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Collection Summary

Creator
William Douglass Forsyth
Title
Papers of William Douglass Forsyth
Date Range
1875-1993
Collection Number
MS 5700
Extent
15.3 metres (102 ms boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 large folio box)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Forsyth made a particular point of collecting and keeping papers and other materials that he wrote and received throughout his life. The result is a large and varied collection of papers comprising a comprehensive record of his life and career.

Forsyth's first job after post-graduate study at Melbourne and Oxford Universities was as a Research Secretary with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Victorian Branch. He wrote reviews of Pacific affairs and edited the Austral Asiatic Bulletin published by the Institute. On the outbreak of the Pacific war, William Macmahon Ball, then in charge of radio for the Department of Information, asked Forsyth to take the position of officer-in-charge of the Department's 'background service'. Forsyth collected and compiled secret and confidential intelligence information from the three Service Intelligence Departments and External Affairs. Papers from this period of his life include articles on Pacific and international affairs, research papers on migration and population, copies of the Austral Asiatic Bulletin and correspondence and papers from the Department of Information.

In 1942 Forsyth joined the fledgling Department of External Affairs where he stayed until his retirement in 1969; his career effectively paralleling the growth of the Department and the associated development of Australian foreign policy. This period of his life is well documented by a large collection of general and personal correspondence as well as a substantial amount of reports, research and policy papers, despatches and other working materials. Forsyth's correspondence is a lively mixture of official, personal and unofficial letters and gives a vivid first-hand account of what was happening in the Department both officially and behind the scenes. He kept carbon copies of all his personal letters, typed and handwritten, as well as file copies of official memoranda, reports and so on. He was adept at the use of unofficial channels of communication via handwritten or personally typed letters marked 'personal and confidential' which were not usually destined to form part of the official record. Forsyth not only kept copies of his own 'off the record' letters, he also kept 'personal and confidential' letters he received from colleagues.

Correspondence starts with his first research papers on the Pacific, special assignments in the 1940s, through his long period as Australia's Permanent Representative with the United Nations General Assembly, two terms as Secretary-General with the South Pacific Commission, and his Ambassadorial postings in Vietnam and Lebanon. Correspondents include Joy Forsyth, Russell Forsyth, Sir Ernest Scott, William Macmahon Ball, Sir Frederic Eggleston, T.W. Cutts, Brian Hill, Sir James Plimsoll, Sir Walter Crocker, Sir John Crawford, John Gunther, H.E. Maude, Guy Harriott and other journalists, academics and colleagues from the Department of External Affairs.

After retirement in 1969 Forsyth wrote numerous magazine and newspaper articles on the Pacific Islands affairs. He worked as an occasional consultant to the Department of Foreign Affairs on Pacific islands issues (1973-74). From 1971-73 he wrote a book 'Post Colonial Pacific' for the Australian Institute of International Affairs. The unpublished manuscript was given to the Library in 1981 along with the associated research materials. There is a substantial and comprehensive body of material on the South Pacific Commission and the Pacific islands. The material covers the early history of the Commission, its expansion in the 1960's and the 'de-colonisation' of the Commission in the 1970s.

From the late 1970s until his death in 1993, Forsyth's major project was researching and writing his three-part autobiography: 'Recollections of a maverick diplomat'. The first book, 'In old Australia', 1841-1941, was completed in 1982. It records Forsyth's family history and the early part of his life in the Western District of Victoria. He drew upon his extensive collection of family and local history documents in writing this book. The second book, 'The Evatt years', 1942-51, was largely written although not completed before his death. His primary source material was the large correspondence and other materials he had accumulated during his career. He also obtained copies of additional source material from the Australian Archives and the Department of Foreign Affairs historical documents section. The third book 'Pride and fall', 1951-69 was not written apart from a draft introduction and a small collection of notes.

In the 1990s, Forsyth had difficulty in typing and writing and resorted to taping information for his autobiography. The tapes have been transcribed but not all have been edited. The tapes contain additional material for some chapters of 'The Evatt years'. The introduction to the third book 'Pride and fall', 1951-69, exists only in a transcribed tape. Forsyth lodged the manuscripts, research materials, drafts, tape recordings and transcriptions of 'Recollections of a maverick diplomat' with the Library.

Forsyth's remained interested in international, national and local issues during his retirement and post retirement correspondence reflects this range of interests. There is material on Pacific islands consultancy work and various writing projects undertaken in retirement. There are a number of requests for and referral of information used in the writing of 'Recollections' usually 'The Evatt years' which involved exchanges with academics and journalists on political and policy aspects of the 'Evatt' years. There is correspondence with former colleagues, friends and family and .

In retirement Forsyth accumulated many folders of press clippings (often annotating them extensively). He wrote many letters to newspapers, he jotted down notes and opinions, collected quotations, book reviews and copies of magazine articles or extracts from books. He wrote a number of newspaper articles many of which were published, these articles have been placed with associated papers and subjects, for example, writings on the Pacific Islands are with Pacific materials. There is a small series of writings comprising published post - graduate theses and miscellaneous writings.

This collection also features a sizeable and varied selection of official and personal photographs from Forsyth's career including the United Nations, Vietnam, Lebanon, the South Pacific Commission and the Pacific islands. There are some early photographs from special assignments in the 1940s notably Japanese surrender at Timor and the Far Eastern Advisory Commission.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1104502).

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 William Douglass Forsyth, National Library of Australia, MS 5700, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Provenance

The papers were donated to the Library in several small instalments during the 1970s and 1980s and one large instalment after Forsyth's death in March 1993.

The National library holds an interview with Forsyth recorded by Mel Pratt in 1972 at ORAL TRC 121/27. A copy of this interview is in the Forsyth manuscript collection (324 pages). The interview is available for access with the exception of a few specified pages.

Arrangement

The Library has arranged Forsyth's general and personal correspondence in a broad chronological order following his career in the Department.

Family letters were usually but not always kept in separate sequences. Most family letters are included with Forsyth's personal documents, however, some family letters can be found in personal and general correspondence. Sometimes Forsyth marked runs of correspondence 'personal' or 'confidential' or 'general'. This marking is not always an indicator of the nature of the material; the Library has retained Forsyth's markings noting that there is major overlapping between the categories.

The Library has integrated the photographs with their associated papers, for example, United Nations photographs are with United Nations papers

Biographical Note

William Douglass Forsyth was born in Casterton, Western Victoria, on 5 January 1909 and died in Canberra on 3 March 1993.

Early life

Department of External Affairs

Retirement

Item Descriptions

Series 1. Personal documents, 1875-1990s

This series includes birth, marriage and death certificates, original degree certificates, testimonials, collections of biographical information, school and university memorabilia, a transcript (324 pages) of the oral history interview recorded in 1972, souvenirs, medical notes, fragments of verses and personal writings and so on. Family letters dating from the 1930s, arranged in broad chronological order, include carbon and original copies of correspondence between Forsyth and various family members. Some family correspondence is also contained in general and personal correspondence. This series also contains local and family history documents dating from 1875 on the Forsyth Family and the Western District of Victoria.

Birth, marriage and death certificates, 1909 - 1990 (File 1) - Box 1

Family photographs, c. 1920s-1930s (File 2) - Box 1

School reports, 1921, 1923-1924 (File 3) - Box 1

School days: Coleraine, memorabilia, 1915 - 1927 (File 4) - Box 1

Donation of Forsyth Family memorabilia to Sovereign Hill Museum, Ballarat, 1978 (File 5) - Box 1

Associated correspondence: academic degrees, teaching, 1930 - 1947 (File 6) - Box 1

Certificates, testimonials, reference reports, 1930 - 1940 (File 7) - Box 1

Melbourne University memorabilia, 1927 - 1935 (File 8) - Box 1

Australian history notes: Ernest Scott's lectures, Melbourne University, 1928 (File 9) - Box 2

Biographical notes, curriculum vitae, c. 1930s-90s (File 10) - Box 2

Teaching and lecture notes, 1933 - 1938 (File 11) - Box 2

Balliol College, Oxford: memorabilia, 1935 - 1978 (File 12) - Box 2

Personal health, 1937 - 1971 (File 13) - Box 2

Inquiry re military service, 1939 (File 14) - Box 2

Souvenirs (invitations, certificates, letters, poems), 1939-1950s (File 15) - Box 2

Honours, awards, including OBE, 1955 - 1987 (File 16) - Box 3

Will, 1956 - 1961 (File 17) - Box 3

Family correspondence, 1925 - 1947 (File 18) - Box 3

Family correspondence, 1945 - 1951 (File 19) - Box 3

Family correspondence, - 1957 (File 20) - Box 3

Personal writings and verses, 1956 - 1984 (File 21) - Box 3

House purchase documents (Yarralumla), 1957 - 1973 (File 22) - Box 4

Education arrangements (Katherine Forsyth), 1961 - 1962 (File 23) - Box 4

Wedding arrangements (Katherine Forsyth and Emilio Ortiz), 1963 - 1964 (File 24) - Box 4

Valerie Forsyth, swimming, New Caledonia, 1965 (File 25) - Box 4

Sale of car, 1984 (File 26) - Box 4

Apologia and epitaph, 1988 - 1992 (File 27) - Box 4

Family correspondence, death notice of brother and funeral arrangements, 1984; 1992 (File 28) - Box 4

Includes The Fall of Singapore liftout, The Weekend Australian, 15-16 February 1992.

Correspondence with brother and sister, 1980 - 1991 (File 29) - Box 4

Scrapbook of father (File 30) - Box 5

Photocopied newsclippings of Western Victoria, 1900s-1940s, family and local history papers, notes, clippings, collected 1970s (File 31) - Box 6

Forsyth Family history: 'Betty's notes', collected 1970s (File 32) - Box 6

Forsyth Family history: (i) Mary Young's copied notes, collected 1970s (ii) Harriet Forsyth (née Douglass) (File 33) - Box 6

Family history notes and papers, Rowchester branch (including birth and marriage certificates of father), 1871 - 1979 (File 34) - Box 6

Instaurator Ruinae, Family history notes and papers, Rowchester branch, 1876 - 1985 (File 35) - Box 6

Instaurator Ruinae is the Forsyth clan motto

Family history including Sherry Family papers and correspondence, 1956 - 1984 (File 36) - Box 6

Family history notes and correspondence, 1956 - 1989 (File 37) - Box 6

Personal family letters, 1971 CLOSED (File 38) - Box 7

Confidential personal information from wallet (family) 1970s, 1980s CLOSED (File 39) - Box 7

Personal information 1970s, 1980s CLOSED (File 40) - Box 7

Oral history transcripts. Confidential pages 244-45, 283-85, 319-321 CLOSED (File 41) - Box 7

Background briefing for oral history interview, 1971; 1987 (File 42) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 1, side 1, 1972 (File 43) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 1, side 2, 1972 (File 44) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 2, side 1, 1972 (File 45) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 2, side 2, 1972 (File 46) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 3, side 1, 1972 (File 47) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 3, side 2, 1972 (File 48) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 4, side 1, 1972 (File 49) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 4, side 2, 1972 (File 50) - Box 8

Oral history transcript, tape 5, 1972 (File 51) - Box 8

Certificate (matriculation) and degrees, 1927 - 1956 (File 1a) - Folio-Box 2

Series 2. Diaries and appointment books, 1954 - 1992

This series of diaries and appointment books contain addresses, appointment notes, reminders and telephone numbers. There are gaps when presumably diaries were lost or kept elsewhere. They contain very little personal information.

