Diaries, travel notes, notebooks, correspondence, manuscripts, sketches, press clippings, photographs, articles featured in The Queenslander and Darling Downs Gazette and material for The Antipodeon, and biographical material. Photocopies of letters 1892 to 1906 by or about Evans, held in the Mitchell Library. There is also a scrapbook containing original sketches by Percy F.S. Spence, Frank P. Mahony, C. Roth, B.E. Minns, and E. Bevan.

Personal papers, correspondence, photographs, notebooks . Manuscripts on history of music in Queensland; church history in Brisbane, with emphasis on church choirs and liturgical music; records of Queensland musical societies. Notes on the teaching of music in Australia. Musical scores and programs. Compositions for piano, choir, violin; including full score for an opera. Memoirs. Associations: Australian Music Examination Board; Musical Association of Queensland; Guild of Australian Composers; Brisbane Musical Union.

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, written notes, flyers, posters, theatre programs and play scripts.

Newspaper cuttings, 1904-1924, form bulk of the collection. Also included : personal diaries relating to Ipswich social life and Welsby's railway duties, 1906-1914; notebooks, receipts, brochures, notices, papers relating to Queensland Party, correspondence.

Manuscripts relating to the geology and mineral resources of Queensland, Northern Territory and New Caledonia; reports on geology, oil and minerals in parts of Queensland, also Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Antarctica.

Correspondence, manuscript notes, newspaper cuttings, sketches.

Correspondence 1928 to 1932; press clippings 1924 to 1931.

Biographical material, manuscripts, newspaper cuttings, correspondence.

The Thomas W. Shapcott Papers contain original manuscripts and typescripts of a number of his literary works, including poems, short stories, novels, plays and libretti. Other typescripts included relate to editorial work, translations, reviews and reader reports. There are also a number of typescripts by other authors sent to Shapcott for review.
Subject files relating to literary competition and prize judging, conferences and overseas travel in relation to literature and cultural exchange.
Correspondence with Bruce Beaver, Barbara and Charles Blackman, John Blight, Alec Bolton, Colin Brumby, Ilija Casule, Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press, Rosemary Cresswell, Rosemary Dobson, Michael Dransfield, Geoffrey Dutton, Ninette Dutton, Michele Field, Rodney Hall, Gwen Harwood, Margaret Hodge (later Shapcott), Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, Nancy Keesing, Roger McDonald, David Malouf, Olga Masters, Michael Ondaatje, David Rowbotham, Dimitris Tsaloumas, University of Queensland Press (UQP), Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Judith Wright and many others.
Correspondence with and records from a few literary bodies and association, including the Australian Society of Authors and the Literature Board.
Research papers on topics treated in literary works, particularly Karoly Pulszky
School and work-related papers and records such as school and university records, early employment and partnership contracts, job applications and annual financial records, including tax returns.
Scrapbooks, containing newspaper cuttings, ephemera and correspondence.
Papers relating to awards and honours received by Shapcott, including the Struga Prize for Poetry.
The papers also contains some photographs and personal memorabilia, such as book club lapel badges.

Newspaper cuttings, articles and letters to editors (Courier mail and Telegraph) ; collections of serialised newspaper stories ; poetry ; correspondence ; typed extracts from Hansard and Votes and Proceedings ; typescript and holograph papers relating to the Parliament of Queensland; newspaper cuttings and articles and papers on Queensland Parliament, politicians, and incidents in Parliament.