Accompanied by a religious verse (1 leaf, 6 cm.--Typescript).
Accompanied by a speech, Clifton, at the St. Francis de Sales' Memorial School opening by Father Hayes, 1962 Aug. (4 p. ; 34 cm.--Handwritten).

Handwritten letter to Eileen M. Buckley re John Shaw Neilson, James Devaney and other literary figures.

Handwritten letter to Mrs Cassidy re parish news and Queensland literary news.

Includes brief note (photocopied) from the donor about the item's provenance.

Manuscript book of seventeen illuminated and illustrated poems by Australian authors. Father Leo Hayes commissioned the book of his favourite Australian poems from artist Ella Lilian Pedersen. Hayes wanted it done in the manner of the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Each of the 17 poems chosen by Father Hayes has been written in calligraphy with accompanying illustrations depicting the location or subject of each poem. Pedersen crafted a tooled leather binding with ornamentation in pewter studded with semi-precious stones, including opals and agates, collected by Father Hayes when he was parish priest in Crows Nest. The original cover was damaged, and the central panel was replaced in the early 2000s by book restorer Anne Clonnan with one remaining gemstone.

Poems: The first comers there / Margaret Curran. -- Carnarvon deep gorges / Bertha Butler. -- Love in a cottage / Daniel Henry Deniehy. -- The frog pool / James Devaney. -- Toowoomba dark purple / George Essex Evans. -- Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott. -- The Waradgery tribe / Mary Gilmore. -- Taralga / Mary Gilmore. -- When winter comes to Queensland / Alice Gore-Jones. -- My country / Dorothea Mackellar. -- Colour / Dorothea Mackellar. -- The gentle water bird (for Mary Gilmore) / John Shaw Neilson. -- Old salt / Lydia M. D. O'Neil. -- The way of it / D. L. Waraker. -- In September Queensland Bush / D. L. Waraker. -- Rain magic / Frances Dunn. -- Waratah and wattle / Henry Lawson.

Tourist photo folders and postcards: Bungonia Caves, N.S.W., Charleville, Cunnamula, Green Island, Green Mountains, Gunnedah, Hervey Bay, Kempsey, Mudgee, Pacific Highway, Perth, Port Arthur, Quilpie, Tasmania, Town of South Coast, plus one postcard of Redcar Pier, England [1906] and Washing Day- The Gumnut series - 4.

Programme for official dinner given at the Royal National Agricultural & Industrial Association of Queensland. D. A. O'Brien, Rev Father Leo Hayes, written in pen on menu. Includes invitation for D. O'Brien to dinner, and paper napkin embossed wtih M.T.Sullivan estate, with names H.L. Bailey, Chief Manager C'wealth Bank Brisbane, and D.A. O'Brien written in pen on the napkin.

Press clippings compiled from Fryer Library files and mounted by Len Fisher.
Includes: Priest for all seasons...the life and times of Archdeacon Edward Leo Hayes / by Shirley Bell.

Material collected for 'Priest for all seasons...the life and times of Archdeacon Edward Leo Hayes', published in 13 parts in 'The Leader', May-August 1970.