Letters, postcards and photographs sent by Gwen Harwood to her friend Helen Mills.

Bound volume of poems from newpapers.

Typescript poems.
Accompanied by information re publication of poems.
Titles: Laughter in the catacombs -- Still life -- Exercise in rationalisation -- Brussels -- Equipoise for an Iris -- Canto for a grey cat -- Sunshine and shower -- Quiessence -- Non Quid Pro Quo.

Typescript copy of 'Poems' (Sydney: G.B. Philip, 1913). Includes list of subscribers. Dated 24 Dec 1914.

Also signed card and obituary notice 22 Sep 1904.

Five poems.
Titles: Blue eyes; Marigolds; Outpost; The call; Would you remember?
Transcribed from newspaper cuttings by Norman K. Harvey.

Poem in 3 stanzas.
Marginal handwritten note to Firmin McKinnon, asking his opinion of it, whether it should be published as one poem.
Also includes 5 handwritten letters to the Fryer Librarian sent in 1972, and a photograph of Grano aged 76, taken by his daughter.

Mainly cards and letters from Gwen Harwood to Father Alan Farrell. Includes some letters from Father Farrell to Gwen Harwood, and some cards from Gwen Harwood to other correspondents.

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.

Drafts for Cecil Hadgraft's entry on Alexander Forbes in the Australian Dictionary of Biography; correspondence and research notes relating to the entry, and a photocopied extract from his brother Archibald Forbes' book 'Souvenirs of some continents' (1894).