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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

Article from 'Mercury' newspaper on Joseph Batt (d. 1897), who left a bequest to the Royal Hobart Hospital and the Presbyterian Church. R.C. Smith was one of the trustees.

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

Photograph of Naval cadet football club. Two copies of a Beattie photograph, dated 1918

Mounted photograph of group, probably railway men, in work cloths, undated

Mounted photograph of Southern Railway football team, dated 1922

Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and annual reports of the Tasmanian Caledonian Society.

Handwriten loose leaf note book, entitled "Text book of Physiography " begun in June 1937. Based on lectures to Geology 1, University of Tasmania, 1928-30, with chapter headings with some detailed notes.

Copies of printed papers including "Tasmanian plants of the upper Palaeozoic & Mesozoic coal measures" and other papers of The Royal Society of Tasmania and Linnaean Society of N.S.W. annotated ms. and bound with blank pages containing further notes and drawings.

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

'Advance Tasmania ' [1914?]
Patriotic song written and composed by Frank Hussey, arranged by A. R. Crowhurst, (xerox copy)

Letters from Sophia Summerfield to William Mawle dated 10 September 1828. This typed copy was made by owner of original letter, Gordon Nanscawen, Burnie

Xerox copy of a letter from Sophia Summerfield to Wlliam Mawle, 27 Jan, 1831. Also xerox copies of depositions relating to theft from estate of the late William Mawle, Mawles Hotel, Baghdad. (xerox copies of originals owned by G. Cramp)

The story of the Parramore family by E. M. Cooper, The Morrows, Yankalilla, S.A. 1953.
Pamphlet, including extracts from letters of William Parramore (1797-1854, m. Thirza Cooper), who settled in V.D.L. in 1823, and reminiscences of Beaufront.

Xerox copy of report and minutes of Salmon Commissioners , 1864-1865, printed report 1882, copies of humorous poems and cartoons.

Note by Hugh L. Murray on R. L. Murray's birth and parentage and 'the royal connection rumour'. (typescript)

Photocopy of authority for a land grant to be made to Thomson.

Cutting from Examiner, Launceston 12.March 1946 . Centenary of C. J. Weedon & Co. 1942 (mining & commission agents, estate agents).
Also article on early banks of Launceston,

a) Copy (by Janet Pitty) of return of lots of land sold by the Crown 1833
b) Photocopy of part of list of land Grants
c) List of Crown grants of 1000 acres and over before June 1823 by W. G. Robertson & Cecil Allport typed also copy on reading room shelves)

Collection consists of poetry, notes and photographs relating to Rev. Frederick A. Woods and his family.

Miscellaneous manuscript and printed poems by F.A. Woods.

Rev. F.A. Woods c1915-18 - news cutting

Photograph of Rev. F.A. Woods, Mrs Woods, 3 sons, including Eric Woods, and daughter.

Photograph of the Williamstown Congregational Manse, WIlliamstown, Victoria, taken in 1925.

Collection consists of lectures and papers delivered by Frederick Mortimer Young.

Collection consists of journals and letters relating to William Levitt Wells and his family.

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

Trooper Blackburn's diary kept between 27 March 1901 and June 1902 while a member of the 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen's Contingent at the Boer War. He noted the voyage, weather, work with the horses, marches, casualties, camps and the return voyage.

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

Correspondence with the Australian National University about the establishment of Labor Party and Trades Union Archives, including lists of pamphlets donated by O'Neil, November 1959.

Commemorative album of photographs of dams and power stations presented to J.H. O'Neil on his retirement from the Hydro-Electric Commission.

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').

Collection consists of business correspondence and case papers of Thomas Sheehy, solicitor, barrister and proctor of Collins Street,
Hobart.

Includes record of cases, apprenticeship indentures, mortgages, leases and land titles

Draft and some printed and signed indentures (some having been annotated and re-used as a draft indenture for another apprentice). A parent or guardian (the father or stepfather unless the mother was a widow) was always the first party to the agreement for apprenticeship of a minor (under 21), but for clarity the list gives the name of the apprentice with a note "son of" etc. The age of a minor is recorded, the average being 15 or 15-18, a few (noted in the list) were 13-14. Most apprenticeships were for a term of 5 years, a few longer and occasionally shorter.

