Based on information supplied by Charles O'Malley.

Film scenario.
Accompanied by index card containing descriptive notes by Richard Fotheringham.

The record is in columned form with typescript headings : Date, Name of manuscript, Where sent, Accepted or rejected, Date, Payment. The record is in 2 sequences : Manuscripts sent to literary magazines and publishers, and Manuscripts sent to broadcasters (chiefly ABC, ABC TV, and two to BBC).

Account of the recruit of labourers in 1880, in the Gilbert and Solomon Island groups for Fiji.
The author took passage as a government agent on the Rose cutter, and twice on the Jessie Kelly schooner, to supervise the welfare of the recruited labourers on board. He described the islands in the Solomon and Gilbert Group, the Lord Howe Group, the way of life of the islanders and how and where the labourers were recruited. The captain of the Rose was Captain Tom Moore, a plantation owner in Fiji. The captain of the Jessie Kelly was Captain Robert B. Brown of Sydney.

Song.
Vocal score.

Song.
2 verses.
Vocal score.

Black & white and sepia photographs, 8 x 5 cm.
Papers are divided into sections (6 in a full page) and captions underlined in red ink.

Letter to Chief Librarian, Library, University, Brisbane re enclosure of two photographs and documents relating to the unveiling of bust of Adam Lindsay Gordon in Westminster Abbey, May 11, 1934, suggestion for mounting photographs ; key ; and note to Professor Stable signed N. McIver.

Papers represent Robertson's efforts to collect biographical information for forwarding to the editor of Encyclopedia of Australian Art.
Includes background to enquiries, question re importance and recognition of Simpson, biographical information, information obtained from Royal Queensland Art Society, cutting from Smith's Weekly, and letter to Robertson from Alan McCulloch indicating Simpson did not come within the criteria for inclusion in the Encyclopedia of Australian Art.

Biographical account of the prose writer, poet and folklorist Bill Scott based on an interview October 1985. (Student assignment for the subject: Arts in Australia.)