Minister for External Affairs, 1913-1914

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Series 16

Content Summary:

Glynn was Minister for External Affairs from June 1913 to September 1914 and the papers in this series relate to that period of office. There are five notebooks, typescript speeches made by Glynn while a Minister, memoranda, notes on the rearrangement of Departments, reports on the Australian Territories, newspapers clippings, maps of Papua, correspondence between Glynn and Dr J. Gilruth, the Administrator of the Northern Territory, and with J.H.P. Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, material on the Immigration Act 1901-1912, notes on defence and trusts, private correspondence relating to applications for positions, policy notes, Customs Tariff 1914, war cables regarding vessels detained at South Africa and a book of newspaper cuttings on Papua.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Glynn papers were received between 1958 and 1973 from Mrs J. O'Collins, Father G. O'Collins and Mrs J.S. Peters of Melbourne and Mr Aiden McMahon Glynn of Ireland. The marriage proposal from Glynn to Abigal Dynon was presented by Professor Maev O'Collins and Moira Peters in 1996.

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