The Boyds purchased their record player and sound system from Thomas’s in Melbourne. Patricia Boyd (later Davies) was very interested in opera and was later appointed to the Board of the Australian Opera.Vaughan Williams Symphony No5. LP 33RPM vinyl, Catalogue Number: ASD 508, Record cover, no plastic sleeve, back cover notes by Scott Goddard. Double sided liner notes inside. Sir John Barbirolli Philharmonia Orchestra.lp, sound recording

The Boyds purchased their record player and sound system from Thomas’s in Melbourne. Patricia Boyd (later Davies) was very interested in opera and was later appointed to the Board of the Australian Opera.Peter Sculthorpe - Sun Music I - Irkanda IV; Dorian Le Gallienne - Sinfonietta. LP 33RPM Vinyl, Catalogue Number: S/FRAM 1, Paper packaging/cover, opens like a book, Plastic Sleeve, 1 Vinyl disc, cover notes by Roger Covell. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Conductor John Hopkins.lp, sound recording

The Boyds purchased their record player and sound system from Thomas’s in Melbourne. Patricia Boyd (later Davies) was very interested in opera and was later appointed to the Board of the Australian Opera.Joan Carden sings Mozart. LP 33RPM Vinyl, Catalogue Number: A04, Cardboard packaging, 1 Vinyl disc, plastic sleeve, cover annotations by David Garrett. Joan Carden, with Richard Barnard (Tenor), John Winther (Piano), Robert Ingram (Violin), The Orchestra of Sydney; Conductor, John Harding.lp, sound recording, opera

The Boyds purchased their record player and sound system from Thomas’s in Melbourne. Patricia Boyd (later Davies) was very interested in opera and was later appointed to the Board of the Australian Opera.The Roaring 20s - Vol III. LP 33RPM vinyl, Catalogue Number: GA-33-353, 1 vinyl disk, plastic sleeve, no cover.John Gray' and 'GRAY' handwritten on side 1lp, sound recording

Colour slide in a mount. Melbourne Olympic Swimming Pool (1956), Melbourne, Australia. (Architects: Kevin Borland, Peter McIntyre, John and Phyllis Murphy; engineer: Bill Irwin.)Encircled 60 (Handwritten)melbourne, slide

Robin Boyd developed a close friendship with the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar Germany, Walter Gropius, who had moved to the USA in the 1930s. Through this connection, Boyd was invited to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Bemis Professor at the School in the North American academic year 1956-7. Robin and Patricia Boyd, with their youngest daughter Suzy, were based in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the year. Boyd gave some lectures at MIT and he was also invited to give lectures at many other universities, allowing him to travel widely within the USA, especially on the East Coast. This gave him the opportunity to meet architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Paul Rudolph and many others, and visit the offices of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and places like Taliesin and the General Motors Technical Center Detroit. On the way home, the Boyds visited London, Berlin, Paris and Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in France.Colour slide in a mount. Socony-Mobil Building (1952-56), 150 East 42nd Street, New York City, New York, USA. (Architects: Harrison & Abramovitz and John B Peterkin.)Made in USA/ 04819/ W (Handwritten)/ Encircled 13 (Handwritten)/ Encircled 114F (Handwritten)mit bemis professorship, mit, robin boyd, slide

This a copy of a book review of Robin Boyd's 'Australia's Home'.Photocopy of an article. The last column has not copied correctly, as newspaper must have been crumpled.australia's home, walsh st library

A proposal letter written by Mark Strizic for a grant from the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board to fund a series of art books. Strizic proposes a series of books illustrated by Strizic's own photography, under the series title Expressions. Strizic seeks a grant of $4900 from the board for the publication of two books, one of furniture maker Schulim Krimper, another on John Perceval's Cherubs. Budgets for these books are included, proposing to use the profit from sales to fund subsequent books, including one on the Centre 5 group of sculptors and one with Australian poets with graphics by artist Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski.Typewritten, carbon copy, foolscap, 4 pagesRobin Boyd pencil noterobin boyd, meriel wilmot-wright, myer foundation, mark strizic, schulim krimper, brian lewis, margaret garlick, inge king, clifford last, lenton parr, teisutis zikaras, julius kane, centre 5, time riders, john perceval, vincas jomantas, stan ostoja kotkowski, judith wright, roland robinson, kenneth slessor, max harris, claude wischik, commonwealth art advisory board, andrew grimwade, national gallery of victoria, joseph brown, brian stonier

