Report of an eight-month-long world tour undertaken by the author, along with workmate Sir Maurice Alan Edgar Mawby, as representatives of the Zinc Corporation in Broken Hill. Details information gathered on underground and metallurgical operations carried out by other mining companies at sites across North America, Europe and Africa. Compiled for and presented to the Managing Director and Board of Directors at the Zinc Corporation. Roneoed typescript bound into cloth hardcover boards. Contains a pullout world map with the marked journey, as well as copies of black and white photographs and illustrated diagrams and plans. Contains a loose insert compliments card that reads 'The enclosed with the compliments of Mr W.S. Robinson, Collins House, Melbourne' (possibly belonged to William Sydney Robinson).

Handmade book of 16 short fictional stories relating to Australians in the Boer War, bound in stiff paper wrappers. Handwritten title, copyright and contents page in black pen. 'Purely imaginary!' noted in pen at the bottom of the title page. Book constructed from cuttings of stories from The Leader published throughout 1899 and 1900, pasted on backing paper, with handwritten titles. Handwritten annotations and corrections throughout. Titles of the stories, listed in order presented on contents page: 'The kiss of battle'; 'Miss Simpson's hero'; 'The bull of the regiment'; 'The corporal's comrade'; 'Compatriots'; 'The scout'; 'John Jones, bushman'; 'St Patrick and another'; 'Them 'Straliens'; 'Commandeered'; 'A coward's courage'; 'A veldt idyll'; 'Worth threepence and a fortune'; 'A soldiers of the bush'; 'The temptation of Anthony'; and 'Bettje's mission'.

Five handmade notebooks on conchology in brown paper wrappers. Numbered with pencil as volumes 1 to 4 on the front of each; fifth notebook is labelled as 'rough copies'. First volume describes classes of shells, their placement in broader biological classifications, and instructions on how to collect them. Handwritten notes in black pen, accompanied by elaborate diagrams and illustrations. Also has a glossary of shell-related scientific terms at the rear. Second, third and fourth volumes contain mostly pen and pencil diagrams and illustrations, many watercolour. Fifth volume contains illustrations and rough notes in black pen and pencil. First and fourth volumes contain loose duplicate bookplate inserts that state the volumes were 'presented to the University of Queensland Library by the descendants of Albert John Hockings and James Thompson Tilbury, 1966'. Dates found within the notes, as well as an insert of a folio from a 1944 edition of the British Medical Journal, indicate the notebooks were created between 1937 and 1944.

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.

Three typescripts by J. J. C. Bradfield, presented as part of the John Thomson Memorial Lectures at the University of Queensland in 1918. The first lecture, on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme, was delivered in two parts on 26 July 1918 and 2 August 1918 respectively. The first part is titled 'Burrinjuck Dam, weirs and regulators, main canals'. The second part is titled 'Water system on the irrigation areas, irrigation settlements and townships; the development of the farming, dairying, and fruit growing industries on the areas, with establishment of factories for the treatment of farm produce'. The second lecture, undated except for the year 1918, is titled 'Principles governing the location and design of the Sydney city (underground) railway'. Three typescripts originally held together with metal fasteners in a bound binder folder. Lectures separated by linen paper inserts and original typed title pages that state the lectures were delivered at 'Brisbane University'.

Verse novel set in a magistrates court, as well as a court referred to as 'higher court', located in Australia. Follows the activities of a barrister, Wiseman Right, a resident of Ravensbourne, Queensland, as he defends a prisoner (among other accused parties) and represents a divorce plaintiff. Bound carbon copy typescript with gilt blind stamp title on front. Some annotations throughout.

Research material for Wild Man of Letters, Munro’s biography of P R Stephensen ; notes, typescripts, proofs, photocopied letters from D.H. Lawrence to P.R. Stephensen, subject folders, some interviews with Murray Bail, Michael Wilding, Morris Lurie and Peter Carey. Includes: Records of the Queensland Writers' Centre; academic papers; material relating to the 1991 Churchill Fellowship; research material on electronic publishing; conferences; literary festivals and programs; correspondence; editorial work; diaries and address books from 1972 to 2006; notes and research on publishing and literature in Australia; drafts and related material for Under cover : adventures in the art of editing and Literary Lion Tamers; and information on the publication and reviews of Paper Empires.

Two minute books of the Brisbane Shakespeare Society including:- AGM minutes, receipts and expenditure, council meeting minutes, syllabus committee minutes, programmes for productions and elocutionary competitions, newspaper clippings.

Correspondence, publications, manuscripts and other material written by or relating to Professor Gordon Greenwood.

Brochures, leaflets, petition forms, newsletters and a letter produced by Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation (ANTaR).