Diaries, 1954 - 1959 (File 1) - Box 9

Diary, 1954 (Item 1) - Box 9
Diary, 1955 (Item 2) - Box 9
Diary, 1956 (Item 3) - Box 9
Diary, 1957 (Item 4) - Box 9
Diary, 1958 (Item 5) - Box 9
Diary, 1959 (Item 6) - Box 9

Diaries, 1963 - 1964 (File 2) - Box 9

Diary, 1963 (Item 1) - Box 9
Diary, 1964 (Item 2) - Box 9

Diaries, 1965 - 1966 (File 3) - Box 9

Diary, 1965 (Item 1) - Box 9
Diary, 1966 (Item 2) - Box 9

Diaries, 1967 - 1969 (File 4) - Box 9

Diary, 1967 (Item 1) - Box 9
Diary, 1967 - 1968 (Item 2) - Box 9
Diary (i), 1969 (Item 3) - Box 9
Diary (ii), 1969 (Item 4) - Box 9
Address book, 1966 (Item 5) - Box 9

Diaries, 1970-1979 (with gaps) (File 5) - Box 9

Diary, 1970 (Item 1) - Box 9
Diary, 1971 (Item 2) - Box 9
Diary, 1972 (Item 3) - Box 9
Diary (i), 1975 (Item 4) - Box 9
Diary (ii), 1975 (Item 5) - Box 9

Unused. Not digitised.

Diary, 1979 (Item 6) - Box 9
Address book, c.1979 (Item 7) - Box 9

Diaries, 1980-1986 (with gaps) (File 6) - Box 10

Diary, 1980 (Item 1) - Box 10
Diary, 1981 (Item 2) - Box 10
Diary, 1982 (Item 3) - Box 10
Diary, 1984 (Item 4) - Box 10
Diary, 1986 (Item 5) - Box 10

Unused. Not digitised.

Diaries, 1990 - 1992 (File 7) - Box 10

Diary, 1990 (Item 1) - Box 10
Diary, 1991 (Item 2) - Box 10
Diary, 1992 (Item 3) - Box 10

Series 3. Early research papers and articles, 1936 - 1951

Forsyth prepared a number of research papers on demographic and social aspects of migration during his time as a Research Fellow at Melbourne and Oxford Universities and part-time Research Secretary at the Institute of International Affairs (Victorian Branch) in 1938.

Information papers on population and migration, pre-war, Australian Institute of International Affairs group, Melbourne, 1936 - 1938 (File 1) - Box 10

Includes: Population problems in Australia by F W Eggleston, 1936; The Growth of Australian Population by F W Eggleston and G Packer, 1937.

Papers on migration and population, 1938 - 1939 (File 2) - Box 10

Memorandum: refugee migration to Australia, 1939; 1981 (File 3) - Box 10

Population and international relations, c. 1940 (File 4) - Box 10

Population and international relations, c. 1940 (File 5) - Box 10

Series 4. Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1938 - 1943

In 1940-41 Forsyth was full-time Research Secretary at the Australian Institute for International Affairs (Victorian Branch) researching and writing on Far Eastern and Pacific Affairs and editing the Austral-Asiatic Bulletin. During this time he produced and published a number of papers for the Institute.

The series includes copies of Austral-Asiatic Bulletin and Digest, The Far East - a digest of periodicals, World Affairs - papers, Australian Institute of International Affairs Newsletter and Australian Home Front.

AIIA (Victorian Branch), 1938-1942: personal recollections, 1974 (File 1) - Box 11

AIIA Research Section reports, 1939 - 1943 (File 2) - Box 11

AIIA publications, 1940 - 1942 (File 3) - Box 11

AIIA publications, 1940 - 1941 (File 4) - Box 11

Series 5. Department of Information, 1941 - 1942

In 1941 Forsyth joined the Department of Information (Victorian Branch) where he collected and compiled intelligence information from the three Service Intelligence Departments and the Department of External Affairs. He provided daily background bulletins to the national press and radio. This series contains his handwritten and typed background notes and analysis, Departmental memoranda, cable summaries and External Affairs weekly intelligence summaries. Forsyth added 1972 press clippings covering the accelerated release of war documents and the de-classification of United Kingdom documents with these war time papers.

Lord Gort's despatches [John Vereker], 1941 (File 1) - Box 11

Department of External Affairs, information summaries, 1941 - 1942 (File 2) - Box 11

Netherland East Indies information, 1941 - 1942 (File 3) - Box 11

Daily notes, Dominion Office war cables, 1941 - 1942 (File 4) - Box 11

Press Conferences, 1942 (File 5) - Box 11

Special Background letters, 1942 (File 6) - Box 12

Background Service, confidential letters, 1942 (File 7) - Box 12

Background notes, 1942 (File 8) - Box 12

'This Week of War', broadcasts, 1941 - 1942 (File 9) - Box 12

'This Week of War', broadcasts, 1942 (File 10) - Box 12

Press clippings: release of declassified UK World War II documents, US attitudes to Australia, 1946 - 1982 (File 11) - Box 12

Rough notes for Background, 'Hate' broadcasts, 1942 (File 12) - Box 12

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1941 - 1942 (File 13) - Box 12

Series 6. Department of External Affairs, 1930s-1978

In December 1942 Forsyth joined the Department of External Affairs as a research officer studying Australian interests in South East Asia and the Pacific. He then moved into political work in 1945. From 1945 to 1948 he represented the Department on a number of special assignments. These included the United Nations Conference on International Organisation in San Francisco (1945), political adviser to the Australian Force Commander, Portuguese Timor, member of the Australian delegation to the Far Eastern Advisory Commission (FEAC) in 1945 and Leader of the Australian delegation to FEAC in Tokyo 1946. He attended a Population Conference in New York in 1946, the South Seas Regional Commission in February 1947 and undertook a special mission to Java in May 1947.

This series includes handwritten diary notes, draft reports, letters, photographs and miscellaneous notes. A full account and description of the special assignments can also be found in the relevant chapters and notes of 'The Evatt years' (Series 15). In August 1947 Forsyth was appointed Counsellor at the Australian embassy in Washington, but in practice he spent most of his time in New York at the General Assembly and other United Nations bodies. United Nations material from this period is included in series 8.

Correspondents include Sir Frederick Eggleston, Jawaharlal Nehru, Paul Hasluck, Mark Ridgway, W.J. Hudson and David Plant.

Career press clippings, 1930s-1950s (File 1) - Box 13

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1942 - 1947 (File 2) - Box 13

Chungking: letters from Sir Frederic Eggleston to Forsyth, 1942 - 1943 (File 3) - Box 13

Chungking: letters from Forsyth to Sir Frederic Eggleston, (photocopies), 1940 - 1948 (File 4) - Box 13

Chungking letters, copies and typescripts, 1942 - 1943 (File 5) - Box 13

Sir Frederic Eggleston, background info and correspondence with National Library 1978 (File 6) - Box 13

Pacific area research report no.4, March/April 1943 (File 7) - Box 13

Articles by Forsyth in Current Notes, 1943 (File 8) - Box 13

Portuguese Timor, 1945: Japanese surrender arrangements (File 9) - Box 14

Portuguese Timor, 1945: photocopies of documents, 1943 - 1945 (File 10) - Box 14

United Nations, Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945 (File 11) - Box 14

Handwritten notes by Forsyth on Trusteeship for H.V. Evatt, May 1945 (File 12) - Box 14

Trusteeship working documents, San Francisco, May 1945 (File 13) - Box 14

Far Eastern Advisory Commission (Washington), photographs, Oct. 1945 (File 14) - Box 14

Official papers, including credentials, 1945 - 1946 (File 15) - Box 14

United Nations luncheon menu (Oct 1946), and issue of United Nations pictorial (n.d.) (File 16) - Box 15

Far Eastern Advisory Commission to Japan , Tokyo, Jan/Feb 1946 (File 17) - Box 15

Population Association of America Conference, New York, Oct 1946 (File 18) - Box 15

Trusteeship: United Nations draft report, 1946 (File 19) - Box 15

Special assignment to Java, May/June 1947 (File 20) - Box 15

Proceedings of the South Seas Commission Conference, including agreement to establish the South Pacific Commission, Jan-Feb 1947 (File 21) - Box 15

United Nations Trusteeship speeches and papers, 1947 - 1952 (File 22) - Box 15

Correspondence on trusteeship with W. Hudson, W.L. Holland,D. Plant, 1948 - 1974 (File 23) - Box 16

Department of State publication, The inauguration of the Trusteeship System of the United Nations, 1947 (File 24) - Box 16

Japanese peace settlement informal talk (top secret classification), 1947 (File 25) - Box 16

Copies of official documents on international trusteeships, particularly in the Pacific and Israel, 1945 - 1948 (File 26) - Box 16

Series 7. South Pacific Commission correspondence and other papers, 1948 - 1973

At the end of 1948 Forsyth became the first Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission (SPC) which had been established under an agreement signed, at Canberra on 6 February 1947, by representatives of the governments which administered the territories in the Pacific. The Commission's role was technical and research oriented with a focus on health, education, agriculture and economic developments. Papers in this series cover the establishment of the Headquarters at Noumea, the setting up of administrative machinery, the development of work programs and reporting mechanisms and the role of the Research Council. A full account and description of these years is contained in 'The Evatt years' (Series 15).

The correspondents include John Kerr, Laurence McIntyre, Guy Harriott, E.W.P. Chinnery, Ron Webb, K.C.O. Shann, J.K. Murray, Alfred Brookes, H.E. Maude, Howard MacMillan, E. Massal, Trevor Pyman, Baas Becking, Peter Heydon, John Burton, John Gunther, Felix Keesing, James Plimsoll, Sir Frederic Eggleston, Alistair McIntosh, J.G. Crawford and J.R. Halligan.

Papers, including agreement to establish the South Pacific Commission, 1947 (File 1) - Box 16

Correspondence with Trevor Pyman, 1948 - 1950 (File 2) - Box 16

Forsyth's appointment, and leave from Department of External Affairs, 1948 - 1951 (File 3) - Box 16

Early organisational matters (File 4) - Box 16

Internal memoranda re Deputy Chairman Research Council, 1949 - 1950 (File 5) - Box 17

Photographs of 2nd and 3rd Session, Sydney, 1948 - 1949 (File 6) - Box 17

Two b&w photographs.

Personal correspondence, 1950 (File 7) - Box 17

Copies of papers for Deputy Chairman Research Council, 1949 - 1950 (File 8) - Box 17

Correspondence with full-time members, 1949 - 1950 (File 9) - Box 17

Setting up the Pentagon at Noumea, 1948 - 1949 (File 10) - Box 17

Reconstruction of Pentagon building, 1949 (File 11) - Box 17

Establishment of headquarters at Anse Vata, 1949 (File 12) - Box 17

Appointment of a translator/interpreter, 1950 (File 13) - Box 18

Termination of appointment, including evaluation of South Pacific Commission, 1951 (File 14) - Box 18

Research Institute correspondence (Dr Baas Becking), 1948 - 1950 (File 15) - Box 18

Work of the Commission (first printed report of SPC, first meeting of Research Council, first Quarterly Bulletin), 1949 - 1950 (File 16) - Box 18

Work correspondence, 1949 - 1950 (File 17) - Box 18

Work correspondence, 1949 - 1950 (File 18) - Box 18

Personal correspondence, 1949 - 1950 (File 19) - Box 18

Report of the Research Council, 1st meeting, 1949 (File 20) - Box 19

Report of the Research Council, 1st meeting, 1949 (File 21) - Box 19

Report of the Research Council, 2nd meeting, 1950 (File 22) - Box 19

Various documents, 1946 - 1951 (File 23) - Box 19

Includes conference reports, meeting typsescript, and analysis reports.

