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Personal and family diary for the year 1880, with a few references to the business of Risby Brothers

Acts and Papers of Parliament, etc. 1913-1916
• The Hydro-Electric Company of Tasmania, information on the proposal before Parliament. 1913;
• Hydro-Electric Power and Metallurgical Co. Ltd. report by E. Parry presented to Parliament 1914;
• Interim Report on the Hydro-Electric Construction Scheme 23 Dec. 1915.;
• Amalgamated Zinc (De Bavray) Lease Enabling Bill 1916;
• Hydro-Electric Department; statement by the Minister for Works 5 Nov. 1919.

Correspondence dated 1929 - 1942. Including letters from Solicitor and agreement with Oldham & Morris, notice of opening of W. E. Fuller's "The Bookshelf" 48 Elizabeth Street, (underneath Goodwill Store), plan of basement of 48 Elizabeth Street; letters from Joan McLennan, Governor's private secretary, Government House; correspondence with A.B.C. and 7HO relation to broadcasts, plays submitted, etc. (including A.B.C. contracts).

Written from school, Mr Cowle's 'Hobart Town Classical and Commercial Academy' by John Beecham Brownell to parents [Thomas Coke and Elizabeth Brownell] dated 15 December 1851: Christmas holidays would start on 17 December.

Copy of notes on Benjamin Lane

Green and red display folders headed 'To do with 'Clive Sansom by 40 Friends' for Archives University Library'. Papers, drafts and proofs for the publication Clive Sansom by Forty Friends (1990).
Book 1 (Green) comprises the draft text of the Forty Friends book. Here, Ruth Sansom's script and 'Absent Friends' contain more material than that published in the final text.
Book 2 (Red) contains the original scripts from the contributors to the publication.

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

Photograph album of the Hodgkin's visit to Australia during 1909. Includes photos of Christ Church Annual Meeting, Adelaide General Meeting, other meeting groups, Evelyn Camp, Gosforth Camp, Healsville Camp, members of families of Woodham, Erskine, Benson, Howie, Greaves, Allen, Sayce, Robson, Dixon, Mather, Mackie, Isaac Sharp. Also views of New Zealand, Maori carvings, Dandenongs Victoria, Sydney and Point McLeay Mission. Also a loose photo of Mary Augusta Walker aged 93 wearing her mother’s Quaker dress, and the first General Meeting in Hobart 1903

Letters received and ms. copies of outward letters, dated September 1945 - November 1946 relating to history of Bougainville and attempted ascents of Mt. Bagana and Balbi. Correspondents R.W. Robson, Managing Director Pacific Publications Limited, Sydney; Rev. A.H. Voyce, missionary, Major H.A. Johnson, fellow mountaineer on Mt. Balbi, Dr. Robert C. Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Z. Air Department.

Correspondence dated 1972 – 1975. Routine correspondence concerning membership, subscriptions, arrangements for meetings and receipts for expenses, copies of notices, etc. Also some correspondence with guest speakers.

Correspondence dated 1919-1920, relating to the fruit industry, including the Saaz Drying Process, and lemon curing.

Article by Scott Bennett written in 1979 entitled Braddon in India and published in T.H.R.A. Papers & Proceedings; vol. 26 No.3 Sept. 1979 pp. 70-84

1 typescript document of 2 MST diaries (A1 and A2). Transcribed c1989 by Belinda Marsden-Smedley, who also added some dates and notes (as Margaret didn't include many dates) to enable correlation with events reported elsewhere.
Includes regret at not being able to join in the dancing (pages 3 and 5) on the voyage; her plan to to work with women in India in 5 or 6 years 'to try to show them the meaning of love' (p7); letter from Francis Mather & Mr Gower asking Mr Thorp to substitute at the Friends School for 7 months (p9); brief preliminary visit to Hobart (p14); arrival in Hobart (p27) and concern at boys attending military drill; met Captain Amundsen who signed her autograph book (p30.

Sustentation fund rules - Chairman W. Gore Elliston.
A fund of a religious body for the more adequate support of its ministers.

• "Crazy Crises", 1940, May 8,9,11 by The Tasmanian University Union. Performed at The Playhouse, Hobart. Includes cast, song lyrics and advertisement for "Harm in a Teacup" play in July 1940 by University Dramatic Club.

• "Housemaster", No Year, July 8, 10, 11. Performed at The Playhouse, Hobart. Includes cast and advertisement for event with New Zealand Debaters, University Library.

