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Letters to Mrs Allison from friends 1915 and undated. Miscellaneous letters from friends, mostly signed with initials only or Ada, Emily or H.J. Scott referring to weather, shopping etc. Also two letters of sympathy on loss of "brave son" (1915).

Includes -
1.Julian Ashton Jan 11 1914 –Reference written for Olive by Julian Ashton, Principal of the Sydney Art School, Queen Victoria Markets.

2. Julian Ashton to Olive 28 .2. 1923 –regarding using his name as a referee and the dropping of the Exhibition of Applied Art Work by the Society of Artists.
3. Julian Ashton to Olive 27.7.1924 in praise of her leather work and lamenting the difficulty of making a living through artwork.

Letters to R.J. Morris from relatives and friends dated 1902, 1905-1909. Casual letters from friends, aunts, cousins, etc., including Allan Marshall: church meeting (27 November 1902), Harry Sidwell, Charles Walch, E.C. Fuller, Howard Gandy: stationery business London - does work for Tas. Govt. Office - enclosed: photo of Gandy & Gandy store (27 January 1909; 18 November 1909), Morris L. Wright, A.E. Seabrook: mission school for blind girls Foochan.

Letters to Ruth Sansom from Myfanwy Thomas, Kathleen Needham­-Hurst, Cedric Pearce, Hermann Peschmann, Beth Parsons, Hilary Outhwaite, Thomas Green, Peter Heam, Bruce Goodluck, Dorothy Aichrnan, Jim Ward, John Casson, May S. Ali, Therese D' Arcy, Pip Buchanan, Helen and Kenneth Brooks, Roy Chappell, Bev Dorwick, Monash University and Sylvia Read. One unsigned letter.

Letters written by William Knibb Morris to Henry Stevens (1875): sympathy on Mary's illness [Mary Ann Stevens nee Morris], parents, Annie's death, loss of steamer Gothernberg on way from Port Darwin to Melbourne, flood in NSW. Mary (Morris) Stevens to brother William Knibb Morris [1876], birthday wishes, family, little Henry. Also souvenir letter card with views of Bournemouth, U.K., from Ada Crouch (nee Stevens) to her uncle William Knibb Morris. Also a booklet of photographs.

Letters from William Knibb Morris to sister dated 1855 regarding the voyage, arrival, Hobart, asks after Jane Garman and her photography - on the look out for some of her specimens. Also letter from William Knibb Morris to Uncle and Aunt dated 1855 regarding the voyage.

Letters written by George Andrew Gatenby to an uncle John from "Pisa" dated June (1867) and April 1869. Describing the Supreme Court in Melbourne, journey to U.K, traffic in London and Cambridge.

Three letters written by Frederik Rapp to Doctor Parker dated 17 March, 16 July & 15 December 1928 regarding the history of Waterloo Point, Great Swanport and the Municipality of Glamorgan in the late 1800's. Mention is made of the old church on the school reserve, the old school, now the War Institute, the pews from the church, various residents, hotels, sailing vessels and the building of the jetty

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

Brown folder marked 'Clive and Ruth's Letters, and recommendations and references in early England'. The material includes:
• Extracts from letters praising the London Speech Festival 1935, organised by Sansom.
• A personal reference, dated 25/6/1934, from the Sales Manager of the Ironworks Department of the firm Newton Chambers and Co where Sansom worked for eight years. The reference notes that Sansom began work in the firm as a junior clerk and had worked as Traveller for the Light Castings Department for the last two years of his service.
• The original of the Marjorie Gullan Certificate awarded Sansom by the London Speech Fellowship and Institute in August 1936.
• Original certificates awarded Sansom by the English Verse Speaking Association competitions in July 1934: First in Class III Dramatic Poetry; First in the Final Class; First in Lyrical Poetry.
• The original of Clive Sansom's Birth Certificate - 21 June 1910.
• Two of Sansom's curriculum vitae prepared in the 1930s and 40s.

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

Collection consists of secretary's notes, letters, membership lists and notes related to the publication "Library Opinion" of the
Library Association of Australia : Tasmanian Branch

Correspondence about revival of Victorian Association including comments on public library system and a Library Federation of Australia and New Zealand

Photograph taken by George Musgrave Parker

Life insurance policy dated 1891

Proposal for life insurance for Laura Ann Hull, born at Carrick, Tasmania 4 January 1857, wife of Hugh Hull.

