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Draft of conveyance: Oddfellows Hall, Richmond 192?. Rough draft or note in pencil.

File contains 13 items:
Wilcox, Smith & Co.'s 1935-36 Postage & stamp album price list
Small red pass to Government House, Shillong, Assam dated 28.3.50
Newspaper cutting (undated) Uni. lecturer in L'ton tonight ... as part of the 1973 winter series of lectures
ANZAAS Conference, Hobart, 10-14 May, 1976 - name card 26
2 photocopied sheets - University of NZ BA, MA and newspaper cutting from Wellington Evening Post 1/11/49
Black & white photo of Wilson standing beside Max Angus portrait commissioned by Hytten Hall Old Scholars' Association 1974; purchased by University and hung in the Malcolm McRae tutorial room, Dept. of History, Humanities Building for many years; now hanging in the research room of Special & Rare Collections
CD of memorial service, Stanley Burbury Theatre on 6/6/91
Photocopy of cutting 4/3/91 - Asian Studies Assoc of Tasmania inviting nominations for inaugural George Wilson Prize
Invitation to George Wilson Presentation Dinner on Friday 22/5/92
Article 'George Wilson was here' by Madeline Milford in Alumni News June 2001
Typescript 'George Wilson, University of Tasmania, 1945-1974' by Elaine McKay (undated)
Black notebook 17 x 10 cm - empty except for entry on back page: Dr N.H. Rutledge, 22 Douglas St. New Town
Undated Christmas card from Mrs Hatsell (housekeeper at Hytten Hall)

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 14 November 1938 to 14 September 1939. Signed minutes, typed, formerly in ring binder.

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce for the period 25 November 1918 to 21 February 1927.
Signed minutes, typed, removed from ring binder (filed in reverse date order). Enclosed alphabetic index, nomination forms for officers 1918.

Minutes of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce. Signed minutes, beginning with the inaugural meeting of 3 February 1851 and first formal meeting of 10 February 1851, including names of members. Includes monthly meetings of directors and general meetings. Some news cuttings of notices of meeting stuck inside binding.

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

Minutes of monthly meetings of the Ladies' Committee of Management dealing with maintenance, welfare, accounts, etc. This collection consists of eleven quarto volumes. These records are the committee records only. There are no personal records of the girls or their background or committal orders. The minutes of the monthly committee meetings dealt with bills, expenses, staff matters and the welfare of the children, and note briefly admissions and decisions on discharge of girls to service or to relatives, if any

1. June 1862 - Dec. 1878
2. Jan. 1879 - July 1896
3. Aug. 1896 - Mar. 1904
4. Apr. 1904 - Dec. 1910
5. Jan. 1911 - Apr. 1916
6. May 1916 - May 1925
7. June 1925 - Jan. 1929
8. Feb. 1929 - Mar. 1934
9. Apr. 1934 - Jan. 1939
10. Feb. 1939 - Feb. 1943
11. Mar. 1943 - Feb. 1945

To consider plans and estimates of repairs to Kensington House, Davey Street and tenders for roofing.

Minutes, including lists of subscribers.

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.

Tasmanian Workers' Political League, Denison Division, No.1 Branch. R. Cosgrove Secretary and later President.
Minute Book (signed) 1914-1916

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.

Undated mining biographies including the biographies of James Harcourt Smith (1864- ), Government geologist; William Renison Bell (1840-1915); Guillaume Daniel Oelprat (1856-1937), Manager Broken Hill P.C.; John Walter Gregory (1864-1932), geologist; Patrick Hannan (.Q 1843-1925), Kalgoorlie Goldfield; Edward Hammond Hargreaves (1816-1891), goldminer; Henry Yorke Lyell Brown (1844-1928) geologist; Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934), geologist; William Arthur Pretyman (1863- ), Chief Clerk Mines Dept., Hobart. Also miscellaneous newscuttings and notes.

Uniformed men in a military parade [Hobart?]

Military ceremony (? Military College) N.D.

