Ian Mackersey's Smithy: the life of Charles Kingsford-Smith, 1991-1999

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Component identifier:
Series 10
Content Summary:

This series contains correspondence, newspaper cuttings, reviews and research notes kept by John Ulm in response to Ian Mackersey's research for a biography of Kingsford Smith. The papers are a comprehensive source for research on Kingsford Smith and Ulm.

John Ulm responded to Mackersey's research requests by telephone, letters and by notes written on the original letters.

Mackersey's biography, Smithy: the life of Charles Kingsford Smith, was published by Little, Brown and Co, London, in 1998

Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection has dual provenance. It consists of papers collected by Charles Ulm, and also items collected about Ulm by his son, John, which have been kept together because of the interrelated nature of their creation. The original instalment was donated to the Library by John Ulm in June 2003 in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Library of Australia to mark the 75th Anniversary of his father's 1928 Trans-Pacific flight.

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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