Two short stories bound, in boards, into one volume. First story is titled 'Emma Mordaunt the predestinate : a tale of circumstantial evidence'. Second is titled 'Calypso : a coruscation of 1798'. The first narrative is about a young woman on trial for murder, set approximately 1814 in Scotland, with an interlude in Sydney around 1830. References the real-life nineteenth century Scottish murder trials of Mary McKinnon and Madeleine Smith. Second story is about a naval frigate. 'Emma Mordaunt' is formed from ten printed chapters clipped from a newspaper and pasted on backing paper. 'Calypso' is similarly treated. Handwritten title page that includes a handwritten epigraph that reads 'If truly writ, how much of passion, pain, and mortal sin these pages may unclose!'. Pencil annotations and incomplete leaf numbering throughout.