This series is comprised of papers of some of Dorothy Blewett's sisters: Elizabeth Melville Blewett (born Elsie Melville Blewett, also referred to as 'Bill') and Rowena Sarah May Blewett. Rowen and Elizabeth advertised in Victorian newspapers, from 1942 to 1947, for their 'Merry Days Correspondence School' for kindergarten and sub-primary children. It includes their notes used for the stories and lessons they shared on nature study stories. Elizabeth Blewett was also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and is most well known for her book Care of Breeding of Australian finches. There draft manuscripts of her writings.

Box 6
Folders 1-2
Carbon copy typescript draft drafts for Merry Days Correspondence School' nature study stores. Undated, most likely written from 1942 to 1947.

Folder 3
Handwritten draft of a children's story written in an old invoice [?] book; in the reverse an Australian alphabet story with Australian animals and places and associated drawings. Two inserted pages for the alphabet story.

Folder 4
Typescript draft with original, carbon copy and photocopied pages for Care of Breeding of Australian finches, with [83] leaves, with five leaves with maps of Australia to show location of finches and notes. Original folder with name and Victorian address of Elizabeth now discarded. Elizabeth lived in London with Dorothy from 1951 to 1959.

Folder 5
Original folder (now discarded) had label 'Children literature project':

Typescript draft of "Duffers" by Elizabeth Blewett, unpublished, with inserted b&w photograph used to base the story on, 92 leaves, undated. Original folder binding has Seaford address crossed out and London address added.

Typescript chapter drafts for unknown work or works.

This series is comprised of short stories and newspaper articles written by Dorothy Blewett. It also includes newspaper cuttings that are about Dorothy Blewett, her plays as well of articles that interested her. Based on when most of her short stories were published, they could have been written in the 1930s.

Dorothy Blewett published two novels: Vision (1931) under the pseudonym Anne Praize, and Pattern for a Scandal (1948), published under her own name. This series has:

Parcel 1
Folder 1
The dust jacket for Vision, in very poor condition

Box 3
Folders 6-8
Three carbon copy typescript drafts, 'Death of anon de plume', 275 leaves, one copy with typescript inserts, 1958?

Folder 9
Untitled typescript draft about Dame Nellie Melba, possibly a fictional biography, handwritten emendations, unpublished, 215 leaves, undated

Folder 10
Five chapter drafts for unidentified works.

This series is comprised of the published and unpublished playscripts for stage, radio and television written by Dorothy Blewett.

Material includes academic dress worn by Father Edward Leo Hayes when he received an honorary Master of Arts in 1967, a whiskey bottle presented to Father Hayes by General Douglas McArthur and an illuminated and illustrated poem by artist Ella Lilian Pedersen.

Volume bound with string, covers and tape on spine. Contains ten unpublished typescript poems and two essays. Written in Crows Nest, Queensland between 1937 and 1943 by an unidentified poet [possibly J. Tholan - signature indecipherable]. One poem "Jubiliee Greeting" is dedicated Father Edward Leo Hayes on the occasion of his Silver Jubilee, 24th November, 1943.

Content consists of first day cover/first day issue envelopes, and cards. Most are addressed to 'Mrs Ambrose Brown' (Mary Zilla Hayes). There are a few addressed to Father Edward Leo Hayes and Jean Marie Brown. Also included are a number of envelopes containing stamps.

Material consists mostly of correspondence from Father Hayes to his sister Mary (Mrs Ambrose Brown) and his niece Jean Brown. Other correspondence includes letters from Daniel Augustine O'Brien.

60 drawings, preliminary and final, for Statecraft magazine of the UQPPES - University of Queensland Politics, Philosophy & Economics Society

Folder 1
Illustrations for issue 2 (2019)
15 preliminary sketches

Folder 2
Illustrations for issue 3 (2020)
21 drawings, including nine preliminary sketches and 11 drawings for 2020 issue, titled as follows

'Untitled'. An inadvertent philosophical investigation (page 3)
Anthropomorphic screaming fire in a backyard
B & W edit of coloured image

'Untitled'. 'Has our economic response gone too far?' (page 4)
Two bank robbers looking into an empty vault
[Artist's note: Unpublished 'SSAF' image from Semper Floreat - 'SSAF' edited out]

'Untitled'. The new Bradfield scheme: low hanging fruit (page 9)
Elevated image of QLD with a river running downstream to a puddle

[on the same sheet]:
'Untitled'. New visa and no jobs (page 17)
Artists's Note: Redraw of 'Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden ' (Masaccio, 1424-27) with Peter Dutton as 'angel'.

'little relief'.
Artist's note: Small fire.

'Untitled'. Israel & Trump: precedents for US foreign policy (page 10)
Caricature of Trump

'Untitled'. Get off my lawn (page 16)
Fence with pail

'Untitled'. Philosophy's problems with accessibility (page 21)
Group of five images of chaise lounge, Caeser's head, microscope, magnifying lense over book, '101' book that is actually a cake, Caesar's head and apple.

Folder 3
Illustrations for issue 4 (2021)

14 drawings, including eight preliminary sketches (on six sheets) and six final drawings, titled as follows:

'Taking the long-term seriously'

'On getting to heaven'

'The chains of political identity'

'The great realignment of British politics'

'Liberalism in China'

'Australia's balancing act'

Folder 4
Illustrations for issue 5 (2022)

10 drawings, including four preliminary sketches, one page of notes, and six final drawings, titled as follows:

'Stakeholder capitalism and the revamp of terrible ideas'

'Does the market economy need government?'

'Defending Australia amidst an ailing alliance in Asia-Pacific'

'At last, a climage election'

'Looking back at Australia's hollowed-out response to the pandemic'

'Would Orwell listen to sticky fingers?'