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Challenge

Challenge, a play in one act was most likely written in the 1940s. There is one typescript and three carbon copy typescripts, 12 leaves, undated.

I have taken a prisoner

I have taken a prisoner, a play in six scenes, was most likely written in the 1950s. Carbon copy typescript, 119 leaves, undated.

Holiday in France

Carbon copy typescript of short story (unpublished) 'Holiday in France', 18 numbered pages, undated.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.

River flats of Jildee

Typescript of The River flats of Jildee, a short story by Dorothy Blewett with 10 numbered leaves, undated. Typescript note on cover page "This story was published by the Sydney Bulletin to whom acknowledgment would need to be made".

Solitary holiday

Two typescript versions of the short story 'Solitary holiday'. Both have 24 numbered leaves and are undated. On the cover page of the original typescript version it says 'by Julie Millard' with name and London address of Dorothy Blewett in the bottom left-hand corner. Unsure if Julie Millard was someone Blewett represented as a literary agent or if it is another pseudonym. Blewett lived in London in the 1950s.

Dorothy Blewett newspaper cuttings

Cuttings of stories written by or about Dorothy Blewett; some are related to performances of her plays; there a few theatre programmes for Quite Night and The First Joanna; and also included are cuttings on issues that interested Dorothy Blewett.

Correspondence

Correspondence, personal and professional, to Dorothy Blewett.
Box 14
Folder 13
Letters from Lewis Way to Dorothy Blewett, from approximately 1951 to 1953 (from postmarks on envelopes) and undated. It includes one card, one real photo postcard, four handwritten letters and one typescript (which critiques the play I have taken a prisoner).

Folder 14
Letters, incoming and outgoing (ten handwritten letters, 23 typescript) , telegrams (three), contracts (three) and receipts (two) to Dorothy Blewett regarding Quiet night and The first Joanna, dated 1943 to 1961 and undated.

Folder 15
One typescript letter, thirty two postcards, seven cards (one blank), two change of address cards, one handwritten good luck card, one envelope (empty), and one partial envelope with address. Dated from 1951 to 1959. Most are addressed to Dorothy Blewett; one is addressed to Elizabeth Blewett and two addressed to the sisters.

Society of Australian Writers documents

This file is comprised of few items relating to time Dorothy Blewett was secretary for the Society of Australian Writers (SAW) based at Australian House, London. It includes: a SAW sticker; a typescript letter of thanks, 30 Nov 1959, signed by the SAW Committee; two cards with SAW lectures for 1957 and 1958; and an invitation to the unveiling of a plaque in commemoration of Henry Handel Richardson with accompanying program (1957).

Receipts

The file contains receipts for furniture and clothes from Dorothy Blewett's time in London.

Photographs

Photographic material relating to Dorothy Blewett, mostly undated but most likely from the 1930s.

Album1
Includes seventy-one black and white photographs, two colour photographs and fifty-four transparencies of varying sizes of: her house, landscapes, family, portraits, Queen Elizabeth II (from The Times and The Central Press Photographs), travel destinations, Adelaide Writers School (1964), and PEN congresses.

Parcel 1
Folder 5
Three copies of a black and white photograph by Wolfgang Sievers, ca. 1956.

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