Diary written at Nudgee and is mainly concerned with vineyard records and procedures at his Toombul Vineyard, Nudgee, Brisbane. Further material can be found in the Kennedy collection UQFL171.

Letter to his wife Lucy written from Adelaide describing visits to vineyards and wineries.

Pages from a commonplace book containing transcripts of poems and metric versions of the psalms apparently the work of Childs. The original from which these sheets were photocopied, contains some hundreds of pages of verse. These leaves were selected at random as illustrating a general level of taste in latter 19th century in Australia.

Contains rules and maxims, problems and workings.

Letters to J. F. Meehan thanking him for a favourable review in Bath Herald, advising him of a book shortly to be published, and sending complimentary copy. Accompanied by prepublication notice issued by Sampson Low & Co.

Eight stanza poem written in honor of the 100th locomotive produced by Walkers Ltd. Printed in Brisbane Courier, 5 August 1911.

Forty letters from Jane McKean, at Elgin, Scotland, to her son Frank Gordon McKean from 9 Sep 1862 to 1 Mar 1867. Some of the letters have over 7000 words. Many are cross written letters. Some have been stitched together with fine yarn.
Includes handwritten biographical notes and summary of contents on 28 pages by John Sutherland, made for Fryer Library in 1974.

Sermon delivered at the Scots Church, Elgin, Scotland, 7 June 1840. Accompanied by transcript, (7 l.), made by John Sutherland for the Fryer Library, 1974. Includes biographical note and letter 1862 August 25 from Alexander Munro from Littleton, New Zealand introducing Frank Gordon McKean (son of F. S. McKean) to his brother resident in Australia.