Guide to the Papers of Rodney Milgate

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MS 5185, MS Acc00.200, MS Acc15.033

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Collection Summary

Title
Papers of Rodney Milgate
Date Range
1955-1987
Collection Number
MS 5185, MS Acc00.200, MS Acc15.033
Extent
1.32 metres (4 ms boxes + 4 archives boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The first material received from Rodney Milgate was a typescript of his play A Refined Look at Existence in 1967. In 1976 he donated the bulk of his collection, which comprised correspondence, newspaper clippings, catalogues, programs and manuscripts of plays and novels. Further donations were made in 1981, 1987 and 1990.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2618666).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Rodney Milgate, National Library of Australia, [Class number] then [box number and series and/or file number]'.

General

Please note: each class in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there are multiple Box 1's). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.

Biographical Note

Rodney Milgate was born in Sydney in 1934 and educated at East Sydney Technical College and Sydney Teachers College. He was a school teacher for several years and later an actor, painter and writer.

In 1964 Milgate won the Fairfax Human Image Prize and in 1966 the Blake Prize for Religious Art. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals. He is the author of several plays, one of which, A refined look at existence, was first produced in Sydney in 1966.

Rodney Milgate is married to the actress and former singer Dinah Shearing, whose papers are also held in the Library (MS 5186).

Item Descriptions

Class MS 5185. Original Consignments received 1967-1994 - Box 1-8

Class. Original Consignment

Correspondence and personal documents, 1971-74 (File 1) - Box 1

Personal documents include birth certificate, school certificate, photocopies of teachers certificate and diploma in art, notebook, certificate of entry in register of marriage.

Correspondents include: Blunt, M.J. Prof; Bonython, Kym; Coburn, John; Cull, Wendy; Nicholson, Michael; Pressley, Alison; Provost, J.F.

Manuscript of 'A Golden Pathway to Europe' play, uncut version, 1978 (File 2) - Box 1
Manuscript of A Refined Look at Existence stage play in 3 acts, 1966 (File 3_4) - Box 1
Manuscript of 'At Least You Get Something Out of That' play in 2 acts, 1976 (File 5) - Box 1
Manuscripts of 'Appointment' (television play), 'Something Real' (television play) and 'A Short Film Without Words' (play), 'House of Strangers' (play) (File 6) - Box 1
Manuscripts of 'Buckets With Holes in Them' (stage play, see also box 6, File 41) and 'Grass Up Your Ears' (stage play, duplicate, see also box 6 File 43) (File 7) - Box 1
Manuscripts of 'Vonny' (page 1 missing, novel) 'A Value for Expression' and 'The Nature of Expression' (File 8) - Box 1
Manuscript of 'The Room, or Incident at Nolava Beach' (novel, original draft) (File 9) - Box 1
Manuscript of 'An Unfortunate Incident at Vence' (novel, 1978) (File 10) - Box 2
Manuscript of 'Incident at Nolava Beach' (novel, original re-edited version, 1978) (File 11) - Box 2
Manuscripts of 'Inside Out or Fifteen Poems Etcetera' (poems, 1965), 'Eleven Poems' (poems, 1963) and 'A Refined Look at Existence: A Selection of Poetry', (1957-67) (File 12) - Box 2
Photographs (File 13) - Box 2
Newspaper clipping (articles and review by and about Rodney Milgate) (File 14) - Box 2
Programs (File 15) - Box 2
Newspaper clippings (some photographs included- Arts and Theatre (amateur 1955-58) and Theatre and Television (professional 1959-60) (File 16_17) - Box 2
Newspaper clippings (some photographs included) - Art reviews (1962-67) and Theatre and Television, (1962-67) (File 18_19) - Box 3
Miscellaneous (1957-67) Catalogues, programs and correspondence (File 20_22) - Box 3

Correspondents include: Dutton, Geoffrey; Scougall, Stuart, Dr; Thomas, Daniel.

Class. Consignment added 22/1/81

Miscellaneous printed material (File 23_27) - Box 4

Includes professional biography, school certificate, teachers certificate, diploma of arts certificate, programs, newspaper clippings.

