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FOLDER 1
11 letters from Damien Parer to Alan Anderson, dated 17 June 1942 – 13 June 1943 (letters dated 20 May 1943 and 25 May 1943 are addressed to Anderson but open with salutations to "Alan (Anderson) & George (Silk)" and to "George & Alan", Parer asking Anderson to send these letters to Silk)(54 pp. in total); 8 envelopes addressed to Anderson from Parer (postmarks mostly indistinct or removed); letter from Frank Bagnall (Australian war photographer) to Anderson, dated 22 Jan 1943 (1 p., torn); letter from Anderson to “Cap” (probably Frank Hurley, head of the Dept. of Information photographic unit in the Middle East), dated 22 Aug. 1943 (4.5 pp.)

FOLDER 2
5 war notebooks of Alan Anderson, containing brief notes of film shot, names and addresses, brief travel notes, clothing lists and notes on signals, map reading, electricity, magnetism and the telephone, and 1 black & white baby photograph; circuit diagram hand-drawn in pencil on 1 sheet; 1 printed Signal Register (Army Form B 2504), partly completed in pencil; printed information sheet for Kodachrome film (Regular) K135; Kodaslide leaflet; Civilian Registration (British Subjects) identity card issued to Alan Anderson, war photographer, Dept. of Information, issued at G.D.D. Sydney (undated)

FOLDER 3
A folder concerning Anderson’s dispute with the Department of Information – typescript notes, carbon copies of 2 typescript letters sent to the Minister of Information in 1943 (8 pp. in total); one ms. letter from Anderson to family, dated 10 June 1945 (7 pp. fragile condition); 1 received telegram from Alan Anderson to Mrs? Alan F. Anderson, informing of arrival in Australia on leave, date stamped 13 March 1942

FOLDER 4
A letter from Shirley Hines (in England) to Neil McDonald in 2006 (4 pp.), describing her recollections of Damien Parer, with enclosures: photocopies of 1 photograph of Parer and 3 of Parer with Hines? (probably those described in Hines' letter, taken in her grandmother's garden in Melbourne on one of Parer's visits); photocopy of 1 photograph of Hines' brother? (probably that described in Hines' letter as taken by Parer in the Mediterranean while on HMAS Perth); photocopy of a ms. letter from Parer (in New Guinea) to Shirley dated 2 Mar. 1943 (3 pp., incomplete); photocopy of typescript letter from George Silk to Parer which Parer then sent to Shirley (2 pp.); photocopy of an inscription written by Parer in the front of Will Dyson’s book Australia at War.
1 colour photo of Olive Cotton and Elizabeth Parer; 2 colour photos of Neil McDonald talking to Gough Whitlam.

Series 01: Alan Anderson further papers, ca. 1942-1945, together with papers of Neil McDonald, ca. 1997-2006

Causal asymmetries / Daniel M. Hausman.

Comprises leather belt with metal buckle. Belt covered along entire length with four cartridges and forty-four military badges of varying sizes and design. Badges secured onto belt by strips of leather, matches, safety pins and metal wire.  Australian, New Zealand and British services, both army and navy, are represented. Also included are various unidentified naval, railway and tramway buttons, probably from uniforms:

Badge, Service, Black Watch Infantry [?], [1914-18]
Brass. Condition Fine, shoulder title; Initials, BWI, only, could also be British West Indies.
(Formerly located at SAFE/DN/M 1365)


Badge, Service, British Army in India, 15 Sikhs Regiment, 1914-18 (DN/M 1366)
Badge, Service, Devonshire Regiment, 1898-1921 (DN/M 1367)
Badge, Service, Flaming Grenade, 1914-1918 (DN/M 1368)
Badge, Service, Highland Light Infantry, 1914-1918 (DN/M 1369)
Badge, Service, Highland Light Infantry, Territorial [?], 1908-1918 (DN/M 1370)
Badge, Service, Lancashire Fusiliers, 1914-1916 (DN/M 1371)
Badge, Service, Lanarkshire Yeomanry, 1914-1916 (DN/M 1372)
Badge, Service, Manchester Regiment, 1898-1921 (DN/M 1373)
Badge, Service, Northumberland Fusiliers, 1913-1935 (DN/M 1374)
Badge, Service, Northumberland Fusiliers, Tyneside Irish, 1914-18 (DN/M 1375)
Badge, Service, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898-1939 (DN/M 1376)
Badge, Service, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Unknown Date (DN/M 1377)
Badge, Service, Royal Engineers, Lowland, Territorials, 1914-18 (DN/M 1378)
Badge, Service, Royal Engineers, Regulars, 1914-18 (DN/M 1379)
Badge, Service, Royal Fusiliers, City of London [Cadet?], 1911-1918 (DN/M 1380)
Badge, Service, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1898-23 (DN/M 1381)
Badge, Service, Royal Scots, Territorials, 1908-1921 (DN/M 1382)
Badge, Service, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Territorials [?], 1908-1921 (DN/M 1383)
Badge, Service, Scottish Horse, 1914-18 (DN/M 1384)
Badge, Service, The Cameronians [Scottish Rifles], 1908-1921 (DN/M 1385)
Badge, Service, Unidentifiable Other Than, Territorial 8 BN, 1914-18 (DN/M 1386)
Button, Service, Army. General Service, 1914-18 (DN/M 1389)
Button, Service General, Edward VII, 1901-10 (DN/M 1390)
Button, Service, Naval, Unknown Date (DN/M 1391)
Button, Service, Naval, Petty Officer, Unknown Date (DN/M 1392)
Button, Service, Royal Engineers, Edward VII, 1901-1910 (DN/M 1393)
Button, Service, Royal Green Jackets, Unknown Date (DN/M 1394)
Button, Service, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1914-18 (DN/M 1395)
Button, Service, Scottish Horse, 1914-18 (DN/M 1396)
Button, Service, Scottish Horse, 1914-18 (DN/M 1397)
Button, Service, South Nottinghamshire Hussars, 1914-18 (DN/M 1398)
Button, Shipping, Cunard, Unknown Date (DN/M 1399)
Button, Transport, Railway, Unknown Date (DN/M 1400)
Button, Artillery, 1914-18 (DN/M 1444)
Button, Service, General Issue, 1914-18 (DN/M 1445)
Badge, Service, 1914-18(?) (DN/M 1504)
Button, Unknown Date (DN/M 1505)
Button, Service, Unknown Date (DN/M 1506)

