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Official appointment as Associate Commissioner of the H.E.C., 1954, and correspondence relating to his retirement (1970), staff discount on H.E.C. charges, brief notes on the history of the H.E.C.

Men rescued by lighthouse keepers, L.J. Hayns one of the Lighthouse keepers. Dated 20.10.54 and 22.10.54

Photocopy of a script of story by Nellie M. Buckley. entitled 'Moonaba -story of a family", dated 1965.
Typescript in file folder with photograph of elderly woman, neatly dressed in black silk suit, also younger woman.

Annual reports of the Economic Society of Australia & New Zealand : Records of the Tasmanian Branch dated 1954 - 1967, and 1971 - 1973

Booklet entitled Native Welfare in Australia by Paul Hasluck published in Perth 1953. Paul Hasluck was a friend of Olive Pink–annotated by her with dates of his speeches

Nixon, N.
The Pioneer Bishop in V.D.L 1843 –1863, Hobart, 1953
Signed by Geoffrey Cranswick, Bishop of Tasmania,
Sent to Olive Pink by M. Cecily Shoobridge Xmas 1953 and signed by her,and signed by Olive Pink,with notes on page preceding the introduction.

File consists of material relating to Smith’s Coronation Medal:
• Letter of congratulations from Henry Bland,
• letter from Department of Labour and Social Service, Melbourne, enclosing medal,
• medal in box, and certificate of award.

Miscellaneous papers including programmes, souvenir booklets, relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgrove's visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

Scrapbook of invitation cards relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgroves visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

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

Annual Report 1953, and "Visit to Stafford and Preston Works on 22nd and 23rd June, List of Guests, The English Electric Company".

Graves, Kathleen
Tasmanian Pastoral, Melbourne University Press, 1953
Signed by Olive M. Pink from Mrs Glass (Tasmania) 1955

Reprint of abstract of lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania by John Reynolds, entitled 'The building of Australian federation' dated 1952.

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.

Correspondence dated 1952 from James Daly

Presentation of a Rota bed to the Launceston General Hospital dated 1952

Correspondence and press cuttings relating to the celebration of John Henry O'Neil's 25 years service as secretary of Trades Hall Council, June 1952, notes for speech including history of Trades Union and control of working hours and Wages Board Acts.

Typescript drafts of the publication "The Life and Times of Sir Richard Dry", O.B.M., Hobart

Includes the history of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce by Basil Rait, list of presidents 1851-1951, officers for 1950-51, list of members (classified by type of trade), reports on Tasmania's education, trade, industry, Hobart Port, agriculture, mining, the City of Hobart, and "Romance of G.P. Fitzgerald & Co." by Basil Rait. Also includes another copy of the 99th Report (1950). Illustrated.

Greeting Sir Ronald H. Cross, Governor, and Lady Cross. [? 1951J

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).

Some reflections on the problems facing American educators - an address in Pasadena, November, 1951

A novel: correspondence with Methuen and R.K.S., research notes including Oberammergau programme and postcards, newscuttings, etc. relating to Oberammergau, manuscript in notebooks, typescript.

Handwriten manuscript notes and copies of government correspondence concerning aborigines, 1830 - 1832 . Thought to have been compiled c. 1950 - 1970, author unknown

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes, including draft of "A.I. Clark's American sympathies and his infJuence on Australian Federation" and of "The Clark's of Rosebank"

Map of Tasmania c 1950. - 8 miles: 1 ins.

One scrapbook dated 1950 - 1954, includes advertisements and cuttings mainly relating to Fuller's Bookshop.

Drivers Licence issued to L.J. Hayns for the period 1950-51

Three views, one of burial ground, two of stone cottage [meeting house] at Cloddiecochion, in Montgomeryshire, in North Wales taken October 1950

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.

Notes and cuttings relating to the Brownell, Judd, Barnett and Propsting families, made by Nancie Hewitt, including:-

Brownell: notes by Mrs Hewitt including extracts from an account of Thomas Coke Brownell by his son John Beecham Brownell, photograph of T.C. Brownell.
Barnett: news cutting on Archdeacon Ernest Judd Barnett (died 1955) and copy of memorial address, notes, photograph of Grace Hannah Barnett, obituary of Barbara Burnett (1946).
Patricia Hewitt to serve in India news cutting 1961.
Judd: notes on Judd family; copy of letter from Elizabeth Judd to her aunt, H. Cane, London, on arrival in Hobart describing their voyage, Father being schoolmaster for the voyage in an emigrant ship, and describing Hobart - many things cheaper than in England 1 December 1842 (typed and manuscript copy).
Propsting: marriage declaration of no impediment to the marriage of Alfred Henry Barnett to Elizabeth Georgina Propsting no date; notes on the Propsting (or Probstein) family; extract from minutes of Friends Meeting concerning Henry Propsting 1878, 1901; photographs of Ann and Hannah, first and second wives of Henry Propsting.
Family tree showing connection of Brownell, Barnett, Judd and Propsting families.
News cuttings: Friends School painting of Matthinna, Arthur Circus, Fern Tree Hotel.

