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Countries of the mind

Typescript draft of the book "Countries of the mind : the biographical journey of Edmund Morris Miller 1881-1964", by John Reynolds and Margaret Giordano. Published 1987)

John Reynolds

Cottage at Ross

Cottage at Ross

Colour photograph shows front of sandstone cottage with red painted corrugated iron roof and decorative front porch, established flower garden, at Ross.

Hal Wyatt

Correspondence, business and personal

Correspondence with publishers, ABC, budding poets, schools, politicians on conservation etc., Australian Literature Board Council about fellowship and tax, etc. 1974-76, correspondence with Higham Associates (authors' agents) 1962-81, correspondence with publishers, etc. mainly about copyright and permissions to publish (1950-83), royalty statements for tax and execution of estate (1976-82) and some personal correspondence. Also some letters from Brisbane Twelfth Night Theatre about a school of speech and drama 1957.

Clive Sansom

Correspondence and notes

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes, including draft of "A.I. Clark's American sympathies and his infJuence on Australian Federation" and of "The Clark's of Rosebank"

John Reynolds

Correspondence 1932-1952

Personal correspondence with friends, but including some letters from booksellers and publishers, etc. referring to bookselling business, broadcasting, etc. Also letters concerning Repertory Theatre Society.

William Edwin Fuller

Correspondence 1932-1952

Correspondence with A.B.C. letters concerning broadcasts, also scripts (including scripts by George Evans - pseudonym for W.E. Fuller as bookseller).

William Edwin Fuller

Correspondence 1929-1942

Correspondence dated 1929 - 1942. Including letters from Solicitor and agreement with Oldham & Morris, notice of opening of W. E. Fuller's "The Bookshelf" 48 Elizabeth Street, (underneath Goodwill Store), plan of basement of 48 Elizabeth Street; letters from Joan McLennan, Governor's private secretary, Government House; correspondence with A.B.C. and 7HO relation to broadcasts, plays submitted, etc. (including A.B.C. contracts).

William Edwin Fuller

Correspondence 1924 to 1949

1 folder of loose papers: letters, references, cuttings, etc. Includes note (8.3.45) from Constance Crosland of Perth re Margaret's interstate lecture tour for the Australian Fund for Stricken Europe and photo of her first open air talk in 1922

Margaret Sturge Watts

Correspondence 1917-1918

Letters to children (including letter to Margaret for her birthday enclosing cigarette card), certificate that Sapper W. Fuller was employed in the ordnance department, A.I.F.

William Edwin Fuller

Correspondence : James Grant to brother John - 30 Nov. 1822 - 15 Oct. 1823

Letters from James from London to brother John in V.DL. about business prospects and settling in V.D.L.: thanks for letter from Madeira, sending newspapers and W. Scott novels, prices at Liverpool for hides, sperm oil, seal skins, wool; trouble in New Zealand and muskets going out to natives (possible profit?); sending consignment of harness for working horses and oxen on their joint account; McIntosh's ale; shipping of merinos, garden seeds, printed cottons etc., ? horses for saddle and draught; shipping; would there be any money in an exhibition in London of "handsome natives of Australasia .. . decorated with all their war-like habiliments"? (30 Nov. 1822); regards to Sandy [Alexander B. Spark]; son born 23 Jan. 1823 and christened James on 25 Feb. A. Knight proxy for John as godfather, Maria Neve godmother (31 Jan., 31 Mar.1822); the old folks at Nairn; house sold and furniture packed for shipment (3 July 1823); introduction to Commissary Hull (31 Dec. 1822); Mr Gellibrand applying to be Solicitor of Crown in V.D.L. (3 July 1823); no chance of recovering his lost hearing in this country, severe winter trying (31 Jan. 1823); choice of land - grazing and near water for
shipment and fishing - Mr Lord suggested between Macquarie and Relief rivers or St Pauls district, rent house in Hobart for family, Fraserburgh lad, Gray, engaged as cooper - friend Reid wanting him a berth (24 mar. 1823)(24 Mar. 1823; chartered "Heroine" (320 tons, Captain Ostler) with James Hammond (brother of friend William Hammond the "Ironrnan" - not in good health and lately married without consulting family) and Thomas Knight, loaded with cargo, stores and 50 passengers (including J. Williamson and sister), bringing iron, saddlery, harness, cheese, butter, oil, paint, blankets, clothing, stationery, umbrellas, ladies' straw bonnets, prints [cotton] and Manchester goods, window glass, iron hurdles for sheep, rum, brandy, soap, 4 merino rams from Wiltshire and ewes (2 tooth), besides own furniture of considerable value, and servant maid (Sept.Oct, 1823); Maria Neve engaged to Thomas Hammond (brother of James and William) a surgeon of about 30 years.

James Grant

Correspondence : James Grant to John Grant - Sept. - Oct. 1825

Letters from from James Grant in Hobart to brother John in Sydney: John's passage, his state of health, "Andromeda" released from charter, "Medina" cargo, Kemp, "young Sorell was spliced today", Seccombe story a hoax, bushrangers Brady and McCabe, Brady robbed Clitherow who came out in "Andromeda", no waterside grant available - could he have John's wharf - needed water transport? he and Bethune needed news of markets. (Note: the first part of the letter of 20 Oct. 1825 has date "1826" in error)

James Grant

Correspondence

Introductions for Bushy Park Manager to California State Insectary, Messrs Clemens, Horst & Co. concerning hop picking machines, and American Blower Co. (1920); Cadbury Bros: local milk supplies (1920); Upper Derwent Farm & Garden Society - advertisement.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Correspondence dated 1919-1920, relating to the fruit industry, including the Saaz Drying Process, and lemon curing.

