Cover -- Robert Herbert Portrait -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Biographical Summary of Robert George Wydham Herbert -- Part I Introduction -- Early Career -- Colonial Secretary of Queensland -- Queensland's First Premier -- A Bureaucrat and his Policies -- Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies -- Part II Letters of Robert Herbert to his Family 1863-66 -- Part lll Selected Speeches and Memoranda, 1860-66 -- Index -- Imprint Page