The original consignment includes correspondence and other papers, primarily relating to the Australian Frontier, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, the Road Safety Council, Marcus Oldham Farm Management College and the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
The collection comprises photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence and memorabilia documenting Dinah Shearing's twenty-five year career on stage and in radio and television.
Dating mostly from the 1920s onwards, they include diaries, photographs, reports, writings, broadcasts, speeches, cutting books, official correspondence and letters exchanged with family and friends, as well as a large number of more ephemeral items such as brochures, invitations and programs.
The collection includes correspondence, financial papers, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, drafts of Women writers: a study in Australian cultural history, 1920-1939 (1979), Exiles at home: Australian women writers 1925-1945 (1981), The poems of Lesbia Harford (1985), Inner cities: Australian women's memory of place (1989), Poppy (1990) and The Orchard (1994) and other papers.
The collection documents aspects of Counihan's career from the 1930s to 1994, and includes extensive series of correspondence (personal, business, family and posthumous), together with articles, reviews, catalogues and invitations connected with his various artistic and writing activities. Also featured in the papers are appointment diaries, published and photographic copies of Counihan's artwork (especially cartoons and caricatures), typescript memoirs, a manuscript history of Russian art, articles and speeches by or about the artist, and a few photographs and books about his life and career.
These papers represent a small but varied collection of Aldous' personal and professional writing. The personal writing includes the unpublished autobiography completed in 1987 and a long series of wartime letters written to his wife, Jean, from London (1940-44).
Correspondence between the editors of Art and Australia (including Mervyn Horton) and contributors to the journal, 1964-1969, as well as original manuscripts and typescripts of the articles submitted for publication, invitations, catalogues, card indexes, news releases, photographs, reviews, and other records. Correspondents include George Washington Lambert, Lloyd Rees, John Brack, Russell Drysdale, Hal Missingham, Sidney Nolan, Ruth Bain, Stephen Rainbird, Sasha Grishin, Deborah Edwards, Stephanie Britton and Colin Jordan.
MS 7904 comprises: 1. Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, plays and prose. 2. Correspondence, 1978-1989. Correspondents include Dianne Bates, Eric Beach, Bruce Beaver, Jenny Boult, James Burns, Larry Buttrose, Geoffrey Dutton, Susan Hampton, Dennis Haskell, Elizabeth Jolley, Jean Kent, Kate Llewellyn, Cilla McQueen, Jennifer Maiden, Philip Mead, Jenni Mitchell, Rosemary Nissen, Geoff Page, Rosemary Porter, Judith Rodriguez, Tom Shapcott, Michael Sharkey, Cliff Smyth, John Tranter, Cornelius Vleeskens, Lyndon Walker. 3. Subject files. Files relating to the Australian Copyright Council, Compass, Directory of Australian literary magazines, National Word Festival, Poets Union and other organisations. 4. Printed material. Leaflets, posters, handbills, programs concerning poetry readings and workshops and issues of poetry magazines and anthologies. 5. Personal papers. Notebooks, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, personal letters (9 boxes, 1 fol. item).
The papers were donated to the Library by Professor Macintyre in 1999. An instalment of papers previously held by the Melbourne University Archives was added in May 2000 (series 19/31-45 and 20). Records of the Centenary of Federation Victoria Committee were added in 2003. A further transfer of correspondence and related papers was received in 2006.
The collection comprises correspondence, draft articles and notes, circulars, newspaper clippings, brochures and miscellaneous printed material relating to Keast Burke's career as a photographer and editor. There are also papers relating to The Story of the Camera in Australia.