Typescript short stories with ms emendations. Accompanied by covering letter 1954 Dec 2 to Miss Beatrice Davis, Angus & Robertson Ltd. Apparently unpublished. Comprises: 'Van Dieman's land' / Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke; 'The diggings in 1855' / Waif Wander; 'Art and artitfice' / J. P. (Jack Philip) McKinney; 'The Main Road' / Roy Bridges; 'The early Victorian' J. H. M. (John Henry Macartney) Abbott; 'Mulligan Taubada' / Osmar White; 'The King of Luggertown' / Vance Palmer; 'Collecting the evidence' / Gavin Casey; 'Reunion' / Margaret Fane; 'Reunion'/ Hilary Joseph Frances Lofting; 'We'll all go to the sea' / Frances J. Moon; 'Why did they look at Mr Smith?' / J. B. Warren; 'Safe horizon' / Jon Cleary.

Rehearsed play-reading 1969 October 21 as first performance.

Two acts.
Staging version.

A play in 4 acts with prologue.
Based on the novel For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke.
Includes photocopy of playbill from the Theatre Royal, Brisbane, 1886.

A play in 5 acts including notes for a new edition. Includes photocopy of an advertisement in a Melbourne newspaper for the production of For the Term of his Natural Life at the Theatre Royal.
Handwritten note stating "This adaptation is sanctioned and approved by the widow and executor of the lamented author."
Draft adaptation of For the Term of his Natural Life by Marcus Clarke.