Correspondence originally filed separately from job files. Some of this material relates to projects Gibson was involved in, such as the redevelopment of ANZAC Square and the redevelopment of the Tattersall's Club, both in Brisbane. Some of the correspondence is personal.

Correspondents: Glenda Adams, Luciana Arrighi, Murray Bail, Bruce Beaver, John Bell, Bruce Beresford, Michael Berkeley, John Blight, Michael Brennan, David Brooks, Bille Brown, Felicity Bryan, Carmen Callil, Ian Callinan, Felix Calvino, Nancy Cato, Clem Christesen [writing to Judith Green, later Rodriguez], John Clanchy, Alison Clark, Dymphna Clark, Manning Clark, John Coetzee, Adele Cohen, Matthew Condon, Jim Davidson, Robyn Davidson, Bruce Dawe, Robert Dessaix, Rosemary Dobson, Espie Dods, Eve Duncan, Don Dunstan, Geoffrey Dutton, Nin Dutton, Christopher Edwards, Nick Enright, Michele Field, Helen Garner, Marea Gazzard, Clem Gorman, Lisa Gorton, Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Harrower, Kenneth J Harvey, Dennis Haskell, Ihab Hassan, Shirley Hazzard (Shirley and Francis Steegmuller), Janette Turner Hospital, Brian Howard, Barry Humphries, Ivor Indyk, Elizabeth Jolley, Gail Jones, Nicholas Jose (Nick Jose), Beate Josephi and Andrew Taylor, Nancy Keesing, Thomas Keneally, John Kinsella, Manoly Lascaris, David Leavitt, Gerard Lee, Geoffrey Lehmann, Kathy Lette, Alan Lightman, Stephen McClymont, Mark McKenna, Robert Macklin, Tony Maniaty, David Marr, Mandy Martin, Gillian Mears, Drusilla Modjeska, Frank Moorhouse, Mal Morgan, Les Murray, Philip Neilson, Cees Nooteboom, Mark O’Connor, Carlo Olivieri, Margaret Olley, Michael Ondaatje, Tony Page, Peter Porter, Pixie Pratt [Pixie O’Harris], Judith Rodriguez, David Rowbotham, Ethel Rowbotham, Lilian Roxon, John Ralston Saul, Jaya Savige, Scripsi (Michael Heyward and Peter Craven], Penelope Seidler, Tom Shapcott, Lidija Simkus-Pocius (Lidija Simkute), Ian Sinnamon, Norah Smallwood, Jeffrey Smart, Christina Stead, Lurline Stuart, John Tranter, James Tulip (Jim Tulip), UQP [Frank W Thompson, Roger McDonald, Craig Munro], Christopher Wallace-Crabbe (Chris Wallace-Crabbe), Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Jacki Weaver, Peter Weir, Gough Whitlam, Phyllis Webb, Patrick White, and many others.

Separate folders have been created for Bruce Beaver, Carmen Callil (Chatto & Windus), Manning Clark, Rosemary Dobson, Helen Garner, Peter Porter, Judith Rodriguez, Tom Shapcott, Jeffrey Smart and Patrick White.

Box 1
Folders 1 - 4: 118 letters by Harold Shapcott to his family, written while on active service in World War I, 1915 - 1919
Folder 5: Typed transcript of letters in folder 1 - 4
Folder 6: 7 letters to Harold Shapcott from his family, 1916 - 1919.
Folders 7 - 10: 45 letters and 35 greeting cards from friends to Harold Shapcott, 1917 - 1922; 1929.

Box 2
Folder 1: 4 letters from Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, 1919 - 1921.
Folder 2: 12 letters from the 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee, 1927 - 1943.
Folder 3: 17 items of correspondence relating to War Pension, 1936 - 1972.
Folder 4: 1 letter from Lloyd Hodge relating to 'War Babies', 15 April 1959.
Folder 5: 15 items of correspondence relating to 'Overseas trip', including earlier letters from France, 1919 - 1964.
Folder 6: 12 items of correspondence, including in relation to memberships and motor vehicles, 1938 - 1967.

Eighty one letters in total are in this series, fifty-six by Dick Roughsey.

Box 1
Folder 1
Letters from Dick Roughsey, 1956 to 1965 (22 items)

Folder 2
Letters from Dick Roughsey, 1965 to 1979 (21 items)

Folder 3
Letters from Dick Roughsey, undated (13 items)

Folder 4
Letters from Elsie Roughsey, 1963 to 1975 (9 items)

Folder 5
Letters from Lindsay Roughsey, 1964 to 1967 (7 items)

Folder 6
Miscellaneous, 1964 to [1994] (9 items)

Personal and professional correspondence.

Correspondence relating to various members of the Bell family.

