151 letters, 11 telegrams, 2 letter cards, 1 card, 5 postcards and 11 photographs sent to Daphne Mayo between 7 Jan 1940 to 30 Dec 1949. Contents by year:
1940 - 20 letters, 1 postcard. Correspondents include: Ina Rivers (2 letters); Nita (3 letters); Margaret Preston (2 letters, to Miss Lahey and Miss Mayo, one with a response by Mayo on the back).
1941 - 13 letters, 1 postcard. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters) ; Marjorie S. Harrington (4 letters).
1942 - 12 letters, 2 lettercards. Correspondents include: Rosie (2 letters); Wal (Walter Taylor) (2 letters)
1943 - 7 letters, 1 postcard, 1 telegram. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters); Ina Rivers.
1944 - 13 letters, 2 telegrams. Correspondents include: Rosie (3 letters); Mavis; Josephine; Robert Carson (2 letters).
1945 - 22 letters, 1 postcard, 4 telegrams. Correspondents include: Rosie (3 letters); Mim (Mim Shaw); Rowland Suddaby (with b&w photograph); Captain Robert Carson (1 letter pocket calendar for 1946 and 1 b&w photograph; 1 letter with 9 b&w photographs); Barney Usherwood (2 letters).
1946 - 24 letters, 1 telegram. Correspondents include: Barney Usherwood (3 letters); Rosie (5 letters).
1947 - 17 letters. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters); May Usherwood (2 letters); Constance.
1948 - 7 letters, 1 postcard.
1949 - 16 letters, 3 telegrams, 1 card. Correspondents include: Chris (Dr Christine Rivett); Claudine (3 letters to 'Q.E.').

General financial records including correspondence, receipts, and invoices.

The letters in this file were written to Bill and Lila Mayo, Daphne Mayo's parents. Some are letters they have written to each other. They are presumed to be from the estate of her mother, Lila Mayo. Some letters were mistakenly filed in with correspondence to Daphne.

Con sordini, a play in one act was most likely written in the 1940s. There is one typescript with some carbon copy leaves, 28 numbered leaves, undated.

Correspondence (31 letters, 2 telegrams) from 1940 to 1949.

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

Correspondence, notes, invoices and receipts, for property in Highgate Hill, Brisbane. May include properties Mayo rented. Includes purchase agreement for cottage at 147 Gladstone Road; Specification for flats at Highgate Hill by Robert P. Cummings; Specifications for Cotttage by R. P. Cummings; 3 blueprints (27 x 20 cm) and 1 plan for "Illaroo" - 147 Gladstone Road, South Brisbane.

Photographs of Daphne Mayo seated under a tree, in a garden, with a cat, seated on a bench, with two women in a boat, and with sculpting tool in her hands.

Two Queensland Exercise Books relating to George Sampson. Clippings by or about George Sampson, music in Brisbane, some correspondence and music. Also included in this file are five photocopied pages of newspaper cuttings.