3 issues of Punch (Melbourne) - 13/9/1923, 27/3/1924, 14/8/1924; The graphic of Australia, 12/11/1925., 1923-1925 Folio 2 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1923/1925
3 mounted photos taken at "Der deutsche Akadamie, München" - one exterior, one interior with "Herr Orlando", one interior "Alt. Musik Abend"), all April, 1937; photos 11x8cms., mount 21x17cms., 1937 Folio 1 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1937
3 photos from Egypt - "Arbre de la Vierge á Mataryeh", 28x22cms.; "[An obelisk at] Mataryeh", 22x28cms.; "Le Caire - entrée du pont de Kasr-el-Nil" Folio 1 Unit ID: 1
7 photos of Naples and surrounds - "Pompei: panorama e Vesuvio", "Napoli dalla tomba di Virgilio", "Napoli: via del porto", "Museo di Napoli: Ercole farnese, Glyson di Atene", "Museo di Napoli: Sala dei grandi bronzi: discobol e danzatriei di Ercolano"; "Museo di Napoli: marmi: Sala degl'Imperatori"; "Pompei scavi"; "[Garden of the house of Marcus… at Pompei]"; all 25x20cms. Folio 1 Unit ID: 1
9 issues of The Cape Horner, Winter 1968/9-Winter 1972/3, v.2 no.3- v3 no.5 (incomplete);,2 copies of Cape Horners - Australia, no. 45, May 1973; Sea breezes, v. 24 no. 142, Oct. 1957, 1957-1973 Box 27 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1957/1973
About 70 folders for photo negatives, many dated 1927 plus location of photos; all except five empty (two with prints, 3 with negatives). Coverage includes UK, Italy, Scandinavia, France, Switzerland, Australia, 1915-1945 Box 40 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1915/1945
Annual reports of The Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria - Fiftieth (1913), Fifty-fourth (1917), fifty-fifth (1918), Sixty-third (1926), plus Programme of meetings and excursions of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 1918-19, 1913-1926 Box 6 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1913/1926
Australian Goethe Society, Proceedings, 1949, 1954-55, 1956-59, 1949-1959 Box 15 Unit ID: 7 Date: 1949/1959
Booklets, official souvenirs, seating ticket for an outside stand (in envelope addressed to Howlett), postcards, etc. for the coronation of King George VI, 1937 Box 14 Unit ID: 6 Date: 1937
Box file marked "New Zealand - maps booklets" - pamphlets, brochures, maps, postcards, press cuttings, airline info., etc., 1957-1958 Box 28 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1957/1958
Box of theatre programmes from 1919 - c.1970; some of the early programmes name Howlett as a performer; most productions are in Melbourne, (one from Adelaide); some are school productions; many are for G, 1914-1972 Box 17 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1914/1972
Brochure, postcard, negatives and some prints from a trip to Norfolk Island; article in un-dated National Geographic Magazine about Norfolk Island; panorama taken from Norfolk Island mounted on light card Box 11 Unit ID: 3
Brochures and booklets covering cities, villages, historical buildings, etc. in UK, 1898-1961 Box 1 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1898/1961
Brochures and booklets covering cities, villages, historical buildings, etc. in UK, 1898-1961 Box 1 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1898/1961
Brochures and booklets covering cities, villages, historical buildings, etc. in UK, 1898-1961 Box 1 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1898/1961
Brochures and booklets covering cities, villages, historical buildings, etc. in UK, 1898-1961 Box 1 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1898/1961
Brochures and booklets covering cities, villages, historical buildings, etc. in various countries in Europe, North America, India, and New Zealand, 1931-1960 Box 1 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1931/1960
Brochures and booklets covering cities, villages, historical buildings, etc. in various countries in Europe, North America, India, and New Zealand; sheet music for "Ich war zu Heidelberg Student", by Otto Lob, poem by J. Lowenberg, published in the series "Einzellieder Kommersabende", no. 34., 1931-1960 Box 1 Unit ID: 6 Date: 1931/1960
Brochures, menus, etc. for trip on "Esperance Bay", 1949/50, Melbourne to Southampton; plus various other memorabilia, 1949-1965 Box 40 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1949/1965
Brown box marked "Central Australia papers, Aug-Sept, 1956", containing records of Melbourne Grammar School Central Australian tour, which Howlett attended - copy of intinerary; his detailed ms notes of the trip; 2 maps of NT (incl. Dept of Interior map, 1944 revision of 1934 map); unopened envelope from "Trish Studio, Alice Springs, N.T."; various other memorabilia, incl. promotional booklet (designed to be folded and posted) re commemoration of "Flynn of the Inland";, 1956-1961 Box 27 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1956/1961