Typescript copy of UTAS M.A. thesis by B.P. Andrews entitled "The Life, Position and Influence of Women in the Early Settlement of Van Diemen's Land (1803-1850)".

a) L.J. Hayns as a lighthouse keeper
b) Light house and land around the Lighthouse
c) Children and wife of L.J. Hayns

Correspondence relating to limestone - Premier & Chief Secretary's Office, dated 1939

Collection consists of correspondence from Olive Pink and black and white photographs of the UTAS campus 1945-1947

Hodge, Henry, Linear Perspective ...1894
Signed Olive M. Pink, Hobart

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

List of Calder papers with index of scrapbooks, and some transcripts of articles in A.L.M's hand. (see RSI9).

Rough record for the Committee, in alphabetical book, 'of the girls at present in the Institution and those leaving for service so that the Committee may not lose sight of them...'List of Girls (1902-1945) - this list is alphabetical. It contains basic information about the names, ages, dates of admission, and dates and places of service for most of the girls. In some instances, the entries are fuller, including the religions of girls, their condition on arrival, who they married, and their behaviour.

1 typescript document (created by Belinda Marsden-Smedley) of people mentioned in the 2 MST diaries (A1 and A2)

List of ships built and for whom, from Huon Belle built in 1866 by Colin Walker for whom John Wilson worked, Good Intent the first ship built by John Wilson at Martins Point in 1877, One and All, ketch built for Andrewartha in 1878, Birngana, Lottah, Ronnie, Rooganah, etc. to Derwent Hunter built for A.J. Drysdale 1843.

Folder with articles on listening and discrimination, and a copy of Sansom's letter to the principal of Kingston Primary School.

Sansom's notes on listening skills and a range of other material either collected or written by him.

Collection of miscellaneous news clippings, dated 1928. Literary matters, in quarto note book, partly unused.

Ambrotypes in cases of little girls. Both seated, wearing black and white Pierrette type white dresses. One child has ringlets. Cases: tooled imitation leather, lined red velvet, frames oval top.

Various photographs of Liverpool Street, Hobart including Perkins and Nephew Wholesale & Retail Drapers and Grocers. Photographed by Anson Bros.

Papers concerning xxx

Manila Folder marked 'LAMDA' [London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]
• Pamphlet about the Speech Fellowship's aims, objectives and activities.
• Letter from Peter [Hearn?] of 17/8/61 about Sansom's help with a LAMDA lecture on The Witnesses while on a visit to England in 1961.
• LAMDA flyers advertising a refresher course for teachers on 31 July and I August [no year given, although probably in the early 1940s because of the assurance that entrance fees would be refunded if non-attendance was the result of 'enemy action']. Sansom directed a session of Choral Speaking Practice and participated in a 'Brains Trust on Speech'.
• LAMDA flyer advertising a refresher course for teachers on 25 July and 26 July 1947 at which Clive and Ruth Sansom presented an explanatory lecture on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land followed by an oral reading of the entire poem.
• LAMDA pamphlet about training courses for teachers in elocution and dramatic art.
• Brochure of the London Co-operative Society outlining a series of twelve speech training classes conducted by the Speech Fellowship.
• Three letters to Sansom from Wilfred Foulis, Governing Director of LAMDA, about examining strategies and administrative matters relating to the Academy, 2/1/40, 4/1/40 and I 0/5/40.
• Letter dated 16/1 /? to Sansom from a teacher of elocution seeking advice about examination standards.

Printed papers, notices to mariners from the Board of Trade, London, warning of shoals, alterations to harbour and warning lights and other hazards for marking admiralty charts, dated 1881 to 1886

Photograph looking across old crater at N.W. peak of Mt. Balbi, taken September 1945. Ward photo

Tasmanian Government Gazette No. 8337, 1 May 1922. Regulations under the Electoral Acts relating to House of Assembly and Legislative Council Elections and press cutting relating to loss of voting papers in Bass seat after floods .

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

Manuscript notes of transcripts of lectures on Jurisprudence and Roman Law given by H Duff, Oxford University

Letters from Louisa Ann Meredith (Twamley) to Mary Meredith 1834, ND (1840-50). Writing as Louisa Twamley to her friend with affectionate remembrances and thanks for presents from little cousins including necklace of green pearl shells, "sea butterfly" shell, drum of whale's ear (1834); as Louisa Meredith [Mrs Charles Meredith] asking for strawberry runners and seedlings.

Letters from Louisa Meredith to her half-sister Maria Meredith dated 9 February 1832 and 1841. Glad she is industrious and not forgotten what she was taught, Elizabeth Gregson, books, brothers John and Henry, thanks Mama for apples, visit to Louisa and godson.

