Collection 1: Robin Dalton papers, 1953-2014

MLMSS 9712

sub-fonds

1953-2014

1194992

1.92 metres of textual material (12 boxes)

BOX 1
RD’s handwritten short listing of contents of BOX 1

Folder 1
Agency negotiations, includes letters to New York agent Robert Lantz, 1975-1977

Folder 2
Literary agency work and records (Sousatzka Productions, Dalton Films, mainly letters from Kenneth Ewing (Fraser & Dunlop Scripts), 1976-2009

Folder 3
Andrea Newman, being correspondence with client and novelist Andrea Newman mainly concerning film and TV rights for the novel `A Bouquet of Barbed Wire’ and various works including `Alexa, Three Into Two Won’t Go’, 1974-1982

Folder 4
Andrea Newman, being correspondence with and relating to client and novelist, Andrea Newman mainly regarding publishing agreements with Triton Publishing Co., 1966-1976

Folder 5
Christopher Miles, being correspondence with and relating to client and film director Christopher Miles mainly relating to film negotiations for the film script `Nicholas’ with Charles Haldeman, also includes `Rhythm’n Greens (1964), Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), 1967-1969

Folder 6
Thomas Wiseman, being correspondence with client and writer Thomas Wiseman concerning the screenplay for `Beethoven’, includes letters from Peer J. Oppenheimer (HeiRaMatt) with client and writer Thomas Wiseman, 1970-1974

Folder 7
Wal Watkins, being correspondence with client and Australian writer Wal Watkins relating to publications (Shadow of the Whip, Refuge in Terror, The Perilous Hours, Andamooka, Prisoners in Paradise, Race the Lazy River) , 1969-1971

Folder 8
Yale Udoff, being correspondence and contracts relating to negotiations for client and screenwriter, playwright, Yale Udoff and includes letters from John Schlesinger, John Ptak, 1972

Folder 9
Morris West, being correspondence with and relating to client and Australian writer Morris West regarding film negotiations with Henry Weinstein (Commonwealth United Entertainment Corp) for `The Heretic’, 1968-1970

Folder 10
Jiri Weiss, being correspondence and negotiations of scripts and book options by client and film director, Jiri Weiss. Includes typescript of draft screen play for Margaret Drabble’s ` A Roman Marriage’ and registration for scripts with the Writers Guild. Other correspondents include Writers Guild, Horizon Pictures, Wolf Jobst Siedler (publisher), Saturn Pictures Corporation, Productions Kino Montreal Ltd (Harry Gulkin), Palomar Pictures (re: Choke Berry Bay), 1969-1977

Folder 11
Lester Taube, being correspondence and rights negotiations relating to client and writer Lester Taube, mainly relating to `Cossack Cowboy’, 1975-1983

BOX 2
Peter Wood (3 files)

Folder 1
Peter Wood, being correspondence and contracts relating to negotiations with client and theatre director Peter Wood, 1972-1974

Folder 2
Peter Wood, being correspondence and contracts relating to negotiations with client and theatre director Peter Wood, mainly regarding `Jumpers’, `Man from Haven’, ` Montarnasse’, `Country Matters, `Wife of Martin Guerre’, ` Songs of Songs’ . Includes letters from Peter Eckersley (Granada TV), Audrey Wood, Patrick Donnell (National Theatre), 1969-1973

Folder 3
Peter Wood, being correspondence and contracts relating to negotiations with client and theatre director Peter Wood, mainly concerning `Jumpers’, `Long day’s journey into Night’, Macbeth’, `Dear Love’,` Travesties’, 1972-1975

Folder 4
Edna O’Brien, screenplay and stories written by Edna O’Brien and sent to her agent Robin Dalton. Some stories may have been published but the screenplays are unproduced. These include, My Mother’s Mother (screenplay), Stag (screenplay), Girl’s in their Married Bliss (screenplay), The Love Object (screenplay), A story about Cuchulain (story), The Wiseman’s (story), The plan (story)

Folder 5
David Osborne, being correspondence with client and writer David Osborne relating to negotiations and contracts with Count Giovanni Volpi di Misurata (producer) for the film production of the book `H.M.S Ulysses’ by Alistair Maclean, 1969-1973

Folder 6
David Osborne being correspondence relating to client and writer David Osborne relating to negotiations and contracts with Count Giovanni Volpi di Misurata (producer) for the film production of the book `The Mad Motorist’ by Allan Andrews, 1969-1972

