Guide to the Papers of Lister and Edna Hopkins

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MS Acc09.065, MS Acc24.064, MS Acc24.093.MS Acc25.008

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Created: May 2025

Collection Summary

Creator
Hopkins , Lister George
Hopkins, Edna Mary (1920-1996)
Title
Papers of Lister and Edna Hopkins
Date Range
1841-2007
Collection Number
MS Acc09.065, MS Acc24.064, MS Acc24.093.MS Acc25.008
Extent
4.2 metres (28 ms boxes + 11 audiovisual carriers + 2 digital carriers)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

MS Acc09.065 comprises papers accumulated separately by Lister and Edna Hopkins during the course of their careers. There is also extensive correspondence, both family and business, including a number of letters written while on various postings, providing a picture of life in the British Colonies at that time. There are diaries of Lister Hopkins, narrative in style, from his time in Palestine, Jamaica, Lebanon and following his retirement together with a number of subject files he created. There are early family history papers relating to a biography written by Lister Hopkins of his father, entitled Francis Lister Hopkins 1878-1926.

MS Acc24.064 comprises two large envelopes consisting of correspondence between the couple. The first envelope includes 107 letters and telegrams between Edna and Lister leading up to their wedding in Jerusalem from July 1940 to April 1941. The second envelope includes 129 letters and telegrams from Edna to Lister in Jamaica, 1948-1949.

MS Acc24.093 comprises more correspondence between the couple. One folder included the letters between Edna and Lister Hopkins over the span of two decades. Also featured are photographs on Edna Leven in her early years to early 1941 and records of her later impressions, then as Edna Hopkins, of Jamaica and Lebanon.

MS Acc25.008 comprises personal correspondence and documents relating to Lister and Edna Hopkins, spanning several decades. It includes family letters, birthday greetings, photographs from the Student Christian movement, personal communications with friends and colleagues, and records of Lister's recommendations admissions to the Religious Society of Friends.

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Preferred Citation

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Item Descriptions

Class MS Acc09.065. Consignment received from 2009, 1841-2007

This consignment chiefly comprises papers accumulated separately by Lister and Edna Hopkins during the course of their careers. There is extensive correspondence, both family and business, including a number of letters written while on various postings, providing a picture of life in the British colonies of the time. There are also the diaries of Lister Hopkins, narrative in style, from his time in Palestine, Jamaica, Lebanon and following his retirement, together with a number of subject files he created. Also included are early family history papers relating to a biography written by Lister Hopkins of his father titled, Francis Lister Hopkins 1878-1926.

Series. LGH Letters

LGH: Letters - Brisbane to Oxford, 1932 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - Rome, Oxford, Whipsnade Zoo, Cotswolds, Oxford, 1932-1933 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - Aberdeen, Wales, Russia, Aberdeen, 1933 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)

(London 'vacation address' was 38 Elmwood, Welwyn Garden City)

LGH: Letters - Oxford, Welwyn GC, Poland, Oxford, Russia, 1934 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - Oxford, Ireland, Welwyn GC, 1934 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - Oxford, Welwyn GC, 1935 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)

(Went to Lake District with Phyllis and John Thompson)

LGH: Letters - Germany, Oxford, 1935 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - Jerusalem, 1936 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - Jerusalem, 1937 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - to Australia and back, Jerusalem, 1938 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters - Jerusalem, 1939 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Jerusalem, 1940-1941 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Jerusalem, 1942-1944 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Jamaica, 1944-1945 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Jamaica, 1947 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Jamaica (and one from Oxford), 1948-1950 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Lebanon, 1950-1951 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Canberra, 1951-1952 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Canberra, 1956-1958 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters from Trinidad, 1958-1959 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH: Letters to Edna, 1960-1967 (File) - Box 1 (MS Acc09.065)
Vol. II Letters from Mrs Leven, 1947-1951 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Vol. III Letters from Mrs Leven, 1947-1951 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Last letters from Mrs Leven 1975-76, 1975-1976 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters to E and L Hopkins from various friends and relations, 1951-1954 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from SM Hopkins to LGH, 1943-1952 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from SM Hopkins to LGH, 1952-1959 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters to E and L Hopkins from WN Harrison, 1951-1966 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Demographic notes and calculations (pencil) (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Material relating to the Peggs family of Nassau, the Bahamas (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Miscellaneous letters to LGH, including offer of OBE and letters of congratulation; also press-cuttings and other ephemera, 1949-1950 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)
Records and souvenirs of trips to Canada and United States 1945, and from Jamaica to England 1946, 1945, 1946 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. EMH Career

