Personal papers and correspondence 1880-1935 mainly referring to ethnography and anthropological field work in Torres Strait and New Guinea. Correspondents include R.F. Fortune, Bronislaw Malinowski, E.W.P. Chinnery, Gregory Bateson, W. Baldwin Spencer, Daisy Bates, Camilla Wedgwood, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and L. Dudley Buxton.
60 metres(258 ms boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 2 large folio boxes + 2 outsized phase boxes + 18 medium phase boxes + 2 slide boxes + 11 glass negative/slide boxes + 4 map folios)
Abstract Or Scope
MS 1884 comprises correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drafts of manuscripts, subject files, press cuttings, pamphlets, souvenirs, printed items, photographs, glass slides and other memorabilia relating to all aspects of General Sir John Monash's life and career. The collection includes juvenilia and items dating from Monash's school and university days. The correspondents include Hannah Victoria Moss (whom he married in 1891), J.T.N. Anderson (business partner), Mathilda Monash (sister) and other members of the Monash family, J. Gibson (business), Walter Rosenhain, Clara Stockfeld, Eva Blashki, Rose Blashki, Minnie Blashki, Jeanette Krakowski, Ada Krakowski, Kitty Lunday, Amy and Evie Corrie and Rose Schield.
Royal Astronomical Society papers, comprising Secretary's letter-book 1822-1824, original papers submitted to the Society 1820-1900, and correspondence of Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee 1898-1912. Subjects include: Pacific exploring expedition; observations made by Sir Thomas Brisbane at Parramatta 1822-1825; report on Melbourne Observatory for 1878; expedition to Sumatra 1901 to observe total eclipse; and observation of 1908, 1910 and 1911 eclipses in Australia and Pacific.
Papers 1801-78 of Addington Family. Includes correspondence of Lord Sidmouth, referring to: colonial appointments; land grants; convicts; the administration of Java; journey of George W. Evans over Blue Mountains; logs kept by Francis Addington on HMS Wolverene 1876-78 and HMS Sappho 1878-79.
Material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: Four volumes of speeches and notes by Lord Carrington 1879-1905; Notes and copies of correspondence with King Edward VII and Lord Rosebery; Correspondence of Lord and Lady Carrington with their family, especially their son Rupert; with other State Governors, namely Sir Robert Hamilton, Lord Hopetoun, Lord Kintore, Sir Henry Loch, Sir Anthony Musgrave, Sir William Robinson, Sir Hercules Robinson and Sir Henry Norman; and Governors of New Zealand Sir William Jervois and Lord Onslow, and with various individuals including Sir George Dibbs, Lord Knutsford, Edward Stanhope, Lord Normanby, Sir Henry Parkes, Sir Alfred Stephen, Lord Carnarvon, Sir Edmund Barton, James Bryce, Sir Arthur Ellis, General Arthur Fremantle, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Hamilton, Lord Lansdowne, Cardinal Manning, Lord Selborne and Lord Jersey; Memoirs of Lord Carrington; Cuttings and printed articles about the Mount Rennie Rape Case 1886; Speeches by Sir Henry Parkes; Diaries of Lord Carrington 1888-93 and Lady Carrington 1881-1913.