Guide to the Papers of Frederick Blakeney
MS 8476
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Frederick Blakeney
- Title
- Papers of Frederick Blakeney
- Date Range
- 1942-1986
- Collection Number
- MS 8476
- Extent
- 0.75 metres (5 boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- NLA
Introduction
Scope and Content Note
The papers relate to Blakeney's career as a diplomat. The collection includes file copies of correspondence written while Blakeney was the Australian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany the U.S.S.R. and the Netherlands appointment diaries photograph albums miscellaneous photocopies typescripts notes roneoed and printed material.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1179432).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Frederick Blakeney National Library of Australia MS 8476 [series and/or file number]'.
Biographical Note
Frederick Blakeney was born in 1913. He was educated at the Marist Brothers; High School in Darlinghurst Sydney and the Sydney University.
He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1946 after a brief period as a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at Sydney University earlier that year. In his diplomatic career he held the following positions: Australian Minister to Cambodia Vietnam and Laos (1957-59) and Australian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (1962-68) the U.S.S.R. (1968-71) and the Netherlands (1974-77) and the Australian Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva (1977-78). He also held various senior positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Blakeney died in May 1990 survived by his wife Marjorie and a daughter.
Reference: Who's who in Australia 1980 (p. 111)
Item Descriptions
Correspondence, 1963-76 (File) - Box 1
The files contain copies of Blakeney's despatches from Bonn and Moscow copies of Blakeney's letters while he was Ambassador to the Netherlands and letters received by Blakeney.
The correspondents include Lord Casey Robert H. Estabrook W.K. Flanagan Sir Gordon Freeth F.T. Homer ans Sir James Plimsoll.
Typescripts of lectures and talks by Blakeney (File) - Box 4
The world scene; March 1973
Review of international situation as background to defence policy; delivered by Blakeney to the students of the Industrial
Mobilisation Course in Sydney Westernport and Nowra 1973-74
The Trans-Atlantic drift; published in Quadrant March 1984
The Atlantic Alliance and the USSR; [n.d.]
Some aspects of Soviet foreign policy; [n.d.]
Notebooks containing notes on Milton and other subjects Credentials for Blakeney's appointments as the Australian Minister to Cambodia 1957 and Vietnam and Laos 1957-59
Roneoed material used by Blakeney when he was a Teaching Fellow in Modern History at the University of Sydney 1946
Typescript entitled ;Gorbachev on foreign policy and defence; by Geoffrey Jukes Department of International Relations Australian National University 1986
Miscellaneous personal documents including a photograph of Blakeney taken in Kazan in front of Lenin's house 1942-46