Research material for publications; personal papers; and papers relating to Dr Murphy’s career at the University of Queensland, and his membership of the Australian Labor Party. Also research material, including handwritten manuscripts (including memoirs by Margaret Fisher), correspondence, notes, photographs, photocopied articles, and newspaper cuttings, for the biography of Andrew Fisher, which Dr Murphy was working on before his death. Includes W.H. Demaine's ‘Diary, written on the voyage to Maryborough, Queensland, Australia in the year 1880 on board the sailing ship Silver Eagle from Plymouth’.

This collections contains correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, ephemera and other material written by or relating to Professor Gordon Greenwood. This includes material about his wife Thora Greenwood (nee Smeal), their family and extended family, friends and academic associates, research material for works by Gordon Greenwood and about Gordon Greenwood and Thora Greenwood. Helen Derrick, their daughter has used much of the material in this collection to produce family history documents; in some cases she has added her own notes to this material. Some of her works are also contained in the collection.