1 folder of loose papers: letters, lists of patrons, appeals, photos, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings

Newspaper cuttings collected by Mrs. F. R. Fuller, including Mercury photograph of W. E. Fuller and visitors at the Royal Tennis Court, Hobart on its 75th anniversary in 1950.

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

Four photographs dated October 1950, of the Friends Meeting House at Dolobran in Montgomeryshire, Wales. Built in 1701 by Charles Lloyd (1662–1747) of Dolobran, whose father Charles Lloyd (1637–1698) of Dolobran was the first in the family to become a Quaker. It consists of a tiny isolated chapel built of red-brick with drip courses over the cambered windows and comprising also a two-bay cottage under the same roof. Photographs addressed to Hugh Doncaster, Woodbrooke.

Photograph taken by Douglas Rae

Clive Sansom's notes of ideas for works, often just a brief note together with press cuttings etc. of background information relating to a subject or a setting which had caught his eye [the cuttings have not been retained for archival preservation]. Topics include: Ideas for a novel "Psychiatry Hall"; miscellaneous notes of ideas; "Quaker family in America" (rough notes for a novel for children); "More things in Heaven and Earth" (anthology of supernatural happenings); "They saw it first" (anthology of historical anecdotes); "The voyage without return" (novel based on Keats journey to Naples); Anthologies (notes, list of titles for); "Drama" (rough notes for a novel with a theatrical setting - cuttings (not retained included "The actor's life from Observer Magazine 1966, "Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama - the first ten years", "memories of the Old Vic" by E. Phillips from The Listener 14 February 1957, "learning to be an actor" The Sphere 25 December 1954, etc.); Anthology of theatrical occasions "All wrong on the night"; "Arabs" - possible play or opera (numerous cuttings on oil rich Arab sheiks, "Ben Ayed's Harem" in the Tunisian Desert - Picture Post 5 January 1952, Kuwait etc. not retained); "Tea" for an anthology (cuttings not retained included photographs of antique tea pots and tea caddies, articles on tea, Osbert Lancaster: "The story of tea" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London), Olive Warner "The English teapot" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London 1948); "Last words"; stories for children; music hall and ballet (very rough notes - news cuttings on old music hall artists not retained); "By word of mouth" anthology for reading aloud (cuttings from Listener, Reader's Digest, Countryman, Countrylife etc. not retained); "In such a time" etc. (miscellaneous drafts); miscellaneous notes and diary extracts c1930s).

(1) Sir Edmund Barton 28 January 1950
(2) Prospectors - Western Tasmania ND
(3) Trip by road from Hobart to Wynyard via the West Coast 1969

Correspondence relating to Philatelic Societies and stamps. Also certificate of Life Membership of Tasmanian Philatelic Society awarded for distinguished service dated 24 January 1974 (formerly in frame).

1 folder of loose papers: letters, references, cuttings, etc.

Programmes and badges -reunions dated 1950-1952, 1954-1956 & 1959-1960

Chorus Plays edited by Clive Sansom, Youth Theatre No. 4, London A. & C. Black (no date) containing short plays mostly arranged by Clive Sansom but not written by him: book, letter from Navy Records Society giving permission to reprint "Cawsand Bay", copy of "The Dumb Wife", a mime arranged by Clive Sansom from School Magazine March 1963. Also further collection of typed drafts of plays: "The Nightingale"; "The golden journey to Samarkand", J.E. Flecker; "The House of the Magi"; "The Enchanted Shirt" by John Hay (The School Magazine 1 April 1958, 3 pages 82-84); "Three Little Billy-Goats", Clive Sansom (The School Magazine June 1963); "How d'ye do" a mime, Clive Sansom; "Faithless Sally Brown", dramatization by Clive Sansom from a poem by Thomas Hood; "Captain Reece", W.S. Gilbert Bab Ballads, adapted by Clive Sansom (2 versions typescript); "Hiawatha" (3 typescripts and Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow, dramatised version by Florence Holbrook); "Robin Hood and Alan-a-Dale", dramatised by Clive Sansom, and poem; "Absolutely Nothing", Eleanor Farjean; "The Pied Piper", Robert Browning (abridged by Clive Sansom); "The Princess and the Gipsies", Frances Cornford; "Little Billee", W.M. Thackeray, dramatised by Clive Sansom; "The golden image", Clarissa Graves; "The Rose and the Cross"; "Guy Fawkes", a verse melodrama by Clive Sansom, also rough manuscript draft; "The Acts of Saltpeter, being ye true historie of ye gunpowder plot" (a "parody of Gordon Bottomley's 'Acts of St. Peter'"; "The ballad of the invisible gardener", based on the story of the twelve dancing princesses.

