Contains manuscripts of works by Charles Ladds and Dulcie Dunlop Ladds, and includes playscripts, a family scrapbook, correspondence, and magazines including "New Idea" in which Dulcie Dunlop Ladds' articles were published.

Correspondence, diaries, prose manuscripts, clippings, photographs, computer discs.

Typescript drafts of The Copper Crucible (1963 draft, and 1994 drafts revised by Ian Syson); newspaper cuttings and copies of Women's Realm containing articles and stories by Betty Collins; 2 poems (typescript) by Betty Collins. The Copper Crucible was originally published in 1966. Not all of the 1963 draft for the novel was used in this publication. In 1996, a new edition revised by Ian Syson was published. This new edition restores the 1963 draft, and also incorporates some passages from the 1966 version.

Poems, letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, birth certificates and other research material gathered by Zoe O'Leary in writing the biography of her father Alfred Midgley, and a typed, annotated draft of "The little Byron: The life of Alfred Midgley, Queensland Poet, Parliamentarian and Methodist Pioneer".

Personal papers and photographs, including an autobiography and a history of the first 50 years of the Presbyterian Girls' College, Warwick, Queensland.

Drafts of novels, poetry and short stories, correspondence, research notes and miscellaneous material.

Original was scrapbook of newspaper clippings cut from the Telegraph (Brisbane). Dated 13 Aug - 14 Oct 1938.

Photocopied newspaper clippings from 'Topic.' Dated 10 July - 18 Sept 1947.

Includes letters by Xavier Herbert and Laurie Hergenhan.
Papers compiled by Harry Mellor.