Folder 7
David Osborne, being correspondence relating to the client and writer David Osborne relating to negotiations with Count Giovanni Volpi di Misurata (producer) for the documentary of `Fangio’ directed by Hugh Hudson, 1969-1972

BOX 3
Folder 1
Joan Juliet Buck, being correspondence relating to negotiations with client and writer Joan Juliet Buck regarding the script `East Cocker’, 1978-1983

Folder 2
David Storey, being correspondence relating to negotiations with client and writer David Storey regarding U.S. film payments for `In Celebration’, 1975-1978

Folder 3
Hugh Hudson, being correspondence with client and film director Hugh Hudson regarding film project `The Smell of Rain’, including correspondence from Peer J. Oppenheimer (HeiRaMatt Productions), 1970

Folder 4
Michael Blakemore, being correspondence and agreements with client and film producer Michael Blakemore in relation to award winning documentary `A personal history of the Australian Surf (1981)’. Includes letters from Phillip Adams, Adams Packer Films, PBL Productions, WETA, 1981-1991

Folder 5
John Quigley, being correspondence and financial agreements of client and novelist John Quigley mainly relating to the novel King’s Royal (1975), 1973-1976

Folder 6
William (Bill) Fairchild, being correspondence from writer William Fairchild (Sousatzka Productions) regarding negotiations for the script `Bruno Rising’, including letters from Joan Collins, Sara Duvall, 1986-1993

Folder 7
Literary Agency negotiations being correspondence relating to clients including Peter Medak, Peter Weir, Ken Hannam, Jane Gaskell, Joan Collins, David Cohen, Donald Cammell, Gordon Russell and agent Robert Lantz, 1974-2014

Folders 8-9
Petru Popescu, being correspondence and negotiations regarding client and writer Petru Popescu mainly relating to `Before and After Edith’, `Beethoven’s Nephew’ and Peter Weir’s `The Last Wave’. Includes correspondence with Alfred Crown (Penthouse), Carlo Ponti (Campagna Cinematographia), Kathy Robbins (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), Candice Lake (Ziegler Associates), 1976-1979.

BOX 4
George Orwell, being correspondence and negotiations regarding client and author George Orwell
Folder 1
1. Caedmon Records – Correspondence regarding negotiations with Sonia Orwell for recording of Animal Farm, 1973-1980
2. Animal Farm rights – Performing rights for Animal Farm on behalf of the George Orwell Estate. Includes letters from Anthony Williams (William Morris Agency), 1974-1976
3. Animal Farm theatre – Correspondence regarding contract negotiations and permission on behalf of the George Orwell Estate, includes correspondence from Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, Melvyn Bragg, Curtis Brown, William Morris Agency, 1970-1973
File 4. Clergyman’s Daughter – Correspondence regarding negotiations with Thames Television, BBC Television, Mersham Productions, 1977-1979
4. 1984/Animal Farm - Correspondence regarding television package, includes correspondence with Time Life Films (David Susskind), Granada Television, 1979-1980
5. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – Correspondence with Harvey Jason (Vala Films) regarding film right negotiations, including letters from Sonia Orwell, Robert Bierman, Mark Hamilton (A.M. Heath & Co - Literary Executor), 1968-1980
6. Granada Television – Draft contract and correspondence with Granada Television (Derek Granger) regarding television rights to `Down and Out in Paris and London’, `Homage to Catalonia’, The Road to Wigan Pier’, `Shooting an Elephant’, 1971-1974
7. Canadian TV – Correspondence regarding performance rights with Adrian Heaps, 1975-1980
8. Various George Orwell files correspondence including Mark Hamilton (A.M. Heath & Co), Peter McInerney (National Theatre) 1976-1984
9. Animal Farm – correspondence with Mark Hamilton (A.M. Heath & Co, Trevor Nunn (Royal Shakespeare Company), 1980-1981
10. Photocopies of letters regarding Burmese days
11. George Orwell dramatic film and television rights (Animal Farm, Burmese Days, The Clergyman’s Daughter, Coming up for Air, Down and Out in Paris and London, Burmese days), Includes correspondence from literary executor Mark Hamilton (A.M.Heath) of the Estate of the late Sonia B. Orwell, 1972-1983

