Guide to the Letters from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo
MS 10616
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: March 2022
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Ryan, Peter, Mr
- Title
- Letters from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo
- Date Range
- 1961-2016 (bulk 2005-2008)
- Collection Number
- MS 10616
- Extent
- 0.30 metres (2 ms boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Content Description
This collection primarily comprises correspondence from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo regarding the book "The Backroom Boys : Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, 1942-46" written by Graeme Sligo. The book covers topics of Army Directorate of Research 1942-1946 - New Guinea, Colonel Alfred Austin Joseph Conlon, Sir Thomas Blamey, The Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, and The Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). There is also correspondence between Graeme Sligo and others, including Lieutenant John D. Legge AO, and Lady Meriel Wright, widow of Colonel Sir Douglas Wright, Chancellor of University of Melbourne, 1980-1989.
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
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Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Letters from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo, National Library of Australia, MS 10616, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Finding Aid Source(s)
Please note: This finding aid contains descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.
Item Descriptions
Class 1. Consignment received 2022, 2008-2016
This consignment comprises correspondence from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo regarding the book "The Backroom Boys" written by Graeme Sligo. The book covers topics of Army Directorate of Research 1942-1946 - New Guinea, Sir Thomas Blamey and The Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU).
Letters from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo, 2008-2016 (File 1)
Major Keith McCarthy's sketch cartoon on 'mowal fibre' in New Guinea, December 2010 (Item) - Box 1 (MS 10616)
Original gift from Ryan
Letter from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo, 27 August 2008 (Item) - Box 1 (MS 10616)
Plus comments on portions of manuscript "The Backroom Boys"
Letter from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo, 6 February 2011 (Item) - Box 1 (MS 10616)
Plus photocopy "Writing about war" by Peter Ryan
Letter from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo, 3 September 2012 (Item) - Box 1 (MS 10616)
Plus Elliott R. Thorpe photocopy
Working in the Shadows of War, November 2013 (Item) - Box 1 (MS 10616)
By Peter Ryan, photocopy from Quadrant
Class 2. Consignment received 2024, 1961 - 2010
Letters from Peter Ryan to Graeme Sligo, 2005 - 2009 (File 4a) - Box 2 (MS 10616)
Letters written by Peter Ryan while Graeme Sligo was researching and writing o The Backroom Boys : Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46. Includes Peter Ryan's notes on draft versions, and annotations on World War 2 photographs and nominal rolls by Peter Ryan.
Letters between Lieutenant John D. Legge and Graeme Sligo, 2005 - 2008 (File 5) - Box 2 (MS 10616)
Letters and notes exchanged between VX128940 Lieutenant John D. Legge (AIF) to Graeme Sligo for research for o The Backroom Boys : Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46. Professor John Legge, AO was a Monash University historian and specialist on the political history of modern Indonesia. Legge served under Alfred Conlon, 1943-45.
Letters between Lady Meriel Wright and Graeme Sligo, 2007 - 2008 (File 6) - Box 2 (MS 10616)
Letters written between Graeme Sligo and Lady Meriel Wright, widow of Colonel Sir Douglas Wright, Chancellor of Universtiy of Melbourne 1980-89, while researching and writing The Backroom Boys : Alfred Conlon and Army's Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs,1942-46.
Miscellaneous, 1961 - 2005 (File 7) - Box 2 (MS 10616)
Copy of a letter by Major James Lindsay Taylor (the PNG explorer) to Willna Conlon dated 1961; Note of a phone call from NX89868 Lieutenant Fred Kaad, OBE on Alfred Conlon; Mr Clifford O'Brien (Lecturer, UNE Armidale) on recollections of Corporal Harold Stewart (Alfred Conlon's Directorate) and Lieutenant James McAuley, at Fort Street High; Copies of an article titled "The End of a Unique Institution" by Bill Goff in Focus, 1998, on the Hallstrom Pacific Collection of Rare and Valuable Books, created thanks to Alfred Conlon and Sir Edward Hallstrom; Copy of an atice titeld "Commentry" by James McAuley, January 1976, No. 102, Vol XX, No. 1).