23 photographs of Artists for Labor function, mostly photographs of Patrick White at the microphone, but also Gough Whitlam.
Includes photographs of dancers and a view of the audience and interior of the hall.

Handwritten letter to Head of English Dept [Ken Goodwin] enquiring if any student had written a thesis on Mary Hannay Foott who was related to Helen Vellacott through marriage. Information about the Foott family is included.

Handwritten poems, some signed by John Manifold, others not, but appear to be in the same hand. One poem might have been written by another person.
Poems:
To an incompletely remembered mistress
Sonnet for a Caravaggio lady
Resignation with a sonambulist
Ex Africa ....
Sparrows, a flower-swallow and Captain Cook's tea tree (Trochaic sonnet)
Plasticarol for a plastichristmas
Death indefinitely postponed in the old men's home
Death in the old men's home
Warning against loving too much
[Poem beginning with the words] Nurse Exe-Wye, that teetotal bidge...
[Poem beginning] Why Kampuchea? What about Timor? (This poem is not like the others, so may be by another person).

Two copies of handwritten sheet music scored for voice and piano.
Musical setting to poem by William Shakespeare .

Handwritten sheet music scored for voice and piano.

Handwritten transcript of sheet music scored for voice and piano.

Two copies of handwritten sheet music scored for voice and piano.

Bound album, 28 x 25 x 6 cm, of 167 black and white photographs. Appears to be a record of Appel's voyage while Home Secretary in the Queensland Government Steamer "Otter" in 1914 which went as far north as Daru on the coast of south-western Papua. Title embossed on cover of album. Several pages are without photographs. Photographs have been pasted to the mid-weight card and none have captioning. Photographs include: Baron Falls; a lighthouse (possibly Booby Island Light); possibly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from Northern Queensland and Papuan New Guinea peoples; and places from his travels.

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Typescript history of The Griffin Theatre Company with list of productions (1979-1989) and covering letter from Noel Hodda to Margaret O'Hagan (1 p.).