Date	Item	Content
1880	Birthday Book	The Tennyson Birthday Book, 1880; red leather cover 12.5 x 9.5 cm; believed to belong to Bessie Rouse, containing names of relatives friends and acquaintances, some made on the SS Omrah
1892-1914	List	List of books, (read by Bessie Rouse?) with brief review Bessie’s handwriting
1900-1923	Composite booklets	Bessie Rouse, lists of calendars, postcards, Xmas cards received 1900- 1909, letters written and letters received Composite notebooks 18 x 10 cm
1903	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Lett’s No 35 Australasian Rough Diary, Hardcover, red Buckram binding, 19.7 x 13.4 x 1.2 cm, Marmalade recipes, loose pages
1904	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Lett’s No 35 Australasian Rough Diary, Hardcover, red Buckram binding, 19.7 x 13.4 x 2 cm
1905	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Woods’ Australian Diary, Hardcover, red Buckram binding, 20 x 12.7 x 2 cm, interleaved blotting pages
1906	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Lett’s No 33 Australasian Rough Diary, Hardcover, red Buckram binding, 25.3 x 20.5 x 2 cm
1907	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Turner and Henderson’s Australian Diary, Hardcover, dark red Buckram binding, 32.8 x 21 x 1.2 cm
1908	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Turner and Henderson’s Australian Diary, Hardcover, dark red Buckram binding, 33 x 20.8 x 1 cm
1909	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Turner and Henderson’s Australian Diary, Hardcover, dark red Buckram binding, 33 x 20.8 x 1 cm
1910	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Turner and Henderson’s Australian Diary, Hardcover, dark red Buckram binding, 33 x 20.8 x 1 cm
1911	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Turner and Henderson’s Australian Diary, Hardcover, dark red Buckram binding, 33 x 20.8 x 1 cm Includes two seed brochures – sweet pea and pansies
1912	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Turner and Henderson’s Australian Diary, Hardcover, dark red Buckram binding, 33 x 20.8 x 1 cm
1913	Diary	Bessie Rouse, Turner and Henderson’s Australian Diary, Hardcover, dark red Buckram binding, 33 x 20.8 x 1 cm Entries less regularly entered
1917	Book	Books and summaries