Select List of Accessions to the Australian Manuscripts Collection, 1992–1996

• Correspondence with Ward Lock 1928–1954
• 2.5 cm
• Purchased
• Two noted Australian authors corresponding with their publisher on sales, royalties and the difficulty of publishing in wartime.
• MS 13028

• Presentation volume of letters to his publishers Angus and Robertson about The sentimental bloke and Ginger Mick.
• 1 vol.
• Presented by Mr Sydney Wilfrid Herron
• MS 13037

• Records 1904–1990
• 1.2m
• Presented by ANZ Funds Management
• Alfred Felton was a Melbourne businessman. Upon his death part of the income from his estate was left to be spent on works of art for the National Gallery of Victoria.
• PA 96/83

• Postcards 1905–1906
• 3 p.
• Presented by Mr Stan Bannister Tom Collins [Joseph Furphy] sends greetings to members of Kate Baker's family.
• PA 96/125

• Records 1909–1990
• 34.0 cm
• Presented by the Society through Mrs R. Bain
• Founded in Melbourne in 1894 to provide charitable relief to “distressed Gentlewomen”
• MS 12986

• Papers 1914–1918
• 1.2m
• Presented by Mr David Dyer
• Goddard was in command of the 1st Anzac
• Corps Troops Supply Column in France.
• MS 13106

• Diary 1892–1893
• 1 vol.
• Presented by Mrs Lola Goodall
• The diary of a young man in Geelong, notable for its wealth of humorous illustrations.
• MS 13029

• Papers 1933–1991
• 3.25 m
• Purchased
• Journalist, Communist Party member, businessman and friend of many leading figures in the Melbourne literary scene.
• MS 13047

• Records 1853–1856
• 3.0cm
• Presented by Mr D.J. Ferris
• A small body of records of one of Melbourne's first railway companies.
• MS 13104

• Records 1845–1986
  

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• 7.0m
• Presented by Oz Child
• MS 13168

• Records 1970s-1996
• 5.0m
• Presented by Mietta O'Donnell and Tony Knox
• Mietta's was a noted Melbourne restaurant.
• PA 96/122

• Records 1892–1905
• 80.0 cm
• Presented by Mr W. Snell
• Records of a pawnbroking business in Clarendon Street, South Melbourne.
• MS 13114

• Drafts of her novel Reasons of the heart, and correspondence relating to its publication by Penguin.
• 34.0 cm
• Purchased
• PA96/65

• War diaries 1916–1919
• 2 vols
• Presented by Mr Tom Patton
• A detailed account of the daily activities of an Army chaplain in France, Macedonia and Palestine.
• MS 12988

• Letters to Pamela Crosthwaite 1968 6 p.
• Presented by Mrs Pamela Crosthwaite
• An exchange of letters arising out of a group discussion of Porter's work.
• MS 13027

• Papers c.1920–1957
• 8.0cm
• Purchased
• Correspondence and occasional writings of a Melbourne bookseller and connoisseur of crime.
• MS 12996

• Records: marriages 1858, baptisms 1858–1884, 1907–1942
• 1.5m
• Presented by the Church
• MS 13120

• Inward correspondence 1926–1951
• 4.0cm
• Presented by Dr Geoffrey Serle
• Approximately 80 letters from friends, poets, scholars.
• MS 13081

• Biographical files
• 4.4 m
• Presented by the estate of Percival Serle
• The files created by Serle while compiling his Dictionary of Australian Biography.
• MS 13026

• Papers c.1947–1990
• 6.0cm
• Purchased
• Sinclair was music critic of the Melbourne Herald in the late 1970s.
• MS 13101

• Minutes 1906–1908
• 1 vol.
• Presented by Mrs Louisa Hamilton
• MS 13110

• Diary 1906
• 1 vol.
• Purchased
• The routines and recreations of a young working girl in turn-of-the-century Fitzroy.
• MS 12995

• Papers c.1900–1930
• 70.0 cm
• Presented by Mrs C. Keelan
• Drafts, proofs and press cuttings of a novelist whose torrid tales of women in revolt were best sellers in their day.
• MS 12997

• Ms. “Report on the state of the Melbourne Public Library”, 1869
• 1 vol.
• Forwarded from the State Librarian's Office
• Prepared by Augustus Tulk who, among other things, pleads with the Trustees that the Librarians be allowed to take their “regulation holidays” for the first time in 3 years.
• MS 12990

• Records 1971–1991
• 1.9m
• Presented by YAC
• YAC was founded in 1971 to develop policy on youth homelessness in Victoria.
• MS 13070