Publications that belonged to Lila Mayo. These papers are presumed to be from the estate of her mother, Lila Mayo.

Comprises:
Chisholm, A. (1922). Bird seeking in Queensland (1770-1922). Brisbane: Carter-Watson.[Inscribed and signed by author, June 1922]
Hall, R. (1906). A key to the birds of Australia (2nd. ed.). Melbourne: Walker, May &. [Annotations, notes, poetry by Lila Mayo]
Mitchell, E., & Cazneaux, H. (1950). Australian treescapes : A photographic study (Ure Smith miniature series ; 7). Sydney: Ure Smith. [Letter from ‘Verity’ to ‘Marmee’ inserted]
Read, H. (1931). The meaning of art. London: Faber and Faber. [Inscribed: To my dearest ones from Mayo June 1st 1936]
Ure Smith, S. (1943). Australian present day art (Present day art in Australia). Sydney: Ure Smith. [Inscribed: with love to Mum & Dad just to remind them how clever they are! March 2nd 1944 Daphne].
Zweig, S. (1947). Balzac. London : Cassell. [Inscribed: to my Mother and Father with love, March 1951]

Correspondence relating to travel arrangements and submission of reports for the South Pacific Commission survey.

88 leaves, typescript with handwritten annotations.

Therese Collie interviews Marie Crisp. Marie Crisp worked in the metal trades during the second World War, joined the Vehicle Builders Union, Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union and Queensland Council of Unions, and was a member of the Communist Party of Australia and the Union of Australian Women. She was a lifelong campaigner for the rights of women workers and Aboriginal people.

Marie talks of her early life growing up in Murwillumbah (New South Wales) and central Queensland; working at Monto hospital and being a member of the Australian Workers' Union; moving to Brisbane during the second World War and working at Ford; Amalgamated Electrical Union and Metal Trades Union; joining the the Miscellaneous Workers' Union; being a member of the Communist Party and Union of Australian Women; the rights of women workers and Aboriginal people.

Correspondence, notes, research material, interview transcripts with David Rankin, newspaper cuttings, reviews and draft by Judith Rodriguez for introduction and biography on Jennifer Rankin for her book Collected Poems published by University of Queensland Press, 1990.

Letters from Clem Christesen, 1960 to 1963. Program - two recitals, Assembly Hall, Melbourne.

Publications collected by or featuring a person from the Bell family.

1. The Australian Pastoralist, Vol. 16 , No. 7, March 10, 1924. Features a story about the early days on the Darling Downs.
2. The Field : the country gentleman's newspaper Vol. CXLVII, no. 3823, Thursday, Apirl 1, 1926. Cover and story inside regarding the The University Boat Race in which J.B. Bell [J.P. Bell?] was one of the rowers.
3. Dr Bradfield’s scheme for watering inland Queensland [reprint from Longreach Leader, 31 Dec 1938]
4. Reproduction print of Goulds 'Graucalus mentalis'.
5. Reproduction print of Goulds 'Eurystomus Australia'.
6. Reproduction of the 1891 Agreement between the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia (NSW) and the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia (NSW); with additional information at the bottom of the agreement; on the reverse a collage of copies of b&w photographs of shearers and advertisements from the era.

Original folder was titled 'Short stories'. There is one screen play and 28 short stories. Some are edited or annotated; some have multiple drafts; some are written by Kathryn Ruska. Contains the following short stories:
‘The Armada’;
‘Black Jimmy's Crime’;
‘Boonah’;
‘The Boy who shot the kookaburra’ (condensed from Stradbroke Dreamtime) [on heat sensitive paper];
‘The Bunyip’ (4 versions, one by Kathryn Ruska);
‘The Bush Ranger’ (by Ruska);
‘Cookie’;
‘Edward Ruska’ (2 drafts, one missing first page);
‘Fantasy in Sepia’;
‘Flight into Tunis’ (2 drafts);
‘Gooboora and the Bunyip’;
‘Gubbin and Grasshopper’ (5 drafts);
‘Joshua and Roo-Roo’;
‘Judge Not’ (K. Ruska);
‘Koo-Poo’ (3 drafts);
‘Koorie and Boorie’ (2 drafts);
‘Lucy McCullock’;
‘The Magic Hour’ (2 drafts by Kathryn Ruska);
‘The Magic Hour’ (screenplay);
‘No Horses for a Month’ (2 drafts);
‘Poetic Justice’;
‘The Rosary Beads’ (2 drafts);
‘Swans and Che’ (handwritten);
‘The Tail of Pinky Platypus’ (2 drafts by Kathryn Ruska);
‘Tiny and Wee’ (3 drafts; one by Kathryn Ruska) ;
‘The Turtle’;
‘The Unhappy Golliwog’ (3 drafts; one by Kathryn Ruska);
‘We look after our own’ (2 handwritten drafts); and
‘What the Seagulls told me’.

Typescript of presentation 'Good Works: The Ladies of the Arts and Crafts Society and Remedial Teaching in World Wars One and Two', with accompanying digital images saved on compact disc, and the program for the seminar at which the presentation was delivered on 13 August 2005. Also, an invitation to the launch of John McCulloch's two-volume history, 'From Suffragists to Legislators: Queensland Women in State and Federal Parliaments', and order forms for each volume.