29 portrait photographs

Mostly pen and pencil Academy drawings from the 1920s, some with notes.

Mostly pen and pencil drawings from Mayo’s Sydney studio from 1940s to 1950s. Includes a window mounted pen drawing of Susannah which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, Nov 2011 to Jan 2012.

Images relating to the portrait bust sculpture of Douglas Martin Fraser of Mundanoon.

Portraits only, no sculpture photographs of John Douglas Story.

Undated correspondence from Daphne Mayo to her parents.

Mayo undertook the commission for a memorial to Sir William Glasgow. The sculpture has Glasgow in the uniform of an officer of the Light Horse holding a pair of field glasses. The finished bronze statue is about 2.5 metres high. Sir William Glasgow Memorial was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 May 2004. This file includes: pamphlet for the Major-General Sir William Glasgow Memorial Appeal (1960); Draft agreement between Douglas Martin Fraser of Mundoolun and Daphne Mayo for a cast bronze statue of the figure of the late Sir William Glasgow, with emendations, unsigned, 1961; typescript regarding the agreement with Mr D. M Fraser, including recommendations for amendments regarding personal insurance, undated, unsigned; newspaper cuttings; receipts from Edward Lumley & Sons; handwritten draft letters and notes by Mayo on envelopes and scraps of paper; invoice for bronze casting; and correspondence. Correspondents include: D.M. Fraser (including letters from dating from 1957, prior to the Statue being commissioned); and a letter from Queensland Railways dated 16 Jun 1978 regarding the re-siting of the Statue of Sir William Glasgow.

30 letters from Bill and Lila Mayo to their daughter Daphne from 28 January to 17 December 1942.

Correspondence from 12 Jan 1960 to 13 Nov 1969. Correspondents include: Brisbane Arts Ball Committee; Queensland Trustees Limited; Queensland National Gallery Society; Queensland Art Gallery; Central Technical College, Brisbane; Brisbane Women's Club; Brisbane Fountains Committee; Design Arts Centre; letters from doctor regarding recommended foods, blood tests results; Commonwealth Department of Customs and Excise, Brisbane; Society of Women Writers.

Correspondence (13 letters, 2 telegrams, 1 envelope)