Adelaide Festival and Belvoir Street productions ephemera, c.1982

Containers:

Box 11

Component identifier:

File 18

Content Summary:

Contents include: a still photograph and note fold from Neil (Armfield) to White thanking him for Signal driver and wondering what 'Brizzy' will make of the play; an annotated photograph from the Adelaide Festival opening night; note from Willy (William) Yang to Jim Sharman with a photograph of Sharman yawning at a News banner 'Festival shock - worse than perverse'; 7 still photographs by David Wilson and 2 colour snaps from the Adelaide production; 2 copies of a photocopy transcript of the ABC Books and Writing review; a Belvoir Street folder with a covering letter from Director Chris Westwood addressed to White and enclosing Regis Lansac's still photographs from the Belvoir Street production; and 2 programs from the Lighthouse production.

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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