Original consignment

Component identifier:

Class MS 3673

Content Summary:

Comprises correspondence, diaries, reports, speeches, articles, manuscripts, cuttings, photographs, printed ephemera and publications. There are some early personal papers and files on Supreme Court hearings, but the bulk of the papers date from 1974-1994, when Rae Else-Mitchell was living in Canberra. A large proportion of the papers relate to organisations in which Else-Mitchell was an office-holder. They include the Commonwealth Grants Commission, Commonwealth Legal Aid Council, National Library of Australia, Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Canberra College of Advanced Education, Royal Australian Historical Society and the ACT Library Service. Correspondents include Russell Matthews, Cliff Walsh, Marsden Horden, Ken Cable, Hazel King, Geoffrey Sawer, S.S. Richardson and Russell Doust.

Contained in 213 boxes, 1 folio box, 1 map folio.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Justice Else-Mitchell first placed papers in the National Library in 1981. He had earlier donated a considerable quantity of papers to the Mitchell Library in Sydney but decided that the later papers documenting his involvement in a range of national organisations should be in the National Library. Further papers were received in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991 and 1995. The 1989 and 1991 instalments were donated under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme.

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