Guide to the Papers of Hope Verity Fitzhardinge

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Collection Summary

Title
Papers of Hope Verity Fitzhardinge
Date Range
1860s-1987 (bulk 1908-1986)
Collection Number
MS 10373
Extent
5.85 metres (39 ms boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 medium folio box)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence, family history papers, an MA thesis and PhD research material. It includes correspondence with L F Fitzhardinge; Verity Fitzhardinge's correspondence and notes for A Man's Man, her memoir of George Lacey Lee; her trips to New Zealand, England, Europe and Afghanistan; her bookshop business; farming; teaching at Telopea Park School and various Canberra, Queanbeyan and Glen Innes schools; job applications; and her interests in Russia and politics. The letters record details of Canberra, Queanbeyan and surrounding regions from 1930s to 1980s.

Conditions Governing Access

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7498014).

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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Hope Verity Fitzhardinge, National Library of Australia, MS 10373, [class/series/file/item number]'.

Finding Aid Source(s)

Please note: This finding aid may comprise or contain descriptive information provided by donors, researchers and/or volunteers.

Acronyms

Note that acronyms are used in this list and the collection. Verity Fitzhardinge (Hope Verity Fitzhardinge, nee Hewitt) may be referred to as HVH, VH or HVF. Laurie Fitzhardinge (Laurence Frederic Fitzhardinge) may be referred to as LF or LFF.

Item Descriptions

Class 1. Consignment received May 2017, 1908 - 1986

The collection comprises diaries, notebooks, correspondence, family history, MA thesis and PhD research material. It includes correspondence with L F Fitzhardinge; Verity Fitzhardinge's correspondence and notes for A Man's Man, her memoir of George Lacey Lee; her trips to New Zeland, England, Europe and Afghanistan; her bookshop business; farming; teaching at Telopea Park School and various Canberra schools, Queanbeyan and Glen Innes high schools; job applications; and her interests with Russia and politics. The letters record details of Canberra, Queanbeyan and surrounding regions from 1930s to 1980s.

Series. Diaries

Diary, 1954 (File 1) - Box 1
Diaries (7 volumes), 1960-1967 (File 2) - Box 1

Including newspaper cuttings, postcards, programmes, catalogues and photographs

Diaries (3 volumes), 1968-1969 (File 3) - Box 1

Including newspaper cuttings and loose notes

Diaries (4 volumes), 1970-1973 (File 4) - Box 2

Including newspaper cuttings and loose notes

Diaries (3 volumes), 1974-1976 (File 5) - Box 2

Including newspaper cuttings, loose notes and letters

Diaries (3 volumes), 1977-1979 (File 6) - Box 3

Including newspaper cuttings, loose notes, invitations, cards and letters, and photographs of family pets

Diaries (3 volumes), 1980-1982 (File 7) - Box 3

Including newspaper cuttings, loose notes, invitations, cards and letters

Diaries (3 volumes), 1983-1984, 1986 (File 8) - Box 3

Including newspaper cuttings, loose notes, letters and photograph of Lt. George Lacey Lee

Small diary, 1926 (File 9) - Box 4
Small diaries (3 volumes), 1934-1935,1938 (File 10) - Box 4
Small diaries (5 volumes), 1941, 1945-1948 (File 11) - Box 4
Small diaries (3 volumes) and notebooks (2 volumes), 1950-1959 (File 12) - Box 4
Small diaries (8 volumes) and notebooks (4 volumes), 1960-1969 (File 13) - Box 4
Small diaries (7 volumes) and notebooks (3 volumes), 1970-1982 (File 14) - Box 4
Three notebooks, 1930s (File 15) - Box 4

One includes some 1930-1933 photographs, of family and early Canberra; one includes recipes; accounts

Two notebooks, 1950-1973 (File 16) - Box 4

One notebook 1950's (Grandel Orchard), one notebook 1962-73 (Farming, Bookshop)

