Parliamentarian and Cabinet member, 1934-1943

Component identifier:

Series 45

Content Summary:

Papers in the collection of a general nature which came to Hughes while a Member of Parliament between 1934 and 1942 and while a member of the Lyons, Page, Menzies and Fadden Governments have been brought together to form Series 45. Papers on specific portfolios are in Series 37-Series 43, and papers on Hughes the parliamentarian are in Series 28, Series 29 and Series 47. This series has been divided into four parts: Correspondence; Cabinet papers; Cables; and Deputations and reports.

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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