Folder 2
1. Television general (1984, Road to Wigan Pier), includes correspondence with BBC, Thames Television Includes essay on George Orwell by Martin Walker, 1972-1983
2. Animal Farm, being correspondence concerning performance and production permission, 1974-1984
3. Animal Farm (musical), being correspondence concerning musical adaptions. Includes letters from Gabriel Pretus, Mark Hamilton (A.M. Heath & Co), Jared Beynon, Sir Peter Hall (National Theatre)
4. Homage to Catalonia/Burmese Days – film option agreements, 1981-1982
5. 1984 (Yugoslavia), being correspondence regarding stage adaption by Nenan Puhovski at Theater ITD in Zagreb. Includes letters from Petar Teslic, Jovan Cirilov, Sonia Orwell, Ruzica Vlaskalin (Jugoslavenska Autorska Agencija), Bertil Boden (Arlecchino Teaterforlag), 1975-1977
6. 1984 (France), being correspondence concerning theatre adaption by Claude Mouthe, 1978-1980
7. 1984 (Germany) being correspondence concerning theatre adaption by Peter Zadek, 1976

BOX 5
George Orwell being correspondence and negotiations regarding client and author George Orwell

Folder 1
Burmese Days – correspondence concerning negotiations for film rights with Andrew Williams Film Productions, 1979-1985

Folder 2
Homage to Catalonia – correspondence concerning film rights, 1977-1985

Folder 3
Animal Farm – Correspondence concerning performing rights for Theatre, 1982-1985

Folder 4
Animal Farm – Correspondence relating to radio dramatizations, 1976-1981

Folder 5
Animal Farm – Correspondence relating to German television broadcast of the RIAS Berlin production by `Norddeutscher Rundfunk’, 1981

Folder 6
Animal Farm – Correspondence relating to performing right, including letter from Melvyn Bragg, 1975-1981

Folder 7
Down and Out in Paris and London – Correspondence between writer and producer Joseph Strick and Robin Dalton as previous agent for Orwell Estate and Executive Producer, 1987

Folder 8
1984 – Correspondence relating to Serbo/Croatian and German speaking rights for theatre/film, 1971, 1978-1982

Folder 9
1984 – Correspondence relating to theatre, 1972-1983

Folder 10
1984 – Correspondence relating to foreign radio, 1980-1984

Folder 11
George Orwell Theatre (General), correspondence, 1976-1983

BOX 6
Folder 1
Awards and Honours presented to Robin Dalton, 1989, 2003
Includes Second Prize for Madame Sousatzka from the Retirement Research Foundation, 1989 Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, 2013
Pinocchio (2 files)

Folder 2
Pinocchio Productions - Correspondence regarding the production company. Includes correspondence relating to films The Promise (William Fairchild, Robin Dalton), State of Panic (Eric Fellner), Service Compris, Halfway to Shanghai), John Watkinson, Ken Russell, Michel & Maria Vieyte, Peter Rawley (ICM), 1989-1998

Folder 3
Pinocchio Productions - Statues in the Garden (Isabel Coleqate) -Correspondence relating to film negotiations, including letters on behalf of Mark Cunningham and John Watkinson, 1991-1993

Folder 4
Bruno Rising - Correspondence relating to the film rights and production. Includes letters to Michael Blakemore, Goldie Hawn, Fred Spector, Danny Devito and a letter from Joan Collins, 1986-2005

Folder 5
Bruno Rising, being correspondence mainly with Electric Shadow Productions (ESP), 1978-1993

Folder 6
Bruno Rising, being general correspondence from writers, directors and actors as well as submissions. Includes letters from Joan Collins, Scott Harris on behalf of Don Ameche, Ben Benjamin (I.C.M) agent for Burt Lancaster, Marcello Mastroianni, 1982-2002.

