Letters, postcards and photographs sent by Gwen Harwood to her friend Helen Mills.

Letter, dated 22 Oct 1967 to Fryer Librarian enclosing a collection of poems and working sheets. 'A collection of poems' is a typescript booklet sent to the Xavier Award; working sheets are mainly handwritten. Letter includes biographical information, with comments on some poems. Delia Gatti used the pseudonym 'G. Ceiriog'.

Letter 16 Dec 1911 to the Senate, University of Queensland, explaining his reasons for refusing by telegram the offer of a lectureship in Modern Literature.
Attached: copies of extracts from Brennan's previous application for the Chair of Classics, with testamonials from referees.
Also notice of motion of Senate meeting to consider the lectureship appointment.
Includes correspondence between Cecil Hadgraft and Zelman Cowen re the documents, reviews of French poetry by Christopher Brennan, and a copy of an unpublished poem by Christopher Brennan.

Also signed card and obituary notice 22 Sep 1904.

Correspondence from friends and fellow writers, editors and critics; mainly concerned with literary interests and personal news. The earliest letter is dated 29 Sep 1923 and the latest 6 Jan 1980. The bulk of the letters were written in the 1950's and 1960's. In all there are over 1700 items. Periodicals to which reference is made include: The Advocate; The Catholic Leader; The Catholic Weekly; Contact; Crosscurrents; Expression; Makar; Meanjin Papers; Poetry Australia; Poetry Magazine; 20th Century; Vista. Associations: Catholic Writers' and Readers' Association; Catholic Poetry Society; Poetry Society of Australia.
Included in the correspondents are: Thea Astley; Vincent Buckley; Emily Bulcock; Edna Carroll; C.B. Christesen; Delia Craig Antoine Denat; James Devaney (163) Margaret Diesendorf; Tom Dimes; Rosemary Dobson, R.D. Fitzgerald (48); Maureen Freer, John Gartner; Dame Mary Gilmore; Paul Grano; A.D. Hope (42); R.G. Howarth (47); Rex Ingamells (13); Kevin Kelly; Pat Lawler (55); David Little; David Locher; Llewelyn Lucas (22); Frederick Macartney (51); James McAuley (32); Ian Mudie; Walter Murdoch; Frank Murphy (243); J. Jarvis Nye; Grace Perry; Margaret (June) Saunders (20); Henry Schoenheimer; Thomas Shapcott; Walter Stone; Imogen Whyse (29). This list does not include correspondents with only one or two letters, or purely personal correspondence.

Typescript, with handwritten amendments and addenda regarding New impulses in Australian poetry, edited by Thomas Shapcott and Rodney Hall, published in 1969 by University of Queensland Press . Contains contents list, preface, introduction and biographical notes on poets; also referee's report, letter to Thomas Shapcott, letter from Ronald Albert Simpson, poem by David Rowbotham.

Typescript with handwritten additions. Working drafts of two poems, with letter dated 6 June 1968 to Fryer Librarian enclosing poems.

Drafts for Cecil Hadgraft's entry on Alexander Forbes in the Australian Dictionary of Biography; correspondence and research notes relating to the entry, and a photocopied extract from his brother Archibald Forbes' book 'Souvenirs of some continents' (1894).