Material relating to Jean Mary Bird. Consists of colour photograph of Jean Bird, Ford Memorial Medal dating from 1958, Photocopies of Bird's poem 'Sonnet' and biography.

Letter May 3 to the Editor, The Argus with presentation copy of 'Lyrics in leisure' for reviewing. Book was written by his wife Dorothy Frances McCrae (Perry).

Letter to E.A. Vidler re photograph of himself and discussing his favourite poem.

Letter to the Hon. S. Tomkinson recommending the purchase of her book 'Old gumtree lyrics'.

Letter to J. Howlett-Ross arranging a visit.

Collection of letters from James Picot to his sister Aimee L. Picot in England, together with one letter to his brother Henri and one to an unnamed recipient. The letters date from Picot's arrival in Australia in 1923 under the Farm Boys' Emigration Scheme and his subsequent life working on properties in Queensland in th 1920s and his time in Malaya.

Letter concerns A.D. Hope's poem "Australia"

Letters, cards and postcards, holograph and typescript, including last letter written to Ann Jennings two weeks before the author's death. Accompanied by typescript copies of early poems , one of which, "Gwen Harwood addresses her muse" has a final stanza unpublished in the poet's life-time.
Also accompanied by original holograph manuscript of "An impromptu for Ann Jennings".

The record is in columned form with typescript headings : Date, Name of manuscript, Where sent, Accepted or rejected, Date, Payment. The record is in 2 sequences : Manuscripts sent to literary magazines and publishers, and Manuscripts sent to broadcasters (chiefly ABC, ABC TV, and two to BBC).