Contains manuscripts of works by Charles Ladds and Dulcie Dunlop Ladds, and includes playscripts, a family scrapbook, correspondence, and magazines including "New Idea" in which Dulcie Dunlop Ladds' articles were published.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, photographs, correspondence.

Literary drafts, proofs, research notes, newspaper cuttings.

Unpublished novel based on author's life in Croftby, South East Queensland. Also 2 page synopsis.

Letters, chiefly to Vivienne Rae-Ellis, related to "Queen Trucanini"; incoming correspondence; manuscript drafts of "Brown sugar", "Queen Trucanini", "Nin and the Scribblies", and "The heart of the continent"; notes and research material.

Carbon copy of original script of 'Of Mars, the moon and destiny', later published as 'Soldiers' Women.' Accompanied by two notes by Xavier Herbert.

Drafts of A Long Time Dying, Amy's Children, Loving Daughters, The Home Girls, A Working Man's Castle, and other short stories. Also correspondence, reviews, newspaper clippings, articles, audiocassettes, family photographs and documents.

This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.

Includes letters by Xavier Herbert and Laurie Hergenhan.
Papers compiled by Harry Mellor.

Typescript drafts of The Copper Crucible (1963 draft, and 1994 drafts revised by Ian Syson); newspaper cuttings and copies of Women's Realm containing articles and stories by Betty Collins; 2 poems (typescript) by Betty Collins. The Copper Crucible was originally published in 1966. Not all of the 1963 draft for the novel was used in this publication. In 1996, a new edition revised by Ian Syson was published. This new edition restores the 1963 draft, and also incorporates some passages from the 1966 version.