Ulrich Ellis was Political Secretary to the Federal Country Party Leader from 1928-1936, and the papers in the first consignment particularly cover the formation and history of the Country Party throughout Australia. They include correspondence, pamphlets, policy speeches, minutes of meetings, press cuttings and notes for Ellis's book A History of the Australian Country Party, 1963. They concern Sir Earle Page, Bruce, Lyons and Menzies among others.