This collection comprises of correspondence, notebooks, diaries and journals, newspapers and press cuttings, legal documents, illuminated addresses and other miscellaneous papers. It is arranged into seventeen series. Series one contains general outward letters from Sir Redmond Barry to a range of recipients. It includes letters relating to the history of the Public Library of Victoria, general and miscellaneous letters on a range of topics from 1859-1880. Series two contains outward letters to family members. Series three contains outward letters to Mrs Louisa Barrow, 1858-1880. Series four contains inward general letters, 1838-1880. Series five contains inward letters from family members. Family correspondence includes letters from Barry’s brother James Barry and sister-in-law Olivia Barry, 1829-1878, and letters to and from other relatives in Ireland, 1840-1880. They discuss family matters, and of the Irish political and social scene. Series six contains letters relating to gifts of books to Barry and the Public Library of Victoria following Barry’s visit to the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876. It includes correspondence between Barry and representatives of mostly American institutions in relation to the exchange of books and journals. Series seven contains letters neither to nor from Sir Redmond Barry, 1862-1935. Many are either to or from family members and include recollections of Barry. Series eight contains manuscript material, mostly by Barry. It includes a journal of a visit to Rome, 1862-1863; drafts of letters; notes and other material on the language of the Aborigines, 1866; papers on the nomenclature of the counties of Victoria, 1871, and a daybook, 1837-1869 -- entries in the daybook are cryptic and, towards the end, spasmodic. Series nine contains material relating to Barry family history. It contains genealogical and biographical material, including a rough draft of a biography about Barry and genealogical charts and family notes compiled by Sir Redmond Barry. Series ten contains Sir Redmond Barry’s various commissions and degrees. Series eleven contains legal papers, including wills and associated papers. Series twelve contains inventories and catalogues. It includes lists of fruit trees at Barry’s Syndal property, inventories of books, furniture and other household objects, and a sale catalogue for surplus furniture and household goods belonging to Barry, from his Carlton Gardens home, which were sold at auction. Series thirteen contains accounts and receipts. Series fourteen contains reports, addresses and other material relating to the Public Library of Victoria’s Fine Arts Exhibition, 1869, and the Philadelphia International Exhibition, 1876. Series fifteen contains newspapers and newspaper cuttings. It has copies of some early Melbourne and Sydney newspapers and loose and a bound volume of newspaper cuttings on a range of subjects including the University of Melbourne. Series sixteen consists of photographs, including a photograph of Sir Redmond Barry’s top hat. Series seventeen consists of miscellaneous items. It includes two illuminated addresses to Sir Redmond Barry, one from the Fitzroy Volunteer Rifle Company, January 24th 1862, and the second from the Supreme Court Library Committee, 1875; a silver trowel presented to Sir Redmond Barry on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the Ballarat East Public Library, 21 Jan. 1867; a bound volume of menus and recipes collected by Barry; and other material relating to early Melbourne, exhibitions and Barry’s judicial life.