Names of apprentices in alphabetical order (some indentures include a draft of another indenture):

1. William Aldridge, son of Mary Aldridge to Jeremiah Coffey, boot closer 1878
2. John Alexander, son of Hannah, to William Golding, watchmaker & jeweller 1876
3. Mary Ann Argee to Julius Carl Hubert Koeppen, dressmaker, machinist 1879, daughter of Joseph Argee, baker.
4. William Bollow, stonemason to Thomas Augustus Reynolds, builder 1883, 2 years as stonemason and bricklayer.
5. Andrew Crawford, son of John Crawford to Henry Cook, tailor 1887
6. John Graham Dart, son of Sarah to William Golding, watchmaker & jeweller 1886
7. John Douglas Davidson, son of Ann to Patrick Cronly, carpenter & joiner 1878 (draft on copy of 31)
8. Michael Dillon, son of John Dillon to Patrick Cronly, stonemason 1881
9. Amebe Driver, daughter of Peter Driver to John Carl Hubert Koeppen 1876, age 16, dessmaker, machinist.
10. Sarah Jane & Elizabeth Emery 1890, daughters of Mary Emery, widow of Oatlands to J.C.H. & Louisa Marie Alexandrina Koeppen, dressmaker.
11. Charles Ford to Patrick Cronly, stonemason 1875, age 14, son of ? Ford, widow.
12. Frederick Garrod to Joseph Edwards & Joshua Moore, wheelwright 1877, age 14, brother of Robert Garrod.
13. Thomas Gibbons to Henry Cook, junior tailor 1889, son of Henry Gibbons, carpenter.
    18, 24. Lousia Grainger to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1877, age 13, daughter of Thomas Grainger, licensed victualler. See also 51 for draft - L.G. to be instructed by Louisa Marie Alexandrina, wife of J.C.H.K.
14. Elizabeth Guy to Margaret Hopson, milliner and dressmaker 1865, age 16, stepdaughter of Thomas Riley, apprenticed for 2 years to Margaret, wife of Francis Hopson. Also letter on unsatisfactory conduct.
15. Charles Hamilton to James Harris & James Henry Ward, cabinet makers 1875, son of Thomas Hamilton.
16. Maria Hardisty, daughter of Charlotte Hardisty to J.C.H. Koeppen, machinist 1877
17. Alice Hargraves to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1879, daughter of John Hargraves, carpenter.
18. William Harper to Henry Cook, tailor 1889, son of John Harper of New Town, milkman.
19. Mary Ann Harris to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1878, daughter of Samuel Harris of Hobart, blacksmith.
20. William Harvey to John Holdcroft & William McDonald 1867, son of William Harvey, licensed victualler of Green Ponds, apprenticed to J.H. and W.M. farm implement makers.
21. William Hawkesford to Arthur P. Walker, bootmaker 1874, son of Abraham Hawkesford, of Hobart, mariner.
22. Emily Ann Johnson to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker 1881, age 13, daughter of Elizabeth Johnson, widow (see also 34)
23. Mary Ann Kilroy to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1880, sister of William Kilroy of Hobart, boot & shoe maker.
24. Catherine Larkins to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1877, age 13, daughter of Thomas Larkins.
25. James Leahey, stonemason to Patrick Cronly, stonemason & bricklayer 1878
26. John Leahey, son of James Leahey, baker, to Patrick Cronly, stonemason 1876
27. Daniel Leary, son of Margaret Leary to Patrick Cronly, stonemason 1881
28. Margaret Leary to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1882, age 18, daughter of Margaret Leary, widow.
29. Frederick Thomas William Lewis to Clifford W. Chatterton, boot, shoemaker 1875, son of Frederick Wiliam Lewis, tailor, of Hobart.
30. Augustus McGlosson to Patrick Bolgar, boot & shoemaker 1861
31. John Michael McKay to Owen Coyle, baker of Sandy Bay 1877
32. Edwin Mance, son of Julia Mance to Patrick Cronly, stonemason 1876
33. Mary Ann Mullen to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1881, daughter of Patrick Mullen.
34. Agnes Munn to J.C.H. Koeppen, plain & fancy work 1885, stepdaughter of James Matches, for 1 year.
35. Edward O'Brien to James O'Brien, boot & shoemaker of Hobart 1872, son of Thomas O'Brien, of Snug, farmer.
36. Thomas Walter Petterd to William Frederick Petterd 1878, age 18, brother in law of Thomas Augustus Reynolds of Hobart, bricklayer, apprenticed as undertaker & carpenter.
37. William Purcell to Edward Maher, plumber, painter & glazier 1877, son of Edward Purcell.
38. Percy Reid Osmund Ray to Henry Cook junior, tailor 1890
39. Emma Rose, daughter of Theresa Rose, widow, to J. Bidencope, tailor 1901
40. John Ryan to Edward Drake, chemist & druggist 1881, son of Patrick Ryan, shoemaker of Hobart.
41. Edwin Ernest Sargeant to William Golding, watchmaker 1878
42. Henry Sharp to Henry Cook, tailor 1886, son of John Sharp, dentist of Hobart.
43. William Sims to John Cronly, painter 1889, son of Jane Eliza Sims, widow.
44. Henry Smith to Joseph Bidencope, tailor & draper 1879, age 13, ward of Charles Miller, boat builder, for 8 years.
45. Clara Stewart to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1881
46. Thomas Tilyard to Thomas Augustus Reynolds, builder 1882, stepson of Moses Lyons, bootmaker.
47. John Trewhella to Edward Maher, plumber, painter, glazier 1877, son of John Grenfell Trewhella, painter of Hobart.
48. Stephen Varian to James Cuthbertson, boot & shoemaker of Hobart 1878, age 17, son of Ellen Varian of Campbell Town, widow.
49. Richard William Walker to Frances Monk, widow 1876, son of Richard Walker, police constable, as wheelwright & carriage maker (note only)
50. Stanley James Salter Wilbram to John Cronly 1876, age 14, son of Charles Wilbram, as painter, paperhanger, glazier (note only)
51. Frances Wells to J.C.H. Koeppen, dressmaker & machinist 1877, daughter of John Wells of Sorell, storekeeper.
52. James Wells to Patrick Cronly, stonemason 1883, son of John Wells, storekeeper of Sorell.
53. Susan Annie Wigmore to J.C.H. Koeppen, machinist and wife L.M.A.K. 1876, daughter of Joseph Shirer Wigmore.
54. Henry Willing to Edward Maher, painter, glazier, plumber 1866, son of Richard Willing, butcher of Hobart.
55. Form of indenture of apprenticeship 1884. Form for indenture of apprenticeship for the Governors of St. Joseph's Orphanage & Industrial School, proof & printed copy.

