Correspondence from Daphne Mayo to her parents.

6 large sketch pads and 1 account ledger. Sketch pads have notes and drawings (in pencil, pen). Account ledger (33 cm) has notes on firings of sculptures with dates ranging from 1946 to 1956, lists of names and addresses, and general notes.

12 notebooks with writings, notes, draft letters relating to her art.

Detail drawings for the Cathedral in Hobart. Miss Rivers, sister of Godfrey Rivers, commissioned Dapthne Mayo to create a memorial to her brother. These drawings are suggestions.

12 sketch, note or memo books with writings, notes relating to her art; sketches; glaze recipes; colour. Most sketch books have not been fully used. Six are spiral sketch books.

1 album with slots for art reproduction prints (some have prints inserted) and notes, 22 x 28 cm. 14 sketch, note or memo books with writings, notes relating to her art; sketches; glaze recipes; colour. Most sketch books have not been fully used. Three have names of towns written on the cover and associated sketches: Bolonga/Venice ; Assisi; and Siena. One notebook has notes on motifs and newspaper cuttings inserted at the end. Another notes on dynamic symetry. Another, lined notebook, has notes on State Schools free education and at the other end of the notebook a list of letters to write and bills to pay for Jan 1956. Some have scales for sculptures such as 'Little black baby', 'S. Paterson', and 'Prof. Waterhouse'.

Folder containing drawings, sketches, paint on paper works. Includes: Henry Mayo Bateman pencil on paper sketch with note: Tenderest Memories. Little Daphne by Cousin Binks (HM Baateman), ca. 1922; and scale layout for sculpute of a "baby".

Studies and sketches for projects and/or commissions.
• Sketches for Public Library of New South Wales doors: draft drawing for doors (with individually pinned pictures for panels, 56 x 38 cm); 10 sketches, sizes vary, includes notes on possible content for the doors; 1 folded set of sketches, middle pages have been cut or torn with titles for some -- 'Childhood', 'Boomerang practice' and 'Axeman'; drawing, pencil with chalk on wrapping paper, 1940, 31 x 22 cm, window mounted (56 x 40 cm) which formed part of the Queensland Art Gallery Exhibition Daphne Mayo : let there be sculpture, in 2011.
• Charcoal drawing, double sided (61 x 61 cm).
• Charcoal sketch [for the Wild White Horse and Susannah?].
• Sketch, pen [for Bancroft medal?]
• Notebook, no covers, with 10 sketches of birds (pelican, jabiru).
• Sketch [for pelican fountain?] on part of large envelope.
• 3 sketches [for Dr Christine Rivett?]
• 1 double sided sketch [for Kings School Memorial?]
• 2 sketches for Unsung Heroine of War.
• Sketch for Church of the Holy Spirit, Newfarm.
• Sketch from the 1940s?
• Sketch, with notes [for Lion Tamer?]
• 2 sketches on lined paper for Man in the Street.
• 14 Sketches (34 cm) [for youth at Knox School?]
• Facial measures for portrait bust of woman (very fragile and breaking apart).
• Diagram for carving of Brisbane City Hall tympanum, left hand side only, showing stone joints and various depths of relief.
• Sketch, 57 x 185 cm, uneven edge on right hand side [for The Olympian?]
• Studies on one lined page for the Fat Man.

Studies for the Trophy for Winton's Bronze Swagman Award for Bush Verse.

Abstract pattern designs [for ceramics and fabrics?] including prints from lino block. Includes experiements with colours, a small warrior picture, some with lesson title, and some with lesson numbers.