Guide to the Papers of Agnes Dobson

MS 6220

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Collection Summary

Creator: Agnes Dobson
Title: Papers of Agnes Dobson
Date Range: 1900-1975
Collection Number: MS 6220
Extent: 1.28 metres (8 boxes)
Language of Materials: English
Repository: National Library of Australia

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1096638).

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Agnes Dobson, National Library of Australia, MS 6220, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Biographical Note

Actress and broadcaster. Agnes Dobson, her father Collet Dobson, her first husband, Ronald Riley, and her mother, Harrie Dobson, were members of a notable theatre family and appeared for a number of years with Benjamin Fuller's theatre companies, as well as acting in a few Australian and American films. She turned to radio broadcasting and performed in drama programs and reviewed books on 3 UZ and 3 AW as Agnes Grey. She became involved in television, joined the Hector Crawford School as a drama teacher and also gave speech training.

Item Descriptions

Letters from Max Harris and others, 1934-53 (File 1) - Box 1

Letters received, 1942-55 (File 2) - Box 1

Family history - photographs, clippings, notes, correspondence and typescripts, 1949-75 (File 3) - Box 1

Family history - photographs, clippings, family tree and typescript notes on the lives of members of the Dobson Family, n.d. (File 4) - Box 1

Ms draft of play "Australia's peril: the invasion of 1915", in three exercise books, n.d. (File 5) - Box 1

Four exercise books with untitled ms notes and drafts and two music manuscript books, n.d. (File 6) - Box 1

Six notebooks, 1935-45 (File 7) - Box 2

Ms and typescript of play "In the ranks", n.d. (File 8) - Box 2

Ms draft of "The Independence of Mr Hastings", n.d. (File 8) - Box 2

Pencil ms of "The Brighter side of pioneering", n.d. (File 9) - Box 2

Untitled ms of play in two exercise books, n.d. (File 9) - Box 2

Ms draft of "The Ever-living actor", 1935 (File 10) - Box 2

Ms draft of "The Acting impulse", n.d. (File 10) - Box 2

Ms of "Joshua" and and untitled play, n.d. (File 11) - Box 2

Nine reporters notebooks on Australian theatre, 1900-1921 (File 12) - Box 2

Four notebooks, 1923-32 (File 13) - Box 2

Pencil draft of "Dangerous rhapsody" in exercise book (File 13) - Box 2

Five reporters notebooks, 1936-46 (File 14) - Box 2

Annotated typescripts of scripts by various authors (File 15-24) - Box 3

Typescript of "My Own land" by Agnes Dobson, n.d. (File 25) - Box 4

Poems, stories and scripts by A Dobson in ms and typescript, including corrected typescript of "Legend" or "Shall we remember", n.d. (File 26) - Box 4

Various dramatic sketches and radio scripts by Agnes Dobson, 1930s - 1950s (File 27) - Box 4

Corrected typescripts of plays by Ronald Riley: "My blue heaven" and "The Marriage joke" (File 28) - Box 4

Script, notes and clippings re adaptation of the Greek epic "Medea" (File 29) - Box 4

Play scripts and parts by various authors (File 30) - Box 4

Broadcasts of "The Village glee club", 1957-70 (File 30) - Box 4

Notes and broadcasts re Rex Ingamells (File 31) - Box 4

Dramatic sketches and ABC broadcasts, 1941-45 (File 31) - Box 4

Scripts from Crawford School of Broadcasting, 1950s and 1960s (File 32-41) - Box 5

ABC television rehearsal script of "Quiet night" by Dorothy Blewitt (File 37) - Box 5

ABC television script of "Waters of the moon" by N. C Hunter, adapted by Wal Cherry (File 38) - Box 5

Papers re Crawford School of Broadcasting, 1955-57 (File 42) - Box 6

Scripts and other papers re Crawford School of Broadcasting (File 43) - Box 6

Papers on speech training classes: ABC Scriptwriters (File 44) - Box 6

Seminars, Melbourne, 1966 (File 44) - Box 6

Portrait of Douglas Hutton (File 44) - Box 6

Notes etc. re speech training classes, n.d. (File 45) - Box 6

Photographs, clippings and publicity material, 1915-58 (File 46-47) - Box 6

Postcard photo/portraits of various actresses, c. 1900-1920 (File 48) - Box 6

Photographs and programmes, 1912-49, including Fuller's Dramatic Players (File 49) - Box 6