Plays adapted for radio by Clive Sansom and first broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for schools only, including correspondence with agent and publishers, contracts, reviews, typescripts: 2 "Thunder Country" from the novel by Armstrong Sperry, adapted for radio by Clive Sansom; 4 "Lost Lagoon" from story by Armstrong Sperry; 5 "Kidnapped" from novel by R.L. Stevenson; 6 "Columbus Sails" from book by C. Walter Hodges; 7 "Lost Horizon" from novel by James Hilton; 9 "Seal Morning" from story by Rowena Farre; 11 "Oliver Twist" from the novel by Charles Dickens; 13 "Nightmare Abbey" from the fantastic novel by T.L. Peacock; 15 "The Golden Apples of the Hesperides" from the Greek legend; 16 "The wooden horse of Troy" from the Greek legend; 17 "The boy who was Afraid" from the South-Sea story by Armstrong Sperry; 18 "The Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; 19 "The crowning of dreaming John" dramatisation of poem by John Drinkwater; 20 "At the Tabard Inn" based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; 21 "Town Planning" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 22 "Trees and Forestry" a documentary by Clive Sansom; 23 "A book is written" a documentary by Clive Sansom, prepared for "Book Week" in Tasmania; 24 "Conservation Day" a documentary by Clive Sansom.

Microfilm copy of the journals 1847 - 1874
• Reel 1 : Mar. - Dec. 1847
• Reel 2 : Jan. 1848 - Sep. 1855
• Reel 3 : Aug. 1856 - May 1858
• Reel 4 : May 1859 - Sep. 1860
• Reel 5 : Oct. 1860 - Nov. 1862
• Reel 6 : Dec. 1862 - Dec. 1864
• Reel 7 : Jan. 1865 - Dec. 1866
• Reel 8 : Jan. 1867 - Dec. 1869
• Reel 9 : 1870 - 1872
• Reel 10 : Jan. - Oct. 1874
• Reel 11 : Miscellaneous duplicates and ?omissions.

1. Diary of Adam Amos (1774-1845), May 1822 - Dec 1825. A record of chief happenings in the district of Great Swan Port of which he was Chief District Constable, including notes of musters and convict passes, with names.
2. Adam Amos (1774-1845), letters outward, 1807-1844, mostly to his sons.
3. Adam Amos (1774-1845, letters inward, 1833-1841, including receipts. 4. James Amos (1804-1864), letters inward, 1837-1850.
4. James Amos (1804-1864), will.
5. Letters from George Meredith to his wife Mary, nee Evans, 2 Mar 1823 & 25 Apr 1825.
6. Letter from George Meredith jun. to Mary Meredith (nee Evans), 6 Aug 1833.
7. Letter from Maria, Mrs John Meredith (nee Hammond), to her daughter Jessie Meredith, 3 May 1885.
8. Letter to Captain Thomas Watson sen. From niece EN Rayner (?), 13 Oct 1835.
9. Letters to Capt. T Watson sen. From George Vaux, 18 Mar 1837 & 10 Nov 1838.
10. Bill of lading for the shipment from Leith of 4 harrows and 2 ploughs, 23 Jul 1814.
11. Copy of map in Survey Office signed by J H Wedge, 7 Oct 1826, of grant of George Meredith for 2,000acres at Great Swanport, and a description in handwriting of George Frankland, of additional grant of 1,000 acres.
12. Letter to Mrs Mary Lyne from Jessie Amos (?), 10 May, 2 Oct.
13. Letter from Elizabeth Lyne to Mary Amos, n.d.
14. Letter to Mary Amos from?, 5 May 1839.
15. Letters from Mrs Louisa Bell (nee Meredith) to Margaret Amos (1809-1896), 26 Aug 1885 & 2 Apr 1886.
    I 7. Letter from Adam Amos to ? , 19 Oct 1872.
16. Adam Amos to ? Mrs Amos, 1873.
17. Diary of John Amos, 1 Jan 1840-May1843.
18. Manuscript copy in 1880-1900 style writing, of "Grandfather Amos' Diary", 1 Jan 1854-21 Jan 1858.

1. Receipt book of half and quarter yearly rent paid by James Amos (father of Adam and John (1776-1848), as tenant of Heriot Mill, Galawater, including later editions (1779), of cash expenses of mill, 1774-1845.
2. Account book of Amos Mill, Cranbrook, VDL, 1824-1836.
   3. Diary of Adam Amos (1807-1874), June 1839
   4. Letterbook (or minute book) of Trustees of estate of John Lord, 1829-1833, including correspondence of Derwent Steam Navigation Company

Congratulations on William Ebenezer Shoobridge's record as preacher of the Gospel, from H.G. Pitt.

