Answered letters, 1934-1939

Component identifier:

File 1-2

Content Summary:

Correspondents range from students and brief acquaintances to overseas academics and include Heinz Arndt, Kenneth Bailey, Sir Thomas Bavin, J.F. Boyer, Tristan Buesst, Noel Goss, Hartley Grattan, Wilfrid Oldham, William Radford, G.O. Reid, Raymond Watt, W. Farmer Whyte, Bert Wyllie. Many of the letters comment on Ball's lectures and radio talks or seek to arrange speaking engagements. There is a letter dated 4 May 1937 from the Prime Minister, J.A. Lyons, acknowledging a submission on foreign policy issues which Ball and five others had suggested could be discussed at the forthcoming Imperial Conference.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased in 1987 from Ball's widow, Katrine.

Names:

Ball, William Macmahon, 1901-1986

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