Bundles of letters (some 500+) to Charles Howlett and his wife, from family and friends (many of the early ones from his mother), including overseas; mostly in date bundles, some by author's name; the great majority of letters are still in their original envelopes, many with legible post-marks, some have stamps removed; plus Victorian historical magazine, May, 1959 The Geographical magazine, May, 1946, 1912-1967 Box 30 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1912/1967
Certificate "Deutsche Akadamie Goethe-Institut…[in the name of ] Herr Charles Howlett… in München… 4 September, 1937"., 1937 Folio 1 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1937
Certificates and diplomas from tertiary institutions in France and Austria (and one from Melbourne), 1928-1951; certificates from the University of Melbourne for the awards of BA (1919), and LLB (1921); certificate of admission to practice law in Victoria (1923); certificate as Foundation member of the Australian Geographical Society (1946); certificate on appointment as Life Governor of the Children's Hospital, Melbourne (1941); certificate of matriculation from Melbourne University (1916); certificate of registration as a teacher, Victorian Council of Public Education (1932); certificate of life membership of the University of Melbourne Graduate Union (1954) ; certificate of service in the City of Melbourne Civil Defence Organisation (1945)., 1916-1954 Box 9 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1916/1954
Church related material - letters from the House of the Ascension, Goulburn, Jan. 1941 - Dec. 1942; Quarterly notes from the Community of the Ascension (Goulburn), no. 67, 1940 - no. 72, 1942, plus related material; 42 issues of the weekly brochure from Christ Church, South Yarra, 13 Dec., 1970 - 6 May, 1973 (incomplete); miscellaneous leaflets from other churches, 1917-1924; very small copy of The Book of Common Prayer (lacks cover and prelims), 1917-1973 Box 6 Unit ID: 6 Date: 1917/1973
Close-up photo of Roman [?] sculpture - male figure with 2 horns, long beard, holding tablets Folio 1 Unit ID: 1
Collection of pamphlets advertising 78rpm classical music recordings produced by HMV, Columbia, Electrola, etc. Box 15 Unit ID: 8
Copies of The Herald (Melbourne), 12 Dec 1919, 19 Dec 1919, Feb 25 1920, each containing news and information about successful flights by Ross and Keith Smith., 1919-1920 Box 4 Date: 1919/1920
Copy of the Speech Night report of the Headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Summer Hill, 1967, 1967 Box 15 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1967
Copy of The star (Melb.), 6 May, 1935, Royal Jubilee Souvenir edition (George V); copy of Daily Telegraph (Lond.), 29 January, 1936, Pictorial supplement covering the funeral of King George V, 1935-1936 Box 14 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1935/1936
Envelope marked "Adelaide trip, August, 1966 [and] March, 1971" incl. brochures and maps for Adelaide and the Flinders ranges, and an envelope marked "South Australia, esp. Murray River Steamers" containing brochures; an envelope marked "Murray River cruise, May 1967", containing details of trip on P.S. Wanera (Mildura to wentworth), and other brochures, etc., 1966-1971 Box 28 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1966/1971
Envelope marked "Snowy Mountains tour, Dec. 1959", and folder marked "Snowy Mountains Scheme tour" - both containing pamphlets, brochures, maps, etc. from 1959, incl. several duplicates, 1959 Box 28 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1959
Five tourist brochures and booklets of UK sites; plus, one-inch map of the Lake District; two tourist maps of Paris Box 11 Unit ID: 1
Flush-mounted photo of a huge, costumed cast on stage (and also some of the audience) posed in an elaborate old-city set., with a banner reading "1834 [heraldic emblem] 1934" over the proscenium; 25x20cms., 1934 Folio 1 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1934
Flush-mounted sepia photo of 5 men sitting outside building - no annotations; 20x15cms Folio 1 Unit ID: 1
Folder containing two letters; loose, with envelopes attached, 1925, 1925 Box 10 Unit ID: 6 Date: 1925
Folder marked "Advertising material" - Ford (undated, 1920s?); Peugeot (1938), Chrysler (undated, from Chrysler Export Division, in French), Velocette L.E., Myer Store for Men Guide to autumn-winter fashions (1941), items re caravans, chewing gum, enamel paint, veteran cars, municipal services, West Coast Bungalows (California), safe deposit access., 1920s - 1941 Box 19 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1920s - 1941
Folder marked "Art" - incl. catalogues of exhibitions in Melbourne over the period 1917-1968; 5 Christies sales catalogues, 1974-1977; 2 UK portrait catalogues, 1917-1977 Box 12 Unit ID: 6 Date: 1917/1977
