Six letters and cards, holograph and typescript, including a sepia photograph 9 x 14 cm. of Ernestine Hill and Audrey Moss's aunt, Millie McAskill (nee Ryan.)

Includes letter to Louise (Campbell) from Ernestine Hill, with an account of the Crowned Kangaroo pub at Bendigo, wishing the Press success.
Also first printing of the colophon, trial proof copy, and a poem: A bead's song, by Peter Annand.

This collection has typescript and handwritten drafts, notes and research material relating to published works and also to a wide range of literary projects mostly undertaken during the later part of Hill's writing career, from 1945 onwards. These unpublished works cover a variety of genres: novels, plays, descriptive writing and scripts for radio, television and film. Included are drafts and research material related to 'Johnnie Wisecap', 'The Coast of the Holy Ghost', 'Zodiac Road / Blanked over the moon', 'Women of Australia', 'Grand Kangaroo', 'Mother of Pearl'. There is material on the life of Daisy Bates, and plans for a film based on her life; personal correspondence, and two complete unpublished novels.

There are 3,156 photographs, some prints, some negatives, reflecting very large collection of photographs taken by Hill during her many long tours of outback Australia, from the early 1930s and cover all aspects of Northern, Western and outback Australia: flora and fauna, scenery, missions, homestead life, coastal scenes and shipping, traditional industries such as fishing, droving, pearling and sugar farming, mining, camel transport, dwellings, cemeteries, and public buildings. There is pictorial material relating to the life and customs of Aboriginal Australians in all areas of Australia.

Papers relating to Charles Bateson, Ronald Campbell, Catherine Bateson (previously known as Helen Campbell), Ernestine Hill, Sam Fullbrook, Lloyds Bookshop (Brisbane), Paul Knobel, Billy Jones, and Hollie Charlton. Includes correspondence between Charles Bateson, Sir Robert Helpmann, and Ernestine Hill, about a proposed film based on Ernestine Hill's book, 'Kabbarli : a personal memoir of Daisy Bates'. Also includes 3 boxes of material by Charles Bateson on the history of crime.
Correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, photocopied articles, audiotapes, films, slides, invitations, art exhibition catalogues. Collection includes explanatory notes by Louise Campbell.
Bulk of material from 1970s and 1980s.