Frederick Arthur Fitzpatrick wrote several short accounts of pioneering life on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. These include Peeps into the Past: Reminiscences of the Blacks; Pioneering Days on the Manning; Men and Women Who "Blazed the Track" and Prepared the Way for Present Day Prosperity (1914), History Relating to the Magnificent Manning and the Municipality of Wingham: Reminiscences of Days Gone by and of the Blacks (1925) and A Week on the Macleay River: A Splendid District, from Kempsey to Comara (1928).