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Represented in the papers is a large sequence of draft manuscripts and associated papers relating to Tomholt's chief work, an unfinished trilogy based on the life of Governor Macquarie, in which he was involved in meticulous research for over 20 years. Also filed in the collection are two letters from George Bernard Shaw to Tomholt (dated 1919), and correspondence with a number of Australian writers and intellectuals with whom Tomholt maintained a close association, such as C.K. Bliss, Tom Inglis Moore, R.D. FitzGerald, Hugh McCrae, R.G. Howarth, Nancy Keesing and Rosemary Dobson.