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Preserved in the National Library of Australia’s Manuscripts Collection, along with Cook’s handwritten journal, are another set of instructions.

Albums and pieces of sheet music published in Australia and overseas, around 2700 books and pamphlets, mostly related to Western music, manuscript scores, papers from some composers and orchestras, and personal papers of Kenneth Hince.

Personal papers of Hevingham-Root, biographies and autobiographies of opera singers and composers, theatre and concert programs, vocal scores, song books, anthems, sacred songs, oratorio, lieder and folk songs.

Books, pamphlets, photographs, posters and a small number of maps relating to war and aviation.

The Heritage Strategy aims to achieve the conservation of the cultural heritage significance of the National Library of Australia.

Learn about the opening of the Library building in 1968 and how collection storage has changed over the years.

About 7600 music scores and albums, mainly piano and vocal works published in France, Britain, Germany, Austria and Italy in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Illustrated by Tony Flowers

The Library is proud to house this collection, which preserves the voices of 1,290 Australians.

Dr Penny Olsen, illustrated by Rhonda N. Garward