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Postcards and reproduction prints collected by Daphne Mayo

These postcards and prints were collected by Daphne Mayo during her travels in Europe and were used to inform her artistic work. The postcards (300), are mostly blank, and are mostly of historical buildings and sculptural art works in Europe. Some postcards have notes written by Daphne Mayo and some are addressed to her from friends. Newspaper cuttings, pictures cut from magazines and a line drawing are among the postcards.

Mayo, Daphne, 1895-1982

Freelance editing

Correspondence with authors and publishing houses regarding editing manuscripts. Contains copies (some partial) of manuscripts (some with annotations) for Gerald Windsor ('All day long the noise of battle'), Hugh Mackay ('What makes us tick?'), Marion Halligan ('Shooting the fox' and 'Murder on the apricot coast'), Brisbane City Council (Brisbane : 150 stories, 1858-2009), and Brian Castro ('Shanghai dancing').

Correspondence, 1945-1967

Material consists mostly of correspondence from Father Hayes to his sister Mary (Mrs Ambrose Brown) and his niece Jean Brown. Other correspondence includes letters from Daniel Augustine O'Brien.

Hayes, Edward Leo, 1889-1967

Philatelic Ephemera

Content consists of first day cover/first day issue envelopes, and cards. Most are addressed to 'Mrs Ambrose Brown' (Mary Zilla Hayes). There are a few addressed to Father Edward Leo Hayes and Jean Marie Brown. Also included are a number of envelopes containing stamps.

Postmaster-General's Department

Novels

Dorothy Blewett published two novels: Vision (1931) under the pseudonym Anne Praize, and Pattern for a Scandal (1948), published under her own name. This series has:

Parcel 1
Folder 1
The dust jacket for Vision, in very poor condition

Box 3
Folders 6-8
Three carbon copy typescript drafts, 'Death of anon de plume', 275 leaves, one copy with typescript inserts, 1958?

Folder 9
Untitled typescript draft about Dame Nellie Melba, possibly a fictional biography, handwritten emendations, unpublished, 215 leaves, undated

Folder 10
Five chapter drafts for unidentified works.

Blewett, Dorothy, 1898-1965

Short stories, articles and newspaper cuttings

This series is comprised of short stories and newspaper articles written by Dorothy Blewett. It also includes newspaper cuttings that are about Dorothy Blewett, her plays as well of articles that interested her. Based on when most of her short stories were published, they could have been written in the 1930s.

Blewett, Dorothy, 1898-1965

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