Fryer Library

We’re making it easier for you to connect with our special collections online and in the FW Robinson Reading room with updates to our webpages.

In this guest blog post from Fryer intern Emma Newman, find out more about award-winning Australian author Frank Moorhouse and his manuscripts held in the Fryer Library.

How have you been keeping up communication during this period of physical distancing? Have you considered sending letters to your friends and family? In this guest blog, celebrated Brisbane writer David Malouf reflects on the lost art of letter writing.

A new book about John Denis Fryer, for whom the Fryer Library is named, and the rest of his family has been published by Boolarong Press.

In a guest blog post, intern Emma Newman discusses D.H. Lawrence's 1923 novel Kangaroo several editions of which are held in the Fryer Library.

In this guest post from Fryer intern Amanda Chambers, find out more about one of the more unusual items in the Library's collection: a nineteenth-century portable medical cabinet.

Find out more about the Walter Carey Voller collection of architectural plans in the Fryer Library which has been recently catalogued and digitised.

With its elegant gilt-embossed cover protecting a full-page relief-printed engraving by Francis Delaram,The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth (1630) visually demonstrates the value of literacy in the seventeenth century. The earliest owners of this book suffused it with meaning in their own distinct ways. The Historie of Elizabeth evolved against a backdrop of differing political and religious views and the rise of print and literacy.

To commemorate Anzac Day, we look back through collections held in our Fryer Library to examine the role that war played in the life of students and staff at The University of Queensland during the Second World War.

Browse detailed information about our manuscript collections at our Fryer Library Manuscripts website.