This collection is comprised of drafts, notes, photographs, correspondence and other materials relating to Gerard Lee's screenplays, novels and short stories. Works reflected in this collection include, amongst others:

Pieces for a glass piano (1978)

True love and how to get it (1982)

Sweetie (1989)

Troppo man (1990)

Eating dog: travel stories (1993)

All men are liars (1995)

Top of the lake (2013)

Top of the lake: China girl (2017)

My mistress (2014)

Breath (2017)

It includes over 100 typescript and handwritten drafts, over 200 letters and over 200 photographs, amongst other materials. Lee's creative partnership with Jane Campion is reflected regularly in this collection, with many materials containing annotations and notes by Campion.

Personal papers and photographs, including an autobiography and a history of the first 50 years of the Presbyterian Girls' College, Warwick, Queensland.

Poems, letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, birth certificates and other research material gathered by Zoe O'Leary in writing the biography of her father Alfred Midgley, and a typed, annotated draft of "The little Byron: The life of Alfred Midgley, Queensland Poet, Parliamentarian and Methodist Pioneer".

Typescript drafts of The Copper Crucible (1963 draft, and 1994 drafts revised by Ian Syson); newspaper cuttings and copies of Women's Realm containing articles and stories by Betty Collins; 2 poems (typescript) by Betty Collins. The Copper Crucible was originally published in 1966. Not all of the 1963 draft for the novel was used in this publication. In 1996, a new edition revised by Ian Syson was published. This new edition restores the 1963 draft, and also incorporates some passages from the 1966 version.

Drafts of A Long Time Dying, Amy's Children, Loving Daughters, The Home Girls, A Working Man's Castle, and other short stories. Also correspondence, reviews, newspaper clippings, articles, audiocassettes, family photographs and documents.

Notebooks (referred to by Herbert as "literary logs" or "logbooks"), manuscript drafts, proofs and other papers relating to Xavier Herbert's published and unpublished works, including Poor fellow my country, Capricornia, Disturbing element, Soldiers' women, "Me and my shadow", and "The little widow", together with short stories, poems, articles, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs, financial and personal records, audio recordings, and artwork by or featuring Xavier Herbert. Also includes papers relating to Xavier Herbert's pharmaceutical career, military service and aviation pursuits, as well as his interest in politics and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.

Correspondence, diaries, prose manuscripts, clippings, photographs, computer discs.

Drafts, proof pages, reviews, notebooks, correspondence, newspaper cuttings.

Papers relating to 'The ivory swing, 'Charades', 'The last magician', 'Isobars', 'Borderline', 'The tiger in the tiger pit', 'Dislocations', 'Oyster', 'A very proper death', 'Collected stories 1970-1995' and ‘Orpheus lost’. Drafts, proofs, correspondence, reviews, articles, notes. Books inscribed to Janette Turner Hospital.