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Papers relating to W.E. Shoobridge's interest in the development of hydro-electric power and the use of water conserved for H.E.P. for irrigation and in possible schemes for the Upper Derwent and other districts. Correspondence with Government ministers and with H.G. Rashbacher, Consulting Engineer U.S.A. (1913-1924); Samuel Fortier of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (1916-1924); the H.E.P. Commission of Ontario, Canada (1919-1924); the Westinghouse Co.; Electrolytic Zinc Co. (1917); the Aluminium Co. of America (1918); Wardens of Huon, Fingal, etc. (1919), and an introduction for the Bushy Park Manager to the Closer Settlement Board of California for information on irrigation, hydro-electric power and closer settlement (1920).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Public halls (1919); copies of letters to newspapers concerning copies of evidence William Ebenezer Shoobridge. gave before the Public Works Committee (1920); redefinition of municipalities (1920).

William Ebenezer Shoobridge

Correspondence

Letters received, with some drafts, copies or extracts of Clive Sansom's replies from:
Miscellaneous letters 1928-1934
"Babe" (first girlfriend) 1934-1936 (1 folder)
Allan Keeling (antiquarian bookseller and chicken farmer, Kent) 1932-1945 (3 folders)
Marjorie Holben (nee Morse) c1935-1943
Martin Miles (d.1944) and Helen J. Miles c1937-1958. From St. Ninians, Broadstairs, Kent; Oxford, Melbourne and army camps in Wales and England. Lance-Corp. Miles was killed in action in June 1944
Marjorie Gullan and Gertrude Kerby (speech training) c1943-1958.

Clive Sansom

Correspondence

Personal letters and other documents, letterbooks and business correspondence

George Washington Walker

Correspondence

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes also correspondence relating to Philatelic Societies and stamps

John Reynolds

Correspondence

File of the correspondence of Duncan Loane Pty, General Merchants of Devonport, dated 1945-1954 . Mainly about the technical aspects of machinery

Duncan Loane Pty.

Correspondence

Correspondence for the years 1825-1830. Including letters from Thomas Scott about purchase of rum from Capt. Dixon of the "Skelton" (13 April 1825); H. Ross (arbitration 1827); M. Robertson (sheep 1828); W. Burn (sheep and supply of doors, chairs, etc. 1828-1830); reference for E.F. Bromley RN.

Andrew Downie

Correspondence

Letters from A. Biggs (astronomical instruments, 1933) and R.L. Dunbabin (change of address 1943).
also draft of a letter by A.L. Meston on aborigines and the naming of V.D.L. n.d.

Archibald Lawrence Meston

Correspondence

Correspondence received and miscellaneous papers including delivery notes, notes of timber etc., tax returns, employment of Clifton and Carlyle Wilson and Mervyn Cato deferring their call up for military service.

John Wilson

Correspondence

Series consists of personal correspondence and with the ABC , picture postcards, and the opening of the Bookshelf . One file of correspondence between Hilda Bridges to Frances Fuller, dated 1958 - 1964

William Edwin Fuller

Coronation Elizabeth II

Miscellaneous papers including programmes, souvenir booklets, relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgrove's visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

Robert Cosgrove

Coronation Elizabeth II

Scrapbook of invitation cards relating to Sir Robert and Dame Gertrude Cosgroves visit to the Coronation of Elizabeth II, and visits to England, Ireland, and Canada.

Robert Cosgrove

Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections

Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections

Copy of circular addressed to candidates at elections. Letter to Arthur Perry (Member of the Legislative Council) dated 5 March 1855 from the committee of the Tasmanian Temperance and Total Abstinence Association bringing to his consideration the very demoralising effect of treating Electors with intoxicating drinks and the vile system of supplying the means of drunkenness and debauchery at elections

George Washington Walker

Copper etching plate of Olive Pink's bookplate

Copper etching plate of Olive Pink's bookplate

Includes -
Annotated envelope containing original printing plate of Olive Pink bookplate by Adrian Feint and letter from Feint to Olive Pink by the Society of Artists.

  1. Copper etching plate of bookplate , “Simplicity, Beauty, Honesty, Trust –Olive Pink”.
    2 .Letter from Adrian Feint to Olive Pink 28. 5. 1929
  2. Envelope containing the above items -written on by Olive Pink

Olive Pink

Convolvulus erubescen

Convolvulus erubescen

Water colour and pencil on dark card sketched by Olive Pink, (no place or date) Northern Territory. Identified by Olive Pink as Convolvulus erubescen.

Olive Pink

Convolvulus

Convolvulus

Coloured pencil on paper sketched by Olive Pink, 50 miles from Darwin, Northern Territory 26/10/30. Identified by Olive Pink as a creeper Convolvulus? "from an almost dead specimen when brought to me"

Olive Pink

"Convergence on Bethlehem"

Christmas poems and play commissioned by the A.B.C. 1970: manuscript, typescript, correspondence, broadcast script, notes, etc.

Clive Sansom

Convention on the High Seas, 1958

Convention on the High Seas, 1958

Reference to an international treaty relevant to maritime boundaries, law of the sea, Falkland Islands, British Antarctic Territory, United Kingdom. Provides source information and Bill Bush notes.

Bill Bush

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