Letter from Louisa Meredith (Mrs Bell) to Mary Meredith dated 17 Oct 1839. Louisa to stepmother on her husband's illness, family, Mrs Charles [L.A. Meredith], Gregsons, Kermode thrown from gig.

'Love letters - Clive to Ruth' in a brown A4 envelope. This contains Sansom's letters to Ruth Sansom written in England, Tasmania, mainland Australia and New Zealand. One group of these is marked 'Some special letters from Clive to Ruth'. It also contains some of Ruth Sansom's letters to Sansom, several of which are significant, dealing as they do with life, love, beliefs and personal relationships. It contains two 'very special letters' from Ruth Sansom to her husband in 1940-41.
Other material in this folder: Program of a Speech Fellowship seminar in London 1949 at which Ruth Sansom demonstrated techniques of teaching speech. Copy of a photocopied and bound book of poems by Sansom - dedicated to Ruth. Several references to education and history recorded by Sansom. Typed copy of Sansom's poem 'The Poplars'.

Collection consists of material relating to the Lovell family including an photograph, copy of a portrait, photocopied letters and an original manuscript

Photograph (neg. 35mm) of the Lovell home in Yorkshire, United Kingdon, undated.

Letters written in Italian with typed translations. He writes of a voyage to Yokohama, the Pacific, San Francisco and a return to Italy, Clark's progress in Italian, warm greetings to Clark, his family and Tasmania

Letters written in Italian with typed translations. He writes of a voyage to Yokohama, the Pacific, San Francisco and a return to Italy, Clark's progress in Italian, warm greetings to Clark, his family and Tasmania

Notice to quit 1000 acres 1863 at Great Swanport as the Government was offering them for sale.

Letters to George Meredith to his wife, Mary, from M. Grantham dated 1840-1841. From Cambria to Mrs Meredith in Hobart: young ladies pleased with their dresses, John 's things, needed "delicate mittens", cotton, calico, cinnamon, black pepper, carpet broom; young ladies quite well and no vigilance would be spared but progress in their studies likely to be slow in Mrs. M.'s absence as she had less time; dinner times, needed "Cobbit's Grammar"; unable to acquire needlewoman but understood there were some in last prison ship. Also account of goods had by Miss Grantham placed to Mrs Meredith's account, including clothing, material, tooth brushes and tooth powder, ink, book of poems, slate writing paper and note of her salary £63 . 1Os

Identifying photograph of uncle.

Letter from M.A. Brown dated 15 December 1827, recommending Mrs Clary as washerwoman.

Photographs of Maatsuyker Island located 5.5 kilometres off the south coast of Tasmania. The island comprises part of the Southwest National Park and is a Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site. The Maatsuyker Island Lighthouse, the southernmost Australian lighthouse, is located on the southern tip of the island

Consists of a copy of Alexander Maconochie's report on convict discipline made by George Washington Walker and sent by him to Margaret Bragg, in a volume titled: "Original Essays on convict discipline by Capt. Alexander Maconochie R.N. 1837 with some letters etc in further illustration of the same subject by James Backhouse and George W. Walker 1837".
Contents include Maconochies's report to Sir John Franklin, further observations, summary of papers addressed to British Government, Dr. Turnbull's objections to changes in convict discipline and observations by James Backhouse and George Washington Walker and index. The volume is in George Washington Walker’s handwriting.
At the front is a note on the origin of the manuscript and its presentation to Friends' School by descendants of Margaret Bragg, Roger Clark and John Bright Clark who visited the School in 1898.

Various photographs of Macquarie Street, looking north taken c1877-1893-4. Photographed by Beattie (electric tram car),
Winter, Anson Bros, and H H Baily

Various photographs of Macquarie Street, Hobart, looking south taken c1881 by photographers Baily, Beattie and Anson Bros.

"Macquarie's Journals". Typed copy of diaries of visit to V.D.L., 1811-1821. From manuscript held in Mitchell Library, published in full, 1956.

Typescript of a work titled "Mad Hatter's Party" by Alice D Baker

Letter from Maggie Mather to Uncle Joseph dated 8 December 1874. regarding the purchase of workbasket, and "wishing you both every happiness"

Facsimile of the 'Magna Carta' of King John, dated 15 June 1215, Runnymede, from the original manuscript held in the British Museum, (Shelfmark :Cotton MS. Augustus II 106,) with transcription and translation.

Circular enclosing prospectus to promote a railway from Launceston to Hobart

Parliamentary Papers together with correspondence (manuscript copies) and news cuttings. Front of volume consists of Statistical Returns of Tasmania 1873.