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Letters muses on the identities, famous and otherwise, who frequent public libraries and the wide, often esoteric, range of subjects in which readers become immersed.
The author traces novels of the 1800s, including those of Henry Kingsley and Mary Braddon, the themes of which may have influenced the Tichborne claimant Arthur Orton.
Life in a boarding school in Sydney in the 1830s as described by Annabella Boswell in her diary Annabella Boswell's Journal : An Account of Early Port Macquarie.
