Includes production files (including typescripts, proof copies, galley proofs), correspondence, and minutes of publishing meetings.

Research papers relating to Patrick White including correspondence, articles, newspaper cuttings and notes dating from 1956 to 2008. Correspondence with writers including Thea Astley, Bruce Dawe, Dorothy Green, David Marr, Frank Moorhouse, Janet Tuner Hospital and one folder relating to Helen Darville dating from 1979 to 1997.

Manuscripts and typescripts.

This collection has typescript and handwritten drafts, notes and research material relating to published works and also to a wide range of literary projects mostly undertaken during the later part of Hill's writing career, from 1945 onwards. These unpublished works cover a variety of genres: novels, plays, descriptive writing and scripts for radio, television and film. Included are drafts and research material related to 'Johnnie Wisecap', 'The Coast of the Holy Ghost', 'Zodiac Road / Blanked over the moon', 'Women of Australia', 'Grand Kangaroo', 'Mother of Pearl'. There is material on the life of Daisy Bates, and plans for a film based on her life; personal correspondence, and two complete unpublished novels.

There are 3,156 photographs, some prints, some negatives, reflecting very large collection of photographs taken by Hill during her many long tours of outback Australia, from the early 1930s and cover all aspects of Northern, Western and outback Australia: flora and fauna, scenery, missions, homestead life, coastal scenes and shipping, traditional industries such as fishing, droving, pearling and sugar farming, mining, camel transport, dwellings, cemeteries, and public buildings. There is pictorial material relating to the life and customs of Aboriginal Australians in all areas of Australia.

One folder with 18 negatives, 1 colour photograph, 1 contact sheet of eight portraits of Brian Matthews with one cut out. Undated.

One folder with documents that look to be lecture notes or lesson plans.

Six diaries for 1983, 1988 (2), 2013, 2020 and 2021.

Four spiral notebooks and 1 exercise book with handwritten notes. Undated.

This series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence.

Box 9
Folder 1
Original folder (now discarded) titled "Flinders Row". Discussion between academics at Flinders University English Department regarding assessment. Restricted for 10 years or until 2035. 1983-1987.
Folders 2-3
Memos, editorial minutes, writer contributions and correspondence relating to A new literary history of Australia edited by Laurie Hergenhan. 1986.
Folder 4
Original folder (now discarded) had title "Venice". 12 carbon copy typescript and handwritten letters. 1971-1972.
Folder 5
"Foster letters" on original folder with copies of letters from Hal Porter and others from the 1930s to 1992.
Folder 6
Undated, incoming correspondence.
Folder 7
Correspondence from the 1960s.

Box 10
Folder 1
Correspondence from the 1970s
Folders 2-4
Correspondence from the 1980s

Box 11
Folder 1
Correspondence from the 1990s.
Folder 2
Correspondence from the 2000s.
Folder 3
Correspondence from the 2010, 2020s.

This series contains drafts in various stages of the following works: Manning Clark: A biography, Richie Benaud, Louisa, Quickening, A fine and private place, and The temple down the road. There are drafts and final versions of articles submitted to the Australian Magazine for the Brian Matthew column. Includes draft typescript manuscripts of short stories, poems, reviews, speeches, and articles. Drafts are complete and incomplete; and published and unpublished. Most works are undated. Unless indicated otherwise, all works are typescript or printouts.

Boxes 1-3
31 folders with print outs of chapter drafts, most with comments included, some handwritten emendations. Most drafts have pagination. There is no order to the printouts. A few folders have information, correspondence, newspapers cuttings, articles and documents relating to Manning Clark's History of Australia - A Musical.

Box 4
Folder 1
Notes and drafts relating to John Barton Hack.
Folder 2
Notes relating to Richie Benaud, 2011.
Folders 3-7
Three drafts and two incomplete drafts relating to Louisa.
Item 1
Spiral bound notebook with notes towards a biography of Richie Benaud.

Box 5
Folders 1-2
Draft manuscript of A fine and private place (2000).
Folder 3
Draft manuscript of A hiding to nothing.
Folders 4-5
Drafts for Quickening and other stories (initially called 'An episode of bodies and other stories').
Folder 6
Drafts of poetry.
Folder 7
Writings. Written on outside of original folder (discarded) 'Books and writing pieces'.
Folder 8
Three short stories, unpublished.

Box 6
Folder 1
Draft of The temple down the road.
Folders 2-3
Two printouts of draft for the Benaud biography, dated 2016.
Folder 4
Typescript draft 'On a hiding to nothing : Larrikin essays on sport and low culture'.
Folder 5
Draft articles on Henry Lawson.
Folder 6
'Exeter, 1974' written on front of original folder (now discarded). Draft articles.

Box 7
Folders 1-2
Two folders of draft articles removed from one ring binder folder labelled 'The Australian Magazine. Brian Matthews Column 1998".
Folders 3-4
Articles for the Australian Magazine Brian Matthews Column 1998-1999 and undated.
Folder 5
Drafts of speeches, reviews, articles.

Box 8
Folders 1-7
Drafts of speeches, reviews, articles.
Folders 8-9
Writings by other authors.