One bound volume, with lined pages, with transcribed handwritten poems, and newspaper cuttings. Includes poems by Mary Hannay Foott, John Bernard O'Hara, Henry Lawson, Andrew Barton Paterson, and many English and Irish poets.

Poetry drafts, correspondence, reviews, work journals, sketches and artworks.

Photographs, biographical notes, collected correspondence, poems, addresses, newspaper articles, and reports related to Edward Harold Fulcher Swain's career as a forester. Includes letters written by Harold Swain to Jules Tardent, and Jules and Myrle Tardent; typescript copies, made by Nancy Foote (daughter of Swain), of newspaper articles, correspondence, articles, and diary entries, by or relating to Swain are in this collection. Nancy Foote typed these from the originals in 1970 to 1971 and provided copies to 'Mr Tardent' (Jules Tardent). Jules Tardent and Swain worked in the forestry industry.

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.

Contains postcards, greeting cards and letters,1991-1995 from Gwen Harwood to Gregory Kratzmann; draft typescript introduction, typescript and computer disk with manuscript for A Steady Storm of Correspondence published by UQP in 2001; notes by Normal Talbot on transcripts of letters from Gwen Harwood; and draft of talk on Gwen Harwood to VCE students in 2012.

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

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.

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'.

Drafts, poetry and handwritten notes for verse novella 'Second-hand attack dog', originally titled ‘First things first’.