Guide to the Papers of Malcolm Booker
MS 10199
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: August 2018
Collection Summary
- Title
- Papers of Malcolm Booker
- Date Range
- 1880s-1990s (bulk 1970s-1990s)
- Collection Number
- MS 10199
- Extent
- 12.8 metres (72 ms boxes + 1 large folio + 1 medium folio + 1 map folio + 30 digital carriers + 4 sound/av carriers)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises correspondence; research papers; family paper; notes for speeches; newspaper cuttings; financial papers; appointment diaries; family photographs and photograph albums of official visits to China and Thailand; and a presentation sheet of South East Asia Treaty Organisation US$0.04 stamps. There are also papers relating to Booker's career which include notes, annotated manuscripts and correspondence relating to his books The last domino: aspects of Australia's foreign relations; Last quarter: the next twenty-five years in Asia and the Pacific; The great professional: a study of W.M. Hughes, and for a work entitled 'The Leaders We Deserved'.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions Papers of Malcolm Booker
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Malcolm Booker, National Library of Australia, MS 10199, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.
Item Descriptions
Series. Papers
Bundle of passports (some diplomatic), British, Australian and US. [Includes Chinese ID for Legation, Chungking 1944] papers c 1944, 1943-1990 (File 4) - Box 34
Diplomatic mementoes from S Korea and PRC photographs and newspaper cuttings, 1966-1982 (File 7A) - Box 37
Newspaper cuttings, journals (SEATO) photographs from Thailand [nbundles], 1950s-1960s (File 8A) - Box 38
Series. Miscellaneous
Four audio cassettes of interviews, 1970s (File 3) - Box 29
Contents of card index drawers, private catalogue [alphabetical order retained as closely as possible] (File 21) - Box 72
Bundle of 3 1/4 inch discs [backup material] (File 5) - Box 28
The Leaders We Deserved - Main Disk (Item NLA.MS-DM005287) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Precision MF2DD, 3.5 inch floppy diskThe Leaders We Deserved - Second Disk Ch 11-16 (Item NLA.MS-DM005288) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Precision MF2DD, 3.5 inch floppy diskThe Leaders We Deserved - Complete Files for publisher, Printed Out? Sort by name (Item NLA.MS-DM005289) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Tandy DD, 3.5 inch floppy diskLetters/ Misc (Item NLA.MS-DM005290) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Precision MF2DD, 3.5 inch floppy diskMisc - separate disk - Full
Republic of Australia - Synopsis. Full text. & Article for C.T. & List of recipients. Portrait.bmp.NUCLEAR WAR (Item NLA.MS-DM005292) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Precision MF2DD, 3.5 inch floppy disk1. Conflict in the Balkans (Item NLA.MS-DM005293) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Precision MF2DD, 3.5 inch floppy disk2 Population and Energy [Struck through on disk]
The First Fifty Years of Australian Diplomacy (Item NLA.MS-DM005295) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskPopulation & Energy (Item NLA.MS-DM005294) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Tandy DD, 3.5 inch floppy disk50 Yrs of Australian Diplomacy Back-up (Item NLA.MS-DM005296) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskC. T. Column Full - to Dec 1993, to 1993 (Item NLA.MS-DM005299) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Precision MF2DD, 3.5 inch floppy diskMISCELLANEOUS - For N.Y. 1996, Access No.s, BCLINTON.doc, features.editor@canberratimes.com.au, IRAQ.DOC, IRAQETC.DOC,, 1996 (Item NLA.MS-DM005298) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskColumn 1994, 1994 (Item NLA.MS-DM005300) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Nashuatec MF2HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskCol. 1995, 1995 (Item NLA.MS-DM005301) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Tandy DD, 3.5 inch floppy diskCol. Etc written in US July-Aug 1995, July-Aug 1995 (Item NLA.MS-DM005302) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, romag MF2HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskColumn 1996, 1996 (Item NLA.MS-DM005303) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskColumn Disk 2 (complete) (Item NLA.MS-DM005305) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Precision MF2DD, 3.5 inch floppy diskColumn 1998, 1998 (Item NLA.MS-DM005304) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Nashuatec MF2HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskFormatted (Item NLA.MS-DM005307) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Nashuatec MF2HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskMiscellaneous 1997, Col Telp 1997 [struckout]
Formatted - empty (Item NLA.MS-DM005306) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskMiscellaneous NY [struckout]
Installation disk for windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, 1996 (Item NLA.MS-DM005308) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, Motorola?, 3.5 inch floppy diskTOSHIBA - Companion Diskette (Item NLA.MS-DM005309) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskAmerica Online - For Windows V2.0 - Program disk (Item NLA.MS-DM005310) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskPersonal Contact Organiser - software (Item NLA.MS-DM005311) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskACS Handbook '96, 1996 (Item NLA.MS-DM005312) - Digital-Carriers-Box 108
1 item, HD, 3.5 inch floppy diskAustralian Computer Society