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Journals and correspondence of the Macandrew Family, 1824-1895

0.18 metres (6 folders)
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5521/1: I.F. MacAndrew; original manuscript diary of a voyage to Adelaide on board the ship 'Harbinger' and descriptions of visits to Newscastle and Sydney October 1876-May 1877. 5521/2 + 3: Rachel MacAndrew: Original manuscript journal describing travels in England, 2 vols. 1853-1855. 5521/4: Journal containing copies of correspondence between Isaac Forsyth and John Lawson, concerning Elgin. 5521/5: 23 letters from Isaac Forsyth and William MacAndrew, plus genealogical papers. Added 1977: typescript transcription of South Australian pages of diary (5521/1) completed by Mr Ian Healey, NLA.
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Papers of Murray Bail, 1949-1951; 1975-2001

0.56 metres (4 boxes + 1 folio box)
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The collection includes correspondence, handwritten drafts, typescripts, notes and newspaper cuttings relating to Bail's books Contemporary portraits and other short stories, Homesickness, Ian Fairweather and Eucalyptus.

Papers of Prue Neidorf, 1894-2015

2.1 metres (14 MS Boxes)
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The collection comprises Prue Neidorf's research papers for her Masters thesis "A guide to dating music published in Sydney and Melbourne, 1800-1899" . They include notes, photocopies, correspondence, drafts and newspaper clippings.

Moir collection of cartoons and drawings, 2016-2017, 2016-2017

(43 drawings) : pen, ink, pencil, pastel
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Part 17 of the Moir collection of cartoons and drawings. All cartoons and drawings in this part were published in the Sydney Morning Herald during the period May 2016-June 2017.
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Records held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (as filmed by the AJCP), 20 April 1798-1958

223 items
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Correspondence 1851-1858 of James Getty with his family in Ballymoney, County Antrim, and friends in Kilmore and Beechworth.

Papers of Axel and Roslyn Poignant, 1922-1980

(8 MS Boxes + 1 packet + 2 map folios + 1 folder)
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MS 7623 comprises: 1. Exhibition catalogues: "Land and people" (Kulturhuset, Stockholm, November 1988-January 1989), "Axel Poignant: Australien-land och manniskor" (Kulturhuset, Stockholm, November 1988-Jananuary 1989) and "Yolngu: Aboriginal cultures of North Australia" (Brighton Art Gallery and Museums, May-June 1988). 2. Notes, correspondence, research material, film strips relating to "Kangaroo", "Great Barrier Reef" and "Australia" and miscellaneous papers relating to the Sydney University Protest Committee, 1946-1953. 3. Cuttings draft and correspondence, 1930-1952. Also includes material by Roslyn Poignant. 4. Drafts and papers relating to Encounter at Nagalarramba and presentation for "Rom" exhibition "Its about friendship". 5. Photographs, photograph albums, licenses and programmes. Of the two photograph albums one is indicated as containing Axel Poignant's earliest attempts at photography and hand colouring. There are photographs by Axel Poignant and those collected by him. Also includes drivers license, photographers' credentials and divorce papers; and theatre programmes and educational syllabi (8 boxes, 1 folio, 1 packet).

Papers of Frederick Septimus Kelly, 1893-1926

1.40 metres (5 folio boxes)
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The collection comprises fourteen bound volumes of manuscript music scores and a number of unbound manuscript music scores (items 15-55) in Kelly's hand and early published works of Kelly (items 55-61).

Papers of William C.A. Vanneck Huntingfield, 5th Baron Huntingfield (as filmed by the AJCP), 1915-1941

18 items
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Correspondence, speeches, photograph albums, albums of press cuttings and other papers relating to Huntingfield's time in Australia.

Papers of Lawrence Hargrave, 1908-1915

(4 archive boxes + 1 folio packet)
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The papers include correspondence, 1908-1913, sketches and photographs of rock carvings from the Sydney area, maps, parliamentary reports, magazine articles and a box of lantern slides.There are a number of drafts of the book, manuscript, typescript, proofs etc. There are also pamphlets of papers presented before the Royal Society of New South Wales on the same subject, 1909-1911.This collection consists chiefly of materials collected for a book on Lope de Vega, the Spanish navigator who was separated in the Santa Isabel from the remains of Alvaro de Mendana's ill-starred colonizing expedition to the Solomon Islands in 1595. Hargrave's theory is that de Vega entered Port Jackson and claimed Australia as a Spanish possession, before being wrecked in Torres Strait.