Manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, research notes, literary awards, publishing contracts, diaries, drafts of speeches, some Astley family history material.

This collection contains poetry, prose, speeches, and reports; correspondence; photographs, newspaper cuttings; press releases; invitations; programmes; research material; and plans.

Notebooks (referred to by Herbert as "literary logs"), manuscript drafts, proofs and other papers relating to Poor Fellow My Country, Disturbing Element, Soldiers' Women, and "The Little Widow" together with short stories, poems, articles, publications, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, photographs, financial records and artwork by Xavier Herbert.

Manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, photographs, correspondence.

Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and typescripts, newspaper cuttings, photographs.

Literary drafts, proofs, research notes, newspaper cuttings.

Drafts, correspondence, research material for the Witches of Eileanan series.

Drafts of novels, poetry and short stories, correspondence, research notes and miscellaneous material.

Drafts, correspondence and research notes.

Diaries (21 written between 1986 and 1999), notebooks, drafts of short stories (published and unpublished), correspondence, promotional material, reviews, articles, research material, reader's reports, music, files and drafts of novels (published and unpublished). Novel titles include: Metal Fatigue, The Resurrected man, Stone Mage and the Sea, Sky Warden and the Sun, Storm Weaver and the Sand, The Crooked Letter, The Blood Debt, Ascent, Descent, The Soap Bubble: A Space Opera, Midnight in the Cafe of the Black Madonna .