General Correspondence

Component identifier:

Series 2

Content Summary:

The letters date from 1888 until 1966 and include Isaacs' correspondence with Joseph Tarrant and the legal firm Curtis and Barry concerning a legal fee; photocopies of letters from Sir Edmund Barton to Sir Samuel Griffith in 1903 and again in 1913 when Griffith was in England; a letter in 1931 from the Attorney-General Frank Brennan accepting Isaacs' resignation as Chief Justice of the High Court; a letter of appreciation from the Duke of Gloucester in 1934, after his Australian tour; letters from Lord Wigram concerning the Isaacs' trip to England in 1937; correspondence with J.H. Scullin and Sir Kenneth Bailey in 1947 concerning his pension; and letters from Mrs Tulla Brown (nee Keating) of Canberra to Zelman Cowen in 1962 relating to his biography of Isaacs.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Sir Isaac Isaacs received by the National Library in three parts. The major portion was deposited by Lady Isaacs in 1950. In 1968, after the death of Isaacs' daughter Mrs Marjorie Cohen, a second group of papers was received from her son Thomas B. Cohen. A further collection, used by Sir Zelman Cowen for his biography Isaac Isaacs, was deposited in April 1970.

Names:

Sir Isaac Isaacs

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