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Federal Convention Delegates

Photo-zinco reduction of the Daily Telegraph 2 March 1891 containing portraits and biographies of the members of the Federal Convention, re-published as a supplement to the Daily Telegraph, Sydney dated 21 March 1891.

Bolton Stafford Bird

Farm accounts

Farm accounts dated 1872 to December1383. Accounts including: wages for reaping, building, fencing, ploughing etc., sales of wheat, purchases of flour, tobacco, sugar, tea etc. Also stock account and record of foaling (Diamond, Gypsy, Blossom) 1878-83. The accounts are mainly those of George Marshall but the later ones were kept by D. Marshall, including accounts of the estate of the late G. Marshall. Added at front: 'Indian sauce from Horace R. Spearman, 13 Feb. 1896' (recipe).

George Marshall

Family photographs

Family photographs including portraits and snapshots of W. E. Fuller and family including: Early photographs of W. E. Fuller as a boy, groups, 2 girls (1 reading, 1 preparing veg.) Margaret and Mary (daughters of W.E.F.) as babies and toddlers, family groups (including family group Xmas 1918 including grandparents). Snapshots of army days (1916-18), enlarged photo of army ordnance office at work. Formal portraits, various dates, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Fuller broadcasting for A.B.C. c. 1932.

William Edwin Fuller

Family Photograph & Cutting Album

Includes photographs of John Wilson and family (including wife Dinah, daughter Brightie (Mrs. W.T. Harris), John Wilson with a keel; son Walter Wilson's family (Elsie, Ruby, Frank, Clifton, Tasman), Walter in dinghy, Sydney Wilson. Also boats: Utieka III (materials cost 662, wages 978), Laleeta, Alcairo 1911, Jean Nichols being built and sailing 1923-4, Marina, Eva Leeta, ketch Stanley 1910, Lialeeta 1913 (John Wilson's last boat), Rooganah (100 tons 3 masted 1909), Good Intent built 1877, Leeta May 1919, Good Templar part built on slips 1874, Derwent Hunter 1946, Lenna, Sir John Franklin on slips 1943 and built (taken over by Government for service in New Guinea and sunk on reef), Alice M. 1904, Doris 1906, SS Dover on slips 1908, Mistrall III, Huon Chief repaired.
Also news cuttings about boats, including Huon Chief (Derwent Hunter), the Yard, obituaries of John Wilson, Walter Wilson etc. and sympathy cards; poems by several members of family; copy of specifications for oil engined boat for Jones & Co. 1907. (35 mm negative film taken for University Library 1967)

John Wilson

Extracts from William Gore Elliston Diary

Extracts from the diary of William Gore Elliston 1829 - 1864, as selected by John Noel Douglas Harrison (1911-1980) for his proposed book: "Shades of Elliston : the diaries of William Gore Elliston 1829-1872"

William Gore Elliston

Extracts from letters

Two extracts from letters. The first extract deals mainly with Dobbie's travel plans: he was on his way to Edinburgh, then back to London, and then to Ireland. Most of the second letter deals with financial matters at home, and the need for his wife to have a holiday.

Edward David Dobbie

Extracts from East Coast diaries

Brief notes and extracts from diaries of: John Allen, 1837-1876; Adam Amos, 1822-1825 (see also P.1/6 app. B); Capt. B. Bayley, 1838 -1839; Joseph Cotton, 1863 -1880; E.O. Cotton, 1881 -1896; George Meredith's pocket book, 1821; G.F. Storey, Nov. 1855 (on the taking of 'Dido', i.e. William Driscoll with a note by [Rachel Cotton] written from memory in 1918 and a news clipping); Edwin Woodland 1839 -1842 (a short note only from a diary, letter book and log book lent by Edward Marshall); Lady Franklin (brief note only). Also notes about the Meredith family and notes made from Sarah Mitchell's scrap books.

Exhibition notice

Hand written notice describing drawings made between June and December 1930 after five years of drought had ended at
beginning that year in Central Australia......" They were merely my own pencil records of one section of the many wonders of
nature in the interior of this continent "

Olive Pink

Executive Council

Executive Concil 1934. Includes Govr. E. Clark, A.G. Ogilvie, Premier, R.Cosgrove (Minister for Transport).

Robert Cosgrove

Excerpts of autobiography

Excerpts of autobiography, incomplete. Differ from wording and page numbers of typescript autobiography (E-15).
Pages 1-28, 76-79, and 90-95
Contents
Foreword
Appendix 1: Some Quaker generations
List of illustrations
To Face Page 8: Letter from my grandfather for my twelvth birthday
To Face Page 18: Mother and father

Margaret Sturge Watts

Evolution

King, Georgina
Evolution, Sydney, William Brooks and Co., 1926
Inscribed ‘With the writers compliments’

Olive Pink

Evening Primrose

Evening Primrose

Water colour and pencil on card. Sketched by Olive Pink at Thompsons Rockhole 16/7/45. Identified by Olive Pink as Evening Primrose "Yuggilli Burinyu". Has unidentified sketch on the verso P6-15-18b

Olive Pink

Eustace Conway

Letter to Andrew inglis Clark, Tasmania, from Eustace Conway, New York, U.S.A., 2 Jan 1903 with thanks for the gift of a book.