"First issues": reports 1948, 1950, and Quarterly bulletins, 1951, 1948 - 1951 (File 24) - Box 19

Includes Report of the South Pacific Comission for the Year 1948; Report of the Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission on the First South Pacific Conference, 1950. Also includes SPC Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 1 Nos. 1 - 2, 1951.

Original staff circulars, May-June 1949 (File 25) - Box 19

Papers: Proceedings of the South Pacific Commission, 1947 - 1961 (File 26) - Box 19

Reports, 1948 - 1949 (File 27) - Box 20

Includes Reports of the South Pacific Commission, 1948, 1949.

Reports, 1949 - 1952 (File 28) - Box 20

Includes Reports of the South Pacific Commission, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952.

Reports, 1950 - 1956 (File 29) - Box 20

Includes Report of the Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission on the First South Pacific Conference, 1950; Second South Pacific Conference, report by the Secretary-General L.B.Freeston, 1953. Also includes Proceedings of the Twelth Session : Report of the Research Council - Fifth Meeting, 1953; Fourteenth session Proceedings : Research Council - Seventh Meeting Report, 1956.

Reports of the South Pacific Commission Conference, Canberra, 1947 (File 30) - Box 20

Reports of the South Pacific Commission Conference, Fiji, 1950 (File 31) - Box 20

Correspondence and copies of interim Secretariat papers, 1947 - 1948 (File 32) - Box 20

Research Council of the SPC - research program, reports and decisions of the Commission, 1949 - 1950 (File 33) - Box 20

Research Council of the SPC - research program, reports and decisions of the Commission, 1949 - 1950 (File 34) - Box 20

Report on Carribbean Commission, 1946 - 1947 (File 35) - Box 21

Work program: progress reports and circulars, 1949 - 1951 (File 36) - Box 21

South Pacific Commission Quarterly Bulletin, 1951 - 1952 (File 37) - Box 21

Includes SPC Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 1 Nos. 1 - 3, 1951, Vol. 2 Nos. 1, 3-4, 1952.

List of participants and statements of first South Pacific Conference, Suva, 1950 (File 38) - Box 21

Research projects reports, 1951 (File 39) - Box 21

Includes Project S.6 : Survey of Linguistic Research, Volume II - Biography, by A. Capell; Project S.6 : Survey of Linguistic Research, Volume III - Maps, by A. Capell; Moturiki Community Development Project (S.9) Interim Report No. 2, by Howard Hayden; Conference of Experts on Filariasis and Elephantiasis, 1951. Also includes article Moturiki Tries Community Development, Pacific Islands Monthly, August 1951.

Reports and early documents, 1951 - 1967 (File 40) - Box 21

Includes South Pacific Commission : Twenty-Ninth Session, 1966; South Pacific Comission : Technical Meeting on Agricultural Education, 1967. Also includes Mass Education in the South Pacific, News and Information Bureau, 1951.

Reports and early documents, 1970 - 1973 (File 41) - Box 21

Includes report Fiji as a Regional Trader, by I..J. Fairburn, 1973. Also includes Western Samoa : Second Five Year Development Plan 1971 - 1975, Department of Economic Development, 1970.

Supplements to progress reports, 1950 (File 42) - Box 22

Includes mixed reports on economic development and social development.

Supplements to progress reports, 1950 (File 43) - Box 22

Includes mixed reports on economic development.

Early history of South Pacific Commission (notes and typed drafts) by Forsyth (File 44) - Box 22

Loose Photographs, 1949 - 1951 (File 44a) - Box 22

Three b&w photographs.

Work program: reviews of projects recommended by the Research Council, 1949 - 1950 (File 45-46) - Box 22

Photographs, 1949 - 1950 (File 47) - Box 22

Includes 18 b&w photographs; nine negatives. Also includes three b&w photocopies of photographs.

Series 8. United Nations: correspondence, addresses and other papers, 1945 - 1973

In 1951 Forsyth became Australia's Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York, with the rank of Minister, a position he held until 1956. He had already worked at the United Nations on Trusteeship matters (New Guinea and Nauru) and attended the General Assembly. With the exception of the years 1949-50, Forsyth was adviser, later delegate, annually to the United Nations General Assembly from 1946 until 1958.

This series contains the most extensive runs of personal and general correspondence in the collection. There are also copies of speeches, papers and addresses given to the United Nations and a great deal of information about the workings of the United Nations. There is a small selection of newspaper clippings from Australian and American newspapers and a substantial collection of official black and white photographs. A full account and description of Forsyth's Trusteeship work can be found in 'The Evatt years'. (The time as Permanent Representative in New York was to have been part of 'Pride and fall').

Most of the correspondence is between Forsyth and officers of the Department of External Affairs. Major correspondents include Sir Alan Watt, Arthur Tange, K.C.O. Shann, Colin Moodie, James Plimsoll, Paul McGuire, Peter Aylen, R.G. Casey, Sir Brian Freeston, as well as members of Forsyth's family.

Personal correspondence, New York, Paris, 1948 (File 1) - Box 23

Personal correspondence, New York, 1951 - 1952 (File 2) - Box 23

Personal correspondence, New York, 1950 - 1952 (File 3) - Box 23

Personal correspondence, New York, 1951 - 1952 (File 4) - Box 23

Personal correspondence, Queen Mary trip, 1951 - 1953 (File 5) - Box 23

Personal correspondence, 1952 (File 6) - Box 23

Personal correspondence, New York, 1953 (File 7) - Box 24

Personal correspondence, New York, 1953 (File 8) - Box 24

Personal correspondence, New York, 1952 - 1953 (File 9) - Box 24

Personal correspondence, New York, 1953 (File 10) - Box 24

Personal correspondence, New York, 1954 (File 11) - Box 24

Personal correspondence, New York, 1954 (File 12) - Box 24

Personal correspondence, New York, 1954 - 1955 (File 13) - Box 24

Personal correspondence, New York, 1954 - 1955 (File 14) - Box 25

Personal correspondence, New York, 1955 (File 15) - Box 25

Personal correspondence, New York, 1955 (File 16) - Box 25

Personal correspondence, New York, 1955 (File 17) - Box 25

Personal correspondence, New York, 1955 - 1956 (File 18) - Box 25

UN appointment and termination, 1951 - 1955 (File 19) - Box 25

UN speeches and press clippings, 1948 - 1958 (File 20) - Box 25

UN speeches and addresses, 1955 - 1958 (File 21) - Box 26

UN speeches and addresses, 1955 - 1958 (File 22) - Box 26

UN speeches and addresses, reflections on United Nations and correspondence, 1956 - 1962 (File 23) - Box 26

Press clippings, notes and papers, 1948 - 1956 (File 24) - Box 26

UN miscellaneous papers, 1957 - 1959 (File 25) - Box 26

Speeches and addresses, 1952 - 1954 (File 26) - Box 26

Speeches and addresses, 1952 - 1955 (File 27) - Box 26

Addresses for Wieschhoff Group, c. 1954-1955 (File 28) - Box 27

UN Trusteeship Council, 1952 - 1957 (File 29) - Box 27

UN Trusteeship Council, 1952 (File 30) - Box 27

UN Trusteeship Council, 1952 (File 31) - Box 27

UN Trusteeship Council, 1952 - 1955 (File 32) - Box 27

UN Trusteeship Council, 1955 (File 33) - Box 27

UN conversations - notes, and UN Trusteeship, West Irian, 1956 - 1973 (File 34) - Box 27

UN press clippings: Yalta Conference and trusteeship, 1955 (File 35) - Box 27

Photographs - New York, UNCIO convention in San Francisco and UN 10th anniversary, 1945 - 1955 (File 36) - Box 28

Photographs, (uncaptioned), 1951 - 1956 (File 37) - Box 28

UN press clippings, American Australian Association dinner menu, 1953 - 1957 (File 38) - Box 28

Photographs, (captioned), 1952 - 1958 (File 39) - Box 28

Photographs, (captioned), 1953 - 1957 (File 40) - Box 28

Series 9. Department of External Affairs: correspondence and other papers, 1956 - 1959

In 1956 Forsyth returned to the Department of External Affairs as an Assistant Secretary responsible for the United Nations and the Commonwealth. This small series of papers contains general and confidential correspondence and copies of various policy papers on the United Nations and the Commonwealth.

The correspondents include Russell Forsyth, Ralph Burgess Stewart, John Ryan and Gordon Greenwood.

Special matters: John Ryan, South Pacific Commission, 1956 (File 1) - Box 28

Personal correspondence, 1956 - 1957 (File 2) - Box 28

Policy papers and notes, (subjects include Cyprus, Commonwealth, United Nations and general foreign policy), 1956 - 1958 (File 3) - Box 28

Confidential correspondence, 1957 - 1959 (File 4) - Box 28

Policy papers, Melanesia, 1958 - 1959 (File 5) - Box 29

Policy papers and notes, 1956 - 1958 (File 6) - Box 29

Policy papers, c. 1956 (File 7) - Box 29

International Atomic Energy Commission, 1956 - 1958 (File 8) - Box 29

South Pacific Commission Review Conference, Canberra, 1957 (File 9) - Box 29

South Pacific Commission Review Conference, Canberra, 1957 (File 10) - Box 29

South Pacific Commission Review Conference, Canberra, and the Fourth South Pacific Conference, Rabaul, 1957 - 1959 (File 11) - Box 29

Commonwealth and United Nations papers, 1957 - 1958 (File 12) - Box 29

Series 10. Vietnam and Laos, 1959 - 1966

In 1959 Forsyth was appointed Ambassador to South Vietnam and Minister to Laos. With this appointment the Australian legation in South Vietnam became an embassy. That the political situation in South Vietnam was complex and tense at this time is perhaps reflected by the number of political and technical reports, cables and despatches in this series. Much of the personal correspondence is marked as confidential again representing the difficulties of the times. There are a number of photograph albums containing black and white official photographs of Vietnam at that time. Some of the photographs have captions and notes typed by Forsyth. For preservation reasons, photographs from one album have been re housed in protective folders. Correspondents include Lord Casey, Sir Arthur Tange, Tran Van Lam (Ambassador of Vietnam), Sir John G. Crawford, F.J. Blakeney, David Hay and immediate family members.

