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Wool accounts: William Thomas Lyttleton
Wool sale accounts 1830 - 1836. Accounts of wool sold in London, addressed by various agents to William Lyttleton of Launceston. Settled near Westbury in 1825.
William Thomas Lyttleton
Documents relating to William Harris or Harrison including army pay book and personal certificates
William Harris
Letters and photocopies of documents regarding Gunn's involvement with convicts and bush rangers and as a police magistrate
William Gunn
William & John Clark Family Papers
The William and John Clark Papers are a record of a settler family in Tasmania. They include papers concerning the management of the Cluny property, a few papers relating to Bothwell and John Clark's correspondence concerning his work as a magistrate. ... »
William Clark
Collection consists of of notes on various aspects of the history of Tasmania and drafts of articles, written mainly between 1935 and 1951, some for The Royal Society of Tasmania Papers & Proceedings
Wilfred Hugh Hudspeth
Business letter book dated 16 August 1847 to 9 September 1850 of John Thomas Waterhouse, general trader and shipowner of Hobart. The letters are addressed to traders, agents in mainland ports and relate to cargoes of all kinds, including provisions, ... »
John Thomas Waterhouse
File of first newspaper published at the town of Waratah, Mt. Bischoff. Waratah Weekly News, 19 March 1881 to 21 May 1881. Manuscript, duplicated by 'centigraph'
Two prints :
(1) View of the country round Hobart Town In Van Dleman's Land. Reduced on zinc from a drawing by Joseph Lycet, in the collection of Professor Buckland at Oxford. Printed by C. Hullmandel, London. N.D.
(2) Architect's drawing of proposed High ... »
Joseph Lycett
Combined index to The Royal Society of Tasmania manuscript deposit collection.
Track Notes from the Weekly Courier
'Track notes' by H. H. Scott, being pages from the Weekly Courier, containing 'The Wallaby 'track' by 'Bluey’ dated Saturday April 18 1903 to 26 December 1907
Also includes 2 loose pages dated 23 November and 3 December 1914; and photograph
from Weekly ... »
Herbert Hedley Scott
Tombstones in St. David's cemetery
Typed list of tombstones in St. David's cemetery, Hobart (St. David's Park) dated 1922
St. David's Cemetery
Thomas Yardley Lowes: auction sales particulars
Particulars of property, mainly in Battery Point Hobart to be sold by auction by Thomas Yardley Lowes (no plans or detailed descriptions). Properties of Robert Quayle Kermode & Sir George Arthur
Thomas Yardley Lowes
Thomas Crouch: Miscellaneous papers
Collection of miscellaneous papers including lease, bank book, letter from G. W. Walker, gold digging license, correspondence of William Woollett about survey of allotment at Great Swanport, birth certificate of James Rothwell Crouch 22 January 1843 (... »
Thomas James Crouch
'The Tasmanian Aborigine' by Owen Reid, School House, Bridgewater, Tasmania.
Typescript (never published) includes chapters 1 - VI II, Introduction, 30 figures and map, plates 2, 6-10.
Owen Willaim Reid
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Sections and Committees
Correspondence and other related material associated with Historical and Geographical Section, Physical, Mathematical & Chemical Section, Medical Section, Education Section, Anthropology Section and Botanical Section
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Records of Meetings
Records of The Royal Society of Tasmania. Includes Council, Annual, General & Special meeting minutes.
• Digital copies of these records 1993-2017 are held at https://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/collections/roysoctascouncilmins.html
NOTE: Annual ... »
The Royal Society of Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Publications
Publications issued by the Society
The Royal Society of Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Northern Branch Records
Records of the Northern Branch of The Royal Society of Tasmania. Includes general correspondence and financial records, council papers, publications, lectures, excursions and other material
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Museum
Miscellaneous documents, visitor book and list of paintings
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Miscellaneous administration files
Miscellaneous collection of files. Includes annual reports, administration, financial affairs, library, medals and some Northern Branch files.
