After the death of Daphne Mayo on 31 July 1982, a group of friends decided to commemorate her public work for art in Queensland. Those involved included: Lloyd Rees, Professor Robert Cummings, Robert Haines, Judith McKay, Mim Shaw, sculptor colleagues, art dealers, and members of Mayo and Lahey families. From this, the Queensland Art Gallery agreed to have a casting done in bronze from 'Susannah' a plaster model by Mayo; and Judith McKay wrote Daphne Mayo : a tribute to her work for art in Queensland which was published by The Friends of Daphne Mayo in 1983.

Mim Shaw was one of the organisers of the 'Friends of Daphne Mayo' group, and her address was used in correspondence for the group. Mim wrote and/or drafted correspondence regarding the Judith McKay booklet, fundraising for it, promoting it and sending it to people and libraries as required.

Box 4
Four albums of largely unused postcards collected during World War I. Also includes postcards addressed to Eric Shapcott, Harold Shapcott's younger brother who died in a shooting accident at Glasshouse Mountains in 1918.
Album 1
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Tenerife, Perth (W.A.) as well as a few comical cards
Album 2
108 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in France.
Album 3
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom.
Album 4
180 postcards, some used, in an old album. Includes mostly greeting cards, but also 52 views of Australian towns and cities.

1. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards, 1922 – 1940 [with gaps]
2. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Re-Union Dinner Menus and Programs, 1920 – 1948 [with gaps], and 1969 [together with a group of napkins presumably from the dinners]
3. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Flyers, including a flyer advertising the battalion history published in 1938
4. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Social and Dance Admission Ticket, 25 May 1922
5. Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia. Commemorative Programs, Ipswich Branch, ca. 1920 – 1923
6. ANZAC Day Commemoration Service. Programs, Ipswich, 1920 - 1924
7. ANZAC Day Commemoration Service. Program, Brisbane, 1916 and 1921
8. Australian Imperial Force Church Parade at The Minster, Warminster, Hymn Sheet, 30 December 1917
9. Other WWI commemorative ephemera, 1920s
10. Album of cigarette cards
11. Album of cigarette cards
12. Album of cigarette cards
13. The Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Assemblage at and Departure from Albany, 1915
14. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. The Old Batt Magazine, Vol. 1. No. 2 (Dec 1926) and 3 (May 1927)
15. 42nd Battalion AIF Association. News. 1 May 1941 – July 1944
16. The Safety Pin. Magazine, no. 2. October 1917
17. Coo-ee. The Journal of the Bishops Knoll Hospital, Bristol Vol 1 no.1

3 semi-autobiographical memoirs, primarily based on service in World War I.

Eight war service diaries, 1915 - 1919. Includes the diary of a German soldier with Shapcott's note at front: 'Captured... near Ypres'.

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.

This series comprises two plays by John Heath-Stubbs, artistic works by Arthur Creedy and diaries by Victor and Lucy Cofman.

Three black, spiral bound A2 folders with photographs of art works and exhibitons. Unlike the scrapbooks these folders have no associated documents and are comprised of colour photographs of the works of art by Leonard Brown. Two folders have handwritten labels at the bottom right-hand corner inscribed with 'Art archive' but have been treated as art portfolios.

Black, spiral-bound A2 folders with handwritten labels on bottom right-hand corner of each with "Art Archive : Leonard Brown" and the representative years. They include correspondence, exhibition invitations and catalogues, price lists, photographs, newspaper cuttings from 1967 to 2011.
The scrapbooks also contain correspondence from:

1. Commercial galleries, including Garry Anderson Gallery, Alan Matthews trading as Garry Anderson Gallery, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Bellas Gallery, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Deutscher Fine Art, Michael Milburn Gallery Niagara Galleries, Charles Nodrum Gallery, The Painters Gallery, Michael Reid Art Merchant, Sherman Galleries
2. Collecting galleries, including Auckland Art Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Brisbane City Gallery, Museum of Brisbane, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Griffith University, City of Ipswich Art Gallery, La Trobe University, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery, QUT Cultural Precinct, Art Gallery of South Australia
3. Other correspondents, including Ric Aqui, artbank, Blake Society, Chris Capper, Peter Fay, Jill Godfrey, Sasha Grishin, John McPhee and Michael Phillips

Album 1 contains 540 slides and has two sections, each section preceeded by documents. Album 2 contains proof sheets, exhibition notes and negatives.