The papers document Professor Stilwell's professional life and comprise of reports and administration records relating to the establishment of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney;research notes; writings and talks;journal editing;professional diaries from 1979 to 2012; records relating to Professor Stilwell's participation in the University of Sydney Political Economy dispute; teaching records; newspaper cuttings; articles by and about Professor Stilwell;records relating to Professor Stilwell's involvement in Politics and Non Government Organisations and personal correspondence.
Collection of 52 scrapbooks specially bound and inscribed. The scrapbooks consist of news clippings, memos, invitations, photographs, telegrams and letters relating to Sir Donald Bradman's career, and include material relating to tours both at home and overseas, the 'bodyline' tour, his knighthood and his publications.
1. Six exercise books containing a handwritten draft of the novel 'Old Blastus of Bandicoot'. 2. Typewritten draft of 'Old Blastus of Bandicoot: a play in three acts'. 3. Photocopies of press cuttings concerning early settlers of the Monaro District. Also includes photographs, Brindabella Visitors' Book, 1887; publications (2 boxes) including mostly works by and about Miles Franklin, some are autograph copies and some contain newsclippings and correspondence."Ten Creeks Run: a tale of the horse and cattle stations of the upper Murrumbidgee" by Brent of Bin Bin, author of 'Up the Country'": Typed ms with typed and ink corrections by Franklin and pencilled annotations by the printer. It was bound for the collector Harry Chaplin in about 1960.
Papers relating to World War I collected by J. A. Ferguson. The collection includes programs, souvenir menus, patriotic and souvenir postcards, photographs,broadsides, correspondence, music scores and official proclamations, mostly from Australian military forces serving in Europe, the Middle East, New Guinea and at sea. There are programs, menus and photographs from internment camps, known as German Concentration Camps, in Australia located at Holdsworthy, Trial Bay and Berrima, shipboard and other war theatre diaries, official printed material,letters from servicemen at the front (including to the Rev. John Ferguson and Mrs Ferguson) and later letters to J.A. Ferguson in relation to his collecting, a number of shipboard and field service magazines, and three scores of patriotic war-time songs.
The collection consists of miscellaneous papers of Kenneth Binns, mostly written or acquired after he retired as the Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian and National Librarian in 1947. They include letters, notes, official documents, newspaper cuttings, photographs and a few publications. In addition, there are papers of Joan Binns relating to the life of her father and the history of the National Library, in particular letters of Andrew Osborn and drafts of an unpublished biography of Kenneth Binns by Osborn.
MS 1923 comprises newspaper cuttings, notes, broadcasts, correspondence, addresses, articles, pamphlets, printed materials and other records relating to Raymond Watt's work for the Australian League of Nations Union and as a public relations consultant. The papers also include personal reseach files on international and Australian domestic affairs, career opportunities in Australia, art, literature and other topics (27 boxes).
They include correspondence, lecture notes, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, research notes, journal articles, photocopies, and notebooks relating to Gollan's long career as a history lecturer and labour historian and his interests in forest issues, the peace movement and uranium mining.
The collection includes a large quantity of secondary resource material, mostly in the form of photocopies, together with some original papers of Joan Lindsay and her artist husband Daryl Lindsay. The biography was never completed.
The papers mostly relate to Grant's biography of Reverend Kingsley Foster (Skipper) Partridge, entitled Camel train aeroplane: the story of Skipper Partridge. The bulk of the collection comprises photocopies of Partridge's journal 'Highlights of inland trip' which Grant used in writing the biography. Other papers include a card index, notes and typescripts of Camel train aeroplane.
Papers 1876-1960 relating to Flynn's life and especially his involvement with the Australian Inland Mission and the Flying Doctor Service. Included are letters, newscuttings, pamphlets and a few photographs.