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Photograph shows Percy L Condon, just after his 70th birthday, handing over keys on behalf of Great Southern Motors to Mr Westman, Winner of Car in the Ambulance Art Union.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

May Gilmore thanks the principal and, through him, the 1956-7 session of students and the town's inhabitants, for dedicating to her a set of gates, to be located at the College's main entrance at College Street. Includes reflections of early Wagga Wagga.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Re: a tentative inscription for the Dame Mary Gilmore Memorial Gates and her wish that the Gurwood Senior School be remembered in it. There is the possibility that Mary may not attend the official dedication ceremony because of her continuing bouts of illness and/or because her birthday party has been organised by the Australiasian Book Society around the raising of funds for the now Chair of Australia Literature. As informed by Alan Marshall, and very probably as much for her communist leanings as for her talent, she is now recognized by the chief literature societies of Moscow and Peking among others.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Mary Gilmore regrets that she cannot attend the official dedication ceremony and proposes that a friend, Dorothy Catts, widow of the late J.H. Catts MHR, represent her. She wishes to give the College, among other things, an aboriginal axe-head from Queensland and shingles from the beach at Puerta Gallegos in South Patagonia. She encloses a small donation of £2.20 to go towards the purchase of a book to chronicle events, people, autographs, etc. - the start of a continuous history for the next hundred years of the college.*

See also Box 3: RW114/22; RW114/23; RW111/24; RW114/25.

• For Chronicle, see SA1.

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

A short note (probably accompanying document RW114-3E), her formal thank you to be read at the official dedication ceremony. Apart from mentioning Phoebe Price, she leaves him to choose who will do the reading and asks only that she be sent either the original or a typed true copy for inclusion in her papers at the Mitchell Library, SLNSW.

Original hand-script notes.

Mary's return thanks for the Dame Mary Gilmore Memorial Gates at the Teachers' College (enclosed with RW114-3D).

Original hand-script letter to George Blakemore.

Re: items for 'the museum' to be delivered by Mrs Catts. These include a photograph of Norman Hargreaves in 1915 and the cover of a gas mask belonging to Keith Douglas Young. Both are from old Wagga families.

See also Box 3: RW114-21.

Sydney Morning Herald clipping.

Re: the opening of the Dame Mary Gilmore Memorial Gates. Designed by the College's lecturer in Art, Lionel Gailer, they capture, according to Blakemore, the spirit of 'Jiemba', the evening star, the aboriginal name bestowed on Mary as a child.