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Correspondence, memoranda, notes on foundation of Alfred Herbert (Australasia) Pty Ltd, auditors reports and annual accounts. Correspondents include C.E. Young, Sir Alfred Herbert, D. Gimson, and Norton, Smith Co, Sydney.
MS Acc11.034 comprises papers collected by Mason during the writing of a book on Australian oologists, 1835-2009. They consist largely of an alphabetical sequence of files containing information on approximately 250 egg collectors, including personal details, photographs, correspondence, family histories and lists of egg clutches they collected.MS Acc22.028 comprises reference material that Ian J. Mason collated and created for use in: "Passions in Ornithology: A Century of Australian Egg Collectors. And Passions in Ornithology: A Century of Australian Egg Collectors (Supplementary Edition)". It includes: biographical accounts of egg collectors; photographs, negatives and prints relating to birds and egg collecting including an album of bird photographs from Norman Chaffer and J. Ramsay; correspondence, notes, articles and egg data cards and among others.
Publicity and information material 1927-1936, including pamphlets issued by the League and others, reprints of newspaper articles and letters, advertisements and miscellaneous papers, together with newspaper cuttings filed under subject headings (25 folders). There are also records relating to the Australian Industries Development Association, 1952-1956, including copies of letters, addresses, circulars, receipts, etc. Correspondence for the years 1934-1937 (some 150 folders) arranged alphabetically; Secretary's Reports 1923-1942 (not complete), being monthly reports presented by Mr. J. Hume Cook (Secretary from 1921 to 1942) to the Executive.
16.23 metres(105 ms boxes + 1 archives box + 1 small folio box)
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This collection documents White's life and career including his early life, his military career which he commenced in 1896, and his life after he retired from military service in 1923. Included are diaries; drafts of lectures, articles and reports by White, mostly on military subjects; financial records; newspaper cuttings; photographs; published works, mainly on military topics; and ephemera, including from royal visits in which White played a key role. There is also a group of papers accumulated by Lady White and a group of more recent papers comprising files created by White's daughter, Rosemary, Lady Derham, while undertaking research for her biography of her father, which was published in 1998.
The additions contain correspondence with Arndt's father, and papers relating to his research activities. There are working papers, conference papers and manuscripts of books. In articular, there are papers relating to Arndt's various activities at the Australian National University, such as the Australia-Japan Research Centre, the Indonesian Project and its activities, the Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies and the 'Survey of recent developments' in Indonesia, the ASEAN-Australia Joint Research Project, student projects, university meetings and Arndt's study leave and overseas trips.
The papers comprise correspondence, newspaper cuttings, talks, photographs, articles, research notes, reviews, handwritten notes, legal documentation, patrol reports and conference papers. The largest series in the collection relates to Manning Clark and consists of extensive newspaper cuttings, correspondence, drafts of articles and notes covering the controversy caused by Ryan's criticism in Quadrant (1993) of A History of Australia and Manning Clark as a historian generally, and claims by the Brisbane Courier Mail (1996) that Clark received an Order of Lenin medal during the Cold War.
Departmental correspondence 1846-1916 concerning dispatch of specimens and fossils, exchange of specimens, identification of specimens, and other research. Correspondents include F.W. Whitehouse, Duncan Merrilees, David Ride, B.D. Webby, A.B. Walkom, Reverend Robert T. Wade, Martha Small, Michael Waldman, Arthur Wade and R.J. Tillyard.
The collection consists of the drafts, typescripts and related material of some of the later books written by Sir Keith Hancock, particularly his biography of General J.C. Smuts. The material related to the Smuts biography includes copies of letters by General Smuts and Sir Keith's correspondence with various people while collecting material for the book. Correspondents include Lord Trenchard, Professor P.G. H. Boswell, Piet Beukes, Sir Dougal Malcolm, Professor D.W. Kruger, Dr W.J. de Kock, Professor K. Kirkwood, Lord Reith, Alan Paton, Mrs M.C. Gillett, Professor L.W. Thompson, V.C.H.R. Brereton, Lord Brand, J.C. Smuts and Clark Bancroft.