Menu and toast list for dinner in honour of the Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur William Fadden G.C.M.G., M.P., F.I.C.A., F.C.A. at Finneys' Brisbane, Monday, 11th August, 1958 at 7 p.m. Toasts proposed by Harold Richter, F.G.R. Nickiln, James Donald, V.C. Gair, Leon Trout.
Arthur Fadden's political resume on cover.
Written in pen across the menu: Rev Father Leo Hayes Dana O'Brien 12.8.'58.

Collected correspondence and manuscript material on literary and historical matters, mostly in Queensland and New South Wales. Also personal papers of Father Hayes, relating to his activities as parish priest; bookplates, photographs, realia.

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This file comprises correspondence from Father Edward Leo Hayes to his niece, Jean Marie Brown. There are 63 letters many with first day of issue envelopments. Additionally there are three postcards, some newspaper cuttings, ephemera, paper napkins, letters addressed to Father Hayes from others attached with a letter to Jean.

Includes brief note (photocopied) from the donor about the item's provenance.

Manuscript book of seventeen illuminated and illustrated poems by Australian authors. Father Leo Hayes commissioned the book of his favourite Australian poems from artist Ella Lilian Pedersen. Hayes wanted it done in the manner of the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Each of the 17 poems chosen by Father Hayes has been written in calligraphy with accompanying illustrations depicting the location or subject of each poem. Pedersen crafted a tooled leather binding with ornamentation in pewter studded with semi-precious stones, including opals and agates, collected by Father Hayes when he was parish priest in Crows Nest. The original cover was damaged, and the central panel was replaced in the early 2000s by book restorer Anne Clonnan with one remaining gemstone.

Poems: The first comers there / Margaret Curran. -- Carnarvon deep gorges / Bertha Butler. -- Love in a cottage / Daniel Henry Deniehy. -- The frog pool / James Devaney. -- Toowoomba dark purple / George Essex Evans. -- Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott. -- The Waradgery tribe / Mary Gilmore. -- Taralga / Mary Gilmore. -- When winter comes to Queensland / Alice Gore-Jones. -- My country / Dorothea Mackellar. -- Colour / Dorothea Mackellar. -- The gentle water bird (for Mary Gilmore) / John Shaw Neilson. -- Old salt / Lydia M. D. O'Neil. -- The way of it / D. L. Waraker. -- In September Queensland Bush / D. L. Waraker. -- Rain magic / Frances Dunn. -- Waratah and wattle / Henry Lawson.

Accompanied by a religious verse (1 leaf, 6 cm.--Typescript).
Accompanied by a speech, Clifton, at the St. Francis de Sales' Memorial School opening by Father Hayes, 1962 Aug. (4 p. ; 34 cm.--Handwritten).

Handwritten letter to Eileen M. Buckley re John Shaw Neilson, James Devaney and other literary figures.

Handwritten letter to Mrs Cassidy re parish news and Queensland literary news.

Material consist of the academic dress worn by Father Edward Leo Hayes when he received an honorary Master of Arts in 1967. also included is the certificate of award and a copy of speech given by the Vice-Chancellor during the award ceremony.

Tourist photo folders and postcards: Bungonia Caves, N.S.W., Charleville, Cunnamula, Green Island, Green Mountains, Gunnedah, Hervey Bay, Kempsey, Mudgee, Pacific Highway, Perth, Port Arthur, Quilpie, Tasmania, Town of South Coast, plus one postcard of Redcar Pier, England [1906] and Washing Day- The Gumnut series - 4.