151 letters, 11 telegrams, 2 letter cards, 1 card, 5 postcards and 11 photographs sent to Daphne Mayo between 7 Jan 1940 to 30 Dec 1949. Contents by year:
1940 - 20 letters, 1 postcard. Correspondents include: Ina Rivers (2 letters); Nita (3 letters); Margaret Preston (2 letters, to Miss Lahey and Miss Mayo, one with a response by Mayo on the back).
1941 - 13 letters, 1 postcard. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters) ; Marjorie S. Harrington (4 letters).
1942 - 12 letters, 2 lettercards. Correspondents include: Rosie (2 letters); Wal (Walter Taylor) (2 letters)
1943 - 7 letters, 1 postcard, 1 telegram. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters); Ina Rivers.
1944 - 13 letters, 2 telegrams. Correspondents include: Rosie (3 letters); Mavis; Josephine; Robert Carson (2 letters).
1945 - 22 letters, 1 postcard, 4 telegrams. Correspondents include: Rosie (3 letters); Mim (Mim Shaw); Rowland Suddaby (with b&w photograph); Captain Robert Carson (1 letter pocket calendar for 1946 and 1 b&w photograph; 1 letter with 9 b&w photographs); Barney Usherwood (2 letters).
1946 - 24 letters, 1 telegram. Correspondents include: Barney Usherwood (3 letters); Rosie (5 letters).
1947 - 17 letters. Correspondents include: Rosie (4 letters); May Usherwood (2 letters); Constance.
1948 - 7 letters, 1 postcard.
1949 - 16 letters, 3 telegrams, 1 card. Correspondents include: Chris (Dr Christine Rivett); Claudine (3 letters to 'Q.E.').

Letters, telegrams and postcards sent to Daphne Mayo between 7 Jan 1930 and 28 Dec 1939. Not all years have correspondence.
1930 - 19 letters and 3 telegrams. Correspondents include: Wal (Walter Taylor) (4 letters); 'Golly' (Nell Mary Lette Hubble) (5 letters); Ina (Selina) Rivers; Kathleen ; Rose; Frank; and several letters of congratulation.
1931- 8 letters and 2 telegrams. Correspondents include: Everilda Birch; Wal (Walter Taylor) (3 letters); 'Golly' (Nell Mary Lette Hubble); Ina Rivers; and Bertha Hubble (about the death of Nell Hubble).
1933 - 3 letters and 1 postcard. Correspondents include Aunt Rose; and Wal (Walter Taylor) (2 letters, one of which proposes marriage and Daphne has a draft response to him on the back of the letter).
1934 - 4 letters and 1 letter card.
1935 - 3 letters.
1937 - 3 letters.
1938 - 2 postcards, 1 telegram.
1939 - 7 letters. Correspondents include: Auntie Daisy; Rosie.

Letters, telegrams and postcards sent to Daphne Mayo between 18 Jan 1925 and 19 Dec 1929. Not all years have correspondence. 1925 has 11 letters and correspondents include: 'Gabriel alias Kathleen Walker' (5 letters to 'My dear Tobias'); Grace (2 letters); and Robbie. 1927 has 3 letters and 1 telegram and includes a letter from Walter Taylor of Grosvenor Galleries. 1929 has 2 cards, 1 postcard, 1 lettercard, and 26 letters and correspondents include: Wal (Walter Taylor of Grosvenor Galleries); Rosie (possibly Aunt Rose? - 6 letters, 1 postcard, 1 b&w photograph), Thomas, Connie (2 letters) , 'Golly' (Nell Mary Lette Hubble) (3 letters).

Letters, telegrams and postcards sent to Daphne Mayo between 23 Dec 1914 and 11 Sep 1924. Not all years have correspondence. Correspondents include: Frank (several letters), Aunt Rose, The Brecknock Studios, 'Dick' (Daphne's brother Richard Mayo, to 'Doodles') (2 letters 1922, 1 undated), Connie, Matthew Nathan (telegram from 13 Dec 1923), and five letters from Kathleen [Walker?] (aka 'Gabriel').

Edith Lahey, a friend of Daphne Mayo's, was the step-aunt to Vida Lahey and frequently corresponded with Daphne Mayo. Most of her letters are addressed from 'Erica', 349 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo. Of the 97 letters, 28 are dated 23 June 1943 to 22 July 1957. The final letter was written by 'Colin, the scribe' on Edith's behalf.

99 letters (includes postcards and letter cards and 14 incomplete notes/letters) from Vida Lahey to Daphne Mayo. The dated correspondence dates from 13 Oct 1929 to 2 Apr 1968, however most correspondence is undated, is of a personal nature and relates to their friendship. Most of the letters are addressed from 97 St Lucia Road (now Sir Fred Schonell Drive), St. Lucia.

Four letters to Vida Lahey are also included in this file.

Two folders of undated letters, incomplete letters and letter fragments and 1 folder of postcards and cards. Correspondents include: Dr Christine Rivett, Kathleen, Mim Shaw, Godfrey Rivers (1 letters), Ina Rivers, Leonard Shillams.

Approximately 53 letters, 1 telegram, 4 postcards, 3 cards sent to Daphne Mayo between 4 Jan 1970 to 5 Sep 1979. Main correspondents include: Hilliegei and Mary. Others: Kathleen and Leonard Shillam and Mim Shaw.

There are 96 letters and 10 postcards dating from 3 Aug 1919 to 22 Oct 1977, but also including many undated letters and some fragments.

Lloyd Rees and Daphne Mayo knew each other from their studies at the Brisbane Technical College. Rees and Mayo corresponded before Mayo left for London. When Mayo left on the ship, the Ormonde in Sydney in 1920, Rees was there to farewell her. They continued to correspond while Mayo was overseas and became engaged, by mail, in 1922. At this time Rees was living in Paramatta at a guest house called 'Bondo'. This address appears in several of his letters to Mayo. After their engagement, Mayo asked Rees to join her in England. Rees wrote several letters to Mayo while onboard the Esperance Bay. During their time in London and later in Italy they would spend their days pursuing their own studies and interests. Mayo gave Rees the nickname "Georgie". Many of his letters are addressed to "Mary" (his nickname for her) and signed "Georgie". In 1923 Daphne Mayo won the Rome Prize, a travelling scholarship to Rome, and the Royal Academy School of Art gold medal for sculpture. Despite Mayo offering to pay for Rees to stay on and travel with her, at her expense, Rees returned home to Australia, arriving in March 1925. Not long after his return, Mayo's brother Richard Mayo died. Before she returned to Australia, Mayo broke off her engagement to Rees via mail. After a short time in Sydney, she returned to live in Brisbane. They continued to write to each other for years to come. There is also some correspondence from Marjorie Rees, nee Pollard, who married Lloyd Rees in 1931.

There are some small drawings by Rees: Folder 1 - One letter from 6 May 1923 has a hand drawn stamp by Rees; Letter from 27 Jul 1923 has two b&w photographs and a sprig of wattle (or some other plant) -- Folder 2 - Undated letter with hand drawn colour picture of his "garret" at 'Bondo'.

73 letters from Bill and Lila Mayo to their daughter Daphne from 6 January to 30 December 1946.