Papers 1847-79 of Sir Henry Keppel, including: log of Meander, account of voyages in East Indies; labour problem in East Indies; and death of Capt. Owen Stanley.
Personal papers and correspondence 1880-1935 mainly referring to ethnography and anthropological field work in Torres Strait and New Guinea. Correspondents include R.F. Fortune, Bronislaw Malinowski, E.W.P. Chinnery, Gregory Bateson, W. Baldwin Spencer, Daisy Bates, Camilla Wedgwood, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and L. Dudley Buxton.
Accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other papers relating to Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. They originated in various departments, including Accounts, Administration, Cashier's, Exchange Control, Economic Intelligence, Governor's and Secretary's, Overseas. Among the topics covered are: issues of stocks; UK trade with the Empire; Empire Marketing Board; Empire cotton; finances of the Dutch East Indies; Empire trade; migration within the British Empire; banking legislation; banking statistics; exchange control; money supply; gold reserves; wool shipment; gold production; mineral reports; affairs of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Reserve Bank of Australia; Bank of New Zealand; and the 1930 Niemeyer Mission to Australia. There are also some letters and petitions from convicted forgers and transportees to the Bank of England requesting assistance to purchase stores and clothing for the voyage to New South Wales.
The Port Line Ltd Records consist of the company's administrative and operational papers. Port Line was a subsidiary of the Cunard Steamship Company, and the Port Line series forms part of the larger Cunard Steamship Co Ltd archive, which comprises most of the surviving business records produced by Cunard since it became a limited company in 1878.
Correspondence 1911-1927 of Professor Frederick Bower. Subjects include: A. Anstruther Lawson; dispatch of ferns and other botanical specimens from Sarawak; Singapore mutiny; Bower's visit to Australia in 1915; article on Australian ferns and botanic gardens at Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Colonial Office records constitute by far the largest group of records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). As most of the Colonial Office Series relate to specific colonies they have largely been filmed comprehensively (with some exceptions). In this respect the Colonial Office copying has differed from that of most of the other record groups.