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Try anything once Clune, [1933?]: being the unexpurgated journal of Francis Patrick Clune.

  • F3398
  • Item
  • [1933?]

Original typed manuscript of the author's first book, originally published in Sydney by Angus & Robertson in 1933.
Includes a title-page, 3 leaves of contents containing 37 chapters, a preface page, 424 single-sided leaves of typescript, and an original mounted photograph of the author[?] and others beside a 1930s automobile. Also the bookplates of Francis Clune, N. [Noel] Pearson, and Murray Henry tipped-in.

Clune, Frank, 1893-1971

The ship's log, S. S. Wandana

  • F1187
  • Item
  • 1938

Diary of a trip from Brisbane to the Gulf of Carpentaria aboard the S.S. Wandana, June-July 1938.
Includes photographs, drawings and press clippings.

MacDiarmid, Mona

The journey

  • F2527
  • Item
  • 1862

Typescript. Description of journey on board the City of Brisbane which sailed from Plymouth on 26 February 1862 and arrived in Brisbane on 2 July 1862. There were 360 immigrants on board who were addressed before leaving by H. Gordon Esq. Describes living conditions, weather, meetings with other ships, volunteer duties, marine and bird life. The writer, John Thomas, and his brother Richard, left the City of Brisbane after it's arrival in Brisbane. According to the diary, from 4 July, "J.J. Brown, R. & J., John Thompson, Bull & S. Lawn" and a guide went on horseback to the Pine River. Richard and John Thomas purchased a lot situated at the Redcliffe Agricultural Reserve on 14 July 1862, which coincides with the details in the diary. Richard Thomas (1840-1922) and John Thomas (1841-1927) were children of Hannah Blossom and George Thomas who lived in Union Terrace, Yorkshire. The source of this diary is unknown.

Thomas, John, 1841-1927

The Delessert manuscript/ by Desmond MacAulay.

  • F3258
  • Item
  • 2001

"The Delessert manuscript" accompanied an exhibition of the bound manuscript "Voyages l'Oceanie en 1844, 1845" by Eugene Delessert. The manuscript was exhibited at the Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Qld., 2001.
The Fryer Memorial Library lent the work "Voyages dans les deux oceans Atlantique et Pacifique 1844 a 1847" for the exhibition.

MacAulay, Desmond

Private journals, 1864-1881

  • F314
  • Item
  • 1864-1881.

Log of voyages made as master of various ships to and from England and the Americas, Hong Kong and Melbourne.

Hamon, Edward James

Peter Pinney Papers

  • UQFL288
  • Collection
  • 1936-1991.

Correspondence, diaries, prose manuscripts, clippings, photographs, computer discs.

Pinney, Peter

Log book of H.M.S. Warspite,

  • F431
  • Item
  • 1843-1845.

Book contains 2 segments : first is log book (1843 Jan.1 - 1844 Feb.3); begins in Madeira and ends in Malta. Second is diary of a Mediterranean cruise (1845 Feb.11 - 1845 Dec.24). Diary records visits to Beirut, Istanbul, Damascus, etc., and includes a drawing.

Graham, Thomas, 1818-1850

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