Papers relating to the evacuation of Marjorie McCosker from New Guinea to Brisbane in 1941. Documents include a permit dated 27 May 1941 issued to Marjorie, allowing her to leave and return to the Territory of New Guinea with two children; inventories of goods and personal effects shipped; and an offer of employment to Marjorie from St Margaret's School, Brisbane.

It has happened before, a verse play for radio was written between 1941 and 1942. There are two copies of this play: Bound carbon copy typescript, 30 numbered leaves, handwritten emendations, undated; and a carbon copy typescript, 32 numbered leaves, front cover has pasted to it a transcribed copy of an expert from The Listener in, 1951.

Includes: short stories; articles; a typescript titled "An impression of the Pediment at the front of Brisbane's Town Hall" (1 leaf); poem, "The Birds"; 2 leaves titled "Notes on sculpture for children" by Anita Aarons; 4 page article "Fine arts at the University of Queensland"; article by Dr F.W. Whitehouse titled "The assets and the vulnerability of the Cooloola Sands"; carbon copy of address by W. Forgan Smith at the 26th Annual Federal Congress of the Returned Sailor's Soldier's Airmen's Imperial League (RSSAILA), 14 Nov 1941; and information on Cooloola National Park.

Seven photographs of the sculpture 'Woman'.

The First Joanna : a play in two acts was written around 1941 and revised over the following 17 years. It was not published in her lifetime but was published online in 2016 by AustLit. This file is comprised of draft typescripts, some ephemera from stage productions, and a few letters.

Box 1
Folders 8-13
Six folders with unbound and 'bound' typescripts/carbon copy typescripts of The first Joanna : a play in three acts, pagination for each varies, some have handwritten emendations, all are undated, most are in very poor condition and fragile.

Box 2
Folders 1-2
Two folders with unbound carbon copy typescripts of The first Joanna : a play in three acts, 92 leaves, undated, with accompanying envelope addressed to the Merry Days Correspondence School in Eltham, Victoria. [The principals of Merry Days Correspondence School, Nursery School, Kindergarten and Sub-Primary were R. and E. Blewett, which they began in 1942.]

Folder 3
Loose pages of The first Joanna, some with handwritten emendations, undated.

Folder 4
Correspondence and contracts:
Contract with: J.C. Williamson Theatres Limited and Dorothy Blewett, dated 20 Jun 1944; Maxwell Wray Productions Limited and Dorothy Blewet dated 26 Sep 1952.
Letters: Australian Broadcasting Commission to Dorothy Blewett dated, 9 Dec 1947; letter to and from Linnit and Dunfee, date 16 Oct 1951 and 5 Dec 1951; telegraph offering payment for television rights, 27 Sep 1960; Australian Broadcasting Commission to Dorothy Blewett, 28 Sep 1960; and A.B.C. Television Rehearsal Schedule for The First Joanna from 1 Feb 1961 to 22 Feb 1961, from producer Christopher Muir.

Folder 5
Ephemera relating to The first Joanna. Includes: 1 b&w photograph of the first performance in Marc 148 at Metropolitan Theatre Sydney; 1948 program from the Metropolitan Theatre (2 copies); hand drawn stage setting; The Metropolitan newspaper, vol 1 no. 3, 21 Feb 1948 (2 copies); and program for the St. Peters Community Plays performance, from 1949.

20 photographs (some duplicates) of the sculpture 'Fat Man'.

Mostly pen and pencil drawings from Mayo’s Sydney studio from 1940s to 1950s. Includes a window mounted pen drawing of Susannah which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, Nov 2011 to Jan 2012.