Carey maintained handwritten notebooks of ideas for his writings. Contained in this series are eleven of these notebooks. Some notebooks have general notes such as shopping lists, recipes, names and addresses, and lists that pertain to his personal life.

The series includes manuscript and typescript drafts, notes, research material, publicity material, and related correspondence for Carey's published and unpublished novels.

Dorothy Blewett published two novels: Vision (1931) under the pseudonym Anne Praize, and Pattern for a Scandal (1948), published under her own name. This series has:

Parcel 1
Folder 1
The dust jacket for Vision, in very poor condition

Box 3
Folders 6-8
Three carbon copy typescript drafts, 'Death of anon de plume', 275 leaves, one copy with typescript inserts, 1958?

Folder 9
Untitled typescript draft about Dame Nellie Melba, possibly a fictional biography, handwritten emendations, unpublished, 215 leaves, undated

Folder 10
Five chapter drafts for unidentified works.

Office diaries containing details of contacts and appointments, and brief notes about work-related matters

Forty open open reel audiotapes of interviews as part of the project From lunchroom to boardroom : records of oral history project, Women in the Labor movement, 1930-1970.

This series is comprised of draft typescripts and related documents for eight Opera Libretti by David Malouf (both published and unpublished): Voss : Opera in Two Acts After the Novel by Patrick White, Invocation to Earth, Remembering Babylon, 'The Aspern Papers', 'You can't think of everything', 'A Winter's Tale', The Fox and the Magpie. In addition there are two versions of 10,000 Miles Away, written by Malouf for theatre.

Twenty paintings, synthetic polymer paint on paper, by Dick Roughsey and Percey Trezise. Many were proposed illustrations for The rainbow serpent (1979). Three of the paintings are accompanied by explanatory drawings.

Field book of the Skies by William T. Olcott and Edmund W. Putnam, Putnam’s Sons, 1929, with manuscript notes and newspaper clippings on aspects of astronomy added.
'Australian books' by William Albert Amiet [n.d.]. A speech.
Folder of 7 miscellaneous items found in the volumes of essays. Includes notes, newspaper cuttings, etc.

Miscellaneous personal items of Caroline Kelly and Timothy Kelly.