Consists of correspondence, subject files, personal items, diaries, photographs, manuscripts of unpublished and published works and a large quantity of printed matter. There are letters from Vance, Nettie and Aileen Palmer, Jessie Macleod, Guido Baracchi, Eleanor Dark, Frank Dalby Davison and Katharine Susannah Prichard. There is a thesis by S. B. Clark entitled: Vance Palmer: A Consideration of His Career in Australian Letters.
The second daughter of Vance and Nettie Palmer, Helen Gwyneth Palmer was a writer, teacher and worker for many causes, particularly those associated with her commitment to socialism and communism