Correspondence about Smuts, 1951-1967

Component identifier:

Subseries 1B

Content Summary:

This second subseries contains letters written between Sir Keith Hancock and various people relating to the collection of information on General Smuts for his book. The correspondents included Lord Trenchard, Professor P.G.H. Boswell, Piet Beukes, Sir Dougal Malcolm, Prof. D.W. Kruger, Dr W.J. de Kock, Professor K. Kirkwood, Lord Reith, Alan Paton, Mrs M.C. Gillett, Professor L.M. Thompson, V.C.H.R. Brereton, Lord Brand, J.C. Smuts (son of General Smuts) and Clark Bancroft

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first part of this collection was donated by Sir Keith Hancock in February 1963 when he gave his original manuscript of the first volume of his biography of General Smuts to the National Library. He subsequently made several large additions to the collection. In October 1968 Sir Keith donated a further draft of his Smuts biography, working notebooks, correspondence, and copies of excerpts from the Smuts archives. Sir Keith destroyed his own personal papers and gave material relating to the Australian National University to the Registrar of the University. Any material he had retained on the British War History was sent to the Australian War Memorial. The corrected typescript of Attempting History was received by the National Library in June 1969. The manuscript of Discovering Monaro was donated by Sir Keith in August 1971, with the typescript following in February 1972. In August 1975 Sir Keith donated all his material on the Black Mountain Tower and Fraser Island controversies. This included court transcripts, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and other papers. These were supplemented by further donations by Pam Coward (Hancock's secretary) in October 1976, Joan Lynravn in 1978 and Stephen Foster in 1996.

Names:

William Keith Hancock

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