Correspondence (incoming and outgoing) related to various building works designed by James Birrell as University Architect for the University of Queensland, and by his firm James Birrell and Partners. All of the building works are for the University of Queensland in the 1960s. Correspondence was housed in large binders that have been decanted into folders This correspondence has been arranged by the job when known and can span several years. Personal and business correspondence is included in this series.

Correspondence with others about Judith Wright, and other miscellaneous material collected.

Folder 2
Item 1: Judith Wright’s academic record from the University of Sydney, 1934-36 (includes photocopies from the Calendar of the University of Sydney outlining subjects studied)
Item 2: 22 Aug 80,1p, letter from Les Murray to Shirley Walker in response to a request to review The Poetry of Judith Wright, intended for publication in the Armidale Express
Item 3: Photocopy of the review by Les Murray of The Poetry of Judith Wright considered too contentious to publish in the Armidale Express
Item 4: 5 Jun 80, 1p, handwritten postcard from Les Murray to Shirley Walker regarding review of The Poetry of Judith Wright
Item 5: 3 Nov 93, 1p, handwritten postcard from Les Murray to Shirley Walker
Item 6: 19 Oct 83, original version of poem ‘Falls Country’ given to Shirley Walker by Peter Skryznecki, different to final version
Item 7: 15 Sep 74, 2p, letter from A.D. Hope to Shirley Walker regarding his book Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 8: 18 Jul 83, 2p, letter from Dorothy Green to Shirley Walker regarding article written by Shirley Walker on Christina Stead published in Meridian, handwritten
Item 9: 22 Oct 82, 1p, letter from Barbara Hanrahan to Shirley Walker, handwritten
Item 10: 05 Sep ?, 1p, letter from Jessica Anderson to Shirley Walker
Item 11: 24 Jan 80, 1p, letter from Jessica Anderson to Shirley Walker, handwritten
Item 12: Copy of speech by Shirley Walker at the launch of Peter Pierce’s book, Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally’s Fiction, at the ASAL Conference 1995
Item 13: 10 Jul 95, 2p, letter from Tom Keneally to Shirley Walker responding to her speech
Item 14: 28 Jul 95, 2p, letter from Shirley Walker to Tom Keneally replying to his letter dated 10 Jul 95, not answered
Item 15: 08 Jul 92, 1p, letter from Ken Goodwin regarding Vanishing Edens
Item 16: 10 Sep 79, 1p, letter from Ali Athar to Shirley Walker regarding his PhD study on Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 17: 15 Feb 80, 1p, letter from Ali Athar to Shirley Walker regarding his PhD study on Judith Wright, handwritten
Item 18: Photocopy of article by Ali Arthur, ‘Judith Wright’s mysticism: its Indo-Iranian strain’
Item 19: Photocopies of poems which appeared in the Sydney Mail 1925-29, New England Girls’ School Chronicle 1930-32, Hermes 1934, and miscellaneous poems arranged in chronological order
Item 20: Photocopies of the New England Girls’ School Chronicle 1930-1932 includes juvenilia poems and biographical information on Judith Wright

