Guide to the Papers of Hugh Gilchrist
MS 4931
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Hugh Gilchrist
- Title
- Papers of Hugh Gilchrist
- Date Range
- 1827 - 2007
- Collection Number
- MS 4931
- Extent
- 7.8 metres (45 boxes + 3 cartons + 5 folders)
- Physical Facet
- MS 4931: (10 ms boxes + 5 folders)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers in MS 4931 comprise correspondence, 1969-1987, relating to Greek-Australian relations. There are personal diaries and various official despatches, 1958-1972, of Gilchrist in his positions as Australian Ambassador to Greece and Spain and as Acting High Commissioner in South Africa; minutes of the Australia Council Literary Board, 1979-1982, and typescripts of writings by Gilchrist on Greek-Australian relations
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1353228).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Hugh Gilchrist, National Library of Australia, MS Acc11.156, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Biographical / Historical
Diplomat and author. Hugh Gilchrist was born in Sydney in 1916, and graduated in arts and laws from Sydney University. Following military service in the Second World War, Gilchrist entered the Department of External Affairs and served in Canberra, London, Berlin, Paris, Jakarta and South Africa. He was posted to Greece in 1949 as a member of the UN Special Commission on the Balkans. Subsequently, he was Australia's High Commissioner in Tanzania, Ambassador to Greece in 1968-1972, head of the Legal Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Spain. In retirement, Gilchrist served on the Australia Council's Literature Board and as a consultant to the Department of Foreign Affairs. He also undertook historical research and was the author of the three-volume work, Australians and Greeks (1992-1997). Gilchrist died in Canberra in 2010.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 4931. Original Consignment
The bulk of the papers in MS 4931 comprise correspondence, 1969-1987, relating to Greek-Australian relations. There are personal diaries and various official despatches, 1958-1972, of Gilchrist in his positions as Australian Ambassador to Greece and Spain and as Acting High Commissioner in South Africa; minutes of the Australia Council Literary Board, 1979-1982, and typescripts of writings by Gilchrist on Greek-Australian relations (10 boxes, 3 folders).
Class MS Acc03.153. Consignment Received 2/7/2003
The Acc03.153 instalment comprises further papers (1 box).
Class MS Acc03.175. Consignment Received 21/7/2003
The Acc03.175 instalment comprises folios 41-56 of Gilchrist's personal correspondence, for the period 1987-1994, relating to research for his publication, Australians and Greeks (1 carton).
Class MS Acc03.182. Consignment Received 30/7/2003
The Acc03.182 instalment includes photographs used in vols. 1 and 2 of Australians and Greeks; press clippings about Greeks in Australia; photocopy of the manuscript diary of Greek Foreign Minister Panayiotis Pipinelis, 1940s; documents, mostly in Greek, about the early Greek Church in Australia, 1898-1914; typescript of Michael Tsounis' Ph.D. thesis, "Greek communities in Australia", 1971; and, a copy of Byron Matarangas' thesis, in French, on the protection of minorities under international law (1 carton).
Class MS Acc04.188. Consignment Received 1/1/2004
The Acc04.188 instalment includes folios 71-77 of Gilchrist's correspondence files pertaining to Australians and Greeks; source materials on Greek pirate-convicts, 1827-1829; and, source materials on the Greek Church in Australia, 1898-1939 (1 box).
Class MS Acc04.148. Consignment Received 25/6/2004
The Acc04.148 instalment comprises folios 57-70 of Gilchrist's correspondence files documenting Greek-Australian relations (1 carton).
Class MS Acc04.202. Consignment Received 18/8/2004
The Acc04.202 instalment comprises 11 subject files relating to Australians and Greeks (1 box).
Class MS Acc04.276. Consignment Received 1/12/2004
The Acc04.276 instalment includes three correspondence files and five subject files of source material (2 boxes).
Class MS Acc05.009. Consignment Received 11/1/2005
The Acc05.009 instalment comprises nine subject files (3 boxes).
Class MS Acc05.019. Consignment Received 21/1/2005
The Acc05.019 instalment includes 12 subject files (3 boxes).
Class MS Acc05.021. Consignment Received 25/1/2005
The Acc05.021 instalment comprises 11 subject files (3 boxes).
