Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions.
• Sketches for Public Library of New South Wales doors: draft drawing for doors (with individually pinned pictures for panels, 56 x 38 cm); 10 sketches, sizes vary, includes notes on possible content for the doors; 1 folded set of sketches, middle pages have been cut or torn with titles for some -- 'Childhood', 'Boomerang practice' and 'Axeman'; drawing, pencil with chalk on wrapping paper, 1940, 31 x 22 cm, window mounted (56 x 40 cm) which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, in 2011.
• Charcoal drawing, double sided (61 x 61 cm).
• Charcoal sketch [for the Wild White Horse and Susannah?].
• Sketch, pen [for Bancroft medal?]
• Notebook, no covers, with 10 sketches of birds (pelican, jabiru).
• Sketch [for pelican fountain?] on part of large envelope.
• 3 sketches [for Dr Christine Rivett?]
• 1 double sided sketch [for Kings School Memorial?]
• 2 sketches for Unsung Heroine of War.
• Sketch for Church of the Holy Spirit, Newfarm.
• Sketch from the 1940s?
• Sketch, with notes [for Lion Tamer?]
• 2 sketches on lined paper for Man in the Street.
• 14 Sketches (34 cm) [for youth at Knox School?]
• Facial measures for portrait bust of woman (very fragile and breaking apart).
• Diagram for carving of Brisbane City Hall tympanum, left hand side only, showing stone joints and various depths of relief.
• Sketch, 57 x 185 cm, uneven edge on right hand side [for The Olympian?]
• Studies on one lined page for the Fat Man.

Portraits only, no sculpture photographs of John Douglas Story.

1 album with slots for art reproduction prints (some have prints inserted) and notes, 22 x 28 cm. 14 sketch, note or memo books with writings, notes relating to her art; sketches; glaze recipes; colour. Most sketch books have not been fully used. Three have names of towns written on the cover and associated sketches: Bolonga/Venice ; Assisi; and Siena. One notebook has notes on motifs and newspaper cuttings inserted at the end. Another notes on dynamic symetry. Another, lined notebook, has notes on State Schools free education and at the other end of the notebook a list of letters to write and bills to pay for Jan 1956. Some have scales for sculptures such as 'Little black baby', 'S. Paterson', and 'Prof. Waterhouse'.

32 letters from Lila Mayo to her daughter Daphne from 6 May to 20 December 1956.

24 letters from Lila Mayo to her daughter Daphne from 10 January to 28 November 1955.

Architectural plans: 3 architectural drawings (99 x 66 cm and smaller). 1 plan is title Department of Education Building and has details for art gallery spaces; the other two are sheets number 7 and 8 for Mount Saint Josephs Convent, Nundah (architect H.S. MacDonald). 3 drawings of details for panels for Qantas commencing operation in Winton in November 1970: 3 x pencil on paper ; 167 x 56 cm and smaller. These three drawings form part of the sand blasted glass panels designed by Mayo for the North Gregory Hotel in Winton (1954-1955).

Correspondence from Daphne Mayo to her parents.

63 letters from Bill and Lila Mayo to their daughter Daphne from 3 January to 18 November 1954.

46 letters from Bill and Lila Mayo to their daughter Daphne from 4 January to 27 December 1953.

32 photographs of the King School Parammatta New South Wales War Memorial.