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.

Cuttings from Brisbane newspapers relating to student radicalism, labour and union actions, and other political issues.

Seven bound volumes containing copies of essays published in the Mackay Daily Mercury. Topics cover many fields but the predominant interests are literature and astronomy. One volume contains an index to the essays.

The series includes manuscript and typescript drafts, notes, research material, and some related correspondence Carey's screenplays, of which Bliss and Until the end of the world were produced.

This series comprises: 48 tools ; a leather box with ties, titled Solid block of oil sketching paper, Winsor & Newton Artists' colour markers ; small leather box, engraved 'R.G. Rivers', with purple lining, protractor set [?] ; [File 1]: Folder with Sculptor's tool catalogues, technical information on techniques used in sculpture.

This series comprises manuscripts and drafts of unpublished and published short stories and short story collections. It also includes Carey's biographical story about the birth of his son Sam called A letter to our son

This series contains cuttings from journals or the journals with four short stories by Shearston and two unpublished play scripts.

This series is comprised of short stories and newspaper articles written by Dorothy Blewett. It also includes newspaper cuttings that are about Dorothy Blewett, her plays as well of articles that interested her. Based on when most of her short stories were published, they could have been written in the 1930s.

Two albums of 1052 35mm colour slides taken by Stephen Trotter during his Sisalkraft Travel Scholarship. The scholarship of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) was awarded to Trotter in 1963. The publication that was a required outcome of the scholarship was Cities in the Sun, a travelogue documenting the relationship between architecture and climate.

Album 1: Singapore (31 slides), Kuala Lumpur (41 slides), Hong Kong (40 slides), Bangkok (22 slides), India (83 slides), Agra (9 slides), Tehran and Istanbul (32 slides), Athens (29 slides), Rome and Milan (43 slides), Venice and Switzerland (44 slides), Hamburg and Copenhagen (28 slides), Malmo and Paris (34 slides), London and Fareham (38 slides), Salisbury to Wells (18 slides), Stratford-upon-Avon and Coventry (3 slides), Wells to Maryport, West England, Eireland (30 slides), Scotland (27 slides).

Album 2: Oxford and Cambridge (22 slides), Madrid and Toledo (33 slides), Lisbon (43 slides), New York (29 slides), Miami (5 slides), Kingston (3 slides), Caracus (35 slides), Brasilia (11 slides), Rio (4 slides), Sao Paulo (25 slides), Lima (13 slides), Mexico (33 slides), USA (23 slides), Los Angeles (19 slides), San Francisco (11 slides), Honolulu (3 slides), Tahiti (8 slides), Unidentified (180 slides).

1479 35mm slide mounted transparencies, most individually captioned. Slides were arranged into subject files by the creator, as outlined below. Also 39 35mm negatives.

==Album 1==
2 pages of notes
Cath Healy, 18 slides
Mrs C-D personal, 21 slides
Papua 1-400, 229 slides
Papua and New Guinea 401-800, 211 slides

==Album 2==
Brisbane, 83 slides
NSW & ACT, 118 slides
USA, 21 slides
France, 12 slides
Pacific isles, 160 slides
Mekeo agricultural development, 211 slides
Mekeo rice project, 39 negatives

==Album 3==
Black and white II [images from PNG], 276 slides
Black and white III [images from PNG], 122 slides