Research material for publications; personal papers; and papers relating to Dr Murphy’s career at the University of Queensland, and his membership of the Australian Labor Party. Also research material, including handwritten manuscripts (including memoirs by Margaret Fisher), correspondence, notes, photographs, photocopied articles, and newspaper cuttings, for the biography of Andrew Fisher, which Dr Murphy was working on before his death. Includes W.H. Demaine's ‘Diary, written on the voyage to Maryborough, Queensland, Australia in the year 1880 on board the sailing ship Silver Eagle from Plymouth’.