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Shaw, Savill Albion Line was the shipping line of P Henderson Company, a British shipping management that operated trans-British, Australian and New Zealand cargo and passenger routes when P Henderson's Albion Line merged with Shaw Savill Line in 1882, lasting till 1970. It's a British shipping company that operated ships between Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

M825-M827:

Journals and diaries 1849-1853 kept in Tasmania, including a description of part of his voyage from Ireland to Australia in 1849 on the Swift.

Letters of John Lewis to his family written on board SS Great Britain and SS Royal Charter on a voyage to Australia. Transcipts of letters prepared by Mrs Diana Deason.

MS 7600 comprises the typescript and galley proofs of Mudrooroo's second novel Long live Sandawara which was published in 1979 by Quartet Books (3 folders).

On 14 October 2023, Australians voted in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

Logs, letter-books, correspondence and other papers concerning voyages of HMS Beagle, HMS Acheron and HMS Havannah. They refer to surveys of Northern Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Correspondents include E.J. Eyre, P.P. King and J.S. Roe.

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 papers mainly document Dix’s schooldays and early career and his public activities in the last twenty years or so of his life. They include letters, speeches, notes, photographs, certificates, invitations, programs, agenda papers and minutes, official papers, newspaper cuttings and publications. There are papers relating to many of the organisations and institutions with which Dix was involved and in particular the 1979-81 Committee of Inquiry into the Australian Broadcasting Commission (the Dix Committee) and the National Museum of Australia. Correspondents include Jerry Ellis, Sir William Heseltine, Sir Geoffrey Yeend, Sir Harold White, J. Norgard and H.E. Maude.

The major part of the collection consists of research and subject files relating to his book Australian studio pottery china painting (1986). The papers include alphabetically-arranged artist files, photographs, historical notes on technical education, arts and craft societies, commercial potteries and ceramic styles and motifs, together with a small amount of interesting original correspondence with potters, their relatives and associates.