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Daphne Mayo Papers File
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Address books, notebooks, album

2 address books, one given to her on 1 Oct 1937. 1 notebook with some writing and Russian [?] words and phrase. Album (11 x 16 cm) with autographs and drawings. Where is it? notebook with 'Mothers moral maxims for the kid' written on first page (written by Lila Mayo, Daphne's mother).

Correspondence, Personal, 1940 to 1949

151 letters, 11 telegrams, 2 letter cards, 1 card, 5 postcards and 11 photographs sent to Daphne Mayo between 7 Jan 1940 to 30 Dec 1949. Contents by year:
1940 - 20 letters, 1 postcard. Correspondents include: Ina Rivers (2 letters); Nita (3 letters); Margaret Preston (2 letters, to Miss Lahey and Miss Mayo, one with a response by Mayo on the back).
1941 - 13 letters, 1 postcard. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters) ; Marjorie S. Harrington (4 letters).
1942 - 12 letters, 2 lettercards. Correspondents include: Rosie (2 letters); Wal (Walter Taylor) (2 letters)
1943 - 7 letters, 1 postcard, 1 telegram. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters); Ina Rivers.
1944 - 13 letters, 2 telegrams. Correspondents include: Rosie (3 letters); Mavis; Josephine; Robert Carson (2 letters).
1945 - 22 letters, 1 postcard, 4 telegrams. Correspondents include: Rosie (3 letters); Mim (Mim Shaw); Rowland Suddaby (with b&w photograph); Captain Robert Carson (1 letter pocket calendar for 1946 and 1 b&w photograph; 1 letter with 9 b&w photographs); Barney Usherwood (2 letters).
1946 - 24 letters, 1 telegram. Correspondents include: Barney Usherwood (3 letters); Rosie (5 letters).
1947 - 17 letters. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters); May Usherwood (2 letters); Constance.
1948 - 7 letters, 1 postcard.
1949 - 16 letters, 3 telegrams, 1 card. Correspondents include: Chris (Dr Christine Rivett); Claudine (3 letters to 'Q.E.').

Correspondence and Records relating to works of art, 1918 to 1929

12 letters from 6 Aug 1918 to 23 Dec 1929. Correspondents include: Lewis McDonald (Secretary for the David Bowman Memorial Committee) (2 letters); N.C. Aitken of Streatham (13 Mar 1920); Chiurazzi (2 Nov 1925); J.W. Singer & Sons (4 Nov 1925); The Registrar, University of Queensland re the bust of Sir Matthew Nathan (5 Mar 1926); Cecil Dunn (28 Aug 1928); Bristish Medical Association re the Bancroft Memorial Medal (23 Jul 1928); Wunderlich Ltd re Stations of the Cross for Holy Spirit Church New Farm (20 Nov 1929).

Bill and Lila Mayo photographs

This file includes photographs of Lila Mary Mayo and William Mayo and one of Vida Lahey painting.

Mayo, Lila Mary, 1870-1959

Correspondence, General, 1980

Correspondence from 25 Feb 1980 to 23 May 1980. Correspondents include: South Australian Film Corporation attached to this is a response to their request from Richard H. Mayo, nephew of Daphne Mayo, who assisted her with her correspondence and business matters due to her living in a Convalescent Hospital; SGIO.

Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions

Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions.
• Sketches for Public Library of New South Wales doors: draft drawing for doors (with individually pinned pictures for panels, 56 x 38 cm); 10 sketches, sizes vary, includes notes on possible content for the doors; 1 folded set of sketches, middle pages have been cut or torn with titles for some -- 'Childhood', 'Boomerang practice' and 'Axeman'; drawing, pencil with chalk on wrapping paper, 1940, 31 x 22 cm, window mounted (56 x 40 cm) which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, in 2011.
• Charcoal drawing, double sided (61 x 61 cm).
• Charcoal sketch [for the Wild White Horse and Susannah?].
• Sketch, pen [for Bancroft medal?]
• Notebook, no covers, with 10 sketches of birds (pelican, jabiru).
• Sketch [for pelican fountain?] on part of large envelope.
• 3 sketches [for Dr Christine Rivett?]
• 1 double sided sketch [for Kings School Memorial?]
• 2 sketches for Unsung Heroine of War.
• Sketch for Church of the Holy Spirit, Newfarm.
• Sketch from the 1940s?
• Sketch, with notes [for Lion Tamer?]
• 2 sketches on lined paper for Man in the Street.
• 14 Sketches (34 cm) [for youth at Knox School?]
• Facial measures for portrait bust of woman (very fragile and breaking apart).
• Diagram for carving of Brisbane City Hall tympanum, left hand side only, showing stone joints and various depths of relief.
• Sketch, 57 x 185 cm, uneven edge on right hand side [for The Olympian?]
• Studies on one lined page for the Fat Man.

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