16.23 metres(105 ms boxes + 1 archives box + 1 small folio box)
Abstract Or Scope
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.
7.68 metres(45 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 1 map folio + 1 folder)
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The papers in MS 10043 reflect the personal and professional life of Australian writer, Kylie Tennant. They include correspondence, personal documents, notes and notebooks, literary manuscripts, press cuttings, photographs and graphic material. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence and research material, notes and drafts relating to Tennant's literary works. The papers of Tennant's husband, L.C. Rodd, are present throughout the collection, largely in the form of correspondence. Australian literary figures amongst the correspondents are: Kay Brown, Nancy Cato, Clem Christesen, Robert Darby, Beatrice Davis, Geoffrey Dutton, Miles Franklin, Mary Gilmore, Dorothy Green, Max Harris, Elizabeth Harrower, Tom Inglis Moore, Elizabeth Jolley, Nancy Keesing, David Martin, Stephen Murray-Smith, Nettie Palmer, Nancy Phelan, Hal Porter, Colin Roderick, Peter Scriven, Thomas Shapcott, Douglas Stewart, Judah Waten, Patrick White and Patricia Wrightson. Other correspondents represented in the collection by significant amounts of papers include long-term friend and Maitland City Librarian, Mavis Cribb, the Reverend Alfred Clint, Doris Chadwick, Jack Ross and Tennant's children, Bim (John) and Benison Rodd (45 boxes, 2 fol. boxes, 1 elephant folio).
Papers relating to conductor and musicologist John Raymond Hopkins AM OBE, including correspondence; press clippings; scores; personal diaries; Victoria College of the Arts teaching programs; personal reflections on the music industry in Australia; and a school report.
Part II of this collection is located in the Manuscripts section, and relates mainly to a series of international journeys undertaken by Frank Johnston during the years 1936 to 1981, which dealt with the study of agriculture and livestock. The journeys are documented in a series of 58 volumes and recorded with photographs.
The papers document the life of Melbourne academic and historian Dorothy Fitzpatrick (née Davies). They comprise Fitzpatrick's extensive personal correspondence with family, colleagues and associates; papers relating to her secondary and tertiary teaching appointments; research notebooks and drafts of her early work on the Australian wool trade; personal documents; and some correspondence and other papers relating to her husband Brian Fitzpatrick and his literary estate.
The papers are concerned almost exclusively with Sir Hugh Ennor's period as Secretary of the Departments of Education and Science (1967-1973) and Science (1973-1977). It contains a few letters, copies of his addresses, a pocket notebook containing appointments (1959-72), and address book and a number of press photographs.
Letter 1866 of E.H. Allies to Michael J. Ellison referring to an attack by Indigenous Australians, and purchase of Brovunia sheep station in Gayndah, Queensland.
MS 2505 comprises correspondence, notes, manuscripts, photographs, certificates, publications, scrapbooks and press cuttings relating to every phase of John Barry's life as a barrister, judge, academic, criminologist, penologist and historian. Much of the collection consists of notes and manuscripts of his addresses, articles and monographs. Correspondents include Elmer Barnes, Peter Brett, Sir Zelman Cowen, David Derham, Wilfred Dovey, Sheldon Glueck, Sir Eugene Gorman, Colin Howard, John McClemens, Norval Morris, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Mark Perlman, Sir Arthur Rylah, Geoffrey Sawer, Paul Tappan, E.J. Ward and Lady Barbara Wootton (80 boxes, 1 fol. box, 4 elephant fol. items).