Papers relating to the retirement and death of Scott

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Component identifier:
Series 6
Content Summary:

Scott retired from the Chair of History at the University of Melbourne in 1936, and died on 6 December 1939. Cuttings from various Australian newspaper reporting and commenting upon these two events, as well as a funeral records, obituary notices, drafts of entries for Who's Who and obituaries from Historical Studies, The Austral-Asiatic Bulletin, The Australian Journal of Science, and D.H. Rankin's The Spirit that lives: Australians all make up the series.

Comprises Items 1-41.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers of Sir Ernest and Lady Scott, together with a small number of books, were presented to the Library in 1958 by Miss Diana Dyason, Lady Scott's niece. They had been examined by Lady Scott in 1956, the year before her death, and many items carry her explanatory notes.

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Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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