Research notes, manuscripts and correspondence relating to novels Blood red, Sister Rose (1974) and Gossip from the forest (1975). There are four drafts, handwritten and typescript, of Gossip from the forest and at least one draft of Blood red, Sister Rose, mostly handwritten. Also includes one leaf, handwritten, of a draft of Passenger (1979).

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 These unpublished works cover a variety of genres: novels, plays, descriptive writing and scripts for radio, television and film.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material on the life of Daisy Bates, and plans for a film based on her life; personal correspondence, and two complete unpublished novels.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.

Includes production files (including typescripts, proof copies, galley proofs), correspondence, and minutes of publishing meetings.

Manuscripts and typescripts.

Drafts of various stages of the following works: Louisa, Quickening, A fine and private place, The temple down the road, Manning Clark : a biography, and Richie Benaud. Incoming and outgoing correspondence include letters relating to these publications and well as correspondence during his academic career. Versions of articles submitted to Australian Magazine columns as well as reviews, journalism articles and speeches.

This collection is comprised mostly of drafts of Anthony Lawrence’s published and unpublished poetry and prose dating between 1989 and 2021. This collection also includes a series of unpublished playscripts and filmscripts by the author, research materials (mostly relating to Richard Hugo) compiled by the author, book review cuttings (of the author’s 2000 novel In the half light), personal scrapbooks, and awards and commendations presented to the author.