Press clippings on appointments to Australian Embassy, Vietnam, Laos, 1959 (File 1) - Box 30

Vietnam: press clippings etc, 1959 - 1961 (File 2) - Box 30

Appointment diaries (sheets), 1960 - 1961 (File 3) - Box 30

Laos: despatch no.1, Vietnam: despatch no.5, 1960 - 1961 (File 4) - Box 30

Vietnam: draft despatch, notes, 1961 (File 5) - Box 30

Vietnam and Laos: despatches, cables, notes, 1960 - 1962 (File 6) - Box 30

Vietnam and Laos: despatches, cables, notes, 1961 (File 7) - Box 30

Vietnam and Laos: despatches, cables, notes, 1960 - 1962 (File 8) - Box 30

Vietnam and Laos: request for revision of terms of appointment, 1960 - 1961 (File 9) - Box 31

Correspondence concerning the Colombo Plan and general administration, 1960 - 1961 (File 10) - Box 31

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1959 (File 11) - Box 31

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1960 (File 12) - Box 31

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1959 - 1960 (File 13) - Box 31

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1960 - 1961 (File 14) - Box 31

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1955 - 1961 (File 15) - Box 31

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1960 - 1961 (File 16) - Box 31

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1961 (File 17) - Box 32

Vietnam: personal correspondence, 1961 (File 18) - Box 32

Laos: personal correspondence, 1959 - 1961 (File 19) - Box 32

Representation allowances, statements and correspondence, 1955 - 1961 (File 20) - Box 32

Ben Cat Experimental Dairy Farm, 1961 - 1966 (File 21) - Box 32

Vietnam: photograph albums, 1959 - 1961 (File 22) - Box 32

Vietnam: photograph albums, 1959 - 1961 (File 23) - Box 33

Laos: reflections, notes and other writings, 1959 - 1983 (File 24) - Box 33

Vietnam: reflections and comments, notes, news clippings, 1969 - 1991 (File 25) - Box 33

'Two years in Vietnam and Laos', manuscript by Forsyth, c. 1960s (File 26) - Box 33

Booklet, A taste for villages, by L.A. Crozier, 1988 (File 27) - Box 33

Laurie Crozier

Photograph album, Vietnam, visit to Can Tho and Moc Hoa, 1960 - 1961 (File 1a) - Folio-Box 1

Photograph album, Vietnam, the visit to the 2nd Military Region by the Ambassador of Australia, 1959 - 1960 (File 2a) - Folio-Box 1

Photograph album, Vietnam, visit to Darlac Province by the Australian Ambassador, 1961 (File 3a) - Folio-Box 1

Photograph album, Vietnam, [handover of ten passenger buses to Vietnam as a gift from Australia under the Colombo Plan, Hoa Xa], 1961 (File 4a) - Folio-Box 1

Photograph album, Vietnam, celebration of the Trung Sisters and Vietnamese Women's Day, 1960 (File 5a) - Folio-Box 1

Series 11. Department of External Affairs, 1957 - 1969

This small series of personal and official correspondence and policy papers are from the period following Forsyth's return from Vietnam where he resumed duties as Assistant Secretary of the Department of External Affairs responsible for relations with the Commonwealth and United Nations.

The correspondents include D.K.R. Hodgkin, Brian Hill, Sir John Crawford, Gordon Greenwood and T.W. Cutts.

Policy papers and notes, 1957-1962; 1989 (File 1) - Box 34

Personal correspondence, 1961 - 1962 (File 2) - Box 34

Policy papers and notes, 1962 (File 3) - Box 34

Policy papers and notes, 1961 - 1962 (File 4) - Box 34

New Guinea materials, 1962; 1986 (File 5) - Box 34

Case for higher salaries, 1962 - 1963 (File 6) - Box 34

'The Tempo of Modern Diplomacy': paper by Forsyth, 1963 (File 7) - Box 34

Buka incident (Feb 1962) papers, press clippings; and Bougainville clippings, sketches, 1969, 1962 - 1969 (File 1a) - Folio-Box 2

Series 12. South Pacific Commission, 1956 - 1968

In 1963 Forsyth's took a second term as Secretary-General with the South Pacific Commission. Forsyth saw this term as the fruition of his earlier work. It was during this time that changes were taking place with the move towards the 'de-colonisation' of the South Pacific Commission in the 1970s. Forsyth prepared policy papers on the future of the South Pacific Commission during this term, concluding that Pacific islanders would tire of the Commission if they were not given a direct share in decision making. This series contains personal and general correspondence, some Secretariat papers, review and policy papers and information bulletins.

The correspondents include Pat Ryan, Carlos Garcia Palacios, Carlton Skinner, John V. Scott, R.S. Swift, Gordon Greenwood and F.H. Corner.

Appointment as Secretary-General, 1962-63 (File 1) - Box 35

Appointment as Secretary-General, 1962-63 (File 2) - Box 35

Appointment as Secretary-General, 1962-63 (File 3) - Box 35

Review of the South Pacific Agreement, 1962 (File 4) - Box 35

Review of the South Pacific Agreement, 1962 (File 5) - Box 35

Correspondence with Carlos Garcia Palacios, 1956-65 (File 6) - Box 35

South Pacific Commission proceedings, 1956-65 (File 7) - Box 35

History materials, 1957-65 (File 8) - Box 35

Leave and superannuation entitlements, 1963-66 (File 9) - Box 36

Leave and superannuation entitlements, 1963-66 (File 10) - Box 36

Correspondence, 1963 (File 11) - Box 36

Correspondence, 1964 (File 12) - Box 36

Personal correspondence, 1965-68 (File 13) - Box 36

Retirement of Forsyth as Secretary-General, 1966 (File 14) - Box 36

Miscellaneous materials, 1960s (File 15) - Box 36

Secretary-General's annual reports, 1963-66 (File 16) - Box 36

Weekly information circular, 1964-65 (File 17) - Box 37

Weekly information circular, 1965-67 (File 18) - Box 37

Papers on the future of the Commission, 1960s (File 19) - Box 37

South Pacific Commission Savingrams, January - April 1966 (File 20) - Box 37

South Pacific Commission Savingrams, May - July 1966 (File 21) - Box 37

South Pacific Commission Savingrams, August - September 1966 (File 22) - Box 37

South Pacific Commission Savingrams and Index, October - December 1966 (File 23) - Box 37

Secretariat papers, 1966 (File 24) - Box 38

Photographs, 1963 - 1966 (File 25) - Box 38

14 b&w photographs.

Photographs, n.d. (File 26) - Box 38

22 b&w photographs; four colour photographs.

Series 13. Lebanon, 1967 - 1983

In 1967 Forsyth was appointed the first Australian Ambassador to Lebanon with the task of establishing the Australian Embassy in Beirut. He arrived in Lebanon just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967. This series contains official reports, cables, personal and official correspondence, political despatches from Beirut and a series of 'crisis diaries' documenting the Six-Day War. This was Forsyth's last and most difficult posting with the Department of External Affairs. After returing to Canberra at the beginning of 1969 he took most of that year on sick leave before retiring in October 1969. Personal and official correspondence contained in this series shows the strain of ill health, the pressures of the war and the difficulties of setting up the Australian embassy.

The correspondents include Russell Forsyth, Joy Forsyth, Sir James Plimsoll, Peter Lawlor, D.J. Kingsmill, Francis Stuart, Torrance Doig and Keith Brennan.

Personal correspondence, 1967 (File 1) - Box 38

Personal correspondence, 1968 (File 2) - Box 38

Personal correspondence, 1968 (File 3) - Box 38

Personal correspondence, 1968 (File 4) - Box 38

Job applications, 1967 - 1968 (File 5) - Box 38

Retirement and superannuation, 1969 - 1970 (File 6) - Box 39

Middle East materials, press cuttings and an article by Forsyth, 'The peril of Lebanon', 1970 (File 7) - Box 39

Middle East materials, press cuttings, 1970 (File 8) - Box 39

Beirut: miscellaneous papers, trip to Cyprus, 1967 - 1968 (File 9) - Box 39

Lebanon and Middle East materials, press cuttings, 1967 - 1983 (File 10) - Box 39

Correspondence: representation allowance, 1967 - 1968 (File 11) - Box 39

Acquittal: representation allowance, Beirut, 1968 (File 12) - Box 39

Accommodation, Australian Embassy, Beirut, 1967 - 1968 (File 13) - Box 39

Haster case, 1968 - 1969 (File 14) - Box 39

Correspondence re departure from Beirut and recreation leave, 1968 - 1969 (File 15) - Box 40

Lebanon: social, political and economic correspondence and notes, 1967 - 1968 (File 16) - Box 40

Lebanon: social, political and economic correspondence and notes, 1967 - 1968 (File 17) - Box 40

Lebanon: social, political and economic correspondence and notes, 1967 - 1968 (File 18) - Box 40

Working papers for 'Australia's interests in the Middle East', 1962 - 1967 (File 19) - Box 40

Crisis diary, 1967 (File 20) - Box 40

Crisis diary, 1967 - 1968 (File 21) - Box 40

Crisis diary, 1967 (File 22) - Box 40

Crisis diary, 1967 - 1968 (File 23) - Box 40

Crisis diary, 1967 (File 24) - Box 40

Crisis diary, 1967 (File 25) - Box 40

Middle East materials, 1974 - 1978 (File 26) - Box 41

'Australia's interests in the Middle East', March 1967 (File 27) - Box 41

Clippings, notes held by Kevin Kelly for Forsyth, 1968 (File 28) - Box 41

Despatches from Beirut, 1967 - 1968 (File 29) - Box 41

Despatches from Beirut, (copies obtained in 1992), 1968; 1992 (File 30) - Box 41

Album: Quote from Design Center, Beirut, interior decoration for Australian Embassy residence, Lebanon, 1968 (File 31) - Box 41

Album: Quote from Design Center, Beirut, interior decoration for Australian Embassy residence, Lebanon, 1968 (File 31a) - Box 41

Beirut Arabic and French language newspapers and magazines that contain articles about Forsyth's appointment as Australian Ambassador to Lebanon, 1967 (File 32) - Box 42

Contains these publications: Al-Jamhour Al-Jadid, 15 March 1967. Al-Hawadeth - Hebdomadaire politique Arabe, 10 March 1967. Al-Mouharer, March 1967. Le Jour, 8 March 1967. Al Jarida, 9 March 1967. Lissan ul-Hal, 10 March 1967. Al-Yom, 10 March 1967. Al-Nidal, 10 March 1967. Kulu Shi, 11 March 1967.

Correspondence re posting problems, 1967 - 1968 (File 33) - Box 42

Materials on the Middle East, news clippings, 1967 - 1968 (File 34) - Box 42

Materials on the Middle East, news clippings, 1967 - 1968 (File 35) - Box 42

Materials on the Middle East, region background papers, 1968 (File 36) - Box 42

Middle East travel brochures, maps, papers, 1967 - 1968 (File 37) - Box 42

Addresses, contacts, business cards (Lebanon), 1967 - 1968 (File 38) - Box 42

Photographs, Beirut, Lebanon and Damascus, 1967 - 1968 (File 39) - Box 42

Photograph album, Lebanon, 1967 - 1968 (File 1a) - Folio-Box 2

Photograph album, Lebanon, 1967 - 1968 (File 2a) - Folio-Box 2

Photograph album, Lebanon, 1967 - 1968 (File 3a) - Folio-Box 2

Series 14. Papers relating to Pacific Islands, 1951 - 1991

In the early 1970s Forsyth did consultancy work for the Department of Foreign Affairs on an occasional basis. He travelled the Pacific extensively both for the Australian government and for private interest, he attended South Pacific Conferences and wrote newspaper articles and books. From 1971-73 he wrote 'Post-colonial Pacific' for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, it was revised from 1973-75 and considered by a number of publishers. Forsyth lodged the unpublished manuscript with the Library in 1981. The manuscript and working materials are included in this series. Following the 1973 Guam resolution the South Pacific Commission was absorbed by the South Pacific Conference and the Commission met in new form. This series includes Conference and Forum papers from the 1970s and 1980s, papers and notes on the 'de-colonisation' of the Pacific, a sizeable quantity of research papers, articles on individual French territories, general Pacific issues and a wide range of printed material and press clippings.

