This collection is comprised mostly of papers relating to Dorothy Blewett including: drafts of playscripts, novels, short stories, and articles for published and published works; a small amount of incoming and outgoing correspondence; photographs; personal documents; documents relating to her professional activities; and theatre programs and travel ephemera relating to her time spent in the 1950s in England and Europe. There are also some papers relating to the activities of her sisters, Elizabeth Melville Blewett (born Elsie Melville Blewett, also referred to as 'Bill') and Rowena Sarah May Blewett.

'No margin for error' is a typescript of a television lay by Adeline Collier and Madelaine Duke, what was adapted from the novel by Madelaine Duke, 68 numbered leaves, undated. The novel was published in 1963. On the title page the name and address of Christopher Mann has been crossed out and Dorothy Blewett's name and her Eltham address handwritten.

Dorothy Blewett published two novels: Vision (1931) under the pseudonym Anne Praize, and Pattern for a Scandal (1948), published under her own name. This series has:

Parcel 1
Folder 1
The dust jacket for Vision, in very poor condition

Box 3
Folders 6-8
Three carbon copy typescript drafts, 'Death of anon de plume', 275 leaves, one copy with typescript inserts, 1958?

Folder 9
Untitled typescript draft about Dame Nellie Melba, possibly a fictional biography, handwritten emendations, unpublished, 215 leaves, undated

Folder 10
Five chapter drafts for unidentified works.

This series is comprised of the published and unpublished playscripts for stage, radio and television written by Dorothy Blewett.

'Pony from Tarella', a television serial for children by Mavis Thorpe-Clark and Dorothy Blewett has several typescript drafts with handwritten annotations.

This series is comprised of short stories and newspaper articles written by Dorothy Blewett. It also includes newspaper cuttings that are about Dorothy Blewett, her plays as well of articles that interested her. Based on when most of her short stories were published, they could have been written in the 1930s.