Index to Sermons Volumes 1-4.

Copy of Cookes’ Handy Pocket Guide to Richmond, Yorkshire.

Copy of A Guide to Petersborough, Being No.218 of the Borough Guides Series.

Copy of The Homeland Handbooks Volume 54, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield and the Chalfonts by Clive Rouse. Illustrated from photographs, London.

Book titled The North Riding of Yorkshire by Morris.

The unrivalled Album of Permanent Photographic Views of Wells, Glastonbury and Cheddar. Includes guide to Gough's Caves, Cheddar.

Folder contains Northern England official bus timetable; Cyclists Annual and Official Handbook. Street and Railway Map in Sections, together with an alphabetical and classified index of places, streets and stations. (Two Copies) Underground railway map. London Transport and Bus map Central area, London Transport.

Folder contains visitors guides to Lambert Palace;Temple (or Holy Cross Church) Bristol; Church of St. Andrew at Lavington; Liverpool Cathedral: A description of the Lady Chapel with a short account of the cathedral building; Notes on the Parish Church of Scarborough. A Short Account of Chelsea Old Church. England's Centuries in Storied Stone: Camera Studies by Henry C. Stacy; Liverpool cathedral, Vere E. Cotton; Bristol Cathedral, Beverly Minister, Bath Abbey, Tintern Abbey C.1, Tintern Abbey C.2, Tewksbury Abbey; The Priory Church of St. Mary, Annadale (Gisborough) Arthur E. Henderson. Illustrated with drawings by the author and photographs.

The Official Guide to Penzance: An Illustrated Description of England's Most Westerly Point.

Copy of Illustrated Guide to Norwich.

Copy of Guide to the Wye Valley-Illustrated: From Hereford to Chepstow, Cheltenham.

Copy of The Ancient and Royal City of Canterbury: The Official Guide.

Covered exercise book containing manuscript ‘Notes & Memos on the Projected Trip to Melbourne’ by Carlos Stretch with Map of Canberra and newclippings and notes on Maitland at rear of book.

Notebook listing all celebrations of mass entitled ‘Celebrations of John Carlos William Stretch Deacon.'

Copy of 'Holidays in North Wales for Health and Pleasure' by James N. Frith.

Index to Sermon Notes. Contains newspaper clippings of the words to Australia, Rise, March Onward!

Where is it? Address book.

Sermons by Carlos Stretch: Volumes 1-100.

Copy of The English Lakes. [London]

Copy of The British Colonial Pocket Atlas by John Bartholomew, London.

Copy of London Street Guide with Map of Tubes.

Copy of How to Prepare for Europe: A Handbook of Historical, Literary and Artistic Data with Full Directions for Preliminary Studies and Travelling Arrangements by H.A. Guerber, New York.

Copy of Bacon’s Portable Railway Tube & Tramway Map of London with Index.

Copy of The Holiday Handbook: London and North Eastern Railway.

Copy of Durham Cathedral by William Greenwell.

Copy of The Ornaments of Westminster Abbey by Jocelyn Perkins, London.

Sermon book J.C.W.S. Volumes 1 - 3.

Handwritten manuscript book containing historical notes about various places in Australia. Aldermen of Newcastle. Clippings.

Folder : Scrapbook containing clippings of war poems from First World War, and copy of Talks with the Troops. Sermon notes by P.S.Wigram. Also clipping of "How British swooped on Benghasi" (map of Mediterranean) from Maitland Mercury.

Two notebooks. Notebook entitled ‘A Trip Round the Lake: Maitland - Kurri - Mulbring - Morisset - Wyee - Catherine Hill Bay - Swansea - Belmont - Charlestown - Adamstown - Maitland’ describing trip around Lake Macquarie with historical notes and additional information on Newcastle suburbs Adamstown, Hamilton, Waratah, Mayfield, Wallsend, Plattsburg, Shortland, Sandgate, Hexham; and Notebook describing trip to Port Stephens, a round trip to Maitland, Wollombi, Broke, Singleton.

Notebook entitled ‘Boscobel’ containing descriptions of homes and properties in N.S.W. including Tocal, Neotsfield, Baroona, St Heliers, St Aubins; Cessnock; Notes on the railway gauges; correspondence, newsclippings relating to church service times, Shroud of Turin, Mesopotamian capital Shubat Enlil, Hawkesbury bridge, Ironbark Creek bridge collapse and temporary bridge.

Scrapbook - clippings of place names ; table of N.S.W. railways; correspondence to Secretary for Railways, loose clippings, maps; Maitland Daily Mercury Centenary Suppl. (Article on ‘Railways’ p.14)

Manuscript notebook entitled ‘Historical Notes about Various Places A-Z General’ containing historical notes about various locations in New South Wales.

Diary used for historical notes relating to place names around the Hunter Valley and parish history of Diocese of Newcastle entitled ‘Historical Notes of Parish History Arranged Alphabetically but not chronologically’.

Exercise book entitled ‘Motor Tours. Clippings, motor tour of New South Wales ; Hexham swamps "proposed aerodrome site."

Envelope of newspaper clippings relating to touring and historical notes.

Folder containing newspaper cuttings relating to Hawkesbury River Bridge, Hexham Bridge, Mayfield West.

Folder containing copy of Churches of Romance and History Compiled and Edited by H. J. Hamlyn for Tucker & Co. Pty Ltd plus newspaper cuttings including serialised versions of ‘Churches of Romance and History’, ‘The Mother State’, Res Ecclesiasticae’ and ‘From the Chateau Tanunda Scrapbook’, notes correspondence.

Folder containing Anglican newspaper cuttings, Correspondence while Carlos Stretch was in Tasmania, Literary Grant application.

Copy of From Rome to Canterbury, by E.M. Almedingen.

Exercise book containing notes on Windermere House, Kaludah, & church building construction.

Copy of The C.T.C. (Cyclists Touring Club) at Home and Abroad. Includes memorandum and articles of association pamphlet.

Red exercise book - correspondence from Grafton. Prison chaplain’s address newspaper cuttings.

Folder: Anglican Diocese of Newcastle- Canon Carlos Stretchocesan History Notes, New Italy memorial souvenir brochure, Catalogue of British navy photo exhibition, W.W.II.

Newspaper cuttings relating to Wreck of the "Dunbar", Paterson, Newcastle.

Society Reports.

Book of newspaper cuttings relating to Weston-Kurri and Dungog.

Book of Newspaper clippings relating to Carlos Stretch at St Paul's Church, West Maitland.

Alphabetical letter file containing newspaper clippings relating to various places in NSW.

Copy of Alden's Sixpenny Guide to Oxford. Includes postcard from R.Soulton. View of Oxford.

Copy of The Ryedale Guide to Helmsley and Rievaulx.

Copy of Lincoln, City and Cathedral: a Description for Visitors and Citizens.

Copy of 'Illustrated guide to the Attractions of Capetown and Neighbourhood.'

Copy of Our Own Country. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial. London.

Folder containing handwritten notes, Dangar homes. Maitland publication, cuttings on early Australian churches.

Folder contains: Gregory’s Newcastle and 100 miles around. (Contains cuttings and pamphlets loose in book, e.g. Newcastle places, roads; Paterson and Dungog.); Robinson’s Lake Macquarie map. Folded. Map of New South Wales railways. Shewing (sic) coach and other routes from the various stations. Reverse side Map showing railways and tramways of Sydney and environs. 1 sheet. The Open Road; issue. Map of Tumut and Gundagai district on p. 14.

Copy of What to Remember About Westminster Abbey by Agatha G. Twining with The Story of the Unknown Warrior’s Grave by The Revd. David Railton. London.

Ledger containing "Place names of New South Wales, their origin, meaning and locality, compiled by J.C.W.S. Also contains clippings, notes of place names, map of Sydney area of NSW ; letter from W.J.Goold, President, the Newcastle & Hunter District Historical Society. (re any St. Paul’s publications); "English earl’s gift to Sydney church" i.e. silver chalice to St. Marks Church Granville from Earl of Granville. Death of Lake Pioneer Mrs. Mary Ann Phillips (nee Marks). Reprints from The Advocate being articles by Rev. E. Worms about a pamphlet "New deal for the aborigines", an alleged communist attack on Christian Missions.