The correspondents include Tom Davis, R.G. Crocombe, J.D. Legge, Norman Harper, T.B. Millar, Hedley Bull, Brian Beddie, E.G. Whitlam, Michael Costigan and Frank Mahony.

12th South Pacific Conference, Apia, Western Samoa, 1972 and 3rd Forum (File 1) - Box 43

12th South Pacific Conference, Apia, Western Samoa, 1972 and 3rd Forum (File 2) - Box 43

12th South Pacific Conference, Apia, Western Samoa, 1972 and 3rd Forum (File 3) - Box 43

Special meeting: Apia forum, 1974 (File 4) - Box 43

South Pacific Forum, Apia: Australian delegation brief, 1973 (File 5) - Box 43

13th South Pacific Conference, Guam and 36th session of South Pacific Commission, 1973 (File 6) - Box 43

13th South Pacific Conference, Guam and 36th session of South Pacific Commission, 1973 (File 7) - Box 43

14th South Pacific Conference, Rarotonga, 1974 (File 8) - Box 44

14th South Pacific Conference, Rarotonga, 1974 (File 9) - Box 44

South Pacific Labour ministers' conference, 1973 (File 10) - Box 44

South Pacific Labour ministers' conference, 1973 (File 11) - Box 44

15th South Pacific Conference, Nauru, 1975 (File 12) - Box 44

16th South Pacific Conference, Noumea, 1976 (File 13) - Box 44

17th South Pacific Conference, Pago Pago, 1977 (File 14) - Box 44

21st and 22nd South Pacific Conferences, Vanuatu 1981, Pago Pago 1982 (File 15) - Box 45

Reports of the South Pacific Conference and proceedings of the South Pacific Commission, 1976 - 1977 (File 16) - Box 45

Reports of the South Pacific Conference and proceedings of the South Pacific Commission, 1976 - 1977 (File 17) - Box 45

South Pacific Forum, early communiqués, 1971 - 1973 (File 18) - Box 45

South Pacific Forum, early communiqués, 1971 - 1973 (File 19) - Box 45

5th South Pacific Forum, Rarotonga, March 1974 (File 20) - Box 45

5th South Pacific Forum, Rarotonga, 1974 (File 21) - Box 45

14th South Pacific Forum, Canberra, 1983 (File 22) - Box 46

America Samoa, information, 1969 - 1974 (File 23) - Box 46

America Samoa, information, 1969 - 1974 (File 24) - Box 46

Cook Islands information, 1970s (File 25) - Box 46

Articles (published and unpublished) on New Hebrides and New Caledonia, 1970-76 (File 26) - Box 46

US Trust Territories, Micronesia: news sheets, information reports, 1971-74 (File 27) - Box 46

US Trust Territories, Micronesia: news sheets, information reports, 1971-74 (File 28) - Box 46

US Trust Territories, Micronesia: news sheets, information reports, 1971-74 (File 29) - Box 46

Solomon Islands, information, 1973 - 1974 (File 30) - Box 47

Norfolk Island: views and opinions, 1973 - 1979 (File 31) - Box 47

South Pacific Commission miscellaneous papers, articles and letters, 1970s-1980s (File 32) - Box 47

Photographs, South Pacific, 1971 - 1973 (File 33) - Box 47

Includes 14 b&w photographs; one negative.

Photographs, Cook Islands, 1991 (File 34) - Box 47

Includes 73 colour photographs; 17 postcards.Also includes negatives.

Photographs, Cook Islands
Photographs, Cook Islands
Photographs, Cook Islands
Photographs, Cook Islands
Photographs, Cook Islands
Photographs, Cook Islands
Photographs, Cook Islands

South Pacific Commission tapes and photographs, 1970-1975 (File 35) - Box 47

List of taped stories by Harry Moors, Noumea (Secretary-General Afoafouvale Misimoa). Tape 1: R.L. Stevenson by Harry Moors. [cassette tape], February 1970 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000081) - Cassette-Box 9
1 item,
List of taped stories by Harry Moors, Noumea (Secretary-General Afoafouvale Misimoa). Tape 2: Sides B and C., February 1970 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000082) - Cassette-Box 9
1 item,

Information on first Islander Secretary-General, and first South Pacific Commission flag, 1969 - 1971 (File 36) - Box 47

Press clippings, postcards, miscellaneous magazine extracts, 1951 - 1991 (File 37) - Box 47

"Lokalee pictures and slides", 1971 (File 38) - Box 48

Includes five b&w photographs.

Correspondence with Tom Davis (Cook Islands) and press clippings, 1957 - 1979 (File 39) - Box 48

Consultancy work for South Pacific Commission: regional projects, 1973 (File 40) - Box 48

Indexing and microfilming project for South Pacific Commission records, 1980s-1990s (File 41) - Box 48

New Caledonia research materials, 1970s (File 42) - Box 48

New Caledonia research materials, 1970s (File 43) - Box 48

New Caledonia research materials, 1970s (File 44) - Box 48

New Hebrides research materials, 1970s (File 45) - Box 49

New Hebrides research materials, 1970s (File 46) - Box 49

New Hebrides research materials, 1970s (File 47) - Box 49

New Hebrides research materials, 1970s (File 48) - Box 49

French Pacific, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides - research materials, 1970s (File 49) - Box 49

Publication, Assemblée Territoriale, French Polynesia, 1971 (File 50) - Box 49

New Caledonia, economic and demographic papers, 1976 (File 51) - Box 49

French Pacific Territories, New Zealand international review articles, 1976 (File 52) - Box 50

New Caledonia materials, 1976 (File 53) - Box 50

French Polynesia nuclear testing: notes, reviews, press clippings, 1960s-1970s (File 54) - Box 50

New Hebrides, French Polynesia: articles and materials, 1970s (File 55) - Box 50

France: post-war colonial policy, 1970s-1980s (File 56) - Box 50

French Polynesia: research materials, 1971 - 1976 (File 57) - Box 50

French Polynesia: research materials, 1971 - 1976 (File 58) - Box 50

French Polynesia: 2 draft constitutions, 1976 (File 59) - Box 51

French Polynesia: 2 draft constitutions, 1976 (File 60) - Box 51

'Post-colonial Pacific': Correspondence, 1970s (File 61) - Box 51

'Post-colonial Pacific': Correspondence, 1970s (File 62) - Box 51

'Post-colonial Pacific': Early version, 1972 - 1973 (File 63) - Box 51

'Post-colonial Pacific': Early version, 1972 - 1973 (File 64) - Box 51

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part I, General, 1971 - 1975 (File 65) - Box 51

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part II, Problems and plannings, 1971 - 1975 (File 66) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part II, Problems and plannings, 1971 - 1975 (File 67) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part III, De-colonisation and political development, 1971 - 1975 (File 68) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part IV, External interests and activities in the Islands, 1971 - 1975 (File 69) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Manuscript - preliminary and notes, 1971 - 1975 (File 70) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part I, 1975 (File 71) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part II, 1975 (File 72) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part II, 1975 (File 73) - Box 52

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part III, 1975 (File 74) - Box 53

'Post-colonial Pacific': Part IV, 1975 (File 75) - Box 53

'Post-colonial Pacific': Chapters from 'Post-colonial Pacific' loaned to Department of Foreign Affairs, 1973 (File 76) - Box 53

'Post-colonial Pacific': Re-typed pages of manuscript (not inserted), 1975 (File 77) - Box 53

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': A. Documents and background, 1964 - 1981 (File 78) - Box 53

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': B. Personal papers, 1963 - 1973 (File 79) - Box 53

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Correspondence with E.G. Whitlam, 1978 - 1979 (File 80) - Box 53

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Background notes and personal correspondence, 1981 (File 81) - Box 53

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': 'A Pacific Islands policy for Australia' by Forsyth: lecture at Australian Institiute of International Affairs, 1973 (File 82) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': South Pacific Commission, 40th Anniversary, 1987 (File 83) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': South Pacific Commission, 40th Anniversary, 1987 (File 84) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': South Pacific Commission, 40th Anniversary, 1987 (File 85) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': South Pacific Commission, 40th Anniversary, 1987 (File 86) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': South Pacific Commission, 40th Anniversary, 1987 (File 87) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': South Pacific Commission, 40th Anniversary, 1987 (File 88) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Pacific Islands miscellaneous information, 1960s-1970s (File 89) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Pacific Islands miscellaneous information, 1960s-1970s (File 90) - Box 54

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Miscellaneous papers: Salotte passes (1965), Old Caledonia (1964) (File 91) - Box 55

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Population and migration, 1967 - 1972 (File 92) - Box 55

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Pacific Islands miscellaneous. articles, 1970 - 1977 (File 93) - Box 55

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Papua New Guinea: radio talks on Pacific Islands, 1975 (File 94) - Box 55

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Miscellaneous information on South Pacific Commission by Raymond Paull (File 95) - Box 55

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': 'A measure of progress: the South Pacific Commission', portion of unpublished manuscript by Raymond Paull, c. 1970 (File 96) - Box 55

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Information copies of South Pacific Commission reports sent to Raymond Paull, 1958 (File 97) - Box 55

'De-colonisation of the South Pacific Commission': Information copies of South Pacific Commission reports sent to Raymond Paull, 1958 (File 98) - Box 55

French Territories in the Pacific project: Correspondence, grants, 1974 - 1978 (File 99) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: Report, 1975 - 1976 (File 100) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: French Polynesia manuscript, 1975 - 1976 (File 101) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: New Caledonia manuscript (File 102) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: New Hebrides manuscript, 1975 - 1976 (File 103) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: New Hebrides, 1970s (File 104) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: Wallis and Futuna (File 105) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: French Polynesia: chronology bibliography (File 106) - Box 56

French Territories in the Pacific project: Constitutional background (File 107) - Box 57

French Territories in the Pacific project: Drafts: New Caledonia c. 1970-76, including bibliography (File 108) - Box 57

French Territories in the Pacific project: Bibliography and notes (File 109) - Box 57

French Territories in the Pacific project: Papers on regionalism in the South Pacific, 1977 (File 110) - Box 57

French Territories in the Pacific project: Notes on re-colonisation of Oceania, 1972-1975 and Japan and Pacific Islands, 1970s (File 111) - Box 57

French Territories in the Pacific project: France and the South Pacific Commission, 1970s-1980s (File 112) - Box 57

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific Commission articles, 1970s-1980s (File 113) - Box 57

French Territories in the Pacific project: Island contacts, notes and texts, 1971 - 1976 (File 114) - Box 58

French Territories in the Pacific project: Oceania: United Nations development program, 1972 - 1973 (File 115) - Box 58

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific Commission letters, articles and press clippings, 1963 - 1981 (File 116) - Box 58

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific memorabilia, miscellany: photographs, clippings, 1949 - 1973 (File 117) - Box 58

Includes two b&w photographs.

French Territories in the Pacific project: Articles on South Pacific regional bodies by Forsyth, 1949 - 1973 (File 118) - Box 58

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific Commission articles, press clippings, reports, 1950s-1960s (File 119) - Box 58

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific Commission and Forum: articles by Forsyth on regional organisation, 1951 - 1975 (File 120) - Box 58

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific Commission: miscellaneous articles and papers, 1951 - 1965 (File 121) - Box 59

Includes Australia's Neighbour, 4th Series, No. 5, June 1963; World Review, by the Jacaranda Press, Vol. 3 No. 1, March 1964.

