Overseas travel - 1939 study tour - letters to Kenneth Binns, 1939

Containers:

Box 26

Component identifier:

File 138

Content Summary:

Official and personal letters from White to Kenneth Binns (Librarian) during White's tour to USA and Europe in 1939. Includes letters written on board ship and others addressed from Australia House, London. Some of the letters report on the acquisition of the Gregory Mathews ornithological collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original consignment of MS 7599 was collected from the home of Sir Harold White by Library staff in 1988. A number of further instalments were subsequently received from Sir Harold and members of his family.

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