Financial records, correspondence, notes, bank records, tax records relating to the finances of Daphne Mayo relating to her artistic works, property investments, investments in bonds and shares.

Receipts, invoices, correspondence relating to works of art and studio expenses, dated from 9 Nov 1918 to 25 Oct 1939. Small notebook with lists of professional expenses with one page having a note across the top 'June 1936 to June 1937'.

Exhibition catalogues, mostly from the 1930s

There are 96 letters and 10 postcards dating from 3 Aug 1919 to 22 Oct 1977, but also including many undated letters and some fragments.

Lloyd Rees and Daphne Mayo knew each other from their studies at the Brisbane Technical College. Rees and Mayo corresponded before Mayo left for London. When Mayo left on the ship, the Ormonde in Sydney in 1920, Rees was there to farewell her. They continued to correspond while Mayo was overseas and became engaged, by mail, in 1922. At this time Rees was living in Paramatta at a guest house called 'Bondo'. This address appears in several of his letters to Mayo. After their engagement, Mayo asked Rees to join her in England. Rees wrote several letters to Mayo while onboard the Esperance Bay. During their time in London and later in Italy they would spend their days pursuing their own studies and interests. Mayo gave Rees the nickname "Georgie". Many of his letters are addressed to "Mary" (his nickname for her) and signed "Georgie". In 1923 Daphne Mayo won the Rome Prize, a travelling scholarship to Rome, and the Royal Academy School of Art gold medal for sculpture. Despite Mayo offering to pay for Rees to stay on and travel with her, at her expense, Rees returned home to Australia, arriving in March 1925. Not long after his return, Mayo's brother Richard Mayo died. Before she returned to Australia, Mayo broke off her engagement to Rees via mail. After a short time in Sydney, she returned to live in Brisbane. They continued to write to each other for years to come. There is also some correspondence from Marjorie Rees, nee Pollard, who married Lloyd Rees in 1931.

There are some small drawings by Rees: Folder 1 - One letter from 6 May 1923 has a hand drawn stamp by Rees; Letter from 27 Jul 1923 has two b&w photographs and a sprig of wattle (or some other plant) -- Folder 2 - Undated letter with hand drawn colour picture of his "garret" at 'Bondo'.

298 undated notes, letters, postcards, and incomplete letters from Bill and Lila Mayo to their daughter Daphne.

This file includes: invitations to Art Exhibitions; Queensland Wattle Day League Scholarship Agreement, 12 Aug 1919; Form 1a. of the Royal College of Art, 15 Nov 1919; British School at Rome, House Rules, March 1923; Description of Rotating Exhibitions for 1939-140; The Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship, Aug 1962; notification of competitions, prizes, and exhibitions.

General correspondence, personal papers, and publications. The material in this subseries is presumed to be from the estate of Daphne Mayo's mother, Lila Mayo.

The letters in this file were written to Bill and Lila Mayo, Daphne Mayo's parents. Some are letters they have written to each other. They are presumed to be from the estate of her mother, Lila Mayo. Some letters were mistakenly filed in with correspondence to Daphne.

23 photographs and 7 negatives of Mayo family events.

William McArthur Mayo (Bill) and Eliza Mary (Lila), née Saxelby corresponded frequently with their daughter Daphne. Sometimes both parents would write individual letters to Daphne on the same day, at other times they would each write in the same letter, and they would also write to her individually. There are approximately 1422 items of correspondence in this subseries dating from 1919 to 1959. Bill would often write about financial matters including Daphne's rental property in Brisbane. Occasionally Lilia would get the date wrong and, if discernible, this date has been corrected in pencil on the letter. As Lila's health deteriorated, her handwritten became more difficult to read.