Thomas (Tom) Eyre Forrest Hughes papers and photographs, including Hughes family papers

MLMSS 11900/Boxes 1-19
MLMSS 11900/Boxes 20X-21X
MLMSS 11900/Volumes 22X-28X
PXD 1609

fonds

1907-2018

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Clippings, Ephemera

9659355

6.98 metres of textual material (19 boxes, 2 outsize boxes, 7 volumes)
2 albums (96 photographic prints) (1 box) - 26 x 20.5 cm or smaller - some colour
95 photographic prints (2 boxes) - 47.5 x 39 cm cm or smaller - some colour
41 negatives - 35 mm

TOM HUGHES

Hon Thomas (Tom) Eyre Forest Hughes AO KC, lawyer and former politician, was born in Sydney in 1923. He is the son of lawyer and aviator Geoffrey Forrest Hughes (1895-1951).

After receiving his education at Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview, Hughes served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. In 1948, Hughes obtained his law degree from the University of Sydney. He was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1949 and became Queen’s Counsel in 1962. From 1963 to 1972, he served as a member of the Liberal Party, representing the electorates of Parkes and later Berowra. Hughes was appointed Commonwealth Attorney-General in 1969, a position he held until 1971.

After retiring from federal parliament in 1972, Hughes returned to the Bar and served as president of the New South Wales Bar Association from 1973 to 1975. Hughes was recognised as a leading barrister in defamation cases, but also in constitutional, corporate and criminal law and only retired from law in 2013.

For his services to the legal profession, Hughes was made an officer of the Order of Australia in 1988. In 2012 he was awarded a degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Notre Dame Australia.

References:
National Portrait Gallery. “TOM HUGHES AO KC b. 1923.” Accessed 19 May 2023.
https://www.portrait.gov.au/people/tom-hughes-1923

Sydney Morning Herald. “Review: Tom Hughes QC: A Cab on the Rank.” Accessed 19 May 2023.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/review-tom-hughes-qc-a-cab-on-the-rank-20160711-gq32t3.html

Old Ignatians’ Union. “November 26: Australian barrister and politician Tom Hughes (1923 - ).” Accessed 19 May 2023.
https://oiu.org.au/ocd.aspx?action=printSnippet&menuItem=Companions+Inductee%3A+John+Downey&snippet=Companions+Inductee%3A+John+Downey&printTemplate=on&code=




SIR THOMAS HUGHES

Sir Thomas Hughes (1863-1930), solicitor, parliamentarian and Lord Mayor of Sydney, was born at Sydney, third son of John Hughes and his wife Susan, nee Sharkey. He was educated in London and after his return to Sydney was articled to T.M. Slattery in 1882 and admitted as a solicitor in 1887 at which time he joined his brother John Francis Hughes in the firm of Hughes and Hughes. Hughes was an alderman on the Sydney Municipal Council (1898-1912) and was mayor and first Lord Mayor (1902-1903,1907-1908). Hughes was a nominated member of the NSW Legislative Council (1908-1930). In 1887 Thomas Hughes married Louisa Gilhooley. He was survived by his wife and one of his three sons, Geoffrey Forrest Hughes. Another of his sons Roger Forrest Hughes was killed in France in 1916 while serving with the Australian Army Medical Corps during World War I.

Reference:
MLMSS 1222


GEOFFREY FORREST HUGHES

Geoffrey Forrest Hughes (1895-1951), solicitor and aviator, was born at Sydney, second surviving son of Sir Thomas Hughes and his wife Louisa. He was educated at St. Ignatious College, Riverview and the University of Sydney where he graduated Bachelor of Arts (1920) and Bachelor of Laws (1923), his studies having been interrupted by World War I. Geoffrey Hughes went to England in 1916 and was commissioned in the Royal Flying Corps. He was awarded a Military Cross in May 1918 and the Air Force Cross in 1919. On his return to Australia he completed his education and was admitted as a solicitor in 1923 and joined the family firm, Hughes and Hughes. He remained involved in flying as President of the Aero Club of NSW and was granted a citizen commission in the RAF in 1940.

