Drafts of novels, short stories, film scripts and radio plays by Edward Vivian Timms and his wife, Alma. Also includes correspondence with publishers, royalty records, information on Timms' wartime service at Cowra internment camp, newspaper cuttings and ephemera.

Correspondence relating to James Harold Hornibrook's research into his family history; correspondence relating to Hornibrook's involvement with the State Library of Queensland; correspondence, typescripts and a speech relating to Hornibrook's research for his book 'Bibliography of Queensland Verse' (1953); correspondence and published material relating to James McCourt's research into the poet Christopher Brennan; correspondence relating to McCourt's interests in Australian literature and the printing trade; manuscripts by Dorothea Mackellar. E.J. Brady, Vance Palmer, Mary Gilmore, James Devaney and Thomas Shapcott; theatre and concert programs, art exhibition catalogues and other ephemera.

9 scrapbooks about stage and screen productions, actors and actresses. Contains chiefly newspaper cuttings; also contains some theatre programmes, correspondence and postcard photographs (some with autographs, including one of Ellen Terry).
Compiled in Australia. Refers to performances in Australia and overseas.

Correspondence and poetry manuscripts. Includes: ‘Rain in the Pine-Wood’, by Gabriele D’Annunzio, English version by Ernest Briggs, [19--], 3p, typescript (Previously catalogued at F1992); ‘Consolation’, by Gabriele D’Annunzio, English version by Ernest Briggs, [19--], 4p, typescript (Previously catalogued at F1993).

Literary drafts, journals (diaries), correspondence, publications, cassette tapes.

Material compiled in the course of researching the 1980 PhD thesis A study of Australian descriptive and travel writing, 1929-1945. Includes notes taken during conversations with Ernestine Hill, Louise Campbell, Laurie Hergenhan and others in 1972. Also includes correspondence with Robert Hill and others.
Records and ephemera relating to women in the labour movement and in the arts. Includes material relating to the Organising Committee of the Fourth Women and Labour Conference, the Feminist Film Workshop Resource Book Stage I’, and the Women & the Arts Advisory Committee’

One thousand and fifty two (1,052) 35mm colour slides and original bound manuscript relating to Trotter's publication Cities in the Sun, which were taken while he undertook his Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) Sisalkraft Travel Scholarship in 1963. An additional 147 35mm colour slides are included, which relate to architecture and design in Australia and the Torres Strait.

Architectural plans, specifications and photographs relating to Lauder house at 4 Crane Street, Newmarket.

Literary manuscripts, articles, publications, a small amount of correspondence.