Grants and confirmations of arms 1854-1940, with illustrations of coats of arms, to the following Australians and New Zealanders: Sylvester J. Browne, David H.R. Burtchael, James J. Casey, Austin F. Coghlan, Charles V. Creagh, Sylverius M. Crumpe, Norman L. D'Arcy, Rev. Harry Darling, Seymour G.P. Davies, Richard Day, Frederick J. Eyre, Frederick P.B. Fitzgerald, Lieut. Gen. John Fulton, Patrick J. Garvey, William P.C. Greene, John Winthrop Hackett, Hans Hamilton, Joshua A. Hargrave, George Higinbotham, Sir John Kirwan, Sir Linden M.S.K.L. Macassey, Sir John Madden, Arthur W.C. Martin, Joseph Meek, Charles Moore, Henry P. Moore, John F.L. Mullins, Osborne E. Norris, John B. Payne, Thomas L. Murray Prior, Frederic W.C. Roche, James S. Rowan, Lieut. Frederick P. Rowley, Ralph S. Smith, David Storey, Frederick P. Toler-Rowley, Robert A.B. Vance, William A.W. West.
Manager's letter-books 1852-1914. Subjects include: appointment of colonial judges; Australian railways; British-Australian communications; republican doctrines in Australia; Australian politics; attacks on British colonial policy; possible annexation of Fiji; annexation of Cook Island; visit of American Fleet to Australia and New Zealand in 1908; and White Australia policy. Main correspondents are M. Morris, J. MacDonald, C.M. Bell, F.H. Kitchin, A. Michie, A. Garran, F.W. Haddon and A. Jose.
The first material received from Rodney Milgate was a typescript of his play A Refined Look at Existence in 1967. In 1976 he donated the bulk of his collection, which comprised correspondence, newspaper clippings, catalogues, programs and manuscripts of plays and novels. Further donations were made in 1981, 1987 and 1990.
Correspondence 1885-1953. Correspondents include L. Curtis, R.R. Garran, Sir Samuel Way, A. Atlee Hunt, F. Fox, W. Nelson, B. Kerr-Pearse, Alfred Deakin, S.M. Bruce, R.G. Menzies, Fabian Ware and E.A. Edwards.
Ledgers, minutes of meetings of directors of the Melbourne company, financial papers and correspondence. Correspondents include W.J. Roberts and A.E. Webb of Melbourne and R.J. Cash of Coventry. Includes plans of the factory in Melbourne.
Correspondence 1878-1881 of Stuart Rendel, a partner in the ordnance firm Sir W.G. Armstrong and Co, referring to purchase of guns and gunboats for New South Wales, South Australian, Victorian and Queensland Governments. Correspondents include Sir William Jervois, P. Scratchley and H. Sargood.
The records relate to the administration of ACE and to its three major performances - Contact, Impact and In-side-out. There are a number of files relating to the company's fundraising activities, as well as photographs and press cuttings.
The collection comprises lists of records of the Western Pacific High Commissioner, the WPHC Secretariat in Suva, the British Commissioner and Consul in Tonga, and the New Hebrides British Service. The records listed include despatches, correspondence files, personal files, land claims registers, printed documents, financial records, legal records, passport registers, maps and plans. They extend from the formation of the Commission in 1877 until its closure, but do not include records of the Commissioners in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate or the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.