Copies of correspondence and notebooks of Dr Thomas Graham from 1830 until 1851.

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

Journal of a voyage to Port Phillip on the sailing ship Hooghly, 29 July to 27 Dec 1848.
Janet Richardson came to join her father at Camperdown with her brother James and sister Anne. Accompanied by notes (2 l.) about the family who later settled at Burrumbeep which adjoined Gorrinn in Ararat.

Xerox copy of original mss exercise book owned by the Fortitude Club, Brisbane. Accompanied by a typed copy (12 l.) Diary is an account of the voyage to Moreton Bay aboard the ship Melmuby.

Address given Feb 11th 1854 describing his experiences in the wreck of the ship Meridian on her voyage from England, and subsequent rescue.

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.

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.

"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.

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