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Library Accession Register
Collection consists of Library accession register's, record of individuals and institutions receiving copies of 'Papers & Proceedings' and other publications and other material relating to the library of The Royal Society of Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Financial Records
Financial records of The Royal Society of Tasmania. Includes ledger accounts, receipts and expenditure, audited balance statements etc.
The Royal Society of Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Donations and Accessions
Miscellaneous records concerning gifts and purchase of items, for various sections of the Society.
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Correspondence
Correspondence and letterbooks of The Royal Society of Tasmania. Includes abstracts of letters sent by secretary and correspondence files by subject.
The Royal Society of Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Botanical Gardens
Collection consists of accounts for the sale of plants, receipted bills and detailed expenses, visitors books, work books, notebooks and administrative papers. See also entries in Council meeting minutes.
The Royal Society of Tasmania
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Bequests and Memorial Funds
Gift and bequest correspondence, establishment, history and rules as well as individual bequests
The Royal Society of Tasmania: Art Collection
Draft report and list of works in the Royal Society Art Collection. Including information on acquisition.
The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer
The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligence, Hobarts first and short lived newspaper was first issued on 8 January 1810. This issue No. 7, 3 April 1810 gives an account of the recent death and funeral of David Collins, Lieutenant Governor of Van ... »
George Clark
Two letters dated 1873 relating to a testimonial for Dean Cox - one from Charles Du Cann from Government House
Frederick Holdship Cox
Minutes of The Tasmanian Society dated March 1841 to March 1842. Titled 'Minutes of "The Society" V. D. Land 1841'
Tasmanian Society
Draft of letter or part of article on Tasmanian plants and the effect of the severe frost in England, 1837-8, as mentioned in a paper by Dr. Lindley; writer unknown.
John Lindley
Collection of photographs and transparencies of the erection and unveiling of the Tasman Memorial, Prince of Wales Bay, 1923. The expedition to erect a memorial was led by J. Moore Robinson and included
John Reynolds who took the photographs.
John Reynolds
Letters received by the Stokell family 1844-1910. Letters and copies of letters to the Stokell family, including a copy of a letter from bushrangers Martin Cope, Alexander Reid, John Reubens & James Prendergrass to George and Miss Stokell 1844 and 2 ... »
Stokell Family
Collection of committee minutes, accounts and admissions register for St. Mary's Hospital, Hobart.
St. Mary's Hospital
Correspondence with Archdeacon Whittington concerning the formation of a branch of St. George's Society,1900.
Royal Society of St George
Song of the Aborigines of V.D.L
'Song of the aborigines of V.D.L; nd. Arranged by Mrs Logan. (According to the donor, who found. it among some old music, it could date back to 1850 and might have been copied by his mother (nee Wilkinson) at Bothwell)
Manuscript sheet of music with ... »
Maria Logan
Letter and draft of 'A Manual of Fossil Mammals, being the substance of a course of lectures on the osteology and paleontology...'
Richard Owen
Collection consists of historical documents, personal and official papers
Ernest Clark
Insurance averages dated 1857 to 1860
Notes on averages for insurance of ships and cargoes, made by Thomas May Evans, including accounts of voyages, valuation, losses etc. of ships:
• Brig Mary Clarke (A. Avery, master) on voyage from Newcastle, N.S.W. ... »
Paybooks of two seamen: Dennis Dogherty of the ' Aurora ', page recording payments torn out, no date and John Clarke, of the 'Lady Kennaway' number 3099, 1862 - 31.12.1862. Booklets in a small metal protective case.
Dennis Dogherty
Scrapbook of Theatre programmes
Scrapbook of Theatre programmes - news clippings dated 1949 - 1959. News clippings relating to the reconstruction of the Theatre Royal, programmes for plays, concerts, etc.
