Correspondence, programs and photographs, 1961-1963, 1989-1991

Containers:

Box 9

Component identifier:

File 2

Content Summary:

Contents include: Jim Waites' 'birthday card' to Manoly Lascaris, made up of 2 cuttings of 1963 reviews of The season at Sarsaparilla; a 1989 Sydney Theatre Company (STC) Schoolsday program for The ham funeral with a typescript letter from Theresa Willsteed (Assistant to the Director); The ham funeral programs and 3 still photographs, 2 from the 1961 Adelaide University Theatre Guild production, and another by Robert McFarlane inscribed 'To Mr White from Mrs White with a big punch'; various review clippings; a letter from May-Brit Akerholt, 24 October [1989], regarding program material (Ackerholt, STC dramaturg and NIDA lecturer, had written a study of White's plays in the Australian playwright's monograph series published by Rodopi (Amsterdam) the previous year).

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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