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(14 archive boxes + 3 medium folio boxes + 31 ms boxes + 1 map folio)
Abstract Or Scope
The collection comprises files that were central to L. F. Fitzhardinge's career, research and academic work. MS 5400 (Class 1) includes manuscript drafts of vols. 1 and 2 of Fitzhardinge's biography of William Hughes, including the complete and final draft of volume 2; extensive notes, newscuttings, and published material and illustrations relating to Hughes, his career, and political conditions of his time, and photocopies of documents held at major manuscript collections such as the the Public Record Office (U.K.); photocopies of Hughes' letters, memoranda, and cablegrams; Hughes' educational and medical records; and letters to Fitzhardinge about Hughes. MS 5400 (Class 2) comprises lecture notes, personal and professional correspondence, ephemera, family letters, notebooks and appointment diaries (1931-1993), notes and correspondence relating to Australian history projects, Fitzhardinge's final thesis on Roman fleets, photographs, illustrations and draft manuscripts of The Spartans.