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Collection Summary

Creator
W. S. Kent Hughes
Title
Papers of Sir Wilfred Selwyn Kent Hughes
Date Range
1914 - 1986
Collection Number
MS 4856
Extent
17.94 metres (82 ms boxes + 2 small folio boxes + 2 medium folio boxes + 4 large folio boxes + 1 map folio + 5 folio packets + 2 volumes + 1 folder + 21 sound/av carriers)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The papers comprise correspondence (including letters written by Kent Hughes from the Middle East during World War I and POW camps during World War II), diaries, photographs, speeches, cuttings and cutting books and the manuscripts of his book Slaves of the Samurai and other writings. There are relatively few papers on Kent Hughes' career in Victorian politics, but extensive papers dating from his 21 years as a Federal Parliamentarian, including his work as Minister of the Interior and Works and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. There are extensive papers on the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

The correspondents include General Gordon Bennett, Sir Robert Menzies, Lord Casey, Sir Garfield Barwick, Sir Arthur Fadden, Louis Loder, Les Norman, Tom Lingford, Norman Martin, Major-General Hans de Fremery, Senator James W. Fulbright, Avery Brundage, Sir James Pitman, Derek Schreiber, J.H. Tyer and John Wedderburn-Maxwell.

The collection also includes papers of Lady Kent Hughes (including Kent Hughes' letters to her from POW camps), an account of Dr Wilfred Kent Hughes' journey to Russia in 1917, and papers relating to Kent Hughes: a biography by Frederick Howard.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2631927).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Sir W. S. Kent Hughes, National Library of Australia, MS 4856, [series and/or file number]'.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the National Library, in several instalments between 1973 and 1991, by Lady Kent Hughes and her daughters, Mrs Janet Derham, Mrs Margaret Sasse and Dr Mary Lou Sheil.

Arrangement

Some of the papers had been kept in files. Wherever possible, the Library has preserved the file titles and the arrangement of the papers within them.

Biographical Note

DateEvent
1895Born in East Melbourne on 12 June, son of Dr Wilfred Kent Hughes
1900-8Trinity Grammar School, Kew
1909-14Melbourne Grammar School
1914Enlisted as private in B Company 7 Infantry Batallion, promoted to Captain and on 18 October embarked for the Middle East
1915-18Second Lieutenant 8th Light Horse Regiment and seconded as Orderly Officer 3rd Light Horse Brigade on 1 April 1915. During this time he took in various campaigns in the Middle East, including Gallipoli and Sinai.
1919Entered Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar
1920Resigned commission in UK on demobilization, captain of Oxford ski team and represented Australia in athletics at Olympic Games in Antwerp
1923Married Edith Kerr in Montclair, New Jersey on 3 February. They returned to Melbourne in April
1927-49Member of Legislative Assembly for Kew
1940Enlisted in A.I.F.
1941Left for Singapore
1942-45Prisoner of war in Malaya, Taiwan, Japan and Manchuria
1945Returned to Australia
1947Victorian Minister for Transport and Education
1948-49Minister for Transport and Electrical Undertakings and Deputy Premier
1949-70Member of the House of Representatives for Chisholm
1951-58Chairman of the Olympic Games Organising Committee
1951-56Federal Minister for the Interior and Minister for Works
1956-61Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee
1957Awarded KBE
1970Died in Melbourne on 31 July

References:

Kent Hughes: a biography by Frederick Howard. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1972

Who's who 1968, pp. 494-95

DateEvent
1895Born in East Melbourne on 12 June, son of Dr Wilfred Kent Hughes
1900-8Trinity Grammar School, Kew
1909-14Melbourne Grammar School
1914Enlisted as private in B Company 7 Infantry Batallion, promoted to Captain and on 18 October embarked for the Middle East
1915-18Second Lieutenant 8th Light Horse Regiment and seconded as Orderly Officer 3rd Light Horse Brigade on 1 April 1915. During this time he took in various campaigns in the Middle East, including Gallipoli and Sinai.
1919Entered Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar
1920Resigned commission in UK on demobilization, captain of Oxford ski team and represented Australia in athletics at Olympic Games in Antwerp
1923Married Edith Kerr in Montclair, New Jersey on 3 February. They returned to Melbourne in April
1927-49Member of Legislative Assembly for Kew
1940Enlisted in A.I.F.
1941Left for Singapore
1942-45Prisoner of war in Malaya, Taiwan, Japan and Manchuria
1945Returned to Australia
1947Victorian Minister for Transport and Education
1948-49Minister for Transport and Electrical Undertakings and Deputy Premier
1949-70Member of the House of Representatives for Chisholm
1951-58Chairman of the Olympic Games Organising Committee
1951-56Federal Minister for the Interior and Minister for Works
1956-61Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee
1957Awarded KBE
1970Died in Melbourne on 31 July

Item Descriptions

Series 1. Family correspondence, 1914-70

Kent Hughes enlisted in the AIF and left Australia with the Australian Light Horse for the Middle East (Sinai, Palestine, Syria and Gallipoli) on 18 October 1914. At the end of the War, he went to Oxford to take up the Rhodes scholarship that had been awarded to him in 1915. In 1940 he enlisted in the AIF and served in Singapore and Malaya. In February 1942 Kent Hughes was taken prisoner and was sent to POW camps in Singapore, Formosa and Manchuria.

The series comprises Kent Hughes' correspondence, including some transcripts, with his father and other members of his family, written from the Middle East and Oxford. There are also letters from Lady Kent Hughes and their children (written while Kent Hughes was in the POW camps), letters from his parents-in-law (Mr and Mrs R. C. Kerr) and other members of the family.

Kent Hughes' letters to his wife can be found in Series 24.

Postcards, mostly from Egypt, 1914-17 (File 1) - Box 1

Letters from Mena Camp, Egypt, 1915 (File 2) - Box 1

Letters from Middle East, 1915-19 (File 3) - Box 1

Transcripts of Kent Hughes' letters, 1915-17 (File 4) - Box 1

Correspondence with father, Dr Wilfred Kent Hughes, 1917-22 (File 5_6) - Box 1

Letters from Oxford, 1920 (File 7) - Box 1

Letters from Mr and Mrs R. C. Kerr, 1933-53 (File 8) - Box 1

Letters from Lady Kent Hughes and children, 1942-43 (File 9) - Box 2

Letters from other members of family, 1953-70 (File 10) - Box 2

Series 2. General correspondence, 1914-70

Through out his life, Kent Hughes corresponded with a large number of Australian and overseas friends, including those from his years in Oxford, as well as American and Asian friends and politicians. Usually Kent Hughes kept copies of his letters. The Australian correspondents include ex-World War I soldiers and other POWs. Other correspondents include Major General Hans de Fremery, E.J. Holt, W.R. Milligan, Vernon Morgan, William J. Sebald, H.A. Stokes Hughes, Felix Stump and John Wedderburn-Maxwell.

Most of the papers had been arranged in alphabetical order, either by subjects or names of the correspondents. The remainder were grouped in chronological order. The Library has preserved this arrangement and the file titles.

