Miscellaneous papers, 1919-1946

Component identifier:

Subseries 35-3

Content Summary:

This subseries is a mixture of letters, circulars, speeches and printed material relating in some way to the League. It includes a paper by R. G. Watt titled '1933-Chaos or recovery; where are the nations heading' (typescript, 1933), some Australian League of Nations Union circulars, the report of the Australian delegation to the Sixth Assembly (1925); some International Labour Organisation reports and journal issues reporting on the Thirteenth Assembly (1932) and the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments.

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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