BOX 7
Folder 1
Poppy Factory, being correspondence concerning proposed co-production with Dodi Soames being mainly correspondence concerning The Poppy Factory based on a novel written by William Fairchild, with some references to other films, 2000-2013

Folder 2
Betrayal being correspondence concerning film project based on a book written by Adrian Churchwood, under joint cooperation with Dodi Soames, 2000-2003

Folder 3
Homage to Catalonia, being correspondence between Hugh Hudson and Robin Dalton relating to film rights and negotiations, 1986-1992

Folder 4
Halfway to Shanghai (originally titled The Girl on the Manly Ferry and Hooked), being files containing correspondence, synopses and script notes, notes on production companies and directors approached. Includes a file on directors biographies and contains letters from Michael Thomas (Australian writer), Patricia Lovell, Anthony Buckley (Producer), Sir Ian Potter, Graeme Clifford, Roger Donalson, Sonia Hoffman, Gillian Armstrong, Michael Oliver, Andrena Finley, Ann Churchill-Brown (re: Nicole Kidman), Carmel Mulvaney, Peter Smalley, Bruce Beresford, 1975-2007

Folder 5
The Basque Story, being correspondence relating to film negotiations. Includes synopsis by Timberlake Wertenbaker (writer) and letters Zayika Powell (Screen Development Group), (writer), Michael Blakemore (Director), Roger Wingate (Curzon Film Distributors), Christopher Wicking, Michael Imison (agent for Timberlake Wertenbaker), 1988-1995

Folder 6
Service Compris, being correspondence relating to screenplay written by William (Bill) Fairchild with Robin Dalton promoting it as an agent and attempting to establish it as a film on behalf of Pinocchio Productions, 1981-1991

BOX 8
Oscar & Lucinda (2 files)
Folder 1
Oscar & Lucinda, being correspondence regarding film finance with Australian Film Commission, 1991-1996

Folder 2
Oscar & Lucinda, being correspondence regarding film finance, Includes correspondence Luciana Arrighi, Timothy White, Catriona Hughes, Catherine Knapton, 1997-1998

Folder 3
Madame Soutsatska, being correspondence regarding film negotiations and post production. Includes letters from Luciana Arrighi and William Fairchild, 1982-2000
Country Life (8 files)

Folder 4
Country Life, being correspondence mainly with Line Producer Adrienne Read. Also includes photocopies of letters to David Storey, 1983-2008

Folder 5
Country Life, being correspondence between Robin Dalton and Paul Aamodt concerning his involvement on Country Life, 1992-1993

Folder 6
Country Life, being correspondence between Robin Dalton and Southern Star Film Sales, 1994

Folder 7
Country Life, being correspondence between Robin Dalton and Australian Film Finance Corporation regarding film finance. Includes letters from Catriona Hughes, Andrena Finlay, 1992-1993

Folder 8
Country Life, being correspondence between Robin Dalton and potential financiers, including Rank Film Distributors, Samuel Goldwyn, BBC TV, Curzon Film Distributors, Initial Film & Television Co., Island World Productions, 1983-2010

Folder 9
Country Life, being correspondence relating to DVD production, screenings and travel, including Michael Selwyn & Ian Sutherland (United International Pictures), John Morris & Tricia Nolan (AFFC), 1994-1995

Folder 10
Country Life, being correspondence relating to trailer and post production, release and storage, including United International Pictures, John Morris & Tricia Nolan (AFFC), Screensound Australia, Adrienne Read, 1994-2000

Folder 11
Country Life, being correspondence relating to contract with Sam Neill, including Shanahan Management, Tress Cox & Maddox, Adrienne Read, 1993-1994

BOX 9
Jigsaw– Sybille Bedford (6 files)

Folder 1
Jigsaw, being correspondence relating to finance for film based on the book by Sybille Bedford, including Erin Cramer (screenwriter), Julie Payne, Catriona Hughes, Peter Rice (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Colin Vaines (Miramax Films), Colin Callender (HBO Films), 2001-2003

Folder 2
Jigsaw, being correspondence relating to dealings with Frank Doelger and Tracey Scoffield from Rainmark Films, 2003-2006

Folder 3
Jigsaw, being correspondence relating to the film negotiations mainly with Sarah Lutyens (Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency), Luciana Arrighi, Aliette Martin (Literary executor of Bedford Estate), 2001-2007

Folder 4
Jigsaw, being correspondence relating to film production, Includes directors (Peter Medak, Anthony Page, Julie Taymore, Istan Szabo, Alix Raynaud, Laura Jones, Judy Daish, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates on behalf of John Madden; Writers (Lucinda Coxon, Laura Jones); Actors (Julian Fellowes, Todd Field, Norman North on behalf of Emma Thompson (PFD) and other correspondents Luciana Arrighi, Caroline Baum (Aust Broadcaster), 2001-2007

Folder 5
Sybille Bedford papers relating to her life. Includes talk by Elsie Burch Donald at her memorial celebration, 2006

