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.

Carbon copy typescript of short story (unpublished) 'Holiday in France', 18 numbered pages, undated. Based on when most of her short stories were published, they could have been written in the 1930s.

Letters and opinion articles sent by Bruce Whiteside in 1988 as chairman of the organisation Heart of a Nation

Eight architectural plans for a store in Cairns for Armstrong, Ledlie and Stillman (also know as ALS and AL&S, and sold to Waltons in 1970).

Typescript of presentation 'Art and Nature: Flower Painting as a Vehicle for Modernism in the Work of Vida Lahey', with accompanying photographic slides.

Corrections and incomplete draft (with emendations) for Oscar and Lucinda with letter dated 25 Aug 1987 from Jane Robertson, Faber and Faber. Also includes photocopies of faxes from Jane Robertson from Faber and Faber and Craig Munro from UQP, both dated 4 Sep 1987.

Two colour photographs that accompanied the index cards of the Australian outback.

Photographs and negatives in a Kodak envelope with a note from 'Rosie' [the photographer] on the inside of the Kodak envelope that mentions Leigh [Weetman?].