'The Theatre Royal: a brief history' 1837 - 1948, collected by Mrs. Olive Burns, ... »
Olive Burn
Publication entitled 'Salmoniana,' by Barri Couta(pseud.)m June 1866. Humorous verse and sketches concerning the arrival of salmon ova in Tasmania. The names of the commissioners and others have been noted on the sketches in this pamphlet which includes ... »
Salmon Commissioners Tasmania
Sale of Crown lands at Carnavon
Papers regarding the 1889 sale of Crown lands at Carnavon. Notice, particulars and small plan of land for sale at Carnavon [Port Arthur]
Royal warrents of appointment of Francis Smith as attorney general and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Francis Smith
(Ross's) Hobart Town almanack and Van Diemen's Land annual
Includes a list of the 'Civil Establishment of Van Diemen's Land and its dependencies'; a list of the 'Military'; a list of 'Public Institutions'; a 'Return of convicts'; list and description of 'Newspapers and Journals published in Hobart Town'; an '... »
James Ross
Richmond Police Magistrates Court
Material relating to the Richmond Police Magistrates court fr the period 1827-1868, includes cases of debt, plaints, writs and notices from muster master
Letters from Molesworth Jeffery to his sisters Susanna and Catherine (Kate) in U.K. , small water colour of Burnbank Homestead and photographs of St. George's Chapel, Lachlan, and Richard Piggott, Lord Viscount Molesworth.
Molesworth Jeffery
Rev. Archibald Macarthur Papers
Papers of the executors of Rev. Archibald Macarthur a Presbyterian minister who returned to England in 1836 leaving his affairs and three of his children, Mary, Henry William and John, in the care of trustees and guardians, namely John Walker, Henry ... »
Archibald Macarthur
Rating list for Hobart torn out of Hobart Town Gazette 1875 - gives owners, occupiers, rateable value, street by street.
Hobart Town Gazette
Collection of printed public notices of Government and General Orders, by command of Lt. Gov. of Van Diemens Land
Proclamation to the Aborigines
Copies of Governor Davey's pictorial proclamation to the aborigines, promising equal justice for whites and natives, with modern tracing (Davey altered to Arthur in a modern hand) and another copy with a different heading.
Thomas Davey
Presbyterian Church Marriage Affidavits
Affidavits that there is no impediment to marriage, with additional affidavit of consent for those under 21, and of consent of the Lt. Governor for prisoners of Crown. Both made before Robert Russell, appointee of Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. ... »
Robert Russell
Copies of tracings made in 1917 from old Government plans of the Port Arthur Convict Settlement, mounted on canvas and bound (by Walch's). Photographic copies of tracings, possible made later. The original tracings were stamped "P.W.D. traced 1917", with ... »
Collection consists of farm and weather records of William Pike's Park Farm and Jericho, Tasmania, also included is the journal of William Pike voyage to V.D.L with his family on the ship "Thalia" August 1822 to July 1823
William Pike
Collection of material relating to Pearce's time at Somerset House School, diary of his time as an apprentice and ships log of the "Wild Wave" from when he was captain. Also photograph of the Wild Wave
William Alfred Pearce
Paper by William Colenso for the Tasmanian Society
Paper by William Colenso for the Tasmanian Society , dated 1843. 'Filices Nova, Novae Zelandiae, Auct. Guil. Colenso, 1843' A classification and description of some newly discovered ferns collected in the Northern Island of New Zealand, in the summer of ... »
William Colenso
Box pIan of the Palace Theatre, Elizabeth Street, Hobart, upstairs. Undated. The Palace Theatre was opened around 1914 and was closed November 1925 when it was converted into retail use by H.E. Round. In later years it was occupied by Wales Travel ... »
Minutes of a musical society known as the Orchestral Union (originally proposed as the Symphony Society) including musicians' and singers dated 1866 to 1872
Collection consists of five volumes of press cuttings and notes relating to Hobart history, buildings and hotels.
Nathan Oldham
Collection of theatre and concert programs dated 1911 to 1966 also notes and photographs relating to Faulkner's Cottage, Claremont Tasmania.
