Correspondence; newspaper cuttings, notes, Commonwealth lectures, photocopies of photographs and articles, research notes, transcripts, diaries, biographical notes, family photographs, sketches, short stories, card file indexes.
Bulk of papers 1951-1979.
Includes 16 diaries written by Jessie Hadgraft (nee Hartley) from 1952 to 1965.

Holograph letter to Cecil Hadgraft giving some biographical details of his early life.

Letter to James Devaney, commending his decision to leave his papers to the Fryer Library, suggesting he record his recollections of Queensland literary life.

Holograph letter to Cecil Hadgraft thanking him for critique of his verse published in the summer number of Meanjin Quarterly.

Typescript file on David Henry Harries, with covering letter to Cecil Hadgraft, 5 Oct 1972.

Drafts for Cecil Hadgraft's entry on Alexander Forbes in the Australian Dictionary of Biography; correspondence and research notes relating to the entry, and a photocopied extract from his brother Archibald Forbes' book 'Souvenirs of some continents' (1894).

Letter to Cecil Hadgraft re Customs Department's refusal to grant a book bounty to the Meanjin index.

Letter [196?] Feb 15 to John Concannon discussing Henry Lawson, suggesting possible sources of opinion.

Letter to A.K. Thomson re format of Lindesay-Richardson's name.
Accompanied by note of Cecil Hadgraft on the same topic.

Letter requests Hadgraft to address two meetings, one of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the other the Catholic Readers & Writers Society. Letter includes two short poems.