Select list of accessions to the Australian Manuscripts Collection 1991-1992

• Diaries, 1887-1905
• 25 cm
• Presented by Miss Amess
• Daily diaries of a farmer at Bolinda Park,
• Riddells Creek
• MS 12806

• Records, 1957-1990
• 3.8 m
• Presented by Ms Patricia Braithwaite on behalf of the Council
• MS 12808

• Records, 1977-1988
• 4.7 m
• Presented by the Australian Democrats
• MS 12621 additional

• Diary, April-June 1933
• 1.5 cm
• Presented by Rev. James N. Blyth Kept by Norman Blyth while driver for an expedition to the Aboriginal missions of Central Australia
• MS 12771

• Diaries, 1856-1906
• 17 cm
• Presented by Mrs. Mary May Dettner A record of Crowe's life as a miner and schoolteacher
• MS 12890

• Papers, c.1920-1990
• 87 cm
• Presented by the estate of Ethel Cutten Personal papers of a member of the Ewing family, well-known for its art collecting and patronage
• MS 12963

• Papers, 1964-1970
• 7 cm
• Presented by Sir William Dargie
• MS 12798

• Papers, 1938-1984
• 1.6 m
• Purchased
• A teacher and writer, active in the fields of early childhood development and Australian literature
• MS 12827

• Records, 1975-1977
• 8.7 m
• Presented by Mr. Chris Curtis
• MS 10389 additional

• Records, 1911-1979
• 2m
• Presented by Miss Norma J. Findley Records of a pioneering institute for women's technical education
• MS 12820

• Papers, 1841-1947
• 7 cm
• Purchased
• Includes a diary, 1841-1851, and other writings by
• Edmund ‘Garryowen’ Finn
• MS 12821

• Papers, c.1968-1989
• 1.75 m
• Presented by Mr. Bill Gainer
• Papers of a well-known actor and writer, active in the pioneering theatre groups of the 1960s and 1970s
• MS 12835

• Records, 1909-1990
• 34 cm
• Presented by Mrs. R. Bain
• MS 12986

• Papers, c.1958-1986
• 10 m
• Purchased
• Business and personal papers of a prominent
• Melbourne antiquarian bookseller
• MS 12781

• Records, 1951-1983
• 33 m
• Presented by Mr. Robert Moon
• Business records of a Melbourne bookbinding firm
• MS 12782

• Papers, 1822-1854
• 40 cm
• Purchased
• Acquired from the family archive, this collection includes editions of La Trobe's published works, manuscript journals of his private and official travels, landscape drawings and a preliminary sketch for the oil portrait by Francis Grant
• PA 92/57

• Scrapbook of ‘Bloods’, 1940s-1950s
• 5 cm
• Presented by Mr. John Holroyd
• The record of a collector's passion for lurid popular novelettes of the Victorian era, known as ‘penny dreadfuls’ or ‘bloods’
• MS 12982

• 3 m
• Presented by Mrs. Janet Hay Further documents and artworks by members of the literary and artistic McCrae dynasty
• MS 12831

• Papers, 1857-1938
• 1.8 m
• Presented by Mr. Ian MacRae MacGregor was a prominent pastoralist, active in developing and refining livestock bloodlines
• MS 12914

• Records, 1877-1980
• 4 m
• Presented by the Society
• MS 12801

• Records, c. 1934-1990
• 5 m
• Presented by the Hospital
• MS 12875

• Minutes, 1907-1921
• 5 cm
• Purchased
• MS 12885

• Minutes, 1892-1928
• 7 cm
• Presented by Mr. John Delecretaz
• MS 12519 additional

• Records, 1870-1980
• 4.2 m
• Transferred from the State Librarian's office Minutes, annual reports and other records; includes correspondence between Librarian Augustus Tulk and Sir Redmond Barry during Tulk's book buying expedition in Europe, 1864-1865
• MS 12855 and additions

• Records, c.1974-1988
• 5m
• Presented by the Council
• MS 12648 additional