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Speeches presented by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Australia, 1954-1992

0.14 metres (various)
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This collection comprises a set of speeches made by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Australia.

Collections held by the School of Oriental and African Studies (as filmed by the AJCP), 1769-1937

214 items
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Contains vocabularies and grammar lists from language groups found in Tahiti; New Zealand; Indonesia; Malaysia; Melanesia; Micronesia; Queensland; New South Wales; Tasmania; the western coast of South America and other parts of the Pacific Islands.

Papers of Edith Harrhy, 1902-1992

3.45 metres (14 MS Boxes + 3 Small Folio Boxes + 1 Medium Folio Box)
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The collection includes photographs, an autograph book, student reports from Guildhall, and two scrapbooks containing cuttings, programs, music scores and some letters, including one from Peter Dawson. The second consignment is mainly music scores, including the operas Alaya, The jolly friar, the plays David and Myfanwy, Perhaps one day, and published works such as Some Australian songs for children and Four songs of Australia. There is also some correspondence with William F. Morriss, six discs and a manuscript titled 'Edith Harrhy musician extraordinaire: a personal memoir' by her daughter, Honor Marianne Coutts. The collection includes about 154 letters to Harrhy from Con Daly.
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Papers of Larry Sitsky, 1912-2003

16.44 metres (101 boxes + 47 folio boxes + 37 audiovisual/digital carriers)
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The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, and writing and music material created and collected during Sitsky's long and productive career as a composer, musicologist, pianist, teacher and writer. The correspondence includes letters and emails to and from composers such as Felix Werder, Nigel Butterley, Richard Meale, Colin Brumby, Ann Carr-Boyd, Vincent Plush, James Penberthy, Elena Kats-Chernin, George Dreyfus and Miriam Hyde. Sitsky also corresponded with musicians and his publishers, and over a long period with poet and librettist Gwen Harwood. The music component of the collection includes composition diaries, pencil and ink scores and published works by Sitsky as well as pieces by Roy Agnew and other Australian composers.

Papers of George Coedes, 1902-1968

0.32 metres (1 ms box + 1 archives box)

Papers of Tom Uren, 1941-1994

29.4 metres (210 boxes and 1 folio box)
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The collection comprises personal and official correspondence, diaries and notebooks, financial papers, legal papers, speeches, press releases, articles, newspaper cuttings, reports, ministerial briefing notes, cabinet documents and other papers relating to Uren's career in politics, and the Ministerial portfolios of Urban and Regional Development, Territories and Local Government, and Local Government and Administrative Services. The papers also contain a large number of files on uranium as well as papers on energy and industry, the environment, and the Australian Labor Party.
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Records held by the House of Lords Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1790-1965

309 items
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Selections from Main Papers 1790-1909 including reports of Inspector of Convicts, and manuscript and printed Bills including: 1824 Transportation Bill; 1828 New South Wales Administration of Justice Bill; 1834 South Australian Colonization Bill; 1845 Waste Lands (Australia) Bill; 1846 New Zealand Company Bill; 1850 Australian Colonies Government Bill; 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; 1885 Federal Council of Australasia Bill; and 1890 Borneo Company Bill.

Papers of Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks, 1817, 1880-1976

6.06 metres (38 boxes + folio items)
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The collection includes photographs, correspondence and writings of Stanton's father George Hicks, a journalist. There is correspondence from most periods in Stanton's life, a great deal of material in connection with the Catering Corps of the Australian Army, and nutrition in general, many published scientific articles, research material relating to land reform in Italy, lectures and speeches and personal documents such as bank statements and bills. An autobiographical memoir, 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor' was added in 2001.
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