Correspondence with friends from Oxford days, 1914-50 (File 1) - Box 2

Telegrams from friends on wedding day, February 1923 (File 2) - Box 2

Welcome home letters and telegrams, 1945 (File 3_4) - Box 2

Correspondence with American friends, 1946-47 (File 5_6) - Box 2

Correspondence with friends from Oxford days, 1962-69 (File 7) - Box 3

Derek Heathcoat Amory, 1954-68 (File 8) - Box 3

ANZAC Day and RSL matters, 1963-68 (File 9) - Box 3

Gordon Bennett, 1942-68 (File 10) - Box 3

Chiang Kai-Shek, 1955-69 (File 11) - Box 3

Church of St. Martin, South Yarra, 1960-67 (File 12) - Box 3

Correct spelling of 'Wilfrid', 1957 (File 13) - Box 3

Committee for the Third Australian Freedom Rally, 1959-61 (File 14) - Box 3

Congratulatory letters and telegrams on receiving KBE, 1957 (File 15_19) - Box 4

Desert Mounted Corps Memorial in Canberra, 1963-68 (See also Series 4/51) (File 20) - Box 4

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 1961-63 (File 21) - Box 4

Sir John Elliott, 1949-67 (File 22) - Box 4

Ex-Eighth Division Diggers, 1955-70 (File 23) - Box 5

Famous signatures, 1935-64 (File 24) - Box 5

The signatories are Duke of Gloucester, Willi Brandt, 'Weary' Dunlop, Cardinal Gilroy (Archbishop of Sydney), Sir Robert Menzies, Lord Casey, Sir Percy Spender and Sir William Slim

Sir Keith Feiling, 1938-67 (File 25) - Box 5

Henry J. Fischer of the Australian International News Review, 1965-68 (File 26) - Box 5

Major-General Hans de Fremery, 1950-70 (File 27) - Box 5

Get well letters and telegrams, following hospitalisation, 1952 (File 28) - Box 5

Get well letters and telegrams, following an operation, 1953 (File 29) - Box 5

James Hodgkinson, 1964-69 (File 30) - Box 5

E.J. Holt, 1957-70 (File 31) - Box 5

Stan Howard, 1958-68 (File 32) - Box 6

Japanese friends (G. Kitagawa, Yuichi Hayashi and Juro Oki), 1953-63 (File 33) - Box 6

Sir Howard Kerr, 1934-36 (File 34) - Box 6

Kinabalu Park War Memorial, correspondence and cuttings, Sabah, 1959-65 (File 35) - Box 6

Korea and South East Asia Forces Association, 1963-70 (File 36) - Box 6

Donald W. Lamm, 1962-68 (File 37) - Box 6

Ernest K. Lindley, 1965-68 (File 38) - Box 6

Princess Josephine Charlotte of Luxembourg, 1956 (File 39) - Box 6

W.R. Milligan, 1938-70 (File 40) - Box 7

Robert O'Neill, 1962-66 (File 41) - Box 7

Overseas friends, 1932-38 (File 42) - Box 7

Overseas friends (mostly with A.G. Vromans and Senator James W. Fulbright), 1948-69 (File 43_44) - Box 7

K. Perkins, 1967-68 (File 45) - Box 7

Sir Isaac Pitman Sons Ltd (UK), 1962-63 (File 46) - Box 7

Anthony Quayle, 1949-53 (File 47) - Box 7

Vernon Morgan, 1957-70 (File 48) - Box 8

Tom Morris, 1963-67 (File 49) - Box 8

J.J. Pitman, 1949-67 (File 50) - Box 8

RSL, 1946-70 (File 51_52) - Box 8

Correspondence with other ex- World War I soldiers, ex-POWs, Queensland Ex-POW Association and Ex-Servicemen's POW Subsistence Claims Committee concerning Prisoners of War Trust Fund and subsistence claim for ex-servicemen.

Walter S. Robertson, 1956-69 (File 53) - Box 8

Rotary International (W.N. Oats and H.A. Bayoomi), 1960-63 (File 54) - Box 8

Peter Roth, 1953 and 1959 (File 55) - Box 8

Bishop G.T. Sambell, 1967 (File 56) - Box 8

Derek Schreiber, 1934-56 (File 57) - Box 9

William J. Sebald, 1959-70 (File 58) - Box 9

H.A. Stokes Hughes, 1950-70 (File 59) - Box 9

Felix B. Stump, 1956-70 (File 60) - Box 9

Tadakatsu Suzuki, 1959-67 (File 61) - Box 9

Thai correspondents (Konthi Suphamongkhon and Thanat Khoman), 1959-68 (File 62) - Box 9

J.H. Thyer, 1949-50 (File 63) - Box 9

War historian, 1953 (File 64) - Box 9

Bill Weale, 1956-57 (File 65) - Box 9

John Wedderburn-Maxwell, 1954-70 (File 66) - Box 10

Wheat Board, 1962 (File 67) - Box 10

Harry Wheeler, 1947 (File 68) - Box 10

Don Whitington, 1961 and 1969 (File 69) - Box 10

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1923-52 (File 70) - Box 10

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1942-43 (File 71) - Box 10

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1953-56 (File 72) - Box 10

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1957-60 (File 73) - Box 10

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1945-62 (File 74) - Box 11

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1961-64 (File 75) - Box 11

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1965-66 (File 76) - Box 11

Correspondence arranged in chronological order: 1967-70 (File 77) - Box 11

Series 3. Diaries and notebooks, 1940-70

Kent Hughes kept diaries most of his life and many of them have been transcribed. The series comprises the original diaries, typescripts of some of the diaries and miscellaneous notebooks.

Kent Hughes had kept the typescript of 'A diary of the American trip of the Oxford-Cambridge Track Team 6.7.21 to 12.8.21' with his Oxford papers (Series 5/ File 23). The diaries of Kent Hughes' visit to the Far East in 1958 are in Series 14/ Files 18-19 and 22.

Diary, c.1915 (File 1) - Box 11

Diaries kept while serving in Malaya as a member of the Eighth Division of AIF, c.1940-42 (File 2) - Box 11

Typescript of 'War diary of intelligence summary', 1 Nov. - 31 Dec. 1941 (File 3) - Box 11

Diary, 1 Jan. - 17 Feb. 1942 (File 4) - Box 12

Diary, 8 Feb. - 16 Aug. 1942 (File 5) - Box 12

Diary, 21 Aug. 1942 - 17 Aug. 1943 (File 6) - Box 12

Diary, 1942-44 (File 7) - Box 12

Duplicate typescripts, 1 Jan. 1942 - 14 Aug. 1945 (File 8) - Box 12

Duplicate typescripts, 8 Feb. 1942 - 18 Dec. 1943 (File 9) - Box 12

Duplicate typescripts, 1942-45 (incomplete) (File 10) - Box 12

Diary, 18 Aug. 1943 - 31 Oct. 1944 (File 11) - Box 13

Diary, 1 Nov. - 16 Oct. 1945 (File 12) - Box 13

Part of a diary kept on USS Relief, Sep. 1945. A plaque from the ship is in Series 22 (File 13) - Box 13

Ten pocket diaries, 1946-59 (File 14) - Box 13

Diary of a visit to England (1948) and interview with Ben Chifley (1949) (File 15) - Box 13

Diary: 'Far East trip while Minister with Edith and Lou, 1953' (File 16) - Box 13

Diary, Apr. - Aug. 1947 (File 17) - Box 14

Diary of a trip to Papua as a Minister, [c.1955] (File 18) - Box 14

Typescript of diary on Asian tour, Jan. - Mar. 1955 (File 19) - Box 14

Typescript of diary on Asian tour (4th copy), Jan. - Mar. 1955 (File 20) - Box 14

Typescript of diary on Asian tour (5th copy), Jan. - Mar. 1955 (File 21) - Box 14

Diary of a trip to equestrian events in Stockholm (1956) and Papua New Guinea (1957) (File 22) - Box 14

Diary of the Asian Games tour, May - July 1958 (File 23) - Box 14

Diary of a visit to Antarctica, 1958 (File 24) - Box 14

Diary of a visit to ECAFE (Economic Co-operation in Asia and the Far East), 1959 (File 25) - Box 14

Diary of a visit to the Kimberleys, 1960 (File 26) - Box 14

Diaries 3-8, 1958-63 (1-2 were not received) (File 27_32) - Box 15

Diaries 9-14 (including a visit to the Tokyo Olympic Games), 1963-64 (File 33_38) - Box 15

Diaries 15-20, 1965-67 (File 39_44) - Box 15

Diaries 21-49, 1967-68 (File 45_49) - Box 15

Diaries 50-54, 1968-70 (File 50_54) - Box 16

Miscellaneous typescripts and extracts from diaries, n.d (File 55) - Box 16

Notebooks, n.d (File 56_65) - Box 16

Series 4. Photographs and photograph albums, early 1900s-70

In the First World War, Kent Hughes served in the Middle East, as a member of the Light Horse Brigade in the Australian Imperial Force, from June 1917 to March 1918. The earlier photographs document this period of his career.

Other photographs include those taken during Kent Hughes' frequent visits overseas, particularly to Asia, in his capacity as a Minister for the Interior and Works (1951-56) and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee (1956-61). Papers relating to these visits can be found in Series 14. There are also pictures of both the Victorian and Federal Liberal Ministries and photographs taken during the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.

