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Correspondence, Personal, 1930 to 1939

Letters, telegrams and postcards sent to Daphne Mayo between 7 Jan 1930 and 28 Dec 1939. Not all years have correspondence.
1930 - 19 letters and 3 telegrams. Correspondents include: Wal (Walter Taylor) (4 letters); 'Golly' (Nell Mary Lette Hubble) (5 letters); Ina (Selina) Rivers; Kathleen ; Rose; Frank; and several letters of congratulation.
1931- 8 letters and 2 telegrams. Correspondents include: Everilda Birch; Wal (Walter Taylor) (3 letters); 'Golly' (Nell Mary Lette Hubble); Ina Rivers; and Bertha Hubble (about the death of Nell Hubble).
1933 - 3 letters and 1 postcard. Correspondents include Aunt Rose; and Wal (Walter Taylor) (2 letters, one of which proposes marriage and Daphne has a draft response to him on the back of the letter).
1934 - 4 letters and 1 letter card.
1935 - 3 letters.
1937 - 3 letters.
1938 - 2 postcards, 1 telegram.
1939 - 7 letters. Correspondents include: Auntie Daisy; Rosie.

Correspondence, General, 1930 to 1939

Correspondence from 4 Apr 1930 to 29 Dec 1939. Correspondents include: Queensland Club; W. Rubery Bennett; MacQuarie Galleries; Society of Artists; Queensland Wattle League; William Moore; Government House, Brisbane; Sculptors' Society of Australia; Women's Executive Committee and Advisory Council; Brisbane City Council; Carnegie Corporation; National Gallery of Canada; McGill University.

Diaries, travel journals, notes, visitng cards, passport.

Includes: travel diaries from when Bill and Lila Mayo travelled in 1929; notebook with notes on birds (1923-1926); passport for the Mayo's; visiting cards for W. McA. Mayo. These papers are presumed to be from the estate of her mother, Lila Mayo.

Correspondence and Records relating to works of art, 1930s

43 letters and 2 telegrams from 22 Jan 1930 to 25 Oct 1939. Correspondents include: Jack P. Donoghue, Architect, regarding the Pediment and Station of the Cross for Holy Spirit Chruch New Farm (22 Jan 1930); several letters from C. Bruce Dellit, Architect regarding the Anzac Memorial Building, New South Wales; Trustees of the Anzac Memorial Building (25 Sep 1930); S.A. Parker (9 Jan 1931); Customs and Excise Office (10 Feb 1931); Society of Artists requesting receipt for sale of bust (24 Sep 1931); E. J. Gregory (Manufacturer of Bronze Statuary and all Intricate Castings); letters from Prime Minister's Department and Civic Branch of the Department of the Interior regarding submitting designs for the Memorial to His late Majesty King George V (1936); City of Melbourne regarding King George Memorial (1937); A.B. Burton, Surrey (1938-1939); Society of Artists notifying her they have awarded her their Medal (15 Aug 1938); Rohm & Hass (25 Oct 1939). Some letters are accompanied by a draft response.

Financial records relating to artistic works, 1918 to 1939

Receipts, invoices, correspondence relating to works of art and studio expenses, dated from 9 Nov 1918 to 25 Oct 1939. Small notebook with lists of professional expenses with one page having a note across the top 'June 1936 to June 1937'.

Postcards, various

Postcards, most appear to have been collected by Mayo on her travels abroad. Some have been sent to her. Includes a postcard with a Lloyd Rees drawing "Rose Window, St Johns Cathedral, Brisbane. June 14"; unmarked.

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