Record

RefNoRHB/1
Previous numbersA.1-A.210
LevelSeries
TitleBiographical files of R H Brown
Date1972-2005
DescriptionPresents a wide range of material relating to Hanbury Brown's life and career. Includes the contents of a boxfile of biographical correspondence from the 1930s and 1940s documenting his education, wartime service and immediate postwar career. There are transcripts of interviews, proceedings of conferences to honour his achievements, and drafts (with correspondence) of his Royal Society/Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoir and other tributes and obituaries. The section includes family material, including letters to his wife Heather before and after their marriage, certificates of education and of awards, and a series of diaries (1936, 1940, 1943-1998) and family scrapbooks (1952-2003). There is also photographic material.
Extent118 folders, 22 certificates, 3 books, 1 notebook, 1 logbook, 1 diploma, 2 citations, 59 diaries, 3 folders of digital image files
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsRestrictions apply - items remain closed for 30 years from date of creation.
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