hayns dated 16th June 1964.

Leaflet for the Rostrum Club Launceston No. 14: rules of procedure and debate dated May 1964

Correspondence dated 17 March 1964 from Sir M. Peter Crisp.

Series consists of personal correspondence and with the ABC , picture postcards, and the opening of the Bookshelf . One file of correspondence between Hilda Bridges to Frances Fuller, dated 1958 - 1964

Letters from Hilda Bridges (d. 1971 aged 89, sister of Roy Bridges) to Mrs. W. E. Fuller on personal and family affairs, daily life,
occasional references to her writing and publications.

Johnson, Robert
Central Australia, Land of Colour as seen by Australian artist Robert Johnson. 1963
Olive Pink note on the back To Olive Pink (Alice Springs) from Olive and Robert Johnson (Sydney) 1963.

Newspaper cuttings in volumes and in bundles relating to the University and other projects with which Edmund MorrilsMiller was connected. Also reviews of Australian publications and some booksellers' catalogues and a collection of articles by Amy Rowntree.

Collection of newspaper cuttings

Minutes 1948 -1963. Minutes of general and committee meetings. Signed. Including copy of constitution. Typed paged filed in loose leaf file. Also copies of addresses by Sentator Peter E lliot Rae , 24.3.71 and U.S Consul Robert Brown 7.3.73

Minute book of the T.S.A.R.S.A. for the period 15 February 1952 to 10 October 1963. Includes Benevolent Fund, social reunions, wreaths, etc. At the last meeting affairs were handed over to the Northern Branch to be administered by that branch as State Branch.

Collection consists of union related material for various unions relating to the Electrolytic-zinc Company employees.

Employees' Medical Union dated 1963

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

Collection of newspaper cuttings : Collected by Mrs. W. E. Fuller, mainly relating to the bookshop, also to Repertory Theatre,
broadcasting, building of Hobart Bridge (Examiner 13 August 1963). Includes copy of the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail dated 13 December 1934.

Letter from Zullah L. Bains to M.M. Hayns dated Dec 30th 1963