Box "Patent Lock-Clip file" contains clippings & items as follows: Daily Telegraph clippings, showing HMAS ‘Sydney’ being ceremoniously scuttled off Sydney. 6 photographs. Clipping from Merriwa and Cassilis "News" showing "The Bridge, Builder’s Story – Unpublished Incidents". (Sydney Harbour Bridge.) Reverse of clipping, description of Forth Bridge structural details. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. "Australia’s danger, communist white-anting". (Article); (Mr. Bruce P.M.) Theatre programme for "David Copperfield". Made into a play by Louis N. Parker. Christmas production at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Price 6d. Details of cast, music programme and production shown. Cheltenham Church Congress supplement to the Church of England Newspaper, (p. one-xvi). Photographs of churches and clergy. Diocese of Gloucester (U.K.) Card No.1 "How to ripen PEARS in one minute". Optical experiment. Pastoral letter of the Bishop of Maitland on the nineteenth centenary of the death of Jesus Christ for the salvation of the human race. 6pp. [T.Dimmock Ltd., Printers, Maitland.] Prayer notes for the dedication of window in memory of Harry Hyne Capper in St. Paul’s Church, Maitland. (Maitland Park). Balance sheet, Church of England Rectory Sports. (Weston, NSW) (handwritten), plus a congratulatory letter from A.E.Saxon (?), Runnymede, Cessnock. Order of service, "A Solemn Service of Intercession, for the preservation of peace in Ireland". For use in the Diocese of London, and others, with loose pages from York Diocesan Gazette pp.7-10 and a page "The Communion", showing the blessing and collects. Pearsons Magazine. No. 162. Vol.xxvii-39. Loose pages 565-576. The story of the church pageant. An official account of the making the great pageant of church history taking place this month at Fulham Palace. Historic church events are related. Illustrated. Newcastle Cathedral Magazine. Loose pages 3-8. Reprint of Bishop of London’s Great Sermon in St. Paul’s, from the Church Times. Reply by [Sir] Oliver Lodge to Canon Gore’s paper, "Synthetic society, on the possibility of a logical proof of religious doctrines". 8 pp. Printed. Copy of Interaction between the mental and the material aspects of things, by Sir Oliver Lodge. Printed paper. (Bishop Stretch pencilled on front.) Cessnock Methodist Church; the church and social relations; church position defined. 1 sheet printed. The Church Times. "The Enthronement at York". Photograph of a group of Bishops plus an article. Also photo of Viscount Halifax laying the foundation-stone at the new senior school at Brampton Bierlow. Article "The Church in action, a village catechism in Cornwell", telling of a catechism service. Photo of the Rev. Kingden, and of a church group. Whitstone Catholic Alphabet - 5 editions - each a single sheet; with a letter from Carlos Stretch to "Dear Father-(another priest Rev. C.D.Kingdom) requesting a copy of "Catholic Alphabets". Card of Vestry Prayers. "Liverpool’s wonderful Cathedral", Supplement to The Church of England Newspaper. Photographs of church and clergymen. Two pieces of paperfolding.

Copy of Twenty-four Gems of Westminster Abbey: A collection of permanent photographs, London.

Article titled S.P.C.K. and Sheldon Press Literacy Bulletin.

Copy of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names 3rd. Ed. Eilert Ekwell.

Copy of Sussex: 'The Garden by the Sea' by Arthur Mee, London.

Copy of Parish Churches of England by J. Charles Cox, London.

Copy of London, Past and Present: With index and guide to the principle places of interest in and around the city of London.

Copy of The Illustrated Guide to Durham and its Vicinity.

Folder contains Report of Hunter River Flood Mitigation Committee. Contains maps, photos and cross-sections of the Hunter River.

Copy of Australasia, eight lectures - by A.J.Sargent, London.

Folder containing issues of St. Paul’s Middlesbrough Parish Magazine. No.5. Includes notes, cards, leaflets, rosters of preachers for St. Paul’s and Holy Cross; Letter from Ted H. Campion (?)West Grinstead, Horsham [Vic.] re donation to the Brotherhood in Australia. [Rev. J.C.W. Stretch Th. L., 120 Newport Rd, Middlesbrough.].

Copy of The Boyer Lectures. After the Dreaming: Black and White Australians - An Anthropologist’s View by W.E.H. Stanner. Sydney.

Folder contains: B.H.P. Review. (Lost cover); Correspondence between Rev. C. Stretch, J.C. Clark, Phyllis Mander Jones (Mitchell Librarian), Sir Alistair McMullin (Senator), Miss Ruth White. References to "Edenglassie", Rouchel, Hinton.

Folder contains: Coronation of their majesties King George VI & Queen Elizabeth, Official Souvenir Programme. 2 editions. The Coronation. The Education Gazette, NSW. Hymns for our day. Music and words plus a sheet with words only. Written by wartime chaplain.; Truro Cathedral, high altar picture - reverse Dean Prior Church -"Where Herrick Was Vicar" (loose page).

Folder contains exercise book with loose clippings (religious themes); letter from Dungog Vestry Council secretary J.F. McLoghlin; lists of donations to memorial fence at St Paul’s Maitland; copies of certificates (1 baptism, 1 burial); St Paul’s parish calendar.

Folder contains typewritten order of Anzac Dawn Ceremony of Remembrance, Lismore. Folded in envelope of Lismore sub-branch R.S.L & A.I.L.A.; Road map of New South Wales, folded; Railway Map of England and Wales. Folded sheet. The Little calendar of Bible readings. Pamphlet, Clipping - photograph of York Minster; Map guide of Summerland. Lismore district, NSW. Map of Cootamundra, NSW. I 55/11, by Geographic Section, Aust. Survey Corps.; Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. Hunter Valley Research section, pp. 9-14.;Booklet Trans-Australian Railway. Photographs; Map, Newcastle and environs. [Anglican Churches marked in].

Folder - collection of NRMA maps and clippings of New South Wales's areas. Copy of The Education Gazette, NSW.

Folder of maps of New South Wales, Canberra. Very detailed.

Copy of Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. Preview of Her Most Gracious Majesty Elizabeth II.

Maitland Hospital. 12 photographs, brief chronological history. Also Maitland Hospital, 98th annual report. 15 pp.; programme of Maitland Hospital Centenary celebrations. (1 leaflet).

Copy of The Newcastle Sun: Special pictorial. Contains Newcastle scenes.

Folder : R.A.C.V. Camping guide, and loose pamphlets and maps of Victorian places.

Copy of The Sydney Book. Photographs by H. Cazneaus, T. Purcell and Milton Kent. Text and 19 plates, some with tracing paper showing localities or features sketched in by the owner.

Folder : Road map of New South Wales, Sydney , Newcastle and environs. Atlantic Union Oil Co. Ltd. [Folded]. Tourist map of Sydney. City of Sydney, [Folded]. Gregory’s Guide to New South Wales. Guide to Newcastle and District. Published by Reg C. Pogonoski Ltd. [Notes in pen relevant to his church work throughout the book.]

Folder contains newspaper clippings relating to religious news: ‘The Blind Man miracle’ Doctor offers medical theory; Shroud may hold proof of the crucifixion; Limit on Holy Shroud Tests (Sun Herald); Christ did not die on the cross-new evidence (Sunday Telegraph); Ancient tablets being suppressed (Newcastle Herald). Newspaper Clipping relating to Aboriginal Archaeology. Experts find relics in black campsite (Newcastle Herald). Loose-leaf Printed Materials titled The First Book of Samuel, The Church of England Bible College’s Approach to Bible Study, and The Single Kingdom of Judah by the Church of England Bible College. 1 printed page titled The Sacrament of Holy matrimony in the Greek Orthodox Church. 1 loose Printed B/W photo: The Bears head, on the beach at Port Macquarie. Parish Papers from Christ Church, Lavender Bay. North Sydney: One back cover of exercise book with arithmetical tables.

Copy of The First Aeroplane Voyage From England to Australia, by Sir Ross Smith K.B.E. with Aeroviews by Capt. Frank Hurley. Includes 27 full-page Aeroviews of Sydney, North Sydney, Neutral Bay, Cremorne, Mosman, Athol, Middle Harbour, Manly, Watson’s Bay, Rose Bay, Potts Point, Bondi, Bronte, Coogee, Paramatta River, Katoomba, Lithgow, Dubbo, Orange, Bourke, Wollongong, Goulburn, Cootamundra, Wagga, Albury etc.

Walker’s patent lock-clip [box] file, cost 2/6. Quarto. Contains Commendatory letter forms, Confirmation & First Communion forms, Illuminated Baptism prayer card, Home prayers card, ‘Robur’ tea profit-sharing catalogue, Church News clipping, Seventh Day Adventism leaflet.

Road Atlas 3 Miles to 1 Inch. London.

Copy of 'From Rome to Canterbury (A Spiritual Pilgrimage)' by "Stephen Langton" (A.E. Saxon), Maitland.

