Collection 8: Sasha Soldatow further papers, 1935-2006

MLMSS 11891
DC 104

sub-fonds

1935-2006

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Ephemera

946411

2.24 metres of textual material (14 boxes)

Box 1

Sasha Soldatow published and unpublished articles including self-published issues of ‘The Only Sensible News’, ‘Patterns’; plays and book reviews; draft of novel by Tom Morton, ‘The German Traitor’, 2004-2005

Box 2

Harry Hooton research material including a manuscript article by Harry Hooton on the Industrial Workers of the World in Australia, 1945; copies of published articles by Hooton, 1945-2002
Harry Hooton research material, 2000-2002
Hooton thesis initial work, bibliography and correspondence, ca. 2002
Soldatow’s University of Melbourne student papers; PhD student loan papers
Miscellaneous papers including original telegram from the Australian Students Union supporting delegates attending the Women and Politics Conference, who occupied the offices of the Canberra Times in response to an editorial published in the Canberra Times on 2 September 1975 (Includes an original cartoon), 1975; Issue No. 1 of Russian language newsletter ‘Our Life’, 1993. Correspondents include Joe Dempsey, Janine Robinson, Lis Fell, Howard Smith, Kevin Anderson, Richard Gilzean, Kate Grenville, Ian Harrison Shane Bleakley, Zosia Hoey, 1975-2005
Research material including copies of letters to papers by Annie Westbrook, correspondence from Ruth Biegler, 2002-2004

Box 3

Correspondence arranged by Sasha Soldatow

‘Letters recorded’ Cristina – Sims, 1997-2006

Correspondence A-C, 1991-2002, correspondents include Monica Attard, Phillip Addams, Geoff Adlide, Dennis Altman

Correspondence D-F, 1995-1999, correspondents include Helen Daniel, Michael Dobbs-Higginson, Irina Dunn, Bob Ellis, Jack Ellis, Jack Evans, Matthew Fargher, Liz Fell, Margaret Fink

Correspondence G-K, 1995-2000, correspondents include Denis Gallagher, Germaine Greer, Jean Haselgrove, Rachel Hennessy, George Papaellinas, Fiona Inglis, Aland Jacobi, Dean Kiley, John Killick, Elizabeth Knight

Correspondence L-O, 1992-2000, correspondents include Carolyn Leigh, Gillian Leahy, Terri McNeilage, Laurin McKinnon, Ian McNeill, Rob Meldrum, Pauline Muscat, Margot Nash, Mark O’Connor, Rosie O’Grady

Correspondence P- Q, 1992-1998, correspondents include Jane Palfreyman, George Papaellinas, Tim Peach, Netta Perrett, David Perry, Susan Phillips, Bruce Pulsford, Marian Quilty, Queerlit
Music score ‘Small God’ for string orchestra, by J. Ellis, 2000

Box 4

Correspondence R, 1991-2000 correspondents include Brett Randles, Random House, Inge Riebe, Janine Robinson, Meredith Rogers

Correspondence S, 1991-2000 correspondents include Olga Samson, Jossy Schneidas, Natasha Serventy, Judy Smith, Tim Cribb / Peter Starr, Andrea Stretton, Oliver Strewe, Anne Summers

Correspondence T-Z, 1996-2000 correspondents include Ley Thornton, Lyn Tranter, Lauren Taylor, Christos Tsiolkas, Jo Upham, Voices from the Vacant Lot, Ken Wade, Ji, Wafer, Anne Whitehead, Peter Whittaker, Pip Wilson, John Witte, John Woods, Jo Wynter, George Zisopolous

Unfiled correspondence, 1997-2005 correspondents include Peter Blazey, Jose Borghino, Colin Nugent, Sue Ingleton, Belinda Browne, Liz Fell, Margaret Fink, Ian Harrison, Humphrey McQueen, Harry Nespolon, Shane Maloney, Frank Mitchell, Robert Millikan, Richard Moore, George Papaellinas, Pam Peters, Bruce Pulsford, Janine Robinson, John Walker, Elizabeth Caffin, Peter Whittaker, Ian Wright