Related papers are in Series 1, 6 and 19.

Photographs of Kent Hughes as a boy and at school, early 1900s (File 1) - Box 16

Album of photographs, taken in Melbourne, Yemen, Suez Canal, Syria and Egypt, of the First Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force (B. Company Seventh Battalion), Sep. 1914 - Apr. 1915 (File 2) - Box 16

Album of Headquarter of the Third Light Horse Brigade AIF, including Anzac Cove and Egypt, Apr. 1915 - Jan. 1916 (File 3) - Box 17

Album of Headquarter of the Third Light Horse Brigade AIF, including Egypt and India, Jan. 1916 - June 1917 (File 4) - Box 17

Album of the Third Light Horse Brigade AIF, include Egypt and Colombo, 1917-18 (File 5) - Box 17

Black and white negatives of Egypt and Palestine, c.1915-18 (File 6) - Box 18

Photograph, c.1915-18 (File 7) - Box 18

Photographs, c.1918 (File 8) - Box 18

Photographs of Palestine and Syria, c.1918 (File 9) - Box 18

Oxford photographs, including the Oxford Ski Team, 1921 (File 10) - Box 18

Portrait of Edith Kent Hughes (nee Kerr) on her wedding day 3 February 1923 (File 11) - Folio-Box FB 1

Photographs of Premiers' Conference, Canberra, 1923 (File 12) - Folio-Box FB 1

Photograph of Victorian Cabinet, 1947-48 (File 13) - Folio-Box FB 1

Photographs of the Royal tour, 1954 (File 14) - Folio-Box FB 1

Photograph of Kew Football Club, 1929 (File 15) - Box 19

Photographs, 1930s (File 16) - Box 19

Photograph of Premiers' Conference, Sydney, 1930s (File 17) - Box 19

Photograph of Members of the Victorian Executive Council, 1934 (File 18) - Box 19

Photographs, 1940-49 (File 19) - Box 19

Group photograph of the Victorian Cabinet Picture of Kent Hughes with Tom Hollway taken after the announcement of the withdrawal of the Victorian Country Party Leader, J.G. McDonald, from the Coalition Government in 1948 (File 20) - Box 19

Photographs of Avery Brundage, 195? (File 21) - Box 19

Photographs of Menzies Government after the swearing-in ceremony at Government House Canberra, 1951 (File 22) - Box 19

Photographs of visit to Malaya, 195? (File 23) - Box 20

Photographs of Menzies Government, 1952 (File 24) - Box 20

Photographs of Sports Foundation, Los Angeles, 1953 (File 25) - Box 20

Photographs, 1950-59 (File 26) - Box 20

Photographs of Thai Olympic Committee, 1953 (File 27) - Box 20

Photographs of Kent Hughes skiing at Charlotte's Pass, 1955 (File 28) - Box 20

Photographs of a visit to Thailand, 1955 (File 29) - Box 20

Photographs of a visit to Asia, 1955 (File 30) - Box 20

Album of visit to Taiwan, 1955 (File 31) - Box 21

Photographs of official tour of War Cemeteries by the Minister of the Interior and Works, 1955 (See also Series 4/ File 61 and Series 14/ File 7) (File 32) - Box 21

Photographs of a visit to Japan, 1955-58 (File 33) - Box 21

Photographs of Australian 4 x 100m. Women's Relay Team Gold Medal winners, Melbourne Olympic Games, 1956 (File 34) - Box 21

Photographs of Melbourne Olympic Games, 1956 (File 35) - Box 21

Photographs of a visit to Kuala Lumpur, 1958 (File 36) - Box 22

Photographs of a visit to Taiwan, 1958 (File 37) - Box 22

Photographs of a visit to Vietnam, 1958 (File 38) - Box 22

Photographs of a visit to Antarctica, 1958 (File 39) - Box 22

Photographs of a visit to Taiwan, 1964 (File 40) - Box 22

Photographs of a visit to Korea, 1964 (File 41) - Box 22

Korean Embassy, Canberra, 1962-68 (File 42) - Box 22

Photographs taken between 1962 and 1968 (File 43) - Box 22

Photographs of a visit to Baguio City, Philippines, 1965 (File 44) - Box 22

Photograph taken at a meeting of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League Executive Committee, Taiwan, 1967 (File 45) - Box 23

Photographs of Anzac Day parade, c.1967-70 (File 46) - Box 23

Photographs of a visit to Vietnam, 1966 (File 47_48) - Box 23

Photographs of Anzac Day parade, 1967 (File 49) - Box 23

Photographs of Somers Camp, Anglesea, 1967 (File 50) - Box 23

Photographs of Opening ceremony of the Light Horse Memorial in Canberra, 19 April 1968 (See also Series 2/20) (File 51) - Box 23

Photographs of Kent Hughes receiving an honorary degree from the China Academy, Taiwan, 1968 (File 52) - Box 23

Photographs of a visit to Holland, 1956 (File 53) - Box 24

Family photographs, n.d (File 54) - Box 24

Photographs of a visit to Africa, n.d (File 55) - Box 24

Visit to POW Camp in Taiwan, n.d (File 56) - Box 24

Miscellaneous, n.d (File 57) - Box 24

Album of visit to Taiwan, n.d (File 58) - Folio-Box FB 1

Memorial to Matron Olive D. Paschke unveiled by Kent Hughes (File 59) - Folio-Box FB 1

Visit to Egypt, n.d (File 60) - Folio-Box FB 1

War cemetery in Jakarta, n.d. (See also Series 4/ File 32 and Series 14/ File 7) (File 61) - Folio-Box FB 1

Glass negative, n.d (File 62) - Box 25

Slides (File 63_82) - Box 25

Photographs - immediately post World War I (4 images - Portion of Canal Anzac Day, A water Convoy, A troop being inspected etc). (File Unnumbered) - Folio-Box (Shared), Piece 4 Photographs

Series 5. Oxford, 1920-22

Kent Hughes went to Christ Church, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1920 and graduated as a BA with honours in Modern History in 1922. While in Oxford, he took an active part in various sporting activities, including track and field and skiing.

The series comprises lecture notes, some of which are in notebooks. Kent Hughes' correspondence with his family is in Series 1/ Files 5-7 and his correspondence with his friends from Oxford is in Series 2/ Files 1 and 7. Other related papers are in Series 4/ File 10.

'Master of Balliol: Aristotle's politics', 1920 (File 1) - Box 26

'Summary of history of the Papacy', 1920 (File 2) - Box 26

'Administration 1714-1815', 1920 (File 3) - Box 26

'Constitutions of Australia, Canada and South Africa', 1921 (File 4) - Box 27

'Constitutional documents 1660-1911', 1921 (File 5) - Box 27

'The development of nationality and nationalism in the British Isles', 1921 (File 6) - Box 27

'Analysis on cooperation of home and abroad', 1921 (File 7) - Box 27

'Armstrong on the Netherlands 16th century', 1921 (File 8) - Box 28

'Whitley Council', c.1921 (File 9) - Box 28

'Summary of English history', c.1921 (File 10) - Box 28

'Barker constitutional history', c.1921 (File 11) - Box 28

'Barker on social economic questions of 18th and 19th centuries', 1921 (File 12) - Box 29

'Leys on the Tudors', c.1921 (File 13) - Box 29

'Chrystallography', 1921 (File 14) - Box 29

Lecture notes, 1921 (File 15_19) - Box 29

Jottings and memoirs, 1920-21 (File 20_22) - Box 30

Typescript of 'A diary of the American trip of the Oxford-Cambridge Track Team 6.7.21 to 12.8.21' (File 23) - Box 30

Accounts, 1921 (File 24) - Box 31

Programs and leaflets, 1920-22 (File 25) - Box 31

Printed material, 1921 (File 25) - Box 31

Series 6. World War I, 1914-19

Kent Hughes enlisted in the AIF and left Australia with the Australian Light Horse for the Middle East (Sinai, Palestine, Syria and Gallipoli) on 18 October 1914.

The series includes certificates of appreciation for gallant and distinguished service in the field, notes and correspondence relating to Kent Hughes' discharge from the AIF and non-military employment. His letters to his family can be found in Series 1 and the WW I photographs are in Series 4.

