Correspondence mainly in the form of letters and postcards with various authors: Philip Martin concerning “Girl Warrior”, Don Maynard, Les A. Murray concerning “The New Moreton Bay”, Stephen Murray Smith concerning “On Journeying Apart”, Barry O'Donohue, Grace Perry, Andrew Sant and Fay Zwicky. Includes poems from some correspondents.

This subseries includes letters from organisations and individuals asking Oodgeroo Noonuccal to appear in programs, provide content, and for permissions to use her literary works for television, film and radio productions.

Illywhacker was published in 1985 in Australia by University of Queensland Press. It has won a number of awards and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. This series includes typescript drafts for 'Pets' (Illywhacker) and Illywhacker, showing substantial revisions at every stage and the development of the novel from earliest ideas to finished form. Correspondence, notes, research material and index cards are included. Illywhacker has won the Age Book of the Year Award 1985, Fellowship of Australian Writers Victor - Barbara Ramsden Award 1985, National Book Council Award for Australian Literature - Banjo Award 1985, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1986 and Ditmar Awards 1986.

This subseries contains two folders with playscripts and radio scripts.

Papers relating to North Stradbroke Island reflect Kath's involvement in issues such as opposition to sand-mining on the island, and opposition to a proposed bridge connecting North Stradbroke Island with the mainland. There is research material, publications, and correspondence.

Ledgers with expenses and income from rental property from 1937 to 1959, most of which were probably kept by her father until his death in 1954 and then by mother and/or Daphne. Ledgers kept by Daphne Mayo from 1960 to 1965 incorporate income and expenses for property, dividends and her profession. Folders contain correspondence, notes, invoices and receipts, and rental books for property in Highgate Hill, Brisbane.

Correspondence of Anne McCosker's parents and their New Guinea associates, collected and used as source material for her book Masked Eden.

Bound volume for the short story collection 'Slides for a magic lantern' comprising typescript and carbon typescript with some emendations. Short stories are: 'She wakes', 'Separate', 'Up and down the beach', 'Structure', 'A Man needs his dreams', 'Osmosis', 'Shapes', 'One. Two', and 'Eights parts of a whole'.

This series consists of drafts, story boards , screenplay proofs, script amendments, and filming schedules, timings, etc. for the film Bliss. Also includes correspondence. Bliss was the winner of the Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Source (Australian Film Institute Awards), 1985.

General correspondence, personal papers, and publications. The material in this subseries is presumed to be from the estate of Daphne Mayo's mother, Lila Mayo.