1924 Tour of the USA, 1923-1924
- Component identifier:
- Series 26
- Content Summary:
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As if unable to settle to the comparative quiet of the backbenches, within a year of losing the Prime Ministership, Hughes accepted the invitation of Lee Keedick and H. C. Armstrong to do a lecture tour of the United States of America. He left in February 1924 and was back in Sydney at the end of August.
Letters Hughes received while on tour, as well as newscuttings, speeches, travel documents and some name cards have been collated to form this series. The correspondents include Keedick, Edward Harding, Donald Mackinnon, D. B. Edwards, Helen and Charles Hughes, Dr Charles Hunt, and Percy Deane and Sir John Quick in Australia.
Hughes' speeches cover topics including the war, Australia's immigration policy, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and Japan.
- 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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Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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