Series. Correspondence

Letters from parents, 1926-1929 (File 17) - Box 5
Letters from family, 1926-1929 (File 18) - Box 5
Letters from friends, 1926-1929 (File 19) - Box 5
Letters from Verity to family, 1926-1929 (File 20) - Box 5
Letters from LF Fitzhardinge (LF or LFF) to Hope Verity Hewitt (HVH or VH or HVF), and between LF and his mother regarding VH, 1928-1929 (File 21) - Box 5

Including letters between LF and his mother, Florence Fitzhardinge, regarding Verity

Letters from Olga Penton, 1925-1935 (File 22) - Box 5
Letters from Verity to family, 1930-1936 (File 23) - Box 6
Letters from parents (1), 1930-1936 (File 24) - Box 6
Letters from parents (2), 1930-1936 (File 25) - Box 6
Letters from family, 1930-1936 (File 26) - Box 6
Letters to Verity from friends, 1930-1936 (File 27) - Box 6
Letters from brothers and sisters, 1926-1945 (File 28) - Box 6
California trip, 1935 (File 29) - Box 6
Letters from LF to VH (Sydney and voyage to Oxford), 1930 (File 30) - Box 7
Letters from LF to VH (Oxford), 1930 (File 31) - Box 7
LF Fitzhardinge letters to/from his family, 1930 (File 32) - Box 7

Including photograph

Verity's letters, Jan-June, 1930 (File 33) - Box 7

Including newspapers cuttings, and postcard prints of Canberra

Verity's letters, July-Dec, 1930 (File 34) - Box 7

Including newspapers cuttings, and photographs

Letters from LF to VH, 1931 (File 35) - Box 7
Verity's letters [to Laurie], 1931 (File 36) - Box 7

Including photographs

Letters to LFF from his family, 1931-1933 (File 37) - Box 7

Including photographs

L Fitzhardinge letters (to his family), 1931 (File 38) - Box 7

Including photographs

Verity's letters [to Laurie], 1932 (File 39) - Box 8

Including photograph

Letters from LF to VH, 1932 (File 40) - Box 8

Including photograph

Florence Fitzhardinge to HVH, 1930-1932 (File 41) - Box 8
L F Fitzhardinge to his family, 1932 (File 42) - Box 8
L F Fitzhardinge to HVH, 1933 (File 43) - Box 8

Including photographs

L Fitzhardinge to family, 1933 (File 44) - Box 8

Including photograph

VH letters [to Laurie], 1933 (File 45) - Box 8

Including photographs and newspapers cuttings

LFF miscellaneous travel items, 1930-1933 (File 46) - Box 8
LFF letters to HVH, Jan-July, 1934 (File 47) - Box 9
LFF letters to HVH, Aug-Dec, 1934 (File 48) - Box 9
VH letters to LFF, 1934 (File 49) - Box 9
LFF letters to/from HVH, 1935-1936 (File 50) - Box 9
L F Fitzhardinge to Florence Fitzhardinge (FF), also from FF to HVH, 1935-1936 (File 51) - Box 9
V Hewitt family letters, 1935-1936 (File 52) - Box 9
Letters to HVH/Hope Verity Fitzhardinge (HVF) from friends, 1935-1936 (File 53) - Box 9
Letters, 1937-1945 (File 54-62) - Box 10

Including photographs and newspapers cuttings

Letters, 1946-1947 (File 63) - Box 11

Including letters to Verity Fitzhardinge from Camilla Wedgewood during her work with the Papuan Administration

HVF letters and letter-books covering trip to England, 1947-1948 (File 64) - Box 11

Including photographs

Letters received in England, 1947-1948 (File 65) - Box 11

Including letters in Russian

Letters, 1948-1950 (File 66) - Box 11

Including letters in Russian

Letters received, 1951-1954 (File 67) - Box 12
Letters received, 1955-1959 (File 68) - Box 12

Including Thomas (Tom) Hewitt's certificate of baptism, December 1921

Letters sent to HVF from LF, Charles and Geoff Fitzhardinge in Europe, 1957 (File 69) - Box 12

Including newspaper cuttings

Letters received, 1960-1964 (File 70) - Box 12

Including photographs and newspapers cuttings

Letters received, 1965-1979 (File 71-73) - Box 13

Including newspaper cuttings, and a carbon book recording transfer of their property "Piggibilla"