Folder marked "Art" - incl. Illustrated catalogue of the National Gallery (Victoria)(1914), exhibition catalogues for shows in Melbourne, 1917, 1919, 1925, 1934; exhibition catalogue for Mildura prize for sculpture, 1967; promotional material for The National Art Gallery and Cultural Centre of Victoria (1961), 1914-1961 Box 12 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1914/1961
Folder marked "Art, literature, music" - incl. A Festschrift titled "Studies in language and literature" presented to Augustin Lodewyckx, 1951, this copy inscribed by him to Howlett; 3 leaflets about The Australian Institute of the arts and literature (1921, 1924); newspaper cutting with the text of the winning short story in the Herald competition, July, 1924, by C. S. Bailey, signed by he author, 1921-1951 Box 12 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1921/1951
Folder marked "Calandars [sic]; Christmas cards" - incl. a long series of annual miniature cards from a friend (John Bechervaise?) and a hand-made "Liebhaber-Ausgabe" made in Heidelberg (1930); also includes concert tickets, business cards, a filled-in dance card (1934), and other miscellanea; one item post-marked from Antarctica, 1917-1977 Box 21 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1917/1977
Folder marked "Canadian House of Commons debates" - all items relate to MP Grace McInnis, incl. 3 Official Reports of Debates (1966-1968) and copies of her Report [to constituents] from Ottawa, July, 1966 - June, 1972, 1966-1972 Box 19 Unit ID: 6 Date: 1966/1972
Folder marked "Enlistment rejection" - contents include documents re Howlett's attempts to join the services in 1918 (rejected), correspondence re his special school teaching duties during WW11, and drafts of articles or speeches by him discussing the basis of pacifism and religious beliefs re WW11. Box 14 Unit ID: 3
Folder marked "Invitations" - to various functions, mainly to Howlett as a young man; some with envelopes, one handwritten, one to Howlett in Vienna in 1937, 1913-1973 Box 21 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1913/1973
Folder marked "Manuscripts sketches" - incl. sketches (humorous) and portraits (of Howlett) by R. Montgomery, ms notes and a draft about the history of repertory theatre, ms poems by N. H. Smith, detailed description of a "Mersur" (duel) witnessed by Howlett in Heidelberg in 1929, 1919-1946 Box 12 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1919/1946
Folder marked "Miscellaneous receipts and notes 1915 - " -, 1912-1942 Box 21 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1912/1942
Folder marked "Miscellaneous receipts and notes 1930-1936" - also incl. correspondence about employment opportunities, school visits in the UK (1937)., 1930-1937 Box 21 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1930/1937
Folder marked "Museums, Stamps, Classical Assn." - incl. Iris (The Newssheet of the Classical Association of Victoria), v.XXVIII, nos. 1-3, May-August, 1941; single copy of The Australian Museum magazine (Dec., 1921); catalogues of an exhibition by The Victoria League in Victoria (1934) and The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) (1967); Report of activities (centenary issue) of the Science Museum of Victoria (1971); 2 catalogues of exhibitions of postage stamps (1921, Melbourne; 1934, Melbourne); Catalogue of manuscripts and other objects ..., London, PRO, 1926; Catalogue of the collections of the Science Museum ... Water transport 1. sailing ships ..., London, HMSO, 1923, 1921-1971 Box 12 Unit ID: 7 Date: 1921/1971
Folder marked "Music" - incl. published catalogues of sound recordings from Deutsche Grammophon (Haupt-Katalog, 1937), Columbia, Electrola, and some dealers; single copies of The musical times (Dec. 1938), Milo (Oct. 1929), Skizzen (Aug./Sept. 1937) and Australian music journal (Sept./Oct. 1962; catalogue of piano accordions and harmonicas from Lindberg, Munich; brochures, etc. re ABC concerts and the Melbourne Chorale (1972), 1927-1972 Box 12 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1927/1972
Folder marked "Music" - incl. published catalogues of sound recordings from Henri Didier (Paris - one dated 1938), Finland, HMV (Wagner); prospectuses of concerts arranged by the Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music for 1919 (annotated) and 1920; various programmes/pamphlets about concerts and plays in Melbourne and the UK, 1919-1957 Box 12 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1919/1957
Folder marked "New South Wales Sydney, maps, booklets, etc." - coverage includes Canberra, a copy of A Sketch of the romantic career of Benjamin Boyd : founder of Boyd Town, Twofold Bay (1928), unopened envelope marked "The dog sat on the tucker box" (presumably a photo/card), 1950s? Box 27 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1950s?