Copy of 'The Enchanting North' by J.S. Fletcher. London. Christmas gift from W. W. Harris to Revd J.C.W. Stretch.

Copy of Church Illustrated.

Aerial views of Newcastle, Newcastle Morning Herald Series, with photographs.

Copy of 'Native Legends' by David Unaipon, Adelaide. Signed by author.

Copy of offprint 'Aboriginal Religious Practice' by A. Capell M.A. Ph.D. from Mankind: Official Journal of the Anthropological Societies of Australia.

Letter and invoice file containing correspondence relating to Carlos Stretch’s endeavors in Toponymy.

Typed index book titled ‘Toponomy (sic): Origins and Meanings of Placenames of New South Wales.

Index book entitled ‘Aboriginal Words and Their Meanings’. Includes rough working notes by Carlos Stretch; with Roads map of NSW. Letter from W.P. Bluett. Letter in own writing transcribed in pencil by Canon Stretch, the writer states he cannot read and writes "only by instinct"; Letter from H.L. White (National Librarian). Letter from A.R.Hogg, Chief Assistant, Commonwealth Observatory, Mount Stromlo, Canberra. Letter from Thomas H. Halton, Shire Clerk, Lake Macquarie Shire Council, Speers Point, Boolaroo 2N, NSW replying to a request on the name "Cary"; Reply from Ven. Archdeacon H.Gordon Begbie, St. Michael’s Rectory, Wollongong re Aboriginal names.

Copy of List of Post and Telegraph Offices in the Commonwealth.

Stretch's scrapbook with newspaper clippings relating to parish history, including a 48 page magazine supplement titled 'An Appeal To Reason', concerning an appeal for readers to spend their shopping money in West Maitland. Letter from R.R. Wallis (Rex) to Carlos Stretch, [ Rex m. Pheme Mallaby thus Pender connection also.]

Copy of A Penny A Language: More Bibles Please! London.

Copy of New Churches Illustrated: Photographs, ground plans and information regarding 52 churches.

Minute Book entitled, ‘Notes on the life and labours W. Tyrrell D.D.: Newcastle and Various Articles of Historical Interest’. Notes on William Tyrrell, local parishes and some correspondence.

Folder contains exercise book (Westex) titled Extracts from Dr John Dunmore Lang accounts of NSW and historical notes.

Copy of : The Greek testament Greek text E.Kaine Diatheke Novum testamentum accedunt parallela scripturae loca vetu capitulorum notatio canones eusebii. Oxonii, Clarendoniano. Greek text with Latin introduction. Glued-on cloth cover. "Presented to the Revd J.F. Stretch on his installation as Vicar of the Parish of Christ Church - Ballarat by T. McDermott." Later note "Given to Carlos Stretch." Loose booklet in back of the volume: "The Order of Divine Service being the First Sunday after Trinity and the day appointed for A Solemn Thanksgiving for the English Prayer Book, on the 400th anniversary of its first authorization." Melbourne, O.U.P.

Copy of : A Chain of Prayer across the ages, forty centuries of prayer, 2000 B.C. - A.D. Compiled by Selina Fitzherbert Fox. London, John Murray. With loose in book: "Processional Hymn" (2 copies) folded into a "pocket"; Bookmark: Illus. Of Christ on the Cross with short prayer "O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world…."; 1 sheet: Australian Board of Missions, "Office for the opening and closing of a missionary meeting or lantern lecture". 2pp; Booklet: "An Office for New Year's Eve" A.Saunders Dyer. London, Wells Gardner, Darton and Col. 5) Folded paper: "Form of thanksgiving authorised for use throughout the Diocese of Newcastle". Copy from Gestetner machine.

Copy of : Prayers for common use, London. Including loose material: Application form for Diocese of Newcastle, The Ministry of Healing, filled in by Ivy Garrett, Fosterton Road, Dungog; Card: combined campaign for mission, Prayer pledge; Booklet: "A Novena of prayer for the Reunion of Christendom from Ascension Day to Whitsun "; Leaflet: "Australian Board of Missions, Quarterly paper of the church". Suppl. To ABM Review. No.34.; Card: "Australian Board of Missions, Missionary Exhibition". Prayers; Card: "Combined campaign for Missions; Objectives for Prayer."; Leaflet: "An office for a Communicants' Guild"; Page: "Litany of the Blessed Sacrament"; Small booklet "My duty, a communicant's manual" compiled by a committee of priests, Newcastle N.S.W. Preface by Rt. Rev. John F. Stretch DD Bishop of Newcastle, NSW, - Glued into back of the book.

Copy of : Church teaching for church children. J.N.Newland-Smith. Includes loose in book, "scripture proofs and illustrations of the church catechism no.206" plus "Diocese of Newcastle, syllabus of lessons for the primary school, … junior school - high school " (4 booklets) and "A Guide in church, a church-goer's catechism". A.Law. 24 pp.

Copy of The Australasian Anthropological journal. Clipping loose in book - report of aboriginal carvings found by Boy Scouts plus an article by F.D. McCarthy in N.M.H. On reverse a photo of Sister H. Towns (later Matron) of Royal Newcastle Hospital.

Exercise book - notes on Church history, exam questions.

Exercise book - notes on Church doctrine, exam questions.

Copy of Buried history, a Quarterly Journal of Biblical Archaeology Vol.4. Also clipping "Avondale pastor digs archaeology" by P.A.Haslam.

Copy of Aboriginal myths and legends by Roland Robinson. Melbourne.

Index book of Australian place names with notes on their origins and meanings, written and compiled by Carlos Stretch.

Copy of : Bartholomews road map of England and Wales. Cloth-backed folded map. No.1: Scotland, Durham, Cumberland.

Copy of : The Book of Common Prayer. Loose items include clippings of prayers.

Copy of : The Life of Christ. John Joseph Scott.

Copy of : The Holy Bible. Variorum Reference ed. Loose items include: Order of Service C.E.M.S.; Service of admission for full members (Church of England Men’s Society).

Copy of : A Layman’s guide to the Old Testament. P.S. Robinson.

Copy of : The Holy Bible. NY: Thomas Nelson & Sons. American Revision Committee.

Copy of : The Parallel New Testament. Loose items in bible include letter from W.H.Thom, Deputy Registrar General to Rev. C. Stretch. Still registered to celebrate marriages.

Copy of : Oban, the unrivalled highland holiday resort.

Copy of : A Guide to Ripon and its cathedral, Studley Royal, and Fountains Abbey.

Copy of : Middlesbrough, its history, environs and trade.

Copy of : Wordsworth Country, Ullswater and Shap Wells.

Copy of : Pocket atlas and guide to London.

Scrapbook of clippings with articles by "Boscobel" on places in Hunter Valley and Anglican Church history. (Includes articles on Athol D’Ombrain and Rosemary Munday).

Copy of : Bartholomews road map of England and Wales. Cloth-backed folded map. No. 3: York.

Copy of : The Book of Common Prayer…the Sacraments…Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England [and] Church Lessons Bible.

Copy of : Bacon’s Motoring and cycling road map: Middlesbrough District.

Copy of : Official guide to Whitby.

Copy of : Bartholomew’s contour motoring map of the British Isles, showing the best touring roads. Cloth-backed folded map.

Copy of : A Pictorial and descriptive guide to the English Lake District. 17th ed.

Copy of : A Pictorial and descriptive guide to London. 52nd ed. Rev.

Copy of :Rambles in Cleveland, and Peeps into the Dales, on Foot, Cycle and Rail. M.Heavisides, 3rd ed.

Small notebook, personal notes, lists, diagrams, etc.

Copy of :St.Giles, Cripplegate, London.

Copies of: Tourists Map of the London and North Eastern Railway and its connexions England. (2 copies); Great Western Railway, map, in brown envelope with advertisements; How to see London. Winter. Thos Cook and Son, Ltd.

Set of Pamphlets of photographs: London and Southern Counties; The Midland Counties and Isle of Man; Somerset, Dorset and Channel Islands (2 editions); Glorious Devon.(2 editions); The Cornish Riviera. (2 editions); North Wales. (2 editions); South Wales and Monmouthshire. (2 editions); Wales.

Set of Pamphlets of photographs: Scotland (2 copies); London and Southern Counties. (different edition); The English Lakes; The Lancashire Coast; Holidays by LMS; The West of England; The Midlands; London and Eastern England; Southern England; Island Holidays.

Copy of : Holywell. (North Wales). "Borough" Pocket guide. No.466.

Copy of : A History of Christ Church S.Laurence Sydney.

Copy of : God our contemporary. J.B. Phillips. London, Hodder & Stoughton. P/b. (birthday gift signed "Margaret".)

