Post-retirement papers of Sir Harold White

Component identifier:

Series 9

Content Summary:

This series consists of correspondence and subject files created or kept by Sir Harold White after his retirement as National Librarian in 1970 until his death in 1992. They reflect his ongoing interests in the National Library of Australia and the field of librarianship, his period as UNESCO consultant in Malaysia in the early 1970s, and his interest in the history of Canberra. Also includes some personal material from earlier in White's life.

There is little evidence of the way in which White kept this material and thus it has been left as a single large series, ordered alphabetically by title. Loose, unsorted papers were placed in folders and treated as 'general papers' when no subject could be identified.

[70 folders]

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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