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Medical lecture notes 1822- 1823. Remedies, effects of various drugs, etc

Alphabetical memoranda on medical subjects A - L. Title written in Greek on cover with quotation from Ecclesiasticus ch. 38 v. 4

Notes, neatly written, on diseases and medicines, including recipes and also recipes for furniture polish, silk dye, lemonade powder, ginger beer.

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

Rough notes and sketches manuscript and newspaper cuttings relating to the fishes of Tasmania.

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

Typescript of a work titled "Memory"

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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.

Military ceremony (? Military College) N.D.

Uniformed men in a military parade [Hobart?]

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.

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

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

2 documents: Land Title Office No. 55734 and Tasmanian Pre-School News September 1958.

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

Including: Thomas Tyson of Melbourne: agricultural and mill machinery (1878); "Granny's household hints" (Sunset Drug Co. Sydney); Carry On No. 1 July 1925 issued by the Commonwealth Treasury (war loans and reinvestments). [The Wayfarer, a record of Quaker life and work, U.K., July, August 1925 transferred to Library]

Six typescript biographies :
(1) Isaac Alfred Isaacs (private notes ms.)
(2) John West (1809-1873) (ts.)
(3) Sir John Franklin, the Colonial Governor 1837-1843, address at Franklin Centenary Meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania 7 Feb. 1937 (ts. 13 pp.)
(4) Launceston's Dictator 1811 (Johnathan Burke McHugo) (ts. 15 pp.)
(5) James Rule (1830-1901), educationist
(6) A.I. Clark - "The Clarks of Rosebank". (ts.)

Microfilm copy of papers relating to the Cheyne and Wilkinson families including:
1 ) Family of John Cheyne, surgeon, Leith (father of Alexander) and his wife, the daughter of Wm. Edmonston
2) Extract from the life of Dr. John Cheyne (1777-1836) physician general to the forces in Ireland and brother of Alexander
3) 'Royal descent of Colonel Humphry Graham' claimant to the earldom of Monteith, and Elizabeth (Farquhar) , his wife.
4) Printed Pedigree of Colonel Humphrey Graham, claimant to the earldom of Monteith, showing the double descent of his descendants from the Douglases.
5) Marriage certificate of Captain William Wilkinson and Elizabeth Cheyne, 1803, witnessed by Alexander Cheyne her brother.
6) Letter from J.D. Thomson, Admiralty, to Dr John Cheyne, Leith, 28 August- ,1805 informing him of the appointment of Captain W. Wilkinson as commander of the 'Nightingale'.
7) Alexander Cheyne's commissions as: 2nd Lieutenant 1 May 1806; 1st Lieutenant 1 July 1806; 2nd Captain Royal Engineers' Corps, 1 May 1811.
8) Letter from Lt. Col. B. Cheyne to William Cheyne (brothers of Alexander) 28 March 1828
9) Letter from Alexander Cheyne to his niece Cecilia Wilkinson, 9 October 1852
10) Copy of will of Alexander Cheyne 22 April 1858
11) Copy of letter from Westbrook and Butler, solicitors, Hobart, to Mrs W.N.D. Sheppard, Dublin, about Cheyne's will, 18 August 1858.
12) Letter from S. W. Westbrook of the late firm of Westbrook and Butler to Mrs Sheppard, Dublin, 15 July 1861
13) Directions to the cook (? in the residence of John Cheyne, Leith) nd.
14) Copies of letters from Captain W. Wilkinson to his brother John from 'Goliath' off mouth of Nile, Egypt, 13 August 1798 and from 'Elephant', Copenhagen, 4 April 1801.
15) Copy of letter from Lord Nelson to Captain W. Wilkinson, from H.M.S 'Victory', 1805.
16) Letters from Captain W. Wilkinson to his wife Elizabeth (nee Cheyne) 21 March 1805, 20 Jan. 10 Oct. 22 Nov. 1814.
17) Letter from T. Wilkinson to Captain W. Wilkinson 28 Dec. 1830.

Poem on drunkenness, petition of John Coutts, convict to Govr. Arthur. ND.

