Letters from H.M.S. Challenger, 1873
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Thomson, C. Wyville (Charles Wyville), Sir., 1830-1882
Letters from H.M.S. Challenger, 1873
Thomson, C. Wyville (Charles Wyville), Sir., 1830-1882
Voyage by Parramatta from S.W. India Dock, London to Sydney, Australia, 1875 Aug. 29 - 1875 Nov. 26
Shipboard diary of a young English lady, describing the social interaction, entertainments, and weather during the voyage. Last 3 pages of diary : poems 'sent to Frances from Blanche, Toowoomba'.
Armitage, Nancy
Impressions of a colonial : to be read without criticism
Handwritten diary of John E. Greenham, from Ipswich, Queensland, of his voyage to England via Colombo and Suez Canal aboard the H.M.S. Ophir, from 20 March to 7 May 1895. Records his impressions of the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide during the voyage. On cover on bound volume: Students notebook
Greenham, John Ernest, 1871-1917
Diary kept during study leave, 1911 Aug 27-1912 Jan 18
Diary records a sea voyage round the world, including a stay in North America.
Jones, Thomas E.
Try anything once Clune, [1933?]: being the unexpurgated journal of Francis Patrick Clune.
Original typed manuscript of the author's first book, originally published in Sydney by Angus & Robertson in 1933.
Includes a title-page, 3 leaves of contents containing 37 chapters, a preface page, 424 single-sided leaves of typescript, and an original mounted photograph of the author[?] and others beside a 1930s automobile. Also the bookplates of Francis Clune, N. [Noel] Pearson, and Murray Henry tipped-in.
Clune, Frank, 1893-1971
Correspondence, diaries, prose manuscripts, clippings, photographs, computer discs.
Pinney, Peter
Diary of a trip from Brisbane to the Gulf of Carpentaria aboard the S.S. Wandana, June-July 1938.
Includes photographs, drawings and press clippings.
MacDiarmid, Mona
The Delessert manuscript/ by Desmond MacAulay.
"The Delessert manuscript" accompanied an exhibition of the bound manuscript "Voyages l'Oceanie en 1844, 1845" by Eugene Delessert. The manuscript was exhibited at the Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld., 2001.
The Fryer Memorial Library lent the work "Voyages dans les deux oceans Atlantique et Pacifique 1844 a 1847" for the exhibition.
MacAulay, Desmond