Guide to the Papers of Manfred Claasz

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MS 7617, MS Acc14.015, MS Acc14.149, MS Acc18.158

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Collection Summary

Creator
Manfred Claasz
Title
Papers of Manfred Claasz
Date Range
1942 - 2005
Collection Number
MS 7617, MS Acc14.015, MS Acc14.149, MS Acc18.158
Extent
6.18 metres (38 MS Boxes + 1 Medium Folio-Box + 1 packet)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

MS 7617 documents Claasz's schooldays in Ceylon, employment there as a manager of a tea plantation owned by the Scottish Tea and Lands Company of Ceylon Limited, personal and family life, emigration to Australia in 1972, and managerial jobs in ANU Press, the Australian National Gallery, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation and Zeilan Ventures. Includes papers on establishment of tea plantations in Queensland, diaries and notebooks relating to tea planting, crop yields, field notebooks relating to tea planting and other notebooks, school notebooks and certificates, Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript written in old Singhalese script on the subject of astrology, press cuttings, printed items, photographs, notes and articles on tea, personal and business diaries, family and personal letters and some papers of the Scottish Tea and Lands Co., Ceylon.

MS Acc14.149 comprises KPMG Corporate finance logbooks for the period 1996-1998, and personal logs of Claasz's time in Alice Springs with Desert Knowledge CRC.

MS Acc14.015 comprises journals in which Claasz documents his business-related activities during the following periods: Jul 1994-Feb 1996 (7 volumes), Apr 1998-Jul 2000 (11 volumes), and Sep 2003-Dec 2005 (7 volumes). The period covered includes Claasz's work as a board member of the Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (1998-2000) and his work with CRC for Robust and Adaptive Systems. There is also a small amount of business correspondence (1988-1991).

The MS Acc18.158 accession comprises family letters between Manfred Claasz's mother and her nephew John Kingsman Beling; a descendancy chart; journals of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon; a printed book on Familiar Birds of Ceylon by Cicely Kershaw (1925) and photographs.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2301800) for the access conditions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Manfred Claasz, National Library of Australia, MS 7617, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Original consignment comprises Boxes 1-9; further papers received August 1992 (Boxes 10-29 + folio).

Item Descriptions

Class MS 7176. Original consignment, 1942 - 1992

4.8 metres,

This consignment documents Claasz's schooldays in Ceylon, his employment there as a manager of a tea plantation owned by the Scottish Tea and Lands Company of Ceylon Limited, personal and family life, emigration to Australia in 1972, and managerial jobs in ANU Press, the Australian National Gallery, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation and Zeilan Ventures. It includes papers on the establishment of tea plantations in Queensland, diaries and notebooks relating to tea planting, crop yields, field notebooks relating to tea planting and other notebooks, school notebooks and certificates, Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript written in old Singhalese script on the subject of astrology, press cuttings, printed items, photographs, notes and articles on tea, personal and business diaries, family and personal letters and some papers of the Scottish Tea and Lands Co., Ceylon.

Appointment Diaries, 1967-1974, 1976-1977 (File) - Box 1

Appointment Diaries, 1978-1980 (File) - Box 2

Pocket Diaries, 1955-1958, 1962-1966, 1968 (File) - Box 2

Desk Diaries, 1958, 1961-1962, 1971 (File) - Box 2

Binder No. I: Passport, emigration, 1952-1959 (File 1_3) - Box 3

Binder No. II: Diary of events, 1960 (File 4_5) - Box 3

Diary, 1963 (File 6) - Box 3

(1)

Diary, 1963 (File 7) - Box 3

(2)

Diary (loose format), June-August 1965. (File 8) - Box 4

Binder marked "Diary to 31.12.1972" (File 9_13) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1972-1973 (File 9_13) - Box 4

Binder Number III: Correspondence, 1961-1965 (File 14_16) - Box 4

Correspondence, 1962-1964 (File 17) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1964-1966 (File 18) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1966-1970 (File 19) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1965-1972 (File 20) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1970-1976 (File 21) - Box 5

