Guide to the Papers of William Morris Hughes
MS 1538
National Library of Australia
| Date completed: | October 2007 |
| Last updated: | October 2007 |
This finding aid was created by the Manuscripts Branch of the National Library of Australia with the assistance of the Australian Prime Ministers Centre.
Table of Contents
Collection Summary
Introduction
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Access
Copying and Publishing
Preferred Citation
Provenance
Digitised Material
Related Material
Biographical Note
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 General correspondence, 1903-1952
Series 2 Financial papers, 1904-1952
Series 3 Birthday and congratulatory correspondence, 1916-1952
Series 4 Diaries and notebooks, 1900-c.1952
Series 5 Writings, 1907-1952
Series 6 Newspapers and newscuttings, 1891-1952
Series 7 Speeches and broadcasts, 1910-1952
Series 8 Christmas cards, 1921-1952
Series 9 Programs, invitations and cards, 1906-1953
Series 10 Photographs, c.1865-1950s
Series 11 Printed and roneoed material, c.1900-1952
Series 12 Family papers, 1875-1958
Series 13 Dame Mary Hughes, 1913-1953
Series 14 Legal notebooks, 1894-1902
Series 15 Politics and unions, 1890-1929
Series 16 Prime Minister, 1915-c.1925
Series 17 Primary industry, overseas trade, and shipping, 1906-1946
Series 18 Industrial relations, 1914-1922
Series 19 Defence, 1915-1922
Series 20 Recruiting and the second conscription referendum, 1915-1918
Series 21 Internal security, 1915-1922
Series 22 1916 overseas visits, 1909-1916
Series 23 1918 Imperial War Conference, 1900-1919
Series 24 1919 Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919
Series 25 1921 Imperial Conference, 1920-1921
Series 26 1924 Tour of the USA, 1923-1924
Series 27 National Party, 1918-1931
Series 28 Elections, 1913-1951
Series 29 Backbencher, 1923-1933
Series 30 Constituency correspondence, 1922-1952
Series 31 Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, 1920-1952
Series 32 Subject files, 1919-1941
Series 33 The 1929 election, 1917-1929
Series 34 The Australian Party, 1929-1933
Series 35 League of Nations, 1919-1946
Series 36 United Australia Party, 1931-1944
Series 37 Minister for Health, 1923-1942
Series 38 Minister for Repatriation, 1934-1937
Series 39 Minister for the Navy, 1940-1942
Series 40 Minister for Territories, 1935-1941
Series 41 Minister for Industry, 1938-1940
Series 42 Minister for External Affairs, 1937-1940
Series 43 Attorney-General, c.1934-1942
Series 44 Australian Democratic Front, 1939-1943
Series 45 Parliamentarian and Cabinet member, 1934-1943
Series 46 Advisory War Council, 1940-1945
Series 47 Backbencher, 1913-1952
Series 48 Subject files, 1890-1952
Series 49 Liberal Party of Australia, 1945-1952
Series 50 Objects, ephemera and miscellaneous papers, 1885-1952
Container List
Name Index to Correspondence
Collection Summary
| Creator: | Hughes, W. M. (1862-1952) |
| Title: | Papers of William Morris Hughes |
| Date Range: | c.1865-1958 (bulk 1930s-1940s) |
| Collection Number: | MS 1538 |
| Extent: | 53.62 m (236 boxes) + 23 folio boxes and 9 elephant folio items |
| Repository: | National Library of Australia |
| Abstract: | Correspondence (1903-1952), diaries and notebooks (c.1911-c.1952), financial papers, newspaper cuttings, photographs, family papers and political papers as well as much of Hughes' published output of books, press articles and speeches. Also contains corrected typescripts of L. F. Fitzhardinge's biography of W. M. Hughes. The date coverage of the collection is uneven with only a small portion of papers relating to Hughes' activities, 1894-1917. Much of the material is concentrated on the period of the 1930s and 1940s. The political papers include Hughes' time as Prime Minister (1915-1923), as a backbencher (1923-1934 and 1941-1952), as well as his various ministerial positions (1934-1941). |
Introduction
Scope and Content
The collection includes correspondence, diaries and notebooks, financial papers, newscuttings, photographs, family papers and political papers as well as much of Hughes' published output of books, press articles and speeches. Also included are corrected typescripts of L. F. Fitzhardinge's biography of Hughes.
The date coverage of the collection is uneven, with only a small portion of papers relating to Hughes' activities, 1894-1917. Much of the material is concentrated on the period of the 1930s and 1940s. Although the earliest items date from c.1865, the collection contains almost no 19th century material. The events of a particular year, such as 1921 or 1929 are well documented, while for other key periods like 1915-1917 (encompassing events with which Hughes was intimately associated) the collection is virtually silent.
The political papers include Hughes' time as Prime Minister (1915-1923), as a backbencher (1923-1934 and 1941-1952), as well as his various ministerial positions (1934-1941). There is nothing in the collection relating to his responsibility as Vice-President of the Executive Council and the series covering Industry and Repatriation are quite meagre. Hughes' published output of books, press articles and speeches and forewords to others' works are reasonably well covered.
Arrangement
Prior to their transfer to the Library the papers were held at the Australian National University where they were used by Hughes' biographer, L. F. Fitzhardinge, and his staff. During this time some sorting was undertaken. The original packing lists show the collection was in complete disorder and did not contain evidence of any previous working order. The Library has arranged the papers into 50 series based on physical form, subject, activity or event. The first 11 are groupings of material distinct because of their physical form (e.g. correspondence, diaries) although they should not be regarded as exclusive categories. Series 14 and 15 are devoted to Hughes' earliest years, and, with the exception of Series 26 and possibly 31, Series 16-49 all relate in some way to Hughes' political career. Series 50 contains objects, maps and other items of ephemera and miscellaneous papers which do not naturally fit into the other series.
An alphabetical index has been compiled for all correspondence up to Series 30, Folder 65. Individual folio items have been numbered up to Series 30, Folder 65 (with the exception of some papers in Series 6 and 7).
The original finding aid which was prepared in 1978 was revised in 2007.
Provenance
The W. M. Hughes Papers were presented to the National Library of Australia by Dame Mary Hughes in 1953. The collection was received in two consignments. One consisted of papers taken from the Perpetual Trustee Company comprising material from Hughes' Lindfield home and from his office rooms at the Commonwealth Offices, Sydney; the other came directly from Lindfield. Lists of the contents of both consignments are held in the Library's Manuscript Branch. With the agreement of the executors and the Library, much of the collection, was for a time, held at the Australian National University by Fitzhardinge. He was permitted sole access to the collection while writing the biography Hughes commissioned in 1951. Fitzhardinge's own papers documenting the writing of the biography are also held by the Library (MS 5400).
The papers transferred to the Library in 1953 are by no means the total collection of Hughes' personal papers, although it is impossible to say what proportion has survived. (see Fitzhardinge, p.936).
Copying and Publishing
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.
Digitised Material
A small number of items from the Hughes Papers including photographs and newscuttings have been digitised. They can be accessed through the Library's catalogue at http://protocat.nla.gov.au.
Related Material
In addition to the Hughes Papers the Library holds other manuscript collections (including microfilm copies) which contain letters or other materials relating to Hughes. These materials are described separately in a guide Special collections relating to William Morris Hughes in the National Library of Australia ( http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/1538rm.html).
Pictorial works, photographs, some illuminated addresses and a brief case belonging to Hughes are located in the Pictures Collection. They can be accessed through the Library catalogue.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of William Morris Hughes, National Library of Australia, MS 1538, [series and item number]'.
Biographical Note
The life of W. M. Hughes is the subject of numerous books, and Hughes himself published two works of reminiscence. It is therefore not intended to provide here any more than the briefest outline of the major events of his life.
Hughes was born the only child of Welsh parents in London on 25 September 1862 and died in Sydney on 28 October 1952. He was educated in Wales and later at St Stephen's School, Westminster, where he also worked as a pupil teacher. In 1884 he migrated to Queensland, and spent two years mostly in rural occupations before settling in Sydney. Between 1886 and his election in 1894 as the Labor Member for Lang in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly he worked again in a variety of miscellaneous occupations, ran a small bookshop, and worked for the Australian Workers' Union, the Sydney Wharf Labourers' Union, and the Labor Electoral Leagues. In the latter part of the 1890s he worked for the passage of the Early Closing Act and the Old Age Pension Act, and attended the 1900 Interstate Labor Conference as a NSW delegate.
Hughes was elected as the Member for West Sydney in 1901. In 1903 he was admitted to the New South Wales Bar, and in the following year was the Minister for External Affairs in J. C. Watson's Labor Government. In the governments of Watson's replacement, Andrew Fisher, Hughes was Attorney-General, and when Fisher resigned in October 1915 to become High Commissioner in London, Hughes was elected Leader of the Party and Prime Minister. During the next nine years he was at the very centre of national and international affairs. Hughes twice sought through referenda the approval of the electorate for compulsory military service, was expelled from the Labor Party and founded a new one, the National Party, and represented Australia at the Economic Conference of the Allies in 1916, the Imperial Conferences of 1918 and 1921 and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Early in 1923 Hughes was forced to resign his leadership of the Nationalists as a condition for Country Party support following the December 1922 election, and spent the next 11 years in Parliament as a backbencher.
In the 1920s Hughes was a constant critic of the Bruce-Page Government, and his eventual open opposition over one particular issue, arbitration, resulted in its destruction in 1929 and three years of Labor rule under J. H. Scullin. Expelled from the National Party, Hughes attempted to create his own party, the Australian Party, but, faced with little success, in 1931 joined a new non-Labor coalition formed around J. A. Lyons called the United Australia Party. During the 1930s and early war years Hughes held various portfolios in the Lyons and Menzies Governments including Health, External Affairs, Navy, and Attorney-General, and was a Member of the Advisory War Council between 1940 and 1945.
Following the defeat of Fadden's budget in September 1941 and Curtin's installation as Prime Minister, Hughes was elected Leader of the United Australia Party over Menzies, and fought the 1943 General Election as Deputy Leader of the Opposition. After this election Hughes stepped down as Leader, and was expelled in April 1944 for refusing a UAP direction to leave the Advisory War Council. The following year he joined the Liberal Party of Australia, and was its representative for North Sydney and later Bradfield until his death in 1952.
During his political career Hughes published several polemical works and many of his writings appeared in the press. For example, in 1910 his series of press articles titled The case for labor was published in book form. Two other works, argued with similar force, were The splendid adventure (1929) and Australia and war today (1935). In the 1940s when his search for a congenial biographer appeared fruitless, he brought out two works of reminiscence, Crusts and crusades (1947) and Policies and potentates (1950).
Hughes married twice. In 1886 or thereabouts he married Elizabeth Cutts and had seven children, six of whom survived him. His second marriage was to Mary Campbell, five years after Elizabeth's death in 1906. They had one child, Helen, who died in London in 1937.
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 General correspondence, 1903-1952
The first series is made up of letters and telegrams to Hughes and copies or drafts of some of his replies which do not naturally relate to the subjects, activities or events of the remaining series. They are arranged in date order, with undated letters placed last. Many of the letters are from personal friends of Hughes. There are replies to sympathy letters, welcomes to Hughes upon his return from overseas trips, letters of introduction, invitations, letters of regret following his resignation in 1923, requests for photographs and autographs, copies of invitation acceptances, and applications for positions as secretary. Other letters deal with arrangements for golf, the supply of hearing aid batteries, people's reactions to speeches and broadcasts, requests for money, the forwarding of reports and publications and Hughes' opinion on the abdication in 1936.
The main correspondents are Sir Ronald Anderson, Joynton Smith, Claude McKay, George Payne, Lord Novar, L. S. Amery, Sir John Quick, Sir Atlee Hunt, Sir George Rich, Dame Mary Gilmore, Sir Keith Murdoch, Lindley Walker, C. R. Hall, Sir Philip Game, W. S. Robinson, Pauline Grieve, H. V. Howe, M. Hillary, Sir Charles Jones, Randolf Bedford, Sir Percy Hunter, R. M. Pontey, Percy Deane, and Field-Marshal Birdwood.
Series 2 Financial papers, 1904-1952
Hughes' financial papers consist of quite a large body of correspondence, receipts, cheque butts, bank books, income tax forms, company circulars and prospectuses, and lists of donations. The series has been arranged in date order, although in some instances, where accounts and receipts have been clipped together, these have been filed by the date of the initial account. The series ends with a bundle of loose cuttings titled 'Private finance'.
Where appropriate, financial papers have been filed in other series. All accounts addressed to Dame Mary Hughes (regardless of who settled them) are in Series 13. Cheque books used by Hughes during his trips overseas are in the series devoted to them. Some miscellaneous cheque butts and books can also be found in Series 50. Financial correspondence with Amalgamated Wireless of Australia Pty Ltd is in Series 31.
Hughes' financial correspondents include car hire firms, companies of which he was a shareholder, the Taxation Commissioner, business houses, tradesmen, the Public Service Board, municipal councils, publishers, newspapers, assurance companies, the Commonwealth Bank, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and the Department of the Prime Minister, share-brokers such as Arthur Long, E. L. & C. Baillieu, W. F. Dawson, and Arthur Tilley, and solicitors such as D. R. Hall & Co. and Blake & Riggall.
Folder 50 Newscuttings, June 1941
Includes cuttings on the financial market, companies and company profits from the major Australian newspapers. Originally classified as 'Private finance'.
Comprises items 5853-5892.
Folder 51 Newscuttings, July 1941
Includes cuttings on the financial market, companies and company profits from the major Australian newspapers. Originally classified as 'Private finance'.
Comprises items 5893-5929.
Folder 52 Newscuttings, August-September 1941
Includes cuttings on the financial market, companies and company profits from the major Australian newspapers. Originally classified as 'Private finance'.
Comprises items 5930-6006.
Folder 53 Newscuttings, October 1941
Includes cuttings on the financial market, companies and company profits from the major Australian newspapers. Originally classified as 'Private finance'.
Comprises items 6007-6042.
Series 3 Birthday and congratulatory correspondence, 1916-1952
The series consists of letters and telegrams to Hughes congratulating him on his various achievements, copies of some of his replies and of some of his own congratulatory letters and telegrams. There are also lists of people to whom these replies were to be sent. The correspondence covers 1916-1952, and is arranged in date order with undated letters placed last.
Most of the letters and telegrams were received in the 1940s and are birthday greetings and congratulations. The remainder congratulate Hughes on successes at elections, appointments to ministerial office, parliamentary and Empire continuous service records and election to the leadership of the United Australia Party in November 1941. The correspondents are friends, politicians, former staff members, soldiers, organisations, and many others with whom Hughes was associated during his public life.
Series 4 Diaries and notebooks, 1900-c.1952
Hughes' diaries cover the years 1916, 1917, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1927-1929 and 1934-1951. They are mainly pocket size and only a few contain any strict diary entries. The rest have reminders, addresses, phone numbers, notes, statistics, cuttings and lists of words. Three of the diaries (1942-1944) are engagement diaries kept by Hughes' secretary, and include such facts as the dates and times of Cabinet and party meetings. Other diaries are in Series 23 (1918), Series 13 (1918, 1921), Series 39 (1941) and Series 40 (1938).
The main group of notebooks although undated, clearly relate to the 1930s and 1940s. They contain handwritten and typed notes, statistics, quotations from books, newspapers and Hansards and appear to have been used in the preparation of articles or speeches. The subjects covered vary greatly but certainly cover the recurring Hughes topics like immigration, the British Empire, Japan, the Curtin and Chifley Governments and communism. Two other notebooks can be roughly dated. One (c.1911-1913) contains an incomplete unidentifiable narrative and the second (1925) contains notes on the seamen's strike, communism in Great Britain, the Australian Labor Party and Australia's population.
Two distinct groups of notebooks and two exercise books containing shorthand exercises which were compiled in the early 1950s complete the series. The former begins with a set of six leather notebooks containing material on such topics as war, defence, conscription, foreign policy, industrial arbitration, welfare and communism. They are followed by a set of notebooks compiled during 1924-1925 relating largely to the British Empire and international affairs, and may have formed the basis of newspaper articles Hughes had published at the time as well as to his book The splendid adventure (Angus & Robertson, 1929). A note accompanying these notebooks indicates that notebooks 1 and 3 (in a sequence of 23) are missing from the series and 3 notebooks are not numbered. Other notebooks are located in Series 14 and Series 48.
Folder 1 Notebooks, 1924-1925
Contains notebooks 2 and 4-10 and three notebooks not numbered.
One of the 3 unnumbered notebooks is dated September 1925 which indicates that Hughes continued his sequence of notebooks. It was written after notebook 25 which is in Folder 2.
Comprises items 1-11a.
Folder 2 Notebooks, 1925
Contains notebooks 11-23 and 25. Notebook 25 is dated 8 August 1925.
Comprises items 12-23. However at the time of updating this finding aid (2007) item 17 was missing. It is possible that this could be notebook 24 or a mistake was made when the collection was originally allocated item numbers.
Folder 3 Notebooks, c.1911-1951
Includes notes on the economy; trade; government expenditure and communism.
Comprises items 24-108.
Bag 6 Diaries and notebooks, 1916-1917
Includes notes on health insurance; unemployment insurance; money and monetary policy; the Second World War and war statistics.
Also includes two pocket diaries for 1916 and 1917.
Comprises items 126-133.
Folder 7 Diaries and notebooks, 1920-1929
Date range 1920, 1924, 1927-1929.
Comprises items 134-141.
Bag 10 Diaries, 1942-1944
Items 161 and 163 are engagement diaries kept by Hughes' secretary.
Comprises items 161-169.
Bag 11 Diaries, 1944-1949
Item 170 is an engagement diary kept by Hughes' secretary.
Comprises items 170-176.
Bag 14 Notebook, 1950
Notebook 2: includes notes on the rule of law and arbitration.
Comprises item 190.
Bag 15 Notebook, 1900-1950
Notebook 3: includes notes and speeches on Australian industry; wool; sugar; Anzac Day speeches and an election speech (1940).
