Folder 2 -- Sundry papers relating to trips - Christmas trip, 1936; Tours list [1936?]; list of participants, Thirteenth Club Trip, Easter, 1937; food list, Bushcraft course, 1966; usual weekend gear and food [1957?]; 'Instructions for Leaders', 1933; course for prospective applicants to ASC, 1976; letter resigning membership, 1987; subscription notice 1984/85; two Kauaeranga Forest Education Camp (Thames) Inc. pamphlets - one of which being an ASC Labour Weekend 1983 programme.

Folder 3 -- Search Party Chart [1930s]. ASC's own organisation, predating official Search and Rescue (SAR). Chart belonged to Frank Simmons.

Folder 4 -- Trip account - Coromandel, 1941, In 'Biblical' style, by Maurice Lennard. (typescript; 22 leaves)

Folder 5 -- Newspaper clippings relating to successful Everest expedition, May-June 1953 - Includes articles from: 'People', 9 September 1953; 'New Zealand Listener', 19 June 1953; 'The Evening Post', 19 and 30 June 1953; 'Freedom', 24 June 1953; 'New Zealand Herald', 20 and 27 June 1953 and 2 July 1953; 'Auckland Star', 29 June 1953; 'The Students' Digest', July 1953; 'PIX', 9 May 1953.

Folder 6 and Archival Box - Items relating to Veterans Section (ASC).

Folder 6 -- Correspondence, notes - Ten (10) colour photographs of Veterans Christmas Party 1997 at Fitzpatrick's; December 1986 issue of Alpinesport with annotations on Veterans page. Also, in Pictorial Section, ASC photos: Veterans photograph album.

Outsized Items -- Veterans Section Visitors Book, 1964 - 1981, including Inauguration dinner at Waitakere Hut, 11 July 1964, with signatures (in archival box); newspaper cuttings, 1983 - 1984, mounted on sheets of paper (22 leaves). Subjects include: mountains, climbers (and accidents), Sir Edmund Hillary, the Antarctic, national and other parks.

Folders 7 - 8 and Publication -- Items relating to the publication of Alpine Sports: 55 Years of an Auckland Mountain Club.

Folder 7 -- Memo regarding whether publication of the history falls within Rules of Club (B. FitzPatrick, Hon. Solicitor) and correspondence with photo contributors to the History.

Folder 8 -- Correspondence regarding orders for the book, 1981 - 1986.

Publication -- Alpine Sports: 55 Years of an Auckland Mountain Club.1929 - 1984. Co-Authors Stan Forbes / Ian McNab, Photographic Editor Graeme Hasler. Copy Number - 0001. Autographed by Ed Hillary, 18 May 1996. A limited edition of 1000 copies was printed. This copy (0001), which was for several years at the Club's A-Frame, Ruapehu, has had many additional names, and some corrections, added to the photographs.

Folder 9 and Plans - Items relating to Ruapehu Huts.

Folder 9 -- Ruapehu Hut key register, 1970 - 1999 [FRAGILE], Valuation of A-Frame, 1988.

Extra-outsized folder -- Plans (51 x 60 cm) A-Frame details (engineering) Revision C for Ruapehu hut. Three sheets, graphite on transparent paper. ND.

Folder 10 -- Items relating to Waitakere Hut - 'Proposed Hut in Waitakere Ranges' [pre-1934]. Floor plans, costs (1 leaf); Re Dinner to be held at the Hut on 8 September [1934] to celebrate near-completion; drawings of Hut by R. Ussher: (1) September 1964 (at 30 years), and (2) September 1994 (at 60 years); two letters from Colin Little, regarding rebuilding of Hut (after arson, February 1998). [See also Legal, Waitakere - land (Lennard land purchase)]

Folder 11 -- Legal documents - 1966, Debenture Trust Deed [regarding Ruapehu Hut], and other related papers; 1975, letter to Trustees of the Club's special fund. Items relating to the Waitakere - land - Certificate of Title (regarding transfer of land formerly belonging to Maurice Lennard); plan of ASC land, 75 Anawhata Road - 12 acres (R Ussher); correspondence regarding Lennard land purchase by Club.

