Correspondence, 1923-1968

 
Component identifier:
Series 1
Content Summary:

The personal correspondence to and from Jean Macnamara has been arranged chronologically. There are many letters from Jean to her family while she was travelling in the United States, Britain and French under a Rockefeller Fellowship between 1931 and 1933.

Items 1-523

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were donated to the Library by Mrs Joan Giles and Mrs Merran Samuel, the daughters of Dame Jean Macnamara, in 1969. Further papers were received from Mr G. Douglas, Chairman of the Vermin and Noxious Weeds Destruction Board of Victoria, in 1970 and 1973.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
The collection is available for research, except for Series 8 which is closed.
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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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