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific Commission: miscellaneous articles and papers, 1951 - 1965 (File 122) - Box 59

French Territories in the Pacific project: Newspaper articles by Forsyth, 1970 - 1977 (File 124) - Box 59

French Territories in the Pacific project: Submissions to Senate Standing Committee on "The need for an increased Australian commitment in the South Pacific", 1977 (File 125) - Box 59

Includes The Australian Connection : Investment, Trade and Aid in the South Pacific, by Ian Macdonald, 15 April 1977.

French Territories in the Pacific project: Submissions to Senate Standing Committee on 'The need for an increased Australian commitment in the South Pacific' Archival Object, 1977 (File 126) - Box 59

French Territories in the Pacific project: Submissions to Senate Standing Committee on 'The need for an increased Australian commitment in the South Pacific', 1977 (File 127) - Box 59

French Territories in the Pacific project: Senate Standing Committee: hearings, 1977 (File 128) - Box 60

French Territories in the Pacific project: Senate Standing Committee: notes, clippings, evidence, 1977 (File 129) - Box 60

French Territories in the Pacific project: Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence: return of Forsyth material, 1978 (File 130) - Box 60

French Territories in the Pacific project: Senate Standing Committee: notes, papers, correspondence, 1977 (File 131) - Box 60

French Territories in the Pacific project: Australia and the South Pacific, Senate Standing Committee, 1977 - 1978 (File 132) - Box 60

French Territories in the Pacific project: New Hebrides press clippings, 1970s-1980s (File 133) - Box 60

French Territories in the Pacific project: Press clippings, newspapers, Solomon Islands, 1970s (File 134) - Box 60

French Territories in the Pacific project: Pacific Islands: press clippings, 1971-1975 (File 135) - Box 61

French Territories in the Pacific project: Pacific Islands: press clippings, 1976 (File 136) - Box 61

French Territories in the Pacific project: Pacific Islands: press clippings, 1977 (File 137) - Box 61

French Territories in the Pacific project: Pacific Islands: press clippings, 1978 (File 138) - Box 61

French Territories in the Pacific project: Pacific Islands: press clippings, 1979-1983 (File 139) - Box 61

French Territories in the Pacific project: South Pacific: press clippings, 1980s (File 140) - Box 61

French Territories in the Pacific project: French Polynesia: papers and press clippings, 1970s (File 141) - Box 61

French Territories in the Pacific project: French enterprise in Australia: press clippings, notes, 1961 - 1981 (File 142) - Box 62

French Territories in the Pacific project: French Polynesia: press clippings and notes, 1975-1977 (File 143) - Box 62

French Territories in the Pacific project: French Polynesia: press clippings and notes, 1975-1977 (File 144) - Box 62

French Territories in the Pacific project: French Pacific: press clippings and notes, 1976 (File 145) - Box 62

French Territories in the Pacific project: French Pacific: press clippings and notes, 1976 (File 146) - Box 62

French Territories in the Pacific project: New Caledonia: press clippings and notes, 1976-1983 (File 147) - Box 62

French Territories in the Pacific project: New Caledonia: press clippings and notes, 1976-1983 (File 148) - Box 62

Pacific Islands Monthly, Vol. 40 No. 10, October 1969 (Item) - Box 63

Pacific Islands Monthly, Vol. 40 No. 6, June 1969 (Item) - Box 63

Pacific Islands Monthly, Vol. 40 No. 4, April 1969 (Item) - Box 63

Pacific Islands Monthly, Vol. 40 No. 2, February 1969 (Item) - Box 63

Pacific Islands Monthly, Vol. 40 No. 7, July 1969 (Item) - Box 63

Pacific Islands Monthly, Vol. 39 No. 10, October 1968 (Item) - Box 63

Pacific Islands Monthly, Vol. 39 No. 11, November 1968 (Item) - Box 63

South Pacific Commission (information booklets printed by SPC), March 1981 - March 1984 (File) - Box 64

Includes South Pacific Commission: History Aims and Activities, 1983; An Assessment of the Skipjack and Batfish Resources of Papua New Guinea, March 1984; Assessment of the Skipjack and Batfish Resources in the Central and Western Tropical Pacific Ocean, 1983; issues of Youth Link, March 1981 - September 1983.

Readings in South Pacific Politics, ed. P.H. Grocott, April 1975 (Item) - Box 65

Miscellaneous Printed Booklets on Guam, 1967 - 1973 (File) - Box 65

Includes Carlos! Carlos!; The Organic Act of Guam, June 1969; The State of the Economy of Guam, May 1972; FY 1972 Annual Report Territory of Guam; Statistical Abstract Guam, May 1972. Quarterly Review of Business Conditions, Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 1972; The Guam Consumer Price Index, March 1973; Quarterly Report of the Guam Consumer Price Index, April 1973; Proceedings of 1971 Guam Economic Conference; Statistical Abstract Guam 1971.

Miscellaneous leaflets about tourism and industry in Guam, 1967 - 1973 (Item) - Box 65
Carlos! Carlos!, booklet about the Honorable Carlos G. Camacho the first elected Governor of Guam, USA, 1971 (Item) - Box 65
The Organic Act of Guam, Department of Administration, 1971 (Item) - Box 65
The State of the Economy of Guam: remarks of Governor Carlos G. Camacho, 1972 (Item) - Box 65
Annual Report, Territory of Guam, 1972 (Item) - Box 65
Statistical Abstract, Guam, Department of Commerce, 1972 (Item) - Box 65
State of the Territory Message of Governor Carlos G. Camacho to the Twelfth Guam Legislature, 1973 (Item) - Box 65
Quarterly review of business conditions, third quarter, fiscal year 1972, Volume 9, No 3, Guam, USA, Department of Commerce (Item) - Box 65
The Guam Consumer Price Index, a brief description, Department of Commerce, 1973 (Item) - Box 65
Quarterly Report on the Guam Consumer Price Index, third quarter, fiscal year 1973, Volume 1, No 2, Department of Commerce (Item) - Box 65
Proceedings of Guam Economic Conference, 1971 (Item) - Box 65
Statistical Abstract, Guam, Department of Commerce, 1971 (Item) - Box 65

News from Fiji / Fiji Information, September 1974 - January 1976 (File) - Box 66

Includes News From Fiji, Vol. 28 No. 38, 18 September 1974 - Vol. 29 No. 11, 31 July 1975; Fiji Information, Vol. 1 No. 1, 15 August 1975 - Vol. 2 No. 1, 2 January 1976.

The Solomons News Drum, 23 May 1975 - 19 September 1975 (File) - Box 66

Includes No. 33, 19 September 1975 - No. 54, 19 September 1975 (contains gaps).

Miscellanious Technical Papers Printed by the South Pacific Commission, October 1965; January 1973 - March 1978 (File) - Box 66

Includes Poisonous Gastropods of the Conidae Family Found in New Caledonia, October 1965; Annotated Bibliography of Sources of Information on Plant Disease Distribution in the Area of the South Pacific Commission, February 1975; Social Welfare Services and Development Planning in the Pacific Islands, April 1976; Industrial Incentives in the South Pacific, March 1978.

New Hebrides News, March 1974 - July 1975 (File) - Box 66

Includes No. 12, 30 March 1974 - No. 36, 18 July 1975 (contains gaps).

Handicrafts of the South Seas, April 1976 (Item) - Box 67

Fish Poisoning in the South Pacific, 1973 (Item) - Box 67

Southern Pacific Islands: Market Digest Supplement to Overseas Trading, 1972 (Item) - Box 67

L'indivision fonciere et le developpment economique et social dans les districts de Pueu et de Paea a Tahiti, 1971 (Item) - Box 67

More Effective Aid: A Report to the South Pacific Forum, June 1976 (Item) - Box 67

New Hebrides Condominium Statistical Bulletin, January 1975 (Item) - Box 67

Photograph album, New Caledonia, n.d. (File 1a) - Folio-Box 2

Article and two photographs (photocopies) of canoe, Hokule'a, 1976; 1992 (File 2a) - Folio-Box 2

Series 15. 'Recollections of a maverick diplomat', 1970s-1993

Forsyth started writing and researching his three-part autobiography in the late 1970s. The first book, 'In old Australia', 1841-1941, was completed in 1982. The second book, 'The Evatt years', 1942-51, was largely written although not completed, and the third book, 'Pride and fall' exists only as a collection of notes, a sketched outline and a draft introduction. 'The Evatt years' includes chapters at various stages of completion: some have been reworked extensively, others have stayed as first drafts, yet others consist mainly of transcribed tape material. The introduction to 'Pride and fall' exists only on a transcribed tape. The overall book has a complex structure with three major books, part numbers within the individual books and some chapters containing four parts. Forsyth extracted original papers from his collection in order to refresh his memory or to reproduce as annexes to chapters reorganising correspondence into subjects matching chapters, for instance, 'Dili' or 'Japan'. Where possible the Library has restored original papers to a chronological context.

This series contains all the manuscripts, drafts, working notes, tapes, transcribed tapes, research materials, letters and notes for the three-part autobiography 'Recollections of a maverick diplomat'.

Book 1, chapter 1, draft, c. 1978-1979 (File 1) - Box 68

Book 1, chapter 2, draft, c. 1978-1979 (File 2) - Box 68

Book 1, chapter 2, draft, c. 1978-1979 (File 3) - Box 68

Book 1, chapter 3, draft, c. 1978-1979 (File 4) - Box 68

Book 1, chapter 4, draft, c. 1978-1979 (File 5) - Box 68

Book 1, chapter 5, draft, c. 1978-1979 (File 6) - Box 68

Book 1, chapters 1 and 2, first typescript (and notes), 1980 - 1982 (File 7) - Box 68

Book 1, chapters 3-7, 1980 - 1981 (File 8) - Box 68

Book 1, chapters 8-11, c. 1981 (File 9) - Box 69

Book 1, chapters 12-14, c. 1981 (File 10) - Box 69

Book 1, chapters 15-17, c. 1981 (File 11) - Box 69

Book 1, chapters 18-19, illustrative material, c. 1981 (File 12) - Box 69

Book 1, chapter 1 and notes, 1980s (File 13) - Box 69

Book 1, chapters 2-3, 1980s (File 14) - Box 69

Book 1, chapters 4-8, 1980s (File 15) - Box 69

Book 1, chapters 9-12, 1980s (File 16) - Box 70

Book 1, chapters 13-15, 1980s (File 17) - Box 70

Book 1, chapters 16-19, 1980s (File 18) - Box 70

Book 1, amendments, notes, comments from readers, further details, 1980s (File 19) - Box 70

Personal information (material exempted from Book 1 by Forsyth) CLOSED (File 20) - Box 70

Application to Australia Council for grant, 1982 (File 21) - Box 71

Book II, introduction + chapters 1-3, as at Oct 1992 (File 22) - Box 71

Book II, chapters 4-8, 1992 (File 23) - Box 71

Book II, chapters 8-9, 1992 (File 24) - Box 71

Book II, chapters 10-11, 1992 (File 25) - Box 71

Book II, chapter 12, 1992 (File 26) - Box 71

Book II, chapter 13, 1992 (File 27) - Box 71

Book II, chapters 14-15, 1992 (File 28) - Box 71

Book II, chapter 16, 1992 (File 29) - Box 72

Book II, part I, chapter 17, 1992 (File 30) - Box 72

Book II, part I, chapters 18-19, 1992 (File 31) - Box 72

Book II, part I, chapters 1-3, 1992 (File 32) - Box 72

List of Book II pieces held in DFAT Historical Documents Branch, 1991 (File 33) - Box 72