Comprises items 191-195.
Bag 16 Notebook, 1946-1950
Notebook 4: includes notes and speeches on communism; government and socialism.
Comprises item 196.
Bag 17 Notebook, 1950
Notebook 5: includes notes and speeches on defence; foreign policy and the rule of law.
Comprises item 197.
Series 5 Writings, 1907-1952
This series contains all of the papers in the collection relating to Hughes' published writing, with the exception of papers on financial matters which are in Series 2. It is divided into two subseries.
Subseries 5.1 Writings by Hughes, 1907-1952
The first subseries chiefly pertains to four of Hughes' five books: The case for Labor (1910), The splendid adventure (1929), Crusts and crusades (1947), and Policies and potentates (1950). Papers relating to Australia and wartoday (1935) are in Series 35. There are drafts of each of the four books, correspondence with Hughes' publishers, readers of the books, people seeking autographs for their copies, and cuttings of reviews. The main correspondents are F. W. Waid, Sir Ernest Benn, Gordon Robbins, Sir Keith Murdoch, Brian Penton and Beatrice Davis.
The remainder of the subseries consists of correspondence with newspaper editors about articles by Hughes and with authors requesting Hughes to write forewords to their books, and cuttings of articles by Hughes published in newspapers and magazines. These include The Daily Telegraph, Life, The Sun, and The Sunday Sun, The Pacific, The Sydney Mail, and The Daily Chronicle.
Folder 1 The case for Labor, 1908-1950
Includes correspondence, notes and typescript drafts.
Comprises items 1-146.
Folder 2 The case for Labor, 1907-1908
Newscuttings of articles (book chapters) by Hughes from The Daily Telegraph.
Comprises items 147-211.
Folder 3 The case for Labor, 1908-1910
Newscuttings of articles (book chapters) by Hughes from The Daily Telegraph (1908) and a letter from the newspaper (1910) giving reasons for non-inclusion of a recent contribution.
Comprises items 212-270.
Folder 4 The case for Labor, 1909
Newscuttings of articles (book chapters) by Hughes from The Daily Telegraph.
Comprises items 271-370.
Folder 5 The case for Labor, 1911
Newscuttings of articles (book chapters) by Hughes from The Daily Telegraph.
Comprises items 371-444.
Folder 6 The case for Labor, 1911-1912
Newscuttings of articles (book chapters) by Hughes from The Daily Telegraph.
Comprises items 445-467.
Folder 7 The splendid adventure, 1928-1951
Correspondence and papers relating to the publication of Hughes book; a paper 'Australia and its immigrants' and notes on migration.
Comprises items 468-551.
Folder 8 The splendid adventure, Corrigenda and notes.
Corrigenda and notes.
Also includes a notebook (1?) dated 24 July 1928.
Comprises items 552-639.
Folder 9 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript draft.
Comprises items 640-764.
Folder 10 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript draft labelled Volume 1.
Comprises items 765-897.
Folder 11 The splendid adventure, 1929
Volume 1: retyped from corrected copy 1 February 1929.
Comprises items 898-1156.
Folder 12 The splendid adventure, 1929
Volume 2: retyped from corrected copy 1 February 1929.
Comprises items 1157-1408.
Folder 13 The splendid adventure, 1928
Volume 3: typescript draft.
Comprises items 1409-1639.
Folder 14 The splendid adventure, 1929
Volume 3: retyped from corrected copy 1 February 1929.
Comprises items 1640-1872.
Folder 15 The splendid adventure, 1928
Volume 3: typescript draft.
Comprises items 1873-2103.
Folder 16 The splendid adventure, 1926
Typescript draft of 'British Empire'.
Comprises items 2104-2216.
Folder 17 The splendid adventure, 1926
'British Empire' 1st revision (Chapter II).
Comprises items 2217-2333.
Folder 18 The splendid adventure, 1926
'The Empire' : typescript drafts for opening chapter and sundry.
Also includes notes for chapter.
Comprises items 2334-2527.
Folder 19 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts of 'Future of the Empire'.
Typescript drafts of 'Future of the Empire'.
Comprises items 2528-2767.
Folder 20 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts of 'Future of the Empire'.
Typescript drafts of 'Future of the Empire'.
Comprises items 2768-2940.
Folder 21 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript drafts of 'Heart of the Empire'.
Comprises items 2941-3089.
Folder 22 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript draft of 'Inter-empire relations'.
Typescript draft of 'Inter-empire relations'.
Comprises items 3090-3165.
Folder 23 The splendid adventure, 1912-1928
Typescript drafts of 'Heart of the Empire' (clear copy and rough copy) and two articles from Round Table (1912).
Comprises items 3166-3365.
Folder 24 The splendid adventure, 1917-1928
First folder includes typescript draft of 'Dominions and Empire' and notes on the Canadian system of government.
Second folder includes rough drafts of 'Future of the Empire' and notes on the Indian system of government.
Comprises items 3366-3533.
Folder 25 The splendid adventure, Typescript drafts of 'Democracy and war' and 'British Empire and the monarchy' and accompanying notes.
Typescript drafts of 'Democracy and war' and 'British Empire and the monarchy' and accompanying notes.
Comprises items 3534-3623.
Folder 26 The splendid adventure, 1913-1926
Includes notes on relations amongst British Empire countries and extracts from Round Table articles.
Comprises items 3624-3697.
Folder 27 The splendid adventure, 1926
Various rough typescripts drafts on inter-empire relations and foreign policy.
Comprises items 3698-3846.
Folder 28 The splendid adventure, 1926
Typescript draft of 'Democracy and war' and drafts for section on inter-empire relations.
Comprises items 3847-3934.
Folder 29 The splendid adventure, n.d. Various typescript drafts on empire relations, foreign policy and defence.
Various typescript drafts on empire relations, foreign policy and defence.
Comprises items 3935-4024.
Folder 30 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts and manuscript notes on inter-empire relations and foreign policy.
Typescript drafts and manuscript notes on inter-empire relations and foreign policy.
Comprises items 4025-4091.
Folder 31 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on inter-empire relations, foreign policy and the dominions.
Typescript drafts on inter-empire relations, foreign policy and the dominions.
Comprises items 4092-4198.
Folder 32 The splendid adventure, 1926-1928
Typescript drafts on trade with varying headings.
Comprises items 4199-4293.
Folder 33 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on trade.
Typescript drafts on trade.
Comprises items 4294-4373.
Folder 34 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript drafts of 'Empire trade'.
Comprises items 4374-4523.
Folder 35 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts and notes for the 'League of Nations'.
Typescript drafts and notes for the 'League of Nations'.
Comprises items 4524-4608.
Folder 36 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript drafts and notes on 'Foreign policy' and a draft of Chapter XIV, 'Defence, foreign policy and empire relations'.
Comprises items 4609-4708.
Folder 37 The splendid adventure, 1926
Typescript drafts on 'Foreign policy'.
Comprises items 4709-4858.
Folder 38 The splendid adventure, 1926-1928
Typescript drafts on 'Foreign policy'.
Comprises items 4859-5021.
Folder 39 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript drafts on 'Foreign policy'.
Comprises items 5022-5171.
Folder 40 The splendid adventure, 1926-1928
Typescript drafts on 'Foreign policy'.
Comprises items 5172-5308.
Folder 41 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript drafts on 'Foreign policy'.
Comprises items 5309-5551.
Folders 42-44 The splendid adventure, 1928
Typescript drafts on 'Migration'.
Comprises items 5552-6141.
Folders 45-46 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference' and 'Imperial Cabinet'.
Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference' and 'Imperial Cabinet'.
Comprises items 6142-6407.
Folder 47 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference' and 'The future'.
Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference' and 'The future'.
Comprises items 6408-6490.
Folder 48 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on 'Heart of the Empire'.
Typescript drafts on 'Heart of the Empire'.
Comprises items 6491-6582.
Folder 49 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference' and 'Imperial Cabinet'.
Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference' and 'Imperial Cabinet'.
Comprises items 6583-6767.
Folders 50-51 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference'.
Typescript drafts on the 'Imperial Conference'.
Comprises items 6768-7001.
Folder 52 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts and notes on the 'Imperial Conference' and the 'Imperial Court of Appeal.
Typescript drafts and notes on the 'Imperial Conference' and the 'Imperial Court of Appeal.
Comprises items 7002-7091.
Folder 53 The splendid adventure, n.d. Typescript drafts on the 'Peace Conference'.
Typescript drafts on the 'Peace Conference'.
Comprises items 7092-7205.
Folder 54 Crusts and crusades, 1935-1951
Includes correspondence with publishers and congratulatory letters .
Comprises items 7206-7330.
Folders 55-59 Crusts and crusades, n.d. Typescript drafts.
Typescript drafts.
Comprises items 7331-8066.
Folder 60 Crusts and crusades, February-March 1947
Typescript drafts (n.d.) and newscuttings containing book reviews.
Comprises items 8067-8131.
Folder 61 Crusts and crusades, n.d. Typescripts drafts.
Typescripts drafts.
Also includes newscuttings containing reviews of The splendid adventure (1929).
Comprises items 8132-8252.
Folders 62-63 Crusts and crusades, n.d. Typescripts drafts.
Typescripts drafts.
Comprises items 8253-8510.
Folder 64 Policies and potentates, 1949-1950
Includes correspondence with publishers; congratulatory letters and book reviews.
Comprises items 8511-8526.
Folders 65-69 Policies and potentates, n.d. Typescript drafts.
Typescript drafts.
Comprises items 8527-9095.
Folder 70 Policies and potentates, 1948-1950
Includes notes and book reviews.
Comprises items 9096-9126.
Folio bag 70a Newscuttings album, 1923-1927
Includes articles by Hughes.
Volume contains an index.
Comprises item 9127.
Folio bag 70b Newscuttings album, 1924-1927
Articles by Hughes.
Volume contains an index.
Comprises item 9128.
Folder 71 Correspondence, 1923-1952
Correspondence with newspapers and others relating to articles written by Hughes.
Comprises items 9129-9302.
Folder 72 Other writings by Hughes, 1923-1950
Typescript drafts of articles mainly for newspapers and notes.
Comprises items 9303-9450.
Folder 73 Other writings by Hughes, 1930
Typescript and manuscript drafts. Includes an article for Reveille (1930) on Australian troops participation in the war effort in 1918 and a response by Monash to Hughes' article.
Comprises items 9451-9528.
Folder 74 Other writings by Hughes, 1934-1939
Includes typescript and manuscript drafts; proofs for a series of five articles and a copy of an article from The Sunday Sun, 10 September, 1939, titled 'This is why we fight!'.
Comprises items 9529-9589.
Folder 75 Other writings by Hughes, 1911-1932
Miscellaneous articles by Hughes published in newspapers and magazines.
Comprises items 9590-9645.
Folder 76 Other writings by Hughes, n.d. Typescript drafts of articles.
Typescript drafts of articles.
Comprises items 9646-9829.
Subseries 5.2 Writings by others, 1915-c.1947
Typed drafts of articles by people other than Hughes make up the second subseries. It includes Warren Denning's 'John Curtin', W. A. Holman's 'Six years of Labor government', R. F. Scholl's 'The hand behind the mask', Colin Roderick's 'The immortal bondage', and part of an untitled work by Sir Bertram Stevens.
Folder 77 Writings by Sir Bertram Stevens, 1935-1936
Typescript drafts of sections of untitled work.
Comprises items 9830-9992.
Folder 78 Writings by Colin Roderick, - Typescript draft of 'Immortal bondage: the story of Mrs Campbell Praed' later published as In mortal bondage : the strange life of Rosa Praed.
Typescript draft of 'Immortal bondage: the story of Mrs Campbell Praed' later published as In mortal bondage : the strange life of Rosa Praed.
Comprises items 9993-10202.
Folder 79 Writings by J. F. Millington, n.d. Typescript draft of 'The procession of egos'.
Typescript draft of 'The procession of egos'.
Comprises items 10203-10354.
Folder 80 Writings by Reg. F. Scholl, n.d. Typescript drafts of 'The hand behind the mask'.
Typescript drafts of 'The hand behind the mask'.
Comprises items 10355-10715.
Folder 81 Writings by H. V. Evatt, 1915
Typescript drafts of an essay 'Liberalism in Australia ; an historical sketch of Australian politics down to the year 1915'.
Comprises items 10716-10791.
Folder 82 Writings by W. A. Holman, n.d. Photographs, graphs and diagrams to be included in 'Six years of Labor government'.
Photographs, graphs and diagrams to be included in 'Six years of Labor government'.
Photographs include the Holman Cabinet (1913); Neil Neilsen, Member for Yass; members of Andrew Fisher's first wartime conference (1914) and Premiers Holman (NSW) and W. A. Watt (Vic).
Comprises items 10792-10826.
Folder 83 Writings by W. A. Holman, n.d. Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government' up to chapter 12.
Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government' up to chapter 12.
Comprises items 10827-10968.
Folder 84 Writings by W. A. Holman, n.d. Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 13-21.
Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 13-21.
Comprises items 10969-11051.
Folder 85 Writings by W. A. Holman, n.d. Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 36-42.
Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 36-42.
Comprises items 11052-11130.
Folder 86 Writings by W. A. Holman, n.d. Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 22-29.
Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 22-29.
Comprises items 11131-11219.
Folder 87 Writings by W. A. Holman, n.d. Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 22-29.
Typescript draft of 'Six years of Labor government': chapters 22-29.
Comprises items 11220-11283.
Folder 88 Miscellaneous writings, n.d. Includes an article by Hughes on the 1921 Peace Conference; 'John Curtin' by Warren Denning; a play 'Perfumes and politics : a not unmusical fantasy' by W. H. Meyers and 'A Monroe doctrine for the Pacific : my American tour' by Mrs Preston Stanley Vaughan.
Includes an article by Hughes on the 1921 Peace Conference; 'John Curtin' by Warren Denning; a play 'Perfumes and politics : a not unmusical fantasy' by W. H. Meyers and 'A Monroe doctrine for the Pacific : my American tour' by Mrs Preston Stanley Vaughan.
Comprises items 11284-11498.
Series 6 Newspapers and newscuttings, 1891-1952
All of the newscuttings in the collection that do not relate to subject activities or events that form the basis of other series are in Series 6. The majority of the cuttings form subject files, which have been arranged alphabetically. A number of the files were formed by Hughes or his secretaries, and these have been added to and new files created where the presence of loose cuttings warranted.
As well as the subject files there are loose cuttings and single issues of newspapers and magazines, an indexed book of cuttings for the period 1909-1927, cuttings files from 1933 on economic, financial and political matters, albums of cuttings titled 'Economic conditions', 'Monetary system', 'Second Front: 6/6/1944' and some containing a small number of cuttings from the 1934-1935 period. Another series of albums contains extensive coverage of recruitment in early 1939. Also included in one of these are 1945 cuttings on the atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender.
Material not itemised includes cuttings files titled 'Personal', newspaper criticism of Hughes, his 50 year jubilee and comment and speeches by W. M. Hughes (cuttings from Publicity Branch, Prime Minister's Department, 1922-1923).
Folder 11 Beveridge Plan - British domestic policy, 1943-1949
Includes cuttings on the Beveridge Plan; the Blain Inquiry; General Blamey and British domestic policy.
Comprises items 443-488.
Folder 12 Censorship - Coles secret war cables, 1940-1943
Includes cuttings on censorship and freedom of speech; centenary celebrations on the Darling Downs, Qld and the Coles secret war cables.
Comprises items 489-520.
Folder 22 Economy - election of leader, 1935-1943
Includes cuttings on the economy; Anthony Eden and election of UAP Party leader.
Comprises items 999-1056.
Folder 30 Funeral - W. M. Hughes, 1939-1952
Cuttings mainly relating to Hughes' funeral. Some cuttings from earlier years.
Comprises items 1387-1462.
Folder 40 Miscellaneous, 1910s-1952
Includes cuttings on the war; Evatt and Curtin.
Comprises items 1681-1765.
Folder 41 Miscellaneous, 1920-1950
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics.
Comprises items 1766-1840.
Folder 42 Miscellaneous, 1942-1949
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics and unionism.
Comprises items 1841-1914.
Folder 43 Miscellaneous, 1950
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics.
Comprises items 1915-1992.
Folder 44 Miscellaneous, 1950
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade and economic issues.
Comprises items 1993-2059.
Folder 45 Miscellaneous, 1949-1950
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade and economic issues.
Comprises items 2060-2134.
Folder 46 Miscellaneous, 1943-1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade and economic issues and defence.
Comprises items 2135-2198.
Folder 47 Miscellaneous, 1919-1926
Includes cuttings on trade; economic development and inter empire relations.
Comprises items 2199-2234.
Folder 48 Miscellaneous, May-June 1930
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; economics and comments by General Monash in Reveille on Hughes and troop withdrawal in WWI at the Hindenburg Line.
Cuttings have been indexecd.
Comprises items 2235-2283.
Folder 49 Miscellaneous, 1923
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade and economic issues and the Australian Labor Party Victorian Branch Conference.
Also includes articles by Hughes. Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 2284-2361.
Folder 50 Miscellaneous, 1943-1944
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics and industry.
Comprises items 2362-2399.
Folder 51 Miscellaneous, March-May 1930
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 2400-2466.
Folder 52 Miscellaneous, 1944-1945
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics and economic issues.
Comprises items 2467-2543.
Folder 53 Miscellaneous, 1945-1946
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics and economic issues.
Comprises items 2544-2607.
Folder 54 Miscellaneous, 1929-1947
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 2608-2672.
Folder 55 Miscellaneous, 1929-1946
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 2673-2732.
Folder 56 Miscellaneous, March-July 1952
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 2733-2803.
Folder 57 Miscellaneous, March 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 2804-2863.
Folder 58 Miscellaneous, May-December 1938
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 2864-2929.
Folder 59 Miscellaneous, 1935-1948
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 2930-3023.
