The eldest son of the well-known explorer, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (q.v.), Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (The Younger) has been attributed with the authorship of an anonymously published satire in verse, To Bourke's Statue This Appropriate Effusion of Unprofitable Brass Is Unceremoniously Dedicated by Ichneumon, Anxious to Instruct His Grandmothers in the Inductive Science of Sucking Eggs [1855]. While some references suggest that the writer may have been the father, sources such as Ferguson and Miller have accredited this work to the son. Considered scandalous at the time of publication, Mitchell's poem includes a section of equally satirical commentary about his father; according to Serle, he did this to 'divert suspicion' from his authorship but 'afterwards regretted the publication and endeavoured to suppress it'.
In addition to the preceding work, the book of poems entitled The Skipper's Wedding at Haribel, Isle of Skye, by William 'The Stutterer' has been attributed to Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (The Younger) by Ferguson, apparently following the Mitchell Dictionary Catalog.
(Sources: Ferguson Bibliography of Australia, 1941-1969; Miller Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935, 1940.)
