This series includes the following items:

1. Papers relating to French Exploration in South Australia with especial reference to Encounter Bay, Kangaroo Island, the Two Gulfs and Marat Bay 1802-3 by HM Cooper. This material includes two copies of the printed title page and illustrations; a copy typescript of the manuscript; over three hundred pages of copies (photographed) of the journals and correspondence of Baudin, Ransonnet and Flinders; and photographs of early French charts of the South Australian coast. Formerly Acc. No. 18.
   
   
2. Papers relating to The Unknown Coast (A Supplement) by HM Cooper. One apparently complete unbound copy with some some minor corrections or changes. One copy of sections A-E, uncut and unbound (not complete publication). Eighteen pages of notes, including 'Native Legend describing how Kangaroo Island was made' and one page of 'native names' for coastal places near Victor Habour, South Australia'. Sixty-three pages copied (photographed) of Robert Brown's diary. Formerly Acc. No. 34.
   
   
3. Notes on early explorers and their explorations of South Australia. Twenty-seven pages of handwritten and typescript notes on Flinders, D'Entrecasteux, Brown, Vancouver and others. Formerly Acc. No. 35.
   
   
4. Paper on Matthew Flinders. Typed, 11 pages with bibliography, addressed to Prof. Pike, National University, Canberra. Initialed and dated, 'H. M. C. 1 Nov. 1963'. Later published as an entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1, 1966, Carlton, Melbourne University Press. Formerly Acc. No. 36.
   
   
5. Mounted photographic print showing 'Rear Admiral Sir George Patey, R. N., inspecting Naval Reservists at Largs Bay Naval Depot, February 1914'. Reproduced as Fig. 46 in HM Cooper, A Naval History of South Australia, 1950, Adelaide, Hassell Press. Formerly Acc. No. 21.