Photographs, 1930-1984

Component identifier:

Series 19

Content Summary:

A collection of photographs documenting a long period of White's life. The series comprises photographs of: White's family and early life; war-time photographs of White and Lascaris; 'Dogwoods', Castle Hill (NSW); as well as formal portraits of White covering many years and taken by Cecil Beaton, Rob Hillier, William Yang, Axel Poignant, David Moore, Edie Kurzur, Howard Coster, Phil Lock, Eva Mandel-Pavlovic and Leopold Pavlovic. Photographs of the Martin Road house (Centennial Park, Sydney, NSW) and various social events are also present. Individuals pictured with White include: Manoly Lascaris; Suzanne Peck (née White) and family; Pepe Mamblas; Neville Wran; Jill Hickson; William Yang; Barry Humphries; Kate Fitzpatrick; Sister Veronica Brady; Yevgeny Yevtushenko; Neil Armfield; Keith Mitchell; Joel Ellenberg; Brett and Wendy Whitely; and Barry Jones. Many of the photographs are undated and unidentified and the original arrangement has been retained.

Immediate source of acquisition:

During White's lifetime, he asserted that he kept no manuscripts or personal papers, burning his drafts on completion of each work. For many years after his death, it was believed that a single manuscript draft of Memoirs of many in one (1986), donated by White to the anti-apartheid Canon Collins Education Trust for Southern Africa in 1988 and subsequently purchased at auction in 1991 by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales, was the only surviving record of White's literary manuscripts. While White does appear to have destroyed a considerable portion of his manuscript material, he clearly retained many literary papers and personal papers until his death. The papers in this collection were in the custody of Manoly Lascaris (White's partner) who died in 2003, and of Barbara Mobbs, White's long-term literary agent and Literary Executor, who presented the collection to the National Library of Australia in 2006.

Names:

White, Patrick, 1912-1990

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