Christmas card to "Mr and Mrs Lawrence Walker Muir" [Lawrence Walker Muir and Annie Isabella Muir (nee McNaught)] and family from Leo Hayes, Oakey.

This file comprises correspondence from Father Edward Leo Hayes to his niece, Jean Marie Brown. There are 63 letters many with first day of issue envelopments. Additionally there are three postcards, some newspaper cuttings, ephemera, paper napkins, letters addressed to Father Hayes from others attached with a letter to Jean.

This file comprises seven letters to Jean Marie Brown. Five of the letters are from Nell, one is from 'Dad' (Ambrose Brown)and one from Catherine Regan to 'Dear Father accompanied by an envelopeaddress to Jean Brown.

This file comprises 51 letters from Father Hayes to his sister Mary. Many of the letters have first day cover envelopes. Envelopes are often addressed to 'Mrs A. O. Brown' or 'Mrs Ambrose Brown'. Hayes frequently finishes with 'your loving brother'. There is an envelope with a newspaper cutting, another with an invitation and one with a mass list.

This file comprises 7 letters. Two letters with first day issues envelopes are circulars from the Royal Geographical Society of Australia (Queensland), dated 1955 and 1957. Two letters from E Galvin with first day cover envelopes, 1960 and 1963. Two handwritten letters from 'Nell' with souvenir envelopes, dated 1963. One handwritten letter from Nell to Mary mentioning enclosing the letter in a Henry Lawson first day of issue envelope; attached a Henry Lawson envelope addressed to Jean Brown, postmarked 1949.

Material consists mostly of correspondence from Father Hayes to his sister Mary (Mrs Ambrose Brown) and his niece Jean Brown. Other correspondence includes letters from Daniel Augustine O'Brien.

Collected correspondence and manuscript material on literary and historical matters, mostly in Queensland and New South Wales. Also personal papers of Father Hayes, relating to his activities as parish priest; bookplates, photographs, realia.

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Letter 31 Aug 1948 to E.M. England and family (with continuation dated Dec.): personal news, formation of Anthropological Society at University of Queensland, books and book collecting, Australian painting.