Biographical papers and memoirs, 1934-1990

Containers:

Box 1

Component identifier:

Series 1

Content Summary:

Although he did record an oral interview near the end of his life, Burmester said that he preferred to write his memoirs rather than do a tape recording. The memoirs, which were written in about 1977 and are 167 pages in length, cover his childhood and education in Western Australia, as well as his long service in the Parliamentary Library and National Library. The other papers comprise a copy of his unsuccessful application to join the Parliamentary Library in 1934 and his brief outline of the history of his forebears, including his great grandfather Thomas Stone, who emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1819, and his father Henry Peter Burmester, the son of an immigrant from Germany.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated by C.A. Burmester in many instalments between 1976 and 1989.

Names:

C. A. Burmester

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