Eucalypt

Eucalypt

Pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, Darwin, Northern Territory, 29/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Eucalypt? tall tree, cream blossom

Olive Pink

Erythrina vespertilio - leaves

Erythrina vespertilio - leaves

Watercolour and pencil on card. Sketched by Olive Pink, 16/7/45. Identified by Olive Pink as leaves of Erythrina vespertilio. True colour and actual size of a large leaf and stem. Page of sketch book.

Olive Pink

Erythrina vespertilio - Bean Tree

Erythrina vespertilio - Bean Tree

Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 9/10/42. Identified by Olive Pink as Bean Tree. (Erythrina vespertilio) "flowers point upwards - this branch was growing like this (a la Japanese print I thought!)"

Olive Pink

Erodium cygnorum

Erodium cygnorum

Water colour on paper sketched by Olive Pink, (place and date unknown) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Erodium cygnorum.

Olive Pink

Eremophilia oldfieldii

Eremophilia oldfieldii

Watercolour and pencil on paper, painted by Olive Pink at the Finke, Northern Territory 4/9/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Eremophilia oldfieldii

Olive Pink

Eremophila maculata

Eremophila maculata

Watercolour painted by Olive Pink at Beltana, South Australia 19/7/30. Identified by Olive Pink as Eremophila maculata

Olive Pink

Eremophila

Eremophila

Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink at Edwards Creek, South Australia, 25/7/30 ( shrub about 4ft high) Identified by Olive Pink as Eremophila - medicinal. Attached - paper, small watercolour painted at Rodinga, Northern Territory, 18/9/30

Olive Pink

Envelope

27 black and white photos of people and scenery (some with details on the reverse), 1 postcard, 5 visiting cards, 1 40 pfg. Stettiner Strassen-Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (tram ticket?) and 1 Bettkarte (sleeping berth ticket) Berlin - Coln.
Inscription on envelope: 'Visiting cards, photographs (family ancestors), Germany, Australia, to keep or use'.

Margaret Sturge Watts

Emma S. Colcleugh

Letter to Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmania, from Emma S. Colcleugh, 4 Aug 1898, regarding Clark's appointment as a judge.

Electoral address

Electoral address: entitled "To the People of Tasmania" from the Daily Post, Hobart, dated 1916

John Earle

Election broadsheet

Election broadsheet entitled "Reminiscences which may be useful to John Earle's supporters" Printed by E.H. Newman.

John Earle

Educational toy: time telling clock

Cardboard clock to teach children to tell time (hours and hour hand in red, minute hand and minutes "past" and "to" in black), correspondence with agent Higham Associates - suggested an article for Child Education rather than trying to patent and market as toy.

Clive Sansom

Economy and wealth

Letters to press and articles on accumulation of capital wealth, white Australia and labour, cost of living, trade and industry (1912), benefits of spending (1913-15), progress or stagnation (1916), purchasing power of wages (1918), capitalism (1919), nationalisation, unemployment (1919), coal prices, wages, strikes, wages and production (1920), industrial democracy (1920), immigration (1920), "Bible laws and peace" (1920), strikes, labour and capitalism (1921), production and unemployment etc. (1931-35) usury (1932).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Early writing

Poetry and letters sent to newspapers, competition entries, etc. Including early poem "To Mother" (written at age 10) and school essay (at 13), and poems written for Kathleen Stone.

Clive Sansom

Early view of Ackworth School

Early view of Ackworth School by T. Stackhouse, no date. Ackworth School was founded in 1779 by John Fothergill on behalf of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Ackworth School

Early poems

Cutting from The Observer, The Wayfarer (Quaker magazine), West Country Magazine, Poetry Review, etc., photocopy of manuscript "Poems - tokens of my love..." (bound into little booklet), Poetry Quarterly Spring 1943 (including Clive Sansom poem "I am a leaf").

Clive Sansom

Drivers licence

Drivers Licence issued to L.J. Hayns for the period 1950-51

Lawrence John Hayns

Drawings and sketches

Drawings of countryside, life studies, still life studies; illustrated manuscript of copies of poetry; "Christmas Fun" 1923, 1924, 1925 (booklets of drawings, jokes, etc. for Christmas); topographical studies of Norfolk, Southern England, Wales, with notes.

Clive Sansom

Drawings and descriptions of Tasmanian orchids

Ink drawings with a typed description of plant and where specimen found, including: Caladenia Atkinsonia Rodway, Praesophyllum odoratum Rogers, Pterodtylus pedoglossa, Calochilus paludosus, Microtii atrata Lindl., etc. Also list of Tasmanian endemic plants and 1 dried plant from Mount Wellington.

Henry Brune Atkinson

Draft novels ND

Draft novels [1930s or 40s]
(1) "Fenley Green" a novel based on Enfield Chase (Middlesex, UK) including notes on history of Enfield, sketches, drafts, with note at front by Ruth Sansom "These notes have value in showing how Clive worked first on place backgrounds before setting his characters and writing the chapters".
(2) "To Voltaire": rough draft of a novel set in Dorsetshire involving a scientist, Dr. Barnes, and a small boy.

Clive Sansom

Draft letter of resignation

Draft letter dated 1 November 1862, resigning as M.L.C. and from office as Colonial Secretary preparatory to "quitting the Colony for a season" and reply from Sir Thomas Gore Browne (1807-1887), Govenor of Tasmania.

William Henty

Dorset Village

Dorset Village. Sequence of poems: manuscript, typescript, proof copy, correspondence and notes, "Dorset word book" (alphabetic book of Dorset Dialect words) and notes.

Clive Sansom

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