O'Keeffe, B. A.

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Oxley Memorial Library of Queensland 
A BRIEF LIST OF SOME RECENT ACQUISITIONS 
Compiled by Miss M. O'KEEFFE, B.A. 
ALLOM, H. 
Press cutting book, largely consisting of cuttings from the 
Ravenswood Times, 1873-7. Deposited by Mr H. AUom of 
Charters Towers for copying purposes. 
ALLORA SCHOOL OF ARTS LIBRARY 
Papers including Letter book 1894-6 and 1914-28, Minutes 
1922-38, President's and Treasurer's reports 1911-33, ledger 
1888-1922. 
AUSTRALIAN CHEMICAL INSTITUTE, QUEENSLAND 
BRANCH 
Papers, comprising minutes, correspondence, 1932-58. 
AUSTRALIAN ESTATES PTY LIMITED 
Annual reports. General manager's reports on various properties 
1890-1952; Managing Agent's reports to company 1898-1952. 
Microfilm copy, 6 reels. 
BLACKALL 
Four photographs of BlackaU about 1888, received from Mr. 
Alec Chisholm. 
BRISBANE 
Photograph of Brisbane in 1888, presented by A. D. Edwards. 
6 photographs of Brisbane Reservoir, presented by Royal 
Society of Queensland. 
30 photographs of Brisbane scenes from 1858 to 1959, pre-
sented by Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd. 
BUNDABERG SCHOOL OF ARTS LIBRARY 
Papers comprising Cash book 1883-90, minutes 1892-9, 
Issuing Register 1891-5, Catalogue to 1913. 
CAMPBELI^PRAED, Mrs 1851-1935 
Papers, consisting of notes for and manuscripts of printed books, 
correspondence and financial papers. 6 feet. Mrs Campbell-
Praed nee Rosa Murray-Prior, the daughter of a Queensland 
squatter and postmaster-general, was a well-known novelist in 
England c. 1880-1916. A thoroughly practical business woman, 
she was also interested in the occult and one of her books, 
Nyria, set in Ancient Rome, was based on information she 
beUeved had been transmitted, through a clairvoyante, from 
the actual heroine. As an old woman she set about preparing 
a new edition of this, and the notes concerning it are more 
fuU than for others. 
CHADWICK, W. C. 
Papers, consisting of notes collected for article on centenary of 
Buderim, and manuscript of article. 20 pages. 
CHARTERS TOWERS 
Photographs of North Queensland towns and places, especially 
relating to Charters Towers. Various dates up to 1890. 
Presented by Mr H. AUom, Charters Towers. 
CHARTERS TOWERS LITERARY AND DEBATING 
SOCIETY 
Minutes Jan 1899-April 1903. Presented by Miss Sheila 
MuUan. 
CLARKE, R. A. 
Papers, consisting of photograph album, programmes, memos, 
etc. (16 items.) 
DAINTREE, Richard 1831-78 
8 photographs of Queensland scenes taken by late Richard 
Daintree, Agent-General for Queensland 1872-6; bequeathed 
by Miss Mary Daintree. 
DONOVAN, Charies E. 
Diary. 1897-1920. Mr Donovan was a pastoralist, of Glenside 
near Inglewood. 
GILL, G. H. H. 
Papers, including photographs, programmes, memos, etc., 
particularly of rowing, legal and Anglican interest. (250 items.) 
GLASSEY, Thomas, 1844-1936 
Papers, including 5 newspaper cutting books, photographs, 
broadsheets, notes for speeches, also letters of condolence 
received by Mr Glassey's family at his death, and letters and 
cuttings relating to erection of obelisk to his memory. [Thomas 
Glassey was the first Labor representative in the Queensland 
Parliament, 1888, and was a Senator in the first Federal 
Parliament.] 
HURLE, Henry Hartley Charies 
Reminiscences of colonial life in Queensland. Bristol, J. Baker 
& Son, 1914. Presented by Mr R. E. Hurle, Charters Towers. 