Correspondence, Personal, 1948-1971 (File 22) - Box 5

Correspondence, 1947-1948, 1971, 1973, 1976-1977 (File 23) - Box 5

Notebook - Mahadowa Division, Book A (File 24) - Box 5

Notebook - Mahadowa Division, Book B (File 25) - Box 5

Notebook: Plaiderie Division (File 26) - Box 6

Notebook: Scottish Tea and Lands Company of Ceylon, Haputale Estate (File 27_28) - Box 6

Notebook: "Factory and field" (File 29) - Box 6

Notebook: Seven small notebooks (File 30) - Box 6

Notebook: Three field notebooks (File 31) - Box 6

Notebook: Six exercise books (File 32) - Box 6

Notebook: Four Scrapbooks on swimming, 1962-1962 (File 33) - Box 6

Notes and articles on tea, from an alphabetically-arranged file (File 34_41) - Box 7

Notebook-Finance; miscellaneous notes, international driving permit, 1968 (File 42) - Box 8

School books and certificates (File 43) - Box 8

Tea Planters' Study Group - Leaflets (File 44) - Box 8

Basic Sailing Manual (File 45) - Box 8

Miscellaneous notes and articles on tea (File 46) - Box 8

Miscellaneous: includes scrap album of travel souvenirs (File 47) - Box 8

Printed matter (File 48) - Box 8

Press cuttings (File 49) - Box 8

Photographs (File) - Box 9

Palm leaf manuscript (File) - Box 9

The Scottish Tea and Lands Co. of Ceylon Ltd. report, 1972 (File) - Box 10

Notebook (File) - Box 10

Business diaries, 1988-1990 (File) - Box 10

Notebook on Christine Margaret Thorpe, 1971-1972 (File) - Box 10

Diary containing articles, cuttings, letters etc, 1943-1978 (File) - Box 11

Business diaries, 1966, 1978, 1985, 1990-1991 (File) - Box 11

The Scottish Tea and Lands Co. of Ceylon Ltd management staff register (File) - Box 11

Photographs, pamphlets, letters, 1986 (File) - Box 11

Correspondence, 1974-1990 (File) - Box 12

Scrapbook, 1966-1988 (File) - Box 12

Notebook (File) - Box 12

Personal diary, 1971 (File) - Box 12

Engagement books, 1957, 1971 (File) - Box 12

Address book (File) - Box 12

Correspondence between Claasz and Charles Warner, 1984-1991 (File) - Box 13

Correspondence, pamphlets etc. re Zeilan Ventures, 1986-1989 (File) - Box 13

Report re Australian National Gallery (ANG) shop by Claasz, 1982 (File) - Box 13

Diaries, 1970, c.1983, 1986-1987 (File) - Box 13

Cooma Chamber of Commerce Tourism Sub-committee papers, 1989 (File) - Box 13

"Undiscovered Canberra", photographs (File) - Box 13

Australian Association for the Conservation of the Cultural Heritage of Sri Lanka papers, 1983 (File) - Box 14

Papers re Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, 1987-1988 (File) - Box 14

Miscellaneous papers, 1986-1988 (File) - Box 14

ANU Press papers, 1985 (File) - Box 14

Notebook, 1986 (File) - Box 14

Notebook, 1989 (File) - Box 15

Miscellaneous papers, ca, 1987 (File) - Box 15

Zeilan Ventures papers, 1985-1986 (File) - Box 15

Diaries, 1962-1985, 1982 (File) - Box 15

Correspondence, personal, 1980-1991 (File) - Box 16

Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1975-1980 (File) - Box 16

Correspondence and papers, 1981-1984 (File) - Box 17

Invoices, Zeilan Ventures, 1981-1983 (File) - Box 17

Correspondence of SB, 1991-1992 (File) - Box 17

Papers of H. Vere Claasz, 1946-1977 (File) - Box 17

Letters of Christine Claasz, 1971-1972 (File) - Box 18

Papers, 1965-1978 (File) - Box 18

Folder entitled "Astrology", 1966-1969 (File) - Box 18

Letters from H., 1967-1971 (File) - Box 18

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC) papers, 1991 (File) - Box 18

Notebook (File) - Box 19

Lifeline Canberra papers, 1979-1984 (File) - Box 19

Lonely Planet publications list for Zeilan Ventures, 1987-1989 (File) - Box 19

ANU proposal re Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English, 1978 (File) - Box 19

