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Photograph by George Musgrave Parker

Xerox copies of obituaries of Dr. J.H. Patterson, dated June 1914.

Two obituaries on the death of Sir George Cartland in 2008

Various newspaper cuttings of the obituaries of Bolton Stafford Bird who died at his home on Bruny Island, Tasmania on the 15th December 1924.

Newspaper clipping detailing the life achievements and death of Mr A.J. Drysdale. from the Mercury Newspaper - not dated

Obituary notice for W. E. Fuller from Booksellers' Association, also from the Mercury newspaper

Copied by Dr. Parker from Mercury 7 June 1885.

Notes on the life of George Marshall prepared for his obituary probably by David or George Douglas Marshall.

Letters Patent or certificates of appointment to Government offices, justice of peace, etc., signed and sealed by Governor E. Clark or the Attorney General. Also illuminated ““tribute" from the Education Department 1958, (framed) and grant of K.C.M.G., 1959 (framed).

Letters Patent or certificates of appointment to Government offices, justice of peace, etc., signed and sealed by Governor E. Clark or the Attorney General. Also illuminated tribute from the Education Department 1958, (framed) and grant of K.C.M.G., 1959 (framed).

Oil painting by Olive Pink of Cobbity near Camden, NSW.

Photograph by George Musgrave Parker

Photograph taken by E.H. D'Emden

Photograph taken by E.H. D'Emden.

Photograph of north part old crater, Mt. Balbi, looking east taken September 1945. Ward photo

Photograph of well dressed old man, name unknown

H.H. Baily cabinet photo

One booklet written by William Henty entitled "On improvements in cottage husbandry " published by Henry Dowling jun. Launceston, 1849

Originally published for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the late 1940s: letter from LAMDA asking if it could be republished (October 1977): duplicated typescript, draft, notes, correspondence with Bodley Head.

Oral history interview of Stanley Darling conducted by Michael Roe, much of the material is on the early history of ABC radio broadcasting.

Orchids, painted at Gore Hill, New South Wales

Typescript of a work titled "Ordeal by Fire"

Order & delivery book of Duncan Loane Pty. for the years 1943-1948. Includes names and address of buyers.

Photocopy of Order of the Day by Lieut General S.G. Savage, dated 8 September 1945 on Japanese Surrender.

Orders for punishment of prisoners by work in chain gangs or flogging (William King, John Parr, John Forster, James Quinn, Samuel Bennett, James Seymour, George Jones, 1836; Samuel Buckley, 1841; John Harrison, 1841)

Collection of poems titled "Original Verse" by members of the Lyceum Literary Circle. Includes 3 poems by Alice Daisy Baker: "Anthem to Tasmania", "The Village by the Sea (Brown's River)", "Mount Wellington"

Stereoscopic photo, S. Clifford

Autograph book with signatures of friends, some with addresses and brief descriptions. 19 December 1889 - 26 March 1914 and no date.

Page from autograph or small sketch book depicting "The Little Island in the Sea" (Isle of Man) with its three legged emblem and small map, inscribed George L.L. Hodgkin (from Mayfield, Douglas), 1909. Found in a book purchased for the Quaker collection.

2 coloured mountain berries, Tasmania (in folder cover)

Paintings and prints - Tasmanian scenes by Roy Cox, crayon and wash drawings, 1945:­ Salamanca Place, Hobart - Kelly's Steps, Hobart - Old Signal Station, Hobart - G.P.O., Hobart - Government House , Hobart. Also post-card reproductions of the above, plus Hobart Bridge and Ross Bridge.
Coloured engraved, reproduction from the original painting held in the Allport Library Tasmania of Joseph Lycett's View from top of Mount Nelson with Hobart Town in the distance, V.D.L. Published by J. Souter, 1825, printed. J. Walch & Sons, 1974.

Miscellaneous pamphlets mainly relating to Tasmania

Typescript of a novel titled "Papermakers Ltd."

"A trip to Papua"; "Papua and its possibilities" (typescript)

Parachilna –‘first sketch on trip to Darwin 1930

Sketch by Roy Cox

Parliament in session. Includes A. &E. Ogilvie, E. Dwyer-Gray, R. Cosgrove.

Pass in Barristers' exam, Lincolns Inn, London dated 13th June 1911

Receipts for moneys paid to William P. Kay for wages, etc., for work at Antill Ponds & Campbell Town (including lists of names) and at Hobart on public buildings, wharves, Queen's Domain.

A novel: correspondence with Methuen and R.K.S., research notes including Oberammergau programme and postcards, newscuttings, etc. relating to Oberammergau, manuscript in notebooks, typescript.

Two Australian passports - in the name of Mr and Mrs Hayns, 1940, issued 29.8.1949

Papers relating to a case brought by Capt. Williams of SS. Waldemar, under the Small Debts Act jurisdiction, against Paterson & Son claiming they overcharged, including accounts for work done on "Waldemar", promissory notes etc.

