Series A consists of papers relating to Patrick White including correspondence, articles, newspaper cuttings and notes dating from 1956 to 2008.
Box 1
Folder 1
Reviews of The cockatoos, The full belly and A woman’s hand.
Folder 2
Articles by Ben Nicholson. Reviews of The vivisector.
Folder 3
Reviews of The burnt ones, The aunt’s story, The living and the dead and Happy valley.
Folder 4
Reviews and launch invitation to the Patrick White Letters (edited by David Marr).
Folder 5
Original and copies of Patrick White letters and Alan Lawson correspondence with David Marr.
Folder 6
Reviews of Riders in the chariot.
Folder 7
Reviews of The solid mandala.
Folder 8
Reviews, The tree of man and The eye of the storm.
Folder 9
Correspondence from 1956 and 1972-1973, includes two original Patrick White letters.
Folder 10
Uncollected Patrick White stories, poems, letters, and articles.
Folder 11
Reviews of Patrick White plays
Folder 12
Reviews of Voss.
Folder 13
Photocopies of reviews and newspaper cuttings about Patrick White. Mostly in languages other then English.
Folder 14
Postcards and poster poems, mostly relating to Billy Jones.
Folder 15
Correspondence to and from Alan Lawson, 1974 to 1982.
Folder 16
Correspondence relating to Meanjin with Geoffrey Dutton, Clem Christensen and others, 1972 to 1975.
Folder 17
Promoting Australian Literature in Schools (1990). Report to the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Prepared by Ian Reid, Centre for Studies in Literary Education Deakin University.
Box 2
Folder 1
Reviews of Flaws in the glass: a self-portrait and Memoirs of many in one.
Folder 2
Patrick White research including papers, slides and pamphlets on Stroud’s centenary, articles about Patrick White and his family history.
Folder 3
Papers and articles about Patrick White.
Folder 4
Patrick White bibliography.
Folder 5
Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of reviews of Voss, Riders in the chariot, The tree of life, The aunt’s story, The burnt ones, The living and the dead, Four plays, and *The solid mandala.
Folder 6
Correspondence to Alan Lawson from various other academics about Patrick White. Articles and reviews.
Folder 7
Theatre programs from Brisbane and Melbourne.
Folder 8
Newspaper cuttings and journal articles about Patrick White from August 1973.
Box 3
Item 1 (in 3 parts)
'Alternative mythical structures in the fiction of Patrick White', by Brenda Bosman (1989). PhD thesis (Rhodes). Part 1 Chapter 1.
'Alternative mythical structures in the fiction of Patrick White', by Brenda Bosman (1989). PhD thesis (Rhodes). Part 2 Chapters 2-5.
'Alternative mythical structures in the fiction of Patrick White', by Brenda Bosman (1989). PhD thesis (Rhodes). Part 3 Chapter 6.