Account book, 1882, Gympie. Includes building costs, plus some random entries.

Photocopies of extracts from letters written by Cuthbert Edward Peek while on the Queensland and British 1882 Transit Expedition, 29 Oct to 18 Dec 1882, 3 copies. [Cuthbert Edward Peek was a self-funded amateur astronomer who joined the official observers from the Royal Geographical Society that travelled to Jimbour Station and chose Jimbour House as the transit station to observe the transit of Venus; Jimbour House had been recently vacated].

Photographs taken during a world tour by G. M. L., an Australian.

Photocopy of handwritten journal by G.H. Best written on the ship 'Cicero' during a voyage from Plymouth to South Australia as an emigrant in 1883.
Cicero' was a three-masted iron ship built in 1861 by Thomas Vernon & Son, Liverpool.

Letter 5 Oct 1883 to Terry Tenison-Woods [his brother] written from Singapore, describing the eruption of Krakatoa volcano, which he witnessed.

Included in notebook are copies of parodies, comic verse, riddles. Included in diary are transcriptions by Emma of her brother's diary of a voyage from Ireland to Queensland in the ship Sir William Wallace, June-Sept 1882, and another diary written by her other brother Fred W. Hewson from Ireland to Queensland aboard the ship Merkara, Oct-Dec 1882.

Silk theatre handbill produced to mark the "Grand Complimentary Matinee Concert" featuring Ada Walker at the Albert Hall, Brisbane, on the 2nd July 1884.

Records of shearing (wool books) from Talgai Station, 1868-1884.

Newspaper cuttings, correspondence, pamphlets, photographs and sketches. Also contains correspondence from 1881 between Randall and Colonial Secretary Arthur Palmer, relating to Randall's appointment as Queensland Emigration Agent in England.

This series contains material such as theatre programs, concert notes, invitations and ephemeral items relating to Australian theatres.