Programs, invitations and cards, 1906-1953

Component identifier:

Series 9

Content Summary:

This series consists of programs, invitations, visiting cards, name cards, condolence cards, menus and entree cards, and tickets for concerts, balls etc. They refer to the many ceremonies, dinners, receptions, openings, Royal visits and official functions Hughes attended during his long public life.

Christmas cards are in Series 8, and invitations, programs, menus, and assorted cards Hughes received while overseas in 1907, 1916, 1918-1919, 1921, 1924, and 1932 are in other series. Some written invitations and any copies of replies are in Series 1. However, most have been placed at the end of this series.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The W. M. Hughes Papers were presented to the National Library of Australia by Dame Mary Hughes in 1953. The collection was received in two consignments. One consisted of papers taken from the Perpetual Trustee Company comprising material from Hughes' Lindfield home and from his office rooms at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney; the other came directly from Lindfield. Lists of the contents of both consignments are held in the Library's Manuscript Branch. With the agreement of the executors and the Library, much of the collection, was for a time, held at the Australian National University by Fitzhardinge. He was permitted sole access to the collection while writing the biography Hughes commissioned in 1951. Fitzhardinge's own papers documenting the writing of the biography are also held by the Library (MS 5400). The papers transferred to the Library in 1953 are by no means the total collection of Hughes' personal papers, although it is impossible to say what proportion has survived. (see Fitzhardinge, p.936).

Names:

Hughes, W. M. (1862-1952)

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