Certificates of merit awarded to John Meredith by the Glamorgan Agricultural Association.

Sealskins, wool and whalebone to be shipped to London for George Meredith (1825-6); bags of carrots to Melbourne (1854), cases of fruit and bags of walnuts by East Coast Shipping Co. for John Meredith (1889), and 1 uncompleted form

Unidentified account book recording trading, shipping and other expenses (1855-6). Reference to Luckman. Later entries, roughly written, appear to relate to household type expenses.

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

Typescript of a work titled "Memory" by Alice D Baker

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

Memorandum of confirmation of James Gordon's appointment as Police Magistrate, 28 July 1830

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.

Memorandum about William Pickin and queries about evidence relating to his offence.

Rough notes and sketches made by Johnston and newspaper cuttings relating to the fishes of Tasmania

Memoranda pocket book kept by E.O.Cotton for the years 1898 to 1906. Rough notes of roads (1898), trip in boat (1906) etc.

Memoranda book dated 1818 detailing notes of orders, shipments, prices, names etc.

Memoranda book dated 1801 -1802 "Book of observations" or memoranda of shipping commission accounts from 1798, including olive oil,iron,lead,tinned plate,caviar from Russia, earthenware,flax,cotton, Italian marble etc. Also notes of current prices,freight charges,currency,goods wanted and available, port dues and captains' "privileges" at various ports, including Naples, Barcelona, Leghorn,Gallipoli. Journal notes of loading and transactions on voyage carrying tar and pitch from Hull to Gibraltar or Naples for Messrs. Knox and Hay February-July 1802.

File contains 69 miscellaneous objects including Orient Line passenger list, menus, travel brochures, tickets, receipts, concert programs, maps and theatre programs

Membership lists of the Economic Society of Australia & New Zealand : Records of the Tasmanian Branch for 1963, 1965, 1971 and 1972.

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

Receipts for payment for meat supplied to military and convict establishments during 1845

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)

Transcripts from newspapers, almanacs and Colonial Office correspondence, concerning the Van Diemen's Land Co. 1827-43.

Undated letter from Mary Spencer (nee Grueber) to her sister Helen

Correspondence between Mary Rose (Meredith) Mace (Polly) and her mother Maria (Hammond) Meredith dates 1882-1883. From her home, Rostrevor, Spring Bay: Fanny's visit, boating picnic, dressmaking, children, opening new church (6 Feb.1883); visit to relatives in Melbourne (1882) and Mother's replies: Melbourne, Russian ship- good to rub up French (Feb.Mar.82)

Correspondence between Mary Rose (Meredith) Mace and John Meredith : From Rostrevor: husband's drunkenness - wants to leave him (1879); thanks for photograph from Johnston's, old Mrs Cotton dying, Sarah Mitchell ill, John Mace still plays cricket, little Molly's lessons, Jessie a great comfort.

Letter dated 11th December 1832 sent by Mary Meredith to her stepdaughters - Anxious to hear how they go in the gaieties of Hobart Town life, Sarah's improved health, will send gooseberries, eggs stc. sent by "Heir of Cranbrook House", Sabina will miss their society and may join them, hats, Cotton family, garden, Maria.

Mary Louisa Morris to brother Robert James Morris dated 1905 -1907. Letters to brother in England and a few replies.

Mary Bedford dated 27 August (no year). From Streanshalh: sympathy from herself and "Willie". Signed "Your affectionate sister".

Three quarter length study of Mary Augusta Walker by Foster & Martin, Melbourne

Three quarter length study of Mary Augusta Walker by Foster & Martin, Melbourne

Letter from Mary Watson and Thomas Watson dated 23 July 1833. From London: Thomas Watson bringing "a partner" back, had dolls for Sara and Fanny; Mary Watson begged for Mrs. Meredith's friendship when she arrived to settle at Swanport

Marriage Certificate of M.M. Crane and L.J. Hayns, dated June 18th 1921 , Methodist Chapel, Leicester.