• "Tonight at 8:30, Three Plays by Noel Coward". No Year, October. Performed at The Playhouse Hobart. Includes cast, introduction by Noel Coward. Advertisement at Lecture at Playhouse, 23 October, "A Worker Looks at Drama" and The Russian Ballet at the Theatre Royal.

• "The Seven Ages of Man". 1941, by The Tasmanian University Union. Performed at The Playhouse, Hobart. Includes cast, song lyrics.

• "Living Dangerously". No Year, September. Performed at Theatre Royal. Includes cast.

• "The Middle Watch", July 23, 25, 1932, performed by the University Dramatic Club at the Theatre Royal. Includes cast and miscellaneous advertisements for local businesses.

• Smokin' Hot, 1948,

• Typewritten script involving prominent German figures including Hitler, Goebbels. Includes handwritten edits.

• Swastika, cloth

Copy of examination papers and lists of results of the 1851 annual examination for the Annual Report of the High School of Hobart Town. Printed pamphlet 'Colonial Times' office, Hobart

Lantern slides of Queen Victoria (coloured) and Prince Consort (bw)

Black and white photographs of University of Tasmania lower campus at Sandy Bay taken by Lindsay Crawford, a science student at UTAS during1945-1947. The old Sandy Bay rifle range sheds were initially used by staff and students as part of the move from the Domain site to the new Sandy Bay campus after the Second World War

Photograph of the Australian Labor Party Conference delegates dated 1940, Robinson photograph Devonport.

Tasmania's vanished race : national talks delivered from 3AR Melbourne, on February 26th, 1935, March 6th, 1935 and March 12th, 1935 written by Frederic Wood Jones

Documents generated in connection with Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCM). Includes papers generated for discussion at the ATCM and reports of the meetings. Many of the documents are reproduced in, or referred to in, W M Bush, "Antarctic and International Law: a Collection of Inter-state and National Documents" (volumes I-IV, and binders I-IV).

Extracts from various letters with remarks on the proposed Tasmanian University

Six page typescript of article by A.L Meston entitled "A Short History of Devonport"

Correspondence, including 3 letters from (J?) R. Kirkup, on finding Hellyer's Slab in the Arthur Gorge. 1927

Typed copy of letter by Adam Amos dated 1826. Given to A.L. Meston by descendant, L.E. Amos in 1945.

Letter from Robert Campbell Gunn to brother William dated 6 October 1828 from Barbados regarding the want of cash for fare home in spite of economies, appointment as clerk to Royal Engineers Antigua uncertain, thinking of moving to V.D.L., Gunn's father and father-in-law recently died in Antigua

Will of R. C. Gunn 1879. Typed copy by T. E. Burns.

Signatures of guests at dinner in honour of J.H. O'Neil's resignation, including J.H. O'Neil, in presentation folder, dated , 19 April 1958

Diploma of the degree of Doctor of Medicine granted by the College of James VI, Edinburgh. [Edinburgh University] and power to practice medicine granted to John William Hadden of Tasmania; signed by the- Principal (John Lee) and 14 professors and sealed with the 'common seal of the University of Edinburgh or College of James VI King of Scotland'. Parcrhment document in Latin, with engraved arms of Edinburgh and the Common Seal of the University. Dated 1 August 1856
Seal tag of blue silk and seal (detached) in metal container.
Seal: common seal of University of Edinburgh, red wax, impressed on paper.
Edinburgh University was originally the College of Edinburgh or the Town's College founded in 1583 by the Town Council of Edinburgh under a charter granted by King James VI, 14 April 1583, and was generally known as 'The College of James VI'. It gradually came to be styled University of Edinburgh, but remained under the Town Council until 1858 when it became autonomous. The arms (shown on the seal) granted in 1789, are: Argent (silver) on a saltire azure (blue), between a thistle proper in chief and a castle on a rock sable (black) in base, a book expanded on (gold).

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

Notes on the life of George Marshall prepared for his obituary probably by David or George Douglas Marshall.

Paper read to section E Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Hobart Meeting 1921 (meeting held in Melbourne owing to shipping strike).