Unarchived correspondence, 2001-2002 correspondents include Kevin Klehr, State Library of NSW, Gil Silva, Tracee Hutchison, Olga Samson, Susan Varga, Carlotta McIntosh

Box 5

Correspondence file A-F, 2000-2002 correspondents include Michael Ackland, Inez Baranay, Louise Bayutti, Shane Bleakley, Belinda Browne, Roseanne Bonney, Colin Bright, Meredith Burgmann, John Cargher, Des Cowley, Khan Churchill, Sharon Davis, Colin (Emu) Nugent, John Englart, Liz Fell, Margaret Fink, Don and Vicki Fish

Correspondence file S-Z correspondents include Olga Samson, Helen Sibraa, Bruce Sims, Takver, Donna Tier, Wayne Tunnicliffe, Susan Varga, John Walker, Bill Walker, Elizabeth Wynhausen, David Wood, John Woods, Katsuya Yukawa, George Zisopolous

Soldatow family papers

Paul Soldatow papers including Alien Passport issued by the Nazi Party, September 1942; Consular identity papers (temporary Serbian passport) from Marburg a Drau, July 1942; Russian identity cards, 1939; photocopies of immigration papers from the National Archives of Australia

Maria Samson papers including temporary passport issued by the Military Government for Germany, issued 18 January 1949; Naturalisation Certificate, 1957; Death Certificate, 30 April 1991; papers relating to the death and funeral of Maria Samson; Last Will & Testament, 1990

Olga Samson papers including correspondence, copies of National Archives of Australia searches, 2000

Lilly Samson papers including Statutory declaration by the Muller Laundry, Stuttgart of Lily Soldatow’s credentials, 1947; copy of Sasha Soldatow’s original christening certificate, 28 March 1948; draft copies of Statutory Declarations; photocopy of temporary passport; copies of immigration papers; manuscript pages in Russian relating her including her account of life in Poland during the German occupation in WWII, transport to a concentration camp in Lithuania, her marriage after the war to Paul Soldatow, the birth of her son, Sasha in 1947

Soldatow family folder including copies of immigration papers for the above Family portrait

Box 6

Soldatow and Australia Council legal papers and correspondence; grant applications
Miscellaneous financial papers including bank statements, financial notes, Centrelink statements, 2000-2004
Poetry written while in hospital undergoing hip surgery, 2000; Medical notes (Restricted)

Box 7

Harry Hooton research, correspondence, drafts

Research correspondence, early draft outline 1988, 1990, 2001
HH 1, Photocopy 21st Century: The Magazine of a Creative Civilization, Ed. Harry Hooton, September 1955
HH 2, Copies of Application for the Registration of Copyright in a Literary, Musical or Dramatic Work, by Harry Hooton for ‘21st Century: The Magazine of a Creative Civilization’, August 1952
HH 3, Hooton correspondence with Dee Hunt, 2003
HH 4, Material relating to Annie Westbrook including Service file for George Robert Briggs (Regimental number 1914) Westbrook Next of Kin
HH 5, Social Credit file including searches at National Archives of Australia
HH 7, Security Service blacklist, Hooton search
HH 10, Dymphna Cusack
HH 12, ‘Aesthetics and Art as revolution drafts, 2002
HH 13, Photocopy of Hooton address book, annotated
HH 15, Jean-Paul Riopelle file
HH 16, names and Details for Leon Batt, Godfrey Bentley, Corinne Cantrill, William Dobell, Max Harris, Ted Morrisby, 2001
HH 17A, National Archives of Australia Fact Sheets
HH 17B, National Archives of Australia search results
HH 18, manuscript copy and typescript of a letter from Harry Hooton to Nettie Palmer, 18 October 1942

Obituary for Clement Byrne Christesen (1911-2003)
Correspondence with Michelle Hall regarding Hooton in Japan

