This collection is comprised mostly of papers relating to Dorothy Blewett including: drafts of playscripts, novels, short stories, and articles for published and published works; a small amount of incoming and outgoing correspondence; photographs; personal documents; documents relating to her professional activities; and theatre programs and travel ephemera relating to her time spent in the 1950s in England and Europe. There are also some papers relating to the activities of her sisters, Elizabeth Melville Blewett (born Elsie Melville Blewett, also referred to as 'Bill') and Rowena Sarah May Blewett.

This series is comprised of the published and unpublished playscripts for stage, radio and television written by Dorothy Blewett.

Quiet Night is a play about hospital life, was written in the early 1940s. It was performed around Australia and in the United Kingdom. It was also produced as a radio play.

Box 1
Folder 1
Typescript of the play by Dorothy Blewett Quiet Night, pasted into a foolscap sized notebook with the handwritten title on the cover: "Quiet Night" Prompt Copy. On the first page is the name and address of Dorothy Blewett below which is a pasted in copy of the programme for the performance of the play: "Programme of "Quiet Night" presented by the A.B.C. Dramatic Club at the State Conservatorium of Music Sydney. Friday, June 25th and Saturday, June 26th", [1943].

Folder 2 Quiet Night : a play in three acts printed by the R.A.A.F. Educational Services, 48 pages. The R.A.A.F. Educational Services Plays were issued to Area and Group Headquarters, from which units could obtain on loan a set of copies of the play. [1943].

Folder 3
Typescript, and carbon copy typescript of the play Quiet Night by Dorothy Blewett. Cover page has red pencil and blue pen writing with the name and address of Dorothy Blewett crossed out; handwritten amendments; iii, 50 leaves; undated. Original binding/folder retained.

Folder 4
Three roneoed copies of Quiet Night, 52 numbered pages. Undated.

Folder 5
Typescript of the rehearsal script of Scene One of Quiet Night, 10 leaves. Undated.

Folder 6
Roneoed copy of the "Rehearsal script" for the A.B.C. Television Drama Department, produced by Christopher Muir. Handwritten emendations. 66 leaves. Undated. Inserted between pages numbered 15 and 16 are three typescript pages.

Letter from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Victorian Branch), 29 May 1961, to Dorothy Blewett with details of the rehearsal for Quite Night, signed by Christopher Muir. Attached is the rehearsal schedule from 8 Jun 1961 to 28 Jun 1961.

ABC Television cast list, 2 leaves, 28 Jun 1961.

Folder 7
One handwritten note with envelope addressed 'to the author'.

Two programs: The Withington Players present "Quiet Night", the first performance in England of a play by Dorothy Blewett, 4 pages, 1953; and Jean Barklamb presents The Ashfield Players in "Quiet Night" a play in3 acts by Dorothy Blewett at the Ashfield Theatrette on 27 May 1953, 3 pages, 1953.

Photograph album: Commercially available photograph album with 'Photographs' on front cover, 19 x 24 cm, leaves made of medium weight dark grey papers. On first page "To Dorothy Blewett as a memento of the first stage production of "Quiet Night" the Withington Players, February 1953". Six black and white photographs, 10 x 15 cm, on six separate pages, final page has handwritten list of cast with actors signatures beside their characters name. Five unused pages.

Lady Frederick, is a radio play adapted by Dorothy Blewett from the play of the same name by William Somerset Maugham. Maugham's play was published in 1912. It is unknown when Dorothy Blewett adapted this play, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s. There is one complete version of this play: Carbon copy typescript, 32 leaves, undated.

Time turns back is most likely written by Dorothy Blewett; there is no title page. It is unknown when Dorothy Blewett wrote this play, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s. It is a carbon copy typescript, 11 numbered leaves, undated.

The country store, is a play for television by Dorothy Blewett adapted from a short story by Myra Morris. It is unknown when Dorothy Blewett wrote this play, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s. There is one complete version of this play: Carbon copy typescript, 32 leaves, undated.

'Pony from Tarella', a television serial for children by Mavis Thorpe-Clark and Dorothy Blewett has several typescript drafts with handwritten annotations.

'No margin for error' is a typescript of a television lay by Adeline Collier and Madelaine Duke, what was adapted from the novel by Madelaine Duke, 68 numbered leaves, undated. The novel was published in 1963. On the title page the name and address of Christopher Mann has been crossed out and Dorothy Blewett's name and her Eltham address handwritten.

The First Joanna : a play in two acts was written around 1941 and revised over the following 17 years. It was not published in her lifetime but was published online in 2016 by AustLit. This file is comprised of draft typescripts, some ephemera from stage productions, and a few letters.

Box 1
Folders 8-13
Six folders with unbound and 'bound' typescripts/carbon copy typescripts of The first Joanna : a play in three acts, pagination for each varies, some have handwritten emendations, all are undated, most are in very poor condition and fragile.

Box 2
Folders 1-2
Two folders with unbound carbon copy typescripts of The first Joanna : a play in three acts, 92 leaves, undated, with accompanying envelope addressed to the Merry Days Correspondence School in Eltham, Victoria. [The principals of Merry Days Correspondence School, Nursery School, Kindergarten and Sub-Primary were R. and E. Blewett, which they began in 1942.]

Folder 3
Loose pages of The first Joanna, some with handwritten emendations, undated.

Folder 4
Correspondence and contracts:
Contract with: J.C. Williamson Theatres Limited and Dorothy Blewett, dated 20 Jun 1944; Maxwell Wray Productions Limited and Dorothy Blewet dated 26 Sep 1952.
Letters: Australian Broadcasting Commission to Dorothy Blewett dated, 9 Dec 1947; letter to and from Linnit and Dunfee, date 16 Oct 1951 and 5 Dec 1951; telegraph offering payment for television rights, 27 Sep 1960; Australian Broadcasting Commission to Dorothy Blewett, 28 Sep 1960; and A.B.C. Television Rehearsal Schedule for The First Joanna from 1 Feb 1961 to 22 Feb 1961, from producer Christopher Muir.

Folder 5
Ephemera relating to The first Joanna. Includes: 1 b&w photograph of the first performance in Marc 148 at Metropolitan Theatre Sydney; 1948 program from the Metropolitan Theatre (2 copies); hand drawn stage setting; The Metropolitan newspaper, vol 1 no. 3, 21 Feb 1948 (2 copies); and program for the St. Peters Community Plays performance, from 1949.

It has happened before, a verse play for radio was written between 1941 and 1942. There are two copies of this play: Bound carbon copy typescript, 30 numbered leaves, handwritten emendations, undated; and a carbon copy typescript, 32 numbered leaves, front cover has pasted to it a transcribed copy of an expert from The Listener in, 1951.