Draft text for 'Patrick White's Choice' catalogue, forwarded to White by Barry Pearce of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and a letter from Brian Adams of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1981

Containers:

Box 21

Component identifier:

File 1

Content Summary:

Photocopy draft of text for the exhibition catalogue (including preface by Edmund Capon, introduction by Patrick White, and citations for the selected artworks), with an accompanying note from Barry Pearce to White, 10 December 1981; typed letter from Brian Adams to White, 21 December 1981, regarding a proposed interview with White

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

Access and use