Working notes for a poem, signed and dated 4.12.74. On verso: Written with a journalist's pen [poem], typescript, dated 25.11.74. Accompanied by manilla folder with handwritten list of poems.

A selection of ms. poems.

Includes letters from John Blight submitting his manuscript " Down stream" to Angus & Robertson and the publishing company's assessment and reply. Also includes letters between Beatrice Davis and John Blight on the literary scene.

Letter 10 July 1965 to Alan Frost, English Dept., University of Queensland, enclosing five sonnets. Titles: The rotund sailor, The cannibal islands, Gladstone, The isthmus, A sand bank.

Commonwealth Literary Fund Lecture, delivered at the University of Queensland 15 June 1965.

Two drafts of a lecture given at a seminar in the University of Queensland English Department, 11 Oct 1973. Published in Southerly, vol. 34 no. 2, 1974. One version mss (35 l.), second version typescript (27 l.)

Correspondence with Australian authors, mostly concerning his publication Whales, a celebration (1983) and the Harbourfront Literary Festival in Toronto, Canada.

This collection contains published and unpublished manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and some prose pieces by John Blight, correspondence with individuals including Thomas Shapcott, Judith Wright, Bruce Beaver and Barbara Giles, and organisations, newspapers and literary societies. Also included are congress and festival pamphlets and papers, newspaper clippings and family photographs.