Folder 60 Miscellaneous, 1923-1924
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade and economic issues and the Australian Labor Party conference.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 3024-3067.
Folder 61 Miscellaneous, 1924-1925
Includes cuttings on government and politics; Geneva Convention and dominion protocol and manufacturing industry.
Comprises items 3068-3094.
Folder 62 Miscellaneous, 1950-1951
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 3095-3153.
Folder 63 Miscellaneous, May-June 1949
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 3154-3186.
Folder 64 Miscellaneous, 1943
Includes cuttings on the Power Bill; Darlan affair; government and politics and economic issues.
Comprises items 3187-3233.
Folder 65 Miscellaneous, 1950-1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; national service; atomic energy; trade and economic issues.
Comprises items 3234-3270.
Folder 66 Miscellaneous, January-May 1941
Mainly cuttings on the war including government policy; operational reports; the war effort and war loans.
Comprises items 3271-3332.
Folder 67 Miscellaneous, 1943-1952
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 3333-3386.
Folder 68 Miscellaneous, September-December 1948
Includes cuttings on foreign policy; United Nations; Indonesia; government and politics and industrial issues.
Comprises items 3387-3413.
Folder 69 Miscellaneous, January-June 1950
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; situation in Malaya; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 3414-3476.
Folder 70 Miscellaneous, April-May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 3477-3518.
Folder 71 Miscellaneous, April-May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance;economic issues and Anzac Day.
Comprises items 3519-3581.
Folder 72 Miscellaneous, April-May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; finance and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 3582-3659.
Folder 73 Miscellaneous, April-May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 3660-3706.
Folder 74 Miscellaneous, 8-13 May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 3707-3770.
Folder 75 Miscellaneous, 13-19 May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 3771-3826.
Folder 76 Miscellaneous, 1943-1950
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance and economic issues.
Comprises items 3827-3850.
Folder 77 Miscellaneous, 1945-1952
Includes cuttings on the war; government and politics; trade; finance; economic issues; royalty and the death of King George VI.
Comprises items 3851-3886.
Folder 78 Miscellaneous, 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; Eva Peron and numerous miscellaenous topics.
Comprises items 3887-3931.
Folder 79 Miscellaneous, February 1950
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; economic issues and overseas news items.
Comprises items 3932-3984.
Folder 80 Miscellaneous, 1938-1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; the war; trade; finance; economic issues and the UK economic crisis (1947).
Comprises items 3985-4032.
Folder 81 Miscellaneous, 1917-1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics and the war.
Comprises items 4033-4083.
Folder 82 Miscellaneous, 1943-1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; the war; economic issues; foreign policy and the situation in Indonesia and Malaya.
Comprises items 4084-4154.
Folder 83 Miscellaneous, 1948
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; financial and economic issues.
Comprises items 4155-4199.
Folder 84 Miscellaneous, 1929-1948
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; economic issues and the war.
Comprises items 4200-4232.
Folder 85 Miscellaneous, 1945-1949
Includes cuttings on government and politics; financial and economic issues.
Comprises items 4233-4309.
Folder 86 Miscellaneous, February-March 1949
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; economic issues and the war.
Comprises items 4310-4360.
Folder 87 Miscellaneous, 1926-1948
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; economic issues and the war.
Comprises items 4361-4407.
Folder 88 Miscellaneous, 2-6 June 1948
Includes cuttings on government and politics; cold war; foreign policy; industrial and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 4408-4449.
Folder 89 Miscellaneous, May-June 1948
Includes cuttings on government and politics; strikes; financial and economic issues; cold war; foreign policy; communism and Korea.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 4450-4512.
Folder 90 Miscellaneous, 1933-1950
Mainly on events leading up to the war; the war and post-war items.
Comprises items 4513-4554.
Folder 91 Miscellaneous, 24-28 May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; strikes; financial and economic issues; foreign policy and the cold war.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 4555-4595.
Folder 92 Miscellaneous, 27-29 May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; strikes; financial and economic issues; cold war; foreign policy and Korea.
Comprises items 4596-4647.
Folder 93 Miscellaneous, May-June 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; industrial and economic issues and the cold war.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 4648-4668.
Folder 94 Miscellaneous, August 1951-June 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; financial and economic issues.
Comprises items 4669-4698.
Folder 95 Miscellaneous, May-June 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; industrial relations; arbitration and the waterside workers' strike.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 4699-4735.
Folder 96 Miscellaneous, May-June 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; economic issues; cold war and the waterside workers' strike.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 4736-4781.
Folder 97 Miscellaneous, 1941-March 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; economic issues; Royal Family and other overseas items.
Comprises items 4782-4857.
Folder 98 Miscellaneous, 1945
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; economic issues; the war; peace process; foreign policy and UNRRA.
Comprises items 4858-4971.
Folder 99 Miscellaneous, 19-21 May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; economic issues and the cold war.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 4972-5003.
Folder 100 Miscellaneous, 21-22 May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; economic issues and uranium.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5004-5036.
Folder 101 Miscellaneous, 17-23 May 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; economic and defence issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5037-5063.
Folder 102 Miscellaneous, 19-22 June 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5064-5120.
Folder 103 Miscellaneous, 23 June-10 July 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5121-5182.
Folder 104 Miscellaneous, 22 June-11 July 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; financial policy and the Budget.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5183-5227.
Folder 105 Miscellaneous, 25-26 June 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5228-5278.
Folder 106 Miscellaneous, 25-28 June 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; finance and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed. Also includes copies of indexes for previous two months.
Comprises items 5279-5341.
Folder 107 Miscellaneous, 30 June-5 July 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed. Also includes copies of indexes for previous two months.
Comprises items 5342-5449.
Folder 108 Miscellaneous, 6-14 July 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; foreign policy; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5450-5520.
Folder 109 Miscellaneous, 11-23 July 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; taxation; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5521-5583.
Folder 110 Miscellaneous, 24 July-4 August 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cutitngs have been indexed.
Comprises items 5584-5626.
Folder 111 Miscellaneous, 3-7 August 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; financial policy; the Budget and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5627-5694.
Folder 112 Miscellaneous, 7-12 August 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; financial policy; the Budget and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5695-5748.
Folder 113 Miscellaneous, 12-21 August 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; taxation; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5749-5801.
Folder 114 Miscellaneous, 22 August-5 September 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; taxation; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5802-5867.
Folder 115 Miscellaneous, 8-29 September 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5868-5917.
Folder 116 Miscellaneous, 12-26 September 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; finance; economic issues; overseas items and Hughes 88th birthday.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5918-5970.
Folder 117 Miscellaneous, 3-9 October 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; finance and economic issues.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 5971-6028.
Folder 118 Miscellaneous, 1947-1948
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Comprises items 6029-6087.
Folder 119 Miscellaneous, 1891-1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Also includes an issue of The Daily Telegraph (2 March, 1891) listing delegates to the Australian Convention.
Comprises items 6088-6120.
Folder 120 Miscellaneous, August-October 1952
Includes cuttings on government and politics; finance; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 6121-6174.
Folder 121 Miscellaneous, 1942-July 1943
Includes cuttings on government and politics; strikes, unions and industrial relations.
Some cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 6175-6235.
Folder 122 Miscellaneous, 1921-1951
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy; trade; finance; economic issues; overseas items and Korean war.
Comprises items 6236-6334.
Folder 123 Miscellaneous, 1949
Copy of the Christian Science Monitor, 2 April 1949 and Smith's Weekly, 2 July 1949.
Comprises items 6335-6336.
Folder 124 Miscellaneous, 1926-1934
Copy of The Sun (Sydney), 8 May 1926; The Australasian, 15 September 1928 and a loose newscutting dated 22 November 1934.
Comprises items 6337-6338a.
Folder 125 Miscellaneous, 1926-1950
Copy of the Times Literary Supplement, 17 June 1926 and loose cuttings (1943 and 1950).
Comprises items 6339-6340.
Folder 126 Miscellaneous, 1926-1950
Copy of the Times Literary Supplement, 3 June 1926; The Times (Sydney), 18 May 1944; The Express (Sydney), 18 March 1950 and 28 October 1950 and a loose cutting, n.d.
Comprises items 6341-6345.
Folder 127 Miscellaneous, February-March 1950
Cuttings from The Daily Telegraph containing extracts of Churchill's memoirs published in The Grand Alliance.
Comprises item 6346.
Folder 128 Miscellaneous, June 1952
Copy of The Daily Telegraph, 14 June 1952; the Sydney Morning Herald, 14 June 1952 and pages from Muster, 5 June 1952.
Comprises items 6347-6349.
Folder 129 Miscellaneous, 1945-1946
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; industry; economic issues and Winston Churchill.
Comprises items 6350-6363.
Folder 130 Miscellaneous, 1922-1951
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; immigration and economic issues.
Comprises items 6364-6384.
Folder 131 Miscellaneous, 1922-1948
Miscellaneous cuttings and sections of newspapers.
Comprises items 6385-6396.
Folder 132 Miscellaneous, 1937-1950
Issues of The Voice, August 1937, Vol 2: No 1 and 5, Vol 3: No 2, 4, 5-9 and single copies of The Daily Telegraph, 9 February 1938; The Express, 4 March 1950 and The Century, 25 June 1948.
Comprises items 6397-6409.
Folder 133 Miscellaneous, 1907-1950
Includes cuttings on government and politics; economic issues; the war and overseas items.
Also includes a drawing book belonging to Hughes daughter, Lily, containing drawings dated 1907, which has been used as a cuttings book.
Comprises items 6410-6444.
Folder 134 Miscellaneous, 1918-1937
Various pages from newspapers: The Daily Telegraph (1923-1924); Smith's Weekly (1922); Weekly Illustrated (1937) and the Journal of Commerce (1918).
Comprises items 6445-6452.
Folder 135 Miscellaneous, 1923-1934
Various pages from newspapers: The Sun, 9 April 1934; the Los Angeles Times, 1 January 1923 and the Brisbane Courier, 18 October 1924.
Comprises items 6453-6455.
Folder 136 Miscellaneous, 1922-1923
Various pages from newspapers: Daily Mail, 19 December, 1922; Smith's Weekly, 26 August 1922; Evening News, 2 April 1923 and The Daily Telegraph, 28 June 1923.
Comprises items 6456-6459.
Folder 137 Miscellaneous, 1942-1944
Various pages from newspapers; The Daily Telegraph, 28-29 April 1942 and 7 October 1944 and the Sydney Morning Herald, 28-29 April 1942 and 24 September 1943.
Comprises items 6460-6466.
Folder 138 Miscellaneous, 1942-1950
Various pages from newspapers: The Sun, 28 April 1942 and 4 April 1944; Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May 1941, 28 July 1943 and 20 October 1950 and The Daily Telegraph, 2 October 1944.
Comprises items 6467-6472.
Folder 139 Miscellaneous, 1923-1944
Various pages from newspapers: The Sun, 16 August 1923 and 11 March 1942; Sydney Morning Herald, 2 October 1942 and 27 July 1943 and 25 September 1943; The Daily Telegraph, 11 July 1944 and Daily Mirror, 18 March 1942.
Comprises items 6473-6480.
Folder 148 Post war problems, December 1942-July 1943
Some cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 6677-6713.
Folder 160 Royal wedding, November 1947
Copies of The Sun and Daily Mirror for 21 November and the Courier Mail and Telegraph (Brisbane) for the 22 November.
Comprises items 7134-7137.
Folder 161 Royal wedding, November 1947
Copies of the Argus, 21 and 22 November; the Herald, 21 November and The Sun, 21 November 1947.
Comprises items 7138-7141.
Folder 162 Royal wedding, November 1947
Copies of The Daily Telegraph, 22 November; The Age, 22 November and the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November.
Comprises items 7142-7144.
Folder 180 War effort, January-July 1943
Some cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 7878-7926.
Folder 185 Ward, E., December 1942-September 1943
Mainly 1943 cuttings. Includes notes and draft paper on Ward and the 'Brisbane Line'.
Comprises items 8102-8151.
Folder 186 Waterside disputes, March-June 1943
Cuttings have been indexed.
Comprises items 8152-8231.
Folder 188 Miscellaneous, 1923-1951
Miscellaneous cuttings and pages from newspapers.
Comprises items 8237-8283.
Folder 189 Miscellaneous, 1918-1944
Miscellaneous cuttings and newspapers.
Comprises items 8284-8289.
Folder 190 Miscellaneous, 1919
Copy of The Times (London) with American supplement.
Comprises items 8290.
Folder 191 Miscellaneous, 1902-1952
Includes copies of The Daily Telegraph, 28 July 1937; City Press (London), 25 April 1952 and a coronation supplement from the New York Herald, 22 June 1902.
Comprises items 8291-8294.
Folder 192 Miscellaneous, 1927-1948
Miscellaneous cuttings and newspapers.
Comprises items 8295-8303.
Folder 192a Newscuttings album, 1901-1927
Includes cuttings on government and politics; foreign policy and empire relations.
Comprises item 8304.
Folder 193 Miscellaneous, 1931-1933
Includes cuttings on public works; trade; monetary and financial issues.
Mainly 1933 cuttings.
Comprises cutting 8305 and the remainder of the file is not itemised.
Folder 194 Miscellaneous, 1933
Includes cuttings on trade and industry; monetary and financial issues.
Cuttings not itemised.
Folder 195 Miscellaneous, 1931-1933
Miscellaneous cuttings and pages from newspapers.
Cuttings not itemised.
Folder 201 Miscellaneous, September 1949
Includes cuttings on government and politics; trade; industry; economic issues and overseas items.
Cuttings not itemised.
Folder 202 Miscellaneous, 1923-1949
Includes cuttings on Hughes prepared by the Publicity Branch, Prime Minister's Department, 1922-1923.
Cuttings not itemised.
Folder 203 W. M. Hughes, 1922-1923
Cuttings prepared by the Publicity Branch, Prime Minister's Department, 1922-1923.
Cuttings not itemised.
Folder 204 W. M. Hughes, personal cuttings, 1913-1949
Includes a folder of cuttings relating to Hughes' 50 years in Parliament.
Cuttings not itemised.
Folder 208 W. M. Hughes, October-November 1922
Cuttings prepared by the Publicity Branch, Prime Minister's Department, 1922.
Cuttings not itemised.
Folder 209 W. M. Hughes, comments and speeches, October-November 1922
Cuttings prepared by the Publicity Branch, Prime Minister's Department, 1922.
Cuttings not itemised.
Bag 210 Newscuttings album, titled 'Economic conditions', November 1934-March 1935
Includes cuttings on economic conditions; trade and industry.
Comprises item 8306.
Bag 211 Newscuttings album, titled ' The monetary system', January-March 1935
Includes cuttings on the monetary system and gold prices.
Comprises item 8307.
Bag 212 Newscuttings album, titled 'The Second Front', June 1944
Cuttings on the war in Europe in 1944 and the allied invasion.
Comprises item 8308.
Bag 213 Newscuttings album titled 'Invalid and old-age pensions', January-March 1935
Contains only a small number of cuttings.
Comprises item 8309.
Bag 214 Newscuttings album titled 'Primary products', January-March 1935
Contains only a small number of cuttings.
Comprises item 8310.
Bag 215 Newscuttings album titled 'Miscellaneous', October 1934-March 1935
Contains only a small number of cuttings.
Comprises items 8311.
Bag 216 Newscuttings album titled 'Recruitment campaign', January 1939
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Comprises item 8312.
Bag 217 Newscuttings album titled 'Recruitment campaign', 1939-1945
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Also includes cuttings on the atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender.
Comprises item 8313.
Bag 218 Newscuttings album titled 'Recruitment campaign', January-February 1939
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Comprises item 8314.
Bag 219 Newscuttings album, January-February 1939
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Comprises item 8315.
Bag 220 Newscuttings album, January-February 1939
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Comprises item 8316.
Bag 221 Newscuttings album, February 1939
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Comprises items 8317.
Bag 222 Newscuttings album titled 'Recruitment campaign', January-February 1939
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Comprises item 8318.
Bag 223 Newscuttings album titled 'Japanese surrender', February 1939-September 1945
Includes cuttings on the Japanese surrender as well as the recruitment campaign of 1939.
Also includes two copies of the Sydney Morning Herald, 16 August 1945.
Comprises item 8319.
Bag 224 Newscuttings album, February 1939
Cuttings on 1939 recruitment campaign to increase Commonwealth militia forces and defence policy.
Comprises item 8320.
Series 7 Speeches and broadcasts, 1910-1952
Hughes was well known as an entertaining and at times inspiring speaker and, in addition to many addresses to Parliament and to election rallies, he spoke on a wide variety of subjects to innumerable conventions, dinners, gatherings of various sorts, and ceremonies. A description of the way in which Hughes prepared his talks is given by three of his secretaries, Olga Northam, H. V. Howe, and Morris West, in John Thompson's radio feature A political triptych - panel 3: they worked for Billy Hughes (1962, pp.18-20). The evidence of their preparation (at times equally puzzling) constitutes this series. It consists of a mixture of research notes, statistics, extracts from books, articles and newspapers and drafts and texts. Wherever appropriate, letters discussing speeches, research material and texts of speeches and broadcasts have been placed in other series. Letters inviting Hughes to speak are in Series 1.
Many speeches and broadcasts are on world affairs, especially World War II, but topics like post war development, the Constitution, democracy, the Red Cross, the development of Northern Australia, Welsh culture, and human nature are also covered. Included in a group of Hughes' published talks are Keith Murdoch's ' The day' and after: war speeches of the Rt Hon. W. M. Hughes (Cassell and Co., 1916), broadcasts such as ABC jubilee celebrations (December 1950), and Winston Churchill: warrior-statesman (1941?), and speeches such as Britain has not failed (February 1942) and a Policy for Australia (January 1925).
The final part of the series is made up of speeches - published, typescript, or roneoed - by others. There are many parliamentary deliveries by Curtin and Menzies in particular, and speeches by L. S. Amery, J. Dooley and the Duke of Windsor. Where possible, the material has been arranged in chronological order. There is, however, a large body of material which is undated, or difficult to date precisely. Only a few folios in this series were numbered with the bulk of the papers unnumbered. Some re-arrangement of these folios has occurred and many items are now out of sequence.
