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  • Title
    Frank Graham - personal papers, ca. 1907-1988
  • Call number
    MLMSS 6314/1-5
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1907 - 1988
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    151956
  • Scope and Content
    1962-1985; Correspondence, being mainly copies and drafts of letters sent (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1923-1986; Letters received mainly from J. B. Chifley, John Collocott, Pat Graham, Oriel Gray, Ron Harwood, L. W. (Bill) Kemnitzer, Alice Lanigan and Edith Rose (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1943-1988; 'Letters from close friends and relatives' including Arthur Butler, Lindsay and Dawne Churchland, Irene Frances Combet, Adrienne Fuselle, Gitta and Hedley Gates, John Graham, Dorothy and Ted Jones, Joan Kelk, L. W. (Bill) and Ruth Kemnitzer, Matt Kennett, Grace Kirkwood, Norman Leal, Frederick Rose, Malcolm Salmon, Ruth Struwe, and Lyndsay and Phillip Vance (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1969-1987; Letters received from Lloyd and Marjorie Rees, 1969-1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1970-1983; 'Australia-U.S.S.R. Society' (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1969-1970; '[Communist] Party & Alf Watt/& Edgar Ross mostly/Alf Watts material' (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1968-1971; '[Communist] Party Controversy' (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1959-1971; '[Communist] Party Controversy/Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union./Copies of articles by Rupert Lockwood &/others - Attacks on Communism' (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/1)
    1984-1988; 'Frank/& Carers/Edina/Ageing', being medical and nursing papers (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/2)
    1959-1973; 'Functions', being mainly invitations to social and political functions at the Graham's home, 59 St Thomas Street (Bronte, N.S.W.), and invitations received (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/2)
    Date unknown; 'Garden' mainly concerning Graham's vegetable garden (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/2)
    1973-1976; 'Current/Horizont/Fraser' including correspondence with East German periodical, Horizont, 1973, and newscuttings concerning the Whitlam Government and Malcome Fraser (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/2)
    1917, 1935-197-; 'Jokes, Recitations' (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/2)
    1982-1983; 'Maritime Branch - Socialist Party of Australia' (Call No.: ML MSS 6314/2)
    1967-1971; 'Maritime Branch & CPA Committee Dispute' (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/2)
    1970-1971; 'Maritime Branch - CPA Controversy' (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/2)
    1933-1988; Membership badges and cards for, among others, Amalgamated Engineering Union and Socialist Party of Australia (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/3)
    1914-1984; Miscellaneous papers including birth and marriage certificates, and photoprints of Frank and Pat Graham on their wedding day, 25 Aug. 1956, and during their trip to Norfolk Island, Sep. 1968 (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/3)
    1950-1984; '# 2 Miscellaneous', being papers originally from a black clip folder mainly concerning financial and legal matters such as household accounts, employment, income tax, insurance, property and the pension (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/3)
    ca. 1973-ca. 1985; Notebooks (2) (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/3)
    1948; Papers concerning application for position of Secretary, Taxation Officers' Branch of the Federated Clerks' Union of Australia (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/4)
    1972-1987; Papers mainly concerning 1974 European trip (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/4)
    1925-1948, 1982, 1986; Personal scrapbook concerning involvement in the labour movement, including political ephemera, compiled by Pat Graham from Frank Graham's papers (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/4)
    1982-1986; 'Retired Shipping Clerks' Association' (Call No.: MLMSS 6134/4)
    ca. 1920-1981; Printed material, including books, newscuttings, newsletters, journals, maps and pamphlets, featuring Selected Poems (1951) by Bartlett Adamson; 50 Years of Labor: Golden Jubilee Souvenir of the Australian Labor Party, 1890-1940 (1940); Australian Left Review, No. 51 1976, inscribed by Malcom Salmon; 'The Making of an Australian Communist', being transcript of an interview with Rupert Lockwood by Tim Bowden, broadcast on A.B.C. Radio, 16 Sep. 1973; souvenir programme: 'To meet the Robesons', Paddington Town Hall, 10 Nov. 1960, organised by the N.S.W. Peace Committee for International Co-operation and Disarmament; and pamphlets: The Fate of Europe by Ilya Ehrenburg and The Russians as I saw them (1944) by Edgar Snow, The Story of Government Enterprise in Australia (Jan. 1945) by L. L. Sharkey and E. W. Campbell, Wall Street Attacks Australia [1947] and Bankers Backed Hitler (1948) by Rupert Lockwood, The Story of the Sharkey Trial [1949] by Harold Rich, Guilty Men Again by Len Fox (Feb. 1950) and Petrov Cross-Examined [1955?] (Call No.: MLMSS 6314/5)

    Author/Artist entries:
    Adamson, Bartlett, 1884-1951
    Australian Labor Party
    Australia-U.S.S.R. Society. Sydney Branch
    Butler, Arthur
    Campbell, E. W. (Ernest William), 1909-
    Chifley, J. B. (Joseph Benedict), 1885-1951
    Churchland, Dawne
    Churchland, Lindsay, 1921-
    Collocott, John
    Combet, Irene Frances
    Communist Party of Australia
    Communist Party of Australia. Maritime Branch
    Erenburg, Il**i*a, 1891-1967
    Federated Clerks' Union of Australia. New South Wales Branch
    Federated Clerks' Union of Australia. Taxation Officers' Branch
    Fox, Len, 1905-
    Fuselle, Adrienne
    Gates, Gitta
    Gates, Hedley
    Graham, John Mills, 1933-
    Graham, Pat
    Gray, Oriel, 1920-
    Harwood, Ron
    Horizont
    Jones, Dorothy L. M.
    Jones, Ted
    Kelk, Joan
    Kemnitzer, L. W. (Bill)
    Kemnitzer, Ruth
    Kennett, Matt
    Kirkwood, Grace
    Lanigan, Alice
    Leal, Norman
    Lockwood, Rupert, 1908-1997
    Rees, Lloyd, 1895-1988
    Rees, Marjorie
    Retired Shipping Officers' Association. Sydney Branch
    Rose, Edith
    Rose, Frederick G. G. (Frederick George Godfrey), 1915-1991
    Ross, Edgar
    Salmon, Malcolm, 1925-1986
    Sharkey, L.L. (Lawrence Louis), 1898-1967
    Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972
    Socialist Party of Australia. Maritime Branch
    Socialist Party of Australia. Sydney Branch
    State Labor Party (N.S.W.)
    Struwe, Ruth
    Vance, Lyndsay
    Vance, Phillip
    Watt, Alf, 1907-1987
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