Book II, The Evatt years, tapes 1-23 (File 34) - Box 73

The Evatt Years [microcassette tape] [1], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000083) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Side A: Outline of Books I II III, Side B: Outline and OM.1 (to continue) [microcassette tape] [2], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000084) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Currie [microcassette tape] [3], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000252) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
End of Currie [microcassette tape] [4], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000253) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
P. Islands Bases [microcassette tape] [5], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000254) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Bases INCL. CM2. Bases Annexs Manus REC II [microcassette tape] [6], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000255) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
NG/TSHP UNGA 46 NY Begins [microcassette tape] [7], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000256) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Continues REC II 13 NG UNNY46 T.AGR? NG Agreement [microcassette tape] [8], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000257) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
BK III INTRO Recorded 29-9-92 [microcassette tape] [9], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000258) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Tape 10 46 UNGA NG/T contd. [microcassette tape] [10], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000259) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
UNGA 46 47/8? [microcassette tape] [11], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000260) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
BK II Ch. 14 UP HILL AT LAKE SUCCESS [microcassette tape] [12], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000261) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
UNTC NY How it was to work at UN as an Aust. Representative UNGA + TC 47-48 [microcassette tape] [13], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000262) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
BK II Chap. 17 UP HILL AT LAKE SUCCESS [microcassette tape] [14], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000263) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
REC II Ch 17 cont: UP HILL AT LAKE SUCCESS. ADMIN UNION etc. [microcassette tape] [15], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000264) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
SIDE A End of II 17 Up hill at L Success Side B left for Addenda [microcassette tape] [16], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000265) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Chap. 14 Our Islands Framework SPC [microcassette tape] [17], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000266) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Canberra 1947 S Seas Regional Commission Conf establishing the South Pacific Commission [microcassette] [18], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000267) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
S Seas Rgl Comm CB '47 [South Seas Regional Commission Conference] [microcassette] [19], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000268) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Spoiled go to 21 [microcassette] [20], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000269) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
S Seas Regl Com CB 1947 [South Seas Regional Commission Conference Canberra] [microcassette] [21], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000270) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
F. REC II Two 3 + 5 work & Days Beachhead at ? [ South Vila?] SPC Mar 49 [microcassette] [22], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000271) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,
Beachhead 49 SPC Noumea [microcassette] [23], 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV000272) - Cassette-Box 12
1 item,

Book II, transcript of sound tape to disk (Apple Mac) (File 35) - Box 73

Book 2 of memoirs: The Evatt Years, 1941-1951 - Recollections of a Maverick Diplomat 72 (Item NLA.MS-DM000011) - Digital-Carriers-Box 1
1 item, Verbatim Valulife Double-Density - Apple Mac format, 3.5 inch floppy disk

This disk is a transcript of a sound tape. It is in Apple Mac format. A hard copy is available.

Transcript of tapes recorded in 1992-1993 (File 36) - Box 73

Transcript of tapes made in 1992-1993 (File 37) - Box 73

List of tape recordings by Forsyth (including contents), January 1993 (File 38) - Box 73

Instructions to solicitor on manuscript, February 1993 (File 39) - Box 74

Outlines of Books 2 and 3, 1987-92 (File 40) - Box 74

Transcript (tape 9), Book III, draft introduction, 1992 (File 41) - Box 74

Book II, part I, introduction + chapter 1, and notes, c. 1985 (File 42) - Box 74

Book II, part I, introduction + chapter 1, and notes, c. 1985 (File 43) - Box 74

Book II, part I, notes (early chapters) (File 44) - Box 74

Book II, part I, chapter 2, drafts and notes, c. 1985 (File 45) - Box 74

Book II, part I, chapter 3 + annexures, c. 1985 (File 46) - Box 74

Book II, part I, chapter 3, notes and material, c. 1985 (File 47) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 4, notes, c. 1985 (File 48) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 5, drafts and notes, 1987 (File 49) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 5, materials collected 1970s-80s (File 50) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 5, materials collected 1970s-80s (File 51) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 6, research and materials (File 52) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 7, draft and revision, 1987-1990 (File 53) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 7, draft and revision, 1987-1990 (File 54) - Box 75

Book II, part I, chapter 8, 1991 (File 55) - Box 76

Book II, part I, chapter 8, 1991 (File 56) - Box 76

Book II, part I, chapters 8 and 9, notes and materials c. 1980s-90s (File 57) - Box 76

Book II, part I, chapter 9, drafts and materials, 1991-1992 (File 58) - Box 76

Book II, part I, chapter 9, drafts and materials, 1991-1992 (File 59) - Box 76

Book II, part I, chapter 9, drafts and materials, 1991-1992 (File 60) - Box 76

Book II, part I, chapter 9, drafts and materials, 1991-1992 (File 61) - Box 76

Book II, part I, trusteeship materials, 1946 - 1989 (File 62) - Box 76

Book II, part I, chapter 10, drafts, 1988-89 (File 63) - Box 77

Book II, part I, chapter 11, drafts, c. 1989 (File 64) - Box 77

Book II, part I, chapter 11, drafts, c. 1989 (File 65) - Box 77

Book II, part I, chapter 11, drafts, c. 1989 (File 66) - Box 77

Book II, part I, chapter 11, materials 1980s, 90s (File 67) - Box 77

Book II, part I, chapter 11, materials 1980s, 90s (File 68) - Box 77

Book II, part I, chapter 12, drafts and materials (tapes 5 and 6 form the main part of chapter 12) (File 69) - Box 77

Book II, part I, Trusteeship materials (chapter 13) (File 70) - Box 78

Book II, part I, Trusteeship notes and materials (File 71) - Box 78

Book II, part I, Nauru, Trusteeship and publicity (see chapter 15) (File 72) - Box 78

Book II, part I, chapter 14, materials and research (File 73) - Box 78

Book II, part I, chapter 14, materials and research (File 74) - Box 78

Book II, part I, chapter 16, drafts and materials (File 75) - Box 78

Book II, part I, chapter 16, drafts and materials (File 76) - Box 78

Book II, part I, chapter 16, Indonesia and Malayan Interlude (File 77) - Box 78

Book II, part I, chapter 16, Indonesia and Malayan Interlude (File 78) - Box 79

Book II, part I, chapter 16, Indonesia (File 79) - Box 79

Book II, part I, chapter 16, Indonesia Drafts (File 80) - Box 79

Book II, part I, chapter 16, Indonesia drafts and materials (File 81) - Box 79

Book II, part I, chapter 18, notes and drafts (File 82) - Box 79

Book II, part I, chapter 18, notes and drafts (File 83) - Box 79

Book II, part I, chapter 18, notes and drafts (File 84) - Box 79

Book II, part I, chapter 19, drafts and final copy, 1992 (File 85) - Box 79

Book II, part I, materials and notes - Evatt - re-evaluation (File 86) - Box 80

Book II, part I, notes, materials, research, (Evatt and Vietnam) (File 87) - Box 80

Book II, part I, notes, materials, research, (Evatt and Vietnam) (File 88) - Box 80

Book II, part I, notes, materials, research, (Evatt and Vietnam) (File 89) - Box 80

Book II, part I, materials - Evatt (File 90) - Box 80

Book II, part I, materials - Evatt (File 91) - Box 80

Book II, part I, notes on Timor, 1945; 1975 (File 92) - Box 80

Book II, part I, comments by David Dexter, 1980s-1990s (File 93) - Box 80

Book II, part I, Anzac Pact, miscellaneous notes (File 94) - Box 81

Book II, part II, chapter 3, drafts (File 95) - Box 81

Book II, part II, chapter 3, drafts, 1970 - 1993 (File 96) - Box 81

Includes World Review, Vol. 3 No. 1, By Jacaranda Press, March 1964.Also includes Map Showing Area of South Pacific Commission Territories within the South Pacific Commission Area, compiled and drawn by Division of National mapping, Department of Minerals and Energy, 1973.

Book II, part II, chapter 4, drafts (File 97) - Box 81

Book II, part II, chapter 5, drafts (File 98) - Box 81

Book II, part II, chapter 6, drafts (File 99) - Box 81

Book II, part II, chapter 6, drafts (File 100) - Box 81

Book III, notes and clippings on Sir Arthur Tange, 1970s (File 101) - Box 82

Book III, notes and clippings, miscellaneous, c. 1970s-1980s (File 102) - Box 82

Book III, notes and clippings on Sir Walter Crocker, 1971 - 1988 (File 103) - Box 82

Book III, notes and clippings on Sir Robert Menzies, 1970s-1980s (File 104) - Box 82

Book III, notes and clippings on Sir Percy Spender, 1950s-1980s (File 105) - Box 82

Book III, 'Queen Mary papers' (see also correspondence), 1951 - 1953 (File 106) - Box 82

Book III, notes and press clippings on Sir John Kerr, 1970s (File 107) - Box 82

Book III, notes and press clippings on Sir John Kerr, 1970s (File 108) - Box 82

Book III, 'Friends', notes and materials, 1950s-1980s (File 109) - Box 82

Book III, Suez Canal source materials and notes, c. 1970s (File 110) - Box 83

Book III, 'Pride and fall' notes, including notes on colleagues and acquaintances (File 111) - Box 83

Book III, notes on Sir Keith Shann (File 112) - Box 83

Book III, notes, 1960s-1970s (File 113) - Box 83

Book III, notes and materials, 1970s-1980s (File 114) - Box 83

Series 16. Post retirement correspondence and papers, 1943 - 1969

This includes correspondence with family, friends, former colleagues, exchanges with academics and journalists, particularly on the Evatt years, there are segments of letters on different hobbies or projects ranging from opals to tour guides, correspondence about family and local history projects, and an extensive correspondence with National Library.

The correspondents include Joy Forsyth, Katherine Forsyth, Christopher Forsyth, Russell Forsyth, Sir Walter Crocker, W.J. Hudson, Guy Loison, I.J. Fairbairn, G.F.D. Betham, Brian Hill, John Hood, Sir Albert Henry, Macu Salato, T.W. Cutts, Frank Mahony, Peter Hastings, W. Macmahon Ball, Ralph Harry, Francis Bugotu. John Ryan, W.R. Louis, J.A.C. Mackie, Malcolm Booker, Frank Poyes, Stanley Ryan, Roger Dingman, Garry Woodard, Stuart Macintyre, Ken Inglis and Catherine Santamaria.

