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The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed selectively from the papers of: Richard Philps of his experiences as a Royal Air Force Medical Officer in POW camps in Indonesia; physiologist Professor Ernest B. Verney, including manuscripts written at University of Melbourne; surgeon Alfred H. Tubby kept while serving with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; Sir Ernst Chain; physiologist Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer; Grantley Dick-Read; Professor Sir George and Lady Pickering relating to a visit to Australia; Marie C.C. Stopes; Sir Edward Mellanby; Professor Percy C.C. Garnham; Sir Leonard Rogers; Abortion Law Reform Association; Lister Institute;
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)
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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.
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.
19.48 metres(33 security binders, 83 boxes, 3 small folio boxes, 3 medium folio boxes, 2 large folio boxes, 1 medium phase box, 7 map folios)
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The Deakin Papers form one of the finest political collections in Australia. They cover most of Deakin's life, and, above all, document the Federation movement of the 1890s and the first decade of the Commonwealth. In addition to the extensive correspondence and other papers on Australian politics and government, there are many diaries, notebooks and manuscripts in which Deakin set down his religious and philosophical reflections, extracts and commentaries on his readings, verse and other literary writings. There is a wide range of material in the papers, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary manuscripts, legal briefs, official documents and publications, press clippings, pamphlets, books, certificates, posters, menus, programs, receipts, photographs, briefcases and memorabilia. Most of the correspondence was written to Deakin, but there are many letters that he wrote to his family and drafts or copies of some of his other letters.
Correspondence concerning: Imperial relations; recruiting in Australia and New Zealand; campaigns in France; 1918 Imperial War Conference; control of former German colonies in Pacific; split in Australian Labor Party over conscription; communications between Britain and Dominions; appointment of governors; honours; Imperial trade; federal-State relations in Australia; W.M. Hughes; Keith Murdoch; Archbishop D. Mannix; and administration of Straits Settlements.
1. Correspondence 1878-1929, including 18 letters 1905-08 from Alfred Deakin discussing Federal politics and legislation, letters 1887-1920 from Andrew Fisher, B.R. Wise, Sir Henry Parkes, Sir George Dibbs, R.E. O'Connor, and J. Le Gay Brereton; letters, telegrams and cards of congratulations on his knighthood in 1914, and miscellaneous correspondence in chronological order on private and official matters.
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.
The records comprise minutes of the Standing Committee 1778-1819, 1900-1935 and the Foreign Committee 1846-1880, anniversary sermons, annual reports and journals of monthly meetings of the Society 1901-1935, missionary reports 1852-1938, letters received from Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia and Southeast Asia 1821-1936, copies of letters of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary and Overseas Secretary 1842-1935, missionary rolls 1846-1910, candidates' papers 1821-1857, testimonials, ledgers 1891-1936 and photograph albums, including photographs of Malaya, Singapore, Borneo and Melanesia.