Guide to the Collections held by the Aberdeen University Library (as filmed by the AJCP)

Two extracts of a letter from Richard Jones, Sydney, to W.S. Davidson, 3 October 1831 (File 2580/1/550-551)

States that he is willing to receive his nephew, Patrick Leslie, and giving details of land grants near the Goulburn River.

Patrick Leslie, NSW, to his parents, 29 May 1839 (File 2580/1/705)

States that he, Walter, and George are all well, they intend dealing in cattle and horses, not sheep, as they are convinced sheep will not pay well; he is to have half share and his brothers quarter in partnership; mentions the activities of emigrant agents who supply information in different parts of the country; the system of indentured servants is unsatisfactory, the cost of hiring labourers; details of the men wanted - carpenters, blacksmiths and suggests names of tenants who might come out; wants an Aberdeen bull and cows sent out.(Eight pages all crossed.)

pp 1-4, 133-163 of a privately printed account of transactions between W.S. Davidson and his nephew Patrick Leslie, NSW, 1836 - 1844 (File 2580/1/818)

Includes extracts of letters and accounts illustrating Davidson's charge of mismanagement against Patrick. (With ms. annotations.)

Diary of James Godsman, pp 17-29 31 Jan to 7 April 1925 (File 2804/4/3)

Description of a voyage across the Indian Ocean to Australia; landing at Sydney Harbour 25 Feb.; visit to 5th test match; discussion on the history of Australia and the problem of immigration 'the people are in favour of white Australia'.

W. Mitchell, Prospect W.A. to John Laird. On the economic prospects for Australia, 22 November 1933 (File 2978/6/1/3)

Australia Files: File 1 (File 3051/2/13/11)

Includes press cuttings re. the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) on the occasion of the centenary of his birth booklet by Eustace Stedman on Adam Lindsay Gordon; letter 7 June 1936 to J.M. Bulloch from Lindsay Gordon, Sutherland, NSW, re. his family; paper by J.M. Bulloch on the ancestry of Adam Lindsay Gordon, especially about his grandfather Robert Gordon, Governor of Berbice.

Australia Files: File 2 (File 3051/2/13/12)

Includes paper on Adam Lindsay Gordon's sister Inez; pres cuttings and commemerative booklet re. unveiling of memorial to Adam Lindsay Gordon in Westminster Abbey, 11 May 1934; booklet by E. Stedman on Adam Lindsay Gordon; press cuttings from Baniffshire Advertiser .re. Gordons transported to NSW; letters and notes on Robert Gordon.

From Lord Carrington regarding the formation of the new government, 08-26 (Item (i))

From Lord Carrington re. a speech made by him on Australia which aroused controversy in Australia, 27 January 1892 (Item (ii))

From Lord Carrington re. U.K. politics and South African politics and business and the inter-relation of the two, 28 October 1891 (Item (iii))

From Lord Salisbury, 12 September 1892 (Item (iv))

Thanking the Earl of Kintore for offering to pay the cost of an election petition v Mr Gladstone but refusing the offer, with some remarks on the causes of the loss of the general election and on the possibility of attracting the working classes to the Conservative party.

From Lord Ripon, 29 December 1892 - 25 August 1893 (Item (v) and (vi))

Requesting that the Earl should communicate freely and confidentially with him, and congratulating him on assisting in the settlement of a wide-spread strike.

From Lord Knutsford, 29 Jan 1891; 17 July 1891; 14 May 1892 (Item (vii), (viii) and (ix))

Re. a federation of Australian States, the Australian squadron of naval ships and coolie labour in the Northern Territories: 'I dare say we could find and send out. skilled Protector of Immigrants, as we have so many coolies in the W. Indies'.

From Lord Landsdowne, Viceroy of India, 8 September 1891 (Item (x))

Expressing the view that India's surplus population should be re-settled as labourers in the Northern Territories of Australia with the protection of an Indian 'native protector'.

From Lord Salisbury to the effect that public opinion on the Home Rule bill is uncertain, 23 February 1893 (Item (xi))

From Lord Devonshire re. the proposed labour laws of South Australia, 21 September 1894 (Item (xii))

From Lord Curzon, 22 September 1917 (Item (xiii))

Asking Kintore to chair a parliamentary committee in the absence of 'Donoughmor [who] is going away for 2 or 3 months with Montagu on a mission to Judea'

Conservation of Pacific Islands; papers relating to a Conference in Koror, Palau Island, 1967 - 1969 (File 3162/5/9/2)

Pacific Islands: recommendations by technical meetings on conservation in the Pacific Islands, 1968 - 1970 (File 3162/5/9/3)

Conservation and preservation of wildlife on Oceanic/Pacific Islands. Correspondence of E.M. Nicholson, R.C.Murphy and G.Douglas, 1966 - 1972 (File 3162/8/9)

Correspondence of E.M.Nicholson including material on Edward H. Graham and papers on the Pacific Islands Action List, 1964 - 1966 (File 3162/9/4)

Marriage certificate of G.S.S-W. and Helen Jones, 16 April 1878 (File)

St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.

Illuminated address by Bishop of Amiens in Church of Long, Somme, 4 November 1918 (File 3203/18/8/)

[commemorating Australian dead].