Notes kept on leaving Melbourne, 1914 (File 1) - Box 31

Typescripts entitled 'Evacuation of Gallipoli', 3 December 1915 and 'Second Light Horse Brigade', 10 December 1917 (File 2) - Box 31

Correspondence with the Department of Repatriation and Demobilisation concerning Kent Hughes' discharge from the AIF, non-military employment and the settlement of accounts, 1919-22 (File 3_4) - Box 31

Certificates of appreciation for gallant and distinguished service in the field, 1916-18 (File 5) - Box 32

Miscellaneous note and cuttings (File 6) - Box 32

Maps of Gallipoli, Syria, Israel and Sinai Peninsula (File 7_8) - Box 32

Series 7. World War II, 1942-55

Kent Hughes served in the 8th Division, AIF in 1940. He went to Malaya in 1941, where he became a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1941 and Colonel in 1942. He was taken Prisoner of War on 16 February 1942 and was in camps in Changi (18 months), Formosa (2 years), Japan (2 weeks) and Manchuria (1 year) until 1945. The series includes correspondence, notes and drafts of various writings about the camps.

For related papers see Series 1-3, 8, 15/ File 12 and 24.

Typescript of a speech given to POWs at Karenko, Formosa, August 1942 (File 1) - Box 32

Notes on 'Japanese instructions given to Prisoners of War in Changi' by Kent Hughes, 1942 (File 2) - Box 32

A photograph of a pencil portrait of Kent Hughes by Murray Griffin, the Official War Artist, May 1942 (File 3) - Box 33

Transcript of an interview with Mr Hagiwara from Domei News Agency, Karenko, 1 June 1943 (File 4) - Box 33

Notes, notebook and other writings (including a poem on Mukden) kept by Kent Hughes while he was in POW camps, 1942-45 (File 5_7) - Box 33

Carbon copy typescript of 'An account of liberation by Col. W.S. Kent Hughes, Mukden Main POW Camp, 15-18 Aug. 1945' (File 8) - Box 33

Interim report of POW camps in Singapore, n.d (File 9) - Box 33

Printed material, 1940-46 (File 10) - Box 33

Letters from Military Board of the Australian Military Forces, on matters such as entitlements and honours, 1943-49 (File 11) - Box 34

Correspondence with the Australian Military Forces and other papers on POW matters, 1943-51 (File 12) - Box 34

Correspondence with the Department of Repatriation, 1946-53 (File 13) - Box 34

Handwritten draft and pencil drawings of 'The hell-hole of the Oryoku Maru' (File 14) - Box 34

Handwritten draft and typescripts of 'Misery farm: a Taiwan tragedy' (File 15) - Box 34

Typescript of 'Changi: the early phase' (File 16) - Box 34

Typescript of 'The Malaya social scene' (File 17) - Box 34

Handwritten draft and typescripts of 'Singapore: before and after' (File 18) - Box 35

Typescript of 'Administrative HQ AIF Malaya' (File 19) - Box 35

Typescript of 'Recollections during WW II', 1955 (File 20) - Box 35

Handwritten draft and typescripts of 'Recollections of the last days of Singapore' by Capt. A.H.L. Wheeler, Cowra, 1942 (File 21) - Box 35

Recollections by Brig. J. Tayer and Lt. Col. L. Stahle, 1971 (File 22) - Box 35

Citations of Honours and awards and other papers relating to Kent Hughes' World War II service, n.d (File 23) - Box 35

Maps (File 24) - Box 36

Series 8. Slaves of the samurai (1946), 1946-69

The manuscript was written while Kent Hughes was in POW camps and was hidden between layers of cardboard in his suitcase. The book was published in Melbourne by Oxford University Press in 1946. The Series contains the manuscript and typescripts, letters from friends and the general public about the book and book reviews.

Original manuscripts (File 1) - Box 36

Typescripts (File 2_5) - Box 36

Letters from friends and the general public, giving their views on the book, 1947-69 (File 6) - Box 37

Cover designs for the book (File 7) - Box 37

Book reviews, 1946-47 (File 8) - Box 37

Series 9. Member for Kew (Victorian Parliament), 1927-49

In 1927 Kent Hughes stood for the Victorian Parliament as a Nationalist candidate and was elected as the Member for Kew. He was Minister for Transport and Education in 1947 and Minister for Transport and Electrical Undertaking between 1947 and 1949 in the Ministry led by Tom Hollway.

The series include a small quantity of correspondence and other papers on various subjects, including the Victorian elections and houses for migrants.

Victorian election, including letters of congratulations, 1927 (File 1) - Box 37

Correspondence, 1927-49 (File 2) - Box 37

Victorian elections, 1937-40 (File 3) - Box 37

Miscellaneous papers (File 4) - Box 37

Correspondence on Kent Hughes' retirement from Parliament, 1949 (File 5) - Box 37

Series 10. Minister for Transport, 1948-53

Kent Hughes became the Victorian Minister for Transport and Education in 1947 and Minister for Transport and Election Undertakings in 1947-49. This small series comprises correspondence and other papers relating to these portfolios, in some cases extending into the early 1950s. The correspondents include Les Norman, Norman Martin and Tom Lingford

Correspondence relating to the transportation of Callide coal (from Queensland) to Victoria, 1948-53 (File 1) - Box 38

Correspondence, 1948-52 (File 2) - Box 38

Papers relating to the Bombala - Bairnsdale Railway, 1950-53 (File 3) - Box 38

Correspondence concerning the visit of John Elliott, 1948-49. The Victorian Government engaged the services of Elliott, Chief Executive of British Railways, to investigate the Victorian transport system (File 4) - Box 38

Correspondence relating to the 'Operation snail': importation of pre-fabricated houses from England to accommodate English migrants, 1948-53 (File 5) - Box 38

Series 11. Member for Chisholm (Commonwealth Parliament), 1954-70

Following his resignation from Victorian politics, Kent Hughes stood as a Liberal candidate and won the Federal seat of Chisholm in December 1949. He held the seat until his death in 1970. He was the Federal Minister for the Interior and Works between 1951 and 1956.

The series mostly comprises papers on a wide range of subjects that Kent Hughes received as a Federal Parliamentarian. They include both incoming and outgoing correspondence with other politicians, Cabinet Ministers and his constituents and with a wide range of acquaintances in Australia, Asia and other overseas countries. There are also files on Australian defence and foreign policy and relation with Asian countries and communism. Papers relating to Kent Hughes' work as a Minister can be found in Series 12 and papers on the Joint Foreign Affairs Committee are in Series 17.

The papers had been kept in files and, wherever possible, the Library has preserved the arrangement of the papers within them and also the file titles.

Sir Michael Adeane, the Queen's Private Secretary, concerning the Royal visit to Australia, 1954 (File 1) - Box 38

Amendment of the Broadcasting and Television Act (correspondence with F.M. Osborne and Vernon Wilcox), 1953-58 (File 2) - Box 38

Asian politics, 1951-69 (File 3) - Box 38

Australian Broadcasting Commission (correspondence with C.W. Davidson, Sir Richard Boyer, Sir James Darling and T.S. Duckmanton), 1958-68 (File 4_5) - Box 39

Australian Children's Theatre, 1954-55 (File 6) - Box 39

Australian Dairy Produce Board, 1965-66 (File 7) - Box 39

Australian Embassy in Bangkok, 1966 (File 8) - Box 39

Australian Seamen's Union, 1962-63 (File 9) - Box 39

Banking, 1957-59 (File 10) - Box 39

Buffaloes for South East Asia, 1960 (File 11) - Box 39

Burmese and Japanese politics, 1950-61 (File 12) - Box 39

Caulfield Rifle Club, Williamstown Rifle Range, 1953-54 (See also File 39 and 44) (File 13) - Box 40

China, 1956 (File 14) - Box 40

Committee Against Communism (correspondents include T.K. Critchley and W.C. Wentworth), 1962-65 (File 15) - Box 40

Communism, South Africa and other issues, 1960-68 (File 16) - Box 40

Defence (correspondents include A.J. Forbes, Athol Townley and Shane Paltridge), 1952-65 (File 17_18) - Box 40