Folder 1 Speeches, 1910-1918
Subjects include limitations of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act and an Empire Day speech (c.1917).
Folder 2 Speeches, 1920s
Subjects include Australian inventiveness; efficiency; unemployment; the church; world affairs and the League of Nations.
Folder 3 Speeches and notes, 1921-c.1927
Subjects include labour and capital; Anzac Day and the opening of the new parliament in Canberra, 1927.
Folder 5 Speeches, 1928-1929
Includes text of speeches from Hansard and opening address at Conference of Commonwealth and State Governments, 1929.
Folder 8 Speeches and notes on the Maritime Industries Bill, 1929
Includes second reading speech from Hansard.
Folder 9 Speeches and notes, 1932-1935
Subjects include the depression and the international political situation.
Folder 10 Speeches and notes, 1936
Subjects include the growth of Australian industries; the Dried Fruits Case and Australia in 50 years time.
Folder 11 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, 1937
Subjects include Cessnock Show; Armistice Day; Anzac Day; world affairs and the possibility of war.
Folder 12 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, c.1937-1938
Subjects include Anzac Day; Armistice Day and the effect of war on Australia and Britain.
Folder 13 Broadcasts and speeches, 1938
Subjects include freedom of speech; foreign policy and the effect of war on Australia and Britain.
Folder 14 Broadcasts and speeches, 1938
Subjects include Anzac Day; inter-war period and the impending war in Europe.
Folder 15 Broadcasts and speeches, 1938
Subjects include defence; situation in Europe; effect of war on Australia and Britain and foreign policy.
Folder 17 Broadcasts, January 1939
Subjects include foreign policy; democracy and war and the international situation in early 1939.
Folder 18 Broadcasts, February-March 1939
Subjects include foreign policy; democracy and war and the international situation in early 1939.
Folder 19 Broadcasts and speeches, 1939
Subjects include the international situation in early 1939; the Australian economy and the outbreak of war.
Folder 20 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, 1939
Subjects include the outbreak of war and the death of Joseph Lyons.
Folder 21 Broadcasts and speeches, 1939-c.1942
Subjects include conscription; the defence of Australia and the war.
Folder 23 Speeches, 1930s
Subjects include international political situation, peace and the impending war.
Folder 24 Speeches, 1930s
Subjects include the British Empire; the international political situation and the impending war.
Folder 26 Speeches and notes, 1930s
Subjects include the British Empire; democracy, fascism and communism and Australia and world problems.
Folder 27 Broadcasts and speeches, January-May 1940
Subjects include Sir Littleton Groom and the war.
Folder 30 Broadcasts, speeches and newscuttings, 1940
Subjects include the war; the courage of the British people; Sir John Monash and a review of the war situation by Winston Churchill.
Folder 39 Broadcasts and speeches, April 1942
Subjects mainly war related and includes Anzac Day and war loans.
Folder 46 Broadcasts and speeches, March-May 1943
Subjects mainly war related. Also includes Anzac Day speeches.
Folder 53 Speeches and notes, c.1942-1944
Subjects include economic trends in the USA; economic statistics and post-war reconstruction.
Folder 54 Speeches and notes, 1943-1944
Subjects include economic trends in the USA; economic statistics; taxation and the war.
Folder 56 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, 1945
Subjects include the war; Anzac Day; end of the war and foreign policy.
Folder 57 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, 1945
Subjects include the war; employment of returned soldiers; Empire Day and Lloyd George.
Folder 70 Speeches and notes, January-September 1946
Subjects include post-war problems; Anzac Day; foreign policy and the federal elections.
Folder 71 Speeches and notes, 1946
Subjects include peace; United Nations; world security and Liberal Party policy.
Folder 74 Speeches and notes, 1910-1949
Includes miscellaneous speeches from the 1910s-1920s along with material from March-April 1949.
Also includes a printed copy of a speech by Hughes titled U.N.O., Dr Evatt and world peace (January 1949).
Folder 75 Speeches and notes, May-December 1949
Subjects include the federal elections; socialism and government.
Folder 76 Speeches and notes, 1949
Subjects include government policy; economic policy; foreign policy; communism and compulsory military training.
Folder 77 Speeches and notes, c.1945-1952
Subjects include peace; economic policy; foreign policy; Russia; communism and the United Nations.
Folder 78 Speeches and notes, c.1945-c.1950
Subjects include employment; women; post-war issues and foreign policy.
Folder 79 Speeches and notes, c.1938-c.1950
Subjects include unionism; New Guinea; engineering and Parliament.
Folder 80 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, c.1939-c.1951
Subjects include the war and post-war reconstruction; the press; Russia and the mandate in New Guinea.
Folder 81 Speeches and notes, c.1938-c.1951
Subjects include the mandate in New Guinea and Winston Churchill.
Folder 82 Statistics, n.d.
Various miscellaneous statistics on agricultural commodities, industry, population and wages covering the period 1904-1949.
Folder 83 Speeches and notes, 1930s-c.1951
Subjects include the war; post-war reconstruction; Anzac Day and government and politics.
Folder 84 Speeches and notes, 1940s-c.1951
Subjects include the war; Red Cross; Russia and post-war issues.
Folder 86 Speeches and notes, c.1946-1951
Subjects include primary industry and agriculture and foreign policy.
Folder 89 Speeches and notes, c.1944-c.1951
Subjects include post-war problems; peace; Cold War and defence.
Folder 90 Broadcasts, speeches, notes, newscuttings and printed items, 1935-1951
Subjects include Anzac Day; arbitration; treaties; Australian industry and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Bill, 1949.
Printed items include a lecture on Eastern competitions: industrial, political and cultural (1936); an address Do the fittest survive? (1935); a speech by Scullin on Distribution of wool profits, motion of censure (1924) from Hansard and a Digest of decisions and announcements and important speeches by the Prime Minister, the Hon John Curtin (1942).
Folder 91 Speeches and notes, May-August 1950
Subjects include communism; compulsory military training and Korea.
Folder 92 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, September 1950-1952
Subjects include Jan Christian Smuts and jubilee celebration speech.
Folder 93 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, c1949-c.1950
Subjects include recognition of Hughes' 55 years in Parliament; Cold War and Korean War.
Folder 95 Speeches and notes, 1951
Subjects include Commonwealth jubilee celebrations; world affairs; communism and the Cold War.
Folder 96 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, January-June 1952
Subjects include Australia Day; Anzac Day; Red Cross and the death of King George VI.
Folder 97 Speeches and notes, c.1951-1952
Subjects include the economy; death of King George VI: profile of Australia; defence and the threat of war.
Folder 98 Speeches and notes, c.1951-c.1952
Subjects include England in the days of Nelson; New Guinea and income tax.
Folder 99 Printed material, 1925-1952
Published copies of various speeches and broadcasts by Hughes and extracts from Hansard.
Folder 104 Speeches and notes, 1935-1940s
Unsorted material. Subjects include Newcastle; BHP jubilee and the war.
Folder 105 Broadcasts, speeches and notes, 1930-c.1951
Unsorted material. Subjects include the Depression and the war.
Bag 108a 'The day'-and after : war speeches of the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes 1916
Speeches arranged by Keith A. Murdoch with an introduction by D. Lloyd George.
Bag 108b 'The day'-and after : war speeches of the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes 1916
Speeches arranged by Keith A. Murdoch with an introduction by D. Lloyd George. This volume is missing its cover.
Bag 108c Notebook, c.1930-1932
Includes notes on war debts (WWI) and Australian economic and financial situation.
Folder 112 Speeches, 1930s
Unsorted material. Eulogies/addresses prepared following the deaths of Sir Austen Chamberlain, William Holman and General Sir John Monash.
Folder 113 Speeches, 1930s
Unsorted material. Subjects include Anzac Day; Armistice Day and the death of Sir Littleton Groom.
Folder 114 Speeches and notes, 1930s
Unsorted material. Subjects include the secession of Western Australia.
Folder 120 Broadcasts, speeches and notes by others, 1929-1951
Includes speeches by Sir Earle Page and Sir Paul Hasluck.
Folder 125 Printed material, speeches and notes, 1941-1952
Includes speeches by Prime Ministers Robert Menzies and John Curtin.
Folder 126 Speeches and notes by others, 1942-1952
Mainly speeches by Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
Series 8 Christmas cards, 1921-1952
Hughes received a great many Christmas cards of an official and personal nature. The majority of the cards can be found in this series where they have been arranged in chronological order. Those which include a letter, however, have been filed in Series 1. As well as the cards, this series has some mailing lists for particular years along with some telegrams.
Series 9 Programs, invitations and cards, 1906-1953
This series consists of programs, invitations, visiting cards, name cards, condolence cards, menus and entree cards, and tickets for concerts, balls etc. They refer to the many ceremonies, dinners, receptions, openings, Royal visits and official functions Hughes attended during his long public life.
Christmas cards are in Series 8, and invitations, programs, menus, and assorted cards Hughes received while overseas in 1907, 1916, 1918-1919, 1921, 1924, and 1932 are in other series. Some written invitations and any copies of replies are in Series 1. However, most have been placed at the end of this series.
Folder 19 Programs, invitations and other cards, 1940-1941
Includes copies of replies to invitations.
Comprises items 1512-1579.
Folder 20 Programs, invitations and other cards, 1942-1947
Includes copies of replies to invitations.
Comprises items 1580-1644.
Series 10 Photographs, c.1865-1950s
Most of the photographs in the Hughes papers are in this series. The remainder are in Series 1 (enclosures to some general correspondence), Series 22, Series 23, Series 24, and Series 35 (photographs taken on overseas trips), Series 28 (file on 1917 elections), Series 40 (1938 New Guinea trip), Series 46 (Advisory War Council meeting), and Series 48 (Indonesian and Northern Territory files).
This series contains albums and loose photographs of Hughes, his wives, and children (particularly Helen) and group photographs of a meeting of the Lyons Cabinet, the Novars, the visiting French Mission to Australia, Hughes' visit to Western Australia and Moreton Bay (1922), the sinking of the Emden (1914), and Australian exhibits of the British Empire Exhibition (1924). There are also a number of postcards from overseas countries such as England, France and Gibraltar.
The majority of the photographs in the series are undated and do not contain any caption details. A small number of them have been digitised and can be found in the Library's Pictures Catalogue.
Folder 1 Photographs, c.1865-1940s
Includes family and official photographs and some travel postcards.
Also includes copies of portraits of Hughes (aged around three-four) and his parents. The originals of these photographs are in Folder 4.
Comprises items 1-105.
Folder 2 Postcards, 1900s-1938
Mainly travel postcards from England and Egypt.
Comprises items 106-279.
Folder 4 Photographs, 1860s-1940s
Includes a portrait of Hughes aged around four; his parents; portraits of his daughter, Helen as a child and with her father at the Sydney Cricket Ground possibly in the 1930s.
Comprises items 363-377.
Folder 6 Photographs and postcards, n.d.
Christmas card containing an unidentified child portrait and two postcards of Goulburn, NSW.
Comprises items 402-404a.
Bag 6a Souvenir booklet, 1922
Photographs of a visit to Western Australia by Hughes, 18-25th April, 1922.
Comprises item 405.
Bag 6b Photograph album, June 1922
Album presented to Hughes to remind him of 'a pleasant and happy day in Moreton Bay, 9th June 1922'.
Comprises item 406.
Bag 6c Photograph album, n.d.
Album titled 'Engineering enterprise in Queensland', presented to Hughes by Walkers Limited, Engineers and Shipbuilders, Maryborough, Qld.
Includes photographs of the construction of the S. S. Echuca and S. S. Echunga.
Comprises item 407.
Bag 6d Photograph album, March 1936
Album presented to Hughes (Minister for Health and Repatriation) to mark the official opening by him of the Bundanoon A. H. and I. Societies First Annual Show, 20 March 1936.
Comprises item 408.
Bag 6e Photograph album, April-October 1924
Album presented to Hughes showing the Australian Section, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, held in April - October 1924.
Comprises item 409.
Bag 6f Photograph album, November 1917
Souvenir album of Emden photographs presented to Hughes by the Canteen Sergeant of Troopship A41 on 5th November 1917.
Comprises item 410.
Bag 6g Photograph album, December 1917
Album of photographs of 'Bishop's Knoll Hospital, Xmas 1917'.
Comprises item 410a.
Folder 7 Photographs, 1899-1916
Includes photographs of Hughes visiting his old school in 1916.
Comprises items 411-486.
Folder 8 Photographs, 1899-1948
Includes photographs of the battlefields during World War I.
Comprises items 487-518.
Folder 9 Photographs and postcards, 1880-1939
Includes studio portraits of Hughes; the first Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1880 and postcards from Gibraltar and Hawaii.
Comprises items 519-582, 609, 611-664.
Bag 9a Photographs, 1918-1935
Includes studio portraits of Hughes taken in Paris in 1919 by A. Langfier (items 583-590); two studio portraits taken in Paris by Henri Manuel, n.d. (items 592 and 593); studio portraits of Hughes and his wife, Helen, taken in London by Vandyk, n.d. (items 593-601); members of the French Mission to Australia, 1918, (item 602); studio portraits of Hughes by Kerry and Co, Sydney, n.d. (items 603 and 604); photograph of a meeting somewhere in Sydney, n.d. (item 605); a Christmas concert at the Hammond Hotel for single unemployed, Sydney, with Hughes being presented with a cake for his wife, December 1935 (item 606) and a portrait of Lord Novar and his wife, Helen, n.d. (item 607).
Comprises items 583-607.
Series 11 Printed and roneoed material, c.1900-1952
The series comprises mainly books, pamphlets, periodicals, bulletins and roneoed papers. There are 11 boxes (plus one folio item). The subject coverage is broad, but does not include those around which other series are formed. About a third of the series consists of books. Most relates to World War I (David Lloyd George's six volume War memoirs is here), Australian political history, England or Wales. There is also a variety of bulletins, circulars, other miscellaneous printed material and typescripts.
The bulletins and circulars include issues of Canberra Comment, Sane Democracy, Salt, Current Affairs Bulletin, The Palm, Graya Medical Journal of Australia, Ex-Nx, Things I Hear, London Tidings, Australian Business Conditions, Practical Patriot and Canberra Letter. Other printed material includes press releases issued by both government departments and interest groups, parliamentary papers, annual reports of clubs and associations such as the Returned Sailors Soldiers and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, British Empire League circulars, and the Department of Information's weekly review of incoming short-wave news broadcasts. The latter, as well as bulletins issued by the United States Office of War Information, the Army activities bulletins of the Australian Military Forces and the Department of External Affairs political intelligence bulletins, are examples of the large amount of World War II material in the series.
The typescripts include reports by individuals seeking Hughes' support for various projects, such as Alfred Fry's 'Reconstruction of Australia' (May 1933) and H.C. Mallard's 'Geological report...' (1926).
Series 12 Family papers, 1875-1958
Hughes married twice. In 1886, or thereabouts, he married Elizabeth Cutts of Sydney (thus like Andrew Fisher marrying his landlady's daughter). There were seven children: Arthur, Ethel, Lily, Dolly, Ernest, Charles, and a son who died in infancy. Elizabeth Hughes died in 1906. The second marriage, in June 1911, was to Mary Campbell, and there was a daughter, Helen, born in 1915.
The family papers consist almost entirely of correspondence arranged chronologically, the bulk being letters to Hughes from his second wife, his children, and nephews, nieces and grandchildren. There is only one letter from Mrs Elizabeth Hughes. Letters to Hughes from his wife and children written while he was overseas in 1918, 1919, 1921 and 1924 can be found in Series 23-26 and all letters to Dame Mary Hughes are in Series 13. The letters from the children, mainly Charles and Helen, are full of family news and many refer to financial problems. Birthday greetings from the children are also filed here. There is also correspondence between Hughes and the Commonwealth Bank, C. S. Daley and Sir John Butters regarding a tender his son Ernest sought from the Federal Capital Commission in 1929, letters and telegrams of sympathy following Helen's death in London in 1937 and following a grandson's death in 1940, and letters from solicitors about the children of Hughes' first marriage.
A group of miscellaneous papers follows. It includes Helen's birth certificate, some cuttings on her social activities and some of her school reports, Elizabeth Hughes' death certificate, a draft document in which Hughes makes provision for his three eldest daughters (1925), one of Lily Hughes' school exercise books (1900), a copy of Hughes' birth certificate and will (1930), and some certificates (1875-1877) relating to his attendance at St Stephen's School, Westminster.
Folder 1 Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1875-1958
Includes a letter from Hughes' son, Bill, discussing conscription and the war (1917); certificates relating to Hughes attendance at St Stephen's School, Westminster (1875-1877); a school exercise book belonging to his daughter, Lily (1900) and an extract of Elizabeth Hughes' death certificate (1906) provided in 1958.
Comprises items 1-33.
Folder 2 Correspondence, 1920-1925
Includes letters to Hughes from his children and a draft deed (1925) making provisions for Hughes' three eldest daughters.
Comprises items 34-101.
Folder 3 Correspondence, 1926-1927
Mainly letters to Hughes from his children.
Comprises items 102-154.
Folder 4 Correspondence, 1928-1929
Mainly letters to Hughes from his children.
Comprises items 155-227.
Folder 5 Correspondence, 1930-1933
Includes letters from Hughes' children; school reports for Helen Hughes (1929-1930) and a will written by Hughes in 1930.
Comprises items 228-270.
Folder 6 Correspondence, 1934-1936
Mainly letters to Hughes from his children.
Comprises items 271-346.
Folder 7 Telegrams, August 1937
Telegrams of condolence received by Hughes on the death of his daughter, Helen.
Comprises items 347-550.
Folder 8 Telegrams, August-September 1937
Telegrams of condolence received by Hughes on the death of his daughter, Helen.
Comprises items 551-747.
Folder 9 Correspondence, 1937
Includes letters from Hughes' children and letters of condolence received by Hughes on the death of his daughter, Helen.