Copy of : The Four Gospels. Translated by E.V. Rieu. Melbourne, Penguin.

Copy of : Teach yourself New Testament Greek. D.G. Hudson. London, E.U.P.

Copy of : The New covenant. E.E.Cunnington. London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited.

Copy of : The New Testament, a new translation. James Moffatt. London, Hodder & Stoughton.

Copy of : The Church directory and almanack. London, John Hart & Co.

Copy of : The Book of Common Prayer with historical notes. Ed. By James Cornford. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode. (Water-stained from endpaper colour).

Copy of : Daily Service Book and Hymns Ancient and Modern. Oxford. (Emerald 16 mo India).

Copy of : Forms for children's service. Sanctioned by the Lord Bishop of Exeter. London, Society or promoting Christian knowledge.

Copy of : The Book of Common Prayer and administration of the sacraments. Oxford. (Emerald 16 mo Thin). For the London Bible Warehouse. (Holy Bible, Common Prayer and Hymns Ancient and Modern.)

Copy of : The Holy Bible. Oxford, U.P. (Pearl 32 mo Text). "Presented by L. Skevington, Oatley, 1.8.18" inscription on leaf.

Copy of : The Cathedral prayer book.

Copy of : The Twentieth Century New Testament. Rev.ed. Lond: Horace Marshall & Son. Pieces in book include: Leaflet "Good Friday and Easter Day. St. John's Church Services"; Sheet "Second-year Sunday School Lessons" ; Printed slip "Meditation, After meditation, and, Examination of Conscience".

Copy of : The Holy Bible. Notes in margins, Loose clippings in volume.

Copy of : The Holy Bible. [Oxford Facsimile series, no. 1].

Copy of : The Services of the church. Church of England. Cambridge.

Copy of : The Greek Testament E Kaine Daitheke. Oxford.

Exercise book "Historical notes" hand-written, indexed in back. Loose items : clippings : Daily Telegraph. Notes and design by English Electric Company for Sydney harbour bridge (cantilever design). Maitland Mercury. "Paintings in caves by Aborigines" by Rene Crouch, includes Wollombi, Millfield, Congewai, Walter J. Enright, and F.J.Lynch (Edward Street, Bolwarra). ; Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate - Wangi Powerhouse Scheme. Aerial photo of Newcastle Harbour, Lee Wharf shipping showing aftermath of wharf labourers’ strike ; aerial photo of "gateway to the port" Newcastle ; map of the New South Wales Railways ; N.R.M.A. Newcastle District Road map. Letter from R.S. Johnston, Secretary, Department of Main Roads, New South Wales, to Rev. Canon C.Stretch, Toronto – reply to enquiry about bridges and ferries. Clipping Daily Telegraph, a) BHP Steelworks, Newcastle industries, b) Hawkesbury River Bridges. Letter from K.R.Cramp, Hon. Sec. Royal Australian Historical Society, Bridge St., Sydney to Rev. Carlos Stretch, The Rectory, Merriwa – reply about John Roper, sole survivor of Dr. Leichhardt’s journey. Mentions Mr. caprice Conigrave. Draught letter to C. Price Conigrave, Sydney re John Roper. Invitation card to Rev. Carlos Stretch and Mrs Stretch to attend the official opening of the x-ray plant at the Brentwood Hospital, Muswellbrook.

Copy of :Church of England Bible College. Printed notes. (19 sheets).

Exercise book cover "Motor trip– rough notes". Holds items: letter from H.S.Kidner, Acting General Secretary Church Missionary Society, 109a Bathurst Street, Sydney, to Rev. J. C.Stretch , St. Paul’s Rectory, West Maitland. Thanks for contribution from the C.E.M.S. – pencilled notes on back ; Clippings from Dungog Chronicle & Gloucester Advertiser, Maitland Mercury, Armidale Diocesan News; about Chichester Dam ; St. Peter’s Cathedral, Armidale ; Barrington Tops ; Glenrock Lagoon ; Aboriginal stone tools ; Maitland Volunteers ; Cobham Hall.

Exercise book "Historical notes about Maitland and elsewhere". Loose items include: letter from L.R.Pidgeon(?) Aust. Secretary, Australian Agricultural Company, Argyle Street, Newcastle to Rev. Canon C.Stretch, Toronto re Company’s Headquarters in Newcastle; letter from W.G.Ingram, Church Street, Paterson, re "Brooklyn House", Paterson; letter from J.K.S.Houison, Hon. Secretary, Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney, to Rev. Carlos Stretch, St.Paul’s Rectory, West Maitland re enquiry about the Peel River Estates; letter from O.W. Gustafsen, Managing Director, Tucker & Co.Pty.Ltd., 335 Kent St. Sydney to Rev. Canon C.Stretch, Toronto re Series "Historical Firsts."

Exercise book "Various Historical notes from various sources". Includes copy of St. Paul’s West Maitland NSW 70th Anniversary of the dedication of the Church.

Copy of :The Corrected English New Testament.

Copy of : The Cambridge Companion to the Bible.

Copy of : Catholic Tales. Dorothy Leigh Sayers.

Copy of : The Eddystone Lighthouse. C.H.Navillus.

Copy of : The Four Gospels. Rev. J.M. Fuller. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Copy of Pageantry Comes to Town: the Commonwealth of Australia Jubilee Celebrations.

Set of Pamphlets of photographs: Midland Counties and Isle of Man..; London and Southern Counties; The Cornish Riviera; Glorious Devon; Somerset, Dorset, Channel Islands; Wales; Midland Counties and Isle of Man. (different edition); Eastern Counties (2 copies); Yorkshire; Northumberland and Durham. (2 copies).

Notebook with alphabetical tabs. Containing Aboriginal words listed in different dialects/languages; with Copy of List of New South Wales Aboriginal Place Names and Their Meanings. Compiled by W.W.Thorpe. 3rd ed. Sydney. Book includes a loose letter and pages of names, plus a blotter advertisement from Thos. Dimmock Pty Ltd, West Maitland.

Notebook entitled ‘New South Wales Aboriginal Place Names and Their Meanings from W.W. Thorpe’s compilation and elsewhere’.

Notebooks, Nos. 1-11, containing listings of aboriginal words and meanings in English, arranged alphabetically.

Copy of An Australian language, as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales) being an account of their language, traditions, and customs: by L.E.Threlkeld - edited by John Fraser.

Folder containing Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. Maitland Mercury, and Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday. Anzac Day issues.

Copy of Newcastle Morning Herald Survey. Newcastle and Hunter Valley.

Copy of Queen of the Day Procedure. Coronation Procedure for a Queen. Guide for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, for the Archbishop and staff.

Copy of Supplement to the Northern Star. Contains article: "Road of Progress" on Richmond River NSW area.

Aeronautical map. England, South East and London. R.A.F. Edition (War) Sheet.

Copy of Facts on Canada.

Notebook containing introduction to and listing of Aboriginal place names in the Hunter Valley and around Newcastle.

Newsclippings on Chichester pipe-line, Map- proposed diversion of water to Upper Hunter; Hawkesbury River and Hexham bridges; Maitland.

Folder labeled ABO33, 34, 35 containing manuscript materials of "Toponomy or Place Names of New South Wales, Their Origin, Meaning & Locality," Compiled by J.C.S.W.: No. 33 "Toponomy or place names of New South Wales, their origin, meaning & locality, compiled by J.C.S.W. A to L." Vol. I. No. 34: "Toponomy or Place Names of New South Wales, Their Origin, Meaning & Locality, Compiled by J.C.S.W. M-Z." Vol. 2. No. 35: File of aboriginal words and meanings. Tabs cut into the pages. Alphabetical. Also contains unused bank passbook, Bank of NSW stamped "Merriwa, NSW, 193-", utilized as a notebook for aboriginal words and meanings.

Copy of The Morning Post. [London]. "The King’s Silver Jubilee. Special pictorial record.

Copy of Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. Front-page photo - Bishop of Newcastle (Rt. Rev. L. Stibberd) at Legacy Week luncheon. Also Group Captain R.T. Susans, Mr. E. Hardman, looking at Jet Mirage model.

Copies of Maitland Daily Mercury. "King Edward Abdicates"; Daily Telegraph and Morning Post. Supplement. "The Royal tour in pictures." 24 pp. London, Monday. Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Canada and USA.

Copy of Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. Saturday. Includes article on Christ Church Cathedral (p.5) entitled ‘Cathedral on a High Hill" by W.H. Fenwick.

Copy of Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. Survey of Newcastle and its industry.

Copy of Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. 2 copies + extra copy of section Newcastle Council Centenary.