Defend Australia Committee (correspondence with Rex Becke and C.R.R. Huxtable), 1962-68 (File 19) - Box 40

Editors of major Australian newspapers The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Herald), 1958-68 (File 20) - Box 40

Fan mail: letters from English people following the publication of Kent Hughes' letter, on his stand against Communism, to the editor of the Daily Telegraph, 1967 (File 21) - Box 41

Federal elections, 1949-69. Papers include 'How to vote' leaflets and draft of speeches (File 22) - Box 41

Fitzroy municipal election, 1964-65 (File 23) - Box 41

Foreign affairs correspondence within Australia, 1950-68. Correspondents include Rohan Rivett, J.G. Porteus, Harold Holt, M.H. Hungerford, Sir Norman Kater, Eric Butler, Geoffrey Fairbairn, Jim Thyer and Robert E. Hoey (File 24_26) - Box 41

Goverment Members Committee, 1963-70 (File 27) - Box 41

Indonesia, 1965 (File 28) - Box 41

Indonesia - Malaysia issues, 1956-65 (File 29) - Box 42

Inigo Jones, 1953-68. Investigations of Jones, who was a long-range weather forecaster for Cromhurst Obsevatory, Queensland (File 30) - Box 42

Ministers of External Affairs (correspondents include R.G. Casey, Sir Garfield Barwick and Sir Paul Hasluck), 1950-67 (File 31_32) - Box 42

Move to Federal politics, 1949-50 (File 33) - Box 42

Rupert Murdoch and other issues, 1958-64 (File 34) - Box 42

New England New State Movement, 1950-59 (File 35) - Box 42

Primary Industries (correspondents include Sir John Teasdale of Australian Wheat Board, Associated Chambers of Australia and T.C. Stott of Australian Wheat Growers' Federation), 1956-63 (File 36) - Box 42

Regional security, 1970 (File 37) - Box 42

Regular Defence Force Welfare Association and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits, 1959-62 (File 38) - Box 43

Rifle Clubs, 1957-65 (See also Files 13 and 44) (File 39) - Box 43

Rip tragedy, 1960. Two men were drowned during an Army training exercise outside the Port Phillip Bay Heads near Queenscliff (File 40) - Box 43

Roads, 1959-64 (File 41) - Box 43

Speaker's Chair for the new Parliament in Malaysia, 1955 (File 42) - Box 43

Taiwan, 1969 (File 43) - Box 43

Victorian Rifle Association (See also Files 13 and 39), 1960 (File 44) - Box 43

Vietnamese Embassy, 1957-67 (File 45) - Box 43

Western Australia, 1960 (File 46) - Box 43

War Widows Guild and Homes for the Aged (correspondents include Lucy Dutton Green, Mrs M.D. Sparks, Mrs E. McKenzie-Rye and Mrs G.A. Vasey), 1960-63 (File 47) - Box 44

A - K, 1951-70 (File 48) - Box 44

L - M, 1951-70 (File 49) - Box 44

N - W, 1951-70 (File 50) - Box 44

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1950, 1957-59 (File 51) - Box 44

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1960-62 (File 52) - Box 44

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1963-64 (File 53) - Box 44

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1965-66 (File 54) - Box 44

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1967-69 (File 56) - Box 45

Series 12. Minister for Interior and Works, 1952-57

Kent Hughes became the Federal Minister for the Interior and Minister for Works and Housing on 11 May 1951. In June 1952 the latter portfolio was changed to Minister for Works. As Minister for the Interior, he was responsible for the developmental planning and administration of Canberra. Other responsibilities included elections and franchise, astronomy, mapping and surveys, meteorology, forestry and timber, war graves, War Service Land Settlement, the Australian War Memorial, the acquisition and leasing of land for Commonwealth purposes, and publicity. The department of Works was responsible for the design, supervision, execution and inspection of all architectural and engineering works for the Commonwealth Government and the formulation of town planning proposals in areas controlled by the Commonwealth. In January 1956, as a result of a Cabinet reshuffle, Kent Hughes was dropped from the Menzies Ministry and he did not hold office again.

The series consists of semi-official and personal correspondence, cuttings, minutes, speeches, reports and papers relating to many of Kent Hughes' Ministerial responsibilities, including papers on his removal from the Ministry in 1956. The correspondents are mostly Ministerial colleagues or public servants, including R.G. Menzies, Sir Arthur Fadden, R.G. Casey, George McLeay, Paul Hasluck, W.H. Spooner, Louis Loder, Lionel Price and J.R. Fraser.

Accommodation for the Department of Defence upon its transfer to Canberra (correspondents include R.G. Menzies and W.E. Dunk), 1954-55 (File 1) - Box 45

Cabinet minutes, 1952-55 (File 2) - Box 45

Canberra housing: correspondence and cutting concerning rent increases and shortage of housing (correspondents include Jim Fraser), 1953-55 (File 3) - Box 45

Canberra University College, 1953 (File 4) - Box 45

Civil Defence Council Bill, 1955 (File 5) - Box 45

Contracts, 1954 (File 6) - Box 45

Department of Territories, concerning Papua New Guinea, 1954 (File 7) - Box 45

Development of Canberra, 1949-55. The papers include correspondence, report, minutes and press releases on the development of Canberra, such as the creation of Lake Burley Griffin, Australian War Memorial, Australian National University, Mount Stromlo and the Olympic pool. The main correspondents are C.E.W. Bean, A.H. Corbett, J.A. McCallum and Sir William Slim (File 8_10) - Box 46

Conference of the State and Commonwealth Ministers on War Service Land Settlement, Canberra, 1954 (File 11) - Box 46

Financial policy, 1952 (File 12) - Box 46

Japanese Ambassador attending ANZAC ceremony, 1953 (File 13) - Box 46

Liquor trading hours in the ACT, 1954-55 (File 14) - Box 46

Minister for Transport and Shipping (correspondence with George McLeay), 1952-53 (File 15) - Box 46

Markham bridge, Papua New Guinea (correspondence with Michael Leahy), 1952 (File 16) - Box 46

Medical School, ANU, 1953 (File 17) - Box 47

R.G. Menzies, 1953-54 (File 18_19) - Box 47

Miscellaneous correspondence (includes A.W. Fadden, L.F. Loder and R.G. Menzies), 1950-55 (File 20_21) - Box 47

River Murray agreement and the enlargement of the Hume reservoir, 1951-54 (File 22) - Box 47

Reports, minutes and correspondence on the 'Science of building', 1952-53 (File 23) - Box 47

'Operation administration': a proposal to centralised the administration of some Government Departments in Canberra, 1954 (File 24) - Box 47

Sir Earle Page (Minister for Health) and Stuart Acason (Liberal Party, Queensland) concerning the opening of the Tuberculosis Annexe at Cairns General Hospital, 1954 (File 25) - Box 47

J.M. Douglas Pringle, 1953 (File 26) - Box 48

Public Accounts Committee, 1953 (File 27) - Box 48

Snowy River Scheme, 1951 (File 28) - Box 48

Snowy River and transport, 1953 (File 29) - Box 48

Transfer of Tallangatta township, 1951-53 (File 30) - Box 48

Transport, 1954-56 (File 31) - Box 48

War Service Land Settlement, New South Wales, 1953-55 (File 32) - Box 48

Papers (including typescript of Kent Hughes' recollections of his interview with Menzies and his conversation with other Ministers, such as John McEwen and draft of speech on Foreign Affairs given by Kent Hughes at the House of Representatives on 28 April 1955) relating to Kent Hughes' dismissal from the Menzies Ministry, 1955-57 (File 33) - Box 48

Letters from friends and colleagues after the dismissal, 1956. Correspondents include Sir John Latham, John Oldham, J. Gordon Bennett, W.R. Lawrence, L.W. Hamilton, T.T. Colquhoun, Sir Malcolm McIntosh and Gavin Long (File 34_35) - Box 49

Copies of letters written by Kent Hughes to thank various Departments for their support during his term as Minister for the Interior and Works, 1956 (File 36) - Box 49

Series 13. Speeches, 1930s-70

The series comprises handwritten drafts, typescript and roneoed copies, as well as cuttings, of Kent Hughes' speeches. Some of the speeches were kept in files and have been either arranged in chronological order or according to subjects. These arrangements have been preserved by the Library.

