Daphne Mayo's Sydney Studio at 231 George Street was reclaimed by the Sydney Cove Development Authority in 1981. Queensland Trustees Limited, who had power of attorney for Mayo, engaged Judith McKay to direct the sorting and dispersal of the Sydney Studio from 29 June to 8 July 1981. Mayo had been a tenant of the building since 1940 and retained this studio after her move back to Brisbane. She was the last tenant to leave the building. Photographs by Jacqueline Macnaughtan and Tim Collis-Bird.
From volume 1: "These albums were compiled for preservation with the sculptor's papers as a record of the studio and, in particular, to document sculpture and models which were not retrieved from the studio".

Newspaper and magazine cuttings collected by Daphne Mayo. Based on correspondence, friends and relatives also sent her cuttings and these may form part of this series.

[Item 1] Newspaper cuttings, undated. -- [Item 2] Newspaper cuttings, 1914, 1920s. -- [Item 3] Newspaper cuttings, 1930s. -- [Item 4] Newspaper cuttings,1940s. -- [Item 5] Newspaper cuttings,1950s. -- [Item 6] Newspaper cuttings, 1960. -- [Item 7] Newspaper cuttings, 1970s.

In 1967 Cottrell-Dormer was employed by the South Pacific Commission to conduct an agricultural extension survey. The 12 files in this series consist of his personal copies of the reports he wrote and submitted to the Commission between 1967-1973.

1479 35mm slide mounted transparencies, most individually captioned. Slides were arranged into subject files by the creator, as outlined below. Also 39 35mm negatives.

==Album 1==
2 pages of notes
Cath Healy, 18 slides
Mrs C-D personal, 21 slides
Papua 1-400, 229 slides
Papua and New Guinea 401-800, 211 slides

==Album 2==
Brisbane, 83 slides
NSW & ACT, 118 slides
USA, 21 slides
France, 12 slides
Pacific isles, 160 slides
Mekeo agricultural development, 211 slides
Mekeo rice project, 39 negatives

==Album 3==
Black and white II [images from PNG], 276 slides
Black and white III [images from PNG], 122 slides

Typescript playscripts, some with annotations.
Box 5
Folder 1: "Scenes from Camino Real"
Folder 2: Cox, Constance, "Everyman, a new version of the famous morality play"
Folder 3: "Gild the mask again"
Folder 4: Musaphia, Joseph, "Mothers and fathers"
Folder 5: Huxley, Aldous, "The Gioconda smile"
Folder 6: Jones, Tom, "The Fantasticks"
Folder 7: Egner, Thorbjorn, "The singing town"
Folder 8: Ayckbourn, Allan, "Absurd person singular"
Folder 9: Lan, David, "Painting a wall"
Folder 10: Stott, Mike, "Midnight"
Folder 11: "Paquerette"
Folder 12: Shaw, Bernard, "Androcles and the lion"
Folder 13: "The princess with a load on her mind"
Folder 14: Chiltern, John, "Four from the end"
Folder 15: Sherness, Marsha, "Professor George"
Folder 16: O'Leary, Martin, "Spasm"

Box 6
Folder 1: "Keep your eye on Amelia"
Folder 2: Saroyan, William, "The beautiful people"
Folder 3: Brecht, Bertolt, "Trumpets and drums"
Folder 4: Spewack, Samuel, "Under the sycamore tree"
Folder 5: "Check to the Queen"
Folder 6: "The typists"
Folder 7: "Sweeny Todd scripts"
Folder 8: [Untitled, beings p 3 "The eighteenth century"]
Folder 9: Williams, Tennessee, "Summer and smoke"
Folder 10: "Cream"
Folder 11: Young, William, "Electra"
Folder 12: Murray, John, "Dry run"
Folder 13: Simpson, Evan, "The circling bird"
Folder 14: "The magic mirror"

Box 7
Folder 1: Ayckbourn, Alan, "Absurd person singluar"
Folder 2: Dumas, Alexander, "Kean", adapted by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Frank Hauser
Folder 3: Thomas, Robert, "Catch me if you can", adapted from the French version by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert
Folder 4: Gray, Nicholas Stuart, "The princess and the swineherd"
Folder 5: Connelly, Marc, "The green pastures"
Folder 6: Braun, Wilbur, "Her fatal beauty; or, a shop-girl's honor"
Folder 7: Taylor, Samuel, "The happy time"
Folder 8: Goetz, Ruth and Augustus, "The heiress"
Folder 9: Brecht, Bertolt, "The threepenny opera"
Folder 10: Coppard, JAS, "Sordid story"
Folder 11: Totheroh, Dan, "The stolen prince"
Folder 12: "Snowangel"
Folder 13: "Stage door"
Folder 14: Duerrenmatt, Friedrich, "The visit" (stage manager's copy)
Folder 15: Tilt, Jan, "Vanity fair"
Folder 16: "Three sisters"

Box 8
Folder 1: "Tom Sawyer"
Folder 2: Schisgal, Murray, "The tiger"
Folder 14: "The Queen and the Rebels (La Regina e gli Insorti)" by Ugo Betti, translated by Henry Reed.
Folder 15: "The Make-Believe Doctor", by Moliere, translated from the French by Sandra Jean Gordon.

Parcel 1
Item 1: [Stoppard, Tom], “The real Inspector Hound” [photocopy]
Folder 3: Sheiness, Martha, “Stop the parade”
[McDonald, James; Vos, David; Gerlach, Robert], “Something’s afoot” – musical scores for piano and vocals
Folder 4:“Introduction of the guests”; “Marvellous weekend”; “Changing music”; “Marvellous weekend Tag”
Folder 5: “Something’s afoot”
Folder 6: “Carry on”
Folder 7: “Trust you”
Folder 8: “The man with the ginger moustache”
Folder 9: “Suspicious”
Folder 10: “I know what I’m looking for”
Folder 11: “You fell out of the sky”
Folder 12: “Problematical solution”
Folder 13: “I owe it all”
Folder 14: “New day”
Folder 15: “Bows and curtain calls”
“Something’s afoot” – other musical scores
Item 16: Piano conductor
Item 17: Bass
Item 18: Percussion I + II

Typescript playscripts, some with annotations.
Box 8
Folder 3: [Untitled, starts at Act 2]
Folder 4: "The Frog Prince"
Folder 5: "The pigeon with the silver foot"
Folder 6: The princess and the woodcutter"
Folder 7: Brothers Capek, "And so ad infinitum (the life of the insects)" [incomplete]
Folder 8: "The prisoner" (stage manager's copy)
Folder 9: Aitken, Bill, "Money makes the world go round"
Folder 10: Aitken, Bill, "The perils of Pinky"
Folder 11: McDonald, James et al, "Something's afoot" (stage manager's copy)
Folder 12: "Epiphany"
Folder 13: "The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons"

Parcel 1
Folder 2: "The off-beat outing"

Three concert and theatre diaries, recording names of plays and pieces of music, places and names of actors and musicians.