Comprises items 748-824.
Folder 10 Correspondence, September-November 1937
Mainly letters of condolence received by Hughes on the death of his daughter, Helen.
Comprises items 825-880.
Folder 11 Correspondence and cards, 1937
Includes correspondence, cards and newscuttings relating to the death of Hughes' daughter, Helen.
Comprises items 881-914.
Folder 12 Name lists, 1937
Lists of names of individuals and organisations who forwarded condolence messages to the Hughes family on the death of their daughter, Helen.
Comprises items 915-1042.
Folder 13 Correspondence, 1938-1939
Mainly letters to Hughes from his children.
Comprises items 1043-1104.
Folder 14 Correspondence, 1940-1944
Mainly letters to Hughes from his children, nieces and nephews and grandchildren.
Comprises items 1105-1186.
Folder 15 Correspondence, 1945-1949
Mainly letters to Hughes from his children, nieces and nephews and grandchildren.
Comprises items 1187-1289.
Series 13 Dame Mary Hughes, 1913-1953
Mary Campbell married Hughes in Melbourne in June 1911. She was the second daughter of grazier Thomas Campbell of Burrangong. In marrying Hughes, according to Fitzhardinge, she provided for him for the rest of his life 'the perfect domestic background'. She accompanied him on his several trips overseas, and in 1922 was created a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) for her charity work during the war. She died in Sydney in 1958.
The bulk of the series consists of letters she received while in Britain in 1918-1919 and 1921, in the USA in 1924, and in England in 1932; congratulations upon the award of her GBE in 1922; correspondence on the Regimental Flag Scheme conducted by Mrs Hughes and the wives of the High Commissioner and the States' Agents General in London in 1918; correspondence concerning groups such as the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children and the Lindfield Women's Service League; Christmas greetings; some financial correspondence and sympathy letters following her husband's death in October 1952. The main correspondents are her husband, Lady Janette Birdwood, Lady Molly Northcliffe, Lady Alice Northcote, Ellis Rowan, Arthur Streeton, Lady Helen Munro-Ferguson, Mary Lyell, Mrs Florence Avery, Sir Ronald Anderson, Evelyn Grant, Mrs J. Wemyss Syme, Lady Enid de Chair, Mary Grant and Christabel Pankhurst.
The remainder of the series is made up of household invoices and receipts, bank statements, telegrams, miscellaneous newscuttings and invitations, three diaries (1918, 1921) and four ladies' passes to the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Folder 1 Correspondence, 1913-1918
Includes a bank passbook (1917); a bank statement for 1914-1917 and a pocket diary (1918) used mainly for appointments.
Comprises items 1-29.
Folder 2 Correspondence, 1918-1923
Includes a diary for 1918 containing addresses and a small number of daily entries.
Comprises items 30-57.
Folder 3 Correspondence, 1920-1921
Includes a diary for 1921 containing addresses, appointments and notes.
Comprises items 58-138.
Folder 7 Correspondence, 1930-1938
Includes two ladies' passes to the Sydney Cricket Ground, 1935-1936.
Comprises items 321-344.
Folder 8 Correspondence, 1940-1941
Includes notes for a talk titled 'Irrigation for the Central West' and a lady's pass to the Sydney Cricket Ground, 1940-1941.
Comprises items 345-495.
Folder 9 Correspondence, 1940-1946
Includes a lady's pass to the Sydney Cricket Ground, 1940-1941.
Comprises items 496-574.
Folder 16 Correspondence and telegrams, 29 October 1952
Letters and telegrams of condolence.
Comprises items 1138-1237.
Folder 18 Correspondence and telegrams, 30 October 1952
Letters and telegrams of condolence.
Comprises items 1295-1372.
Folder 24 Correspondence, December 1952-January 1953
Mainly letters of condolence.
Comprises items 1623-1643.
Folder 26 Correspondence and cards, n.d.,
Includes some sympathy cards and miscellaneous correspondence from a much earlier period.
Comprises items 1694-1740.
Folder 27 Correspondence, 1934-1937
Includes a certificate of appointment to the position of Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and miscellaneous correspondence and printed material relating to this award.
Comprises items 1741-1752.
Folder 29 Correspondence and notes, 1918-1919
Material relating to a Regimental Flag Scheme for Australian battalions proposed by C. E. W. Bean during the First World War.
Comprises items 1895-1958.
Folder 30 Correspondence and notes, 1918
Includes correspondence and notes relating to the Regimental Flag Scheme arranged by states: Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
Notes include a diagram of the unit flags and colour samples of materials.
Comprises items 1959-2005.
Folder 31 Correspondence and notes, 1918
Includes correspondence and notes relating to the Regimental Flag Scheme arranged by states: New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.
Notes include a diagram of the unit flags and colour samples of materials.
Comprises items 2006-2052.
Folder 32 Correspondence, 1918
Includes correspondence relating to the Regimental Flag Scheme.
Comprises items 2053-2111.
Series 14 Legal notebooks, 1894-1902
At the close of the nineteenth century Hughes began to read for the New South Wales Bar. He passed his exams convincingly and was admitted to the Bar in November 1903. He had received coaching from J. B. Peden and T. R. Bavin, a law graduate and university medallist from the University of Sydney.
There are ten notebooks in the series. Seven contain Hughes' notes from his reading and preparation for the Bar exams, and four are dated (1901, 1902). The other three are in Bavin's hand and similarly contain research notes. They are dated 1894 and 1896.
Series 15 Politics and unions, 1890-1929
In his early parliamentary career, Hughes represented the Lang Division in the New South Wales Parliament from 1894 to Federation, and in federal politics was Minister for External Affairs in the Watson Government (1904) and Attorney-General in the three governments of Andrew Fisher (1908-1909, 1910-1913, 1914-1915). In the years before his Prime Ministership Hughes was also chairman of several commissions and one of Australia's representatives at the 1907 Imperial Conference on Navigation. Hughes was also associated with several Sydney transport and waterfront unions, and was founding president of the Waterside Workers Federation.
Unfortunately the collection covers only a small portion of the events and activities with which Hughes was associated between 1894 and 1915. With the exception of a small group of papers on the 1913 General Election (in Series 28), political and union material from the period is in Series 15. It begins with a group of letters covering subjects such as the 1907 Imperial Conference on Navigation, the 1909 coal strikes, defence, land taxes, the uniform railway gauge, the International Congress on Labour Legislation (1912), the prosecution of the Coal Vend (1913), the Royal Commission on the Sugar Industry (1911), the 1911 Imperial Conference, wire telegraphy, the coal combine (1912), tables of statistics on tax payers and land values, and the appointment of A. B. Piddington to the High Court. The main correspondents are Lord Dudley, Lord Denman, Justice Higgins, Andrew Fisher, E. L. Batchelor, G. A. McKay, Jethro Brown, J. H. Gordon, B. R. Wise, Sir John Gordon, Charles Powers, A. B. Piddington, and R. R. Garran.
The remainder of the series consists of miscellaneous papers, newscuttings and printed material. It includes information on the Postmaster-General's Department, New South Wales parliamentary papers (1894-1900), some legal briefs and agreements involving the Trolley Draymen's and Carters' Union of Sydney and Suburbs and the Sydney Wharf Labourers Union, a paper by Chas Wickens on old age pensions, newscuttings on the Coal Vend, the 1913 referendum and the sugar industry, and printed items on meetings of the Committee on Imperial Defence (1911), Sir Reginald Henderson's recommendations on the Australian Navy (1911) and a printed Cabinet Minute on the political situation in May 1909. Some Letters Patent and illuminated addresses are also included.
Folder 2 Correspondence, 1910
Includes a copy of a bill 'To make provision for giving effect to the rules and principles declared by the 'Elementary law of Queensland'' (1890).
Comprises items 36-85.
Folder 5 Correspondence and notes, September-December 1912
Includes reports from the Postmaster-General's Department on automatic telephone switching mechanisms and systems.
Comprises items 259-364.
Folder 6 Correspondence, memorandum and notes, February-March 1913
Includes memorandum on the effects of land tax.
Comprises items 365-432.
Folder 7 Correspondence and notes, April-December 1913
Includes a copy of evidence to be given by George Alexander Mackay, Federal Commissioner of Land Tax, to the Dominions Royal Commission, Melbourne, 19 April 1913.
Comprises items 433-510.
Folder 8 Printed material and speeches, 1894-1902
Includes printed registers of bills originating in the NSW Legislative Assembly 1894-1900 and speeches by Hughes on the Immigration Restriction Bill and Act, 1901-1902.
Comprises items 511-577.
Folder 9 Legal papers and notes, 1904-1929
Includes extracts of speeches from Hansard on industrial issues and miscellaneous legal affidavits and agreements.
Comprises items 578-600.
Folder 10 Printed material, notes and speeches, 1907-1910
Includes a copy of a speech 'Compulsory military training from the point of view of an Australian Labor leader', delivered by Hughes at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 24 April, 1907.
Also includes extracts from Hansard of some of Hughes speeches; parliamentary memorandum; a Cabinet minute [May 1909] advising a dissolution of Parliament and a certificate appointing Hughes as Australian representative to a conference on shipping in London, commencing 26 March, 1907.
Comprises items 601-644.
Folder 11 Printed material, 1911
Includes minutes of meetings (111-113) of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 26-30 May, 1911; recommendations by Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson on the Naval Forces of the Commonwealth, 1911, and a memorandum 'Sea training and the Empire' adopted by the Executive of the Navy League, 2 February, 1911.
Comprises items 645-699.
Folder 12 Miscellaneous notes, papers and printed material, 1912-1915
Includes proposed changes to the Constitution in the 1912 and 1915 referenda; notes on service improvements in the Postmaster-General's Department, 1911-1913, and a paper by Charles H. Wickens on 'National old age pensions'.
Comprises items 700-760.
Folder 13 Newscuttings, notes and printed material, 1913-1915
Includes cuttings on the 1910 Anti-Trust Act and the Vend case and articles against the 1913 referenda proposals.
Comprises items 761-824.
Folder 14 Newscuttings, 1910
Cuttings mainly relating to Hughes' political career.
Comprises items 825-879.
Folder 15 Notes, 1910
Extracts from the daily newspapers on political parties and policy.
Comprises items 880-929.
Folder 16 Newscuttings, 1911-1912
Subjects include politics and government; the Bellinger case and unionism.
Comprises items 930-989.
Folder 17 Newscuttings, 1907-1914
Includes cuttings on Hughes and miscellaneous copies of the Waterside Workers' Gazette 1907-1914.
Comprises items 990-1032.
Folder 18 Newscuttings, 1913
Includes articles on the 1913 referenda; NSW Liberal Party leader, C. G. Wade and his election campaign.
Comprises items 1033-1072.
Folder 19 Printed material, 1907-1915
Includes reprints of speeches by Deakin, Hughes and Pearce from Hansard; a copy of 'Official report of the 6th Commonwealth Conference of the Australian Labor Party', 31 May 1913 and a printed copy of an address by Hughes on compulsory military training (also listed in Folder 10).
Also includes a small diary and almanac (1909) containing limited appointments; two pamphlets on decisions made by the Canadian Parliament on a Canadian Naval Service (1913) and a menu for a luncheon for the premiers of the self-governing colonies in Westminster Hall, 24 April, 1907.
Comprises items 1073-1100.
Folder 20 Printed material, 1907-1915
Includes miscellaneous speeches by Hughes from Hansard ; a copy of Amendment of constitution: federal referendums: for and against (1913) and land value maps for the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan (1910).
Comprises items 1101-1111.
Folder 21 Miscellaneous notes, papers and printed material, 1897-c.1913
Includes a special issue of Punch titled 'The career of the colonial premiers' (1987).
Comprises items 1112-1124.
Bag 22 Newscuttings books, 1903-1909
Three books/albums containing cuttings on government and politics; tariffs; trade; finance; shipping and other strikes.
Comprises items 1125-1127.
NB. Item 1128 is missing or the number was skipped when the collection was itemised.
Piece 23 Letters Patent appointing Hughes a Commissioner to examine the Navigation and Shipping Bill, 13 June 1904
Two copies.
Comprises items 1129-1130.
Piece 24 Letters Patent appointing Hughes as Attorney-General, 18 November 1908
Comprises item 1131.
Series 16 Prime Minister, 1915-c.1925
Although unfortunately not the largest part of the Hughes Papers, the material in Series 16 to 25 constitutes some of the most important as it refers to the period when Hughes was Prime Minister and Australia's chief representative at the Versailles Peace Conference and several important Imperial Conferences.
The papers in Series 16 cover the years 1915-1923 in a general way, and have been divided into two main subseries: domestic policy and administration, and international relations. A third subseries contains illuminated addresses, Letters Patent and miscellaneous material relating to this period. Other related series concern specific policy areas (Series 17-21) and Hughes' three overseas trips as Prime Minister (Series 22-25).
Subseries 16.1 Domestic policy and administration, 1915-c.1925
This subseries has been subdivided by form. It begins with correspondence, arranged in date order, and, with the exception of one or two drafts of replies, consists of letters, telegrams and memoranda to Hughes. Correspondents refer to such things as W. A. Watt's trip to London in 1920 and subsequent resignation in June, the Uniform Railway Gauge Commission, the Holman Government, the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1920, Sir Samuel Griffith's successor as Chief Justice of the High Court, the Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd and the Anglo Persian Oil Company Ltd, Australia's population, the administration of Papua, the development of Northern Australia, the procedure for calling meetings of the Executive Council, the implications of the 1922 election results, and negotiations with the Country Party early in 1923.
The subseries includes many of the 'Personal and confidential' letters to Hughes from the two Governors-General of the period, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson (later Viscount Novar), and Lord Forster. The majority are from the former, and reveal the extent to which the man interested himself in the policies and day-to-day administration of the Hughes Government. Some of the other correspondents are S. M. Bruce, Earle Page, J. H. Carruthers, Littleton Groom, J. C. Watson, John Thompson, Sir George Knibbs, George Pearce, W. G. Higgs, W. Massey-Green, the Prince of Wales, Dr J. A. Gilruth, W. A. Watt, J. H. P. Murray, Sir Robert Garran, Patrick McMahon Glynn, William Webster, W. Warren Kerr, Andrew Barton, Sir Adrian Knox, and Lord Forrest.
The second grouping within this subseries consists of handwritten notes of cabinet meetings, 1917-1918 and 1920-1922. They record those who attended and Cabinet decisions, and several have typed copies of submissions attached. The notes appear not to be a complete record of entire meetings and are certainly not a complete coverage of all of the meetings held while Hughes was Prime Minister. Many are in his own hand, and others can be identified as the work of Hector Lamond, Senator E. D. Millen, and Arthur S. Rodgers.
A group of miscellaneous papers, printed items, documents and cuttings completes the subseries. There are notes for speeches on Frank Tudor, the Brisbane Conference of the Australian Labor Party (1922) and the One Big Union, and other papers on Oswald T. Ermonde, the Nitrogen Products and Carbide Company Ltd, forestry, the Postmaster-General's Department, agricultural implements, the uniform railway gauge, the deportation of Father Jerger, a deputation from the Returned Soldiers' Association, and the 1919 referendum. The printed material includes a cypher book (1916), parliamentary papers on W. A. Watt's resignation (1920), and on the Premiers' Conference (Nov. 1915), copies of Britannia and J. G. Richert's 'The subterranean waters of Australia' (1916).
Folder 1 Correspondence, 1915-1917
Comprises items 1-45.
Folder 2 Correspondence, 1918
Comprises items 46-127.
Folder 3 Correspondence, 1919
Comprises items 128-188.
Folder 4 Correspondence, January-June 1920
Includes a copy of report titled 'Visit to London of the Rt Hon. W. A. Watt, PC, MP, and resignation of his position as Treasurer of the Commonwealth' (1920).
Comprises items 189-274.
Folder 5 Correspondence, July-December 1920
Comprises items 275-331.
Folder 6 Correspondence, 1921
Includes a preliminary report and sketch map on geological surveys by the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd in ex-German New Guinea, 21 March-21 September 1921.
Comprises items 332-434.
Folder 7 Correspondence, newscuttings and notes, January-June 1922
Includes a report on the operations of the Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd and financial estimates.
Comprises items 435-547.
Folder 8 Correspondence, July-December 1922
Comprises items 548-611.
Folder 9 Correspondence and memorandum, 1923
Comprises items 612-674.
Folder 10 Cabinet meeting notes, 1917-1918
Comprises items 675-725.
Folder 11 Cabinet meeting notes, 1920
Comprises items 726-908.
Folder 12 Cabinet meeting notes, January-June 1921
Comprises items 909-1030.
Folder 13 Cabinet meeting notes, July-December 1921
Comprises items 1031-1089.
Folder 14 Cabinet meeting notes, 1922
Comprises items 1090-1151.
Folder 15 Printed material, 1915-1916
Includes a copy of 'The Subterranean waters of Australia', by J. Gust Richert, (1916); a pamphlet with cover title Amendment of Constitution: Federal referendums: the case for and against, (1915) and a proof copy of 'Summary of proceedings, Premier's Conference, Melbourne, November 1915'.
Also includes a letter of appreciation presented to Hughes during a visit to South Africa on behalf of the Australian and New Zealanders resident in Bloemfontein, n.d.
Comprises items 1152-1160.
Folder 16 Printed material, 1916
Copy of Cypher "A", compiled by Major G. Steward, Official Secretary to the Governor-General and Secretary to the Federal Executive Council.
Comprises item 1161.
Folder 17 Miscellaneous papers and printed material, 1913-1917
Includes various reports prepared for the Nitrogen Products and Carbide Co. Ltd relating to carbide and cyanamide works and carbonisation schemes.
Also includes an issue of Britannia, 9 April 1917; an Australian Red Cross Society Monthly Leaflet, February 1917; a pamphlet American Labor's position in peace or war (March 1917) and miscellaneous parliamentary papers (1917-1918).
Comprises items 1162-1207.