Drafts of radio broadcasts, which were filed with the speeches, can be found in File 22.

Speeches arranged in chronological order: 1930s-39 (File 1) - Box 49

Speeches arranged in chronological order: 1940s-49 (File 2) - Box 49

Speeches arranged in chronological order: 1949-67 (File 3_4) - Box 49

Speeches arranged in chronological order: 1950-59 (File 5_6) - Box 50

Speeches arranged in chronological order: 1960-62 (File 7) - Box 50

Speeches arranged in chronological order: 1960-69 (File 8_11) - Box 50

Speeches arranged in chronological order: 1970 (File 12) - Box 50

Speeches arranged by subjects: Anzac day speeches, including copies of order of service, 1927-70 (File 13_14) - Box 51

Speeches arranged by subjects: Armistice Day, 1938 (File 15) - Box 51

Speeches arranged by subjects: Australian defence, 1950-58 (File 16) - Box 51

Speeches arranged by subjects: Empire Day, 1938 (File 17) - Box 51

Speeches arranged by subjects: Entry into World War II (File 18) - Box 51

Speeches arranged by subjects: Parliamentary dinner, 1935 (File 19) - Box 51

Speeches arranged by subjects: Parliamentary speeches and published in the Parliamentary debates, 1955-70 (File 20_21) - Box 51

Speeches arranged by subjects: Broadcasts, 1947-64 (File 22) - Box 52

Series 14. Overseas visits, 1946-70

During his terms as the Minister of Interior and Works and as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Kent Hughes undertook numerous overseas visits. The series includes correspondence, notes, invitations to official functions, cuttings, travel leaflets and other papers relating to these visits. Photographs of these visits can be found in Series 4.

UK, 1946 (File 1) - Box 52

America, 1946-47 (File 2) - Box 52

New Guinea, March - April 1952 (File 3) - Box 52

South East Asia, 1954-55 (File 4) - Box 52

Asia, February 1955 (File 5_6) - Box 52

Asia, including a visit to Australian War cemeteries in Asia and the Pacific, February - March 1955 (See also Series 4/ Files 32 and 61) (File 7_8) - Box 53

Taiwan, including an invitation from Chiang Kai-Shek, 1955 (File 9_10) - Box 53

Taiwan, 1955-64 (File 11) - Box 53

Royal dinner party, Stockholm Town Hall, 1956 (File 12) - Box 53

Antarctica Sub-Committee (Operation 'Penguin'). As a member, Kent Hughes visited Antarctica in October 1958 (File 13) - Box 53

Asia, 1958 (File 14_15) - Box 53

Japan, 1958 (File 16) - Box 54

Taiwan, 1958 (File 17) - Box 54

Diaries of visit to the Far East, 1958 (For other diaries see Series 3) (File 18_19) - Box 54

United States, UK and Europe (including correspondence, notes, drafts of reports and diaries kept during the trip), Apr. - Sep. 1961 (File 20_22) - Box 54

Vietnam, 1961-65 (File 23) - Box 55

South East Asia, Mar. 1962 (File 24) - Box 55

United States and UK, Aug. 1962 (File 25) - Box 55

South East Asia, Mr. 1963 (File 26) - Box 55

Asia, Jan. - Feb. 1964 (File 27) - Box 55

Korea and Taiwan, 1964 (File 28_30) - Box 55

Asia, Oct. - Nov. 1964 (File 31) - Box 56

United States and UK, June 1964 (File 32) - Box 56

South East Asia, June-Aug. 1965 (File 33) - Box 56

Rhodesia, includes correspondence and cuttings, 1965-68 (File 34_35) - Box 56

Asia, 1966. Kent Hughes visited Taiwan as Australia's representative for the inauguration of Chiang Kai-Shek's 4th term in office, 1966 (File 36_39) - Box 56

Africa, Aug. - Oct. 1967 (File 40_41) - Box 57

UK and United States, May - July 1967 (File 42_44) - Box 57

Asia, 1968 (File 45_47) - Box 57

Taiwan, June - Aug. 1968. Kent Hughes was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the China Academy in Taipei (File 48) - Box 58

Trinidad, to attend the 15th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, Apr. 1969 (File 49) - Box 58

Africa, including South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique, Aug. - Sep. 1969 (File 50_52) - Box 58, Map-Folio 1 Map of Mozambique, 1967

Travel expenses for Asia tours, 1968-70 (File 53) - Box 58

Miscellaneous travel material (File 54) - Box 58

Series 15. Cuttings and cutting books, 1902-70

The cuttings and cutting books have been arranged both in chronological order and by subjects. Wherever possible the arrangement of cuttings within the files and the file titles have been preserved by the Library.

1902-53 (File 1) - Folio-Box FB 2

1920-29 (File 2) - Folio-Box FB 2

1926-27 (File 3) - Folio-Box FB 2

1927-33 (File 4_6) - Folio-Box FB 2

1920s-37 (File 7) - Box 59

Lord Somers' camp, Anglesea, Vic, 1929-31 (File 8) - Box 59

Victorian politics, 1929-34 (File 9) - Box 59

1931-34 (File 10) - Box 59

Visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Australia, 1934 (File 11) - Box 59

POW (See also Series 1/ File 9, 3 and 7) (File 12) - Box 59

1941-49 (File 13) - Box 59

1948-50 (File 14) - Folio-Box FB 3

1951-59 (File 15) - Box 59

Article on Kent Hughes published in People, 26 Aug. 1953 (File 16) - Folio-Box FB 3

1955-58 (File 17) - Folio-Box FB 3

1955-69 (File 18) - Folio-Box FB 3

Defence, 1957-64 (File 19) - Folio-Box FB 3

Foreign Affairs and defence, 1961-64 (File 20) - Folio-Box FB 3

Foreign Affairs, trade and communism, 1955-62 (File 21) - Folio-Box FB 4

Knighthood, 1957 (File 22) - Folio-Box FB 4

1960-69 (File 23) - Folio-Box FB 4

1967-70 (File 24) - Folio-Box FB 4

Anzac Day, 1968 (File 25) - Folio-Box FB 4

1970 (File 26) - Folio-Box FB 4

Undated (File 27) - Folio-Box FB 4

Scrapbook 1953-1955 (various topics: Works, General, Civic, Defence etc), 1953 - 1955 (File unumbered) - Folio-Box (Shared), Volume Scrapbook 1953-55

Scrapbook 1955-1962 - Elections Political & Miscellaneous, 1955 - 1962 (File) - Folio-Box (Shared), Volume 1 Scrapbook

1928 - State Party Affairs, 1928 (File) - Folio-Box (Shared), Piece 1 packet containing 3 folders

Cutting Book - Political, 1960 - 1964 (File Unnumbered) - Folio-Box Unnumbered Small A

Cutting Book - Meetings, 1964 - 1967 (File Unnumbered) - Folio-Box Unnumbered Small A

August 1945 - 1948 (no other title), 1945 - 1948 (File Unnumbered) - Folio-Box unnumbered Medium

March 1950 - Feb 1953, 1950 - 1953 (File Unnumbered) - Folio-Box Unnumbered Small B

Title is untitled includes various content which is indexed: Foreign Affairs, Migration, Defence etc.

Untitled (bag of foreign newspaper titles including China News) (File Unumbered) - Folio-Box Unnumbered Small B

Series 16. Invitations and menus, 1931-70

The series comprises invitations to official functions and Liberal Party meetings and menus. Many of them were annotated to show whether or not they were accepted.

1931-34 (File 1) - Box 60

1955-65 (File 2) - Box 60

1966 (File 3) - Box 60

1967-68 (File 4) - Box 60

Liberal Party meetings, 1969 (File 5) - Box 60

1969 (File 6_9) - Box 60

Liberal Party meetings, 1970 (File 10) - Box 61

1970 (File 11) - Box 61

Series 17. Foreign Affairs Committee, 1956-61

In 1956 R.G. Casey proposed that a Joint Committee be appointed to consider foreign affairs generally and to inquire into matters referred to it by the Minister of External Affairs. It was boycotted by the Opposition and as a result the Committee consisted almost entirely of Government backbenchers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Kent Hughes was elected Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and held the position until 1961. The series includes correspondence (mostly with R.G Menzies and R.G. Casey), notes, drafts of reports or papers and minutes.

