28. Personal Correspondence, 1914-1920

Containers:

Box 12

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Series

Content Summary:

Novar's departure for England; Novar's letter welcoming and advising his successor, Lord Forster; the award of the Vermillion Medal to Lady Helen Munro Ferguson by French Government (1918); Lady Helen's personal correspondence (1914-1918) regarding the Red Cross; death of her brothers; Lord Basil Blackwood; Lord Dufferin; farewell letters and addresses to Novar and Lady Helen with their replies; Novar's trip to Cairns; from Major Clive Wigram; from Birdwood to Lady Helen on censoring of Novar's letters before giving them to War Memorial (1935) and his own letters to Novar; Australian, Queensland and New South Wales politics. Comprises Items 9186-9498.

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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