Collection 3: Robin Dalton further papers, 1938-2009

MLMSS 10790

sub-fonds

1938-2009

977091

0.64 metres of textual material (4 boxes)

Comprises personal and business correspondence (partly restricted), menu books, papers relating to Australian film production and funding from the 1970s to 1990s. Correspondents include Pat Lovell, Clive James, Ken Hannan, Tim Burstall, David Puttnam, Lars. R. Schmidt and David Mountbatten.

Personal letters and menu books, 1938-1966, 1995-2011

1. Letters (3) from Eugenie Borthwick, Jack Shaw (war correspondent), Dr Arthur Fleischmann (sculptor), to Robin Spencer, 1949?

2. Letters (83) from Lars R. Schmidt (former literary agent and film/theatrical producer mentioned in Incidental Memoir, work references to Ingmar Bergman, Peter Ustinov, T.S. Eliot. Robin Dalton assisted in London by searching for plays and as a contact with English authors) to Robin Dalton 1947- 1966, 1995 -2001 (RESTRICTED)

3. Letters from Lieutenant Torbert Macdonald to Robin Spencer while on active service and after the war back in the U.S., 1944-1953 (mentioned in Incidental Memoir) (RESTRICTED)

4. Menu books (4) for Robin Dalton's dinner parties, 1954 to 2011 (basis for her unpublished book 'Champagne and a Baked Potato')

5. Letters (9) from John Cameron, 1997-2001 (mentioned in Incidental Memoir. Robin Dalton met him on board a ship when newly widowed and planned to marry. These were written years later when they re-met in Australia after she had written Aunt's up the Cross)

6. Letters (6) concerning war time from Snow Swift, 1948 (Robins first love mentioned in Incidental Memoir); Leo Cook, 1938-39 (young suitor); John Spencer, 1940 (first husband)

7. Letters (44) from George Silk (Time-Life war photographer) to Robin Spencer, 1946-47

8. Letters (27) from Lieutenant John Baylis (U.S. Navy, on active service during the war) to Robin Eakin, 1943-1944

9. Letters from Peter Ruta (American painter of landscapes, mentioned in Incidental Memoir) and letter from Arthur Boys (London decorator) to Robin Dalton, 1958-1959

10. Letters (79) from David Mountbatten (Marquis of Milford Haven) (mentioned in Incidental Memoir) to Robin Eakin/Spencer during and after the war, 1945-1949

11. Letters (16) from Nicki d'lvangin (Russian dancer, mentioned in Aunts up the Cross), Nigel Tangye, Dr Art Gore, Ted Hocking, Claude Morel, Dick Austin, Douglas Grey, Johnny Lefungey to Robin Eakin/Spencer, 1942-1948

12. Extra notes/letter to old files

Partly restricted: Applies to some folders in Boxes 2-3 Access requires a signed undertaking not to make any use of information contained therein, in conversation or in writing, that could cause pain or embarrassment to any living person.

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