Letter from Peter Ryan, Director of Melbourne University Press, to John Hooker at Penguin regarding whether Penguin would consider reissuing Robin Boyd's 'Australia's Home' as the edition is now out of print. Patricia Davies was sent a carbon copy.Carbon copy

This letter confirms to Peter Ryan, Director of Melbourne University Press, that Penguin will reprint Robin Boyd's 'Australia's Home' , with a new cover and on more attractive stock.Photocopy

Letter from Peter Ryan, Director of Melbourne University Press, to John Hooker at Penguin saying he liked the plans for the new edition of Robin Boyd's 'Australia's Home'. Patricia Davies was sent a carbon copy.Carbon copy

Letter from Peter Ryan, Director of Melbourne University Press, suggesting to John Hooker of Penguin, that Professor Joe Burke could be a possible author for a new foreword of the reissue of Robin Boyd's 'Australia's Home'.Photocopy plus a with compliments note

John Hooker of Penguin will think about Peter Ryan's suggestion of Professor Joe Burke writing a new foreword for the reissue of Robin Boyd's 'Australia's Home'.Photocopy

Short note from the Secretary of John Hooker of Penguin to Peter Ryan of Melbourne University Press confirming that the reprint of Boyd's 'Australia's Home' was going ahead and Professor Geoffrey Blainey had agreed to write an introduction. Patricia Davies was sent a carbon copy.Photocopy

This letter is a response to Robin Boyd's letter about Eberhard's thesis, a discussion on technology in architecture, and 'The Australian Ugliness".Handwritten, 3 pagesPencil marks on first page

A letter from Andrew Fabinyi at Pergamon Press requesting Lord Casey to launch Robin Boyd's 'Living in Australia' towards the end of November 1970, at John Batman Travelodge (designed by Robin Boyd).Foolscap, 1 page

This letter, from John Worrall, Producer of University of the Air, expresses his wish to stick to the original suggestion of a series on Australian design and not expanding it to world architecture. Suggested recording dates are from November 1964.Two pages.The author adds a comment at the end of the letter.

This letter, from John Worrall, Producer of University of the Air, thanks Robin Boyd for agreeing to stick with the original plan for the series and provides dates for the eight programs - from 4 November through to 12 December 1964. Australian design and not expanding it to world architecture. The letter also sets out what Robin needs to prepare in the preliminary stages.Two pages.Robin Boyd's handwriting and plan sketch in pencil on the reverse of second page.

This is a Romberg & Boyd memo to Robin Boyd regarding details relayed in telephone phone call M.B. had with Mr John Islip regarding a Mr Walter Richmond Butler, an architect, born in England in 1864 and practiced in Melbourne from 1889-1949, with information regarding the architectural practice's various names.

This is a set of photocopies of a letter to Geoffrey Serle congratulating him on his biography of Robin Boyd. These are from Bruce Anderson (2 copies), Peter McIntyre, Berenice Harris, Joy Murphy, Marjorie Tipping, Allen Martin, Diane Romberg, Dymphna Clark, George Parsons, Anita (?), Daryl Jackson, John Button, and Joan Crawcour (?) Anderson. These would have been given by Geoffrey Serle to Patricia Boyd.Cover page with handwritten Geoff Serle, plus 19 pages of copies of letters.

This letter from Dr John Ritchie, General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography informs Patricia Boyd Davies that Robin Boyd's biographical entry will be included in Volume 13 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. It says that Geoffrey Serle is in possession of a draft of the entry. Note: Neil Clerehan, and not Geoffrey Serle, is the author of the entry first published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, 1993.One page letter plus seven page photocopy of the draft ADB entry for Robin Boyd in envelopePatricia Davies (formerly Boyd) has written on envelope 'Dr John Ritchie'

This is an extract of a Memorial book regarding a conveyance of land in Prahran on 16 September 1857. It is very difficult to read and this information may be incorrect. Names on it look like John Nightingale Alexander, John Edward, Irving Dickson and Henry Jennings.Photocopy

On Australian Ballet note paper, a letter to Patricia and John Davies regarding performances in New York and elsewhere.

Thank you note for the evening.

Christmas card to Patricia and John Davies. Made in Italy

To John and Patricia Davies from "Bill" in London, with news since last they met in London.

To Patricia Davies from John Barry, London, with travel plans.