Diary of a voyage to Queensland made by John Burnett, Jane Burnett and their children aboard the ship 'Eastern Empire', commanded by Captain Fergusson.
Photocopy of typed transcript, includes a map of route.

2 pocket diaries, one for 1860 and one for 1867.

Account of a voyage from London 9 April - 30 December 1870. Ends at Caboolture on Captain Claudius Whish's property.

Photocopy of holograph original in notebook of John David Hennessey during his voyage to Australia, January 1875.

Account book, 1882, Gympie. Includes building costs, plus some random entries.

Included in notebook are copies of parodies, comic verse, riddles. Included in diary are transcriptions by Emma of her brother's diary of a voyage from Ireland to Queensland in the ship Sir William Wallace, June-Sept 1882, and another diary written by her other brother Fred W. Hewson from Ireland to Queensland aboard the ship Merkara, Oct-Dec 1882.

Diary of a voyage to Australia aboard the S.S. Duke of Westminster, London to Brisbane, 1886.
Photocopy of typed transcript from original manuscript, accompanied by a photocopy of the first three pages of the manuscript.

Contains details of droving from Eulumbie in the Narran district of NSW through Western Queensland to Pomerania near the Leichhardt River in Queensland.

In his diary, Kleinschmidt gave details of weather, wind direction, tidal levels of the Logan River, his routine work on the barge, and some special social events in the district.

Accompanied by 2nd copy (colour printout of digital scan).
Also copy of letter 1880 May 9 from Elizabeth Lynam to George Beaumont, and letter 1972 Aug 31 from Hugh Beaumont to the Fryer Librarian, providing biographical information about Roland Hirst.
Includes references to stations Chowilla and Bookmark on Murray River; opal-mining; fund-raising concert after 1893 floods in Queensland.