Travel leave in Greece, 1968, includes photographs (File 1) - Box 83

Travel leave in Greece, 1968, includes photographs (File 2) - Box 83

Travel leave in Greece, 1968, includes photographs (File 3) - Box 83

Travel correspondence, 1979 and travel in Europe, 1985 (File 4) - Box 84

Travel in Australia, 1986 - 1989 (File 5) - Box 84

Travel in the South Pacific - Noumea, 1990 - 1992 (File 6) - Box 84

Travel in the South Pacific - Cook Islands; Postcards from Bali, 1979; 1991-1993 (File 7) - Box 84

Opal export exploration (Exopal): correspondence, certificate, 1969 - 1971 (File 8) - Box 84

Opal export exploration (Exopal): correspondence, 1969 - 1970 (File 9) - Box 84

Opals at Lightning Ridge: clippings and notes, 1969 - 1970 (File 10) - Box 84

Opal information compiled in 1970 by Forsyth, 1951 - 1970 (File 11) - Box 85

Correspondence with the National Library, 1977 - 1988 (File 12) - Box 85

Correspondence with the National Library; manuscript mock-up of Lightning Ridge guide and souvenir (not published), 1970 - 1980 (File 13) - Box 85

Duplicate summary and correspondence re lecture 'Tamar to Wannon', 1975-1976; 1992 (File 18) - Box 86

Bibliography and notes, 'Tamar to Wannon' lecture, 1970s (File 19) - Box 86

Correspondence, 1943; 1968-1971 (File 20) - Box 86

Correspondence, 1972 - 1973 (File 21) - Box 86

Correspondence, 1973 (File 22) - Box 86

Correspondence, 1974 (File 23) - Box 86

Correspondence, 1975 (File 24) - Box 86

Correspondence, 1976 (File 25) - Box 86

Correspondence, 1977 (File 26) - Box 87

Correspondence, 1978 (File 27) - Box 87

Correspondence, 1979 (File 28) - Box 87

Correspondence, 1980 (File 29) - Box 87

Correspondence, 1981 - 1982 (File 30) - Box 87

Correspondence, 1983 - 1985 (File 31) - Box 87

Includes correspondence with John Ryan

Correspondence, 1984 - 1985 (File 32) - Box 87

Donation of a Samurai sword to the Australian War Memorial; travel to New Caledonia; South Pacific Commission report - cancer in Pacific Island countries

Correspondence, 1986 - 1988 (File 33) - Box 87

Correspondence, 1988 - 1992 (File 34) - Box 88

Correspondence, 1993 (File 35) - Box 88

Correspondence on Imperialism at bay by W.R. Louis, 1975-1981 (File 36) - Box 88

Correspondence with Stanley Ryan, 1977-1980, Roger Dingman and Grant Stillman, 1978-85 (File 37) - Box 88

Correspondence on the Pacific, Indonesia and miscellaneous, 1970s (File 38) - Box 88

Correspondence: with the editor of Pacific Island Trade News, J A C Mackie of Monash University about Indonesian history, various correspondents about New Caledonia, Dr David Lewis of the Oceanic Research Foundation.

Statement of service records, 1956-1978, Department of External Affairs (1956) and Foreign Affairs (1978) (File 39) - Box 88

Correspondence about H.V. Evatt with Garry Woodard, 1982 - 1992 (File 40) - Box 89

Correspondence about H.V. Evatt with Garry Woodard, 1970 - 1989 (File 41) - Box 89

Correspondence about H.V. Evatt with Garry Woodard, 1987 - 1988 (File 42) - Box 89

Correspondence with Stuart Macintyre and others on academic matters, 1987 - 1992 (File 43) - Box 89

Correspondence with Stuart Macintyre and others on academic matters, 1989 - 1992 (File 44) - Box 89

Correspondence with Warren Osmond, 1980-1986, Ken Inglis and Amirah Inglis, 1979-1984, and David Lowe, 1988 (File 45) - Box 89

Series 17. Press clippings and opinions, 1951 - 1992

The series includes cuttings on various subjects, including East Timor, the Pacific, Bougainville and book reviews.

Jottings, quips and quotes, 1951 - 1983 (File 7) - Box 90

'Americanisation of Australia', [press clippings, notes], 1980 - 1984 (File 8) - Box 91

Australian Broadcasting Commission clippings and notes, 1983 - 1985 (File 9) - Box 91

Australian Broadcasting Commission clippings and notes, 1979 - 1984 (File 10) - Box 91

Portuguese Timor: press clippings and articles by Forsyth and Jim Dunn, 1971 - 1984 (File 11) - Box 91

Portuguese Timor: press clippings and articles by Forsyth and Jim Dunn, 1975 - 1992 (File 12) - Box 91

Timor: Peter Hastings' seminar papers and correspondence, 1974 - 1979 (File 15) - Box 92

'Opinions', [press clippings, notes], 1977 - 1985 (File 23) - Box 93

Letters to the editor by Forsyth, [press clippings, notes], 1984 - 1987 (File 24) - Box 93

Letters to the editor by Forsyth, [press clippings, notes], 1975 - 1989 (File 25) - Box 93

'Universities and the promotion of knowledge', [press clippings, notes], 1989 - 1991 (File 26) - Box 93

'Universities and the promotion of knowledge', [press clippings, notes], 1989 - 1991 (File 27) - Box 93

National Library: general notes, clippings and call slips, 1978 - 1992 (File 30) - Box 93

'Remarks' postscript, cuttings and notes, 1979-1991; extracts from 'selected opinions', 1978 (scrapbook) (File 35) - Box 95

Opinions, letters, clippings and notes, 1961 - 1988 (File 38) - Box 95

Opinions, letters, clippings and notes, 1971 - 1982 (File 39) - Box 95

Letters to the editor, notes, 1971 - 1982 (File 40) - Box 95

Letters to the editor, notes, 1971 - 1986 (File 41) - Box 95

Letters, notes and clippings on ANZUS, 1954 - 1986 (File 42) - Box 96

Letters re 'Power in the Pacific' (ABC), 1986 - 1989 (File 43) - Box 96

ABC correspondence and views, 1979 - 1990 (File 44) - Box 96

Miscellaneous: hobbies, memorabilia, Newstart, disability - press clippings, notes, letters, 1974 - 1991 (File 48) - Box 97

Miscellaneous press clippings, notes, reviews, 1987 - 1992 (File 49) - Box 97

Miscellaneous, Williamsburg conference - press clippings, notes, reviews, 1977 - 1987 (File 50) - Box 97

Miscellaneous press clippings, notes, letters, 1979 - 1988 (File 51) - Box 97

Miscellaneous press clippings, notes, letters and reviews, 1967 - 1992 (File 52) - Box 97

Press clippings, notes on Wilfred Burchett and Bougainville, 1970 - 1992 (File 53) - Box 97

Series 18. Printed material, 1930s-1978

The series comprises extensive notes, cuttings, reviews, pamphlets andcorrespondence about the research for and publication of Forsyth's three books. There are also copies of some of the articles that he wrote.

The correspondents include Sir Ernest Scott, Ida Leeson, Malcolm Titt, Peter Ryan and J.F. Foster.

Governor Arthur's convict system, 1935 (reprinted 1970): Original typescript, c. 1930s (File 1) - Box 98

Governor Arthur's convict system, 1935 (reprinted 1970): Notes, reviews, correspondence, 1935 ed (File 2) - Box 98

Governor Arthur's convict system, 1935 (reprinted 1970): Notes, reviews, correspondence, 1970 reprint and 1975 addenda (File 3) - Box 98

Governor Arthur's convict system, 1935 (reprinted 1970): Notes, reviews, correspondence, 1970 reprint and 1975 addenda (File 4) - Box 98

The Myth of Open Spaces, 1942: Correspondence, reviews, notes, 1941 - 1978 (File 7) - Box 98

The Myth of Open Spaces, 1942: Outline for 'The Future of Open Spaces' - projected sequel to Myth, 1969 - 1971 (File 8) - Box 98

Captain Cook's Australian landfalls, 1970: Distribution pamphlet, 1969 - 1972 (File 9) - Box 99

Captain Cook's Australian landfalls, 1970: Newspapers (used as background for pamphlet), 1970 (File 10) - Box 99

Captain Cook's Australian landfalls, 1970: Sketches and maps, 1969 - 1970 (File 11) - Box 99

Captain Cook's Australian landfalls: Pamphlets, 1970 (File 12) - Box 99

Captain Cook's Australian landfalls: Pamphlets, 1970 - 1974 (File 13) - Box 99

Various articles on water by Forsyth, press clippings, correspondence, 1969 - 1971 (File 14) - Box 99

Various articles by Forsyth, including on the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission, 1939 - 1974 (File 15) - Box 99

Series 19. Miscellaneous papers

Photocopies of the Japan diaries of William Macmahon Ball (from a book Intermittent Diplomat edited by Alan Rix), press clippings, 1988 (File 1) - Box 100

Photocopies of the Japan diaries of William Macmahon Ball (from a book Intermittent Diplomat edited by Alan Rix), 1988 (File 2) - Box 100

Photocopies of the Batavia diaries of William Macmahon Ball (from a book Intermittent Diplomat, edited by Alan Rix), photocopies of William Macmahon Ball: a memoir by Peter Ryan, 1988 - 1990 (File 3) - Box 100

Historic newspapers: The Fiji Times our first 100 years issue, 1969 (File 4) - Box 100

Historic newspapers: La Depeche De Tahiti, Le Journal De Tahiti and Tahiti clippings; booklet - How it all began: BHP in it's 100th year, 1976 - 1985 (File 5) - Box 100

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times - National Gallery and Canberra news clippings; Pacific Islands Trade News, 1962 - 1989 (File 6) - Box 100

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times - America's Cup and Vietnam remembered; end of the USSR clippings, The Age - moon landing, 1969 - 1992 (File 7) - Box 100

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times - New Parliament House; bicentenary program, 1985 - 1988 (File 8) - Box 101

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times - New Parliament House and balloon spectacular, 1988 (File 9) - Box 101

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times - New Parliament House, 1988 (File 10) - Box 101

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times - Paul Hasluck and Paul Keating, 1992 - 1993 (File 11) - Box 101

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times - Garfield Barwick and Paul Keating, 1992 - 1993 (File 12) - Box 101

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian - moon landing; The New York Times - NATO, 1956 - 1969 (File 13) - Box 101

Historic newspapers: The Sydney Morning Herald 150th anniversary edition, 1981 (File 14) - Box 101

Historic newspapers: The Canberra Times – Japanese surrender; The New York Times – Khrushchev and Stalin; The Herald Melbourne – Japan declares war; The Fiji Times our first 100 years issue, 1941 - 1969 (File 15) - Box 102

Historic newspapers: La France australe – visit by General Charles de Gaulle to Noumea and Tahiti; last annual report of the Bank of New South Wales, 1966 - 1981 (File 16) - Box 102

Inscribed copies of printed material, 1949 - 1983 (File 17) - Box 102

The Provisional Administration of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea, its policy and its problems, being the John Murtagh Macrossan memorial lectures delivered by J K Murray, 24 April 1947. Inscribed by Murray; Extract from The Economic Record - Sir Douglas Copland and the Melbourne Commerce School by H Burton, March 1960. Inscribed by Burton, 5 January 1983.

Parliamentary report on the administration of the territories of Papua and New Guinea, 1939 (File 18) - Box 102

Subscriptions, notices, oddments, 1965 - 1992 (File 19) - Box 102

Beauty spots, Coleraine and Broulee, 1982 - 1985 (File 20) - Box 102

Magazines: Festival International de Baalbeck program, Lebanon; Monde-Liban France-Liban, Lebanon tourism booklet; Queen - The Lure of Lebanon, 1965 - 1967 (File 21) - Box 102

Ceramic tile, metal ruler, Swiss coin, 1967 (File 1a) - Folio-Box 2

Black document wallet, n.d. (File) - Folio-Box 2

Framed page from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1951 (File 3a) - Folio-Box 2


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