Two short stories bound, in boards, into one volume. First story is titled 'Emma Mordaunt the predestinate : a tale of circumstantial evidence'. Second is titled 'Calypso : a coruscation of 1798'. The first narrative is about a young woman on trial for murder, set approximately 1814 in Scotland, with an interlude in Sydney around 1830. References the real-life nineteenth century Scottish murder trials of Mary McKinnon and Madeleine Smith. Second story is about a naval frigate. 'Emma Mordaunt' is formed from ten printed chapters clipped from a newspaper and pasted on backing paper. 'Calypso' is similarly treated. Handwritten title page that includes a handwritten epigraph that reads 'If truly writ, how much of passion, pain, and mortal sin these pages may unclose!'. Pencil annotations and incomplete leaf numbering throughout.

Includes photocopied Genealogical tables, photocopied articles, letters and article "Short synopsis on the life of Henry Savery" by D.M.P. Broomfield.

Photocopies of correspondence with relatives in England and New Zealand.

Journal of a voyage to Port Phillip on the sailing ship Hooghly, 29 July to 27 Dec 1848.
Janet Richardson came to join her father at Camperdown with her brother James and sister Anne. Accompanied by notes (2 l.) about the family who later settled at Burrumbeep which adjoined Gorrinn in Ararat.

Photocopy of typescript copy of the Australian diary of the Rev. Benjamin Glennie, January 16th, 1848 to 30th September, 1860. Original in possession of Mr. John McInnes. Note on title page: To be given to the Oxley Library on my death / E. Walker, 25.12.41.

Photocopies of correspondence 1849-1851 with Charles Sturt and South Australian officials on exploration and surveying of new areas. Letters, documents, cuttings of biographical interest compiled 1963-1967 by C. Hadgraft. Letters from V. Sinnett on family matters. Letter 1963 from Hans Mincham to Hadgraft.

Handwritten album containing photographs, cards, sketches, and verse.

Address: Church Street, Camperdown. Entries mainly record passing of legislation, legal decisions, in Queensland and Victoria as well as New South Wales. Some references to New Zealand.