Manager's letter-books 1852-1914. Subjects include: appointment of colonial judges; Australian railways; British-Australian communications; republican doctrines in Australia; Australian politics; attacks on British colonial policy; possible annexation of Fiji; annexation of Cook Island; visit of American Fleet to Australia and New Zealand in 1908; and White Australia policy. Main correspondents are M. Morris, J. MacDonald, C.M. Bell, F.H. Kitchin, A. Michie, A. Garran, F.W. Haddon and A. Jose.