Education Officer Cl.2, 1966-1971 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Commonwealth Teaching Service, 1973-1975 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
A Multiracial School photo, 1974 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Career Personal 1, 1977-1980 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Career Personal 2, 1976-1996 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Career Personal 3, 1974-1975 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Study Tour, 1975 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Introductory English Centre Grant correspondence, 1976-1977 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Centre Legal, 1975-1978 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Centre Correspondence, 1975-1977 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Centre Evaluation, 1976-1977 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc09.065)
Centre, 1977-1986 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Friends of Centre FIEC, 1979-1995 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Introductory English Centre, 1974-1977 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Innovations L. Connors, 1978 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Estate of Ethel Maud Leven, 1977-1979 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Teacher ed, 1979 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Bruce TAFE and TPHS, 1975-1982 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
'Autobiography', 1980-1994 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Canberran of the Year 1980, 1980 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Overseas 1985, 1985 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Centre Staff, 1976-1977 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Association of Teachers of ESL, 1970-1975 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc09.065)
Thailand (open box file), 1981-1982 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc09.065)
Australian presence at transit centre, 1981-1982 (File) - Box 5 (MS Acc09.065)

4 cards of photo album

Immigration Review Panel, 1987-1988 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
National Committee on Multicultural Ed, 1984-1987 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Quakers, 1988-1992 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Australian College of Ed, 1973-1995 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Various, 1992-1994 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Intelec and Behind The News, 1994-1996 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
ACE, 1986 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
AM letters, 1993 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Friends of Nat. Mus. Gdns, Lib, 1990s (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Intelec Conference and Paper, 1994 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Issues 1991-1994, 1991-1994 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Casino, 1989 (File) - Box 6 (MS Acc09.065)
Interviews K Hill-Steiner, M Mackay, 1920s-1994 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc09.065)
Women ACT, 1968-1993 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc09.065)
Photos: Leven home, graduation, wedding, 1940-1950s (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc09.065)
Omega 1990, Quakers 1992, 1990-1992 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc09.065)
Tax Assessments 1991-1995, 1991-1995 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc09.065)
26 Miller Street, 1993 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc09.065)
Open box file: Travel diaries 1975 (1and2) 1993, notes 1975; Audio tapes: Edna, Lister; Floppy discs: Edna, Lister, 1981-2003 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc09.065)
Lister's book Francis Lister Hopkins 9/04/2003, 9/04/2003 (Item NLA.MS-DM002937) - Digital-Carriers-Box 59
1 item, Media Labs MF-2HD, 3.5 inch floppy disk
Edna Hopkins workshop talk INTELEC 1994 26/06/1994, 26/06/1994 (Item NLA.MS-DM002938) - Digital-Carriers-Box 59
1 item, Media Labs MF-2HD, 3.5 inch floppy disk