Harry Hooton research notebooks including Notebook Number 3, 1986-1987, Harry Hooton Notebook Number 9, 1988; articles relating to The Sydney Push; Harry Hooton notebooks Numbers 1,5,7, 8, 10 and 11, 1984-1988; Diary and notes September 1977-June 1978

Box 8

6 notebooks/journals 1990-2003
2 address books
4 business card holders, 1991-2005

Box 9

Appointment diaries, with photographs and ephemera, 1987-2001
1987 ‘The Impressionists’ appointment diary; 1990 Cathay Pacific appointment diary
1991, 1994-1998, 2001-2002 Letts appointment diaries; incomplete 2003 University of Melbourne diary

Box 10

Files containing correspondence relating to the deposit of archival material for Margaret Fink, Harry Hooton, Jim McNeil, Lillian Roxon; Harry Hooton’ address book
Papers relating to ‘Continuing the Dream’, a documentary by John Fink marking the 25th Anniversary of Mardi Gras, Sydney, 2003
Papers relating to Percy Grainger’s theory of music based on moaning, 2000
Correspondence and information relating to E.T.A. Hofmann, 2004
Transcriptions and discussion of Harry Hooton’s letters to Victor Kennedy, 1941-1942
Correspondence with Janine Robinson, 2001-2002
Material relating to ‘79AD: The Eruption of Vesuvius’, 1994-1997
Photocopies of correspondence between Harry Hooton and Marie Pitt, 1939-1942
Papers relating to ‘Suit’ by Christos Tsiolkas from ‘Who’s afraid of the working class?’ including typescript, newspaper cuttings, correspondence between Tsiolkas, Soldatow and Fiona Inglis, 1998-2000
Correspondence between Soldatow and Bruce Pulsford, 2000-2001
Correspondence between Peter Whittaker and Sasha Soldatow, 2001
Articles relating to Karlheinz Stockhausen, and his comments after September 11, 2001

Miscellaneous papers including a Russian language edition of ‘Another Life and Land so far Away’ by A. Yu. Rusnitsky, 1991; copies of Patterns Nos. 1 and 5; ‘New York Review’ article on Oscar Wilde, 2002; material relating to Krishnamurti, 2002

Lillian Roxon material including correspondence with National Archives and Soldatow, copies of ASIO documents; news cuttings on the death of Lillian Roxon, photograph ca. 1971 of Frank Mitchell, Lillian Roxon, Thelma Clune, and Peter Kuring; 3 Issues of The Black Dog: The Black Dog Journal 1991, Issues 1, 2 and 3 (7 March 1992), 1971-2001 includes a 3.5” computer disc (DC 104) and copies of ASIO documents

Box 11

Cards, letters and photographs, 2004-2006 correspondents include Ian MacNeill, George Papaellinas, Janine Robinson, Damian Sheehan, Alan Tasker, Monica and Alex Koshka-Stein, Christos Tsiolkas, Bruce Pulsford, Howard Smith, Olga Samson, Bill Harding, Margaret Fink; book launch invitations: Mayakovsky in Bondi, Long Bay History Readers, 1993, 2003; letter to Frank Mitchell from Victor Jeffrey, 1984
Miscellaneous photographs including four photographs taken around Balmain, ca. 1974
Ephemera including tram, bus tickets, found items, 1935-1998
Small album of photographs of Soldatow and others “decorating” the Mr Poetry statue, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, 1996


Box 12

Frank Mitchell files. In June 1999, Sasha Soldatow, Margaret Fink and Stephen Maclean tidied up Frank Mitchell’s flat after his death. These files were donated to the Library of part of Soldatow’s archive and have been arranged by subject name

Art and artists file includes correspondence, invitations, ephemera, 1947-1998. Correspondents include Anne Wienholt, Margaret Cilento, Rose Dannay, Francis Lymburner, Harold ‘Kangaroo’ Thornton, Beryl Whiteley, Lionel Bowen, Roger Leong. There is also material relating to Mitchell’s purchase and donation of artworks by Margaret Olley, Donald Friend and others and includes correspondence with galleries including the Australian National Gallery, Dennis Wolanski Library of the Performing Arts and others

