On cover of original folder "Melbourne Shrine Figures" (original folder discarded). This file includes incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding the commissioning of eight symbolical figures to be placed in the Inner Sanctuary of the Shrine of Remembrance (the National War Memorial of the State of Victoria). Daphne Mayo was selected by the Citizens' Committee of the National War Memorial of Victoria to submit a model for the figure of 'Integrity'. Due to insufficient funds the committe was unable to proceed with the commissioning of the Figures. The file also has a copy (no. 11) of the National War Memorial Specification. Respecting eight marble figures for inner shrine for the "Shine of Remembrance" at The Domain, South Yarra for The Committee of the National War Memorial. This copy has bound with it The first brochure on the first premiated design The National War Memorial of Victoria (1924); two folded plans for the 'Detail section of inner shrine of remembrance' and 'Plan at Shrine Floor Level'; and the Offical guide to the Shrine of Remembrance : The Domain Melbourne (signed by Daphne).

Two typescript copies of the Indenture creating the The Godfrey Rivers Trust, 5 Dec 1931.

Daphne Mayo was nominated to act in an advisory capacity to the War Memorial Art Committee in May 1944. This file contains correspondence from 18 May 1944 to 9 October 1959.

Undated draft letters, mostly handwritten, on note paper, scraps of paper, and envelopes relating to personal, business and professional activities. Correspondents include: Mr MacFarlane; Mr Phillips; Mr Newman; The Art Bronze Foundry; Lady Fysh; Mr Chittleborough; Mayor McGrath; D.M. Fraser.

General financial records including correspondence, receipts, and invoices.

Exhibition catalogues include: Henry Moore; Australian Women Artists; Charles Blackman; Italian art of the 20th century; Bessie Gibson; Recent Australian Sculpture; Ian Fairweather; Australian Aboriginal Art; Focus on the Hinton Collection.

Notes and draft letters by Daphne Mayo while a Trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery. Includes a notebook with a draft letter to Joh Bjelke Petersen on the first page (and then notes related to other aspects of her life like her rental properties).

Receipts, invoices, correspondence relating to works of art and Sydney studio, from 1940 to 1949.

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.

32 letters from Lila Mayo to her daughter Daphne from 6 May to 20 December 1956.