British New Guinea and Territory of Papua: General New Guinea correspondence, 1904-11, 1916
- Component identifier:
- Series 2
- Content Summary:
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Correspondence of both personal and semi-official nature, with various people, notably missionaries and members of the British New Guinea Administration, on matters including: Judge Robinson's administration; Hunt's report on his visit the British New Guinea (1905); establishment of Royal Commission into Administration of British New Guinea (1906); appointment of Judge Murray as Acting Administrator (1907); personal affairs.
Correspondence with Burns Philp Co. Ltd on various matters; Marshall Island claims; mail contracts; parliamentary visit to Papua (1911); general business.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were donated to the Commonwealth National Library by Hunt's daughter, Miss Marion Hunt, in 1936. Some other papers of Atlee Hunt, including three diaries, were donated by Mr Bruce Hunt in 1964 and are housed at MS 1100.
- Names:
- Atlee Arthur Hunt
Access and use
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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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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