Correspondence, 1959-99

Component identifier:

Series 1

Content Summary:

The series comprises both personal and business correspondence and consists chiefly of letters received by Cassab. The correspondence covers Cassab's public engagements, commissions for portraits, arrangements for including her artworks in exhibitions, requests to reproduce her artworks in publications, and requests from publishers and the media to hold interviews. There are letters from readers congratulating her on her publications and from individuals and organisations that have acquired her works. There are letters from her husband, Jancsi, written in Hungarian.

The series also includes copies of opening addresses given by Justice Michael Kirby and Monique Atlas at exhibitions held in 1996 (file 17) and 1999 (file 22), respectively. There is a copy of a paper by Justice Kirby entitled '"Ping Pong" with Judy Cassab' (n.d.) (file 21). File 17 also contains a letter from Edwin Wilson enclosing the autographed poem 'Judy's chair'.

Correspondents include Hal Missingham, Sir Percy Joske, Lady Cutler, Judith Wright, Lou Klepac, John Hayes, Edmund Capon, Elizabeth Riddell, Jeffrey Smart, John Wolseley, Eva Klug, Morris West, Sir Asher Joel, Elwyn (Jack) and Lily Lynn, Fr Emmet P. Costello, Anna Gray, Justice Michael Kirby, Liz Byrski, Brenda Niall, Chris van Otterloo, Marlene Stafford, Joseph Brown, Paul Knobel, Bernhard Newman, Rosalie Gascoigne, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original consignments of papers were donated by Judy Cassab to the National Library in 1975 and 1985. Subsequent donations were made under the Taxation Incentive for the Arts Scheme in 1988, 1991, 1995 and 1998. Two donations under the Cultural Gifts Programme were made in 1999.

Names:

Judy Cassab

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