Collection consists of two files of postcards, cuttings, photographs and brochures

Rough notes, including an account of the 'Kassa' ship, sheep, population, photostat pages of a 'return of population and stock' from [Dr. Storey's journal in] the Mitchell Library.

Miscellaneous notes on Catholic religion

Miscellaneous notes on practical medicine

• The Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia by Loftus Hills, 1927
• Australian Pioneer Women from talks by Sheila Wignore, A.B.C. (marked "Betty Parker Va 1934")
• Forms of service 1935, 1946, 1953.

Miscellaneous papers and notes about literary and historical matters

Including notice of takeover by Labor Papers Ltd., Hobart, publishers of The World (1918).

Miscellaneous personal papers including Christmas cards, photograph of little girl reading, copyright registration receipt (1928), Red Cross home nursing certificate (1939), embroidery transfer.

Bundle of cuttings, notices etc., mounted on papers, including: shipping advertisements - "Fairlie" to include Sir John Franklin, Govnr. with his lady and suite (1836), Worthing [U.K.] regatta (1831), exhibition of whale skeleton London (ND.), Guildford Royal Grammar School prospectus (NO.), opening of Mechanics Institute Hobart (1842), "Chambers Information for the People No. 14 'Emigration to V.D.L.' ", South Australian colonisation, Launceston Horticultural Society notices W. Henty secretary (1838-9), miscellaneous cuttings on horticulture, sheep management, immigration, female immigration (1836), insurance.

Miscellaneous printed papers of Duncan Loane Pty. Undated.

17 sketches

32 sketches

Incomplete miscellaneous typescript pages of plays and historical matters

Typescript of a radio play title "Mistletoe Mischief"

Letters to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, from Moncure Daniel Conway, 11 Oct 1883 - 2 Dec 1905 about Conway's lecture tour of Australia, his visit to Tasmania, publications by Conway and others, political events in Britain and America and religious topics.
Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 – November 15, 1907) was an American abolitionist.

Photocopy of a script of story by Nellie M. Buckley. entitled 'Moonaba -story of a family", dated 1965.
Typescript in file folder with photograph of elderly woman, neatly dressed in black silk suit, also younger woman.

Typescript of a work titled "More about Aluminium"

Report of prospects for coal and gold mining on East Coast.

Mortgage dated 26 August 1772 of two tenements and garden in Shaws Lane, Berwick­on-Tweed from John Cockburn to Vivian Henderson.

Photograph of the mother of Mrs Mary Margaret Hayns (nee Crane)

Published in Medical Journal of Australia, Jan 1956.

Photograph of Mrs Mary Margaret Haynes ( nee Crane) and Mrs G Hayns at Loch Lomond

Notice of meeting to consider transferring the control Municipal police to the Government : Glamorgan Council

Diary of trip from Sydney to Hastings, UK from February 21st to 23rd April 1963.
Inscription: 'from Mary & Arthur Hausch xmas 1962'.
Sailed to Naples on the "Australia" , then coach and train through Italy and Switzerland.

Contains diary entries, postcards and photos from trip to New Zealand in May 1973.
Inscription inside cover: 'To Margaret - Wishing you a happy trip - Love from Bet & Daph. May 1st 1973'.
Inscription opposite: '"Every gift conceals a task". The enclosed is my happy task MSW' underneath a picture of kiwi & egg

Photograph of N. End Karukaitai Beach, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Photograph of N. Rim old crater - Mt. Balbi, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Draft of the description of proceedings of the National Australasian Convention, 1891

Articles on wages systems and the English suggestion for the establishment of National Guilds as explained by S.G. Hobson.

Booklet entitled Native Welfare in Australia by Paul Hasluck published in Perth 1953. Paul Hasluck was a friend of Olive Pink–annotated by her with dates of his speeches

Notes on lectures by James Davidson MD on natural history at Marischall College, Aberdeen

Printed copy of The American Academy of Political & Social Science publication 282

Photograph of new active East Crater, Balbi, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Wright, Tom, New Deal for the Aborigines, Sydney
no publication date