Gay Bilson file includes correspondence, a news cutting and invitation to the 10th Anniversary of Berowra Waters Inn, 1987

Cressida Campbell file includes a series of colour transparencies of Campbell’s woodblock prints; correspondence from Cressida Campbell and her husband Peter Crayford, 1988-1993

Nell Campbell file includes correspondence, invitations to Nell’s, magazine articles, sketches, photographs at Swifty Lazar’s Oscars after-party with Michael Caine, Joan Collins, James Stewart, Rupert Murdoch; photographs with Frank Mitchell, Luciano Pavarotti, 1982-1991

Frances Faye file includes correspondence, cuttings, ephemera including an autograph and annotated flyer from Murray Weinger’s Cotton Club, Central Park, New York, 1957, a “bounced” cheque payable to Mitchell from Faye, photographs including with Lana Cantrell, Teri Shepherd. Includes a contextual note by Stephen Maclean, 1999

Donald Friend file includes correspondence, invitations, photographs, colour transparencies of Bali, newspaper cuttings. Correspondents include Gisella Scheinberg, 1961-1996

Peter Kingston file includes correspondence, invitations, and a birthday card featuring Peter and Jan, Mitchell and Martin Sharp, 1992-1998

Stephen Little file contains correspondence and news clippings, 1999
John McKellar file contains postcards, press clipping, 1988-1996
Annie Mitchell (Frank’s mother) file contains news cuttings and legal documents relating to the settlement of her estate, 1967-1982
Margaret Olley file contains correspondence, some decorated with artistic additions by Olley; Australia Magazine cutting of Dobell’s portrait of Olley, April, 1949; correspondence with the Art Gallery of NSW regarding the loan of ‘Concarneau, Brittany’ Margaret Olley, 1952, postcards and gallery invitations, 1949-1997

The Pink Elephant café in Brisbane was opened in early 1946. The file contains correspondence and clippings, particularly related to the alleged assault on police by Douglas Murray in 1947 and the ensuing trial. It contains correspondence including a manuscript copy of ‘Strange Fruit’ transcribed by Frank Mitchell; photographs of Mitchell, his art on the walls and customers in the Pink Elephant including Dick Pring, Barrett (Barry) Reid, Chas Osborne, Dorothy Phillips, Elena Papathanapoulis; handwritten account of life in Brisbane during 1946-1947; a Clive Moore article and correspondence by Clive Moore relating to the Pink Elephant, 1997

Elizabeth Riddell file contains an article describing Mitchell’s 70th birthday party, a typed, annotated transcript of an interview with Frank Mitchell, several typed pages of autobiographical memories by Frank Mitchell, 1990

Martin Sharp file includes correspondence, invitations 1975-1997

Frank Waites file contains a letter and draft story

Box 13

Letters and correspondence, photographs including two studio portraits of Mitchell, postcards, clippings, invitations, menus, programmes, art catalogues. Correspondents include Rosemary Creswell, Will Spencer, David Polterack, Margaret Fink, 1980-1998

Correspondence from Mitchell’s apartment, 1962-1992 correspondents include Pat and Roger Miller, James Fairfax, Belinda Sue Browne, Morson Clift and Hal Herzberg, Margaret Alexander, Arkie Whitely, Rosemary Spittle, Desiree and Joseph Fallon, Geoff Brown, Brian Ford, Grenville (Will) Spencer, Keith Hughes, Michael Selios, Betty Madill, Richard Collins
Postcard, Christmas and Birthday cards, 1957-1998 correspondents include Pat and Roger Miller, Jan Allen and Peter Kingston, Dimity Tolbett, Di and Mike Kershaw, Louise Valkenberg, Will Spencer, Ann Church, Jenya Osborne, Joy McLisky, John Kingsmill, Brian Ford