Item 1365-1386, 1389-1400, 1444-1445, 1504-1506: Army belt with military badges and cartridges attached, after 1900

Series 03 Part 08b: Sir William Dixson medal collection : army belt with military badges and cartridges attached, after 1900

The manuscript begins mid-sentence in October 1791 and runs to the end of November, breaking off mid-sentence at the bottom of the tenth page before starting again in January 1792 and running to the end of February in a further ten pages. There are two neat manuscript corrections on the 5th and 11th pages.

Information contained in the first ten pages of the manuscript includes an account of the attempted mutiny on board the Albemarle (p. 1, October 1791); the arrival of more convicts on the Admiral Barrington and the total number of convicts in the colony (p. 2, October 1791); the great numbers of spermaceti whales and the departure of whaleships (pp. 2-3, October 1791); the shortage of flour (p. 3, October 1791); the sending of settlers and convicts to Norfolk Island on the Atlantic (p. 4, October 1791); the return of the whaleship Britannia with reports of bad weather (pp. 5-6, November 1791); mention of barley and wheat crops (p. 6, November 1791); the departure of the Supply for England (p. 7, November 1791); the increase in the number of sick convicts in Parramatta and Sydney (pp. 7-8, November 1791); poor growing conditions and lack of knowledgeable farmers (pp. 8-9, November 1791); and comments on the most recent convicts (pp. 9-10, November 1791).

Information contained in the last ten pages of the manuscript includes the account of the visit of ‘Gome-ber-re’ [now referred to as Gomebeeree, a man of the Boorooberongal Clan of the Dharug people] from the banks of the Hawkesbury [Dyarubbin], to Sydney (pp. 13-14, January 1792). Referring to an encounter with Gomebeeree ‘in a former part of this journal’ (in April 1791, recorded in Chapter 21, pp. 512-523 of the Hunter Journal), at which time he had ‘promised to take a journey to Sydney’, these pages of the manuscript recount that now, in January 1792, Gomebeeree had in fact made two visits to Sydney. Phillip missed the first Sydney visit as he was in Parramatta, but met him on the second visit. Gomebeeree stayed the night with 'Bannelong' [Bennelong] at Tubugulha where they had a dance. He left early next morning to return to the banks of the Hawkesbury.

The pages also cover the population counts of Parramatta and Norfolk Island (pp. 11-12, January 1792); the issue of convicts whose sentences had expired returning to England, including those who were not authorized to do so (pp. 14-16, January 1792); the theft of crops (pp. 16-17, January 1792); the formation of a night patrol composed of eight marines to protect the crops (p. 18, January 1792); the idleness and weakness of convicts who are unable to work (pp. 18-19, January 1792); number of deaths in January (p. 19, January 1792); the hanging of a man convicted of robbing the baker's house (p. 19, January 1792); the state of the wheat crop and issuing of additional wheat and rice rations (pp. 19-20, January-February 1792); and the arrival of the Pitt in February 1792 with Major Grose, the Commander of the New South Wales Corps (p. 20, February 1792).

Fragment of a contemporary fair copy of Governor Arthur Phillip's Sydney journal

Collected poems / Edward Dorn ; edited with a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn ; with Justin Katko, Reitha Pattison, and Kyle Waugh.

Series 04: John Septimus Roe letters, first major surveys of the Australian coast: the three voyages of the Mermaid 6 August 1818 – 26 February 1821

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Series 01: Alan Anderson further papers, ca. 1942-1945, together with papers of Neil McDonald, ca. 1997-2006

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Causal asymmetries / Daniel M. Hausman.

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Series 03 Part 08b: Sir William Dixson medal collection : army belt with military badges and cartridges attached, after 1900

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Fragment of a contemporary fair copy of Governor Arthur Phillip's Sydney journal

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Collected poems / Edward Dorn ; edited with a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn ; with Justin Katko, Reitha Pattison, and Kyle Waugh.

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Series 04: John Septimus Roe letters, first major surveys of the Australian coast: the three voyages of the Mermaid 6 August 1818 – 26 February 1821

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