22. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1914-1920

Containers:

Box 9, Box 10

Component identifier:

Series

Content Summary:

Personal correspondence covering 1914-1920.Correspondence covers Sir John (later Lord) Forrest (1915-1918) on personal and family matters, Federal politics, Forrest's illness, and his resignation as Treasurer and elevation to peerage; letters on personal matters and the war in general; Lord Denman's letter to Novar (May 1914) explaining the Australian constitutional situation and advising on double dissolutions; Novar's recommendations (1916) about examinations for higher divisions of the Civil Service; Earl Grey to Novar (1914-1915) on political events in England and the conduct and progress of the war; and condolences on death of Novar's mother. Comprises Items 7302-7761.

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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