Frank Mitchell’s 70th birthday, 1990 includes correspondence, guest lists, photographs by William Yang and an unknown photographer. Guests included Margaret Fink, Margaret Olley, William Yang, John Kingsmill, James Fairfax, Leo Schofield, Nicholas Pounder, Jim McLelland, Martin Sharp and others; “30 Chaps” group photograph taken at Frank’s 70th by William Yang (3 copies)

Eleven playbills including productions at Phillip Street Theatre of ‘Bats’, 1958-1959 and ‘Cross Section’, 1957, ‘Hat Trick’, 1955 and ‘Two to One’, 1955-1956 which featured costumes by Frank Mitchell
Newspaper cuttings, 1954-1996

Powerhouse Museum correspondence and copies of donated newspaper cuttings 1940s-1960s, 1991

Ephemera from dressmaking studio including unused ‘Frank Mitchell’ clothing labels, Quo Vadis Ball programme, 1952, a backing board for Frank Mitchell designed clothing, receipts for tailor made clothing including design and client measurements for Abe Saffron, Anne Schofield, Frances Faye, Elizabeth Riddell, Margaret Olley, Dame Peggy van Praagh, Liz Ford, Gisella Scheinberg, Lynne Segal, Diana Fisher, Sue Duval and Thelma Clune, 1967-1980, and sketches and notes regarding the design for a Pierrot outfit, 1996

Box 14

Fashion/costume photographs, some autographed including reprints of some dresses designed by Mitchell and a print of a photograph of Mitchell featured in a magazine; fashion shoot photographs of June Dally Watkins, Lois Stevens, Pat Firman and other models, 1952-1954; American dancer Norma Miller in a costume made by Mitchell; Mervyn Paice, Jan Schneider; Dick Pring, Rex Reed in costume by Mitchell, John Karlsen, Irene Costello and photocopies of all photographs donated to the Powerhouse Museum (annotated verso), ca. 1948-1960s

Photographs of Mitchell with Michael Steepe? in Jo Fallon’s pool, Vaucluse at a party for Margaret Mead, 1950s; Mitchell with Len Evans and Keith, 1970s; portrait photographs of Mitchell; photographs of Mitchell with Gordon Chater, Jack McKellar and Rona; Annie Mitchell (Frank’s Mother) at Edgecliff; Swansea Hotel; James Schoefield (Scho) Mitchell (Frank’s brother), 1940s, 1940s-1990

Miscellaneous photographs including photocopied photographs of Annie Miller behind the bar at the Swansea Hotel, Molly Mitchell Taperell; Mabel White with Wolf Cardamatis, 1940s; James Morrisby and Edwin Kingsbury, Avalon, 1956; bromide and sketches for a dress, 1940s-1956

Correspondence, photographs, RAAF discharge papers, playscript and costume design notes for ‘The Willow Pattern Plate’ 1957-1958; copy of ‘A Concert Tour of Europe’ from Pat Miller, 1991; invitation from Virginia Smith (later Edwards); brief typescript article on Franks Mitchell; sketch ‘Lunchtime, A.T. & T. Building’, 1985 by Mitchell, 1944-1996

Theatre papers including manuscript lyrics to ‘A Jug of this’ set musically by Howard Carr; correspondence from Elizabeth and Hermann, Marrickville; Razzle Dazzle radio show, Earl Leslie; typescript poem ‘Wild Plum’ by Orrick Johns, April 1943; notes on alterations to costumes; flyers, news cuttings, Phillip Street Theatre correspondence, card from Peter (Kingston) and Jan, 1943-1994

Sasha Soldatow's order of arrangement has been maintained where possible.

English, Russian

Partly restricted: Applies to correspondence. Conditions available on request.
Partly restricted: Box 6, folder 7

Copyright status:: Items in this collection where the author(s) died more than 70 years ago are out of copyright. Other items are in copyright for the life of the author(s) plus 70 years
Copyright holder:: Estate of Sasha Soldatow - applies to items where copyright was held by Sasha Soldatow
Approval for publication required: From copyright holder
Approval for reproduction required: From copyright holder
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder