10. Correspondence between Novar and GF Pearce, 1916-1919

Containers:

Box 4

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Series

Content Summary:

Enclosures relating to correspondence between Novar and George Pearce are included, notably letters from General Sir William Birdwood. Subjects include: recruiting and training; Novar's visits to Army camps; shipping; war policy and administration of troops; general political matters; censorship; Novar-Pearce relationship; medical services for troops; Federal-New South Wales relations; wartime economic planning; and Pearce's work in London in1919 demobilisation of Australian troops.

Comprises Items 2968-3327.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were received in 1961 from Mr A.B.L. Munro Ferguson and the Trustees of the late Viscount Novar. Thirty photographs copied from the Novar albums in the possession of Mr Munro Ferguson were added to the collection in 1985. Subsequent additions include five illuminated manuscripts purchased from a dealer in 1990 and transcripts of extracts from Novar's diaries donated by Professor John Poynter in 1997. Six volumes of diaries, on long-term loan from Mr Ronald Munro Ferguson (great nephew of Lord Novar), were added to the collection on 12 January 2004. The diaries were kept by Lord Novar while he was Governor General of Australia between 1915 and 1920.

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