Copy of Industrial Review. Suppl. to ‘Daily Telegraph’. Includes industries & business information.

Copy of newspaper article ‘They’re different at Alice Springs’ by Colin Simpson, from Sunday Sun and Guardian.

Copy of Maitland’s Progress Sponsored by Maitland Business Men’s Club, Copy of The Story of 50 yrs’ successful business. W. Winn & Co. Ltd., Newcastle (N.S.W.).

Copies of The Westcountry Calendar. Gift from Mrs. Goulton Constable; Beautiful Britain, a ‘Country Life’ calendar. From Mrs. Goulton Constable. 5 issues.

Copy of N.S.W. motorists’ roads guide, with sectional maps by H.E.C.Robinson, Ltd. Includes clippings; notes; Letter from Elsie Weber, "Congewoi", Walgett dated and reply to enquiry re "Come-by-Chance" and other place names.

Copy of Illustrated guide to the church congress and ecclesiastical art exhibition held in Middlesbrough.

Western Australian Government Railways, timetables.

Folder containing: guide books to each cathedral, Canterbury, Chichester, Gloucester, Salisbury, Lincoln, Peterborough, Exeter, York. (2 copies of each).

Copy of : A Commentary on the Holy Bible. Ed. By J.R. Dummelow. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited. (Place Mark - advertisements, produced by J. Catherall & Co. (Printers) Ltd., Beaumont Street, Hexham, England.)Book plate "W.S. Holmes".

Copy of : Northumberland and Durham (England). L.W.Meynell.

Copy of : The Romance of Scotland. Map booklet of London/Nth Eastern/Lon.Midlands/Scottish railways.

Copy of : The Romance of Scotland. G. Sutton.

Copy of : Teesdale, the "Rokeby" country. Chorley & Pickersgill, Ltd.

Copy of : The Holiday handbook. London and North Eastern Railway 2 copies [pages removed].

Blue folder labeled ABO 64, 65, 67 containing: No. 64 contains typed sheets of name in alphabetical order with districts and origins. Also lists, starting 1. "Batar" = water, and 2. "Aberdare" – after a mining town in Wales. No. 65 containing pages from Spurs (official organ of 2LM Radio Ranch Club, Lismore) 1953. Contains columns of "NSW Place Names" by "Wirrobullikan". No. 67 Contains: letter from Dr J.M. Maclean, Trangie, 17th September, 1946 to Mr. Stretch; Letter from Dr. J.M. Maclean, Macquarie Hotel, Port Macquarie, 14th August, 1946, to Mr Stretch. List of reference books given; Draught letter by Carlos Stretch to Dr Maclean, Sept 4. Pinned to previous two letters + list of names e.g. "Beamble"…; Slips of aboriginal names and meanings written in the hand of Dr Maclean; Note from Bill Goold (yrs in Rotary) [56 Dumaresq Street, Hamilton] to Mr. Stretch. Offers help in search for aboriginal place names and meanings; Letter from W.J. Enright to Very Rev. Carlos Stretch discussing meanings of aboriginal names; Large envelope containing correspondence from Russell McDonagh, Gunnedah (McDonagh Pty. Ltd. Merchants). Holds 3 letters and 2 envelopes. List of aboriginal names from Carlos Stretch to R. McDonagh + reply letter and list with some names and meanings. Draught letter from Carlos Stretch to the [Sergeant of Police, Lockhart 3S] asking the meaning of "Tinamba" = (Red of White Stone) or (At Foot of the Hills) ; attached to reply from R.A. Clendenning, Sergeant of Police, Lockhart 3S. Copy of Alphabetical list of the polling-places in the abovenamed state (NSW). Copy of New South Wales Aboriginal Place Names and Euphonious Words, with their Meanings, compiled by Frederick D. McCarthy. Annotated by Carlos Stretch with localities, in pen; Sheets of names with meanings written in by [?] and returned to Carlos Stretch; Listings of Aboriginal names with meanings. 7 slips; Lists of names – 8 slips pinned together. Names arranged a-z with meanings written in, also some localities shown; Invitation card to Rev. JCW. Stretch and guest to attend the A.G.M. of the Anthropological Society of NSW, Wednesday, 8p.m. Dr.A. Capell- address- "The Heart of New Guinea". [Syd, Uni.]; Letter from Phillip Beddoes, Shire Clerk, Talbragar Shire Council, Dubbo. Replying to Rev C. Stretch, St Paul’s Rectory, West Maitland. Unsuccessful with meanings of place names; A sheet in an unidentified hand entitled "ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES. Mr. W.A. Bayley supplies us with the following…with meanings…Bega = ‘a big camping place’; What’s in a Name? Surnames from the British Isles, pages 37-50 from WOMAN’S DAY with WOMAN.

Folder labelled ABO 60, 61containing: No. 60 Papers on Australian place names, by J.S. Ryan, Dept of University Extension. Richmond-Tweed Area. University of New England. Loose letter inside book "Dear Dad, - from John". i.e. to Carlos Stretch from son John Stretch. Also letterhead paper of Carlos Stretch, Toronto, listing "Coolmaga" (North Lismore), "Coolmanga, Dunoon, Talmora, Talmo", referring to the book p.49 etc. No. 61 Containing: A ledger book labelled "Place Names in Alphabetical Order, for which I am seeking meanings or origins." [in the hand of Carlos Stretch on cover]. Names are listed alphabetically in the book, with localities then notes. Loose notes, pages, and sheet of blotting paper inserted in the book with 2 clippings pasted on inside back cover concerning "Nowra" and "Mollymoke". Also further listings of areas and their place names, e.g. "around Maitland and Newcastle". Clipping from a Lismore newspaper Book Review: Kyogle by Eve Keane. "First Kyogle Settlement 12 Years After Discovery. Shire Preserves History". An article with photographs. Reverse side contains an obituary of Mr. S.B.L. Gates of Lismore. Corner of envelope has 3 addresses noted, for place names Towarri, Rossgole , Glenbawn. File tabs with (alphabetical order) place names, district, meaning and origin. Cover used as notepaper with list of names, animal, and eucalypts. Cover says Address the First Session Thirty-First Synod Diocese of Newcastle by Francis, Bishop of Newcastle. Account book cover is used to hold "Meanings and origins wanted. JSCWS". Includes : loose blotting paper advertisement- i.e. Buzacott’s, G.P. Pty Ltd. List of New South Wales Aboriginal Place Names and their meanings. Compiled by W.W. Thorpe. Draught of letter from Carlos Stretch to the Headmaster, Parkes High School, asking for help to collect origins and meanings of place names. List of names around Parkes attached. Slip with place names around Scone and Gundy, and Lismore. Letter draught from Carlos Stretch, St. Pauls, West Maitland, to the Headmaster, Kyogle Intermediate High School, asking for help in finding origins and meanings of place names. List is attached. List of place names around Port Macquarie. Some meanings have been written in a different hand. List of dates. Alphabetical List of the Polling-Places in the Above Named State New South Wales Sydney, Govt. Printer. Blotter advertising Ever Ready Co.(Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Slip with notes on place names. Clipping "Molong means ‘All rocks’ " from a Molong newspaper. List of Molong aboriginal names. Page from a Newcastle telephone book list of exchanges p.1 and p.2 + directions for using automatic telephones and the manual exchanges. Half page directory information from a Sydney telephone book listing place names. Page charges for trunk line calls Sydney telephone book listing places outside Sydney. (torn in halves). Letter from [Mattock?], Shire Clerk, The Nambucca Shire Council, Bowraville, to the Rev. Carlos Stretch in response to an enquiry about place names and their meanings. On back of letter a list of Port Stephens names and Gresford names Clipping "Warrumbungle" (the wallaby), a bright story for children. Newcastle author Harry Hodge. Angus and Robertson, Review by G.G. [NMH?] Aboriginal names 6 pages pinned together. Handwritten by Carlos Stretch. Letter on letterhead from H.H. Stevenson, Land Agent etc. Tamworth Central Chambers, 351 Peel Street, Tamworth 4N, to Rev Carlos Stretch, St. Pauls, Maitland. Replying to a request for origins and meanings of place names in the Tamworth area. Note on page Barrington N.Bourke - fish die in water. Letter from Geo Roberts, The Vicarage, Tambar Springs, to the Carlos Stretch, St. Pauls Rectory, Maitland NSW replying to a request for the origins and meanings of place names. (early ballpoint pen was used.) 4pp. Letter from Elsie E. Crew, 17 Rosemary Street, Gunnedah to the Rev. Carlos Stretch, replying to letter asking for meaning of "Mullenroo". 2 pp. List of place, animal, other aboriginal names with meanings for many added. (remains of old exercise book.) Memo book contains notes about names, followed by list of aboriginal names in the Hunter Valley and around Newcastle, with meanings opposite. Pages from a ledger contain aboriginal names. Heading "Wonnah-ruah Tribe", and "tribe on the Bogan", and meanings for some. Exercise book front marked ABC (A), has alphabetical arrangement of place names with meanings, also animals, also Timbers. At the opposite end lists of names of various dialects (areas). Loose in book, FAO pamphlet, Feb. 1950, and a page with more names, "Thillaba = cold" Ledger [E] used for "Kamilaroi Place Names, also List of Queensland aboriginal words". various lists. Includes clipping "Aboriginal Names of North-West" by Russell McDonagh. North Western Courier. Narrabri, (2 copies). "Aboriginal Names of North West" by Russell McDonagh. Clipping glued inside cover. From Gunnedah Independent Advertiser. Slip of paper "Where is Warrungen = Boomerang" Letter from E.K.Lingard, News Editor, Newcastle Morning Herald, Newcastle, to Rev. Carlos Stretch replying to request for assistance about place names, and inviting him to prepare an article for the paper. Cash book labelled "Aboriginal words, various dialects, along the Murray and the Darling, the Barwon, also Wodi Wodi (Wollongong) Wiradjerie". Ledger [8] used for "various dialects". Awabakal, Wiralhuri, Wangerriburra, Ngemba. Loose pages pinned in sections.