Folder marked "New Zealand booklets maps" - pamphlets, brochures, maps, postcards, airline info., etc.; plus envelope marked "Maps of New Zealand", 1957-1958 Box 28 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1957/1958
Folder marked "Notes pamphlets on various topics" - incl. press cuttings re Hume and Hovell centenary celebrations, 1924, 1917-1943 Box 19 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1917/1943
Folder marked "Olympic games" [Melbourne, 1956] - brochures, complimentary tickets, copies of The Age - 23 Nov. 1956; Special Supplement, 23 November, 1956 (2 copies); 1 Dec., 1956 (front page only, reporting Australian swimming successes), 1956 Box 19 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1956
Folder marked "Pamphlets on various topics" - incl. 3 issues of Both sides; a journal of the Melbourne University Public Questions Society (July, 1920; Oct. 1920; July, 1921), and a printed copy of This is the last will and testament of the Kaiser ... The Kaiser's despair (not recorded in Trove), and 2 issues of The Sandrinham Motor Cycle Club Newsletter, April, 1969 and April, 197 (not recorded in Trove), 1915-1970 Box 19 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1915/1970
Folder marked "South Australia - maps, tourist booklets, etc." , plus envelope "South Australian journey, Sept. 1953" (contains correspondence re potential visits to friends), and another envelope "Sturt Murray history" (contains brochures about South and South-east SA, and Kangaroo Island)., 1952-1961 Box 28 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1952/1961
Folder marked ""Theatre programs, press clippings (England)" - Music and theatre programs; one program from Paris, 1928; brochures from journey through Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic States (1937?); plus, from old Box 23, programs for amateur theatre productions in Melbourne, 1921 - 1926, plus some concert programs from the same era - Howlett appears in a few plays and a concert., 1921-c.1969 Box 22 Date: 1921-c.1969
Folder marked ""Theatre programs, press clippings (Europe)" - batches of music,theatre and ballet programs (1927-1929, 1937), from Paris, Grenoble, Vevey; from Germany (1927-1929, 1937) and Austria;from Melbourne (1924-1960); Sweden and Finland (1926-1927), 1924-1966 Box 22 Date: 1924/1966
Folder marked "War - newspapers" - contents include cuttings and whole isues of Australian newspapers, from 11 November, 1918 to 9 May, 1945, plus other material, 1918-1945 Box 14 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1918/1945
Folder marker "War" - contents incl. Aussie: the Australian soldiers' magazine, no. 10, January, 1919 [n.i.NLA]; With our boys at the front, 191- ; Memories from a soldier's diary by Bernard C. Brader [n.i.LA]; Fragments from Gallipoli and France by V. Pretty, 1926 [held widely]; Win the war day; official souvenir programme, 1917 [n.i.NLA]; two large Australian WW1 propaganda recruitment posters, featuring Norman Lindsay cartoons, still addressed and folded, 1917-1918, 1917-1926 Box 14 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1917/1926
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, 1917; loose, with some envelopes attached, 1917 Box 10 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1917
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, 1918; loose, many with envelopes attached, 1918 Box 10 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1918
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, 1919; loose, many with envelopes attached, 1919 Box 10 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1919
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, 1920; loose, with some envelopes attached, 1920 Box 10 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1920
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, 1927; loose, with some envelopes attached, 1927 Box 10 Unit ID: 7 Date: 1927
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, 1928; loose, with some envelopes attached, 1928 Box 10 Unit ID: 8 Date: 1928
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, 1942; loose, most with envelopes attached, 1942 Box 10 Unit ID: 9 Date: 1942
Folder of personal correspondence, family and friends, undated; loose, with some envelopes attached Box 10 Unit ID: 10
