Correspondents: Glenda Adams, Luciana Arrighi, Murray Bail, Bruce Beaver, John Bell, Bruce Beresford, Michael Berkeley, John Blight, Michael Brennan, David Brooks, Bille Brown, Felicity Bryan, Carmen Callil, Ian Callinan, Felix Calvino, Nancy Cato, Clem Christesen [writing to Judith Green, later Rodriguez], John Clanchy, Alison Clark, Dymphna Clark, Manning Clark, John Coetzee, Adele Cohen, Matthew Condon, Jim Davidson, Robyn Davidson, Bruce Dawe, Robert Dessaix, Rosemary Dobson, Espie Dods, Eve Duncan, Don Dunstan, Geoffrey Dutton, Nin Dutton, Christopher Edwards, Nick Enright, Michele Field, Helen Garner, Marea Gazzard, Clem Gorman, Lisa Gorton, Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Harrower, Kenneth J Harvey, Dennis Haskell, Ihab Hassan, Shirley Hazzard (Shirley and Francis Steegmuller), Janette Turner Hospital, Brian Howard, Barry Humphries, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Jolley, Gail Jones, Nicholas Jose (Nick Jose), Beate Josephi and Andrew Taylor, Nancy Keesing, Thomas Keneally, John Kinsella, Manoly Lascaris, David Leavitt, Gerard Lee, Geoffrey Lehmann, Kathy Lette, Alan Lightman, Stephen McClymont, Mark McKenna, Robert Macklin, Tony Maniaty, David Marr, Mandy Martin, Gillian Mears, Drusilla Modjeska, Frank Moorhouse, Mal Morgan, Les Murray, Philip Neilson, Cees Nooteboom, Mark O’Connor, Carlo Olivieri, Margaret Olley, Michael Ondaatje, Tony Page, Peter Porter, Pixie Pratt [Pixie O’Harris], Judith Rodriguez, David Rowbotham, Ethel Rowbotham, Lilian Roxon, John Ralston Saul, Jaya Savige, Scripsi (Michael Heyward and Peter Craven], Penelope Seidler, Tom Shapcott, Lidija Simkus-Pocius (Lidija Simkute), Ian Sinnamon, Norah Smallwood, Jeffrey Smart, Christina Stead, Lurline Stuart, John Tranter, James Tulip (Jim Tulip), UQP [Frank W Thompson, Roger McDonald, Craig Munro], Christopher Wallace-Crabbe (Chris Wallace-Crabbe), Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Jacki Weaver, Peter Weir, Gough Whitlam, Phyllis Webb, Patrick White, and many others.

Separate folders have been created for Bruce Beaver, Carmen Callil (Chatto & Windus), Manning Clark, Rosemary Dobson, Helen Garner, Peter Porter, Judith Rodriguez, Tom Shapcott, Jeffrey Smart and Patrick White.

Two bound scrapbooks of records collected by Mary M. Bennett when compiling the history of her father, Sir Robert Christison, The bound volumes include: newspaper cuttings, extracts of newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, reprints of articles, and typescripts written by or relating to Sir Robert Christison and the Dalleburra people who lived on the same land. Most of the material covers the period 1870 to 1910.

Two folders: 1. 9 letters, typescript and handwritten, received by Mrs Bennett from overseas institutions and friends re her donation and her book Christison of Lammermoor; and 2. accompanying notes compiled by Mrs Bennett for the slides in Series C.

Architectural plans for various retail and commercial outlets in North Queensland including: Armstrong, Ledlie and Stillman Store in Cairns (1926); Mazlins Shop in Atherton (1932); Armstrong, Ledlie and Stillman Store in Atherton (1932); Jack and Newell Store in Mossman (1935); Extension to Bolands in Cairns (1935); Block of shops and flats in Cairns (1938); and Jack and Newell Store in Mareeba (1936).

Dr David Clements Jackson gave his original lecture notes from 1961 to Pearn. In 1961 the Department of Child Health was established within the University of Queensland.

Photographs comprise:

[Item 1] Commemorative photograph: 75th Anniversary of the University of Queensland, Department of Child Health, Clinical Examiners, 1985.
[Item 2] ‘Treasures of the Fryer Library’ [names of families represented in group photo written on frame], 1997.
[Item 3] Photograph of John Pearn and library staff at Customs House Presentation to John Pearn as Alumnus of the Year [from left: Lisa Kruesi, John Pearn, Grace Saw, Deborah Stumm and Andrew Heath], with accompanying note to Lisa Kruesi, 24 Oct 2004
[Item 4] One colour photograph of John Pearn’s presentation to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace where he received the King Edward VII Cup for service to lifesaving, injury prevention and prehospital care, 22 Nov 2016

Forty open open reel audiotapes of interviews as part of the project From lunchroom to boardroom : records of oral history project, Women in the Labor movement, 1930-1970.

This series is comprised of four (4) artworks mounted on boards, 31 x 51 cm.
Item 1: Fred Leist, (Two men in street), 1898, ink on paper, 10 x 13 cm, signed Fred Leist, mounted with an inscribed silver gelatin photograph, inscribed 'Lest you forget/Yours Fred Leist', 11 x 6.5 cm.
Item 2: Lionel Lindsay, The Return Home, ink on paper, 10.5 x 8 cm, inscribed lower centre "After Sunday dinner. The return home. Pray notice the ties - (very unique)'.
Item 3: Percy Lindsay, (The Vanquished), 1909, ink on paper, 20 x 15.5 cm, signed 'Percy Lindsay' dated '09'.
Item 4: Rose Lindsay, silver gelatin photograph, 19.5 x 13 cm, signed by Rose Lindsay.

Eighty one letters in total are in this series, fifty-six by Dick Roughsey.

Box 1
Folder 1
Letters from Dick Roughsey, 1956 to 1965 (22 items)

Folder 2
Letters from Dick Roughsey, 1965 to 1979 (21 items)

Folder 3
Letters from Dick Roughsey, undated (13 items)

Folder 4
Letters from Elsie Roughsey, 1963 to 1975 (9 items)

Folder 5
Letters from Lindsay Roughsey, 1964 to 1967 (7 items)

Folder 6
Miscellaneous, 1964 to [1994] (9 items)