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

Letter refers to Cecil Mann's death.

Letter 7 Sep 1965 to Cecil Hadgraft re: Kangaroo lecture, typing difficulties. Relates to Commonwealth Literary Fund lecture 1965.

Letters (16) 1922-1928 to W.J. Gall re: collecting of Australiana; 1923 Apr 18 re: Hume's search for Leichhardt expedition, 1924 Apr 1, 10 re: death of A. Meston, proposed bibliography of his works; 1928 Dec 31 re: demonstration at the Italian Consulate in Innisfail.
Also 2 letters to Steve [nephew], 1959, re: William Gall's collection of books and papers. Also includes 2 letters [1965 17 Aug, 1 Nov] to Cecil Hadgraft re: papers of A.G. Stephens.

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 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.

Letter [1965 Sep] to Cecil Hadgraft re: proposed visit to Brisbane to deliver lecture.

Includes correspondence with Edinburgh schools, National Library of Scotland, Mitchell Library, Lloyds of London and other sources. Included are photocopies of a number of letters relating to Stephens.
Also copy of the entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography, by Cecil Hadgraft.

Letter to Cecil Hadgraft re Ruth Harrison's research on Shaw Neilson.

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.