Forty-nine architectural plans for the Library and Chapel complex at St Laurence's College, South Brisbane, including sketch plans and working drawings.

Fifty-six architectural drawings relating to St Joseph's Church at Tweed Heads, including sketch plans, working drawings, joinery plans and additional drawings.

Drawings for the Catholic Cathedral of St Joseph at Rockhampton by Hennessy, Hennessy & Co and Ian Ferrier, including floor plans, elevations and joinery details.

Speeches, papers, presentations authored or co-authored by John Pearn.

In 1967 Cottrell-Dormer was employed by the South Pacific Commission to conduct an agricultural extension survey. The 12 files in this series consist of his personal copies of the reports he wrote and submitted to the Commission between 1967-1973.

This series contains drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence. Something in the blood was published by University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 1979. Consisting of fifteen (15) short stories set in Papua New Guinea before its Independence. The short story Drowning was first published in the New Guinea Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, 1975-76. Some stories contain short passages in Pidgin. The stories deal with the themes of local customs, attitudes, acts of aggression, missionaries, loneliness, and racism. Includes drafts, cuttings of reviews from journals and magazine, scripts of radio plays adapted from the stories, and related correspondence.

This series contains drafts and notes. The screenplay for Snowdrop, with the working title of 'Little black dress', was not commissioned. Sheartson wrote it and it was taken up by Julie Money and Michael Cook. After disagreements between Shearston and Adelphi Films, the screenplay rights were bought by Julie Money and Michael Cook with Jeff Truman as the final writer of what became the film Envy. This film is also know as The new girlfriend. This series includes drafts of the various working titles, correspondence, and reviews.

162 colour 35 mm slides featuring buildings of Hayes and Scott.

1479 35mm slide mounted transparencies, most individually captioned. Slides were arranged into subject files by the creator, as outlined below. Also 39 35mm negatives.

==Album 1==
2 pages of notes
Cath Healy, 18 slides
Mrs C-D personal, 21 slides
Papua 1-400, 229 slides
Papua and New Guinea 401-800, 211 slides

==Album 2==
Brisbane, 83 slides
NSW & ACT, 118 slides
USA, 21 slides
France, 12 slides
Pacific isles, 160 slides
Mekeo agricultural development, 211 slides
Mekeo rice project, 39 negatives

==Album 3==
Black and white II [images from PNG], 276 slides
Black and white III [images from PNG], 122 slides