Essays, lectures and discussion papers written for the Australasian Home Reading Union and for the Royal Society of Queensland. Also includes Byram's prize-winning poem of 1883 'Beethoven', the original typescript of his translation of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound', correspondence related to this translation, and summaries of Byram's career by F. W. Robinson and others.

Personal papers and photographs, including an autobiography and a history of the first 50 years of the Presbyterian Girls' College, Warwick, Queensland.

Notes, newspaper cuttings and a work diary pertaining to Feilding Chippendale's work as a horticulturalist on the University of Queensland's St. Lucia campus in the late 1930s. Also photographs of University of Queensland students (mainly in the Botany, Argriculture and Entomology Departments) on field excursions.

Research notes, books, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Nancy Bonnin's introduction to the 1975 University of Queensland Press edition of David Hennessey's The dis-honourable and to her 1985 book "Katie Hume on the Darling Downs." Also included is an essay on Hennessey's The Outlaw entitled "The Australian Bushranger : Cultural Catalyst."

Poems, letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, birth certificates and other research material gathered by Zoe O'Leary in writing the biography of her father Alfred Midgley, and a typed, annotated draft of "The little Byron: The life of Alfred Midgley, Queensland Poet, Parliamentarian and Methodist Pioneer".

Documents on student unrest and protest at the University of Queensland from 1964 to 1978. Includes newsletters, correspondence, programs of events, periodicals, pamphlets, handouts and flyers.

Manuscript material relating to the Australian issue of Aquarius and two published issues. It includes correspondence, manuscripts, press releases and newspaper cuttings,and poems submitted for publication both accepted and not used, and reviews.

Thirteen diaries covering the years 1934-1945 and 1954, as well as photographs, newspaper and manuscript articles about the Elsey Station in the Northern Territory. Included is a photocopy of an article by Ernestine Hill entitled They of the Never Never. The photographs cover the years 1907-1946 and show the Giles family and staff, the engraved Banyan tree, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester's visit in 1946, and Aboriginal families living on the station. Also included is a Giles family tree and family correspondence.

Newspaper cuttings, scrapbooks, photographs, tour and other memorabilia relating to Herbert Steinohrt, Rugby League luminary.

Typescript drafts of The Copper Crucible (1963 draft, and 1994 drafts revised by Ian Syson); newspaper cuttings and copies of Women's Realm containing articles and stories by Betty Collins; 2 poems (typescript) by Betty Collins. The Copper Crucible was originally published in 1966. Not all of the 1963 draft for the novel was used in this publication. In 1996, a new edition revised by Ian Syson was published. This new edition restores the 1963 draft, and also incorporates some passages from the 1966 version.