Folder 18 Miscellaneous notes, newscuttings and printed material, 1919-1922
Includes newscuttings on the resignation of Treasurer W. Watt from the Hughes Cabinet; notes and newscuttings on amendments to the Constitution and a deputation from the Returned Soldiers' Association (1919).
Printed material includes a Union of South Africa report Cost of Living Commission: profits report (1919) and a pamphlet Nationalists' speaker's handbook No III: the reasons for the referendum (1919).
Comprises items 1208-1301.
Folder 19 Miscellaneous notes, newscuttings and printed material, 1920-1922
Includes notes and cuttings on various Australian Labor Party conferences including the Brisbane Conference and the One Big Union.
Also includes a certificate for the conferring of the Grand Cordon of the Belgian Order of the Crown on Hughes and a copy of Review of the Australian administration in Papua from 1907 to 1920 (n.d.).
Comprises items 1302-1382.
Folder 20 Newscuttings and notes, 1921
Includes cuttings on Hughes visit to England and Europe in 1921 to attend the Imperial Conference.
Comprises items 1383-1446.
Folder 21 Newscuttings and notes, 1922
Miscellaneous subjects.
Comprises items 1447-1477.
Folder 22 Notes and printed material, Mainly undated and untitled notes and speeches.
Mainly undated and untitled notes and speeches.
Printed items include Proposal to found an Imperial Bank of Industry (1917) and Notes upon the proposed Imperial Bank of Industry (1917).
Comprises items 1478-1553.
Folder 23 Miscellaneous notes, newscuttings and printed material, Mainly undated notes. Subjects include the Postmaster Generals' Department; forestry and the River Murray.
Mainly undated notes. Subjects include the Postmaster Generals' Department; forestry and the River Murray.
Also includes reports on the cases of Father Charles Jerger and Doctor Eugene Hirschfeld, both German internees during the First World War.
Comprises items 1554-1641.
Subseries 16.2 International relations, 1915-1923
This subseries is devoted to international relations, particularly imperial relations, and is arranged as follows: correspondence and cables; subject files; reports and British Cabinet papers; newscuttings and printed material; and petition.
The correspondence and cables subgrouping contains, in date order, letters and cables Hughes received, mostly from London, while in Australia. Correspondents refer to the war situation, proposals and arrangements for imperial conferences, the Chanak crisis of October 1922, the Imperial Wire Chain, the Hague Conference of June 1922, the Washington Disarmament Conference of December 1921, recommendations for British honours, the Lausanne Conference of 1922, and the sale of such products as copper, wolfram, tungsten, whole oil, and glycerine to Great Britain. Most of the cables are copies of decyphered communications Hughes received, often with a covering note, through the Governor-General or his Secretary, or from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Walter Long. Other correspondents are Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Sir Joseph Cook, George Pearce, M. Clemenceau, Ben Morgan, W. S. Robinson, Mark Sheldon, Malcolm Shepherd, Andrew Fisher, Keith Murdoch and G. J. Hogben. The subject files subgrouping includes other cables, letters, reports and British cabinet papers on aspects of international relations.
The reports and British Cabinet papers subgrouping includes most of the copies of reports, memoranda and Foreign Office Confidential Prints presented to the British Cabinet and sent to Hughes as a Dominion Prime Minister are filed here. Those sent while Hughes was in England or France in 1918-1919, and 1921 are in the appropriate series. Roneoed copies of reports of the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, and records of the proceedings of the 1917 Imperial War Conference and March-May 1917 meetings of the British War Cabinet are here also. The conferences covered by this section of the subseries are the International Financial Conference, Brussels (October 1920), the Air Navigation Conference (October 1919), the International Economic Conference, Genoa (May 1922), and the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments, Washington (1921-1922). The newscuttings and printed material subgrouping consists mainly of cuttings on international affairs from British newspapers sent to Hughes from the High Commissioner in London. The petition subgrouping includes an illuminated address and three large rolls of signatures of British women placed beneath the petition 'Women's Memorial to the Rt Hon. W. M. Hughes Prime Minister of Australia urging his immediate return to London, that he may share in the management of the War, as a member of the inner and supreme War Council of the Empire' (October 1916).
Folder 24 Correspondence and cables, 1915-1916
Comprises items 1642-1666.
Folder 25 Correspondence and cables, January-July 1917
Comprises items 1667-1744.
Folder 26 Correspondence and cables, August-December 1917
Comprises items 1745-1875.
Folder 27 Correspondence and cables, January-February 1918
Comprises items 1876-1981.
Folder 28 Correspondence and cables, March-December 1918
Comprises items 1982-2121.
Folder 29 Correspondence and cables, 1919-1920
Comprises items 2122-2245.
Folder 30 Correspondence and cables, 1921
Comprises items 2246-2277.
Folder 31 Correspondence and cables, June-August 1922
Comprises items 2278-2360.
Folder 32 Correspondence and cables, September 1922
Comprises items 2361-2437.
Folder 33 Correspondence and cables, October-December 1922
Comprises items 2438-2551.
Folder 34 Correspondence and cables, 1923
Comprises items 2552-2577.
Folder 35 Correspondence and notes, n.d. Comprises items 2578-2637.
Comprises items 2578-2637.
Folder 36 Subject file: Japan, 1917-1922
Papers include British Foreign Office Confidential Prints and reports of the Commercial Attaché at the British Embassy in Tokyo on the Japanese iron and steel industry, two minutes to Hughes by E. L. Piesse of the Pacific Branch of the Prime Minister's Department, and a long paper from the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the 'Organisation of the Japanese Secret Service in China and the Far East' (1922). There is additional material on Japan in subseries 1 of Series 23.
Comprises items 2638-2725.
Folder 37-38 Subject file: reparations, 1919-1923
These files of post Peace Conference papers on reparations comprise British Cabinet memoranda, statistics and copies of cables from the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the occupation of the Ruhr, the activities of the Reparations Commission, and the Spa Conference (1920). There is also a long undated and unsigned paper on reparations titled 'Australia's claim for an indemnity' (1920), containing figures on Australian exports and imports.
Comprises items 2726-2948.
Folder 39-40 Subject file: immigration, 1916-1922
The letters, reports, notes and cuttings in these files concern the British Empire and Commonwealth and State settlement/immigration schemes, the immigration of British women to Australia, and the Million Farmers Objective. L. S. Amery, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, H. S. Gullett, Percy Hunter and Sir Ronald Anderson are the main correspondents. The file also has some examples of language tests used by Australian immigration officials.
Comprises items 2949-3100.
Folder 41 Subject file: India, 1919-1921
This subject file contains a copy of a letter from Lord Chelmsford to Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson (April 1920), 'Weekly intelligence summaries' issued by the Indian General Staff, 'Weekly reports' of the Director, Central Intelligence, Simla, and some extracts from Indian newspapers.
Comprises items 3101-3123.
Folder 42 Subject file: League of Nations, 1919-October 1920
The League of Nations subject files (Folders 42-46) include copies of papers on the League of Nations presented to the British Cabinet and reports of the Permanent Mandates Commission, the British Empire Delegation and the Australian Delegation to the Third Assembly (November 1922). In addition, there are some papers on the Nauru Island Agreement (1919-20).
Comprises items 3124-3239.
Folder 43 Subject file: League of Nations, October 1920-September 1921
Comprises items 3240-3331.
Folder 44 Subject file: League of Nations, January-August 1922
Comprises items 3332-3455.
Folder 45 Subject file: League of Nations, September 1922-January 1923
Comprises items 3456-3558.
Folder 46 Subject file: League of Nations, n.d. Comprises items 3559-3570.
Comprises items 3559-3570.
Folder 47 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1917
Minutes of meetings 1-14 of the Imperial War Cabinet, 20 March - 2 May, 1917 (2 copies).
Comprises items 3571-3572.
Folder 48 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1917
Copy of Imperial War Conference 1917: minutes of proceedings and papers laid before the conference (other than those published in Cd 85660).
Comprises item 3573.
Folder 49 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1917
Includes various reports prepared for the War Cabinet and proceedings of the Imperial War Conference, 1917.
Comprises items 3574-3662.
Folder 50 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1917-1918
Includes various reports prepared for the War Cabinet and a 'Monthly report on foreign affairs, July 1918'.
Also includes a copy of Extracts from certain peace statements made since January 1917, prepared by the War Office.
Comprises items 3663-3723
Folder 51 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1919-1921
Includes War Office and Foreign Office reports on the situation in Europe.
Also includes a copy of Report on the British military mission, South Russia, (1919).
Comprises items 3724-3774
Folder 52 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1919
Includes various documents relating to the Peace Conference and Peace Treaty.
Comprises items 3775-3845.
Folder 53 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1919
Includes papers relating to the Air Navigation Convention and the Commission of Enquiry on Freedom of Communications and Transit.
Comprises items 3846-3869.
Folder 54 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1919-1920
Includes situation reports on Germany, Egypt, the Sudan and South Russia.
Comprises items 3870-3893.
Folder 55 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1920
Includes War Office and Foreign Office reports on the Peace Treaty and the situation in Europe.
Also includes a report on the International Finance Conference held in Brussels, September-October 1920.
Comprises items 3894-3982.
Folder 56 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1921
Includes various country situation reports.
Comprises items 3983-4046.
Folder 57 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1921-1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Also includes reports on the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament, November 1921-February 1922.
Comprises items 4047-4115.
Folder 58 Reports and British Cabinet papers, 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Also includes reports on the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament, November 1921-February 1922.
Comprises items 4116-4204.
Folder 59 Reports and British Cabinet papers, February 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Also includes reports on the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament, November 1921-February 1922 and the International Economic Conference, Genoa, May 1922.
Comprises items 4205-4275.
Folder 60 Reports and British Cabinet papers, March 1922
Includes country situation reports on Iraq and Turkey.
Also includes reports on the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament, November 1921-February 1922.
Comprises items 4276-4327.
Folder 61 Reports and British Cabinet papers, April-July 1922
Includes country situation reports on Turkey.
Also includes a copy of Provisional verbatim record of the third plenary session of the International Economic Conference of Genoa, May 19, 1922.
Comprises items 4328-4373.
Folder 62 Reports and British Cabinet papers, August-September 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Comprises items 4374-4420.
Folder 63 Reports and British Cabinet papers, October 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Comprises items 4421-4482.
Folder 64 Reports and British Cabinet papers, October 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Comprises items 4483-4526.
Folder 65 Reports and British Cabinet papers, November 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Comprises items 4527-4573.
Folder 66 Reports and British Cabinet papers, November 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Comprises items 4574-4602.
Folder 67 Reports and British Cabinet papers, December 1922
Includes various country situation reports.
Comprises items 4603-4634.
Folder 68 Reports and British Cabinet papers, n.d. Lists of cabinet papers and Foreign Office prints sent to the Prime Minister of Australia (mainly 1922).
Lists of cabinet papers and Foreign Office prints sent to the Prime Minister of Australia (mainly 1922).
Comprises items 4635-4672.
Folder 69 Newscuttings and printed material, 1919-1922
Includes cuttings (April 1922) on international affairs and war reparations.
Includes a copy of Conference on the Limitation of Armament held at Washington, D.C., United States of America from 12th November 1921 to 6th February 1922: report of the Australian delegate, Senator the Right Hon. George Foster Pearce (1922).
Comprises items 4673-4726.
Folder 70 Newscuttings, June-August 1922
Includes cuttings on international affairs and the British Empire.
Comprises items 4727-4778.
Folder 71 Newscuttings, November 1922
Includes cuttings on international affairs and economic conditions.
Comprises items 4779-4842.
Folder 72 Newscuttings, November 1922
Includes cuttings on international affairs and economic conditions.
Comprises items 4843-4906.
Folder 73 Newscuttings, December 1922
Includes cuttings on international affairs; economic conditions and the Empire. A small number of cuttings are undated.
Comprises items 4907-4959.
Bag 74 Petition, October 1916
Petition entitled 'Women's Memorial to the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, urging his immediate return to London, that he may share in the management of the War, as a member of the inner and supreme War Council of the Empire' and accompanying signatures.
Comprises item 4960.
Bag 75 Petition, October 1916
Large roll of signatures accompanying the petition listed above.
Comprises item 4961.
Piece 76 Petition, October 1916
Petition entitled 'Women's Memorial to the Rt Hon. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, urging his immediate return to London, that he may share in the management of the War, as a member of the inner and supreme War Council of the Empire' and accompanying signatures.
Comprises items 4962-4963.
Piece 77 Petition, October 1916
Petition entitled 'Women's Memorial to the Rt Hon. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, urging his immediate return to London, that he may share in the management of the War, as a member of the inner and supreme War Council of the Empire' and accompanying signatures.
Comprises items 4964-4965.
Bag 77a Illuminated address, October 1916
Illuminated address presented to Hughes in 1916. It reads: 'Women's Memorial to the Rt Hon. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, urging his immediate return to London, that he may share in the management of the War, as a member of the inner and supreme War Council of the Empire' and accompanying signatures.
Comprises item 4979.
Subseries 16.3 Illuminated addresses, Letters Patent and miscellaneous material, 1916-1921
This subseries consists of Letters Patent appointing Hughes to various ministerial portfolios and illuminated addresses presented to Hughes by various organisations on his return from the Peace Conference in 1919. Most of the addresses acknowledge his efforts during World War I and at the Peace Conference. Some miscellaneous souvenir material completes the subseries.
Bag 78 Illuminated address, September 1919
Illuminated address and accompanying signatures presented to Hughes by a group representing the mothers and widows of fallen soldiers on his return from the Peace Conference.
Cover title inscribed 'W. M. H. : For humanity : 15.9.19'
Comprises item 4966.
Bag 79 Illuminated address, August 1919
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the people of Bendigo on his return from the Peace Conference.
Cover title reads 'Bendigo's welcome to the Right Honorable William Morris Hughes, P. C., K. C., Prime Minister of Australia'.
Comprises item 4967.
Bag 80 Illuminated address, October 1919
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the Committee of the Brisbane Sub-Branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia.
Comprises item 4968.
Bag 81 Souvenir program, June 1920
Program entitled 'Souvenir of the official Commonwealth and State Governments' gala performance in honour of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ... at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, 22nd June, 1920'.
Also includes a portrait of the Prince of Wales and copies of the Evening News, 16 June, 1920 announcing the Prince's arrival in Australia.
Comprises items 4969-4975.
Bag 82 Illuminated address, 8 January 1916
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the Welsh community of Melbourne following his appointment as Prime Minister.
Comprises item 4976.
Bag 83 Illuminated address, Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the Perth Branch of the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Nurses Association on his return from the Peace Conference.
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the Perth Branch of the Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Nurses Association on his return from the Peace Conference.
Comprises item 4977.
Bag 84 Illuminated address, Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the King and Empire Alliance (Queensland) on his return from the Peace Conference.
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the King and Empire Alliance (Queensland) on his return from the Peace Conference.
Comprises item 4978.
Bag 85 Illuminated address, 30 August 1919
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by former colleagues of the Labor Party (who were expelled along with Hughes) on his return from the Peace Conference.
Comprises item 4978a.
[Item previously numbered 4978c is now held at Series 15, Bag 27, item 1134. For item 4979, see Subseries 16.2, Bag 77a.]
Piece 86 Illuminated manuscript, 24 November 1920
Illuminated manuscript presented to Hughes on behalf of 'the returned soldiers and sailors of Australia who fought in the Great War and the citizens of the Commonwealth'.
Comprises item 4980.
Piece 87 Illuminated address, 28 August 1919
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by representatives of the Municipal Councils of Port Augusta, Port Augusta West, Davenport and District Council of Woolundunga.
Comprises item 4981.
Bag 88 Illuminated address, Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the town of Wynnum.
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the town of Wynnum.
Comprises item 4982.
Piece 89 Illuminated address, 1918
Illuminated address, 'Victory and peace', presented to Hughes by the Queensland Branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League in Brisbane, 21 October 1919.
Comprises item 4983.
Piece 90 Letters Patent appointing Hughes to administer the Prime Minister's Department, 30 November 1916
Comprises item 4984.
Piece 91 Letters Patent appointing Hughes as Minister for External Affairs, 30 November 1916
Comprises items 4985.
Piece 92 Letters Patent appointing Hughes as Minister for Trade and Customs, 24 October 1916
Comprises item 4986.
Piece 93 Letters Patent appointing Hughes as Attorney-General, 21 January 1918
Comprises items 4987.
Piece 94 Letters Patent appointing Hughes as Attorney-General, 26 February 1917
Comprises item 4988.
Piece 95 Letters Patent appointing Hughes as Attorney-General, 30 November 1916
Comprises items 4989.
Piece 96 Letters Patent appointing Hughes to administer the Prime Minister's Department, 26 February 1917
Comprises item 4990.
Piece 97 Letters Patent appointing Hughes to administer the Prime Minister's Department, 21 January 1918
Comprises item 4991.
Piece 98 Letters Patent appointing Hughes as Minister for External Affairs, 30 December 1921
Comprises items 4992.
Series 17 Primary industry, overseas trade, and shipping, 1906-1946
World War I forced upon Hughes the need for specific federal policies on three broadly related areas, primary industry, overseas trade and shipping. He was faced in particular with the need of both the British and Australian military for wool and foodstuffs (and various raw materials) and with the need to obtain some means, independent of British shipping interests, of moving supplies and troops. Papers in the collection that document some of the measures Hughes took to requisition, sell, and transport Australia's primary products comprise the bulk of the series and can also be found in Series 16 and Series 23.
The series is basically arranged chronologically and consists of correspondence, memoranda, cables and telegrams, accounts, records of conferences and statistics. These cover such subjects as Australia's overseas trade representatives (June 1917), the importation of Japanese electrical goods into Great Britain, government chartering agents (March 1918), the establishment of the Central Wool Committee, the British Australian Wool Realisation Association Ltd, meat contracts with the British Government, the Bullot Meat Process, the John Cooke & Co. case (1920), the building of ships in the United States, sugar agreements between the Commonwealth and Queensland, the Bureau of Commerce and Industry, and the sale to Great Britain of Australian wool, wheat and flour, dried fruits, rabbits, meat and sugar.
The main correspondents are the Secretary of State for the Colonies, J. Jensen, Walter McLeitch, Sir John Higgins, Walter Massey-Green, Sir John Darling, H. R. Sleeman, H. B. Pitt, E. Eva, H. G. B. Larkin, W. Oldershaw, A. S. Rodgers, S. Taylor, W. S. Robinson, and organisations such as Westralian Farmers Ltd, Dalgety & Company Ltd and Elder Smith & Company.
Folder 3 Correspondence, cables, notes and printed material, 1918
Includes a copy of an agreement between the Commonwealth Government and New South Wales for the construction of six steel cargo steamers.
Printed items relates to a prices investigation into bread and the appraisal of the 1917-1918 wool clip.
Comprises items 278-366.
Folder 4 Correspondence, cables, memorandum and printed material, 1919
Includes a copy of an agreement between the Commonwealth Government and Queensland for the purchase of sugar for the 1920 season.
Printed items include Memoranda regarding the Bullot meat process (1919) and Facts: farmers and the wheat pool: the true position (1919).
Comprises items 367-412.
Folder 5 Correspondence, memorandum, reports and speeches, 1920
Includes a report by the Central Wool Committee on a contract between the Commonwealth Government and the Colonial Combing, Spinning and Weaving Company.
Also includes an address by Hughes on 'Wool and finance', 27 April 1920.
Comprises items 413-518.
Folder 6 Correspondence, cables, statistical information and printed material, 1921
Includes a pamphlet The re-valuation of gold.
Comprises items 519-638.
Folder 7 Correspondence, memorandum, newscuttings and printed material, 1922
Includes a statement presented to Hughes by 'Representatives of the sugar and commercial interests of Bundaberg and district' on 5 June 1922. Statement is encased in a bound leather folder.
Comprises items 639-719.
Folder 8 Correspondence, memorandum and printed material, 1923-1946
Includes a report of the Royal Commission in connexion with sugar purchases by the Commonwealth through Mr W. E. Davies in September and October 1920.
Two miscellaneous folios from 1935 and 1946 have also been filed in this folder.
Comprises items 720-724b.
Series 18 Industrial relations, 1914-1922
This small series refers to some of Hughes' conciliatory and legal attempts to settle industrial disputes during his term as Prime Minister and the determination of wage rates. It is arranged in two parts, with papers on a variety of subjects followed by material on the 1920 Royal Commission on the Basic Wage.
The first part contains reports and draft proposals on the industrial conference of February-March 1922; notes of a meeting with a deputation on the labour conditions at the Broken Hill smelting works (August 1917); some letters and notes on amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act (1917 and 1921) and an opinion by Garran on industrial aspects of the War Precautions Act (1920). There are also papers on the seamen's strike, 1919, and the prosecution of Tom Walsh that include intelligence reports and Walsh's speech in court, annotated by George Knowles. The remainder contains the various reports of the Royal Commission on the Basic Wage, letters from the chairman, A. B. Piddington, speech notes, letters to Hughes from the Commonwealth Statistician, George Knibbs, and some newscuttings.
Folder 1 Correspondence, notes and printed material, 1914-1918
Includes letters and notes on the existing arbitration system and possible changes to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.
Printed items include draft copies of the Industrial Peace Bill, 1917-1918.
Comprises items 1-80.
Folder 2 Correspondence and notes, 1919-1920
Includes correspondence relating to the selection of an Australian delegate to the International Labor Conference to be held in Washington in 1920.
Also includes notes on the seamen's strike and Tom Walsh and a transcript of a court hearing involving Walsh.
Comprises items 81-126.
Folder 3 Correspondence, notes and printed material, 1921
Includes notes and correspondence on arbitration and industrial issues.
Printed material consists of a report of debates and decisions arrived at during the Conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers, held at Melbourne, October-November, 1921.
Comprises items 127-146.
Series 19 Defence, 1915-1922
The participation of Australia in World War I caused many changes in the organisation of her defences and evidence of some of them is included in this small series. There are some important letters, minutes and reports on defence policy (Navy Board, October 1915), the reduction of defence expenditure (General White, 1920), the German colonies in the Pacific (J. G. Latham, February 1918), the Council of Defence (George Pearce, March 1918), and the acquisition of guns (A. F. Everett, January 1922). The series also has letters, minutes and reports by Joseph Cook, Walter Massey-Green, Admirals Percy Grant and John Dumaresq, and a paper by the Air Council on the organisation of the Royal Australian Air Force (April 1922).
Folder 1 Correspondence, reports and printed material, December 1915-August 1919
Includes a copy of 'Report on a defence policy for Australia: Report No II: a post-Bellum naval policy for the Pacific' and reports on German New Guinea and the organisation and command of the AIF.
Also includes a copy of Fourth progress report of the Royal Commission on Navy and Defence Administration (1918).
Comprises items 1-149.
Folder 2 Printed material, 1919
Copy of Report of the Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa ... on naval mission to the Commonwealth of Australia, May-August, 1919. Volumes I and II.
Comprises items 150-152.
Folder 3 Printed material, 1919
Copy of Report of the Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa ... on naval mission to the Commonwealth of Australia, May-August, 1919. Volumes III and IV.
Comprises items 153-154.
Folder 4 Correspondence and reports, October 1919-August 1920
Includes a copy of 'Report by the Conference of Senior Military Officers constituted by the Minister for Defence on 22/1/1920 to advise upon the military defence of Australia'.
Also includes a lecture entitled 'Modern airships', delivered by Air Commodore E. M. Maitland at the House of Commons, 28 June 1920.
Comprises items 155-266.
Folder 5 Correspondence and reports, April 1921-April 1922
Reports include 'Acquisition of spare naval guns from Admiralty by Commonwealth Government for Australian coast defences' (January 1922) and a policy for the development of Australia's air defence by the Air Council (April 1922).
Also includes a map showing wireless stations in the Atlantic, Indian and western portion of the Pacific Ocean and marked 'recommendations of Conference of Admirals, Pacific and Indian and Australian Waters'.
Comprises items 267-344.
Series 20 Recruiting and the second conscription referendum, 1915-1918
In October 1916 and again in December 1917 Hughes sought through referenda the approval of the electorate for conscription for overseas service. This series comprises papers on the need for reinforcements and the second referendum. Most of the letters, copies of replies, telegrams and copies of cables are addressed to Hughes. They relate mainly to his concern for the depletion of the AIF, his concern to get messages urging a 'Yes' vote to troops overseas, his endeavours to obtain pro-conscription statements by overseas labour leaders, the selection of scrutineers for polling booths overseas, the censoring of T. J. Ryan's anti-conscription speech published in the Queensland State Parliamentary Hansard, and the reaction of Hughes' cabinet colleagues to the decision to close hotels on the day of the second referendum.
The main correspondents are Sir Ronald Anderson, Thomas Griffith, W. F. Massey, Andrew Fisher, Keith Murdoch, General Birdwood, Walter Long, George Knibbs, George Pearce, Sir John Forrest, Malcolm Shepherd, Percy Deane, and Octavius Beale. The series also has copies of correspondence between Pearce and General Birdwood, between Sir John Forrest and Sir Robert Collins, Forrest and Major-General E. Sinclair, and between Walter Long and Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson. Copies of some speeches and cuttings complete the series.
Series 21 Internal security, 1915-1922
This is a small but important group of papers covering what Hughes regarded as the three main sources of anti-conscription and anti-Empire activity in Australia during his term as Prime Minister: the Industrial Workers of the World, Sinn Fein, and Russian communism. Two organisations established to counter them were the Commonwealth Police and the Counter Espionage Bureau (CEB). The latter, part of an Empire-wide organisation, was absorbed into the Attorney-General's Department in the early 1920s.
The series consists in the main of letters, reports and memoranda sent to Hughes, Pearce and Garran from both Major G. Steward (Munro-Ferguson's Official Secretary and the first Director of the CEB) and Colonel H. Jones (Steward's successor as Director, and later head of the Investigation Branch of the Attorney-General's Department). They include Steward's first six monthly report to Pearce on the CEB (August 1916), Jones' 1922 annual intelligence report to the Solicitor-General, reports and intelligence summaries by Jones on communism in Australia (1921), letters from Steward and Munro-Ferguson on the need for a Federal Police Force (1917-1918), and a letter from Steward to Pearce which refers to a Special Intelligence Bureau (January 1917).
Other items have extracts of letters by unionists, priests and others passed to Hughes by the censors; intelligence information from W. G. Spence; an Australian Military Forces intelligence report (March 1918), an unsigned paper headed 'Unlawful Associations Act - intelligence report', a report by Captain Thomas W. White on the Bolshevik movement in Russia (n.d.), British Government Command Papers on Sinn Fein and its connection with Bolshevism, examples of Industrial Workers of the World stickers, and an intelligence report on a speech by Archbishop Mannix.
Folder 1 Correspondence, cables, notes and reports, 1915-1918
Includes the first report on the Counter Espionage Bureau (CEB) by Major G. Steward; a page of anti-conscription army songs and military intelligence reports, March 1918.
Comprises items 1-130.
Folder 2 Correspondence, cables, notes, reports and printed material, 1919-1922
Mainly reports on communism and the Sinn Fein movement.
Printed material includes a special issue of The Republic, 1 November 1919 and a British parliamentary paper, Documents relative to the Sinn Fein movement (1921).
Comprises items 131-209.
Series 22 1916 overseas visits, 1909-1916
Hughes was the only Dominion Prime Minister able to accept Asquith's invitation to visit Britain in 1916. There he attended meetings of the British Cabinet, was made a Privy Councillor, and attended the Paris Economic Conference (June 1916) as a member of the British delegation.
There is very little on the visit in the papers, with the series containing a few letters (from Asquith, Marie Corelli, and Lord Fisher), some illuminated addresses and dedications relating to Hughes' receipt of freedoms of cities, some loose newscuttings and a newscuttings album, menus and programs, loose photographs, and an album of photographs presented by the Urban District Council of Llandudno (16 May 1916).
Folder 1 Correspondence, menus, newscuttings and notes, 1916
Includes a speech delivered at the Hotel Cecil on Anzac Day, 1916 before Australian troops; newscuttings of comments by Winston Churchill on Hughes and a copy of Recommendations of the Economic Conference of the Allies held at Paris on June 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1916.
Also includes an address presented to Hughes by members of the South African Labour Party, 12 July 1916.
Comprises items 1-53.
Folder 2 Newscuttings, newspapers and photographs, 1916
Includes copies of the Glasgow Bulletin (April) documenting Hughes' visit to the city and a photograph of a visit to his old school, 21 March 1916.
Comprises items 54-73.
Bag 3 Illuminated address, 13 July 1916
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Capetown.
Comprises item 74.
Bag 4 Illuminated address, 22 May 1916
Illuminated address conferring upon Hughes the Freedom of the City of Birmingham.
Comprises item 75.
Bag 5 Printed material, 1909
Copy of Ancient guildhall of the city of York, presented to Hughes by the York and District Trades and Labour Council, 27 May 1916.
Comprises item 76.
Bag 6 Photograph album, 1916
Album presented to Hughes during his visit to his childhood home by the Urban District Council of Llandudno, 6 May 1916.
Comprises item 77.
Piece 7 Photograph album, 1916
Album of travel photographs taken during Hughes' overseas visit. Countries include New Zealand, Honolulu, Canada and England.
Comprises item 78.
Piece 8 Illuminated address, 13 July 1916
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the Committee and members of the Cape Town Branch of the Over-seas Club.
Comprises item 79.
Piece 9 Illuminated address, 16 July 1916
Illuminated address presented to Hughes by the Queen Mary Lodge, Bloemfontein, of the Sons of England Patriotic and Benevolent Society.
Comprises item 80.
Piece 10 Illuminated address, 29 March 1916
Illuminated address conferring upon Hughes the Freedom of the City of Liverpool.
Comprises item 81.
Bag 10a Cylinder, n.d.
Cylinder which contained the illuminated address conferring upon Hughes the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. The address has been removed from the cylinder and rehoused in a flat box.
Comprises item 81a.
Series 23 1918 Imperial War Conference, 1900-1919
In April 1918 Hughes, his wife, Sir Joseph Cook and their secretaries and advisers left Sydney to represent Australia at the Imperial War Conference which met in June and July. During the year he also attended meetings of the British War Cabinet and the Supreme War Council of the Allies in Paris, obtained direct representation for Australia in the British Empire Delegation to the 1919 Peace Conference and negotiated the sale of Australia's 1917-1818 surplus wheat crop.
All of the papers in the collection that Hughes received from April 1918 up to his departure for Paris on 11 January 1919 are in this series. There are five subseries.
Subseries 23.1 Correspondence, 1918-1919
This subseries comprises letters, cables and telegrams received or sent by Hughes and is in date order. They cover the war situation, Allied policy on the treatment of prisoners, the political scene in Australia, the problem of Birdwood's replacement as Australian Corps Commander, the raising of an additional 3-4000 light-horsemen, Japanese interest in nickel and iron ore in New Caledonia and copper in the New Hebrides, preparations for the Paris Peace Conference, and the opinion of the Australian Cabinet on various questions referred to it by Hughes.
The main correspondents are Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, George Pearce, C. E. W. Bean, W. A. Watt, H. S. Gullett, Keith Murdoch, Sir Ronald Anderson, General Monash, Annie Kenny, Walter Long, Lord Cecil, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Fisher, Sir Henry Wilson, Henry Lambert, Lloyd George, and E. A. Box. There are also some copies of Hughes' letters to Lloyd George, Alfred Milner, and Walter Long.
Folder 1 Correspondence, cables, telegrams and memorandum, April-June 1918
Comprises items 1-148.
Folder 2 Correspondence, notes and telegrams, July-September 1918
Comprises items 149-224.
Folder 3 Correspondence, cables and telegrams, October 1918-January 1919
Comprises items 225-315.
Subseries 23.2 Meetings of the Allied Powers, 1918
This subseries is a small collection of roneoed copies of British notes of meetings of the Allied Powers held in July and between October and December in Paris and London. They are headed variously 'Proces verbal' and 'Notes of a conversation with...' and relate either to full sessions of the Supreme War Council or meetings between Great Britain and representatives of individual Allied Powers.
Folder 4 Notes and resolutions of meetings, July-October 1918
Comprises items 316-386.
Folder 5 Notes and resolutions of meetings, November 1918
Comprises items 387-482.
Folder 6 Notes and resolutions of meetings, November-December 1918
Comprises items 483-600.
Subseries 23.3 Imperial War Cabinet papers, 1918-1919
Imperial War Cabinet papers make up this subseries. It includes agenda and a two volume set of printed minutes that includes a subject index (11 June-31 December), reports, memoranda, and a large group of other papers stamped as having been circulated to members of the Cabinet. These include Foreign Office telegrams, Air Ministry fortnightly reports, British Empire and African reports, Western and General reports, and reports of Cabinet subcommittees like the Committee of Prime Ministers and the Australian Purchases Committee.
Folder 7 Memorandum, notes and telegrams, 7 May-11 June 1918
Comprises items 601-729.
Folder 8 Memorandum, notes and minutes, 11 June-31 December 1918
Includes two printed volumes of minutes for meetings 15-29 (11 June-2 August 1918) and 30-48 (13 August-31 December 1918) with accompanying subject index.
Folder 9 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 15-21 June 1918
Comprises items 735-869.
Folder 10 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 12-14 June 1918
Comprises items 870-1013.
Folder 11 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 22-30 June 1918
Comprises items 1014-1204.
Folder 12 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 1-2 July 1918
Comprises items 1205-1336.
Folder 13 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 3 July 1918
Comprises items 1337-1444.
Folder 14 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 4-6 July 1918
Comprises items 1445-1589.
Folder 15 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 7-11 July 1918
Comprises items 1590-1646.
Folder 16 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 12-25 July 1918
Includes report entitled 'British military policy, 1918-1919', prepared by the War Office.
Comprises items 1647-1751.
Folder 17 Memorandum, notes and reports, 26-31 July 1918
Comprises items 1752-1806.
Folder 18 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 1-10 August 1918
Comprises items 1807-1868.
Folder 19 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 12-20 August 1918
Comprises items 1869-1966.
Folder 20 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 21-31 August 1918
Comprises items 1967-2024.
Folder 21 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, September 1918
Comprises items 2025-2142.
Folder 22 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 1-15 October 1918
Comprises items 2143-2239.
Folder 23 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 16-24 October 1918
Comprises items 2240-2290.
Folder 24 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 25-26 October 1918
Comprises items 2291-2379.
Folder 25 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 27-31 October 1918
Comprises items 2380-2440.
Folder 26 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 1-20 November 1918
Comprises items 2441-2506.
Folder 27 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 21-30 November 1918
Comprises items 2441a-2507.
Folder 28 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 1-10 December 1918
Includes two copies of report entitled 'Memorandum by the Chief of the Air Staff on air power requirements of the Empire', 9 December 1918.
Comprises items 2508-2604.
Folder 29 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 11-22 December 1918
Comprises items 2605-2687.
Folder 30 Memorandum, notes, reports and telegrams, 23 December 1918-6 January 1919
Comprises items 2688-2779.
Subseries 23.4 Imperial War Conference papers, 1918
This subseries consists of printed minutes and papers of the Imperial War Conference. They comprise a proof copy of Extracts from minutes of proceedings and papers laid before the Conference (HMSO, 1918), Minutes of proceedings and papers laid before the Conference (other than those published in Cd. 9177) (November 1918), and a small number of roneoed Conference memoranda by the Secretary, Henry Lambert.
Folder 31 Draft resolutions, notes and proofs of proceedings, June-July 1918
Comprises items 2780-2811.
Folder 32 Printed material, July 1918
Includes a proof copy of Extracts from minutes of proceedings and papers laid before the conference, (HMSO, 1918).
Comprises items 2812-2814.
Folder 33 Printed material, November 1918
Copy of Minutes of proceedings and papers laid before the Conference (other than those published in [Cd. 9177]).