Notes and extracts from the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum
Birds of Tasmania undated [early 20th cent]. Notes and extracts from the 'Catalogue of Birds in the British
Museum' (London) 1874-1895 of birds which may be found in Tasmania, made by an unknown researcher (? early 20th century) on loose half sheets of ... »
Miscellaneous returns, photocopies of plans, and letter etc. relating to Norfolk Island
Illustrated London News
Two newspapers - Fiji Times, dated 6 & 10th of January 1877 and The Bulawayo Sketch dated 21 July 1894. Mock cyclostyled paper on a fold of account ruled paper - humourous sketches and adverts.
Note ms. at top 'Byrne (6 )'
Photocopies of National Trust Acts (U.K.), dated 1907 & 1937
Narrative of the overland journey
Microfilm copy of 'Narrative of the overland journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin and party from Hobart Town to Macquarie Harbour, 1842' by David Burn - extracted from Colburn's United Services Magazine, Vol.2-3, June-November, 1843
David Burn
Napoleon Bonaparte : Extrait du Moniteur
Printed bulletins, extracts from newspapers, proclamations dated 1812 and 1815 regarding Napoleon Bonaparte mostly during War of the Seventh Coalition and prior to his surrender July 1815. Most "Extrait du Moniteur" in French.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Mrs Charles Meredith : a biography
MA. Thesis, University or Melbourne, 1950. Titled "Mrs Charles Meredith: A biography", by Joan H. Buchanan.
Joan Buchanan
Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company
'Mount Bischoff (abstract) - brief history, undated, plus 'Sketch of the proposed trophy for Mount Bischoff
Tin Mining Co'. n.d. pen & wash drawing, stamped: 'R. Flack Ricards, Architect, 14 Elizabeth Street, Hobart.
Mount Bischoff Tin Mine
Letters relating to the dispute between John Montagu and Alfred Stephens:
John Montagu
Montagu-Franklin Correspondence
Copy (manuscript) of official correspondence between John Montagu and the Secretary of State for the Colonies concerning Montagu's disagreement with Sir John Franklin.
John Montagu
Collection consists of scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and other ephemeral material created, collected and collated by Sarah E.E. Mitchell over her lifetime.
Sarah E.E. Mitchell
Miscellaneous Tasmanian Newspapers
Collection of Tasmanian newspapers including, Colonial Times, The Independent, The True Colonist, Tasmanian Trade Circular, Derwent Star, Hobart Town Punch, Tasmanian Punch Preview, Tasmanian Punch, Railwayiana and 'Happy Thwarts '; 'The Derwent Trumpeter'
Miscellaneous single items received from various donors.
Collection of newspapers including Tasmanian Illustrated Mail, Illustrated Australian News, The Australasian Sketcher, The Australian, The Bathurst Times and The Goldfields Hiring Chronicle.
Collection of miscellaneous Australian newspapers: The Record (King Island), Melbourne Advertiser, Commonwealth Gazette, The Colonist, N.S.W.
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings
Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings c. 1930 to 1950. Cuttings, formerly in 'information' file, arranged
in alphabetical order of subject. mainly from the 1950s, but also some earlier cuttings.
Collection of letters and documents presented to the Tasmanian Museum
Miscellaneous items collected by the Society on various subjects including Egyptian wheat, fungus grub, Hobart floating bridge, Bruny Island, Dunrobin Bridge, Army & Barracks, excursion notes etc.
Miscellaneous Convict and Legal Material
Material relating to convicts including returns and orders, medical certificates, also records, pardons, completion or remission of sentence, warrants and miscellaneous notes.
Notebook kept by Percy E. O. Carr while on a tour of Tasmanian tin and gold mines, c.1905, with additional
notes added in 1907
Percy E.O. Carr
Plates from unknown work published by E. Noblet, Liege [Belgium] The plates show drawings of various machinery for coal mining, including carriages, compressed air system, lifts, pumps, digging machines, props, etc. and drawings of mines and coal seams ... »
"Notes taken in the Long Course" 1866 - 1867 :Notes on field artillery, construction of bridges, batteries, field kitchen, etc. with sketches, by Lt. William Vincent Legge (1846-1918)
William Vincent Legge
Abstracts of meteorological data collected during 1841 - 1854 for Hobarton taken at the 'Observatory', noting: thermometer (mean maximum & minimum and highest and lowest, dry and wet bulb), humidity, barometer, wind, rain, clouds, remarks.
