Papers [manuscript]. 1939-1946.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1939-1946.

Contains: a film (1946) of Lady Moore's wedding which look place in Sir Paul Hasluck's home in New York in 1946; a scrap album (1943-1944) which includes newspaper cuttings on Lady Moore's appointment as a diplomatic staff cadet, letters and telegrams of congratulations (including a letter from Miles Franklin); and two closed boxes of correspondence and diaries, 1939-1946.

35 cm. (2 boxes and 7 cm.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7049658

Libraries Australia

Related Entities

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Moore, John Sir, 1915-

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A former President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1973-1985), Moore was Second Secretary with the Australian Mission to the United Nations in New York from 1946-1947, and practised law at the New South Wales Bar between 1947-1959. He served with the AIF during World War II, and was made an Honorary Captain in 1945. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1916-1988. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225794039 ...

Moore, Julia Lady, 1925?-1986.

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Lady Julia Moore (nee Drake-Brockman) was the daughter of West Australian novelist Henrietta Drake-Brockman. In 1946 she married John Moore (later Sir John Moore, President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission). Lady Moore was one of three women selected in 1943 for appointment as a career diplomat. She later worked as a social worker. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1939-1946. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 224543579 ...

Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954

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Miles Franklin was born in 1879, a fifth-generation Australian, and grew up on grazing properties run by her family in the Monaro region of New South Wales. At nineteen, she wrote 'My Brilliant Career', an important study of the opportunities and expectations faced by young Australian women in the 1890s. She left Australia in 1906, travelling first to America and then to England. During the 1920s in England, she wrote pseudonymously a series of six well-received novels. In 1932 Franklin returned...

Hasluck, Paul, Sir

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Historian, diplomat (1941-1947), Liberal Party Member of the House of Representatives for the W.A. seat of Curtin (1949-1969), Minister for Territories (1951-1963), Minister for External Affairs (1964-1969), Governor-General of Australia (1969-1974). C.H. Wedgewood was an anthropologist and academic. From the description of Letter, 1953 [manuscript]. 1953. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 762850129 Historian, diplomat (1941-1947), Liberal Party Member of the House ...