Speer: correspondence, unsorted, 2004-2005

Containers:

Box 20 (MS Acc12.115)

Component identifier:

File

Content Summary:

Includes emails from James Oglethorpe, Max Hayes Fritz Herscheid; letter from H. West (President, PNGAA) letter to Pat Reilly (Mayor, Willoughby), 9 Aug 2005, re naming of a park in Willoughby after late Sir William Prentice. Also press cuttings: 'Mick Leahy - explorer', obituary, PIM, May 1979, p.68, p/c; Edie Dunstan, 'Ex-prisoners see first three Australian girls' Australian Women's Weekly, 29 Sep 1945, p.11, p/c; Mary Cowley Coles, 'VC, tired of being fired on ';cracked back'', Australian Women's Weekly, 22 Sep 1945, p.22, p/c. Re Lieut. Albert Chowne and Pte Edward Kenna; Betty Nesbit, 'Boom was Sydney Harbouir's war time fence', Australian Women's Weekly, 15 Sep 1945, p.16, p/c; 'Natives organised guerrilla warfare', Australian Women's Weekly, 1 Sep 1945, p.14; 'Tripping with Wati Kui', a review of Powesiu Lawes, Wati Kui, published bySogeri National High School, PIM, 1979, p/c; Dick Palk, 'Our Darkest Hour' review of D.A. Alpin's, Rabaul 1942, Courier-Mail, 25 or 26 Mar 1980, p/c; 'Gran a ';fool' over shares', re Joan Stobo, PNGAA member, widow of former Rabaul Bruns Philp Manager, Daily Telegraph, 20 Oct 2004, p.19; Photograph, p/c, of group at Woodhouselee, including Mary McReady, fiancée of Albert Speer.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Subjects:

Pacific
Society and culture

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