Leases dated 1893 & 1903. William Ferguson to Thomas Austin 1893. Stables and yard in Hobart, comprising 1 r. 8 p. in Murray St. behind the Derwent Hotel and Hobart Rivulet (mortgaged) leased for 10 years from William Ferguson, merchant, to Thomas Austin, livery stable keeper.

2. Denis Normoyle to Bernard McKenna 1902. Land in Heybridge, 66 acres from Denis Normoyle, farmer, to Bernard McKenna of Heybridge, for 6 years at £25 pa.

Mortgages dated 1881 to 1901.

1. Henry Hall of Hobart to Patrick Joseph Develyn of Cygnet, storekeeper 1894, £150 on land in Hobart.
2. Joseph Hill of Queenborough to Charles Parkinson Frodsham, solicitor 1881, £30.
3. Martha Martin to Mary Stanley Low 1901.
4. Denis Murphy of Cygnet, farmer, to Patrick Joseph Develyn, storekeeper 1893, £75.

Miscellaneous documents

1. F.J. Holingsworth to James Martin: notice to file bill of sale 1894.
2. Case and opinion in re action to be taken for Mrs. L.M.A. Koeppen 1877, over question of greyhound which strayed on to their premises from time to time and was cared for by L.M.A.K. and her complaint of a search warrant being issued to a police constable to search for the dog on Koeppen premises.
3. Indenture (draft) between Sarah Ann Brent & Thomas Murphy 1883.
4. Notes on objections & requisitions on title of George Jackson to premises in Melville St., Hobart, no date.

Reader's Digest 1967, brown

Collins Australian diary 1971, blue

1 folder of loose papers: notification and congratulatory letters for MBE 1957

1 album covered in brown paper and inscribed: M.S. Watts. Autograph Album.
Margaret S. Thorp inscribed on inside cover.
Spine in poor condition.
Inscription opposite title page (Writing Album) says: 'June 1906. Margaret S. Thorp with best wishes from Freda Brunskill'.
Includes inscriptions, cuttings, letters, watercolour paintings, pen and ink drawings and photos.
Autographs include Roald Amundsen (1911), poet Kath Walker, pianist Eileen Joyce, feminists Adela Pankhurst and Vida Goldstein, Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, politicians and many Quakers met on her travels.

Folder of photocopied typewritten material, 221 pages, typed

Personal correspondence of Donald Davie, including papers relating to his RAAF discharge, christmas cards, Sandown Court Flats Committee, Albuera Street School Parents & Friends Association

Xerox copies of articles, reports etc. by James Erskine Calder (1808-1882) surveyor, from Tasmania State Archives, Mitchell Library, Latrobe Library, including correspondence Government reports, articles in newspapers . Also copies of Calder's obituary notices.

NOTE: Mr. Davie also made handwritten copies of all Calder's writings, in the course of his study but these have not been retained.

