Large collection of personal papers covering Alfred Deakin's extensive political career, plus photographs, memorabilia and other published works by and about Deakin.

Charts, plans, coastal views, letters, books, pamphlets and books relating to Alexander Dalrymple.

2286 titles, mainly monographs but also including manuscripts and music material about the history of Ireland and Australia.

Music scores and music related material created or collected by the composer, conductor and musicologist Richard Divall.

About 300 books including incunabula and early editions of classical texts, plus limited edition reprints of celebrated English writers, mostly published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

911 water colours by Adam Forster of Australian flowers, painted between 1916 and 1927.

About 200 books and 260 pamphlets, plus personal papers and photographs mainly related to Australian history, politics, law, literature and religion from Sir Ernest Littleton Groom.

Personal papers and about 600 books and pamphlets from 1900-1960 on international relations, political biography, migration and more with a focus on the Commonwealth and United States. 

Photocopies of typescripts of 18 unpublished plays.

Over 10,000 black and white negatives and colour transparencies, about 1000 exhibition prints, several photograph albums, a group of stereographs, plus maps, diaries and personal papers.