Gorey, Nathalie: The Alice: a story of the town and district of Alice Springs (1952 ed., inscribed by Howlett, 1955, also includes various press cuttings about the area from 1956); b, 1952-1956 Box 27 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1952/1956
Hundreds of postcards, in envelopes, in original folders or loose,from Europe, Scandinavia, UK, NZ - Austria (1 bundle), Germany (1 bundle), France (3 bundles), Netherlands (2 bundles), Italy (1 bundle), Belgium (1 bundle), Denmark (1 bundle), Sweden and Norway (1 bundle), Finland (2 bundles), Switzerland and Egypt (1 bundle), Greece (1 bundle), 2 bundles), 1927-1937 Box 24 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1927/1937
Hydrographic Survey map AUS 153 Hobson's Bay [access to Williamstown and Pt. Melbourne], 1952, 1952 Box 3 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1952
Individual copies of French newspapers - L'Action Francaise, 8 Nov., 1928; La Volonté Nationale, 17 Nov. 1928 and 26 Jan. 1929; Excelsior, 27 March, 1929, 1928-1929 Box 4 Date: 1928/1929
Individual copies of individual Finnish newspapers - Suomi, (Melbourne, Finnish fortnightly paper), no. 6, 1935; Helsingborgs Dagblad, 12 Oct. and 15 Oct., 1950; Helsingin Sanomat, 24 Oct., 1950; Hufvudstadsbladet, 24 Oct., 1950; Uusi suomo, 24 Oct., 1950., 1935, 1950 Box 4 Date: 1935, 1950
Individual copies of North American newspapers covering the assassination of President Kennedy and its aftermath - The Sun (Vancouver), 22 Nov. 1963; News Call Bulletin (San Francisco), 23 Nov. and 25 Nov., 1963; San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov., 1963; New York Times, 26 Nov., 1963, 1963 Box 4 Date: 1963
Individual copies of UK papers - Daily Mail (overseas ed.), 30/8/1924; Sunday Times, 27 August, 1950; The Observer, 27 August, 1950; The Times (airmail ed.), Oct. 6 and Dec. 14, 1950; advertising feature on British posters, from the The Times, 30 Oct., 1961, 1924-1961 Box 4 Date: 1924/1961
Issues of The Herald (Melb.), 3 February, 1954, and The Age, 4 February, 1954, marking the Queen's arrival in Sydney, plus associated leaflets concerning functions in Melbourne later in February, 1954 Box 14 Unit ID: 1 Date: 1954
Issues of The Scotsman (August, 1950) and some other local papers from the same dates, 1950 Folio 1 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1950
Issues of various Melbourne newspapers (The Argus, The Age, The Sun, The Herald, The Star, The North Melbourne Chronicle)., 1904-1934 Folio 1 Unit ID: 2 Date: 1904/1934
Issues of various newspapers - Daily Mirror [London] for the Coronation of King George VI (13/5/1937); The Herald [Melbourne] for Victoria's 100th anniversary (15/10/1934); The Sun (Melbourne) (11 and 12/9/1922); The Observer (London) (12/5/1935); North Melbourne Courier (19/8/1910 and 2/9/1910), 1910-1937 Folio 2 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1910/1937
J. T. Howlett's copy of the typescript diary of the MacRobertson "Round Australia Expedition", 12 April - 12 Sept., 1928; author not identified; ms additions and annotations, 1928 Box 31 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1928
Kansan kulavehti no. 22, 1927; Le Musée international du long cours Cap-Hornier - Guide general, 1927 Folio 2 Unit ID: 5 Date: 1927
Large, mounted photo "Perth from King's Park", produced by Illuetrations Ltd., Perth; image 37x27cms., mount 46x36cms. Folio 1 Unit ID: 1
Le monde illustré(24/5/1919); L'Illustration numéro consacré au Maréchal Foch (6/44/1929); Le petit journal (17/11/1918, 1/12/1918, 22/12/1918, 29/12/1918), 1918-1929 Folio 2 Unit ID: 4 Date: 1918/1929
Loose press cuttings of "Round Australia Expedition" from Melbourne, Adelaide, Townsville, Rockhampton, Brisbane, plus a MacRobertson's leaflet outlining the tour, and a reprint from "The Argus", May 26, 1928, titled "Westward Ho! Overland with the MacRobertson expedition"., 1928 Box 3 Unit ID: 3 Date: 1928
Maps, brochures, travel guides, handbooks, etc. from UK, Europe, Baltic States, New Zealand, Scandinavia, USA, 1907-1963 Box 36 Date: 1907/1963
Maps, brochures, travel guides, handbooks, etc. from UK, Europe, Baltic States, New Zealand, Scandinavia, USA., 1911-1963 Box 37 Date: 1911/1963