Copy of : North British Railway, official tourist guide. (The beauties of Scotland).

Copy of : The English and Their Country.

Copy of : In Monk's land. Coxwold, Byland, and Rievaulx.

Six notebooks, Nos. 1-6. Alphabetical listing of aboriginal words.

Copy of : Guide to Oxford Cathedral

Copy of : Summer Holidays in Great Britain and Ireland. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd.

Copy of : Hampton Court palace.

Copy of : Hampton Court, illustrated. Guide to the palace and gardens.

Copy of : Guide to Staffa, Iona and Mull.

Copy of : Sampson's Handbook for the City of York.

Copy of : Cook's Handbook to London.

Copy of : NRMA Motor Camping ; Official Guide With Maps and Complete Letterpress. Price 1/-. Includes loose pages from a guide ; 2 clippings of maps of Stinson plane crash area. Newspaper, Sydney.

Copy of : The Melbourne Book. Art in Australia Ltd, Sydney. 2 copies. One has tracing paper to identify streets in photographs. Front cover - Melbourne city; back cover - RMS Orontes, RMS Oronsay.

NRMA Strip route maps, various areas NSW with extra touring information.

Blue Folder containing items labelled ABO 54,55,56,57,58,59 containing:- No.54 Hard-covered exercise book. Lists of place names - Victoria, NSW areas - Gundagai, Yass, Cootamundra, Orange, Armidale, Bowral... Wilcannia. Also inquiries to PP Boards at Armidale, Wentworth; Letter from A.J. McAndrew, Public Relations Officerto Rev. C. Stretch, St Paul’s Rectory, West Maitland. Folded with Carbon Copy of list of Railway stations and platforms, which would have been sent back to Mr. McAndrew; Slip of paper with NSW place name "Bostobrick "- established as a timber centre; 3 pages pencil - names, district, origin /meaning "Goarra" S.Sutherland = a locust [NSW places.]; 3 pages pinned. List 1. North Coast names; 2. Around Cooma; 3. Central Coast, NSW; Reprint of an article "The Aboriginals of Australia" by Archdeacon E.A. North Ash, Home Secretary of the Australian Board of Missions. Envelope containing Rotary envelope with pencil notes - place names, surnames of authors; Lists of works on Australia, Antarctica and the Pacific Islands. Public Library of NSW. Country Reference Section. No. 55 Brown envelope labelled "Armistis (sic) Day, Canberra, St.John's" containing: Clippings - "A mood for today" - address to Sydney Rotary Club, Armistice Day, - Rev. E.J.Davidson ; "I vow to thee my country" ; picture + words of S. Basil; The Church Standard. Various topics and pages; Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate. Article p.4 - Anzac Day on Coalfields... Rev.D.McKinnon , and description of services; Clipping [Maitland Mercury] "Anzac Day..."; The Northern Star. (Lismore NSW). p.4 "Easter Church services. Report on different denominations. No. 56 Brown envelope, from Walkabout Magazine with special label. "Campanology". Bells change ringing. Bobs. Dodge. 56. Contains instructions for bell ringing. "Plain Bob" 3 copies. "Grandsire Doubles" (2 doubles). (St. Paul’s bells, Maitland). No. 57 Exercise Book with cover picture "Tank exercises. Australia’s Defence" containing Clipping "Choosing new name for New Lambton". Kotara chosen. Handwritten notes on etymology of place names- Old English onwards; Draught note to Mrs. O (Victorian) re Murray Valley place names; Letter from William A. Bayley, Central School, Crookwell, to Rev. Carlos Stretch, Toronto, asking for help for a proposed title for a book about Far South Coast of NSW. No. 58 Folder containing: typed manuscript of "Origins and meanings of place names of New South Wales". Compiled by J.Carlos W. Stretch. Alphabetical with tabs as far as "C". No. 59 Cover of ledger containing loose material including: Slips and correspondence about place names including NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. To: Copy - The High Commissioner for Pakistan, Canberra. From: The Bishop of Gippsland, Sale, Victoria. A.T.Latham, Secretary, Historical Society of Victoria, Broken Hill Chambers, 31 Queen Street, Melbourne. J. Ray, Town Clerk, Council Chambers, Sale, Victoria, Donald J. Tugby, Ethnologist, National Museum of Victoria, Russell Street, Melbourne. Also from Jas Jervis (not JARVIS), 5 Florence Avenue, Denistone Herbert J. Rumsey, "Vernham’s Dean", 59 Adderton Road, Dundas NSW, 23RD E.M. Vere for Postmaster, Parramatta. R. Turner, Mayors Secretary, City Hall, Parramatta. Dr. J.M.Maclean, Trangie. R.(Rob) Webster, 114 Asquith Street, Temora. Alan H. Morris, High School, Echuca, H.C.Fenton, Chairman, Public Relations and Betterment Board, Railway Offices, Spencer Street, Melbourne, Alan Norman, Tongala, Victoria. Letter from Dorothy Carroll, Secretary, Linnean Society of NSW, Science Hours, Gloucester Street, Sydney. Recommends contacting Miss Cribb (Mavis Cribb), Maitland Public Library for interlibrary loans ; Library regulations Linnean Society of NSW. Letters from E.V.Clarence, Tamworth ; Norman C. Hewitt, PO Box 25, Tweed Heads, F. Moriarty(? Signature), Yallaroi Shire Council, Warialda, Joah H. Sugden, 87 O’Sullivan Parade, Rose Bay, Sydney. A,G, Broad, Shire Clerk, Shire Council, Moss Vale. Thomas H. Webster, Shire Clerk, Shire of Burrangong. Young, NSW, S.A.West, Auctioneer, Martin Street, Stockinbingal. Shire Clerk, Council Chambers, Tumbarumba, G.H. Thomas (?) Shire Clerk, Murrumbidgee Shire Council, Darlington Point, South-West Line, NSW, M.R.Brown, Field Officer, Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Co.Ltd., Hexham, WA Bayley, Central School, Crookwell. The King’s School Magazine. "Correspondence" from The Maurice, Wellington, NSW, place names.

