Four scrapbooks containing Australian and English literary and historical material of the late 19th century. Includes newspaper cuttings, photographs, poetry, and articles including Our Men of Mark: Daily Observer 188-? (v.1) -- Telegram from Wm Tasker to John J. McGregor, solicitor, announcing the capture of the Kenniff Brothers (v.3) and Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott (signed holograph with comments about poem) (v.3).

5 drawings backed on 1 folding cloth sheet.
Unidentified house.
Includes front, side and back elevations, section plan and ground plan.

Song.
Vocal score (2 parts)
Begins : 'The minstrel holds the standard-bearers watch'.

Unused conditional pardon form used by Henry Edward Fox Young, Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Island of Van Diemen's Land.

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.

Song.
2 verses.
Vocal score.

Album of sepia photographs by Thomas Foster Chuck. Album has a captioned page for each scene of Melbourne but only six photographs are in this album. These photographs are: Post Office Melbourne (Chuck photo 33), The Treasury (Chuck photo 19), University Melbourne (Chuck photo 59), Public Library (Chuck photo 54), Bourke St (looking east) (Chuck photo 35), and one uinidentified scene of a river.

Handwritten history of Moongalba including hand drawn map with names of inhabitants (9 p.) -- "Grannies Moongalba history" list of Grannies of Moongalba -- 'Australian Aboriginal legend of the lightnings playground on Moreton Island (Moolgunfun) -- four handwritten partial pages -- one newspaper cutting from the Telegraph Feb 28 1936 on Sam Rollands -- two photographs of Paul Tripcony's grandmother Sydney Rollands (mother of Sam Rollands) -- photograph of Paul Tripcony aged about 22, inscribed to Dear Vince with best wishes from Paul -- photograph of Fernandez Gonzales and family showing dugong fillets -- photograph of early Amity.

Handwritten (photocopy).
Poem. Photocopy of original in possession of Calow family.

33 palm leaf strips ; 4 x 40 cm. Content not identified; possibly poetry or religious. Each leaf bears 16 lines of script. Edges of palm leaf strips painted in red and gold. Strips held together by cord through both ends.
Accompanied by one leaf typescript describing item and its provenance; and one letter (typescript; J.S. Furnivall, dated 29 May 1946, to Librarian, University of Queensland) containing some interpretative comments about the manuscript.