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Papers of Percival Conrad Mowle, 1824-1957

Collections held by the Brynmor Jones Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1817-1975

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Letters 1963-1975 of Peter Porter and other writers sent to publisher Harry Chambers concerning the poetry magazine Phoenix (closed until 2005).

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Records of the National Florence Nightingale Committee (Australia), 1946-1993

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The collection comprises records of the National Florence Nightingale Committee and its related associations, which were originally housed at the Committee's offices in the Nurses Memorial Centre, Melbourne. The Committee was dissolved in 1993, and its archive was transferred to the new Canberra headquarters of the Royal College of Nursing, which was designated the organisation's official trustee.

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Photographs relating to New Zealand collected by Rex Nan Kivell, approximately 1850-1950, approximately 1850-1950

British Museum (Natural History Library): Records of the Mineralogy Department and Mineralogy Library Archive (as filmed by the AJCP), 1815-1983

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Correspondence 1889-1934. Subjects include: samples of Australian and New Zealand minerals; Australian meteorites; sales of collections of Australian minerals; and collecting expeditions.

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Papers of Thomas Shapcott, 1949-1997

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The earlier papers are largely comprised of draft and typescript manuscripts of 'Time on Fire', 'A Taste of Salt Water', 'Shabbytown Calendar', 'Begin with Walking' and many uncollected poems, together with correspondence with Charles Blackman and writers such as R.A. Simpson, Craig Powell, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Peter Skrzynecki, Douglas Stewart, James McAuley, Richard Tipping, John Tranter and Robert Adamson. Also included is a group of correspondence with Gwen Harwood and Rodney Hall, which incorporates drafts of the latter's 'The Law of Karma', 'Heaven in a Way' and 'Romulus and Remus, a progression of poems'. The 1998 addition relates principally to Shapcott's directorship of the National Book Council and includes correspondence and notes documenting his role in the Council's activities. Also represented is Shapcott's participation as a judge in many Australian poetry and literary competitions and delegate at overseas festivals, as well as a number of photographs of the poet and his family.

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Papers of Donald Kilgour Rodgers, 1930s-1940s

Papers of Bruce Bennett, 1980-2010

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The collection comprises papers relating to the career of Bruce Bennett. The collection includes lecture material, conference papers, research material, professional correspondence and some personal correspondence.

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Papers of Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (as filmed by the AJCP), 1804-1850

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Correspondence and official papers. Subjects include: transportation of convicts to Australia; assisted emigration to Australia; shortage of labour in New South Wales; Maori War; Javanese sugar; New Zealand Company; Borneo; French activities in the Pacific; and expulsion of missionaries from Tahiti. Correspondents include J.W. Crocker, W. Gregory, Lord Aberdeen, H. Goulburn, R. Wilmot Horton, Sir James Graham, Lord Haddington, Lord Stanley, C. Buller, G. Hope, E.G. Wakefield, H. Wise and W.E. Gladstone.

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Records of the Melba Conservatorium of Music, c.1891-2008

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MS Acc09.044 comprises a combination of books, business records, correspondence, discs, ephemera, certificates, clippings, conferring of degree booklets, handbills, programmes, scrapbooks, journals, memorabilia, music manuscripts, photographs, posters, prints, printed sheet music and a sketch. The contents cover the period 1891-2007 (98 boxes, 15 folio boxes, 8 map folios, 1 large rolled items box, 1 phase box, 1 folio packet).

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