Preliminary design for the dustjacket of the Miles Franklin Award winning novel, first published in Sydney by Collins in 1975. Oil painting on stiff card, the size of the book, 29 x 51 cm folded as a dustjacket. The rough sketch by Crooke shows his initial thoughts regarding the design of the wrapper. The bleak landscape insert would be reworked and developed to encompass the whole jacket. Accompanied by finished cover with annotations.

Letters dated 4 Mar 1963, 12 Mar 1963 and 27 Jul 1963, to E.M. [Penelope] England from Jessie Clark, congratulating England on her poetry and discussing it in some detail.

Correspondence, newsletters and other material related to the Australian Society of Authors, collected by Queensland Membership Vice-President Joan Priest.

Letters from Xavier Herbert written to his editor Robert Roseman at Collins Publishers during the final year of writing his novel Poor Fellow My Country.

Handwritten translation from the German of Friedrich Hebbel's play 'Herod and Mariamne.' Presented by Leslie Holdsworth Allen to Muriel and Harry Warlow-Davies.

Poem.

First draft.

Unpublished novel based on author's life in Croftby, South East Queensland. Also 2 page synopsis.

Manuscript of article published in reduced form in 'The Bulletin', 22 Feb 1961, p. 52.

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.