A.F.W.V. Correspondence, 1929
- Containers:
- Box 8
- Component identifier:
- File 13
- Content Summary:
- Incoming and outgoing correspondence by the A.F.W.V. Correspondents include Prime Minister the Right Hon. Stanley Bruce, Ellinor Walker, Evelyn Caspersz, Ada Bromham, Ruby Rich, Mrs Carlisle McDonnell, Roberta Jull, Irene Longman, Mary Driver, Eleanor Rigo de Righi, Blanche Stephens, Dame Janet Campbell, the Right Hon. Margaret Bonfield, Susan Lawrennce, C. Ross Petterson, D. Solomon, Katherine Bompas, W. Ramsay Smith. Many letters are copies of mailouts to politicians and women's movement leaders to lobby for support on particular matters such as ending use of poisonous gasses in warfare, widow's pensions, and maternity hygiene. Includes certificates of introduction from the Prime Minister and Premier of Western Australia for Rischbieth's chairing of the delegation of A.F.W.V. to the 1929 Congress of the International Suffrage Alliance in Berlin. Comprises items 855-956.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- Bessie Rischbieth bequeathed to the National Library her collection of papers and books in so far as they related to the 'national, empire and/or international development of the modern women's movements', while papers of personal and local interest were bequeathed to the State Library of Western Australia. The papers were received in November 1967, and were augmented by the records of the Australian Federation of Women Voters in 1970.
- Subjects:
- Women's rights
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- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2655892).
- 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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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