Blue Folder labeled ABO 50, 51, 52, 53 containing: No. 50 [Ledger cover used as a folder to hold correspondence about aboriginal place names and meanings.] Letter from John Stretch, Lismore, to his father Canon Carlos Stretch. Letter from H.L. Keelan, Town Clerk, Broken Hill re place names. Copy of letter from Canon Stretch to Town Clerk, Broken Hill. List of place names. Rough copy of a letter to Town Clerk, Broken Hill, from Rev. Carlos Stretch. Letter from Denis C. Ebbs, Mermaid Beach, Queensland, to Canon Stretch making an appointment to visit Canon Stretch. Letter from [Bishop Housden] + James Newcastle, Bishopscourt, Newcastle. Invitation to Communion Breakfast during Synod. Copy of reply and inability indicating poor health attached. Letter from J.S. Woodington, Hon. Secretary, NDC, Parish of Lambton re payment of subscription (NDC), and noting change of address for Mr. W. Hyslop, schoolteacher, from Lambton to Kendall. Letter from Rev. Gordon Coad, Parish of St. Luke’s Church of England, Wallsend to Rev. Canon Carlos Stretch, Jarrett Street, Toronto, about taking church services. Letter from W.(William) A. Bayley, Crookwell to Rev. Carlos Stretch, East Maitland giving references to aboriginal names. Letter from F.D.McCarthy, Curator of Anthropology, Australian Museum to Rev. Carlos Stretch, Toronto, replying to enquiries about aboriginal names. Letter from Mrs. Marjorie Hancock, Deputy Mitchell Librarian, in reply to an enquiry about "Hue Hue", and "Kuranda". Christmas gift card for a subscription to Walkabout arranged by Margaret and six (6) others. Letter from Rev. Russell F. Gibson, Mayfield Methodist Church to Mr. Stretch, re Cooma, referring him on to Mr. Dudley Hawkins, Cooma as a better contact. List of place names attached. Letter attached from R.Dudley Hawkins, replying to Mr. Stretch. Note of a reply to, and letter from Lionel Gilbert, Public School, Wauchope about place names. Pencil rough of letter to Mr. Gilbert about place names plus a list of place names and meanings, attached to a letter from L.A. Gilbert, Public School, Wauchope to Rev. Canon Carlos Stretch. List of place names, around Tibooburra, Menindee, Bingeebeebra, the Murray Valley of NSW, Coonamble. Draught of a letter from Carlos Stretch to a family member. Letter from F.D.McLeay, High School, Muswellbrook to Rev. Canon C. Stretch replying to a request for meanings of place names. Letter from [Bishop] Christopher Storrs, Warden, St. Johns College, Morpeth to Canon Stretch re a donation of books to Morpeth College. No. 52 [Account book used as a record of place names arranged alphabetically. Holds clippings and loose sheets with blotting papers, notes, letters received and rough draughts of letters to send]. Containing: Printed list of "Aboriginal house names" from The Australian Women’s Weekly. Clipping from The Australian HOME BEAUTIFUL, p.53 - "Aboriginal House Names". (Mrs. W. Onus, Deepdene Vic., offers to supply names information for a search fee.) Australian Aboriginal Words and Their Meanings published by Badenochs Transport, Richmond, S.A. (Removalists). Acknowledgment is made to South Australian Museum Board for approval of this compilation and the H.M. Cooper, Hon. Associate in Anthropology, S.A. Museum. BP Road map of New South Wales. Letter from Fred Innes, Bookookoorara, via Tenterfield to Canon Stretch, Lismore asking for meanings of names. Meanings are noted on bottom of letter. Letter of W.S. Parker, Shire Clerk, Moulamein, NSW to Rev. Carlos Stretch in response to a letter published in Swan Hill Guardian asking about place names. Attached is another letter from E. Marshall to W.S. Parker with information for Rev. Carlos Stretch. Public Library of New South Wales: list of works on Australia, Antarctica, and the Pacific Islands. Leaflet "Australian Museum publications" and order form. Rough draught of a letter to the Mitchell Library. Three letters from J.(James) B. Allison, Shire Librarian, Lake Macquarie Shire Public Library, Boolaroo to Rev. Canon C. Stretch, concerning inter-library loans from the Public Library of NSW. Attached also is a letter from P.L.NSW. and the draught letter from Canon C Stretch to the Shire Librarian Boolaroo. Five clippings "What’s in its name?" Sydney place names. Articles signed "E. Oakes". Letter from John C. Capp, "Windermere", Lochinvar to Carlos about "Dalwood" (place name) and about George Wyndham. On back of the sheet is a rough draught of a reply to John. Letter (10 sheets) from Arthur F. Smith, WYNNUM, E2 to Canon Carlos Stretch telling about the Scone area, "Segenhoe", the story of White’s acquisition, Dunbar’s Creek, Towarri, Woomula (Woolooma), Rossgole (held by Bragg, Blunt and Tyson names), Glenbawn. He also mentions himself as a Confirmee of Bishop Stretch. St. John’s College Program "Patronal Pandemonium", the Freshers’ review. Part I, 13 items eg. "The Vicar’s Vagaries" and Part II, drama "The Pious Tragedy of Pope Boniface VIII", presented by St. John’s Productions Ltd. (St. John’s College, Morpeth). Printed sheet. With Compliments slip of Senator the Honourable Sir Alister McMullin, K.C.M.G. President of the Senate, Parliament House, Canberra. Used for notes of addresses on the back. Sketch map of Lochinvar area northern side of the New England Highway showing "Kaludah", Windermere", "Luskintyre", "Wyndella", "Anambah", "Knockfin" on half of the back of a printed sheet "Grass conditions and pastoral outlook in NSW. Clipping "Books on Australia". O.U.P. Melbourne. - pasted into back cover. No.53 Folder of aboriginal correspondence containing: Letter from Agnes Barwick, "The Hawthorns", RMB 169, Sparkes Creek, Scone, to Mr Stretch, about origins of place names "Sparkes" and "Kiernane". Letter from Arthur Cook, St. Albans Church of England, Charlestown to "Dr." (Stretch) re the origin of "Windale". The property was owned by Mrs. E.A. Winn of Surprisetown. Her daughter, Mrs. Gore, was postmistress at Windale, and the informant. List of place names in 1.Nyngan area, 2. Gilgandra area. Searl written in pencil. Letter from Rob Webster, 114 Asquith Street, Temora to the Rev. Carlos Stretch, St. Pauls Rectory, West Maitland, listing place names in the Ardlethan district, and seeking help in their meanings. Had written a history of Temora and was now writing a history of neighbouring Ardlethan. Note: Ans. (answered). Attached a list of place names plus their meanings. Attached a second letter and a third letter. Pencil annotations have been added by Carlos Stretch. List of place names Mount Bocolle, Tabrabucca. Short letter from Jack M. Haigh to "Dear Sir" giving derivation of "Doyalson". Slip of paper with place names "Koolpinyah" etc. Slip of paper with aboriginal words and meanings "Adno-artina" = large gecko. Sheet of paper Warijagong (Forbes) = ants. Letter from Neil Hutchison, Director of Drama and Features, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney to Rev. Carlos Stretch, St. Pauls Rectory, Maitland NSW, - aboriginal names and meanings used in episode 821 of "Blue Hills." Pencil draught of a letter of sympathy to Mrs. Campbell - incomplete. Letter from F.D. McCarthy, Curator of Anthropology, The Australian Museum of Sydney to the Rev. Carlos Stretch, St. Pauls Rectory, Maitland, replying to an enquiry about Aboriginal names. Had been in Arnhem Land for nine months. Letter from Carlos Stretch to Mr. McCarthy (of the Australian Museum, Sydney). Sheet of paper with aboriginal words and a translation, "Wallee..." Letter from F.S. Colliver, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, SW6 to Rev. Carlos Stretch, Hon. Sec. N.D.C., Jarrett Street, Toronto, NSW, replying about a word BULIMBA - magpie lark. Small notebook "The Gordon memo book" contains a clipping about Rev. Carlos Stretch collecting origins and meanings of place names in the Newcastle district and a pencil quotation inside back cover "Cicero to Atticus do not obtain your slaves from Britain..." " same said of the Australian aborigine." Pinned notepaper "Where are the following ?" Aboriginal place names arranged A-Y. Some meanings are given. (9 pages). Three slips of paper - Gradgery...; Rivers...; Around Broken Hill. Letter from Mrs. R.M.Murrell, Girvan via Stroud, to Mr Stretch, mentioning his brother Mr Cliff Stretch, Minister, whom she knew. Described The Branch of the Karuah River, where a township once stood. Slips of paper with place names. Quarrobylong... Combe - old English valley... Card to invite people to Holy Communion Tinamba... (brief draught of letter written to Town Clerk at Sale, re aboriginal names in the district. Draught of letter to Mr F.S. Colliver, c\- Geology Department, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, requesting meaning of "Bulimba". Envelope containing letters. Letter and list of place names around Cobar from Carlos Stretch, St. Pauls Rectory, West Maitland to Miss Corbett [at Cobar]. Pinned to letter from [Miss] P. Corbett, Shearleys, Cobar, dated 7-7-47, to Dr. McLean, Trangie NSW in which she sends on letter from Carlos Stretch. Letter from Dr. J.M. Maclean, Trangie, to Mr. Stretch and attaching a letter from Andrew D. Mathews, "Maryantha", Cobar, addressed to Dr. Maclean and Mr. Carlos Stretch. Gives information about place names in the Cobar district. A contact person was Wal Snelson, President of Cobar Bowls Club. Slip : Taree- Dumaresque, Oxley and Mitchell Islands. (no meanings) Bendolba...wrote to W.J. Ingram, Bendolba, Delegate Clipping from Newcastle Morning Herald, – obituary of Mr. A.J. Moate, b. Moate Street, Georgetown, m. Miss Elizabeth Proctor of Stockton, d. Mater Hospital, Waratah. Letter from Rev. Canon C. Stretch, Jarrett Street, Toronto NSW to Mr. White ("Henry V ‘?’) Belltrees, Gundy, requesting help for meanings or origins of place names of NSW enclosing a list of place names. Note: Answered, unable to help. Numbered in pencil "32". Letter to Mr. E. Bernays, Maffra, Cooma, from Carlos Stretch. Pinned to reply from E.K. Bernays, Maffra, Cooma, to Canon Stretch, re information on place names in the Cooma district.

