General papers, 1945-1952

Component identifier:

Subseries 49-4

Content Summary:

The final subseries is a grouping of general correspondence, speeches, statistics, cuttings and printed material. Included are a draft platform (1946), telegrams and letters to Hughes advising of parliamentary party meetings, the Program of the inaugural Federal Council meeting (1945), some letters from J. H. Catts about a forerunner to the Liberals, the Democratic Party, correspondence with party branches outside North Sydney and Bradfield, copies of Liberal News and Victorian Liberal and statistics on the 1948 electoral redistribution.

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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