Pages from a commonplace book containing transcripts of poems and metric versions of the psalms apparently the work of Childs. The original from which these sheets were photocopied, contains some hundreds of pages of verse. These leaves were selected at random as illustrating a general level of taste in latter 19th century in Australia.

Diaries, travel notes, notebooks, correspondence, manuscripts, sketches, press clippings, photographs, articles featured in The Queenslander and Darling Downs Gazette and material for The Antipodeon, and biographical material. Photocopies of letters 1892 to 1906 by or about Evans, held in the Mitchell Library. There is also a scrapbook containing original sketches by Percy F.S. Spence, Frank P. Mahony, C. Roth, B.E. Minns, and E. Bevan.

57 sepia studio portraits (Cabinet cards), 2 photographs of Hector William Harris and William Henry Harris, plus one letter card views of Pitlochry no. 2. No details supplied with photographs. Photographs come from mostly Victorian studios, including Geelong, Colac, Ballarat and Melbourne.

Song (3 verses).
Vocal score.

33 palm leaf strips ; 4 x 40 cm. Content not identified; possibly poetry or religious. Each leaf bears 16 lines of script. Edges of palm leaf strips painted in red and gold. Strips held together by cord through both ends.
Accompanied by one leaf typescript describing item and its provenance; and one letter (typescript; J.S. Furnivall, dated 29 May 1946, to Librarian, University of Queensland) containing some interpretative comments about the manuscript.

Seventy-six glass slides (8 cm x 8 cm) and 5 prints. The photographs appear to have been taken in the mid- to late-19th century and early 20th century, and imprints include Alinari, Edizioni Brogi, Edizione Inalterabile, ND Phot, X Phot, and Phototypie Labouche Freres Toulouse. The photographs were collected by Romeo Lahey during a visit to Europe after the first World War.
Each box has handwritten contents listing attached, with references to reproductions in 'Historic bridge photographs : the Lahey collection' by Colin O'Connor.
Glass slides originally contained in 9 boxes labelled 'Austral Nepera Gaslight Lantern Plates....Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd.'

Handwritten (photocopy).
Poem. Photocopy of original in possession of Calow family.

Contains rules and maxims, problems and workings.

Includes papers relating to Daniel Budd Skyring, Zachariah, 1828-1894 Skyring (senior),and Zachariah Daniel Sparks Skyring (junior).
Compiled by Clarice Tuck.

Signed by Sidmouth by command of the Prince Regent in the name of His Majesty.