Overseas Trip 1923

Component identifier:

Series 24

Content Summary:

Herbert and Ivy Brookes travelled to Europe and America in 1923; in September Herbert was a member of the Australian delegation at the Fourth Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva, and in October and November, as a member of the Tariff Board, was an observer at the Imperial Economic Conference in London.

The series contains a small amount of correspondence dealing with travel arrangements, and official and social functions, printed material, including a Record of Proceedings and documents of the Imperial Economic Conference, together with a list of delegates at the Assembly in Geneva. There are also travel brochures and press cuttings.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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