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Papers of Adolphe G. Beutler, 1911-1972

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The papers include music manuscripts, concerts programs and handbills, correspondence (including copies of letters to Beutler from Norman Lindsay) and several items on Blacktown Municipal Orchestra concerts collected by Beutler's widow, Mrs M. Beutler-Boys.

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Papers of Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin, 1885-1965

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Included in the collection are letters to his wife, to his sisters Aella and Edith (Mrs Hall), and to his brother Alan between the years 1885-1950, Mrs Giblin's diaries relating to life in Canberra during 1941-1943; manuscripts and typescripts, papers on the basic wage, standard hours, land values and other economic subjects; his 'Letters to John Smith' and 'More letters to John Smith'; the 'Response to Poetry' and a pocket diary with some notes written by Giblin during the last month of his life.

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Papers of Phillip Wilcher, 1867-2021

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The papers include correspondence, music manuscripts and other documents relating to Wilcher's work as a composer, and his associations with other composers, musicians and musical organisations such as the Australian Music Centre and Australian Music Examinations Board.

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Papers of Christina Stead, 1929-1996

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Manuscript and typescript drafts of prose; notes, background material and jottings relating to Stead's literary output; correspondence with Philip Harvey, Norman Rosten, Ettore Rella, William Blake, Cyrilly Abels, Stanley Burnshaw and others; diaries, reviews, photographs and other papers. The collection also includes literary drafts of other writers including Ettore Rella, Mary Sarton, George Baxt, John Bright, Oliver Stallybrass, E. Louise Mally, Jorge Ibarguengoitia, Elaine Kraf, Norman Rosten and Stanley Burnshaw.

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Records of the Royal Society of Canberra, 1930-1973

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The collection comprises correspondence, annual reports, minutes of Council and other meetings, rules of the Society (1930 and 1950), lists of members names, addresses and signatures, receipt books, bank statements and bank books, nomination forms and miscellaneous publications. Also minutes of Council 30.10.1972 and 14.3.1973, annual report 1972-73 and minutes of Annual General Meeting, 21.3.1973.

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Papers of Rosalie McCutcheon, 1911-1998

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The papers comprise letters and correspondence written to family and friends, family papers relating to her son Kim and husband Oliver (who died while working as a missionary in India), diaries and notebooks, speeches, scripts for ABC radio morning devotional broadcasts, autobiographical writings, financial papers, photographs, slides, and cassette tapes. The papers relate to McCutcheon's work with the Australian Student Christian Movement, Frensham School (Mittagong, NSW), and International House at the University of Sydney. The collection includes a substantial sequence of letters written to her family while accompanying her husband in India in 1934-36.

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Records and publications of the 1998 Constitutional Convention, 1997-1998

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The records of the Constitutional Convention include lists of candidates, how to vote information and publications of the Australian Electoral Commission, and other material relating to the electoral process. In the main, however, the collection comprises material collected from delegates to the Constitutional Convention by staff of the National Library, or issued by the Convention Media Centre. A full set of public submissions to the Constitutional Convention are held. In addition a significant quantity of website material, representing delegates and their agents and the product of a variety of media servers is also of interest. An extensive collection of news cuttings covering the period of the Convention is also included.

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Collections held by the Strathclyde Regional Archives (as filmed by the AJCP), 1821-1935

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Papers 1889-1900 of Ebenezer McAlister relating to his estates in Glasgow and Singapore.

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Collections held by the Manchester Central Library, 1850-1959

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Manchester Guardians of Poor: register 1914-47 of children who emigrated to Australia and Canada.

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Records of the Commonwealth Grants Commission (Australia), 1979-1985