Folder 4
Item 1: 24 Dec 81, 1p, letter from Chairman, Division of Humanities, Morris College to Shirley Walker regarding article ‘Poetry of Judith Wright’
Item 2: 19 Sep 80, 2p, letter from [Peter ?] to Shirley Walker regarding references to Judith Wright in New Zealand newspapers
Item 3: 11 Mar 80, 1p, letter from Anna to Shirley Walker regarding Judith Wright poems published in An Australian Anthology
Item 4: 26 May 80, 1p, letter from Marianne Ehrhardt to Shirley Walker regarding Judith Wright poems in Fryer Library
Item 5: Wright, Judith, ‘The reef’s defenders’, The National Times, 14-20 Dec 1980, p12
Item 6: Clarke, Julie, ‘Judith Wright: Literary Ladies of Australia’, source not known, p92
Item 7: Photocopies of poems by Judith Wright:
--‘Remembered drought’, Bulletin, 17 Jan 51, p21
--‘Inheritor’, Bulletin, 19 Sep 51, p2
--‘The poet ages’, 21 Mar 56, p2
--‘The true religion’, Australian, 25 Oct 69, p15
--‘Hide or run?’, Canberra Poetry, Winter 1974, pp35-36
--‘The eucalypt and the national character’, Blacksmith, no 2, 1975, p46
--‘The emergence’, Southerly, vol 7, no 2, 1946, p84
--‘Nocturne’, Hermes, 1934, p22
--‘The crucible’, Hermes, 1934, p24
--‘Nocturne’, Hermes, 1935, p26
--‘Earth’, Australian National Review, 1 Oct 38, pp53-54
--‘City rain’, Australian National Review, Apr, 1939, pp51-52
--‘Battle-station, New Guinea’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 Nov 42, p7, copied by hand
--‘Township at night’, Bulletin, 17 Feb 43, p12
--‘G.W. Australia 1827’, source not known
--‘The bubble’, Jindyworobak Anthology, 1949, p10
--‘The last classicist’, Austrovert, no 7, 1952, p7
--‘To A.D. Hope’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Nov 65
--‘Painting an orchard’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 1, no 3, 1973, p2
--‘Eve to Adam’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 1, no 3, 1973, p3
--‘After the visitors’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 2, no 1, 1973, p3
--‘Remembering Michael’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 2, no 3, 1974, p3
--‘About building’, New Poetry, vol 22, no 2 and 3, 1974, p54
--‘For M.R., in return’, Poetry Australia, vol 50, 1974, p34
--‘Dream’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, vol 3, no 3, 1975, p15
--‘Elegy for a whale’, Nation Review, Apr 9-15, 1976, p644
--‘Learning a word’, Overland, vol 62, 1975, p44
--‘Thought control machine’, Overland, vol 64, 1976, p36
--‘The emergence’, Southerly, vol 8, no 2, 1946, p84
--‘To Hafiz of Shiraz’, Galmahra, 1960, p35
--‘The document’, source not known
--‘The city asleep’, ‘Flame-tree in a quarry’, ‘Woman to man’, ‘Woman to child’, Poetry Commonwealth, vol 2, 1948, pp2-4
--‘Hunting snake’, Luna, p10
--‘Entertainment’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p305
--‘On the beach at Hokitika’, Landfall, no 120, 1976 p304
--‘In the rail-car’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p303
--‘From the Wellington museum’, Landfall, no 120, 1976, p302
--‘Canberra’, Hemisphere, vol 20, no 4, 1976, p41
--‘Campfire at evening’, Poet’s Choice, 1977, p 74
--‘End of a monarchy’, Age, 5 Feb 77, p22
--‘Elegy for a whale’, Poet’s Choice, 1976, pp61-62
--‘Power dream’, Canberra Poetry, 1976, p29
--‘Boundaries’, Age, 28 Aug 76, p120
--‘End of a monarchy’, Poems from the Age, 1979, 122
--‘Durre’, Neue Welt, 29 Aug 61
--‘To A.H., New Year, 1943’, The Moving Image, 1946, pp14-15
--‘The other half’, ‘Brush-turkey’, The Texas Quarterly Image of Australia, 1962, p 94
--‘Late spring’, Bulletin, 31 Oct 56, p34
--‘White night’, Saturday Book Club of Poetry, no 1, 1972, p3
--‘Carrion beetles’, Southerly, vol 26, no 2, 1966, p93
--‘For Mariano Coreno, migrant poet’, Poetry Australia, no 6, 1995, p6
--‘The bargain’, Bulletin, 9 May 56, p2
--‘At a public dinner’, source not known
--‘Christmas ballad’, Overland, Autumn, 1973, p4
--‘The madman singing’, Poetry, no 16, pp25-27
--‘Eve scolds’, Australian, 10 Mar 73, p33
--‘Beside a creek’ and ‘The young wife’, London Magazine vol 2, no 6, 1962, pp37-38
--‘Two songs of mad Tom’, The Gateway, 1953, pp20-21
--‘The moving image’, part 3, 1962, pp4-6, source not known
--‘To A.H., New Year, 1943,’ 1962, pp14-15, source not known
--‘The unborn’, Poetry, no 18, 1946, p13
--‘The women’, Poetry, no 19, 1946, p12
--‘The garden’, Poetry, no 21, 1946, p23
--‘The clock’, Poetry, no 14, 1945, pp 13-14
--‘Two at night’, Poetry, 1947, p13
--‘Song for a drowning sailor’, The Gateway, 1953, p18
--‘That seed’, Poet’s Choice, 1971, pp4-5
--‘Halfway’, Australian Poetry, 1971, pp114-115
--City Sunrise, The Shapcott Press, Brisbane,1964, handwritten copy
--‘Value judgement’, Meanjin, 1956, p345
--‘Wings’, Australian Poetry, 1969, p33
--‘Furniture: mirrors’, Square Poets, 1971, p42
--‘Growth’, Meanjin, 1956, p240
--‘Two sides of a story’, Australian Poetry, 1969, p35
--‘The twins’, source not known

Two folders: 1. 9 letters, typescript and handwritten, received by Mrs Bennett from overseas institutions and friends re her donation and her book Christison of Lammermoor; and 2. accompanying notes compiled by Mrs Bennett for the slides in Series C.