21. Correspondence and Memoranda on Pacific, 1914-1920

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Box 9

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Content Summary:

Additional to Items 6616-6822, subjects include a Pacific Commission (1916), administration of Samoa and other Pacific Islands part of British Empire; correspondence with Judge JHP Murray, Lieut-Governor of Papua (1915-1919) about conditions in Papua and Dutch New Guinea; correspondence with Sir Bickham Sweet Escot, Governor of Fiji (1916-1917) about reorganisation and administration of British Pacific dependencies; correspondence (1914-1919) with Governor of New Caledonia; Sir William McGregor's views on unified administration of Pacific (1917); with Sir James Burns (1916-1920) on Pacific shipping trade, Australian-Japanese relations, apportionment and economic of former German colonies and Japan presence in Marshall Islands as reported by Burns (1915-1916). Comprises Items 6823-7301.

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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