Spiral bound photocopied pages, photographs photocopied and pasted in.

Transcribed and assembled by B.A. Rutherford. 'This small publication is made up of an unfinished essay written in 1903 and an album of photographs taken by Edgar Waite on that occasion'.

Edgar Ravenswood Waite first visited Lord Howe island in 1898 in the company of Mr Frank Farnell landing from the trawler "Thetis". Having only intended to stay three days but due to rough seas the "Thetis" returned to Sydney leaving them on the island for a further eleven days.