Correspondence, 1944-83

 
Component identifier:
Series 1
Content Summary:

Correspondence received by Yorston and some carbon copies of letters sent. The letters relate to Yorston's involvement in the Australian-American Association and the Presbyterian Church, overseas visits, lectures delivered by Yorston, his publications, congratulations on appointments, letters of appreciation and other matters. There is a large amount of correspondence congratulating Yorston on his knighthood in 1969.

Correspondents include American Australian Association (New York), Sir Robert Askin, Floyd G. Blair, J.J. Cahill, Norman Coleman, R.J. Cotton, Sir Charles Court, Robert J. Dixon, Sir Alexander Fitzgerald, Cardinal Gilroy, P.M. Hamilton, Randal Heymanson, Admiral Herbert G. Hopwood, General Laurence Kuter, Sir John Latham, Lt. Col. Joseph W. Lynch, Rev. Fred McKay, William McMahon, R.G. Menzies, Richard M. Nixon, E.S. Owens, William J. Sebald, Lord Slim, Lt. Col. S.P.M. Sutton, John L. Swigert, Frank A. Waring, General I.D. White, and Guthrie Wilson.

Other correspondence is contained in series 4, 6, 10, 12 and 13.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were donated to the Library by Lady Yorston in 1983.
Names:
Keith Yorston

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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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