Miscellaneous (some correspondence included) (File 28) - Box 4

Correspondents include: Harvey, G.G.; Houler, Karen; McCallum, John; Neuwald, Ellen; Page, Roger; Warren, D.J.

Class. Consignment added 28/1/87

Manuscript of 'Figures or Landscape with Driver or Favourites' (play in 2 acts, 1980) (File 29) - Box 5
Manuscript of 'The Story of Larry Foley' ( unedited version screenplay, 1982) (File 30) - Box 5
Manuscript of 'Destiny's Mill' (third draft, stage play, 1982) (File 31) - Box 5
Plot for ABC Radio Segment Commonality in the Arts (a process of creativity) (File 32) - Box 5
Manuscript of 'An Unfortunate Incident at Vence' (novel, 1978) (File 33) - Box 5
Pictures at an Exhibition: Poems and Other Thoughts (1979) Elizabethan Press, Sydney (File 34) - Box 5
'Wordscapes', (1983) (File 34) - Box 5
Manuscript of 'Triage, or The Fortunates' (stage play, 1984)'TV Documentary' (films x 2, 1960) (File 35) - Box 5
Manuscript of 'Intruders' (play, 1983) (File 36) - Box 6
Manuscript of 'Grass Up Your Ears' (play adapted for radio) (File 37) - Box 6
Manuscript of 'Anniversary Waltz or Reet or Rita' (stage play, 1985, see also File 40) (File 38) - Box 6
Manuscript of 'Archibald Prize or Wild Justice' (stage play, 1985) (File 39) - Box 6

Class. Consignment added 6/11/90

Manuscript of 'Anniversary Waltz' (stage play, 1985, duplicate, see also File 38) (File 40) - Box 6
Manuscript of 'Buckets With Holes in Them' (1981 play, duplicate see File 7, Box 1) (File 41) - Box 6
Manuscripts of 'Favourites' (1980 play) (File 42) - Box 6
Manuscript of 'Grass Up Your Ears' (play, duplicate, see also box 1, File 7) (File 43) - Box 6
Manuscript of 'Intruders' (play, 1983, duplicate, see also box 6, File 36) (File 44) - Box 7
Manuscript of 'Incident at Nolava Beach', (1989) (File 45) - Box 7
Manuscripts of 'Appointment' and 'Something Real' (typescript of television plays, see also box 1, File 6) (File 46) - Box 7
Collected poems, (1947-1989) (File 47) - Box 7
Catalogues, programs and photographs (File 48) - Box 7
Photocopies of catalogues (File 49) - Box 7
Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous, (1960-1990) (File 50) - Box 7

Class. Consignment added 27/7/94

Program entitled 'An Interpretation of a Sacred Myth' exhibition at David Jones Art Gallery (1991) 'Fourteen Stations of the Cross: a sequence of poems accompanying fourteen paintings', (1991) (File 51) - Box 8
'A Golden Pathway Through Europe' (cut version deriving from playwright conference workshop, ANU 1979) (File 52) - Box 8
'Triage or the Fortunates' (radio play, working titles, 1988) (File 53) - Box 8
'Anniversary Waltz or Reet or Rita' (a stage play in two acts, working titles, 1991) (File 54) - Box 8
Curriculum Vitae (March 1994 and Oct. 1998 revision); press releases (1990-4); 1 page list of paintings (1994); photographs (1959-1993), miscellaneous articles, programs, catalogues, (1990-4) (File 55) - Box 8
'A Refined Look at Existence' London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. (1968); 'Incident at Nolava Beach or the Nagual' NSW: Desktop Publishing Unit in the College of Fine Arts (1993 - limited edition copy, signed by Milgate). (File 56) - Box 8
Five audio cassettes: 'Fourteen Stations of the Cross 1991' (poems to accompany an exhibition of artwork), 'Interview of Solo Exhibition 1992' (Blaxland Gallery), 'The Sounds of Poetry' 'Milgate, Rodney 1-2' (recorded for AMPA oral history program interviewed by James Mellen, State Library of Victoria) (File 57) - Box 8

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