Collection consists of correspondence, letter books, diaries, notebooks and photographs relating to John Wilson & Sons boatbuilders.

Copies or drafts of letters sent relating to ship building, orders, supplies, including some details of labour, timber etc. for specified vessels and miscellaneous notes.

6. General inquiries etc. 1917-1936
7. "Melba" letters and some time and labour details 1919-1921
8. "Eva Leeta" for T.H. Spaulding - letters 1921-1923
9. "Utieka" for I.E. Giles - letters 1923-1924
10. "Huon Chief" and "Anita" letters 1937-1939
11. "Jean Nichols" for W. Nichols, Stanley letters etc. 1940
12. "Sir John Franklin" letters and notes 1940-1941

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.

Miscellaneous specifications for boats for Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club and 2 other vessels unnamed.

Specifications for various vessels : "Stanley" for Richard Leggett of Stanley 1906; "Rooganah" a ketch for H. Jones & Co. and Captain Heather (carvel built, length 85 ft. beam 25', bird figure head, completed 1909) December 1907; "Alcairo", auxiliary oil ketch for George Dunn Bennett of Geeveston 1910-1911.

Notebooks noting time, labour, materials, miscellaneous notes, sometimes costing, some draft letters, etc. (most in old school exercise books).

14. "Leeta May" (T.H. Spaulding), "Stanley", "Westward" 1917-1924
15. "Marina" renamed "Miena" (Jones & Boxall), "Alice" renamed "Kintail" 1933-5
16. "Alice M" ("Kintail"), "Iolanthe", "Gladys S"
17. "Iolanthe" (R. Hickman) and repair of "Ventura" including costing details
18. "Mistral III" (G. Rex), "Jean Nichols" (W. Nichols) c1940
19. "Jean Nichols" c1940
20. "Sir John Franklin" & other vessels 1941-1945
21. "Derwent Hunter" (A.J. Drysdale) 1943-1945
22. Proposed vessel for A.J. Drysdale (not built) 1946, 1949
23. Rough notebook of measurements, no date, possibly for "Sir John Franklin"
24. Notes of weights and measures, displacement, ballast, sail area