Rossbank Observatory
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of George Meredith
George Meredith
Medical and vital statistics for 1856. Report and tables, with returns, prepared fer the Royal Society of Tasmania by Edward Swarbreck Hall
Edward Swarbreck Hall
Material relating to Mrs. Mary Ann Cox who ran a coach service between Hobart and Launceston
Mary Ann Cox
Macquarie Harbour Reports and Returns
Copies of letters from Thomas James Lempriere (1796-1852) public official, author and artist who served as Commissariat at Sarah Island (1827–30) to George Maclean, Deputy- Commissary-General, from Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour, Van Diemen's Land, ... »
Thomas James Lempriere
Letters of Louisa Ann Twamley, nee Meredith, of Edgbaston near Birmingham, U.K., and of her daughter Louisa Ann, to their Meredith relations in Tasmania.
Louisa Ann Twamley
Log kept by Captain Joshua Fergusson of the brig "Jupiter" on his voyage from Calcutta to van Diemen's Land 14 September 1816 to 9 December 1816 and from Van Diemen's Land to Port Jackson and return January to March 1817.
The volume is a standard ship's ... »
Joshua Fergusson
Log book of the schooner "Lavinia"
Log book of the schooner 'Lavinia' on a voyage from Sydney to the Solomon Islands, August 1872 to July 1873
Neil Brodie
Log book 1812 - 1815. Log of ships 'Borneo' (1812-Apr. 1813), Frederick (1813-1814), brig 'Mary & Sally (1814 - 1815) on voyages between Calcutta, Mauritius and V.D.L.
Includes a water colour sketch of Escapelly on the coast near Madras, and navigational diagrams.
Log book of schooner 'Malcolm'
Log book of schooner 'Malcolm', master Walter Langworthy. An official printed form Board of Trade log book, but it contains no entries except a list of crew and a report of the death of the First Mate, James Roper, from a fall at Port Jackson.
Walter Langworthy
List of Tasmanian fish by M. Allport (n.d. c1870-1876)
Includes also "List of Tasmanian fish sent to Dr. Gunther, British Museum, per ship "Windward", March, 1874" ; List of Tasmanian
saltwater fish sent to the Royal Museum of National History, Brussels ... »
Morton Allport
List of Tasmanian Ferns - Manuscript list, bound into quarto volume. Date and author unknown.
Copies of letters written by John Martin, June to November 1849 to his brother David, from Dublin, the ship 'Elphinstone' and from Bothwell, Tasmania. Martin was an Irish political prisoner transported to Van Diemen's Land.
John Martin
Letter written by George Martin
Letter written by George Martin to 'My dearest Mary' (his wife) and a copy of a 'location' extract of a grant of 800 acres.
George Martin
Letter written from Hobart to John Ingle, London:- depression in monetary, commercial and agricultural interests (affairs of Montefiore, Bryant, Hopleys (and their agent Hobbs).
The writer also attempted 'from recollection a sketch [plan] of your property ... »
John Ingle
Letter to Bartholomew J. W. Thomas of Milford
Letter to Bartholomew J. W. Thomas of Milford, Campbell Town from his sister Katherine Iveton in England with family news.
Katherine Iveton
Letter from R. D. Blackmore [Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900) English novelist, author of Lorna Doone] to Mannington Caffyn, on the origin of the title 'Cradock Nowell'. 18 February 1890.
Also letter from E. A. Nowell to Mr Morton [secretary of ... »
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Letter from Michael Maxwell Shaw
Letter from Michael Maxwell Shaw dated 7 July 1869 to William Boyer about the 'Castra' settlement - "I think that a society of gentlemen at Castra would do much to establish a sound tone of feeling and manners through the island". He also describes
his ... »
Michael Maxwell Shaw