Pixie O'Harris - letters and postcards from Ray Mathew, with associated material, 1954-1991

MLMSS 7558
SAFE/MLMSS 7558 (Safe 3/245)

fonds

1954 - 1991

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

446691

0.12 metres of textual material (1 box) - typescript, printed
Clippings
Photographs

Ray Mathew (1929-2002), playwright, poet, shortstory writer, novelist and critic was well known in the Sydney literary world of the 1950s. As an enterprising playwright he anticipated the Australian cultural self-confidence that emerged in the 1960s. He left Australia for England at the end of the 1950s and from the mid-1960s he lived in New York.
Pixie O'Harris (1903-1991), was best known for her drawings for children. She illustrated her own books (over 20), and those of other authors. She decorated with murals more than 50 children's hospital wards, day nurseries, baby clinics and schools. She also exhibited her art for adults, including portraits, and wrote plays & poems.

A. CORRESPONDENCE
Letters from Mathew (60), 1973-91; postcards from Mathew (59), 1960-61; letter from Pixie O'Harris to Mathew, 1985
(Two letters received from Ray Mathew, 20 June 1960 and 7 Jan. 1974 have been removed and transferred to SAFE/MLMSS 7558)

B. ASSOCIATED MATERIAL
Two pages from Pixie O'Harris' diary relating to Mathew, 1954; program for the Griffin theatre production of Mathew's play A spring song, 198?; two pages of typescript - possibly by Mathew; seven black and white photographs of Mathew, early 1960s; three issues of Art/World a guide to museums and galleries in New York, 1987 (to which Mathew occasionally contributed).

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