Letters received, 1980-1986 (File 74-75) - Box 14

Including newspaper cuttings

Incomplete letters, 1927-1958 (File 76) - Box 14
Undated letters from family (File 77) - Box 14
Undated letters from non-family senders (File 78) - Box 14
Photocopied letters, 1926-c1981 (File 79) - Box 14

Series. Hewitt/Sealy

Letters from or about Geoff Hewitt, 1914, 1936-1945 (File 80) - Box 15

Including Geoff Hewitt's birth certificate, 23 February 1914; certificate of baptism, March 1914; commemorative scroll held in honour of GV Hewitt's service in the Australian Military Forces; photographs and newspaper cuttings

Letters by Bill Hewitt, 1936-1945 (File 81) - Box 15
Letters relating to Mary and Syd Williams, 1927-1982 (File 82) - Box 15

Including photographs

Letters and clippings relating to June Lombard, 1937-1982 (File 83) - Box 15

Including photographs and newspapers cuttings

Hewitt family letters, no specific reference to Verity, 1933-c1960 (File 84) - Box 15
Correspondence about Will/Nina/Tom moving to Grandel Orchard, and their deaths, 1956-1960 (File 85) - Box 15

Includes Tom Hewitt's drawing and note books, and newspaper cuttings referring to his death in 1958

Letters to Nina Hewitt (Sealy) from her sisters, Mamie, Isabel, Kathleen, 1925-1957 (File 86) - Box 16
Sealy family history, 1911-1998 (File 87) - Box 16

Letters; photocopied documents; Helen Hewitt's book; other items

Hewitt family history, 1908-1994 (File 88) - Box 16

Includes notes and correspondence on Bill's family tree; Poems of the Dawson Valley Queensland; photocopies documents and newspaper cuttings

Sealy Data from Verity, c1981-1983 (File 89) - Box 16
Hewitt family history, 1919-1985 (File 90) - Box 16

Includes photocopied documents and a copy of Hermes: the magazine of the University of Sydney vol. 25, no.1

Bill Hewitt correspondence with Turnbull/Mitchell/NLA libraries, 1971-2010 (File 91) - Box 16
Letters from Nina Sealy to Will Hewitt, 1906-1911 (File 92) - Box 16

Series. Writing

HVF 1960s, mostly journalism, book-reviews, 1964-1969 (File 93) - Box 17

Including newspaper cuttings

Exercise book, 1929-1935 (File 94) - Box 17

Including newspaper cuttings

HVH(F) Lit efforts, 1924-1948 (File 95) - Box 17

Including newspaper cuttings

HVF sundries (File 96) - Box 17
Short stories (Balkh etc), 1970s (File 97) - Box 17

Series. Biographical items

HVH/HVF official certificates, 1908-1986 (File 98) - Box 18

Birth, marriage and death certificates; academic and teaching certificates, passports and letters

HVF autobiographical notes, 1980-1985 (File 99) - Box 18
Pink cardboard folder '"Eloyse Lord": Arts Journal', 1927 (both LFF and HVH material), 1927-1931 (File 100) - Box 18

Writing by both LF Fitzhardinge and Verity Hewitt, and newspaper cuttings

Printed material from California trip 1935 (File 101) - Box 18

Including photographs, postcards and newspapers cuttings; material from New Zealand trip

1947-1950 income tax, 1949-1950 (File 102) - Box 18
Collard grand piano, 1951-1961 (File 103) - Box 18

Advertising ephemera and letters

Europe, 1963-1964 (File 104) - Box 18

Europe Australia Line brochures; programs; travel arrangements and receipts

Christmas cards received (1) (File 105) - Box 19
Christmas cards received (2) (File 106) - Box 19
Address books (File 107) - Box 19
HVF funeral, sympathy letters, obituaries, 1986 (File 108) - Box 19

Including newspaper cuttings

Blue cardboard tube: HVH/HVF Degrees and certificates (File 109) - Folio-Box 40
Three letter books, 1981-1986 (File 110) - Box 20
HVF - cuttings etc to accompany 1983 diary, 1980-1983 (File 111) - Box 20

