15. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1914-1920

Containers:

Box 6, Box 7

Component identifier:

Series

Content Summary:

Not in chronological order, correspondence includes 1920 visit of Prince of Wales; Novar to Lord Denman, August 1920; Speaker of House of Commons (1915) about signing of Bills in his absence; Theodore Roosevelt (1914-1917); League of Nations and American signing Peact Treaty; status of Dominions in the League of Nations; official relations between WM Hughes and Novar (1917-1918); extension of Novar's term (1919-1920); replacement by Lord Forster; dismissal of JA Jenson as Minister of Trade and Customs (1918); A Berriedale Keith (1914-1916) about personal matters, the war and the double dissolution; salaries of State Governors; French attempts to secure Australian wool clip (1918-1919); cables with Secretary of State about Hughes' attacks (November 1918) on British Government over Australia's interests. Comprises Items 4826-5134.

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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