In this collection belonging to Daphne Mayo, there are over 100 folders of correspondence: 13 of these folders relate to Daphne Mayo's commissioned and uncommissioned sculptural works. There are over 1400 items of correspondence from Daphne Mayo's parents, Bill and Lila Mayo. There are over 1220 items of correspondence from friends and family of Daphne Mayo. A small number of outgoing letters or drafts are in the collection. There are financial records and related correspondence, bank records, tax records relating to the finances of Daphne Mayo regarding her artistic works, property investments, and investments in bonds and shares. Personal documents of Daphne Mayo are present such as: permits; identification documents; diaries; calendars; handwritten notes, writings, scribblings; and copious lists for all areas of Daphne Mayo's life. There are portrait photographs of Daphne Mayo and of her works from 1919-1974; as well as two albums of photographs taken by Judith McKay when Daphne Mayo's Sydney studio was packed up. Included in the collection are 48 sculpting tools used by Daphne Mayo. The most prolific of Daphne Mayo's works of art in the collection are her drawings and paintings with over 436 artworks, as well as 22 sculptures, and 46 sketchbooks. Retained in the collection are publications, inscribed by Daphne Mayo and others, exhibition catalogues, and newspaper and magazine cuttings given to Daphne Mayo or collected by her. Additionally material that is presumed to be from the estate of Lila Mayo, Daphne Mayo's mother, form part of the collection and this includes 6 folders of letters from 1930 to 1959 from Daphne Mayo to her parents.

The subseries has the drafts, notes and typescript of Vida Lahey :artist written by Daphne Mayo under the pseudonym of Lilian Macarthur; permits; identiifcation documents; ephemera; personal documents; handwritten notes, writings, scribblings and copious lists for all areas of her life.

This file includes: baptismal certificate of Lilian Daphne Mayo, 1897; Ministry of Food, Chelsea Food Office of Issue, Rationing Order 1918 N. 86. (to register for meat, butter and sugar), issued 25 Nov 1919, one in the name of Mayo and one in the name of Isabella Scott; Certificate of qualification from the Royal Academy of Arts, 1921; ten Italian permits from 1924; Learner's permit license, 1931; World War Two Identity Card, numbered, signed by Daphne Mayo, witnessed by Vida Lahey, postmarked 14 Apr 1942; Travel permit, 1943; Commonwealth of Australia Food Ration Book 1945-1946 issued to Lilian D Mayo; Workers' Education Association Club and Library membership card, 1945; two Sydney Municpal Library Cards, 1946-47; City of Sydney Public Library Card, 1952-53; photocopy of artistic biography from 1924 to 1972; several wills: 31 Jan 1956, 5 Aug 1942, 10 Dec 1963; Brisbane Women's Club Membership Card for year ending 30 Nov 1929; References from: May MacFarlane (formerly Hon. Sec. of the Mutual Serivce Club) 18 Sep 1925, Queensland Wattle League 1922?, and two from the Australian Red Cross 1925.

Writings, notes, and lists by Daphne Mayo on her professional and personal activities and interests. Includes some address books, calendars, ephemera, permits, library cards, and other miscellaneous material she retained in her life.

Early years to 1919 including: Daphne Mayo with cat; Daphne Mayo and young woman, Brisbane; Daphne Mayo, 1919; Daphne Mayo at the beach; and Godfrey Rivers and Daphne Mayo with others at a picnic.

Lion Architectural ornament ca. 1911 (1 photograph); Winged victory 1912 (2 photographs Mayo standing next to sculpture); Hercules ca. 1913 (1 photograph); Study for life ca. 1912 (2 photographs); The castaway ca. 1913 (4 photographs); Little God pan ca. 1913 (2 photographs); Sketch group wresting ca. 1914 (1 photograph); Girl and crab ca. 1914-15 (1 photograph); Manson Bailey 1914-1915 ) (2 photographs); Baby head 1917 (2 photographs); Father Breen Memorial 1917 (3 photographs, one has a fold mark).

Thirty six glass negatives of work, studies, and personal photographs. Includes: Study for life, The Castaway, Little God Pan, Girl and crab, Child's study, Mason Bailey, Father Breen Memorial, Portrait Bust Captain Craig, Bowman Memorials, Last Supper relief panel, Honour Board Memorial, Fat Man, Portrait Bust of John Young, East Door New South Wales Public Library, Portrait Bust of Dr. J. Duhig, Woman, Portrait Medallion W. Forgan Smith, Unidentified sculptures, and Personal photographs.

Daphne Mayo was a foundation trustee of the Godfrey Rivers Trust. Daphne Mayo, former student of Rivers, was the main buyer for most of the works acquired by the Trust for the Queensland National Art Gallery (now the Queensland Art Gallery). This subseries includes newspaper cuttings, legal and financial records, details and notes on competitions, and correspondence. The correspondence (137 letters, 14 telegrams) relating to the Godfrey Rivers Trust. Correspondence from Godfrey Rivers and Selina (Ina) Rivers to Mayo including letters of introduction for Mayo by Rivers while she is in Europe. Additional letters by Ina Rivers are held elsewhere in this collection. Letters are from 1912 to 1965, and some undated. Not all years have correspondence.

Correspondence (13 letters, 2 telegrams, 1 envelope)