32 letters (includes postcards) from Bill and Lila Mayo to their daughter Daphne from 28 January 1930 to 30 November 1939.

Correspondence from 4 Apr 1930 to 29 Dec 1939. Correspondents include: Queensland Club; W. Rubery Bennett; MacQuarie Galleries; Society of Artists; Queensland Wattle League; William Moore; Government House, Brisbane; Sculptors' Society of Australia; Women's Executive Committee and Advisory Council; Brisbane City Council; Carnegie Corporation; National Gallery of Canada; McGill University.

On cover of original folder "Melbourne Shrine Figures" (original folder discarded). This file includes incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding the commissioning of eight symbolical figures to be placed in the Inner Sanctuary of the Shrine of Remembrance (the National War Memorial of the State of Victoria). Daphne Mayo was selected by the Citizens' Committee of the National War Memorial of Victoria to submit a model for the figure of 'Integrity'. Due to insufficient funds the committe was unable to proceed with the commissioning of the Figures. The file also has a copy (no. 11) of the National War Memorial Specification. Respecting eight marble figures for inner shrine for the "Shine of Remembrance" at The Domain, South Yarra for The Committee of the National War Memorial. This copy has bound with it The first brochure on the first premiated design The National War Memorial of Victoria (1924); two folded plans for the 'Detail section of inner shrine of remembrance' and 'Plan at Shrine Floor Level'; and the Offical guide to the Shrine of Remembrance : The Domain Melbourne (signed by Daphne).

Correspondence (49 letters, 10 telegrams) from 1930 to 1936 and undated

Photographs of the clay model and the bronze sculpture of 'A Young Australian'.

Includes photographs of the preliminary clay model design of the Queensland Women's War Memorial, Daphne Mayo working on the memorial, and the completed panel and fountain.

Letter, handwritten, on Government House letterhead, from Queensland Governor John Goodwin to Miss Roe, praising her bird booklet (A back-answer), dated 19 Dec 1981; accompanied by card wishing the best for Christmas and the New Year with an etching (of birds) done by Goodwin.

Photocopy of typescript of 'Pharming : stories of life on a Brisbane River dairy farm inthe years 1910 to 1917, by one of the farmers' by Annie Margaret ("Madge") Rose, compiled by Charles Roe (Madge's eldest nephew), 107 leaves, 30 cm.

Four handwritten and colour illustrated manuscripts:

1. Untitled handwritten and colour illustrated manuscript of a play, with foxing and insect damage; on the last page "The play written, produce, directed, managed, caste & more or less acted by Sarah, Audrey, Blanche (1 & 2), Meg, Buck & Samuel. Prologue by Blanche 1.", 28 pages, 16 x 25 cm, 1936.

2. Handwritten and colour illustrated manuscript of 'Immortality : a tale from Egypt retold by E.E. Kellett', cover has come away and split on spine, [8] pages, 21 x 14 cm, 1930.

3. Handwritten and colour illustrated manuscript of 'A song of the old men by Will. Ogilvie', [2] pages, 23 x 18 cm, undated.

4. Handwritten and colour illustrated manuscript of 'El Dorado : Virginibus Puerisque. Robert Louis Stevenson', 'Roe' is on the last page, 'El Dorado R.L.S.' is on the front cover, [10] pages, 32 x 22 cm, undated.

Three versions of the short story (unpublished) 'Journey to an end'. Two are carbon copy typescripts, one an original typescript, undated. The original typescript has a cover sheet which has the author as "Gardener". Based on when most of her short stories were published, they could have been written in the 1930s.

Photographic material relating to Dorothy Blewett, mostly undated but most likely from the 1930s.

Album1
Includes seventy-one black and white photographs, two colour photographs and fifty-four transparencies of varying sizes of: her house, landscapes, family, portraits, Queen Elizabeth II (from The Times and The Central Press Photographs), travel destinations, Adelaide Writers School (1964), and PEN congresses.

Parcel 1
Folder 5
Three copies of a black and white photograph by Wolfgang Sievers, ca. 1956.