Correspondence, 1973-1977 (File) - Box 19

Diaries, 1978-1984, 1991 (File) - Box 20

Lodge Gowrie of Canberra papers, 1986-1987 (File) - Box 20

Copy book of letters, 1985-1986 (File) - Box 20

Correspondence, 1972-1992 (File) - Box 20

including employment correspondence

Miscellaneous papers, 1983-1991 (File) - Box 20

including SMEC papers

Certificates for swimming and book keeping, 1959-1969 (File) - Box 21

Papers on tea etc, 1968-1983 (File) - Box 21

Notebooks, 1965, 1966, 1983 (File) - Box 21

Zeilan Ventures file, 1988-1990 (File) - Box 21

Report on scholarly publishing at the Australian National University by M. Jeanneret, 1965 (File) - Box 21

Mock up for "The Australian National University: people and places in a landscape", 1978 (File) - Box 21

File entitled "ANU from 1975 to 1982" (File) - Box 22

Zeilan Ventures records, 1982-1990 (File) - Box 22

ANU Press, 1978-1980 (File) - Box 22

ANU Press files, 1981-1983 (File) - Box 23

Zeilan Ventures file, 1987-1990 (File) - Box 23

Zeilan Ventures lists of publications (File) - Box 23

File on GS, 1957-1979 (File) - Box 23

Australian National Gallery (ANG) papers, 1982-1986 (File) - Box 24

Diaries, 1980-1983, 1985-1986 (File) - Box 24

ANU Press file: "letters to the press", 1980-1983 (File) - Box 24

Diaries, 1973, 1975, 1984-1985, 1989 (File) - Box 25

Pocket diaries, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1988 (File) - Box 25

Business diaries for Zeilan Ventures, 1985, 1987, 1988 (File) - Box 25

Business diaries for Zeilan Ventures, 1984, 1987 (File) - Box 26

Engagement calendar, 1990 (File) - Box 26

Record book, 1987-1989 (File) - Box 26

Personal notes (File) - Box 27

Correspondence re emigration of C.D.E. Young to Australia, 1974-1979 (File) - Box 27

File entitled "Testimonials" (H. Vere Claasz papers), 1947-1977 (File) - Box 27

Algona Publications, 1985-1989 (File) - Box 27

M.H.C. File, 1942-1986 (File) - Box 27

Papers re shares in Sri Lankan companies, 1972-1986 (File) - Box 27

ANG reports, 1984-1986 (File) - Box 27

Records re Zeilan Ventures, 1986-1989 (File) - Box 28

Papers re Lifeline Canberra, 1983-1984 (File) - Box 28

Articles, clippings, correspondence re tea industry in Sri Lanka, 1972-1978 (File) - Box 28

ANU Press papers, 1978-1983 (File) - Box 28

ANU essay, 1976 (File) - Box 28

Papers re job applications, 1988-1990 (File) - Box 28

SMEC papers, 1988-1992 (File) - Box 28

SMEC papers, 1984-1991 (File) - Box 29

Scrapbooks, 1974, 1989-1990 (File) - Folio 1-2?

Class MS Acc14.015. Consignment received February 2014, 1991 - 2005

0.75 metres,

Journals in which Claasz documents his business-related activities during the following periods: Jul 1994-Feb 1996 (7 volumes), Apr 1998-Jul 2000 (11 volumes), and Sep 2003-Dec 2005 (7 volumes). The period covered includes Claasz's work as a board member of the Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (1998-2000) and his work with CRC for Robust and Adaptive Systems. There is also a small amount of business correspondence (1988-1991).

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation correspondence, 1988 - 1991 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains photocopies of cheques, board paper and letters both handwritten and typed.

Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems - Notebook one, 1994 (Item 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers and printouts.

Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems - Notebook two, 1994 (Item 3) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers and printouts.

Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems - Notebook three, 1994 - 1995 (Item 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems - Notebook four, 16 February 1995 - 15 May 1995 (Item 5) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems - Notebook five, 16 May 1995 - 10 August 1995 (Item 6) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems - Notebook six, 11 August 1995 - 4 December 1995 (Item 7) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Notebook, 1995 (Item 8) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook one, 1998 (Item 9) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook two, 1998 (Item 10) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook three, 1998 (Item 11) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook four, 1998 - 1999 (Item 12) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, photographs, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook five, 1998 - 1999 (Item 13) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, photographs, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook six, 1999 (Item 14) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written business notes, business cards, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook seven, 1999 (Item 15) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, photographs, flyers, newspaper clippings and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook eight, 1999 (Item 16) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook nine, 1999 - 2000 (Item 17) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, photographs, flyers, newspaper clippings and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook ten, 1999 - 2000 (Item 18) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, photographs, flyers, newspaper clippings and printouts.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation - Notebook eleven, 2000 (Item 19) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Notebook one, 2003 - 2004 (Item 20) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, ephemera and printouts.

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Notebook two, 2004 (File 21) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, ephemera and printouts.

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Notebook three, 2004 (File 22) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, ephemera and printouts.

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Notebook four, 2004 - 2005 (File 23) - Box 5 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Notebook five, 2005 (File 24) - Box 5 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Notebook six, 2005 (File 25) - Box 5 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre - Notebook seven, 2005 (File 26) - Box 5 (MS Acc14.015)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, newspaper clippings, and printouts.

Class MS Acc14.149. Consignment received November 2014, 1996 - 1998

0.6 metres,

This consignment comprises KPMG Corporate finance logbooks for the period 1996-1998, and personal logs of Claasz's time in Alice Springs with Desert Knowledge CRC.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook one, 20 November 1995 - 30 April 1996 (Item 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook two, 1 May 1996 - 11 August 1996 (Item 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook three, 12 August 1996 - 21 October 1996 (Item 3) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook four, 22 October 1996 - 15 January 1997 (Item 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, newspaper clippings and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook five, 16 January 1997 - 26 March 1997 (Item 5) - Box 1 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, newspaper clippings and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook six, 1 April 1997 - 7 May 1997 (Item 6) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, ephemera and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook seven, 8 May 1997 - 8 August 1997 (Item 7) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, newspaper clippings and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook eight, 9 August 1997 - 15 October 1997 (Item 8) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, ephemera and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook nine, 16 October 1997 - 23 December 1997 (Item 9) - Box 2 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, newspaper clippings, ephemera and printouts.

KPMG Corporate Finance - Notebook ten, 24 December 1997 - 12 July 1998 (Item 10) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, ephemera and printouts.

Notebook, 1995 - 1996 (Item 11) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains hand written notes, business cards, ephemera and printouts.

Invasive Animals Limited - Audit and Risk Committee Meeting, 18 April 2013 (File 12) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains meeting agenda.

Towards a more durable insitutional base for invasive animals in R&D (Research and Development), 2011 (Item 13) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains publication by Andrew Campbell.

Invasive Animals CRC (Cooperative research centre) - Annual Report 2011-2012, 15 October 2012 (Item 14) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.149)

Invasive Animals CRC (Cooperative research centre) - Board Meeting Number thirty three, 7 February 2012 - 8 February 2012 (Item 15) - Box 3 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains board meeting agenda and minutes.

Invasive Animals CRC (Cooperative research centre) - Board Meeting Number five, 9 August 2013 (Item 16) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains board meeting agenda and minutes.

Invasive Animals CRC (Cooperative research centre) - Board Meeting Number four, 8 May 2013 (Item 17) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains board meeting agenda and minutes.

Invasive Animals CRC (Cooperative research centre) - Board Meeting Number three, 7 February 2013 (Item 18) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains board meeting agenda and minutes.

Invasive Animals CRC (Cooperative research centre) - Board Meeting Number thirty five, 1 August 2012 - 2 August 2012 (Item 19) - Box 4 (MS Acc14.149)

Contains board meeting agenda and minutes.

Class MS Acc18.158. Consignment received December 2018, n.d.

0.03 metres,

The collection includes family letters between Manfred Claasz's mother and her nephew John Kingsman Beling; a descendancy chart; journals of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon; a printed book on 'Familiar Birds of Ceylon' by Cicely Kershaw (1925) and photographs.

Miscellaneous - correspondence, photographs and journals, n.d. (File 1) - Box Shared

Includes family letters between Manfred Claasz's mother and her nephew John Kingsman Beling John Kingsman Beling; a descendancy chart; journals of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon; a printed book on Familiar Birds of Ceylon by Cicely Kershaw (1925) and photographs.


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