Honours, Certificates and Illuminated Addresses

Component identifier:: Series 7
Content Summary:: The documents in this series relate to Isaacs' membership of the Privy Council, his appointment as Chief Justice and Governor-General, and his K.C.M.G., G.C.M.G. and G.C.B. There are also a Bible, fourteen illuminated addresses, and a souvenir book of the 145th anniversary of Parramatta in 1933.
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.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:: Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2060534).
Parent Terms of Access:: Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia