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Humorous verse (adult) not published

Including: "I bite my thumb: parodies and verses by Clive Sansom" with foreword "most of the items have either been accepted or rejected by Punch" (no date 1930s or 40s?). Manuscript and typescript papers in binder, with note at front by Ruth Sansom: "not published. These will need careful selecting and possibly revising. Those in 'I bite my thumb' were written long ago..." Also (b) "The Wet Land" (1932 a parody on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", suggested by a wet Sunday in Wales) and letter to Kathleen Stone about it; (c) draft introduction to "I bite my thumb"; (d) rhymes and limericks.

Clive Sansom

Hut at Lake Meston 1977

Hut at Lake Meston 1977

Colour photograph shows hut at Lake Meston built of logs, shingles and with tin plate chimney People sitting outside hut eating

Hut at Twilight Tarn

Hut at Twilight Tarn

Colour photograph shows the rusting red roofing iron on hut visible above trees on the edge of Twilight Tarn

Hydro-Electric Commission

Typescript notes on moving "A Bill to amend the Hydro-Electric Commission Act 1929" and copies of "Report on the Power Position to the Hon. the Minister for Lands and Works" and "Report of the Board of Inquiry on the Hydro-Electric Commission". Also includes "A Bill to Amend the Hydro-Electric Commission Act 1929".

Robert Cosgrove

Hymn sheets

Stencilled copy of hymns chosen by Karl Von Stieglitz for his funeral Service held at St. Andrews Church of England, Evandale 28th March 1967 with notes by T.E. Burns

Thomas Edgar Burns

Ice on Lake Dobson

Ice on Lake Dobson

Colour photograph shows a person standing on ice at Lake Dobson, with ridge of snow above treeline

Icicles near the Springs 1986

Icicles near the Springs 1986

Colour photograph taken near the Springs of man dressed in red beside road to Mount Wellington, with icicles dangling from the vegetation after a snowstorm

Ideas - notes

Clive Sansom's notes of ideas for works, often just a brief note together with press cuttings etc. of background information relating to a subject or a setting which had caught his eye [the cuttings have not been retained for archival preservation]. Topics include: Ideas for a novel "Psychiatry Hall"; miscellaneous notes of ideas; "Quaker family in America" (rough notes for a novel for children); "More things in Heaven and Earth" (anthology of supernatural happenings); "They saw it first" (anthology of historical anecdotes); "The voyage without return" (novel based on Keats journey to Naples); Anthologies (notes, list of titles for); "Drama" (rough notes for a novel with a theatrical setting - cuttings (not retained included "The actor's life from Observer Magazine 1966, "Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama - the first ten years", "memories of the Old Vic" by E. Phillips from The Listener 14 February 1957, "learning to be an actor" The Sphere 25 December 1954, etc.); Anthology of theatrical occasions "All wrong on the night"; "Arabs" - possible play or opera (numerous cuttings on oil rich Arab sheiks, "Ben Ayed's Harem" in the Tunisian Desert - Picture Post 5 January 1952, Kuwait etc. not retained); "Tea" for an anthology (cuttings not retained included photographs of antique tea pots and tea caddies, articles on tea, Osbert Lancaster: "The story of tea" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London), Olive Warner "The English teapot" (Ceylon Tea Centre, London 1948); "Last words"; stories for children; music hall and ballet (very rough notes - news cuttings on old music hall artists not retained); "By word of mouth" anthology for reading aloud (cuttings from Listener, Reader's Digest, Countryman, Countrylife etc. not retained); "In such a time" etc. (miscellaneous drafts); miscellaneous notes and diary extracts c1930s).

Clive Sansom

Identity

Three items belonging to W. E. Fuller -Identity card, 1941; visiting cards (Collins Street) and Passport, 1954.

William Edwin Fuller

Imperial Conference 1926, British policy in the Antarctic

Imperial Conference 1926, British policy in the Antarctic

Inter-governmental document relevant to territorial claims, sovereignty, United Kingdom, Falkland Islands, Australian Antarctic Territory, Ross Dependency, Great Britain. Includes the relevant summary of proceedings of the conference. Provides document or extract, source information and Bill Bush notes. [Published by Bush as AU19111926]

Bill Bush

Impromptu stage

Impromptu stage

Impromptu stage with microphone outside Cadbury building, with tubs of flowers, the Union Jack and Australian flags setting the scene

Colin Dennison (Curator)

In the library

In the library

Several female Cadbury workers selecting books from the library, while two men offer suggested reading. Women are wearing uniforms of dark skirt and lighter top embroidered with the Cadbury logo

Colin Dennison (Curator)

In the Midst of Death

In the Midst of Death: poems by Clive Sansom (privately printed 1940), dedicated "To Ruth": printed copy, typescript, correspondence, printer's bill (O.U.P.), reviews.

Clive Sansom

Inaugural address : UNAA

Typescript 'Facing the future with the United Nations'. Inaugural address of H.V. Evatt Memorial Lecture. Conference of UNAA Sancta Sophia College, Sydney University, 13 January 1967

Wilfred Asten

Indian statements concerning the inclusion of an item on Antarctica on the agenda of the Eleventh...

Indian statements concerning the inclusion of an item on Antarctica on the agenda of the Eleventh session of the United Nations' General Assembly

Inter-governmental document relevant to India, UN. Provides document or extract only. Includes statement in General Committee on reasons for withdrawal of Indian item on Antarctica (no source information provided). [Published by Bush as GE15071958]

Bill Bush

Information on "Norvegia" expedition

Information on "Norvegia" expedition

Reference to sources of information relevant to territorial claims, sovereignty, acts of possession, Norway, Enderby Land, Australian Antarctic Territory. Provides source information and Bill Bush notes.

Bill Bush

Inscription

Xerox copy of inscription on one sheet of paper - from a book?
On the recto, a black and white photo inscribed (by a different hand, possibly MST): Brent Allison (sic), Munich & Vienna.
On the verso: To my friend Margaret Thorp who understands - for the sake of old times together under the Quaker Star! from Brent D. Allinson. Vienna, September 1922

Margaret Sturge Watts

Insignia

Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George bestowed 1 January 1920 also warrant granting the dignity of C.M.G. to B.S. Bird, accompanying letter, notification and the insignia (in jeweller's box), with typed note on how it should be worn.

Bolton Stafford Bird

Inspecting chocolates

Inspecting chocolates

Two managers inspecting chocolate production on the factory floor. Female worker is wearing hat, light uniform and floral apron and is seated at conveyor belt

Colin Dennison (Curator)

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