In 1967 Cottrell-Dormer was employed by the South Pacific Commission to conduct an agricultural extension survey. The 12 files in this series consist of his personal copies of the reports he wrote and submitted to the Commission between 1967-1973.

Fifteen letters to Wiliam Albert Amiet.

Sewing projects, patterns and dolls created by asylum seekers while held in detention on Naru and put on display in the exhibition And everyone was an optimist at the gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 2005. Four satin covered cakes of soap.
53 pillows created for exhibition Sewing all the way to here at Shepparton Art Gallery in 2006.

This series contains drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence. While lies by Trevor Shearston was published by University of Queensland Press in 1986. It is set on a remote mission station in Papua New Guinea in the early 1970's and tells the story of the conflict between the powerful and primitive forces of the local Gewa sorcerer and healer, Sebo, and the missionary, Richard Wakely. Initial drafts of the novel were titled 'Black sheep', which Shearston also used to write a screenplay by the same name.

27 colour photographs of 4 Crane Street, Newmarket, documenting the house before later renovations.

Dr David Clements Jackson gave his original lecture notes from 1961 to Pearn. In 1961 the Department of Child Health was established within the University of Queensland.

Lists of exhibitions held at private galleries in Queensland.

Three scrapbooks,, dating from 1944 to 1946, containing correspondence (including rejection letters), wartime ephemera, and several pages of cuttings relating to the ‘Ern Malley’ hoax.

Volume bound with string, covers and tape on spine. Contains ten unpublished typescript poems and two essays. Written in Crows Nest, Queensland between 1937 and 1943 by an unidentified poet [possibly J. Tholan - signature indecipherable]. One poem "Jubiliee Greeting" is dedicated Father Edward Leo Hayes on the occasion of his Silver Jubilee, 24th November, 1943.