ILLUMINATED ADDRESSES 
Presented to Mr R. M. King by the residents of Mount Gravatt 
and Rochdale; Presented to Adolphus Marcus Hertzberg, Esq.; 
by residents of Roma and Maranoa 1886, by Members of 
Board of Management of Brisbane Hebrew Congregation 1896, 
from Members of Hebrew Congregation on 50th anniversary 
of his arr'val in Queensland 1917, from Metropolitan Water 
Supply and Sewerage Board to Mrs Hertzberg on her husband's 
death, 1917. 
McDOWALL BROTHERS, TOOWOOMBA 
Horse brand book, 1880-97. Deposited on indefinite loan by 
Mr A. Atkinson, of the Valley of Lagoons Station, Ingham. 
McGOVERN, Miss Annie 
6 books of newspaper cuttings, also printed material, mainly 
relating to the Longreach district. 
MAY, Sydney 
Papers, comprising music, typescript copies of articles and 
letters concerning history and naming of Queensland districts, 
maps, photographs. 
Page Twenty-six Queensland Heritage 
MORNINGTON (Yawl) 
Log of voyage in Indian waters, in 1831, by J. & W. Yaldwyn, 
whose descendants settled in Queensland. Presented by Mrs. 
V. Atherton. 
MORTON, Rev. R. W. 
"There is no End: trips and tales of the outback": [typescript 
reminiscences] and two albums of illustrative photographs. Mr 
Morton was a padre with the Methodist Inland Mission. 
NEAME, Arthur 
Diary, 1877-82. Received through Mr Sydney May. Mr Neame 
was a pioneer sugar planter on the Herbert River. 
THE NORTHERN MINER, CHARTERS TOWERS 
Issue of 23 June 1897, printed on silk to mark the Jubilee of 
Queen Victoria. Presented by Mrs H. R. Poole. 
PARTLETT, Mrs Launa 
Three poems written to mark the 15 0th anniversary of the birth 
of Ludwig Leichhardt. 
PECHEY, Edward Wilmott 
Diary, March 1859-Feb 1860. Typescript copy. Received from 
Mr Sydney May. 
POLITICAL AND TRADES UNION MATERIAL 
Collections of periodicals and pamphlets received from Mr W. 
J. H. Harris. (258 titles.) 
PORTRAITS 
14 portraits of Governors of Queensland, presented by Kodak 
(Australasia) Pty Ltd. 
QUEENSLAND PLACE NAMES COMMITTEE 
Papers, consisting of minutes, reports, constitution, 1922-3 
(16 items) received from Mr Sydney May. 
ROSSER, R. V. 
4 photographs of Mapleton district, taken 1911 and 1922. 
SHAMROCK HOTEL, KEDRON 
Visitors book, 1917-60. Presented by Dr P. R. Delamothe. 
TRYON, Hervey, 1846-1943 
Articles and newspaper cutting re his career, presented by 
Queensland Naturalists' Club. Mr Tryon was Queensland 
Government Entomologist 1894 — and plant pathologist, 
1901-29. 
VALLEY OF LAGOONS STATION 
Pedigree books for horses, 1870-1934; cattle muster book, 
1872-1911; letterbooks, 1896-1908, 1917-19; and diaries, 
1900-11. Deposited on indefinite loan by Mr A. Atkinson, of 
the Valley of Lagoons Station, Ingham. 
WHISH AND ROE FAMILIES 
Papers, including Diary of Captain Whish, 1855-89; Diary of 
Maud Whish, 1879; Diary of voyage to Australia; literary 
sketches; book of newspaper cuttings relating to education, by 
Dr. Stanley Roe; Reminiscences (typescript) of Dr. A. S. Roe; 
Captain C. B. Whish was a pioneer of sugar-growing in Queens-
land. Dr Roe, his son-in-law, was headmaster of the Brisbane 
Grammar School 1876-1909, and father of Dr A. S. Roe who 
was the first Queensland Rhodes Scholar. 
WINDSOR STATION 
Diaries, 1885-90, compiled by Henry H. C. Hurle. Presented 
by Mr R. E. Hurle, of Charters Towers. Mr H. H. C. Hurle 
took up Windsor Station in 1884. 
Queensland Heritage Page Twenty-seven 
Printed in Australia hy H. Pole & Co. Pty. Ltd., Brisbane. Registered at the G.P.O., Brisbane, for transmission by post as a periodical. 


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