Shipboard handwritten diary of a Nancy Armitage, describing the social interaction, entertainments, and weather during the voyage. Last 3 pages of diary : poems 'sent to Frances from Blanche, Toowoomba'.

Inscribed inside front cover : Nancy Armitage Aug. 27 1875 London, England etc. On inside back cover : Nancy Macdonald, Sans Souci 6 Oct. 81.

Three diaries handwritten by John Ernest Greenham. The diaries are primarily accounts of his 10 months of travel in 1895.

Volume one has the title on the first page of the diary: 'Impressions of a Colonial : to be read without criticism'. This diary is of his voyage from Ipswich to London via Colombo and Suez Canal aboard the H.M.S. Ophir, from 20 March to 7 May 1895. Records his impressions of the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide during the voyage. On cover on bound volume: Students notebook; 70 leaves ; 21 cm.

Volume two has the title on the first page of the diary: 'Another innocent very much abroad : not to be read critically'. This diary is of his travels from London to Naples. It is handwritten in a commercially produced bound notebook; 256 pages ; 23 cm.

Volume three has the title on the first page of the diary: 'Palestine - Naples (continued) and trip to Australia'; on the verso of this title page is: 'To be read without criticism'. This volume gives an account of his time spent in 'The Holy Land' ; 106 pages ; 25 cm. Inserted at hand numbered pages 54 and 55 is a small sheet of music notation, 16 x 24 cm, dated 25.11.08. Inserted between hand numbered pages 56 and 57 are: 2 pages with handwritten list of names; 2 pages, folded in half with handwriting; and an incomplete envelope addressed to Greenham. Between handwritten pages 60 to 106 there is a list of organ solos performed by Ernest between February 1902 and August 1916.

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.

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.