Comments on: Wills for Writers http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/madeleine-robins/business-of-writing/wills-for-writers Writing and Reading. Commerce and Art. Fantasy and Science Fiction. Discuss. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:17:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Madeleine Robins http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/madeleine-robins/business-of-writing/wills-for-writers#comment-4260 Madeleine Robins Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:08:53 +0000 http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/madeleine-robins/misc/wills-for-writers#comment-4260 That's why you have to have a person in place who will do what you ask. Preferably someone who knows that if they want their work destroyed after her death, and relies on you to take care of that. That’s why you have to have a person in place who will do what you ask. Preferably someone who knows that if they want their work destroyed after her death, and relies on you to take care of that.

]]> By: ian http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/madeleine-robins/business-of-writing/wills-for-writers#comment-4258 ian Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:48:26 +0000 http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/madeleine-robins/misc/wills-for-writers#comment-4258 http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/white-treasure-unearthed/2006/11/02/1162339985898.html White's literary treasure found Email Print Normal font Large font By David Marr November 3, 2006 The old bastard. Patrick White told the world over and over again that none of this existed. "Don't bother hunting for drafts and manuscripts," he snapped when I asked years ago. "They've all gone into the pit." "They hadn't. Stuffed into cupboards and drawers in his house" "This hoard was offered to the National Library in mid-August. " "That's what his will directed his literary executor Barbara Mobbs to do, but White's forthright old friend and agent told The Age: "I couldn't burn them in a blue fit." " "Courts have held that these destruction clauses can't be enforced," http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/white-treasure-unearthed/2006/11/02/1162339985898.html

White’s literary treasure found
Email Print Normal font Large font By David Marr
November 3, 2006

The old bastard. Patrick White told the world over and over again that none of this existed. “Don’t bother hunting for drafts and manuscripts,” he snapped when I asked years ago. “They’ve all gone into the pit.”

“They hadn’t. Stuffed into cupboards and drawers in his house”

“This hoard was offered to the National Library in mid-August. ”

“That’s what his will directed his literary executor Barbara Mobbs to do, but White’s forthright old friend and agent told The Age: “I couldn’t burn them in a blue fit.” ”

“Courts have held that these destruction clauses can’t be enforced,”

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