Drafts, correspondence, research notes, and photographs for novels, screenplays and a short story written by Trevor Shearston. There are drafts for his radio documentary feature 'The New Guinea letters of John Green', aired in 1984. The screenplay for 'Snowdrop' (later filmed as 'Envy') had various working titles. Sticks that kill was initially preceded by a stage play call "Goaribari". A straight young back had the working titles of "The old magic touch" and the "Walk novel".

Arranged into Series :
Series A: Something in the blood [short story collection] (1979)
Series B: Sticks that kill [novel] (1983)
Series C: White lies [novel] (1986)
Series D: Correspondence with University of Queensland Press
Series E: A straight young back [novel] (2000)
Series F: Drafts for 'Walk novel'and 'The old magic touch' (A straight young back [novel])
Series G: Tinder [novel] (2002)
Series H: Dead birds [novel] (2007)
Series I: Concertinas [novel] (1988)
Series J: Snowdrop [screenplay] - filmed as Envy [motion picture] (1999)
Series K: New Guinea letters of John Green [radio documentary] (1984)
Series L: Short stories and dramatic works, published and unpublished, 1966 to 1995
Series M: Research files on Papua New Guinea
Series N: Game [screenplay]
Series O: Game [novel] (2013)
Series P: Photographs for Game [screenplay]
Series Q: Ben Hall realia

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, photographs, publications, notes, inventory, reports concerning Arnold Wienholt's career, especially in Ethiopia. Also family photographs.
Bulk of the collection dated 1915 to 1942.

Correspondence; articles, newspaper cuttings; newsletters; press releases from Queensland Council for Civil Liberties; University Senate correspondence including minutes and agendas; papers from the Senate Review of Academic Organisation of the University; reports including the Committee of Inquiry into the Development of Pharmacology in the University of Queensland; papers including a history of the Thirty Club meetings from 1921 to 1982.

Business correspondence; typescript articles; reports including patrol reports 1925-1940; memorabilia; E.A. James correspondence and papers relating to Pacific Territories Association; correspondence and papers relating to Mt. Lamington eruption 1951; Laurabada logbooks; newspaper clippings; photographs, including a series of photographs by Ivan Champion's brother, Allan.

Minutes of meetings, annual reports, circulars, correspondence and financial records, correspondence regarding nomination of trustee, Art Library records, newspaper clippings, press publicity reports, papers on the Queensland Art Fund lunch hour talks.

Playscripts, duty statements, Camerata News, programmes, press releases, posters, minutes, membership records, legal and financial documents, financial records, correspondence inwards and outwards, publicity files, photographs.

Correspondence relating to the literary journal The Austrovert, research material for The Puzzled Patriots: The Story of the Australia First Movement published in 1968, transcripts, newspaper cuttings and journals.

Playscripts of plays (and accompanying musical scores) performed by the Twelfth Night Theatre Company. Most are typescript, many are annotated. Some correspondence; a print library catalogue.

Commemorative volume bound in red leather, records the British Cotton Delegation tour of Queensland in 1922. There are mainly photographs interspersed with statistical information. Also included is a map entitled "Sketch map showing proposed railways for the Upper Burnett and Callide Valley lands", nd. Indicated in red is the route taken by the delegation on their tour. Accompanied by a photocopy of the Index to Photographs indicating any missing items.

Photographs; art exhibition catalogues; correspondence from students; correspondence and documents of Australian Flying Arts School, newsclippings; video "Big Country-Nice things happen"; film "Sky Bridges"