In Word 5.1

Edna on 2CN 15/09/1981 (preparing for Thailand), 15/09/1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012239) - Cassette-Box 589
1 item, Sony C60, Compact cassette tape
2XX interview of Maeve and Edna Hopkins 13/07/1983, 13/07/1983 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012240) - Cassette-Box 589
1 item, Sony CHF90, Compact cassette tape
Edna Hopkins am-1pm. ? Mackay: Side 1: Growing up in Toowong Qld. Side 2: Life in Palestine, Life in Jamaica, 28/01/1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012241) - Cassette-Box 589
1 item, TDK D90, Compact cassette tape
Edna Hopkins Memorial meeting 18/01/1997, 18/01/1997 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012242) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, Telex C60, Compact cassette tape
Memorial Service for Edna Hopkins - introductory music and spoken testimony, 18/01/1997 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012243) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, TDK D90, Compact cassette tape
Side 1: Father Brennan 2002. Side 2: Frank Brennan (cont) 2002, L G Hopkins, 2002 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012244) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, Telex C60, Compact cassette tape
L G Hopkins (Item NLA.MS-SAV012245) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, Unbranded, Compact cassette tape
L G Hopkins. Side A: Side 5 to 1940. Side B: , Side 6 to 1951 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012246) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, G Tape 60, Compact cassette tape
Functions of ?? (Item NLA.MS-SAV012247) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, Sony C60, Compact cassette tape
Side B: Side 3 European roots p21 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012248) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, TDK D90, Compact cassette tape
Rock and Roll: 'All I Ask of You', 'Is Forever to Remember Me', 'As Loving You' (Item NLA.MS-SAV012249) - Cassette-Box 590
1 item, Philips Hi-ferro C90, Compact cassette tape
Xmas card lists, 1963-1967 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 1961-1971 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 1980, 1983, 1987 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 1979-1988 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna 1989 operation, 1989 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 1992, 1994-1997 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc09.065)
Miscellaneous, 1993-1997 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 1997-1998 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 1998-1999 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna's illness 1996, 1996 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
EH Nov-Dec 1996 including interview by B Davis, 1996 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
Messages re Edna including testimonies, 1996-1997 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
EH Materials for testimony, 1978-1997 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
EH Library, 1996 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
EH probate etc, 1997 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
EH testimonies and obituaries, 1996-1997 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
EH last messages, condolences, 1996-1997 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc09.065)
EH last messages, condolences (8 bundles), 1996-1997 (File) - Box 10 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 2000-2002 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas emails, 2002-2003 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
Xmas, 2003-2005 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
Congrats acknowledgements, 1972-1999 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
80th birthday, 1990 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
81st birthday, 1991 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
85th birthday, 1995 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
Obituaries, 1988-2006 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
Condolence responses and obits, 1967-2001 (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc09.065)
Photos for book on FLH by LGH, 1899-1927 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH photos and other family photos, 1876-1952 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 3 up to age 30. orig. marriage certificate, 1891-1905 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 5 sources: Quakers, 1888-1916 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 6 sources: Elocution, 1903-1915 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 7 sources: Business, 1917-1926 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 8 sources: Conscription, 1911-1920 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 9 sources: Public life, 1910-1926 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 10 sources: Obituary, 1926 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 2(c) sources: Forbears, 1584-1926 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH Sec 2(b) sources: Lister Smith, 1859-1994 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
FLH mounted oval family photos, 1918 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
Family certificates, 1841-1985 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
Cousins: photos, 1906-1923 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
Qld Friends Records, 1862-1976 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
Qld Friends History, 1862-1968 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
Qld State Library: donation of letters, 2004 (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH Life and times with photos, 1916-1989 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH photos spanning life, 1916-1984 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH autobiographies and CV, 1910-2008 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Marion Mackenzie: Rhodes Scholar Refs, 1923-2004 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Balliol MA 1945, 1945-2005 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
ABS Oral History LGH; Production; Mortality, 1951-1975 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Australian pension; Division of working life, 1975 messages, 1937-2006 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Overseas travels, 1972, 1975 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Term deposit and pass book, 2003-2007 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Tax, 2005-2007 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH to sons; EMH to Bne Quakers, 1996-1999 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Spiritual journey LGH, 1915-1990 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Gulf Crisis LG and EMH, 1990 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
Eurobodalla Botanical Gardens: Tree for EMH, 2000 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH biodata for University of Queensland, 1931-1975 (File) - Box 13 (MS Acc09.065)
LGH letters to Winnie, 1978-1984 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
LG and EMH to SMH, 1952-1953 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters rec'd in W.I., 1958-1960, B'cast 1948, 1948-1960 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Rosedale 69 Yowani Road, 1999 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Rosedale 67 Yowani Road, 1977-2007 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
26 Miller St land value, Rates, Rent, 1997-2007 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
28 Miller St land value, 2003-2007 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
EM Leven estate, records of ABL and EMR, 1885-1977 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
AB Leven, 1904-1966 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters to the W.I., 1958-1960, and 1 from W.I, 1958-1960 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from cousins Foreman and Jones; and Bingham, 1975-2003 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from cousins Elcock, 1984-2002 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from cousins of Will Hopkins, 1972-2005 (File) - Box 14 (MS Acc09.065)
Flights to Palestine, Qantas map, wedding, UK 1946, 1940-1946 (File) - Box 15 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna's letters 'home', 1941-1944 (File) - Box 15 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna's letters 'home' and some from Lister, 1945-1946 (File) - Box 15 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna's letters 'home' 1947-1948 and 1950-1951, 1947-1951 (File) - Box 15 (MS Acc09.065)
Cables to and from Jamaica, 1944-1948 (File) - Box 15 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from friends to Edna, 1948-1949 (File) - Box 15 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from Lister's friends including Cudmore, 1944-1950 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from Phyllis,Ted,Walter,Minnie, 1944-1950 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from friends, 1950 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters early 1950s, 1950-1956 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters Edna to Lister 1956 and to SMH 1957, 1956-1957 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters Lister to SMH and some others, 1953-1956 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Majorie's children and Marjorie, 1945-2002 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
McKees, 1949-1996 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Francis's children, 1964-2003 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Ted, Esmé and children, 1959-1998 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Levens, 1971-2002 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Stewart, 1994-2005 (File) - Box 16 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters from Phyllis, 1974-1996 (File) - Box 17 (MS Acc09.065)
Mabel, Darrel, Margaret Watts, 1962-1997 (File) - Box 17 (MS Acc09.065)
Lister's letters to Edna, some to David, 1972-1986 (File) - Box 17 (MS Acc09.065)
Lister's letters to Edna from Cyprus, 1978 (File) - Box 17 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna and/or Lister to Nick, 1974-1975 (File) - Box 17 (MS Acc09.065)
Lister to Lucy, 1960-2007 (File) - Box 17 (MS Acc09.065)
From Australian residents A-L, 1971-2005 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
From Australian residents M-Z, 1969-1994 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
From O/S residents A-L, 1966-1995 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
From O/S residents M-Z, 1963-2001 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
Betty Garcia to Lister and Edna, 1979-2004 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
Douglas Gumbley, 1950-1973 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
Dajani, 1973-1991 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
Buscombes, 1971-2003 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
Renwicks, 1976-1993 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
Caroline Jay, 1999-2005 (File) - Box 18 (MS Acc09.065)
References, Leb. Rept., Job applications, 1935-1951 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Papers on statistics, 1935-1951 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Jobs and Wills, 1935-1951 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
UK pension, Robert Harkness, OBE, 1945-2006 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Rhodes Scholar registers, and Balliol and WW, 1945-1995 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Paper on Register of Births and Deaths, 1950 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Letters re: Assignments, 1950-1958 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Arranging employment, 1950-1975 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Lebanon reports, 1950-1951 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Employment personal; to and from Loftus, 1951-1963 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
UN personal, 1958-1977 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Geneva, 1965 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Houstein, Kaufmann, ANU, travels, 1968-1974 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
IUSSP, 1971-1979 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Sudan report, 1971-1979 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Cyprus arrangements, 1977-1978 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)
Cyprus papers, 1977-1978 (File) - Box 19 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. LGH Career

