Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by Frederick William Ricketts.

The newspaper clippings include material on botany, South Island runs and history, thoroughbred horses and racing, Riccarton, and Annie Quayle Townend's will.

The 1919 volume contains an unlabelled and undated sepia portrait photograph of six young men, and some manuscript jottings of receipts etc. Includes index (a bound volume of photocopied index cards).