Literary drafts, journals (diaries), correspondence, publications, cassette tapes.

Paintings and drawings (printed), and papers relating to wildflowers and wildlife preservation in Caloundra and Cooloola area. Incoming correspondence and greeting cards from various people including Judith Wright, Nancy Cato and Rosemary Opala. Material relating to wildflower shows presented by Caloundra Branch of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland.

Research material (including notes and photocopied archival material) and correspondence relating to Deebing Creek and Purga Aboriginal Missions. Includes transcripts of interviews, photocopies of Queensland Department of Public Instruction records, material for history thesis, and files of Deebing Creek Cultural Committee relating to the Committee's efforts to have part of original Deebing Creek Mission made an Aboriginal reserve. Also includes letters from Frances Wright, and maps. Much of the material was used for Bill Thorpe's book, 'Remembering the forgotten : a history of the Deebing Creek Aboriginal Mission in Queensland 1887-1915'. Includes typescript and CD copies of Thorpe's thesis, 'Archibald Meston and the Aborigines'.

15 items, 6 items bound; ill. Handwritten and typescript, some signed.
Includes working notebooks, exhibition catalogue, letters, pamphlet, poem dissertations, and pencil sketches.

Rules and history of the organization, syllabuses, membership lists, and papers read at meetings.

Memoirs (2 volumes) reminiscences regarding: his performances in Shakespearean productions in Brisbane, poetry, short stories, photographs, programs, flyers, and newspaper cuttings, poem, and newspaper cuttings book from the Bulletin.

Papers relating to the commissioning, editing and publication of Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005, edited by Craig Munro and Robyn Sheahan-Bright. Manuscripts of chapters submitted or included in the work; manuscripts and page proofs of the complete work. Paper Empires is the third volume of the History of the Book in Australia series, published by the University of Queensland Press as part of the History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) Project.

Minutes, correspondence, membership rolls, reports, leaflets, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Queensland (WCTUQ)

Contains correspondence and newspaper cuttings by and about the work of John Miles during his career as a writer and poet, and certificates and awards won by him. Includes material about D. B. Kerr, P. G. Pfeiffer and Colin Thiele collected by Miles while researching the book Lost angry penguins : D.B. Kerr & P.G. Pfeiffer : a path to the wind.
Most papers in the collection are photocopies.

Correspondence, diaries, subject files, photographs, drawings, notebooks and scientific records related to entomology and environmental issues.