Drafts, notes, notebooks, research materials, press cuttings, reviews, relating to Carey's published and unpublished writings, including novels, short stories, screenplays and scripts, and non fiction works. Correspondence, personal papers, works by other authors, and photographs are also included.

Correspondence, diaries, prose manuscripts, clippings, photographs, computer discs.

Drafts, correspondence and research notes.

Drafts of short stories, playscripts and novels, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and copies of printed sources containing material about Ron Tullipan, notebooks, research materials, photographs, album of newspaper cuttings and other memorabilia compiled by Vi Tullipan.

Notebooks (referred to by Herbert as "literary logs"), manuscript drafts, proofs and other papers relating to Poor Fellow My Country, Disturbing Element, Soldiers' Women, and "The Little Widow" together with short stories, poems, articles, publications, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs, financial records and artwork by Xavier Herbert.

Diaries (21 written between 1986 and 1999), notebooks, drafts of short stories (published and unpublished), correspondence, promotional material, reviews, articles, research material, reader's reports, music, files and drafts of novels (published and unpublished). Novel titles include: Metal Fatigue, The Resurrected man, Stone Mage and the Sea, Sky Warden and the Sun, Storm Weaver and the Sand, The Crooked Letter, The Blood Debt, Ascent, Descent, The Soap Bubble: A Space Opera, Midnight in the Cafe of the Black Madonna .

Manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, research notes, literary awards, publishing contracts, diaries, drafts of speeches, some Astley family history material. Includes two portable Hermes typewriters: green, in case 7 x 29 x 31 cm; and cream, in case 8 x 31 x 32 cm.

Research notes, manuscripts, correspondence relating to novels Blood Red, Sister Rose and Gossip from the Forest.

Drafts, correspondence and research notes relating to literary works of Venero Armanno. Includes drafts of The Lonely Hunter, Romeo of the Underworld, My Beautiful Friend, Strange Rain, Firehead, The Volcano, The Dirty Beat, Black Mountain, Burning Down (also known as Burning Town), Moon a rock opera, Presidentsland, Blood and pasta, Firehead, and The Crying Forest. Drafts of and notes relating to Armanno's PhD thesis.

Poems, letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, birth certificates and other research material gathered by Zoe O'Leary in writing the biography of her father Alfred Midgley, and a typed, annotated draft of "The little Byron: The life of Alfred Midgley, Queensland Poet, Parliamentarian and Methodist Pioneer".