Personal, travel and political writings, 1939-2000

Component identifier:

Series 2

Content Summary:

Cotton was an avid writer on many topics throughout his life. As a young man he documented his travels in remote parts of Australia in journals and photographs, and continued to keep travelogues for most of his life.

This series includes Cotton's travel writings, political essays, diaries, speeches and memoirs from throughout his life. Most of these writings are unpublished. Cotton made a list of his essays and travel journals in about 2000, which can be found in Folder 48 in this series.

Some correspondence (eg. Cotton's letters to his family during his term as Ambassador in Washington) has been retained in this series because it was collocated with Cotton's other writings when it arrived at the Library.

Some of these writings are related to photographic material contained in Series 11.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first papers were donated to the Library by Sir Robert Cotton on 25 March 1982. An additional donation was received on 27 July 1994, and added to MS 6730 on 25 August 1996. Further material was donated 3 and 8 July 2007 by Bob Cotton (Cotton's son) and merged with MS 6730 in February 2008.

Names:

Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1915-2006

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