One handbill entitled "Peace on Earth ..." published by the Millenium Guild.

Report and history of the Peacock Convalescent Home (typed), dated 1966 and a 25th Anniversary booklet.
The Home, situated in Swan Street North Hobart was donated to the State by W D Peacock. It was officially opened as a Convalescent Home for Women in March 1943

Hand drawn pencil map on card

Strehlow, C.
Pepa Aragulinja Aranda Katjirberaka, SA, 1928
Aranda language –Hymns in Aranda language –Hermannsburg mission

Personal book of inspirational quotations, in poor condition - loose pages and inserts, stained edges.
Inscription in front cover: 'Margaret S. Thorp, with loving wishes for June 12.1906. from E.B. Emmott'.
Miscellaneous writings and notes, inspirational verses.
Interfiled is letter from ABC Chairman, March 14, 61 re compensation cheque for eight pounds - money stolen at Canberra hotel

Miscellaneous personal papers including character references, First Communion card, newspaper cutting relating to introduction of Fair Rents Bill, visit to Claremont Army Camp 1915, House of Assembly notice of regret at his retirement 1958, House of Assembly and Legislative Council notices of regret at his death 1969, funeral card 1969.

Personal press cuttings dated c 1941-1959

Visions of a future Australian society - some personal reflections

Spurling postcard

Correspondence relating to Philatelic Societies and stamps. Also certificate of Life Membership of Tasmanian Philatelic Society awarded for distinguished service dated 24 January 1974 (formerly in frame).

Schools and the nurture of the human spirit - Philip Smith Memorial Lecture.

Quarto volume containing numbered entries on philosophy, psychology, logic, ethics etc

Photocopies of leaflets dropped from the air to apprise natives and Japanese soldiers of the surrender. 5.pages dated 1945.

Photocopy of autobiography, incomplete. Goes to page 150: at Denver, Colorado in 1935

Photograph of the Williamstown Congregational Manse, WIlliamstown, Victoria, taken in 1925.

Photograph of Rev. F.A. Woods, Mrs Woods, Russell & Letty Woods

Photograph of Rev. F.A. Woods, Mrs Woods, 3 sons, including Eric Woods, and daughter.

1 large, hand-illustrated quarter-bound leather album of black and white photographs.
Gold lettering on cover: War Relief Work Through Europe 1920-1921. M S Thorp.
Inscriptions include: Holland; Peace Palace Hague; Amsterdam; Rotterdam; Holland; Hartz Mts; Wandervogel; Blackforest Mountains; Spreewald; Bohemia; Schleswig Holstein; on the Baltic; Freiburg; Black Forest Mts; Dresden; Austrian Tyrol; Kattowitz, Upper Silesia; Freiburg; courtyard in Freiburg; skiing in the Blackforest Mts; Frankfort; medical examination; making use of spare rooms for homeless children; Dresden; open-air treatment; Leipzig depot; last scrapings of meal; German woman’s home; No-More War Demonstration; Hermine Chandlemaier; Lust-garten; Mrs Einstein; mission cows, Vienna; milk trains; hospitals & clinics; Austrian clinics; big child aged 3, small child aged 6 years; mission goats; rickerty children; angora rabbits; Town of Peace, Vienna co-operative scheme; Vienna; Friends’ motor transport, Vienna; Poland: Fumanka; refugee’s home, seven people; market scene; mission truck; refugees returning from Russia; dug-outs, Polish frontier, 10-15 peasants living in one dug out; returning refugees; where her home used to stand; washing clothes; negotiations for a new home; peasant woman; dug-out; carrying water; Upper Silesia; Warsaw; rickerty child, our courtyard, Warsaw; White Palace, Brest Litovsk where the Peace Treaty was signed; Russia: Minsk; Moscow – Kremlin; St Basil’s Church; propaganda; Opera House, Childrens’ Day; Cathedral; kindergartens and creches; Freinds’ (sic) warehouse; Stein; Rosinsky; childrens’ home; Doris White; All Russian Health Commission off to famine area; Childrens’ Day; children from famine area, Moscow; demonstration of maternity welfare; Kirghese; Samara; Russian porter (?); Health Committee, Samara; famine children, Samara; waiting for a boat on the Volga; the daily search; Russian village; relief supplies; famine transport; Russian village; peasants’ home; on the banks of the Volga, village depopulated; Violet Tillard; waiting for dinner; refugees – Samara; wild lily of the valley, Russia; Mission motor tractors; relief supplies; Petrograd; Buzuluk; Minsk; Reval; Berlin bunker air raid shelter; homeless; train travel in Germany; women workers in Schleswig Holstein.
Relief work included feeding children; medical and hospital work for children afflicted with tuberculosis and rickets; agricultural and housing reconstruction; settlement of Polish refugees returning from Russia; fighting typhus and cholera; and the Russian famine