Including letters, invitations and photograph

HVF letter books, 1974-1981 (File 112) - Box 20
HVF - cuttings etc to accompany 1982 diary, 1982 (File 113) - Box 20

Including letters, invitations and photograph

Miscellaneous clippings and printed matter (all periods), 1927-1986 (File 114) - Box 21

Including letters, programs, invitations and photograph

Non-letter items (all periods), c1930-1986 (File 115) - Box 21

Including letters, programs, invitations and writing drafts

Two notebook; Physiology for Leaving Certificate 1925), and Arts II (1927), 1925-1927 (File 116) - Box 21
HVH Canberra 1931 (includes clippings etc), and Wartime Horse Management Courses 1942, 1931-1942 (File 117) - Box 21

Series. Russian-Australian relations in the nineteenth century: thesis (MA) Australian National University, 1964

MA Thesis proposal (1959) and some early drafts, 1959-1960s (File 118) - Box 22
MA Preliminary drafts Chapters 1 and 2, 1960s (File 119) - Box 22
MA Preliminary drafts Chapter 3, 1960s (File 120) - Box 22
MA Final draft, 1960s (File 121) - Box 22
Ringback binder; Working/reading notes, early drafts etc (File 122) - Box 23
"The Crimean War through Australian Eyes" (material for RAHS lecture), 1960s (File 124) - Box 23

Including newspaper cuttings

"Russian Visitors in Australian Waters" (includes copy of JRAHS), 1965-966 (File 125) - Box 23
Review of books by Glynn Barratt, 1982 (File 126) - Box 23
"University" - admin correspondence etc, 1959-1965 (File 127) - Box 23
Notebook: HVF translation of "Midshipman Mukhanov's Narrative" (JRAHS vol 51 part 4, December 1965), 1863-1965 (File 128) - Box 23

Photostats from Russian periodical, Morskoy Sbornik, November 1863

Photocopy of Mukhanov's narrative (1863), in Russian, sent to HVF by British Museum, 1863 (File 129) - Box 23

Series. The establishment of the north-west frontier of Afghanistan, 1884-1888: thesis (PhD) Australian National University, 1968

"Professorial comment", 1960s (File 130) - Box 24
Miscellaneous correspondence and notes; includes some job applications with CVs, 1963-1987 (File 131) - Box 24

Including newspaper cuttings; Australian National University publications

"Seminar Paper I, 1965", 1965 (File 132) - Box 24
"Seminar Paper II, 16/11/66" (draft synopsis of thesis), 1966 (File 133) - Box 24
"Maps" (File 134) - Folio-Box 40

Including letters

"Panjdeh", English translation by HVF of Russian article, 1965 (File 135) - Box 24
"Kwaja Salar" (File 136) - Box 24
"Abdurrahman" (File 137) - Box 24
"Bibliogs", 1937-1963 (File 138) - Box 24

Includes photocopied documents

"Maps" (File 139) - Folio-Box 40

Oversized map of Central Asia [1887] has been removed from this file and rehoused into a Mylar sheet in Folio Box 40

"Russian Central Asia" (File 140) - Box 24
Miscellaneous items, including 1974 Russian periodical containing review of HVF's thesis, 1960s-1970s (File 141) - Box 24
Three notebooks - indexes etc (File 142) - Box 24
Ring binder, small: Persian lessons (File 143) - Box 24
"First steps Ch III" (File 144) - Box 25
Ex springback folder: Draft thesis 1, volume 1, 1885-c1968 (File 145) - Box 25

Includes photocopied maps, 1885

Ex springback folder: Draft thesis 1, volume 2, c1965-c1968 (File 146) - Box 25
Ex springback folder: Draft thesis 2, volume 1, c1965-c1968 (File 147) - Box 25
Ex springback folder: Draft thesis 2, volume 2, c1965-c1968 (File 148) - Box 25
Various thesis chapter drafts, c1965-c1968 (File 149) - Box 26
Blue box file: Unbound copy of final thesis, c1968 (File 150) - Box 26

