Attorney-General, c.1934-1942

Component identifier:

Series 43

Content Summary:

Hughes was appointed Attorney-General by Menzies in the government he formed following the death of Lyons and remained so until Curtin replaces Menzies in October 1941. Series 43 contains all the relevant material in the Hughes Papers on the various responsibilities of this portfolio, and has been sorted into three subseries, General Papers, Industrial papers and Security papers. The following series, Series 44, is also related to Hughes' actions as Attorney-eneral.

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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