50 badges relating to radical politics, labour movements, and student protests.

Diary, correspondence, cards, Fellowship reports, ephemera, drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings relating to Rosanne Fitzgibbons receiving the first Beatrice Davis Award in 1992 and her time in New York with Norton Publishing in 1992-92. The Fellowship is named after the distinguished literary editor Beatrice Davis and provides an opportunity for a senior editor to develop knowledge and expertise in the editorial department of an international publishing house/s.

The Bell family initially settled in the Dalby area and were assoicate with several properties including Jimbour Station, Jimbour House, 'Westland' (managed by Colin Basil Peter Bell) and Rakeevan (given by John Ferguson to Joshua Thomas and Catherine Jane Bell (nee Ferguson).

6 pieces of shards of crockery and glassware found by Shearston at the site of Halls house at Sandy Creek, near Grenfell. The house was burned down by the NSW Police in 1862. Shearston believes these shards are of plates that Hall ate from and bottles he drank from. Found during one of Shearstons scouting trips for the possible film production of the screenplay 'Game' in 1995 or 1997.

Biographical details of Graham de Gruchy, 1974

This series is comprised of papers of some of Dorothy Blewett's sisters: Elizabeth Melville Blewett (born Elsie Melville Blewett, also referred to as 'Bill') and Rowena Sarah May Blewett. Rowen and Elizabeth advertised in Victorian newspapers, from 1942 to 1947, for their 'Merry Days Correspondence School' for kindergarten and sub-primary children. It includes their notes used for the stories and lessons they shared on nature study stories. Elizabeth Blewett was also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and is most well known for her book Care of Breeding of Australian finches. There draft manuscripts of her writings.

Box 6
Folders 1-2
Carbon copy typescript draft drafts for Merry Days Correspondence School' nature study stores. Undated, most likely written from 1942 to 1947.

Folder 3
Handwritten draft of a children's story written in an old invoice [?] book; in the reverse an Australian alphabet story with Australian animals and places and associated drawings. Two inserted pages for the alphabet story.

Folder 4
Typescript draft with original, carbon copy and photocopied pages for Care of Breeding of Australian finches, with [83] leaves, with five leaves with maps of Australia to show location of finches and notes. Original folder with name and Victorian address of Elizabeth now discarded. Elizabeth lived in London with Dorothy from 1951 to 1959.

Folder 5
Original folder (now discarded) had label 'Children literature project':

Typescript draft of "Duffers" by Elizabeth Blewett, unpublished, with inserted b&w photograph used to base the story on, 92 leaves, undated. Original folder binding has Seaford address crossed out and London address added.

Typescript chapter drafts for unknown work or works.

"Book of memory for James Devaney, frontispiece designed and illuminated by Chas. Sherratt. Bound by the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Redcliffe (Qld.) Branch to honour the 80th birthday of James Devaney 31st May 1970." 1 item (51 l., bound, typescript and holograph, col. ill., 20.5 x 21 cm.); contains letters, poems, appreciations by famous Australian writers and friends. Accompanied by birthday card, also illuminated.

Bookplates collected and arranged by Patrick Corrigan.