Series. Afghanistan

Original letters from HVF to LFF, 1966 (File 151) - Box 27
Partial typescript transcription by June Lombard (HVF's sister), 1966 (File 152) - Box 27
Carbon copies of letters (three Croxley Carbon Books, some loose writing pads), 1966 (File 153) - Box 27
Small blue notebook containing HVF pencil sketches from Afghanistan, 1966 (File 154) - Box 27
"Corresp Re Afghan Trip arrangements", 1966 (File 155) - Box 27
Newspaper clippings India/Afghan/USSR, 1966 (File 156) - Folio-Box 40
"Inward correspondence from Aug 1966" (relating to Afghanistan trip), 1966 (File 157) - Box 27

Including newspaper cutting

Miscellaneous items, 1965-1966 (File 158) - Box 27

Including photographs and newspapers cuttings

Letters from LFF/CF/GF to HVF during Afghanistan trip, 1966 (File 159) - Box 27
Non-family letters received by HVF during Afghanistan trip, 1964-1966 (File 160) - Box 27
"Report on Field Work"; ABC broadcast script, 1966 (File 161) - Box 27
Small diaries, and library passes, 1966 (File 162) - Box 27

Including photographs

Green tin box: Original HVF colour slides from Afghanistan, 1966 (File 163) - Box 42
Original HVF black-and-white prints, 1966 (File 164) - Box 28
gfa film box: HVF colour slides from USSR/Iran, 1966 (File 165) - Box 42
Guide-books; Dari dictionary; maps of Tashkent and Kabul, 1966 (File 166) - Box 28
"Afghan Photos", 1966 (File 167) - Box 28
"Photos 1966", 1966 (File 168) - Box 28
Commercial photos and post cards, 1966 (File 169) - Box 28

Series. A Man's Man

Early drafts, 1979-1980s (File 170) - Box 29

Including photographs of Lt George Lacey Lee

Corrected proofs, c1987 (File 171) - Box 29
Letters to/from LFF while HVF in New Zealand, 1981 (File 172) - Box 30
NZ 1979-1981 and later, 1979-1980s (File 173) - Box 30

Including photographs

Correspondence and notes relating to 1979-1981 work in NZ (sorted in envelopes, as left by HVF), 1979-1981 (File 174) - Box 30

Including newspaper cuttings

Correspondence and notes 1979, 1979-1984 (File 175) - Box 30
1935-1942 material, George Lacey Lee (GLL) and Clara, 1935-1942 (File 176) - Box 31

Letters from and to GLL while serving in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, including photographs

Letters from Helen Wilson (NZ), 1942-1953 (File 177) - Box 31
Letters relating to marriage 1/8/36 (kept together by HVF), 1936 (File 178) - Box 31

Contains dried fern leaves in an envelope

Three notebooks (1 small, 2 large), HVH diaries, 1935 (File 179) - Box 31
Large notebook, HVH diary, 1936-1942 (File 180) - Box 31

Contains a dried leaf, and letters

Series. Verity Hewitt's Bookshop

Wages book (ZIONS'), Weekly wages, 1968-1971 (File 181) - Folio-Box 41
Accounts/notes/correspondence about financial situation, 1946-1953 (File 182) - Box 32
Accounts/notes/correspondence about financial situation, 1960s (File 183) - Box 32
Accounts/notes/correspondence about financial situation, 1961-1971 (File 184) - Box 32
Miscellaneous items, 1945-1972 (File 185) - Box 32

Including Certificate of Registration and Memorandum and articles of association of Verity Hewitt Pty Limited

Miscellaneous items, 1947-1971 (File 186) - Box 32
(moved from LFF papers) "VH Lists" - book lists, 1948 (File 187) - Box 32
(moved from LFF papers) " VH Cat." - book lists, 1973 (File 188) - Box 32
(moved from LFF papers) "Verity Hewitt P/L" - accounts, some correspondence etc, 1940s-1960s (File 189) - Box 32
(moved from LFF papers) "Verity Hewitt P/L correspondence re manager", 1957-1958 (File 190) - Box 32

