Manuscript book of seventeen illuminated and illustrated poems by Australian authors. Father Leo Hayes commissioned the book of his favourite Australian poems from artist Ella Lilian Pedersen. Hayes wanted it done in the manner of the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Each of the 17 poems chosen by Father Hayes has been written in calligraphy with accompanying illustrations depicting the location or subject of each poem. Pedersen crafted a tooled leather binding with ornamentation in pewter studded with semi-precious stones, including opals and agates, collected by Father Hayes when he was parish priest in Crows Nest. The original cover was damaged, and the central panel was replaced in the early 2000s by book restorer Anne Clonnan with one remaining gemstone.

Poems: The first comers there / Margaret Curran. -- Carnarvon deep gorges / Bertha Butler. -- Love in a cottage / Daniel Henry Deniehy. -- The frog pool / James Devaney. -- Toowoomba dark purple / George Essex Evans. -- Where the pelican builds / Mary Hannay Foott. -- The Waradgery tribe / Mary Gilmore. -- Taralga / Mary Gilmore. -- When winter comes to Queensland / Alice Gore-Jones. -- My country / Dorothea Mackellar. -- Colour / Dorothea Mackellar. -- The gentle water bird (for Mary Gilmore) / John Shaw Neilson. -- Old salt / Lydia M. D. O'Neil. -- The way of it / D. L. Waraker. -- In September Queensland Bush / D. L. Waraker. -- Rain magic / Frances Dunn. -- Waratah and wattle / Henry Lawson.

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).

11 poems.
Titles: Requiem for a truckie; Growing crystals; Soliloquy: Old man; On hearing the muse; Sonnet to Artemis; The take-over; R.S.L. dance; A kind of reward; Disclaimers; [Untitled]; Apology for unborn children.

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'.

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.

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

Leather bound journal 13 x 21 cm, containing handwritten notes, poems, newspaper clippings. Binding broken. Newspaper clippings: Australian Ode Competition 1913 -- Aladdin's Pastepot -- Remember the Waiter -- The Queen's Jubilee -- To Wolsley all authored by 'CROMWELL'; The Peace Soceity -- Imprisoned in his chimney -- Quelled by a bike various clippings from the Sunday Times 1899, many authored by 'Uncle Billy', 'UB' and 'The Goat'; Psychic Pianist -- Poor Humanity -- National Song Competition. Poems: The Twins -- The Danube -- The Lady Pharisee -- Sydney Harbour and the meeting of the waters -- Welcome Earl Beauchamp (Sydney 24/4/1899 GW) -- The Capitalist -- Coronation of King Edward VII (June 29 1892) -- Home rule for Old Ireland (12 June 1902) -- The Water and Sewerage Board -- Pity me -- The Nun and the Cardinal -- Ode to Australia (25/8/1913) -- Congenial souls (illustrated) -- On the revision of the New Testament -- Love -- Oh the happy days of childhood -- To give you a glimpse of a heavenly kiss. Songs: Patriotic song -- A young Cockadoodle . . . Old Brown. Plays: Ali Cogia or The Fraudulent trustee by GWR -- King Harold a play in three acts by GWR [1881] -- Out of the ranks. Manuscripts: Our tricycle ride to Harwick [Sept 27th 1890] -- The Burglary in Arcadia -- [indescipherable by Tidy-fol-lol] -- Marion -- Never more -- Duet -- The Farmer's wife and the geese -- The MP and his voter -- Lie-water and the Chinaman -- The Prior of Cosmo -- Jack and the mermaid -- An amusing episode. Music: Patriotic song.

Titles: Translation [from] Catullus; Disillusionment; To Althea; Monkey Glands; Charles II; A Latin Name; Statius: To Sleep (A Translation); two short poems, untitled.

Anthology compiled for Contemporary Poetry 1973.

Typescript paper delivered by Judith Wright at the Australian Literature Seminar, University of New England Extension Dept. Summer School, Jan 1965.