Class MS Acc05.088. Consignment Received 9/5/2005
The Acc05.088 instalment includes 16 subject files and one file of "Australians and Greeks: miscellaneous sources" added subsequently (2 boxes).
Class MS Acc05.131. Consignment Received 26/7/2005
The Acc05.131 instalment comprises six subject files: Greeks in wartime Australia, 1915-1918; transcript of the hearing of the case: Attorney-General of Victoria vs. A.V. Maniachi and others, in the Victorian Supreme Court, July 1927; the secret census of Greeks in Australia, 1916; Australian travellers and residents in Greece, 1919-1940; Greeks in Western Australia; and, Australians and Greeks (1 box).
Class MS Acc07.167. Consignment Received 8/8/2007
The Acc07.167 instalment includes a copy of "A touch of Greece in Otho Street: the Australian cafeĢ and Jim Boutieris", by Peter McCarthy and presented at Inverell Town Hall, May 2007 (1 folder).
Class MS Acc11.156. Consignment Received 2011
The Acc11.156 instalment comprises papers relating to Gilchrist's career as a diplomat and research notes for his work Australians and Greeks. Papers include Department of Foreign Affairs despatches and reports; appointment sheets and invitations; general correspondence; lecture notes; passports, other official travel documentation, itineraries and memborabilia (includes menus, stickers, advertisements); promotional materials; clippings; newsletters; diary entries; Army Education Service papers and publications including "Jaquinotes" biographical and autobiographical notes. The instalment contains a signifcant number of University of Sydney student magazines (1933-1941) and two copies of Angry penguins including the original journal in which "Ern Malley's" poem was published and subsequent issue relating to the poem (1944) (18 boxes).
Research notes for three-volume work 'Australians and Greeks' contains; notes and reference material copies, genealogies, photos, Department of Foreign Affairs Digest of Despatches, Australian Embassy in Greece despatches, book reviews, lecture notes, newspaper clippings pertaining to Gilchrist's ambassadorship, correspondence, press releases and promotional material, publishers contracts, one copy of publication '60 Years: After the end of World War II: Greeks and Australians in the common struggle for freedom', . Also contains cancelled Australian passport (File) - Box 1-4
Research notes for three-volume work 'Australians and Greeks'. Also contains ledger book and Papers pertaining to Spain, 1935 (File) - Box 6
Research notes for three-volume work 'Australians and Greeks'; photos, notes, photocopies, drafts. Also contains 2 x reels of film: 'Credentials 1967-68' and Greek TV - 10 second newsclip of airport departure of Australian Government minister Mr Sinclair, 1896-1987 (File) - Box 7
Miscellaneous papers: travel documents and memorabilia; correspondence; papers pertaining to ambassadorship in 'Djakarta';, 1936-1955 (File) - Box 8
Archive/library pamphlets, publications, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens publications, Includes early Australian book: Landscape scenery, illustrating Sydney, Paramatta [sic], Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson, New South Wales, 1855 - note several copies held - Bib id 741847 refers, 1855-1984 (File) - Box 9
Personal correspondence; lecture notes; ambassador's appointment sheets; invitations, 1970-1974 (File) - Box 11
Publications and papers including: correspondence; Embassy despatches; lectures; invitations;, 1964-1972 (File) - Box 12
Papers: clippings, programmes, correspondence, invitations, itineraries, reports, clippings, Foreign Affairs Papers, 1962-1968 (File) - Box 13
Papers: Correspondence, reports, newsletters, invitations, clippings, embassy despatches, 'university years' including dance card, 1955-1959 (File) - Box 14
Papers: Correspondence, CV, clippings, reports, invitations, meeting and conversation records,, 1974-2007 (File) - Box 15
Angry Penguins - original of journal in which Ern Malley poem was published, together with a subsequent issue relating to the poem. (Note: Hugh Gilchrist was a personal friend of James McAuley and was the first person JM asked to read the poem when published.) Papers including: Correspondence; Alfred Conlon papers; Jacquinotes; official Department of Foreign Affairs reports; Army Education Service papers and publications; military reports, 1941-63 (File) - Box 17
Class MS Acc12.039. Consignment Received 2012
The Acc12.039 instalment comprises correspondence, papers and memorabilia from Paul Panagopoulos regarding his time in Australia as a young man; correspondence regarding Gilchrist's Medal of the Order of Australia; general papers, correspondence and 90th birthday cards (1 folder).