Series. Farming

Grandel Orchard, 1950-1961 (File 191) - Box 33

Including newspaper cuttings

"Grandel Orchard Annual balance sheet, Taxation returns", 1950-1959 (File 192) - Box 33
Grandel Orchard bank statements, 1950s (File 193) - Box 33
"Grandel Orchard final correspondence", 1935-1959 (File 194) - Box 33

Including newspaper cuttings, and 1935 plan of Section 87 Division of Narrabundah

Reedy Creek/Malua Bay, 1950s-1960s (File 195) - Box 33
"QMC, Riverview", leases, correspondence (one from early resident), accounts, 1959-1981 (File 196) - Folio-Box 41
Mixed Riverview/Pigibilla items, 1960-1975 (File 197) - Folio-Box 41
Riverview/Pigibilla correspondence, 1960-1983 (File 198) - Folio-Box 41
Ancol Carbon book, with interleaved inclusions: "Farm letters 1972-74", 1970-1976 (File 199) - Box 34
Green account book: Pigibilla/Riverview farm accounts, 1976-1980 (File 200) - Box 34
"Pigibilla corresp And documents", 1961-1973 (File 201) - Box 34
"Stock, Special Information", mainly Pigibilla Devons, 1960-1972 (File 202) - Box 34
Manila-banded bundle containing 4 volumes of stud registrations for Pigibilla Devons, 1973-1980s (File 203) - Folio-Box 41
Devon Handbook and two issues of magazine The Australian Devon Cattle Annual, 1973-1980 (File 204) - Box 34
"Travelling stock permits", 1961-1973 (File 205) - Box 35
"Shire valuations", Pigibilla, 1963-1973 (File 206) - Box 35
Pigibilla, Devons, 1963-1981 (File 207) - Box 35

Including newspaper cuttings

Pigibilla, Devon stud, 1963-1976 (File 208) - Folio-Box 41
Tax returns, driving log book, agricultural census, 1965-1980 (File 209) - Box 35
Devons card index (3 envelopes), Show prize certificates (1 envelope) (File 210) - Box 35

Series. Teaching

Various Canberra schools; also Abbotsleigh, 1950s-1970s (File 211) - Box 36
Queanbeyan High School; also correspondence with NSW Education Department, 1950s (File 212) - Box 36
"Jerangle" - general Captains Flat material, 1970s (File 213) - Box 36

Including newspaper cuttings

Captains Flat school, 1950s-1970s (File 214) - Box 36

Including newspaper cuttings and 1955 copy of a map of Parish of Wise, Land District of Cooma

Captains Flat teaching, 1970-1978 (File 215) - Box 36
Four notebooks, Captains Flat school, 1970s (File 216) - Box 36

Series. Politics

Newspaper cuttings (File 217) - Box 37

Including letters

"National Council of Women (ACT) Education 1961-2", 1960-1962 (File 218) - Box 37

Including newspaper cuttings

"Vietnam, HVF, 1964-5 etc", 1960s-1970s (File 219) - Folio-Box 40

Including newspaper cuttings

ALP(NSW) Rules and Constitution; 1954-56, 1958-59, 1960-61, 1954-1961 (File 220) - Box 37
Newspaper cuttings on Petrov affair, with HVF annotation on Mrs Petrov, 1984 (File 221) - Box 37
Mid-1969 issue of "Our Women" (Union of Australian Women) containing interview with HVF, 1969 (File 222) - Box 37

Series. Russia

Westex 1941 diary: used for notes from Russian courses at CUC, 1959 (File 223) - Box 38
Australia-USSR Society, 1960s-1980s (File 224) - Box 38
Six notebooks: English lessons at Russia Embassy, 1960s (File 225) - Box 38
Brown envelope, "HVF's Russian associations" (File 226) - Box 38
Letters and articles in Russian language (File 227) - Box 38

Series. Printed matter

Loose copies of Hermes, 1926-1930 (File 228) - Box 39
Arts Journal, and Women's College Magazine (both HVH and LFF), 1926-1932 (File 229) - Box 39
Australian National Review 1937-9; also books published by Verity Hewitt Press, 1930s-1950s (File 230) - Box 39

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