Folder 12 -- Rodney Draffin (vice President, President) - [some] papers; 1953 - 1957, 1960, 1966, 1974. Alpine Sports Club Balance sheet as at 31 March 1957 and Income and Expenditure Account for year ended 31 March 1957. Ross Sea Appeal Committee contribution to New Zealand Antarctic Expedition form; Search and Rescue contacts list; Do's and Don'ts of Tramping; price list, April 1953, Oscar A. Coberger, Alpine Sports Depot, Arthurs Pass; Ruapehu Alpine Lifts Ltd. share report and notice of Statutory Meeting of the Company dated 24 November 1953. Receipts and orders for building supplies.

Folder 13 -- Stan Forbes papers - two black and white photographs with Stan Forbes in them, both group shots of about 50 people in suits and military uniforms, with the accompanying note "With the compliments of The Editor-in-Chief, New Zealand War Histories"; Notes on 'The Hollyford Valley' and map, by D.J. Gunn (6 leaves).

Folder 14 -- Alan Jones - papers regarding trips, 1950s; includes text of 1952 Club Christmas 'play' "Cinderella" choreographed by Maurice Lennard and list of cast, performed at Christmas party in the Fabian Club rooms, Queen Street, opposite the GPO. Alerations and additions to list of members, dated 8 March 1957.

Folder 15 -- G.B. Wilson (Geoff) - an appreciation, by Phil Jones. (1 leaf)

Folders 16 - 24 -- Club correspondence files.

Folder 16 and 17 -- Club Matters - General Correspondence to / from/ on behalf of members, Nov? 1979 - 8 April 1987 Rules of the Club

Folder 18 -- Federated Mountain Clubs [FMC] 18 December 1973 - 13 April 1987.

Folder 19 -- Federated Mountain Clubs - circulars and reports, 11 April 1983 - 9 April 1987.

Box 2:

Folders 20 and 21 -- Papers regarding the Waitakere Club Hut and Area Generally, November 1974 - February 1986.

Folders 22 and 23 -- Papers regarding the Ruapehu Huts - General Correspondence, September 1979 - 1 April 1987.

Folder 24 -- Papers and correspondence regarding Tongariro National Park, 1974 - 1980 - Includes ASC submission to Whakapapa Ski-field Survey - Future Planning Alternatives.

Folder 25 -- Ruapehu A-Frame Debentures, 1960s - '70s - Examples of Debenture certificates, records and correspondence.

Folder 26 -- ASC Subscription Notices - 1987/88, 1988/89.

Legal opinions and notes regarding the disposal of the Club Library, 1986 - 1987.

Folder 27 -- Ida Hamilton [1899-2001] - (1 page) Order of Funeral Service.

An early Club member and lifelong supporter. [See also Club History; Albums in Pictorial Collection]

Folder 28 -- Items relating to the 75th Anniversary/ Dinner - Programme - in Alpinesport, February 2004; ticket and name tag; Club President's introduction of Katharine Watts, daughter of Sir Ronald Algie, initiator and founding President of the ASC; Katharine Watts' : "Reminiscences about Sir Ronald Algie, founder and first President'"; Alpinesport, April 2004, with photographs about the 75th Birthday; Equipment - display of vintage gear (annotated list used by Jean Draffin); FMC Bulletin, No. 156 - May 2004: pp. 44-45: article on the ASC by Brian Stephenson, Club President; pp.46-47: review of video The Mountain Journey, made by Brian Stephenson and Graeme Hasler.

Folder 29 -- Robert (Bob)Ussher - Magazine article (1 page) about Robert (Bob)Ussher, Waitakere Wanderer by Colin Moore, photocopied from New Zealand Wilderness, April 2004. (detailed knowledge of the Waitakeres; initiator of the NZ Walkways scheme.)

