Correspondence from Jeffrey Smart – 26 letters (undated, 1978 to 2012)
[File 1]: 1978 to 1991; 1999; 2012. In a letter of 13 Sep 1980 Smart writes: ‘Dear David, It’s midnight. I’ve come down to the studio to look again at your portrait […] it is, I feel sure, the best picture I have ever painted.’

Correspondence from Judith Rodriguez – 130 letters (1964; 1974 – 2016):
[File 1]: 1964; 1974 to 1978; incl. 10 Oct 1977, enclosing 24 ex libris printed by her for Malouf (21 letters)
[File 2]: 1980 to 1987 (46 letters)
[File 3]: 1988 to 2016 (63 letters)

Correspondence from Manning Clark – 13 letters.
Comprises:
[File 1]: 1974 to 1991. Includes: 17 Jan 1990 – enclosing a typescript with manuscript emendations; 21 May 1991 – two days before his death – writing ‘David, I will miss you. […]. Manning’.

William McArthur Mayo (Bill) and Eliza Mary (Lila), née Saxelby corresponded frequently with their daughter Daphne. Sometimes both parents would write individual letters to Daphne on the same day, at other times they would each write in the same letter, and they would also write to her individually. There are approximately 1422 items of correspondence in this subseries dating from 1919 to 1959. Bill would often write about financial matters including Daphne's rental property in Brisbane. Occasionally Lilia would get the date wrong and, if discernible, this date has been corrected in pencil on the letter. As Lila's health deteriorated, her handwritten became more difficult to read.

Correspondence from Patrick White – 7 letters
Comprises:
[File 1]: 1976 to 1990

Correspondence from Peter Porter - 24 letters
Comprises:
[File 1]: 1974 - 1999

Correspondence from Rosemary Dobson [Rosemary de Brissac Dobson – Rosemary Bolton] and Alec Bolton / Brindabella Press – 37 letters (1974 – 2012).
Comprises:
[File 1]: 1974 to 2012

Correspondence from Thomas Shapcott – 151 letters (1975 to 2011)
Comprises:
[File 1]: 1975 to 1977 - 12 letters.
[File 2]: 1982 to 1989 – 71 letters
[File 3]: undated, 1990 to 2011 – 68 letters

This sub-series consists primarily of incoming correspondence and includes letters of thanks and appreciation for her literary work and activities, cards, and postcards. Correspondents are more often individuals. Some correspondents have included their own poetry. Often there will be written across the top of the letter 'answered' but very few copies of the outgoing correspondence are attached. Most correspondents names were clearly identified; some may not be accurate or unable to be identified.

This subseries includes correspondence from Queensland, New South Wales and Federal government departments. Most of the letters and accompanying material for political parties is from the Australian Democrats in the first half of the 1980s.