Includes "Experiences jackeroo' at end of the letters (11 leaves).

Chapter 1 of book published in London 1879 under the title: Mount Abundance, or The experiences of a pioneer squatter in Australia thirty years ago. Deals chiefly with his experiences at Mt. Abundance, 1847. His wife also wrote about her experience in Australia.

Album of 12 albumen prints, 15.5 x 10.5 cm, mounted on boards. Inscription on verso front end-paper: "From William Shaw to his Aunt Sarah with his best love. Australia, April 1876". Images attributed to Queensland photographer John Deazeley.
Images are:
1: Parliament House from Botanic Gardens ;
2: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 1 ;
3: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 2 ;
4: Panoramic view of City from Wickham Terrace no. 3 ;
5: View from Wickham Terrace "Grammar School" ;
6: City & shipping from Bowen Terrace.
7: Brisbane Bridge ;
8: Queen Street from Edward Street looking east ;
9: View of river and City from Kangaroo Point ;
10: The Fern Island, Botanic Gardens ;
11: Kangaroo Point ;
12: Botanic Gardens & Parliament House from South Brisbane.

Statement of claim 12 Dec. 1879, with statement of defence 23 Feb. 1880 and particulars delivered by defendants under order made 21 May 1880 in the case between Bright Bros. & Co., plaintiffs and Brabant and Co., defendants in the Supreme Court of Queensland, no. 773, 1879.
Case concerned the right to distribute dynamite, the invention of Alfred Nobel.

Two acts. Transcribed by Veronica Kelly, from handwritten copy by Eric Irvin, taken from copy in British Library.

Two acts. Handwritten copy by Eric Irvin, of copy in British Library.

Two acts.
Staging version.

Correspondence with Queensland Dept. of Public Instruction concerning Kenna's appointment etc. as pupil teacher at Maryborough. Also correspondence between Nancy Bonnin, Fryer Librarian, and Kenna's son Vernon, 1968-69. Accompanied by two newspaper cuttings with obituaries of Francis Kenna.

Log of voyages made as master of various ships to and from England and the Americas, Hong Kong and Melbourne.

Letter giving details of trip to Cambridge Gulf, Western Australia in 1882.