Marshall Best - correspondence with Patrick White, 1966-1981; together with related papers, 1972-198...
Marshall Best - correspondence with Patrick White, 1966-1981; together with related papers, 1972-198...
Marshall Best - correspondence with Patrick White, 1966-1981; together with related papers, 1972-1980
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1966 - 1981
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6946
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 box - 0.13 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - photocopy
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Clippings
Photographs
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Physical Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Microfilm : CY 4061, frames 1-206 (MLMSS 6946). See opposite for digital copies of 52 selected pages.
Partly Digitised
Finding aids
Read transcription here: http://archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a195.html
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Letters received by Marshall Best from Patrick White, 1966-1981: White writes about the progress of his work, reviews of his books, other writers and their work, the books he is reading, political events, the Nobel Prize, the Patrick White Literary Award, domestic life with Manoly Lascaris, cooking, pets, illnesses, travels, etc.
2. Dra...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Marshall Best - correspondence with Patrick White, 1966-1981; together with related papers, 1972-1980
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
All items in this collection are reproduced on microfilm CY 4061; selected letters are reproduced in the digital images attached to this record.
Digital order no: Album ID : 823836
Contextual Information
Source
Acquired from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints in 1999
Administrative / Biographical history
Marshall Best succeeded Ben Huebsch as Patrick White's editor at Viking Press, New York. He had semi-retired by the early 1970s but still took great interest in White's work. When Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 Best wrote to him '... thanks for giving me the greatest pleasure of this lifetime of publishing.' (22...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 6946
Record Identifier
Ydmdbde9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Ydmdbde9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
404049
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