File labeled ABO 43-49B Folder containing exercise books and a binder file and an envelope. No. 43 Envelop containing: Copy of Rotary Club of Maitland, Charter No. 3501. In commemoration of Rotary’s Golden Anniversary. Contains an article "Place names around the Hunter Valley" by J. Carlos W. Stretch. This copy presented to Rev. Stretch by the club, as well as Maitland identities and local history; Clipping from Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, dated Saturday, (6 copies). Article by Boscobel "District place names make fascinating study". No. 44 Exercise book (orange cover) - NE and N of NSW place names and loose maps of NSW. No. 45 Exercise book contains The Gospel according to St. Luke double-spaced handwritten in an aboriginal? language with pencil English language translation No.46 Exercise book (green cover) contains place names in NE of NSW and locations. Partly used book. Also has a loose invitation to Parish Services, St. Luke’s, Wallsend Mothering. Bishop Davies was invited. No. 47 Exercise book (green cover), contains place names NE NSW. A- Z. Half-used book. No. 48 Binder file contains "What’s in a Name". Manuscript about people’s names, derivations and meanings. Also contains copy of Constitution and By-Laws: Rotary Club of West Maitland. No. 49A I Exercise book - Duke and Duchess of Kent portraits on cover. Contains place names of NSW with meanings and origins, European and aboriginal, plus lists of place names. A - M. No. 49B II Exercise book - Duke and Duchess of Kent portraits on cover. Contains place names of NSW with meanings and origins, European and aboriginal, plus lists of place names. M - Z.

No. 40 - envelope contains clipping (12 copies) of Canon J.C.W.Stretch visiting Lismore; Lists of place names from various sources in different handwriting; Letter from Sgt. 3/c A. Wellard, Police Station, Mungindi, re enquiries from Rev. Carlos Stretch about place names e.g. "Murgo"; Letter from John A. Ferguson (Justice Ferguson, 81 Glanville Rd, Roseville), Judges’ Chambers, Indusrial Commision, Sydney. Ferguson: Bibliography of Australia; Also 6-page feature on Australian place names, "The Australian Women’s weekly". No. 41 - envelope containing notes for a church service; notes on St. Paul’s Church, Maitland, centenary, for an address or publication; Notes for an article on the railways and telegraph centenary in Australia; Invitation (used as notepaper) when Rev. H.E. Evans showed "Life among the Walbiri: a Central Australia Tribe" - films in sound and colour, at the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, for the Anthropological Society of NSW; Notes on "Stroud : a Tourist and Historical Mecca" by B. (Boscobel article for Newcastle Morning Herald.); "In and Around Paterson", probably written for publication by Boscobel in N.M.H.); Clipping "Landmark to go at Paterson", by Rona Clarke. [N.M.H.], first hotel built in Paterson to be demolished. No. 42 - File of correspondence relating to place names. Replies from Shire Clerks from numerous towns to Rev. Carlos Stretch. Many loose notes, on paper, used envelopes, on place names as well as clippings; Copy of Mankind: Official Journal of the Anthropological Societies of Australia. Vol. 3, Contains articles by Professor A.P. Elkin and Mr. F.D. McCarthy on aboriginal matters; Circular from Rotary Club of West Maitland. Secretary Clarry Lawson. Local men’s names appear. Reverse side used as notepaper for NRMA note plus clipping from NRMA advertisement. Typewritten list of Wardens (war time). 5 copies. First copy has amendments and additions in pen and ink. Notes on words, meanings, derivations of place names, Aboriginal and English. Letter from William A. Hoare to Father Stretch, asking for any history of the church at Clarence Town to be used in a booklet. The P.&C. is holding "Back to Clarence Town School" day. [Was booklet]. Pencil note added, it was reported that a church was being built at Clarence Town. Note on back [?] consecrated, nave, chancel, porch & vestry in early English style by E.T. Blacket, Clarence Town dates included St. Johns and Rectory. Letter from [Rev.] Warwick Turvey, The Rectory, Stroud to Canon [Stretch]. Invitation to preach and question about St. Barnabas, Booral. Folded with notes of the reply. Copy of NSW Motor Traffic Handbook. Clipping from the Daily Telegraph. "126 Years of History". St. Thomas’ Church, Mulgoa by Rolf Boldrewood (author) stayed at Fernhill. "Free sample" - fold out Bible study readings. "Toponomy - List of Place Names, New South Wales A-C" [typewritten manuscript]. Copy of Australia. Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Newsletter. Vol. 1, no. 3. Copy of Mankind: Official Journal of the Anthropological Societies of Australia. Vol. 6, no. 3. Letter from Dr. J.M. Maclean, Trangie to Mr. Stretch re place names. Notes attached of place names (Western NSW). Letter from Ken, Kempsey NSW. Response to request for place names in Kempsey. Letter from H.H. Nicholls, Dubbo NSW. Rev. Carlos Stretch, noting change of address and referring to list of place names - given on to "an old hand to fix up for me...". Hopeful of returning same soon. Letter from Claude, Will Riley & Son, Funeral Directors, Lismore, Coraki and Woodburn, Lismor to Mr John Stretch (son of Carlos). Enclosing a letter from Claude to Mr. Walter Page, Aboriginal Settlement, Woodenbong. Walter responded on Claude’s letter Street, Albury NSW, giving the meaning of the place name Walla Walla, also describes flooding of in his own handwriting. Letter from Canon C.W.Leavers, The Rectory, Dubbo to Rev. C. Stretch, promising to send on any information he can get about aboriginal names "through a local black tracker". Letter from Barwongy = Barkingi, Louth, to the Editor, Western Grazier, Wilcannia offering aboriginal names. Letter from Constable W.R. McLeod, Court House, Drake, Clerk of Petty Sessions, to Rev. C. Stretch. Suggested he try Kyogle Police Police Officer-in-charge as the names may be Richmond River rather than Clarence River dialect. No reason is known for the name of Drake being given when the Post Office was established. Letter from Stan Henry, Albury, to Rev. Carlos, enclosing file of place names, which may be of assistance. Letter from A.A. Howard, Albury, to Mr. Harrison, Albury, giving meaning of a name. "Goombargana" is aboriginal and means "big black hill". Letter from R.J. Shipard, "Bona Vista", RMB 98, Walla Walla, to Mr. Harrison, Dean Petrie’s Creek, plus attached list of place names in the Albury district. Printed letterhead of William A. Bayley, J.P., Public School, Castle Hill (crossed out and stamped "Crookwell") NSW. A thank you note. Printed on letter "life member of Royal Australian Historical Society; Accredited representative of Mitchell Library, Sydney NSW". Typed letter from (unsigned) , "Brightfield", Bowral, NSW, to Rev. J.C.W.Stretch. Retired clergyman ? "Hon. Parochial etc. Historian" at Bowral. Mentions "Memories of Old Bowral," and also Bishop Broughton’s journal. Circular The Kings School Old Boys Union, showing office bearers. Copy of The Daily Advertiser, dated Wednesday, January 28, 1948, p.3 and p.5. Articles and photographs - "100 People Living in Squalor at Leeton’s Wattle Hill Settlement" by Don Hawton. Letter (typewritten) from Michael Sawtell, Chairman, the Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship, Sydney, to Mr. Stretch. Responding to an aboriginal name enquiry. He mentions Dr. Arthur Capell, Linguist, and Professor Elkin. Pinned to the letter is a list of names and a clipping showing Michael Sawtell, "veteran bushman", and schemes for using water for inland Australia. Letter glued to back of a folder: from Mrs. C. Lean, "Roseleigh", Gleniffer, via Bellingen, to Rev. H.E. Hunt, Coffs Harbour, responding to a request published in the local Bellingen newspaper, about place names. Piece of a letter telling about the naming of "Thora" from "your loving Auntie Anne."

Copy of : Cyclists annual and touring guide.