Correspondence and reports, October 1919-August 1920

Containers:

Folder 4

Component identifier:

File 4

Content Summary:

Includes a copy of 'Report by the Conference of Senior Military Officers constituted by the Minister for Defence on 22/1/1920 to advise upon the military defence of Australia'.

Also includes a lecture entitled 'Modern airships', delivered by Air Commodore E. M. Maitland at the House of Commons, 28 June 1920.

Comprises items 155-266.

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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