Under the Tasmanian Department of Education, directed by Clive and Ruth Sansom 1950-1968: description of Centre and duties of Supervisor, reports, correspondence, practice material (not by Clive Sansom), articles by Clive Sansom, "The speech machine: some notes for candidates in the Schools Board 'Art of speech' course, prepared by Clive Sansom" 1962, "Listening" - general sheet - infant/primary, "Spoken English" from Opinion j. of South Australia English Teachers Association ND, etc., including later correspondence about speech training (1970-78) and letter to Ruth Sansom about copies of Clive Sansom Collected Poems; "Marjorie Gullan - some reminiscences" (typescript, ND). Also file relating to the migration of Maurice and Gillian (nee Lousley) Hilliard, speech educators 1955-1964 (moved to Wollongong 1964).

ANZAAS Programme, Hobart, 12-19 January 1949. Also includes annotations and notes re excursions.

: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).

Poems written by Clive Sansom for musical setting: correspondence, drafts, printed publications etc. relating to:- "The carpenter's son" a carol, music by Richard Graves; "Stiasny": two songs, The Forest Wind, Inscription for an old tomb, poems by Clive Sansom, music by Walter Stiasny (Hinrichsen edition 1953); "The Wood", music by Walter Stiasny for a dramatic low voice (1952); "The Word made Child", music by Cecil Matheson (1956-8); "The Shepherd's Carol", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Sleep Tiny Child", lullaby from the "World Turned Upside Down", music by Richard Graves (195-); "Butterflies", music by Richard Graves (ND); "The Farmyard, ten songs, words by Clive Sansom, music by Richard Graves (Piccaninny's Lullaby, The Caterpillar, The Mice & the Cat, Fishing, The Policeman, The Rabbit and the Fox, Miss Mouse, Oak Trees, The Farmyard (1962); "The Candle Carol" (from The Cathedral request from Colin Brumby for permission to set it to music; "Blessed be that maid Mary" (Anglicised by Clive Sansom for Wilfred King; "Song" [Bramber (set to music by Richard Graves - music not published); "The Carol of Three" (1956, 1965); "The Witch and the Wizard", an operetta for young children, music by John Gordon, words by Clive Sansom (from Acting Rhymes); "The Irish Fiddler" (from the Golden Unicorn); "The shepherd's Carol", music by Mrs M.T. Smith (1971); "Mary of Nazareth" (from The Witnesses music by Ralph Middenway for Perth Festival etc. 1972). Also copy of poem [for simple musical accompaniment] "The Murder on the Lonely Farm".

Two Australian passports - in the name of Mr and Mrs Hayns, 1940, issued 29.8.1949

A.G. Townley elected for Denison 22 Dec. 1949.

File of the correspondence of Duncan Loane Pty, General Merchants of Devonport, dated 1945-1954 . Mainly about the technical aspects of machinery

Account of last days in England and departure on "Orion" from Tilbury (12 November 1949), Ceylon, Fremantle, Adelaide (10 December), Hobart (by plane from Melbourne 12 December), Hobart and Southern Tasmania and people met, Baptist Tabernacle, note of "Things different in Tasmania", poem "country scene in Tasmania" (note by Ruth Sansom enclosed: "I think the only poem on Tasmania", first broadcast to schools, recital, finished "Passion Play", poems: "Drought", "Oyster shells", "Deaf".

Commemoration photo album of visit of R. Cosgrove to Stafford works of English Electric

Visits to U.K. 1949, 1953. Photographs of Robert and Gertrude Cosgrove on their visit to London in 1949, when Dame Gertrude received the D.B.E., including: arrival, Air Force Group, receptions, Reading's thanks for food parcels distributed to the town in 1948 and 1949, reception for "Miss Australia" visit to Metro-Vickers Electrical at Manchester (37-48); visit to Glasgow for launching of the "Merino" (49-56); visit to English Electric Stafford Works (57-67); Hendry Bros., Engineers, London (R. Cosgrove looking at school desks and chairs 68-71); also departure by 'plane and on board "Strathair", Melbourne (April 1949) and in London (? Coronation visit 1953 76-7).

Including "The double image" published in Neue Illustrierte, "Encounter in Cheale" in Die Frau, and others in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Wesdeutsche Allgemine, correspondence and cuttings. See also ghost stories DX18/33 and scrapbook DX18/79(1).

