Notes and lists relating to financial activities.

Loose pages from the novel and notes, typescript with emendations, handwritten notes, undated.

Handwritten and typescript notes on sculpture, artistic techniques, saving Anzac Square, history of the Godfrey Rivers Bequest, Queensland Art Fund, Queensland National Gallery, stories, lists of glazes, commentaries. Written on notepaper, scraps of paper and envelopes.

Research material and notes for a Ph.D. thesis, An analysis of Brisbane society in the 1890's by Ronald Lynton Lawson. The thesis was submitted to the History Department of the University of Queensland in 1970. The thesis analyses the society of Brisbane in 1891 and 1901. In 1967 Lawson used a structured interview technique, with a 112 questions on many aspects of life, surveying people who were children or adolescents in the city of Brisbane in 1891 and 1901. Over a period of three months Lawson interview 75 people aged 79 years and over. Questions included: when did parents arrive in Australia; the sort of dwellings they lived in; if they had servants; family roles; employment; newspapers read; diet; where was the grocery shopping done; vehicles; education; religion. This file includes the questionnaires, notes and photographs.

Research notes for, and annotated drafts of, Lieutenant Martin's Letters : an Anzac in the Great War.

Notes, research material and index cards for Illywhacker.

Handwritten notes for the biography of Vida Lahey by Daphne Mayo. The notes are written on scraps of paper, envelopes (addressed to Daphne Mayo), and paper. It includes 6 pages of typescript, with handwritten emendations, entitled 'The development of Art in Queensland'. Vida Lahey wrote this article for the Exhibition of Queensland art : catalogue : Queensland National Art Gallery, Brisbane, 10th September to 7th October, 1951. On one envelope there is a draft of a letter by Mayo to Mavis asking her to read and criticise her article on Vida which isn't finished and was not typed (a requirement for submission). There is one sheet of paper with a brief account of Daphne Mayo's life: mentioning her studies; travels; the Godfrey Rivers Bequest (and the purchase of 'The Cypriot' by Dobell); the Queensland Art Fund; and the raising of funds to match the Darnell bequest and the impacts of that task.

Notes from Alexander Johnston. Typescript and carbon copy, 4 leaves, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1908-9’, undated. One typescript copy, 3 leaves, undated. Johnston recalls his time on the Darling Downs where he arrived in 1842, his time in Canning Downs, hostilities with Aboriginal Australians including at Soldiers' Flat and Laidley, Jimbour, Dalby, and people such as Ludwig Leichhardt, Henry Dennis, and Warraba.

Handwritten notes, in pencil. At top of first page 'Notes from 'The Artist" March 1933 to Aug 1933. by Jan Gordan'. From handwritting determined to be the work of Vida Lahey.

This file comprises two folders (originals retained) with notes relating to study activities while at university. Includes notes on Christopher Brennan and preparatory notes for honors examinations. Green (Rodriguez) submitted a thesis 'The scholarship of C. J. Brennan' as part of her Bachelor of Arts with the University of Queensland.