Pages from a commonplace book containing transcripts of poems and metric versions of the psalms apparently the work of Childs. The original from which these sheets were photocopied, contains some hundreds of pages of verse. These leaves were selected at random as illustrating a general level of taste in latter 19th century in Australia.

This collection includes diaries, travel notes, notebooks, correspondence, manuscripts, sketches, press clippings, photographs and biographical material. Also included are articles featured in The Queenslander and the Darling Downs Gazette, as well as material for The Antipodean. This collection contains photocopies of letters from 1892 to 1906 by, or about, Evans which are also held in the Mitchell Library (Sate Library of New South Wales). There is a scrapbook containing original sketches by Percy F.S. Spence, Frank P. Mahony, C. Roth, B.E. Minns, and E. Bevan.