File contains 2 passports for George Wilson:
British passport, dominion of New Zealand - stamped 12 Sep 1949
New Zealand passport - stamped 28 Aug 1980

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.

Correspondence with Angus and Robertson, publishers, Sydney. Dated 1948-53, and 1957. Mainly in regard to Edmund Morris Millers's publication Pressmen and Governors. Includes letters from Colin Roderick written while he was employed at Angus & Robertson.

Newnham Hall Community School 12 August 1948. Photograph album of the first weeks of the Newnham Hall Community School, founded 3 February 1948, presented to Robert Cosgrove, Premier and Minister of Education.

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

Letters to Lawrence and Mary Hayns from Miss Gertrude Hayns dated from 22/8/1948 to 23/10/1961

Photographs of :
a) Farm House showing the garden and a lady sitting on the veranda
b) Cows being taken to the milking shed
c) Shows the back of' the farm and the swamp area behind it
d) M.M. Hayns and L.J Hayns at Jenolan Caves N.S.W. 1948
e) Young man standing near a rock
f) Family - 3 on horse and cart while the other three stand next to it

Brogden, Stanley
Darwin Holiday -1948
Owned / signed by Olive Pink 1949. Inscriptions/notes by Olive Pink on title page, contents and throughout the book

Correspondence with Richard Graves and David Higham (author's agent) about poems and music.

Minute Book :T.S.A.R.S.A. Northern Branch/State for the period 27 February 1948 to 8 February 1970. From 1963 it took over the affairs of the State Association. At the last meeting in 1970 it was resolved that: "we continue as an association but all social activities be dropped". News clippings at back of volume.

Framed Certificate awarded to Sansom for gaining First Prize in the Birmingham Music Festival, 1948.

Lecture at Friends House, London, 7 March 1948: correspondence, draft, typed copy, printed pamphlet, reprint 1978 with introduction by Charles Kohler and "afterword".

Letts diary 1948, green

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to reunions of the T.S.A.R.S.A. (Northern Branch), mainly addressed to T.P. Drake and P.J. Fleming including letters from Col. Burford Sampson (1882-1959).

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).

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated Launceston, 1947, Examiner photograph.

Letter from J.F. Jones dated 1945 from Burnie. Mr J. F Jones was Inspector of Schools, amateur horticulturalist, amateur anthropologist and once associated with the mines at Beaconsfield Tasmania

Eight letters from A.L. Wayn, State Secretary's Department, in reply to queries from A.L.M.; 2 articles by A.L.Wayn from Educational Record: "0use in the State Records"; from the State Records, second article. 1947.

Annual Reports of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 1947 to 1981. Reports only, although 1949 is included with a handbook, with list of members, rules as general information and from 1955 names of officers. Reports missing for years 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957.

36. 1947
37. 1948
38. 1949
39. 1950
40. 1951
41. 1952
42. 1955
43. 1958
44. 1959
45. 1960
46. 1961
47. 1962
48. 1963
49. 1964
50. 1965
51. 1966
52. 1967
53. 1968
54. 1969
55. 1970
56. 1971
57. 1972
58. 1973
59. 1974
60. 1975
61. 1976
62. 1977
63. 1978
64. 1979
65. 1980
66. 1981

Australian Labor Party - Tasmania - Reports of annual conferences. 1947, 1956, 1957.

Record of enrollment (1947)

Acting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom, London (A. & C. Black 1947): drafts, correspondence with publisher, book, reviews, revision; Rhythm Rhymes by Ruth Sansom, London (A. & C. Black, 1965): correspondence with publisher and with Argo about possible publication of recording (and of Activity Rhymes); Speech Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom (new edition 1974): correspondence 1972-1974; Counting Rhymes edited by Clive Sansom: draft, rejects, correspondence 1973-74; "Conversation Rhymes": rhymes collected for a possible collection (1970s?).

Schedule for University of Tasmania, 1947. Physics Ill, includes handwritten diary. Physics Ill paper and questions.

Pocket appointment diaries.

Manuscript notes and maps for lecture using photographic slides dated 1946.

Journal article reprint entitled Two Tropical Volcanoes: the First Complete Ascents of Balbi and Bagana Bougainvillell , by Roland Rodda. Reprinted from N.Z. Alpine Journal vol.11, 1946, pp.118-125

Typescript, reviews, published pamphlet (1947 Oxford University Press).

Policy speeches of R. Cosgrove dated 1946, 1948, 1950, 1955 &1956 also a copy of the Mercury newspaper report of 1941 speech, dated 20 November 1941.

Manuscript notes on bibliographical sources dated 1946.