Guide to the Papers of Sir Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Sir, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Murdoch, Keith Arthur, Sir

Title

Correspondence of Sir Alfred Charles Harmsworth Northcliffe, 1st Viscount (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1915 - 1922

Collection Number

M1641

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

English

Repository

Australian Joint Copying Project

Sponsor

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Correspondence 1915-22 with Keith Murdoch. It refers to Murdoch's letter to the Australian Prime Minister on conditions at Gallipoli 1915; articles by Northcliffe for Australian and New Zealand newspapers; visits of Australian and New Zealand politicians and generals to England; Murdoch's bid to gain control of Sydney Evening News, management of Melbourne Herald; H.S. Gullett and W.M. Hughes.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the British Library. For more information visit: How I use the images I order?-The British Library [https://www.bl.uk/help/how-can-i-use-the-images-i-order].

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1984 (AJCP Reel: M1641). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

British Library, 96 Euston Road, London. Collection Reference: Add MS 62179. For more information see Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe at the British Library (http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000868.0x0002e1).

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2265492] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Finding-aid Notes

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.

Subjects

Evening News (Sydney), newspaper; Gallipoli, Turkey; Gullett, Sir Henry S.; Harmsworth, Alfred C.W., 1st Viscount Northcliffe; Herald (Melbourne), newspaper; Hughes, William M.; Journalists; Murdoch, Sir Keith; Newspaper proprietors; World War I

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 353, p135.