Diary written at Nudgee and is mainly concerned with vineyard records and procedures at his Toombul Vineyard, Nudgee, Brisbane. Further material can be found in the Kennedy collection UQFL171.

Letter to his wife Lucy written from Adelaide describing visits to vineyards and wineries.

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.

Business records of the Toombul Vineyard, established in the nineteenth century by the Childs family. Articles and research material on the history of the Brisbane suburbs of Nundah, Toombul, Banyo, Northgate, Virginia and Nudgee.