Inspection report on the Wau-Edie Creek, Bulldog-Terapo Road, by Col. Sverdrup who was a U.S. engineer of the Office of the Chief Engineer, Southwest Pacific Area, General Headquarters, giving details of the construction of the Bulldog-Wau Road in specific sections and estimation of time, cost and labor to complete it. The report is accompanied by 34 photographs and a map.
Dated 24 April 1943.

Letter responds to controversy re naming of Reid River, and circumstances of discovery of the site of Townsville. Identity of addressee unknown. Envelope included. Holograph, on blue notepaper (damaged).

Memoir of the author's early practice, written as an address.
Accompanied by letter to Dr Gregory Murphy, who requested the material in his role as Honorary Secretary of the Historical Section of the British Medical Association ;also includes the envelope postmarked Palmwoods 20 Feb. 1950.

Dr Gregory Murphy was the Honorary Sectretary of the Historical Section of the British Medical Assocation. The letters to George Moore concern his request for information about Dr John I. Moore, father of George. The letter from George Moore dated 25 January 1950 encloses typed reminiscences by his mother, then aged 90.

Copy of a two stanza poem, bought at auction, Ipswich, March 1974, in aid of Ipswich State School Library after 1974 Brisbane floods.
Accompanied by typed transcript of the poem.

Includes photograph of Professor Boyd, biographical information about him, and bound notebook with financial information relating to expenditure on cars.

This typescript is based on a lecture Vida Lahey delivered in the University of Queensland Duhig lecture which explains her views on the philosophy of a universal language of art. A philosophy she applied in her children's art classes established at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1941.

Written, arranged and bound by Vida Lahey, lettering by R.J. Pring. At head of title page.: A record of the second lecture in a series of lectures on art, sponsored by Professor J.V. Duhig for the University of Queensland. Text is typed on white foolscap sheets which have been pasted on the brown sheet forming the volume. Accompanying illustrations, both reproductions and originals have also been pasted in. Hand decorated covers. 9 unnumbered blank pages of brown paper.

At the bottom of the title page: The contention put forward in this address is that deeper comprehension and greater enjoyment would be derived from art, if it was regarded primarily as a visual language operating through shapes and colours, rather than through subject matter only. This language comprises an alphabet and roots, grammar and syntax, principles of composition, dialect and styles.

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.

The letter was originally with the author's presentation copy of his book entitled 'Freedom and independence for the golden lands of Australia' to Rev. A.C. Geikie.
In the letter the author explains his feelings on the question of the colonies, and requests opinion on his work etc.