Correspondence relating to research on the William Duckett-White family in Ireland and emigration to Australia.

Oscar and Lucinda had the working titles 'Orphans', 'Broken Glass', and 'Holy Ghost'. Published in 1988 in Australia by University of Queensland Press. In the same year it won the Book Council Award (Australia), Booker Prize for Fiction (Australia) and Miles Franklin Award. Includes: Complete and incomplete drafts of Oscar and Lucinda and its working titles, including corrections, notes, correspondence, research material, publicity material, reviews, speech notes for the launch of Oscar and Lucinda. Oscar and Lucinda has won the Booker Prize 1988, Miles Franklin Award 1989, NBC Banjo Award 1989, Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award 1988, and the Festival Award for Literature (South Australia) 1990.

This subseries contains speeches and reports by (or attributed to) Oodgeroo Noonuccal in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.

Letters from children, high school and tertiary students and teachers and academics, mostly from Australia. Letters from Universities include inviting her to attend functions, be a guest speaker, comment on indigenous issues.

18 glass plate negatives.

Carbon typescript (45 leaves ; 26 cm) of the short story The fat man in history : (A short story by Peter Carey). Includes a copy of the layout for the back cover and the entire cover of the short story collection The fat man in history, with annotations.

Blueprint for alterations to the presbytery at Mareeba for Rev Father Larkin O.S.A. Various drawings for the Church to be built in Constance Street, Mareeba (North Queensland) requested by Rev. Fr. Mount in 1936.

Photocopy of unpublished short story by Peter Carey, returned to him by Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.

Five drafts, 2nd to 5th, Apr to Oct 1996, all signed by Peter Carey.

Two draft for story, 2 leaves, undated.