11 poems.
Titles: Requiem for a truckie; Growing crystals; Soliloquy: Old man; On hearing the muse; Sonnet to Artemis; The take-over; R.S.L. dance; A kind of reward; Disclaimers; [Untitled]; Apology for unborn children.

Five poems.
Titles: Blue eyes; Marigolds; Outpost; The call; Would you remember?
Transcribed from newspaper cuttings by Norman K. Harvey.

Drafts for Cecil Hadgraft's entry on Alexander Forbes in the Australian Dictionary of Biography; correspondence and research notes relating to the entry, and a photocopied extract from his brother Archibald Forbes' book 'Souvenirs of some continents' (1894).

Also signed card and obituary notice 22 Sep 1904.

9 short verses handwritten by various authors.
Includes typed version.
Accompanied by 2 negatives.

Bound volume of poems from newpapers.

Typescript poems.
Accompanied by information re publication of poems.
Titles: Laughter in the catacombs -- Still life -- Exercise in rationalisation -- Brussels -- Equipoise for an Iris -- Canto for a grey cat -- Sunshine and shower -- Quiessence -- Non Quid Pro Quo.

Anthology collected in school holidays [note].
Also photocopy of notebook.

Letter 16 Dec 1911 to the Senate, University of Queensland, explaining his reasons for refusing by telegram the offer of a lectureship in Modern Literature.
Attached: copies of extracts from Brennan's previous application for the Chair of Classics, with testamonials from referees.
Also notice of motion of Senate meeting to consider the lectureship appointment.
Includes correspondence between Cecil Hadgraft and Zelman Cowen re the documents, reviews of French poetry by Christopher Brennan, and a copy of an unpublished poem by Christopher Brennan.