Correspondence on subjects including the recognition of China, ungary, Antarctica, trade and Taiwan, 1956-60 (File 1) - Box 61

Drafts of papers and reports written by Kent Hughes, 1950-57 (File 2_3) - Box 61

Extracts of minutes, 1952-58 (File 4) - Box 61

Future of the Colombo Plan, 1956-61 (File 5) - Box 61

Correspondence, reports and agenda papers, 1957-61 (File 6) - Box 62

Notes and reports, 1956-60 (File 7) - Box 62

Correspondence (including deserted Japanese wives of Australian servicemen), 1957-59 (File 8) - Box 62

Minutes, 1956-57 (File 9) - Box 62

Minutes, 1958-59 (File 10) - Box 62

Minutes, 1960-61 (File 11) - Box 62

Correspondence (mostly with R.G. Casey on West New Guinea) and other papers, 1957-60 (File 12) - Box 62

Notes, 1956 (File 13) - Box 62

Includes papers on regional economic development, 1956-60 (File 14) - Box 63

Staffing diplomatic posts, 1959-60 (File 15) - Box 63

Includes correspondence with Massey Stanley, R.G. Casey and Sir Garfield Barwick on citizenship in Papua New Guinea and the Fourth South Pacific Conference in Rabaul, 1956-59 (File 16) - Box 63

Correspondence mostly with Fred Chaney and Sir Garfield Barwick on Papua New Guinea, South Pacific, China and Russia, 1960-61 (File 17) - Box 63

Undated notes (File 18) - Box 63

Series 18. Subject files, 1947-69

For most of his life Kent Hughes maintained files on various subject matters. They include some correspondence, cuttings, notes and other papers. The file titles and the arrangement of the papers within them have been preserved by the Library.

Attitude towards Japan, 1947-53 (File 1) - Box 63

Australia's relations with China, 1951-65 (File 2) - Box 63

Correspondence relating to Churchill's book on the fall of Singapore entitled Secret session speeches (1946), 1948-49 (File 3) - Box 63

Federal-State financial relationships, c.1951 (File 4) - Box 63

Foreign Affairs Private Study Group, 1950-51 (File 5) - Box 64

Health scheme: correspondence with R.G. Menzies and A.W. Fadden, 1950-51 (File 6) - Box 64

Hungary, 1957 (File 7) - Box 64

Indonesia and West New Guinea, 1958-62 (File 8) - Box 64

Indonesia and West New Guinea, 1963-65 (File 9) - Box 64

Japanese Mission's visit to war graves in Papua New Guinea to collect the remains of their families, 1954 (File 10) - Box 64

Libel case against the Australian, 1969 (File 11) - Box 64

Official history of Australia in the War of 1939-1945: includes correspondence with Gavin Long, 1953-58 (File 12) - Box 64

Juro Oki, 1953. Papers relating to Kent Hughes' visit to Dr Oki, who helped him while he was in POW camp in Manchuria (File 13) - Box 64

Ratification of the Japanese Peace Treaty by the House of Representatives, 1952 (File 14) - Box 65

Rhodes Scholars: correspondence and cuttings, 1914, 1953-69 (File 15) - Box 65

Trade with China, 1957-65 (File 16) - Box 65

Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, 1955-68 (File 17) - Box 65

Series 19. 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, 1952-68

The Provisional Organising Committee of the 1956 Olympic Games was set up by the Australian Olympic Federation in 1949. Its main responsibility was the selection of venues and liaison with Governments and the Melbourne City Council in relation to the construction of venues and the Olympic Village. An office was opened in 1951 and in that year Kent Hughes became Chairman of the Organising Committee, holding the position until the Committee was wound up in 1958. He was also chairman of the Executive Committee and the Finance and general Purposes Committee, which was formed in 1953 and which met every two weeks or so.

The series comprises correspondence, cuttings, reports and press releases. After the Games, Kent Hughes received many letters from friends, colleagues and the general public the success of the Games. The correspondents include Avery Brundage, Lord Burghley, John T. McGovern, Hugh Weir, H.E. Bolte, Sir Arthur Fadden, Sir Harold Alderson, Lewis Luxton and T. Forristal.

The series also includes a letter from John Ian Wing, a schoolboy from Melbourne. Wing suggested that at the closing ceremony all athletes should walk together rather than as teams and the idea was adopted.

Correspondence, 1952-53 (File 1) - Box 65

Correspondence, 1954-55 (File 2) - Box 65

Correspondence, 1956 (File 3) - Box 65

Correspondence, 1957-58 (File 4) - Box 65

Correspondence with Sir Alexander Cadogan, Chairman of the BBC, relating to broadcasting the Games in the UK, 1957 (File 5) - Box 66

China and Taiwan, 1955-68 (File 6_7) - Box 66

Cuttings, 1956 (File 8) - Box 66

Disputes over film and TV coverage, 1954-60 (File 9_10) - Box 66

Lord Burghley, Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee, 1953-61 (File 11) - Box 66

Correspondence on financial matters, 1957-66 (File 12) - Box 66

Hungarian athletes seeking political asylum in Australia and America, 1956-57 (File 13) - Box 66

Melbourne University as Olympic village, 1952-54 (File 14) - Box 67

Opening speech, press release and other papers, 1952-56 (File 15) - Box 67

Reports and statements, 1950-53 (File 16) - Box 67

Trouble over Olympic site, 1950-68 (File 17) - Box 67

Visit to United States, Holland and Sweden, May - June 1956 (File 18) - Box 67

H.R. Weir and Peter Whitchurch, 1952-63 (File 19) - Box 67

Copies of letter of John Ian Wing, 1956 (original in the Strong Room) (File 20) - Box 67, Folder Letter original located in MSR

Letter from John Ian Wing to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games Committee suggesting that athletes walk together rather than in teams by countries at the closing ceremony

Winding up of the Committee, 1957-63 (File 21) - Box 67

Letters of congratulations, 1956-57 (File 22) - Box 67

Correspondence concerning proposal of Olympic honours and awards, 1956-59 (File 23) - Box 68

Kent Hughes' report to the Australian Olympic Federation, 1958 (File 24) - Box 68

Letter from John Ian Wing to Sir Wilfred Kent Hughes, thanking him for accepting his suggestion that athletes at the Olympic Games closing ceremony walk together as a single group, not by nation.

Series 20. Sporting events and associations, 1920-72

The series includes cuttings and cutting books, correspondence and some photographs relating to various sporting events and associations. The cutting books date back from Kent Hughes' Oxford days and they include cuttings of his own participation in various sporting events (For other sporting photographs see Series 4).

Asian Games in Japan, including photograph and a diary kept during the visit, 1958 (File 1_2) - Box 68

Asian Games in Jakarta, 1962 (File 3) - Box 68

British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, 1962 (File 4) - Box 68

Bronze plaques for former Olympic gold medallists (File 5) - Box 68

In 1972 the Victorian Government commissioned a memorial Bronze plaques to commemorate Kent Hughes' services to amateur sport. Replicas of the plaques were awarded to former Olympic gold medallists: Herb Elliott, Ralph Doubell, the late Russell Mockridge (received by his wife, Irene), Tony Marchant and Ian Browne. The papers include note and cuttings.

Cutting book, 1920-22 (File 6) - Box 68

Cuttings, 1920-22 (File 7) - Box 69

Olympic Committee, Hong Kong, 1955 (File 8) - Box 69

Olympic Games in Helsinki, 1952 (File 9) - Box 69

Olympic Games in Tokyo, 1964 (File 10_12) - Box 69

Victorian Amateur Athletic Association, 1950-63 (File 13) - Box 69

Victorian Olympic Council (Kent Hughes was President of the Council) correspondence, 1968 (File 14) - Box 69

Miscellaneous papers, 1957-64 (File 15_17) - Box 69

Series 21. Writings by Kent Hughes, 1920s-70

Through out his life, Kent Hughes wrote a great number of stories, essays, articles and poems, but most of them were not published. The series comprises handwritten manuscripts and typescripts of his writings. For papers relating to his published book, Slaves of the samurai, see Series 8.

