General financial records including correspondence, receipts, and invoices.

Taxation records and correspondence.

Writings, notes, and lists by Daphne Mayo on her professional and personal activities and interests. Includes some address books, calendars, ephemera, permits, library cards, and other miscellaneous material she retained in her life.

Written in a Quill Pen Carbon Book is the carbon copy handwritten draft of the biography of Vida Lahey by Daphne Mayo. Original pages have been removed. Orginal and carbon copy page numbers 1 and 2 missing; carbon copy pages span from page 3 to page 26, with some emendations. It is a draft of an article written for the Society of Women Writers Of NSW Literary Competition, in 1969, by "Lilian MacArthur". On page 100 are notes by Daphne Mayo include length of time to read, suggested amendments to the text and possible reference to Vida Lahey's daily routine.

Original typescript manuscript of biography of Vida Lahey. The cover has a b&w photograph of Vida Lahey painting with the caption 'Vida Lahey M.B.E.'. This article written for a literary competition of the Society of Women Writers of N.S.W. in 1969. Daphne Mayo wrote it under the pyseudoynm 'Lilian MacArthur' (a combinaton of her first name and the second name of her father, William MacArthur Mayo). It gives an account of Vida Lahey's family history, her artist development, her art, her involvement in encouraging art in Queensland and art for children.

Notices, meeting information, correspondence for various societies and interest groups including: Imperial Arts League (London) (which includes a brochure Copyright and the artist); Society of Artists; Society of Sculptors, Queensland; Queensland Film Society; Brisbane Women's Club; The Colour Club; Arts & Crafts Society of Brisbane; Australian Institute of International Affiars; Property Owners' Association of Queensland; Soil Erosion and Water Consevation Conference; Asian and Pacific Peace Movement; Studio of Realist Art (SORA).

Postcards, most appear to have been collected by Mayo on her travels abroad. Some have been sent to her. Includes a postcard with a Lloyd Rees drawing "Rose Window, St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane. June 14"; unmarked.

European artwork illustration plates.

Images of European art and architecture: Photographers A to J.

Art work prints and illustrations.