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

Series Add MS 62179. Correspondence between Northcliffe and Keith Murdoch, London manager of the United Cable Service and later editor of the Melbourne Herald (238 pp), 1915 - 1922

The correspondence deals with Murdoch's letter to the Australian Prime Minister on conditions at Gallipoli, Sept. 1915 (pp. 1-59); the reporting of British news in Australian newspapers; articles by Northcliffe for Australian and New Zealand papers (1917); visits of Australasian politicians and generals to England (1918-1919); article in Sunday Times (Sydney) purported to be written by Northcliffe; attack on Murdoch by Sir Ian Hamilton (1920); screening of film 'The Sentimental Bloke' (1920); offer to Murdoch of editorship of Herald (1920); cruise round world by Northcliffe (1921-22); Murdoch's bid to gain control of Sydney Evening News; management of Herald; relations with Sir Hugh Denison; comments by Northcliffe on layout and features of Herald; profitability and circulation of Herald; H.S. Gullett; W.M. Hughes; staff appointments; negotiations with Sun Company; Northcliffe's illness...