A collection of letters mainly from Australia, written between the years 1833 and 1855, for the most part to William and Julia Archer of Tolderodden, Laurvig, Norway, by those of their sons who emigrated within this period to New South Wales.
Archer, John
Diary of a voyage to Australia, 1886 / Hannah Wright.
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.
Wright, Hannah
Record of town property in Gladstone, 1886
Appears to be a valuer's notebook.
Includes records of town property in Gladstone, with details of occupiers, owners, type of building, addresses, sizes and values. Also poems, stories, newspaper cuttings, some of which are by or about Richard McClure Harvey.
Includes explanatory note by donor.
Harvey, Richard McClure
Contract book : 1876-1886 / Joseph Smith.
Notebook records contracts, 1876, and income and expenditure March 1877 to February 1886, of Joseph Smith, boilermaker.
Smith, Joseph
Rules for prison library, 1887
Rules for the operation of the prison library at St. Helena Penal Establishment in 1887, signed by N.M. Townley, Superintendant.
St Helena Penal Establishment
Letter to William Maclaren, 1887 Dec 29
Letter, 1887 Dec 29 to William Maclaren re: gold mining in Queensland.
Thorburn, Henry C.
Picturesque New Guinea : photographed by J.W. Lindt during Sir Peter Scratchley's Expedition.
Photographs without text.
Lindt, J. W. (John William), 1845-1926
Manuscript of compositions/ Ivie Murchie.
Exercise book containing handwritten poems by Ivie Murchie. Includes 6 photographs of schools and residences where Ivie Murchie taught and lived (Mungar, Normanton, Bundaberg; [187-] - [1904] ). Also includes typed list of schools at which he taught, and the dates.
Murchie, Ivie, 1863-1945
Lines to an artist (on receiving a counterfeit presentment of a Victorian Bush road)
Handwritten poem signed E.W.H., 8 June 1887 to Miss E.B.Y. A'Beckett, accompanied by envelope.
Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921