Book contains 2 segments : first is log book (1843 Jan.1 - 1844 Feb.3); begins in Madeira and ends in Malta. Second is diary of a Mediterranean cruise (1845 Feb.11 - 1845 Dec.24). Diary records visits to Beirut, Istanbul, Damascus, etc., and includes a drawing.

Typescript article (published in Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, vol. 10, no.4, 1978-1979).
Includes related research notes.

Mss. (photocopies), originals in the Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, London, and Sylvain Van der Weyer papers in the Archives Generales du Royaume, Brussels. Printed journal articles (photocopies).
This material was gathered by Elaine Zinkhan during her research into Charles Rowcroft. The material's significance is explained in her article, Charles Rowcroft : information, corrections, additions, in Australian Literary Studies, 1983 Oct. V.11(2) (photocopy included).

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.