Comprises item 2815.
Subseries 23.5 Miscellaneous papers, 1900-1918
This subseries contains speeches, programs, photographs, printed material, and some documents pertaining to Hughes' award of the Legion of Honour (November 1918).
Folder 34 Newscuttings and printed material, 1918
Includes a folder of cuttings on the war in Europe, March 1918.
Comprises items 2816-2874.
Folder 35 Newscuttings, printed material and miscellaneous items, 1900-1918
Includes a copy of Interim and final reports of the Civil Aerial Transport Committee with appendices, published by the Air Ministry, July 1918.
Also includes notes on the history of the French award, the Legion of Honour dated 1900 and 1913.
Comprises items 2875-2892; 2894-2921 and 2923-2924.
Piece 35a Certificate, September 1918
Certificate conferring upon Hughes the honour of Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour (Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur).
Comprises item 2893.
Piece 35b Illuminated address, 21 October 1918
Illuminated address conferring upon Hughes the Freedom of the City for the Borough of Gravesend.
Comprises item 2922.
Folder 36 Newscuttings, printed material and miscellaneous items, 1918
Includes menus and programs relating to a visit by the President of the United States to England in December 1918.
Also includes a photograph of Hughes at the Trade Union Congess held in Derby, England with Christobel Pankhurst and others.
Comprises items 2925-3003.
Series 24 1919 Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919
Hughes and Sir Joseph Cook were Australia's representatives in the British delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris held from January to July 1919. In addition, Hughes was Australia's representative at meetings of the Council of Ten and one of the vice-presidents of one of the committees the Council set up, the Reparations Commission. His two lasting achievements at Paris, acknowledged by most writers on the Peace Conference, were the exclusion of a racial equality clause implying free migration from the preamble to the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the virtual annexation for Australia of New Guinea under a 'C' class mandate.
Some of the evidence of Hughes' presence at the Conference can be traced in the present series which although small contains some excellent source material. It has been grouped into three subseries, and divides into correspondence, British War Cabinet and Supreme War Council and miscellaneous papers.
Subseries 24.1 Correspondence, 1918-1919
The correspondence includes letters, cables, telegrams, memoranda and copies of replies. This correspondence refers to a large number of subjects such as aspects of the various Allies' attitudes to the peace conditions, the exploration of Papuan oil fields, the Belgian war effort, the proposed International Hydrographic Conference, demobilisation, recommendations for honours, war memorials, an Australian air force, the purchase of ships, the supply of wool and wheat to Great Britain, the establishment of oil refineries in Australia, and trade with Italy.
The correspondents include W. A. Watt, R. R. Garran, George Pearce, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Lord Milner, Lloyd George, Sir Maurice Hankey, Lord Cecil and L. S. Amery.
Folder 1 Correspondence, notes, telegrams and postcards, January 1918-April 1919
Comprises items 1-118.
Folder 2 Correspondence, cables, notes and memorandum, May-July 1919
Comprises items 119-243.
Folder 3 Correspondence, cables, notes and memorandum, 16-31 May 1919
Comprises items 244-350.
Folder 4 Correspondence, cables and memorandum, June 1919
Comprises items 351-436.
Folder 5 Correspondence, cables, memorandum, telegrams and postcards, July-August 1919
File also includes some undated papers.
Comprises items 437-525.
Subseries 24.2 British War Cabinet and Supreme War Cabinet papers, 1919
The cabinet papers are an incomplete set of memoranda, printed and roneoed reports presented to War Cabinet that include reports of Conference Commissions on Bulgaria and Poland, translations of notes by the German delegation and copies of Foreign Office cables circulated to Cabinet. The remaining items are printed reports of meetings of the Supreme War Council and the Supreme Economic Council.
Folder 6 Memorandum and reports, 1919
Comprises items 526-552.
Folder 7 Reports, resolutions, notes and telegrams, June 1919
Comprises items 553-660.
Folder 8 Reports and memorandum, July-August 1919
Includes a rough sketch of a suggested staff to be carried in front of the Prime Minister of Australia at public ceremonies and rejoicings.
Comprises items 661-701.
Folder 9 Reports, n.d. Copy of 'Observations of the German Delegation on the conditions of peace' (Part 1).
Copy of 'Observations of the German Delegation on the conditions of peace' (Part 1).
Comprises items 702-775.
Folder 10 Reports, n.d. Copy of 'Observations of the German Delegation on the conditions of peace' (Part 2).
Copy of 'Observations of the German Delegation on the conditions of peace' (Part 2).
Comprises items 776-862.
Folder 11 Miscellaneous reports, notes and memorandum, n.d. Comprises items 863-955.
Comprises items 863-955.
Subseries 24.3 Miscellaneous papers, 1919
There are notes by Garran on phosphates and Nauru, draft Italian-Australian trade agreements, programs, cuttings, invitations, speeches and photographs.
Folder 12 Miscellaneous notes, memorandum and printed material, 1919
Includes newscuttings on the Peace Conference and the Australian shipping trade; speeches; various menus, invitations and entry cards and memorandum and notes on Nauru and phosphates.
Also includes a poster for a 'Diggers' lunch to Bill Hughes' at the AIF War Chest Club, Horseferry Road, London and a signed program relating to the 'signature of the Treaty of peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany', 28 June 1919.
Comprises items 956-1061.
Folder 13 Photographs, 1919
Subjects include Paris; England; Hughes talking to troops at Sutton Veny (England); scenes from French battlefields and Hughes visit to Australian troops at Villers Bretonneux.
Also includes a series of postcards of buildings and monuments in Paris.
Comprises items 1062-1095.
Bag 14 Album, 1919
Album consisting mainly of postcards from England, France, America and Honolulu.
Also includes a small number of photographs including Hughes and his wife visiting wounded Australian troops and Andrew Fisher and Mary Hughes in London.
Comprises item 1096.
Series 25 1921 Imperial Conference, 1920-1921
Between May and September 1921 Hughes was absent from Australia, and occupied during June and July at a 'Conference of the Prime Ministers and Representatives of the United Kingdom, the Dominions and India'. With Deane his only adviser, Hughes pressed the Conference to renew the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and urged an airship service and wireless as solutions to the lack of inter-Empire communication and the alternative to regular Imperial Conferences. In London Hughes also supervised Australia House following Fisher's retirement in January 1921 and encouraged the sale of Australian primary products. In France on his way home he visited Paris and war graves at Amiens.
Series 25 contains all of the papers in the collection on this period of Hughes' career.
Subseries 25.1 Correspondence, 1921
This subseries contains a small group of letters, telegrams and cables received from people in Australia and Britain such as Joseph Cook, George Pearce, Lord Novar, L. S. Amery, Winston Churchill, Admiral Grant and Srinivasa Sastri. They refer to subjects such as the supply of ammunition to the Royal Australian Navy, an imperial airship service, recommendations for honours, reparations, and an exhibition of canned fruit at Australia House.
Folder 1 Correspondence, cables, notes, memorandum and telegrams, April-June 1921
Comprises items 1-42.
Folder 2 Correspondence, cables, notes, memorandum and telegrams, July 1921
Comprises items 43-94 and 97-159.
Folder 2a Photographs, n.d. Photographs of unidentified fruit exhibition.
Photographs of unidentified fruit exhibition.
Comprises items 95-96.
Folder 3 Correspondence, cables, notes, memorandum and telegrams, August-October 1921
Includes a copy of the 'A' minutes of the Imperial Conference along with a subject index.
Comprises items 160-357.
Subseries 25.2 Conference proceedings, 1920-1921
Most of this subseries consists of the basic records of the Conference known as the 'E' series. They are printed and roneoed sets of 'notes', 'stenographic notes', and minutes of meetings of the conference, referred to at the time as the 'Conference of Prime Ministers and Representatives of the United Kingdom, the Dominions and India'. A subject index is included.
Folder 4 Memorandum, notes and reports, 1920-1921
Includes memorandum on the reparations settlement and reports of the Imperial Shipping Committee.
Comprises items 358-420.
Folder 5 Notes of meetings, 1921
Comprises items 421-442.
Folder 6 Memorandum and notes of meetings, June-July 1921
Comprises items 443-474.
Folder 7 Notes of meetings, July 1921
Comprises items 475-573.
Folder 8-10 Notes of meetings, June-July 1921
Comprises items 574-646.
Folder 11-12 Notes of meetings, July 1921
Comprises items 647-932.
Folder 13 Notes of meetings, June-August 1921
Comprises items 933-1054.
Folder 14 Notes of meetings, August 1921
Comprises items 1055-1105.
Subseries 25.3 Miscellaneous papers, 1921
Includes an Admiralty report on 'Empire naval policy and cooperation', reports of the Imperial Shipping Committee, a memorandum by the overseas Subcommittee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Foreign Office telegrams, statistics on the strength of the British fleets, some British Cabinet papers, and records of meetings of the Imperial Reparations Committee. There is also material on the Permanent Court of International Justice, the Conference on State-Aided Empire Settlement, the administration of Australia House, and Sir Ross Smith's views on a London-Australia air service.
Folder 15 Memorandum and reports, 1921
Report entitled Empire naval policy and co-operation: outline of Empire naval policy prepared by the Admiralty to form a basis for discussion at the Imperial Cabinet, 1921 (2 copies) and reports and memorandum of the Imperial Shipping Committee and Committee of Imperial Defence.
Comprises items 1106-1116.
Folder 16 Notes, memorandum and telegrams, June-July 1921
Comprises items 1117-1174.
Folder 17 Memorandum, notes and reports, July-September 1921
Comprises items 1175-1220.
Folder 18 Notes and reports, 1921
Includes a report on the fleets of Great Britain and foreign countries.
Also includes a manuscript note by Ross Smith on an 'Air service London - Australia' (7 July 1921).
Comprises items 1221-1276.
Folder 19 Memorandum, notes and reports, 1921
Comprises items 1277-1351.
Folder 20 Notes and reports, 1921
Comprises items 1352-1475.
Subseries 25.4 Newscuttings, ephemera and other miscellaneous material, 1921
Includes newscuttings, photographs, letters patent, speeches, programs and invitations, and refer mainly to Hughes' visit to Amiens. Two large albums of newscuttings from British newspapers covering this whole period also feature.
Folder 20a Notes and reports, 1921
Includes a report on Hughes visit to Amiens, France, 23-25 August 1921.
Also includes a Letters Patent from King George, 6 July 1921.
Comprises items 1476-1548.
Folder 21 Printed material, invitations, menus, souvenir programs and other ephemera, 1921
Includes a copy of Australia, its people, its resources, its progress; an address given by Hughes to the Bankers of London, 19 August 1921.
Comprises items 1549-1571.
Folder 21a Photographs of Hughes' visit to Amiens, 23-25 August 1921
Comprises items 1572-1598.
Folder 22 Newspapers and newscuttings, 1921
Includes French newspapers from the Somme region relating to Hughes visit to Amiens.
Also includes a cartoon from Punch, 28 April 1921, showing Hughes trying out his wardrobe prior to leaving for overseas.
Comprises items 1599-1618.
Piece 23 Illuminated address, 22 July 1921
Illuminated address conferring upon Hughes the Freedom of the City of Bath.
Comprises item 1619.
Bag 24 Souvenir program, 22 June 1921
Program for the 'Opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland by his most gracious majesty, King George V', 22 June 1921.
Comprises item 1620.
Piece 25 Newscuttings album, 15 July-13 August 1921
Cuttings from British newspapers covering Hughes visit overseas; the Imperial Conference and world affairs at this time.
Comprises item 1621.
Piece 26 Newscuttings album, 20 May-15 July 1921
Cuttings from British newspapers covering Hughes visit overseas; the Imperial Conference and world affairs at this time.
Comprises item 1622.
Series 26 1924 Tour of the USA, 1923-1924
As if unable to settle to the comparative quiet of the backbenches, within a year of losing the Prime Ministership, Hughes accepted the invitation of Lee Keedick and H. C. Armstrong to do a lecture tour of the United States of America. He left in February 1924 and was back in Sydney at the end of August.
Letters Hughes received while on tour, as well as newscuttings, speeches, travel documents and some name cards have been collated to form this series. The correspondents include Keedick, Edward Harding, Donald Mackinnon, D. B. Edwards, Helen and Charles Hughes, Dr Charles Hunt, and Percy Deane and Sir John Quick in Australia.
Hughes' speeches cover topics including the war, Australia's immigration policy, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and Japan.
Folder 3 Speeches, 1923-1924
Includes the text of a speech by A. Horsfall, (December 1923) on migration and annotated by Hughes. Other material undated.
Comprises items 152-238.
Series 27 National Party, 1918-1931
The collection has very little on the National Party, the party Hughes formed in February 1917 from the Liberals and National Labour Party and helped destroy 12 years later. This series has papers of a general nature on the Party, and there are also relevant papers in Series 28, Series 32 (Referenda file) and Series 33. It consists mainly of newscuttings reporting speeches by Hughes to the party organisation in 1922 and 1928, reprints of some speeches (e.g., by Bavin at the 9th Annual Convention of the National Association of NSW), constitutions, copies of the Australian National Review, and the text of and voting on resolutions put to meetings of the party in January 1918, and a few letters. The latter refer to his defeat in 1923 and negotiations with Lyons in 1931. The series also includes several items on the National Labour Party.
Folder 2 Speeches and notes, 1918-1931
Includes notes on National Party policy.
Comprises items 32-137.
Folder 3 Printed material, 1919-1929
Includes various party conference reports; speeches by T. Bavin (1926 and 1927) and Hughes (1925); copies of party constitution and rules and an issue of the Australian National Review (19 February 1923).
Also includes a certificate of appreciation presented to Hughes by members of the National Party, 1 March 1923.
Comprises items 138-150.
Series 28 Elections, 1913-1951
During his long career in federal politics, Hughes stood successfully for four electorates, West Sydney (1901-1917), Bendigo (1917-1922), North Sydney (1922-1949), and Bradfield (1949-1952). The collection has a good deal of material on the elections held between 1913 and 1951, including a file on the 1930 New South Wales State election and some papers on some Federal and State by-elections. With a couple of exceptions all of this material is in Series 28. Papers on the 1929 House of Representatives election are in Series 33 and there is material on the 1930 New South Wales election and the 1946 Federal election in Series 48. Congratulatory letters and telegrams are in Series 3.
This series relates primarily to the campaigns Hughes conducted within his own electorate, although the material on some elections, in particular the 1943 Federal election when he was leader of the United Australia Party, does refer to the wider campaign. It consists of letters, memoranda, speakers notes, campaign literature, and some of Hughes' published speeches and broadcasts, and finally newscuttings on the election. Material on each election has been combined into files and these are arranged in date order. The coverage of the series is uneven, and only the 1931, 1940, 1943, and 1949 elections are well documented.
Apart from the 1943 election, mention should also be made of the 1949 election and the electoral boundaries redistribution in the previous year. The material consists of correspondence with the public relations firm Eric White and Associates, a McNair political survey of the new electorate of Bradfield, speeches, Liberal Party publications, and correspondence indicating Hughes' work for other Liberal candidates. Hughes' preselection battle with H. B. Turner and the electoral repercussions of the 1948 redistribution are also covered.
Folder 4 1917 election, 1917
Consists of a photograph album presented to Hughes by W. A. Gibson as a memento of his great victory at the federal election, May 1917.
Many of the photographs are of Hughes on the campaign trail.
Comprises item 183.
Folder 10 1928 election, 1929
Copies of statistical returns for the 1928 election.
Comprises items 545-609.
Folder 12 1930 NSW election, 1930
Includes the musical song sheet Painting the clouds with moonshine (an election song).
Comprises items 703-778.
Folder 26 1940 election, 1940
Includes policy speeches by John Curtin and H. V. Evatt.
Comprises items 2295-2328.
Folder 30 1940 election, 1940
Includes statistical returns for the 1940 election.
Comprises items 2591-2673.
Folder 33 1943 election, December 1942-July 1943
Mainly correspondence, memorandum, speeches and telegrams.
Comprises items 2859-3000.
Folder 34 1943 election, August-December 1943
Mainly correspondence and telegrams.
Comprises items 3001-3097.
Folder 35 1943 election, 1943-1944
Includes statistical returns for the 1943 election.
Comprises items 3098-3213.
Folder 47-48 1946 election, 1946
Mainly correspondence, notes and telegrams.
Comprises items 4209-4463.
Folder 49 1946 election, 1946
Includes statistical returns for the 1946 election and an analysis of voting prepared by the Liberal Party of Australia.
Comprises items 4464-4596.
Folder 52 1948 Coogee by-election and redistribution of electoral boundaries, 1948
Includes correspondence with public relations firm, Eric White and Associates.
Comprises items 4723-4800.
Folder 53 1948 redistribution of electoral boundaries, 1948
Newscuttings.
Comprises items 4801-4855.
Folder 54 1949 election, 1949
Includes a McNair political survey of the electorate of Bradfield, February 1949.
Comprises items 4856-5016.
Series 29 Backbencher, 1923-1933
Following his resignation and replacement by Bruce in February 1923, Hughes returned to the backbenches and did not gain ministerial office for another 11 years. All of the letters Hughes received in his capacity as a parliamentarian, 1923-1934, have been brought together to form this series. Many have copies of Hughes' replies attached, and these 'files' and all of the individual letters have been arranged in date order. The bulk of the letters are requests for support or opposition to legislation before the Parliament or requests to investigate grievances.
The topics covered include the Oil Agreement Bill (1926), the entertainment tax proposals (1929), individual cases of applications for war pensions to the War Gratuity Board, certain decisions of the Tariff Board, applications for positions in the Commonwealth Public Service, the prickly pear plague, the sale of liquor in Canberra, the flights of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, and the duty on imported petrol and kerosene.
In addition there are papers of a purely parliamentary nature, such as reminders about Parliamentary Library Committee meetings, Senator Gardiner's testimonial, the rules covering travel allowances for parliamentarians, and papers on the visits of parliamentary delegations.