CCAE lectures, 1977-1980 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Reports on MA and PhD theses, 1979-1990 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. LGH Tangibles

SM Hopkins estate matters, 1915-1962 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna birth certificate and tax, 1920-1983 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Appliances and building costs, 1942-2003 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Borrie and books, 1951-2007 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Housing, insurance, rates, 1952-2006 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Car and license, 1958-2005 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Rosedale, 1965-1998 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Rosedale, 1997-1998 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Nick finance, 1993-1995 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Income tax, 1997-1996 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Edna will, 1985-1996 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)
Bank statements, 1999, 2007 (File) - Box 20 (MS Acc09.065)

Samples

Toowoomba Grammar School, 1999-2003 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
SCM, 1955-1956 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Rotary personal, 1985-1997 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. LGH Organisations

Quakers/ Hopkins, 1956-2006 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
TGS OBA, 1958-1962 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Aboriginal people, 1964-2000 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Friends' YMs, KV property, C Stevenson, 1969-1983 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Lyneham High School, 1970-1974 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Salvation Army doorknock, 1973-1974 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Phillips Exeter Academy, 1978-1989 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Rotary Foundation Student, 1978-1981 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Rotary history, 1980-1986 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
ALP, 1980-1984 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Conservation Environment, M Fraser, 1982-1993 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Warnborough College, 1987 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Speeches to ARSA, 2002-2004 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Rhodes Scholars Association, 1981-2001 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
UNAA, 1976-1997 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Accident, 1996-2000 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)
Exam results 1965-1966, Planner 1982-1983, 1965-1983 (File) - Box 21 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. LGH population of Palestine

Economic Organization of Palestine Ch. by LGH, 1938 (File) - Box 22 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. LGH West Indian Census 1946

