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1. Six exercise books containing a handwritten draft of the novel 'Old Blastus of Bandicoot'. 2. Typewritten draft of 'Old Blastus of Bandicoot: a play in three acts'. 3. Photocopies of press cuttings concerning early settlers of the Monaro District. Also includes photographs, Brindabella Visitors' Book, 1887; publications (2 boxes) including mostly works by and about Miles Franklin, some are autograph copies and some contain newsclippings and correspondence."Ten Creeks Run: a tale of the horse and cattle stations of the upper Murrumbidgee" by Brent of Bin Bin, author of 'Up the Country'": Typed ms with typed and ink corrections by Franklin and pencilled annotations by the printer. It was bound for the collector Harry Chaplin in about 1960.

Papers relating to World War I collected by J. A. Ferguson. The collection includes programs, souvenir menus, patriotic and souvenir postcards, photographs,broadsides, correspondence, music scores and official proclamations, mostly from Australian military forces serving in Europe, the Middle East, New Guinea and at sea. There are programs, menus and photographs from internment camps, known as German Concentration Camps, in Australia located at Holdsworthy, Trial Bay and Berrima, shipboard and other war theatre diaries, official printed material,letters from servicemen at the front (including to the Rev. John Ferguson and Mrs Ferguson) and later letters to J.A. Ferguson in relation to his collecting, a number of shipboard and field service magazines, and three scores of patriotic war-time songs.

They include correspondence, lecture notes, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, research notes, journal articles, photocopies, and notebooks relating to Gollan's long career as a history lecturer and labour historian and his interests in forest issues, the peace movement and uranium mining.

MS 7741 comprises correspondence files kept by successive editors of the journal, 1965-1983, including J. Zubrzycki, F. Lancaster Jones, Lois Bryson, Kevin Clements, Bob Gidlow, Bettina Cass, Alex Condes and David Hickman; files of SAANZ office bearers including correspondence, minutes, reports and other papers, 1978-1982; financial records, 1964-1982; ANZJS production material, 1971-1979; and articles submitted, 1971-1981.

The papers mostly relate to Grant's biography of Reverend Kingsley Foster (Skipper) Partridge, entitled Camel train aeroplane: the story of Skipper Partridge. The bulk of the collection comprises photocopies of Partridge's journal 'Highlights of inland trip' which Grant used in writing the biography. Other papers include a card index, notes and typescripts of Camel train aeroplane.

The collection mainly comprises records relating to Martyn's directorship of the Ballet Guild (renamed the Victorian Ballet Company in 1963 and Ballet Victoria in 1967). The records include financial records, grant submissions, curriculum materials, Ballet Guild board and committee meeting records and medial releases. The papers also include photographs of cast members and performances of Ballet Guild/Ballet Victoria productions, audio tapes of recordings which accompanied performances and dance classes, and printed and manuscript music. There are also photographs relating to Martyn's dancing career with the Vic-Wells Ballet and Borovansky Ballet.

The collection contains papers relating to Woolfe's novel Leaning towards infinity: how my mother's apron unfolds into my life which was published by Vintage Australia in 1996. The book was later published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Holland. Leaning towards infinity was written over a period of several years and the papers comprise correspondence with publishers, editors and colleagues; research notes; early ideas, edited drafts and proofs.

Notes, drafts and correspondence relating to the production of the musical Darlinghurst nights (based on Kenneth Slessor's poems) by Griffin Theatre Company.

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, literary manuscripts, photographs and personal and business papers.The correspondence largely relates to Nowra's professional activities.Correspondents include Jim Sharman, Nadia Tass, Vincent Ward, Veronica Kelly and Bob Herbert-Hay.

The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, and writing and music material created and collected during Sitsky's long and productive career as a composer, musicologist, pianist, teacher and writer. The correspondence includes letters and emails to and from composers such as Felix Werder, Nigel Butterley, Richard Meale, Colin Brumby, Ann Carr-Boyd, Vincent Plush, James Penberthy, Elena Kats-Chernin, George Dreyfus and Miriam Hyde. Sitsky also corresponded with musicians and his publishers, and over a long period with poet and librettist Gwen Harwood. The music component of the collection includes composition diaries, pencil and ink scores and published works by Sitsky as well as pieces by Roy Agnew and other Australian composers.