Typescript of a work titled "Marriage by Deputy" by Alice D Baker

Letters from Maria Meredith to parents dated 1837 - 1841. Letters from school or, later, her sisters' homes in Hobart from Maria Meredith (1824-1882) to her mother, Mary Meredith, and one to her father: school under Mrs Charlotte Betts, music lessons with Mrs Logan, new governess Mrs Home (July 1838), request to have singing lessons from Mrs Elliott (Oct 1841), health - influenza and erysipelas (Nov. 1837); family: birthday of Sabina Bell [niece] (May 1837), christening party of Charles Crofton Boyes (Dec. 1838); shopping for clothes etc.for mother and brothers and sisters, wax doll for Fanny's birthday (Nov. 1841); friends: Mrs Arthur Smith, Mrs Dobson, Gregsons, Alfred Stephens married Miss Bedford (July 1838); dances, Government House functions, horticultural show (Oct. 1841).grand regatta to be in December (Oct. 1838).

a) Bill of Parliament to amend the Act to authorise Leasing of Maria Island 1892
b) Notes on Maria Island for the Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch excursion 1969

Long, heavily cross-written letters from Maria at Tullochgorum to John, mainly at Oaklands Mount Gambier, of family and general news such as:- visitors and friends; Bishop and Mrs Nixon (10 Apr., 2 May), Mrs Nixon's baby died (20 May), Nixon's "charge" (23 May); Fanny M. played backgammon with Mr Bell (2 May); Archdeacon and Mrs Davies (5 May); James and Charlotte Grant's wedding and honeymoon (2 May), to live at Melrose (8 May, 23 May, 5 June), Melrose House burnt down (5 Aug. 11 Aug.); Mary Scott marrying Swedish count (8 May, 20 May, 31 May, 16 July, 18 Aug.); trading ship "City of Sydney" (15 Apr.); screw steamer "City of Melbourne" (23 May); election (5 May); gold (31 May, 5 June, 11 Aug.); visit to Campbell Town (16 June); visits to Cambria; George Meredith (J.M.'s father) better (16 June, 30 June); dined at Government House (30 June); Governor's visit (5 Aug, 18 Aug.); Glover's sketch book sold for 10 or 15 guineas (30 June). Also preparations for wedding on 2 October: Bishop's services promised, J.M.'s brother Edwin invited (22
Sept) and reply from John M. from Observatory, Hobart: commissions, furniture, Bishop Nixon to dine tomorrow when "everything will be arranged".

Undated letters from Maria G. Mackenzie. Invitation to Mrs Meredith & son, returning books, unable to visit owing to Mr. Mackenzie's blistered foot, Mrs Poolet would not sell a drake but would exchange for a duck.

Photograph of Margaret J. Benson and Annette M. Benson, dated October 1910. Shows two middle aged ladies seated in a garden, wearing long silk? signed: "Margaret J Benson, Annette M Benson MD when
home from India October 1910, with love and best wishes from Mary & Maggie"
(Margaret J Benson D.Sc., was Professor of Botany, London University 1912-1922).

Letter, Margaret Allison to son Frank and grandson Jack dated 2 October 1884. To Frank: visiting Miss Connell at Glen Connell, glad Emma well, Mary's little boy; to grandson Jack: his long walk, his prayers, hope his Mamma found grandma Hume better, M. deaf like "poor Julia".

Letters, some cross written, Margaret Allison to John Roberts [solicitor] dated 22 May 1879. Draft of letter inquiring whether her father had left a legacy to her children.

Maps produced and published by the Australian Survey Corps dated 1944-1945
1.Solomon Islands North Navigation Chart
2.Bougainville Island North
3.Bougainville Island South
4.Bougainville Island Cape Moltke
5.Bougainville Island Aita
6.Bougainville Island Inus
7.Bougainville Island Torokina

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

Map of Summit, Mt. Balbi (Rodda).

Map of Simpsons Bay Bruny lsland, annotating the position of the subjects of the paintings purchased by Sir George Cartland .

Map showing the distribution of Aboriginal Tribes in Australia by Norman Tindale, 50 miles: 1 in., 1940