Bolton Stafford Bird appointment as representative of Tasmania at the Federal Council of Australasia dated 20th November 1888

Microfilm copy of papers relating to the Cheyne and Wilkinson families including:
1 ) Family of John Cheyne, surgeon, Leith (father of Alexander) and his wife, the daughter of Wm. Edmonston
2) Extract from the life of Dr. John Cheyne (1777-1836) physician general to the forces in Ireland and brother of Alexander
3) 'Royal descent of Colonel Humphry Graham' claimant to the earldom of Monteith, and Elizabeth (Farquhar) , his wife.
4) Printed Pedigree of Colonel Humphrey Graham, claimant to the earldom of Monteith, showing the double descent of his descendants from the Douglases.
5) Marriage certificate of Captain William Wilkinson and Elizabeth Cheyne, 1803, witnessed by Alexander Cheyne her brother.
6) Letter from J.D. Thomson, Admiralty, to Dr John Cheyne, Leith, 28 August- ,1805 informing him of the appointment of Captain W. Wilkinson as commander of the 'Nightingale'.
7) Alexander Cheyne's commissions as: 2nd Lieutenant 1 May 1806; 1st Lieutenant 1 July 1806; 2nd Captain Royal Engineers' Corps, 1 May 1811.
8) Letter from Lt. Col. B. Cheyne to William Cheyne (brothers of Alexander) 28 March 1828
9) Letter from Alexander Cheyne to his niece Cecilia Wilkinson, 9 October 1852
10) Copy of will of Alexander Cheyne 22 April 1858
11) Copy of letter from Westbrook and Butler, solicitors, Hobart, to Mrs W.N.D. Sheppard, Dublin, about Cheyne's will, 18 August 1858.
12) Letter from S. W. Westbrook of the late firm of Westbrook and Butler to Mrs Sheppard, Dublin, 15 July 1861
13) Directions to the cook (? in the residence of John Cheyne, Leith) nd.
14) Copies of letters from Captain W. Wilkinson to his brother John from 'Goliath' off mouth of Nile, Egypt, 13 August 1798 and from 'Elephant', Copenhagen, 4 April 1801.
15) Copy of letter from Lord Nelson to Captain W. Wilkinson, from H.M.S 'Victory', 1805.
16) Letters from Captain W. Wilkinson to his wife Elizabeth (nee Cheyne) 21 March 1805, 20 Jan. 10 Oct. 22 Nov. 1814.
17) Letter from T. Wilkinson to Captain W. Wilkinson 28 Dec. 1830.

Manuscript list of memorials in the Amos burial ground, Cranbrook, Tasmania

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

Seven scripts of ABC 'History for Grades III and IV' radio broadcasts for schools, written by Sansom, sometimes with Ruth Sansom's assistance. Sansom recorded most of these with the assistance of his colleagues from the Speech Education Centre.

Including note of reception into membership [Society of Friends] 2.10.1834

Benson & Mather family tree compiled by James Backhouse Walker

Ambrotype in case of a man seated, youngish, straight, short hair, moustache and beard, leaning on elbow on side table with books and lace cloth, plain background, slightly tinted.

Copies of 'Carbonate Capers' - the newsletter of the Mole Creek Caving Club, Nos. 117 - 151, March 2004 - August 2008

Certificate : Admission to the Utter Bar, Middle Temple, London dated 1st of October 1909

Bond for payment of £120 from John Cockburn to Vivian Henderson on 26 August 1773.

Black spring-back folder of Sansom's unpublished document, 'Strange Goings On: Verses for Children'. This includes one titled 'The Australian Leprechaun'. Many of the poems contain handwritten corrections and amendments.

Folder labelled 'Reading Aloud' comprising passages for reading, newspaper articles on the subject, and Sansom's notes on the topic, some of which appear to be the draft of the Preface to his anthology 'By Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Prose for Reading Aloud'.

Newspaper and journal clippings include
• photograph of J.R.O. Bartram,
• photograph of the comedians 'Ada and Elsie',
• 'For Sale' notice and photograph of the house at 31 Gordon Avenue, Lenah Valley, which the Sansoms subsequently bought,
• report on Sansom's publication Choric Drama,
• article from Speech News announcing the resignation of Clive and Ruth Sansom and paying tribute to their work for the Speech Institute (January 1951),
• item from the Surrey News about the crowning of the May Queen ceremony (undated).

Folder 3 is marked 'Personal Letters 1970s 3' and contains :
• Two letters from Michael Thwaites (Canberra).
• Three letters from Ann O'Connor and one page of Clive Sansom's letter to her.
• Single letters from Frieda[?], Stuart and Mary[?], Harold[?], Lil and Stan Johnson, Nora Potter, Eileen [?], Betty Raynor, Beverley[?], Robert Bennett, F.W. Bateson, Jean Reid, Maisie Cobby, Dorothy Aickman, Marjorie Morse, Catherine Hollingsworth, Margaret Willy, Joan Allport, Felicity [?], Sister Mary Rosalia, Ron James, Kath Needham-Hurst, Musgrave Homer, Jane[?].
• Copies of Clive Sansom's letters to Jane[?], Beth Parsons and Caitlin Constable.
• Two notes and a greeting card from unidentified writers.

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.

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