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MS 7537 comprises diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, papers relating to Carole Deagan's work on women's issues and children's services, manuscripts of Deagan's unpublished works, various reviews and articles by Deagan, and radio scripts. Some of the correspondents are Arthur Barratta, Drusilla Modjeska, Pam Ledden, Narelle Carey, L. Davis, Rosemary Wighton, Pearlie McNeil and Eva Byrne (14 boxes, 2 map folios).

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.