Folder 6
Jigsaw - Sybille Bedford black and white photocopies of photographs and biographical information

BOX 10
Folder 1
Dead is a Four Letter Word, being correspondence relating to the editing and publication with publisher Paul Ham and friends and colleagues. Includes partial original draft as well as notes on the editing of William Fairchild’s memoir, 2012-2013

Folder 2
Aunts up the Cross, being correspondence relating to the film finance, includes letters from writers/directors Bruce Beresford, Penny Chapman, Zakiya Powell, Laura Jones, 2007-2011

Folder 3
Personal correspondence (File 1)
Nicky Haslam, Edna O’Brien, Jan Pedersen, Elizabeth Bay House, Simon Callow (actor), Simon Williams (writer, actor), John Irvin (film director of poppy factory), Lee Kalcheim (us writer), Luise Reiner (actress), Margaret Fink, Kirsten Tranter (Aust writer), Diana Athill, Diana Lavender, Joan Collins, Luciana Arrighi, Lady Amabel Lindsay, Nigel Waymouth (painter), Sir Tristram Powell, Martha Coleman (Aust Film producer), Nicky Haslam, Ben Kingsley, Nigel Waymouth (painter), , Hans Koning
Condolence letters concerning Bill Fairchild from Dodi Soames, John Schlesinger, Ralph Fiennes, Didier Borotra
Memoria and invitations, includes Jeffrey Smart, Nicky Haslam, James Fairfax, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Australia House, Lady Pamela Hicks, Georgina Kennard, Sir Sidney & Lady Lipworth, Elizabeth (Eliza) Clyde, 2012-2014. Includes telegram from Noel Coward to William Fairchild, Includes letter from William Fairchild to Tanis Phillips, 1968-2008

Folder 4
Personal correspondence (File 2)
Arnold Wesker, David Brown (US Producer), Prince Chula of Thailand, Dr Uzi Arad (Institute of Policy and Strategy), Aliette Martin, Sheamus Smith (National Film Studios of Ireland), Scott Carlin (Elizabeth Bay House) with letter from Wolf Cardamatis (German born Sydney cartoonist), Susanna Johnston (writer), Patsy Buchan, Janine d’Angelo, Marcia Minnet, Declan Donnellan (film/stage producer), William Fairchild, Anthony Abrahams, Mia Dolan, Stephen Frears (film director), Pauline Godsworthy, Jonathan Clyde, Roland Starke, Kathryn Harrison, Clement M. Brown, Seamus Dalton, George Lawson, Kelly Knatchbull, Gyles Brandreth, Caroline Grose, Tristram Powell, Ken Butler (painter), Bernard H. Leser (Vogue Australia founder), Caroline Baum, Helen Osborne, Sam Mendes (director), Amber Lightfoot-Walker, Hal Landers, David Sherwin, Rupert Murdoch (2), Ian Maxell, Maggy Fellman, 1957-2011

BOX 11
Thai Embassy Correspondence
Folders 1-2
Correspondence concerning Robin Dalton’s work as a Press Attaché for the Thai Embassy, 1953-1957

Folder 3
Correspondence between Robin Dalton and H.R.H. Prince Chula of Thailand, July-September 1954

Folder 4
Correspondence between Robin Dalton and H.R.H. Prince Chula of Thailand, January 1956-May 1958

Folder 5
Correspondence concerning Robin Dalton’s, including letters from Sir Steven Runciman, Emmet Dalton, Police General Phao Sriyanonda, 1954-1957

Folder 6
Correspondence relating to the Thai Ambassador, H.S.H. Prince Wongsanevatra Devakula and other Thai Embassy officials, 1953-1957

Folder 7
Personal Tour, 1955

Folder 8
Papers relating to the S.E.A.T.O Conference, 27 January 1955

BOX 12
Folder 1
English News Bulletin (typescript copies), May 1956-September 1957

Folder 2
Thai News Bulletins (typescript copies) written by Robin Dalton sent weekly to the British Press, March 1956-October 1957

Folder 3
Drafts of articles written by Robin Dalton about Thailand

Folder 4
Correspondence in relation to publicity through books, colleges and The Foreign Press Association in London, 1954-1956

Folder 5
Political information regarding Thailand for reference, 1955-1958

Restricted: Restriction expired 2022, Expiry Date: 2022-07-08

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