West Indian Census 1946 Vol I, 1950 (File) - Box 22 (MS Acc09.065)
West Indian Census 1946 Vol II, 1950 (File) - Box 22 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. Diaries

Expenditure, 1939-1944 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Expenditure, 1945-1947 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1939 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1939-1941 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1941-1944 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1944-1947 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1947-1950 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1950-1955 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Smaller diary 1946 (red), 1946 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Smaller diary 1945-1946 (black), 1945-1946 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Palestine map and Jamaica, 1936 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1975 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1975-1976 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Note Book Sudan (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Note Book Cyprus, 1977-1978 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1976-1977 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1977-1979 (File) - Box 23 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1979-1980 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1980-1981 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1981-1982 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1982-1984 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1984-1985 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1985 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1985-1987 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1987-1988 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1988-1989 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1989-1990 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1990-1991 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1991-1993 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1993-1994 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1994-1995 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1995-1996 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1996-1998 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1998-1999 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 1999-2001 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 2001-2003 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 2003-2005 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)
Diary, 2005-2007 (File) - Box 25 (MS Acc09.065)

Series. LG EMH Passports

Passport, 1940 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Passport, 1945 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Passport, 1958 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Passport, 1972 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Passport, 1977 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Passport, 1982 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Passport, 1988 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
EMH passport, 1941 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
EMH passport, 1958 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Laissez-Passer, 1976 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
Laissez-Passer, 1977 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)
EMH Passports 1966, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1992, 1966-1992 (File) - Box 24 (MS Acc09.065)

Class MS Acc24.064. Consignment received from August 2024, 1940-1949

This consignment comprises two large envelopes consisting of correspondence between the couple. The first envelope includes 107 letters and telegrams between Edna and Lister leading up to their wedding in Jerusalem from July 1940 to April 1941. The second envelope includes 129 letters and telegrams from Edna to Lister in Jamaica, 1948-1949.

Letters and telegrams between Edna and Lister, July 1940-April 1941 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc24.064)

These letters were written after Lister's home leave was cut short and before their wedding while she was in Jerusalem and Edna was in Brisbane.

Letters and telegrams from Edna to Lister, 1948-1949 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc24.064)

The letters wtitten by Edna was when she was in Brisbane while Lister was in Jamaica.

Class MS Acc24.093. Consignment received from October 2024, 1920s-1959

This consignment comprises more correspondence between the couple. One folder included the letters between Edna and Lister Hopkins over the span of two decades. Also featured are photographs on Edna Leven in her early years to early 1941 and records of her later impressions, then as Edna Hopkins, of Jamaica and Lebanon.

Letters and telegrams between Edna and Lister, 1943-1959 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc24.093)

Records, photographs of Edna, 1920s-1941 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc24.093)

Photographs of Edna Leven (before marriage) until early 1941 are included, as are documents containing her subsequent impressions of herself as Edna Hopkins of Jamaica and Lebanon.

Class MS Acc25.008. Consignment received from January 2025, 1936 - 1997

This consignment comprises personal correspondence and documents relating to Lister and Edna Hopkins, spanning a few decades. It includes family letters, birthday greetings, photographs at the Student Christian movement, communications with friends and colleagues, and records of Lister's recommendations on admissions to the Religious Society of Friends.

Greetings for Lister's 85th birthday, May 1995-June 1995 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc25.008)

Collection of letters and cards written by the relations of Lister.

Letters from Lister to Edna, Winnie and Lloyd, 1985-1988 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc25.008)

Includes a cutout of a newspaper article titled "Beating the heat".

Letters from Lister Hopkins, Charlie Stevenson and Keith Watson to Edna and Lister Hopkins, 1968-1997 (File 3) - Box 1 (MS Acc25.008)

Includes a program of the memorial meeting for Edna Hopkins in 1997.

Letters and telegrams between members of the Hopkins family (Lister, Edna, Nick, David), 1936-1986 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc25.008)

Featuring newpspaper snippets and article Lister wrote on living in Beirut brielfy in 1951.

Lister's recommendations on admissions to the Religious Society of Friends, c. 1976-1984 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS Acc25.008)

Contains multiple letters to the Clerk of the Canberra Regional Meeting.

Letters from Edna and Lister, 1963-1968 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS Acc25.008)

Includes copies of references for Eve Buscombe and V. Lee.

Edna and Lister in Mittagong at the Student Christian Movement, 1940 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS Acc25.008)

Contains 2 black and white photographs.


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