Handwritten and typescript notes of Firmin McKinnon on Alexander and Archibald Forbes of Warwick re query as to identity of Patrick Steuart Forbes.

Typescript single sheets with musical ms. and typed verses.
Titles: La Carmagnole -- Le chant du depart -- The good times are just around the corner-- Home isn't home for you, feller-me-lad -- Con la Guerriglia -- Moscow in May -- Katusha.

Leather bound ledger, records details of breeding, sales and prices between 1875 and 1901.
Accompanied by explanatory notes by John Sutherland.

Handwritten, signed letter to cousin Joseph, on family matters. Letterhead: W.D. Mathews & Sons, shipbrokers Penzance.
Accompanied by financial statement to owners of the ship Catherine, per Bolds & Joy, (1848), testimonial from inhabitants of Milford and Hakin, shippers of goods from Milford Haven to Bristol in steam vessel County of Pembroke, to Captain B.R. Mathews, (1835), and testimonial from passengers in vessel commanded by Captain Mathews (1835), including signatures of passengers and headed: Off Port Phillip Heads, 15 Oct 1853..

Handwritten and typescript drafts of The poetry and philosophy of Baylebridge. Also publisher's selection of reviews of Baylebridge.

Handwritten letter to Eileen M. Buckley re John Shaw Neilson, James Devaney and other literary figures.

Handwritten letter to Mrs Cassidy re parish news and Queensland literary news.

Collection of manuscript copies of poems, mostly undated.
Most copies by McKinnon, some in another hand.

Typescript account of meeting between Sir William MacGregor, Administrator of British New Guinea, and the Resident of Ternate and Jansen van Afferden at Thursday Island.
Report of an account of fixing a border point on the 141st longitutde.
Report is headed Most secret no. 7, On board H.M.S.S. Java, Dobo, March 11 1893.

Handwritten letters to William Mackay discussing difficulties of his government appointments in Lagos in 1900 and Newfoundland in 1906, and their previous service together in New Guinea.