Folder 30 -- Algie Family Photographs (18 black and white photocopies) - displayed at the 75th Anniversary Dinner of the Alpine Sports Club Inc., 27 February 2004. (copied by Brian Stephenson from photos made available by Katharine Watts)

Folders 31 - 34 - Items relating to Beverley Price. [See also photos and slides (Alpine Sport Club), Pictorial Section]

Folder 31 -- Beverley Price and Gus Powell's accident on Jellicoe (Mt Cook National Park) and rescue by helicopter, January 1966 - Letters and quantity of newspaper clippings; copy of article on the rescue by Bruce Jenkinson [one of the rescuers] in the 'Canterbury Mountaineer'; in envelope marked 'The Chartered Institute of Secretaries' - three Mount Cook postcards sent from Beverley Price to Mr and Mrs F.M. Price; three telegrams sent to parents regarding Beverley in hospital; text of reply [telegrams] from father; account of accident written on back of letter to Beverley from Social Security Department; Handwritten account titled "Police Report 31/1/66".

Folder 32 -- Typescript of article 'Some Thoughts During a Night Out' [on Cook] which appeared in the NZ Alpine Club Journal, 1970; trip account: Little Barrier, 1971, written by Wyne Coleman of the Rotorua Tramping Club for that Club's magazine 'Trampski'. [Some interesting comments by a non-member of ASC.]; food lists for various trips (foldered together in the cover of a Westlake High School graph book cover). A note on the envelope with the foodlists in it read "Foodlists. Beverley Prices's foodlists for South Island climbing trip. These were not ASC or Alpine Club organised trips but private trips by members (some of both Clubs). Typical lists for climbing (often high climbing) when all supplies would generally have been carried."

Folder 33 -- Dudley rescue on Ruapehu, 1972 - newspaper clippings, handwriiten notes titled "Ruapehu SAR 14-18th July 1972"; typed notes of J.W. Mazey, Chief Ranger, Tongariro National Park titled "Search & Rescue Operation Mr & Mrs Brian & Ann Dudley. 12-18th July 1972"; report of Auckland Search Personnel in respect of Dudley Search Ruapehu 13-18 July; FMC Bulletin, No. 43, October 1972.

Folder 34 -- Trip accounts and notes.

'Memories of Unwin & Mt Cook' 1950s (incl. first climb of Cook, with Dick Seddon); 'Climbs in the Murchison, 1964 and 1965'; 'Christmas 1964-5' [pp3-4: climbs of Cook and Tasman on consecutive days]; Christmas 1965-66. p. 10. [See comments in B. Jenkinson letter and article regarding genesis of modern Mountain Search & Rescue (SAR).]; 'Jan 1970 - Part 2 [Plateau Hut with Bev Williamson and Nancy Cawley]; Christmas 1972-73 : notes and trip diary; Christmas 1973-74; notes and trip diary (Hermitage area, later Heaphy Track) [ This was the season before the all-women trip to Himalayas with Margaret Clark, Faye Kerr, Jill Tremain, Vicky Thomson]; letter from H. Spannagl, Tongariro NP, regarding proposed trip Te Maari - Mangahohonui area, 13 August 1975; newspaper clipping (New Zealand Herald, 9 January 1946) of article by Frank Price on Ruapehu eruption. F.M. Price was a Master at Auckland Grammar School. He took school trips to Ruapehu (Ed Hillary accompanied them on one such trip); Two newspaper clippings regarding successful climbs of B.Price, G. Dodd [Dodds?] and H. Gifford.

Folder 35 -- Miscellaneous publications - Tararua story: jubilee of a mountain club, Tararua Tramping Club (Inc.), edited by B.D.A. Greig, 1946; The Care & Usage of Climbing Ropes, National Mountain Safety Council, Bulletin No. 9, October 1969; Safe Climbing, Tararua Tramping Club (Inc.), edited by L.D. Bridge, 1947.