Newspaper cuttings, articles and letters to editors (Courier mail and Telegraph) ; collections of serialised newspaper stories ; poetry ; correspondence ; typed extracts from Hansard and Votes and Proceedings ; typescript and holograph papers relating to the Parliament of Queensland; newspaper cuttings and articles and papers on Queensland Parliament, politicians, and incidents in Parliament.

Certificates, war service papers, journal, correspondence, notebooks and clippings books, manuscripts of stories, pictures and photograph.

Papers relating to the Queensland Folk Federation and folk festivals: correspondence; posters; newspaper clippings; song lyrics; record lists; business correspondence of Queensland Folk Festival; minutes of meetings; miscellaneous folk festival programmes; audio tapes of oral history interviews and performances.

Photographs, correspondence, diaries, journals, newspaper cuttings, personal papers relating to the Bell Family, Jimbour Station, various Bell Family properties, Jimbour House, and its occupants.

Contains University of Queensland reports and source material; hydrology report on artesian wells in Queensland; Brisbane River Bridge specifications; and reports on cotton and the sheep industry in Queensland.

Correspondence; draft manuscripts, photographs, and personal papers relating to James Devaney.

Newspaper cuttings collected for her thesis Graingrowers and freight rates M.A. (Qual) thesis for the Government Department, University of Queensland, in 1974 (THE5449). Some of the volumes and pages are labelled: Queensland Graingrowers' Association. These cuttings may have belonged to this Association at some time.

The newspaper cuttings cover various aspects of grain growing, marketing, export and tariffs, transport, etc. Grains covered in the cuttings include wheat, maize, barley, sorghum, linseed, safflower and soybeans. The cuttings also cover activities of marketing associations such as the Queensland Grain Growers' Association, Barley Marketing Board, Grain Sorghum Marketing Board and the Vegetable Oil Growers' Association. Newspapers clipped include: Courier Mail, Sunday Mail, Grain Grower, Toowoomba Chronicle, Land, Kingaroy Herald and Country Life.

Notebooks (referred to by Herbert as "literary logs"), manuscript drafts, proofs and other papers relating to Poor Fellow My Country, Disturbing Element, Soldiers' Women, and "The Little Widow" together with short stories, poems, articles, publications, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs, financial records and artwork by Xavier Herbert.

This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.

Autobiographical notes, reminiscences of the Cairns district, yachting and the Cairns Aquatic Club; some of the stories accompany paintings by Charles Callins. Also a folder of photocopied correspondence, articles, photographs and price list of paintings at a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Charles Callins at Gallery A, Sydney March 1977. The oil painting Accomplished forms part of the collection.