Two copies of a letter written from Port Phillip, 2 May 1836, discussing the foundation of the settlement at Melbourne in 1803 and its bright prospects. The collection comprises a manuscript copy (7 pages), which may be contemporary, and an undated typescript duplicate (4 pages). There are two accompanying pieces of correspondence, 1945-1946, regarding the gift of the manuscript copy to the R.C.S.

A letter from Thomas Hocken, Dunedin, to Stanley Edwards regarding a Maori name for the town of Gore. The location appeared to have no prior place-name, and Hocken suggests several Maori words suitable for this purpose.

Letters from Rowland Childers to H.C.E. Childers from Australia, 1878-80, 1884-6, including draft and copy replies (5, 6, 13, 14, 24); letter from Rowland to J.H. Were, 1880 (19); map of the Yanko station, Jerilderie, N.S.W., 1880 (21); ? Macartney, son of the Dean of Melbourne to Rowland Childers, 1886 (26).

A volume entitled 'Australian emigrants letters 1834-5' containing six inserted letters, probably all sent to Alexander Macleay.

Letters to Childers from his cousin Emily Hammond from Australia, 1879-81, 1884-6, with draft replies (93, 98); enclosed are letters to Emily Hammond from J.H. Were, 1879 (70) Rowland Childers, 1879-81, 1884-6 (75, 78, 86, 90, 97, 104), Sir William Stavell, 1879 (76), A. Fisher [?], 1884 (82).

200 x 154 mm. A view from Swanston Street showing the front façade of the building. The library, opened in 1856 with a classical pillared exterior, also houses the Art Gallery and Museum.

210 x 152 mm. A view of a corner of the library, with bookshelves lining the far wall and various trophies and cups on a centre table. The Library pictured here is not the more magnificent Fisher Library, which was not opened until 1910.

35 mm colour transparencies. When planning the exhibition 'Commonwealth in Focus,' the Library requested material from Commonwealth Governments and these slides, with the photographs listed at Y308E, were sent in response. A continuous slide show was prepared to portray contemporary aspects of the countries of the Commonwealth and twelve of these slides were copied for inclusion (Numbers 113-124 of list at Y3011GGG).

106 x 83 mm.

225 x 175 mm. A view over the ponds to a willow tree.

151 x 107 mm. A view showing a makeshift lime kiln on a hillside with Lake Cowan in the distance. Lease 'owned by R.P Nugent - produces gritty impure lime'. Photograph by W.D. Campbell. Negative No. 222.

152 x 107 mm. A view looking across level scrubland towards the sharply pointed Razorback Mount. Photograph by E.S. Simpson. Negative No. 22.

Collection of professional photographs, each 90 x 70 mm, published for the Yass Newsagency by the Valentine Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is 43 miles north of Canberra. Its population in 1947 was 3254.

These records relate to various associations formed in Australia, India, Ceylon and South Africa by residents of Malaya displaced by the war. They provided information and assistance to evacuees, civilian internees, and prisoners of war.

Rules of the organisations, lists of members, minutes of meetings, memoranda, circulars, indemnity records and related correspondence (343 sheets).

A view across the valley, with a small residential community in the middle distance, and the ironworks beyond, with smoke drifting across the valley.

275 x 206 mm. View looking up Liverpool Street towards the Willow Tree Inn at the junction with Castlereagh Street. The right foreground of the print is occupied by a large four storey bonded warehouse and factory named the Virginia Factory. The right-hand portion of the building is occupied by Cameron's Bond.

277 x 207 mm. View looking downhill and along Liverpool Street, with an unidentified road junction in the middleground and open country in the distance. The street is lined with modest domestic dwellings.

200 x 150 mm. Showing a herd of bullocks in the foreground with a large cargo steamer behind.

A view from the wharfside, showing coal being winched aboard a sailing ship.

A view taken from the wharfside showing coal being winched aboard a sailing ship.

[Showing man loading bags of flour onto horse and cart].

A view looking down on to a pier piled with timber which is being loaded on to the steamer moored alongside.