Photograph album of the Hodgkin's visit to Australia during 1909. Includes photos of Christ Church Annual Meeting, Adelaide General Meeting, other meeting groups, Evelyn Camp, Gosforth Camp, Healsville Camp, members of families of Woodham, Erskine, Benson, Howie, Greaves, Allen, Sayce, Robson, Dixon, Mather, Mackie, Isaac Sharp. Also views of New Zealand, Maori carvings, Dandenongs Victoria, Sydney and Point McLeay Mission. Also a loose photo of Mary Augusta Walker aged 93 wearing her mother’s Quaker dress, and the first General Meeting in Hobart 1903

Cover: M.S. Thorp, The Lighter Side of Wartime Relief-Work in Central Europe. War Relief Work in Central Europe, Berlin 1921-22.
Album of black and white photographs taken in Central Europe of colleagues and friends at social activities.
Inscriptions include: Opera House, Paris; The Seine, Paris; The Luxomburg, Paris; Dorotheen Strasse 2 Berlin; Headquarters Friends; Alfred Scattergood and Caroline [illeg]; Mary Hannum; Our Berlin Centre [illeg] Relief Section 135; Beatrice Ford Smith and Margaret; Friends Meeting House Berlin; Carl and Effie Heath? and F. Howard at [illeg]; Brandenburger Thof. Berlin; At Spreewald; Tiergarten Canal; Near Duisburgruhr; Brent and Edmund? at Potsdam; MST (Margaret Sturge Thorp) Konigstein; Brent Allinson Potsdam and E. Cooper and M. Thorp in lake; Edmund Cooper; Potsdam; Wandervogel; Berlin Opera House and Art Gallery; Cathedral; Crown Prince's Palace now an art gallery; University Berlin; Violet Tillard, Mary Hannum, Von Geisburg?, Hubert [illeg], Mary Allan, Sylvia Cowles, Mrs. Morris?, Mrs. Allan; Howard ?; Frieda Burkle?; MST, 'Scottie' & John Fletcher?; ? and Mary Howard [illeg], MST and Joan Fry + 3 unnamed; Old folk dance; Prague; Wandervogel; At Spreewald. Julia Ives?, Mary Moon, Mary Connell, Doris White, Beulah Herley, [illeg]; 'Scottie', MST?, Jeusen; 'Scottie', MST, Frieda, Sylvia, Laura, Caroline, Edmund, Julia, Harriet?, Von Geisburg, Mary [illeg], Howard [illeg], Mary Hannum. Fancy dress party at Kaiserallee given by Mary and Margaret; Rufus? Jones; Wandervogel; Alice McIver 'Scottie'; Hubert Hemp; [illeg] H and Mrs P [illeg] and 'Scottie'; Mary Hannum, Beulah Herley, [illeg (3)]; Terraced vineyards; Edmund Cooper; Konigstein; Old market place [illeg]; Spreewald; Student picnics while in Berlin; Violet Tillard; Students picnic at G--walt; Berlin Cathedral; Tiergarten; Berlin Office Field Centre ? table; Mary Hannum; Unter den linden; Regatta Day; Tiergarten Berlin; [illeg]; Taken from the train going to Vienna; Munich; Dresden; Berlin strasse, Charlottenburg Berlin

1 hand-illustrated quarter-bound leather album of black and white photographs of people MST met on the trip, and colour postcards

Portraits of lawyers and others, U.S., British, European and Australian, many unidentified, but including:- Rev. James Martineau (reproduced by Woodbury Mechanical Process and another by London Sterescopic Co.), Fellice Dagnino, H. Herbert Oakley 1889 (by Wherrett Bros. & Co., Hobart), J. F. Clarke (by the Notman Photographic Co. Ltd, Boston), Prof. James Bradley Thayer (1832-1907, Pack Bros. Cambridge Mass.), W. E. Gladstone (Elliott & Fry, London), John Morley MP. (Elliott & Fry, London), Mazzini (Giacomo, Firenze), A. I. Clark (Nicholas, Hobart). Photographers of unknown portraits include: Barraud, London; Notman Photographic Co. Boston; Sotteri, Genova; Lombardi & Co. London; J Laurent,
Madrid & Paris; Benque & Co. Paris; W. Kurtz, Boston; Hoyt "Brady National Gallery" Washington; Tuttle & co., Melbourne
& Adelaide; Tuttle & Co., Sydney & Melbourne; Girouelle, Melbourne

Family photographs of Clive and Ruth Sansom.

Family photographs of Clive and brother as children, ?parents and grandparents, ?brother's children (photographs not labelled or dated).

Signed photograph of Arthur James Drysdale taken by John Watt Beattie photographer, Hobart

Studio portrait photograph of the head and shoulders of Bolton Stafford Bird taken in 1900 by Alfred E. Burrows, photographer of the Quadrant, Launceston.

Photograph of bullock dray thought to be at Cape Sorell, Tasmania