Carmel McCarthy selected eighteen letters for transcribing from the collection. Seventeen of the letters were written from Clonburrin House near the village of Fenagh in Co Carlow by various members of the Fryer family.

Correspondence, photographs, notes, newspaper cuttings, relating to the Moffatt/Bell family vault at Ipswich Cemetery (burial site for Thomas Bell (ca. 1798-1872), Mary Isabella Moffatt (nee Bell) (1826-1866), John Alexander Bell (ca. 1829-1901), Ipswich Racecourse, and ‘Maryville’, the first home of Joshua Peter and Margaret Bell.

Correspondence, incoming, from 2010-2012:
2010 – 11 letters: Peter Edwards (1 - enclosing an obituary of John Quinlem); Ihab Hassan (2); Ethel Rowbotham (1); John Ralston Saul (1); Others (6).

2011 – 10 letters: Murray Bail (1); Eve Duncan (1); Ihab Hassan (1); Others (7).

2012 – 6 letters: Eve Duncan (1); Gail Jones (1); Others (4).

4 speeches: 'The Human Spirit' by Georgia White Jun 2010 ; 'Diseases Come and Go' by John Pearn 4 Jul 2015 ; 'Hammurabi’s Code: Primary datum in the conjoined professions of Medicine and Law' by John Pearn 19 Apr 2016 ; and “Safety Promotion-A Late Specialty” The 2016 Kenneth Jamieson Oration 13 Sep 2016.

Manuscripts, publication cards and documents relating to the poetry and publications of Paul Knobel, Queensland poet and writer. One printout of An Australian Gay Chronology ; One printout of manuscript of Poems 2008-2011, removed from plastic ring-bound folder (discarded) ; One printout of _The twenty-first century: poems 2000-2007, spiral-bound, with handwritten corrections and commentary in black ink ; One copy of 'From touch to touch' published on white cardboard in A5 size ; Ten poems printed on cardboard of varying colours, ca. 8.7 x 21.7 mm, two of which are duplicates ; One printout of _Paul Knobel: Bibliography/Bio-bibliography/CV/Curriculum vitae/Vita current to 15 August 2011, clipped to one printout of _Paul Knobel: Bio-bibliography current to 9 October 2010.

Correspondence from and to Bruce Whiteside relating to the formation, governance and operation of Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Correspondents include Scott Balson and Queensland Electoral Commissioner, Walter van der Merwe.

Draft, version 12, 117 leaves. The first five pages in two different versions, with handwritten emendations. Accompanied by a photocopy of a three-page letter from Ihab Hassan, 20 May 2007, with feedback on the manuscript.

Aerial photographs, architectural drawings, sketches and correspondence relating to the design and construction of the Great Hall at Bond University.