Drafts of 'East: far or near' (File 1_3) - Box 70

History essay (File 4) - Box 71

Drafts of 'Peter Rutland' (File 5) - Box 71

Drafts of 'Summer in the Jordan Valley' (File 6) - Box 71

Corrected typescripts of 'Through the slip-rails' (File 7) - Box 72

Drafts of poems, 1920s-66 (File 8_9) - Box 72

Drafts of essays and articles, 1936-38 (File 10_11) - Box 72

Drafts of essays and articles, 1948-49 (File 12) - Box 73

Drafts of essays and articles, 1950s-59 (File 13) - Box 73

Drafts of essays and articles, 1960-70 (File 14_16) - Box 73

Miscellaneous drafts, n.d (File 18_20) - Box 74

Series 22. Miscellaneous items, 1922-70

The series includes personal items (such as passports, health books), news letters, poems sent to Kent Hughes by friends and an emu feather.

Miscellaneous photocopies (File 1) - Box 74

Notes, mostly on financial matters, c.1922-31 (File 2) - Box 74

Passports and health books, 1919-68 (File 3) - Box 74

Miscellaneous papers and personal items, 1963-70 (File 4_6) - Box 74

A.I.F. Malayan Nursing Fund, 1945-60 (File 7) - Box 75

Papers and copies of Ex-POWs' newsletter 'Chit Chat, 1949-69 (File 8) - Box 75

Printed Liberal Party material (File 9) - Box 75

Minutes of meetings of the Liquor club, 1924-25 (File 10) - Box 75

Papers of the Melbourne Beefsteak club, 1953-70 (File 11) - Box 75

Poems by friends (File 12) - Box 75

An emu feather (File 13) - Box 75

Miscellaneous items (File 14_17) - Folio-Box FB 5

Series 23. Printed material, 1913-70

The series includes papers relating to the Intelligence digest (1953-70), index and copies of Intelligence bulletin (1958-69), copies of The (old) Melburnians (1913-23) and other printed material.

(5 bundles and 1 box)

Printed Material, 1913-70 (File 23) - Box 76, Box 77

Series 24. Papers of Lady Kent Hughes, 1922-86

Kent Hughes wrote many letters to his wife while he was in the POW camps and on his overseas visits. Some of the letters have been transcribed and, in some cases, the Library only holds the transcripts.

The series also includes letters of condolence, cuttings of obituaries and tributes to Kent Hughes.

Transcripts of Kent Hughes' letters, 1922-28 (File 1) - Box 78

Transcripts of Kent Hughes' letters, 1934 (File 2) - Box 78

Letters and messages sent by Kent Hughes through a Tokyo radio station while he was in POW camps, 1942-44 (File 3) - Box 78

Letters from POW camps, c.1943 (File 4) - Box 78

Letters from the Record Office of the Australian Military Forces containing news of Kent Hughes and letters and telegrams sent by Kent Hughes after Liberation, 1942-45 (File 5) - Box 78

Original and transcripts of Kent Hughes' letters written from Mukden and Morotai, Aug. - Oct. 1945 (File 6) - Box 78

Letters from Kent Hughes and Lady Kent Hughes, written from United States and UK, to Mr and Mrs Kerr, 1946 (File 7) - Box 78

Kent Hughes' letters from South East Asia, 1968 (File 8) - Box 78

Letters of condolence from family and friends, 1970-71 (File 9_11) - Box 79

Letters of condolence from the armed services, 1970 (File 12) - Box 79

Letters of condolence from political friends and colleagues, 1970 (File 13) - Box 79

Letters of condolence from sporting organisations, 1970 (File 14) - Box 79

Order of service and other papers, 1970 (File 15) - Box 79

Cuttings of obituaries and tributes, 1970-71 (File 16_19) - Box 79

Correspondence of Lady Kent Hughes, 1970-86 (File 20) - Box 80

Financial papers, 1970-74 (File 21) - Box 80

Series 25. Papers of Dr Wilfred Kent Hughes, 1917

Dr Wilfred Kent Hughes was the father of Sir Wilfrid. During World War I, he was appointed as Chief Surgeon to the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd. This small series comprises the account of his journey to Russia, via Norway and Sweden, in 1917 and his passport.

His correspondence with Sir Wilfrid is in Series 1/ Files 5-6.

Papers of Dr Wilfred Kent Hughes, 1917 (File 1) - Box 80

Series 26. Kent Hughes: a biography by Frederick Howard, 1970-72

Frederick Howard's book, Kent Hughes: a biography, was published by Macmillan in 1972. In researching for the biography, Howard corresponded with some of Kent Hughes' friends, including Edmund J. Lilly Jr. and Sir James Pitman. The series also includes drafts of the book.

Correspondence about the research and publication of the book, 1970-72 (File 1_2) - Box 80

Drafts (File 3_8) - Box 81

Mailing list, design for the dust jacket and other papers (File 9_12) - Box 81

Series 27. Audiovisual

No 2. Start Out. Kent Hughes + Wentworth. Magnetic. Full Track. A (Item NLA.MS-SAV000045) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-006

1 item, 16mm film. ANSCOCHROME 16mm Tungsten 3400K Type 232

Reprint [Kent] Hughes interview. B (Item NLA.MS-SAV000046) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-006

1 item, 16mm film

[W. S. Kent Hughes recording] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000049) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-001

1 item, AGFA Magnetonband stereo PER 525 360m 1200 ft

[W. S. Kent Hughes recording 1 of 2] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000047) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-001

1 item, Audio magnetic reel

[W. S. Kent Hughes recording 2 of 2] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000048) - Shelf-Short OH2-1-001

1 item, Audio magnetic reel

Introduction Talk 50 and over session Radio 3UZ. 25/03/1956, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012906) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, 7" disc 33? RPM, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Recorded John West's Studio

appears to be a blank disc (Item NLA.MS-SAV012907) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, 7" disc blank?, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Talk given to 50 and over session Radio 3UZ. 25/03/1956, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012908) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 12" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Budget speech 1956 re State finances versus Federal, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012909) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 12" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Speech on New Guinea, House of Representatives (Item NLA.MS-SAV012910) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 12" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Olympics opening Speech Melbourne Cricket Ground 22/11/1956, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012911) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, 33? RPM Long Playing 10" disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Sir W. S. Kent Hughes on 'Meets the Press' (Item NLA.MS-SAV012912) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 33?RPM Long Playing Microgroove, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Olympic Marching Song (Item NLA.MS-SAV012913) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, AWA, Vinyl discs

AWM 1575. 3 mins 58secs

Full recording of the last day of the Melbourne Olympic Games 8/12/1956; Opening speech by W S Kent Hughes and remarks by New Zealand visitors, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012914) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 10" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Same as NLA.MS-SAV012915 and NLA.MS-SAV012916?

Full recording of the last day of the Melbourne Olympic Games 8/12/1956; Opening speech by W S Kent Hughes and remarks by New Zealand visitors, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012915) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 10" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Same as NLA.MS-SAV012914 and NLA.MS-SAV012916?. (Sides numbered 1 and 2)

Full recording of the last day of the Melbourne Olympic Games 8/12/1956; Opening speech by W S Kent Hughes and remarks by New Zealand visitors, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012916) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 10" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Same as NLA.MS-SAV012914 and NLA.MS-SAV012915? (Sides numbered 3 and 4)

1956 Melbourne Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, 1956 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012917) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, 10" Long Playing disc, Vinyl discs

Sir Wilfrid hits out at Red Menace Canberra' House of Representatives debate 10/04/1957, 1957 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012918) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 12" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

John West's Christmas Party 1958 disc 1 of 2, 1958 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012919) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 12" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Sides numbered 1 and 2

John West's Christmas Party 1958 disc 2 of 2, 1958 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012920) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, Audex Royal Sydney 12" Long Playing disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

Sides numbered 3 and 4

Unveiling and dedication of Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, Anzac Parade Canberra 19/04/1968, 1968 (Item NLA.MS-SAV012921) - Shelf-Tall OH2-9-012

1 item, 12" disc, Lacquer (instantaneous discs)

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