Typed edited version of Calder's articles arranged as 'History' in chapters with notes by Davie.

Copies of letters and articles from Mercury by 'Marshman' and Calder on Hobart cemeteries, Hobart suburbs and Botanical Gardens. Handwritten copy in 'reporters' notebook.

Photograph of John A. King

Photograph of three sketches from the Calder Papers : tent, camp and Mt. Olympus. Originals held in the Mitchell Library

Reproduction - Article from Illustrated London News, 10 August 1850. "Arctic Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin"
(also Maria Island)
(London Electrotype Agency Grays Inn Rd.London.WC1)

Souvenir booklet entitled 'Beautiful Hobart and surroundings. 81 views by J.C. Breaden'. It contains a series of black and white photographs of Hobart and places nearby

Photograph of young girl (contemporary) in two poses

Seven postcard sketches - Historic Port Arthur Tasmania. (NuColorvue Productions Pty.Ltd. Mulgrave Vic).

Photograph of watercolour of Governor's House at Sydney Port Jackson, 1791

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

Journal article and oral history interview

Apprenticeship indenture dated 28 November 1814. Andrew Downie, eldest son of John Downie, farmer of Bankend,
apprenticed to James Lucas of Stirling as writer, procurator, conveyancer, notary public for five years.

Accounts for sheep sold 1832-1833. Mainly W.J.T. Clark.

Hotel bills, receipted 1824-1836. Accommodation, meals, wines and spirits.

Notes of provisions under Downie's will not dated (late 19th/early 20th century) Rough notes on scrap of paper, beginning: "By a will in Scots from Andrew Downie residing at Park Terrace, Stirling, dated 19 February 1869. Exhibited on affidavit by Wm Downie 20.3.79".

Certified extract of entry of baptism and birth of William, son of Murdo Downie, Master Royal Navy, and Anne Smith his wife, parish of Foot Dee, Aberdeen, Scotland. Dated 20 October 1801

Testimonial certifying that W. Downie studied anatomy, surgery and medicine under A. Collie, Surgeon R.N., Aberdeen, for one year. Dated 4 June 1821.

Certificate of attendance of W. Downie at lectures at the Theatre of Anatomy, Great Windmill Street, London, and diligence in dissecting. Signed: Charles Bell, John Stair. Paper has portrait of William Hunter M.D. Dated January 1824

Type script historical note on the origins of the Drysdale name. No date or author.

Election broadsheet entitled "Reminiscences which may be useful to John Earle's supporters" Printed by E.H. Newman.

Material belonging to Susanna Jane Earle nee Blackmore, wife of John Earle relating to vegetarianism and vivisection and other miscellaneous items

One pamphlet entitled The case for vegetarianism by Geoffrey Hodson, published by the New Zealand Vegetarian
Society (revised ed. ND);

Printed booklet illustrated with photographs entitled "Memories of My Father", by David M. Elliott published in 1991.
Consists of memories of Edmund Alfred Elliott (1884-1968) MB.ChM. of Hobart and family, including note about his sisters, Amy Marion Elliott (1874-1913), pupil of Friends High School 1888-94 and the first woman to graduate MSc at the University of Tasmania, and Helenor May (Nell) Elliott (1880-1956) another University of Tasmania graduate, and also his brothers

Two copies of the Omnibus which was a merchant's, tradesman's, auctioneer's and general advertiser and shipping gazette.
Published Tuesday & Friday, gratis, at the Courier office, Hobart by William Gore Elliston
• No. 149 Nov. 10 1843
• No. 150 Nov. 14 1843

One newspaper, The Mercury, published by Charles Ellis Davies, Macquarie St., Hobart . This edition : Extraordinary edition - Armistice signed by the Germans. Dated 11th November 1918.

One newspaper, The Mercury, published by Davies Brothers Ltd., Hobart . This edition : The Hobart Bridge Disaster, January 1975 .

Collection consists of material created by W.E. Fuller including articles, talks, thoughts, plays and poems

Obituary notice for W. E. Fuller from Booksellers' Association, also from the Mercury newspaper

Collection of family and other photographs, drawings, paintings and prints

Family photographs including portraits and snapshots of W. E. Fuller and family including: Early photographs of W. E. Fuller as a boy, groups, 2 girls (1 reading, 1 preparing veg.) Margaret and Mary (daughters of W.E.F.) as babies and toddlers, family groups (including family group Xmas 1918 including grandparents). Snapshots of army days (1916-18), enlarged photo of army ordnance office at work. Formal portraits, various dates, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fuller broadcasting for A.B.C. c. 1932.