Reference:
MLMSS 1222

BOX 1 - LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

Fee book, 1949-1955
Fee book, 1955-1959
Fee book, 1959-1962
Fee book, 1962-1973
Fee book, 1973-1978
Fee book,1978-1983


BOX 2 - LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

Fee book, 1983-1991
Fee book, 1991-1996
Fee book, 1996-2006
‘Outline of argument’ (R v Murphy). Contains related case material, 1985.

Folder 1:

File ‘Sir John Gorton’
Memorial service programme and order of arrangements, printout article on Sir John Gorton (2002), correspondence and postcards relating to eulogy held by Tom Hughes at Sir John Gorton’s memorial service, memo containing Hansard with condolence speeches. Includes two photographic prints of Tom Hughes at Sir John Gorton’s book launch, March 2002.

File ‘Sir John Gorton Dinner’
Extract from the Parliamentary Debates: ‘Condolences Gorton, Rt Hon. Sir John Grey, GCMG, AC, CH’ (May 2002), correspondence, invitation to Sir John Gorton’s 90th birthday dinner (2001), transcript from 1946 speech by Sir John Gorton.

Folder 2:

File ‘Sir Garfield Barwick’
Annotated draft versions of biographical article on Sir Garfield Edward John Barwick, Australian Law Journal vol. 77 ‘High Court Centenary: Reminiscences and relections' [sic] with submission by Tom Hughes (2003), newspaper clipping (2012).

File ‘Sir Garfield Barwick’
Memorial service programme and eulogies Sir Garfield Barwick (1997), correspondence, newspaper clipping. Also includes biographical notes on Ainsley Getto.

File ‘Keep’
Correspondence from Sir Garfield Barwick to Tom Hughes (1993), ‘Sir Garfield Barwick Advice’ by Robert A. Campbell (1993) relating to defamation, photocopy article ‘The Art of Advocacy’ by Tom Hughes.


BOX 3 - LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

Folder 1:

File ‘Jennings, R.C. Confidential’.
Correspondence from R.C. Jennings (Solicitor General), 1982.

File ‘McLeod-Lindsay’
Correspondence from Australian Broadcasting Commission and A. Lindsay relating to the Alexander McLeod-Lindsay case, including case outline, 1975.

File ‘Congratulations – 1966 Election Win’
Correspondence, 1966. Also includes a photocopy of a Medical Journal of Australia article (1965).

File ‘Opinions. Company matters’
‘Advice’ and ‘Opinion’ documents relating to legal company matters, approximately 1951-1965.

File ‘Opinions – Defamation’.
Legal opinion, advice and memorandum documents, 1957-1966.

Folder 2:

File ‘Opinions to 1959’
Legal opinion, advice and memorandum documents, approximately 1949-1958. Includes draft versions.

File ‘Legal opinion and advice documents, approximately 1958-1981’
Legal opinion and advice documents, approximately 1958-1981. Also includes instructions, a court proceeding and memos relating to Supreme Court country loadings.

Folder 3:

File ‘Retainers, approximately 1967-1982’
Legal retainers, approximately 1967-1982.

File ‘Newspaper clippings re demonstrators Bellevue Hill property, 1970’
Copies of newspaper clippings predominantly relating to anti-conscription demonstrators trespassing on Tom Hughes’s Bellevue Hill property, 1970. Also includes notes.

Folder 4:

File ‘Miscellaneous material
Proceedings of meeting of Australian Minerals Council Adelaide Meeting (June 9, 1970), photocopy publication ‘Living Documents of American History’, notes.


BOX 4 - LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

File ‘Opinions, memorandum, advice on evidence 1967-68’
Legal advice, memorandum and opinion documents, 1966-1968.

File ‘Legal opinion and advice documents, approximately 1950-1961
Legal opinion, advice, memorandum of advice documents, approximately 1950-1961. Also includes drafts.

Folder containing:

‘Case for the appellant’, 1978.

File ‘Sarawak Continental Shelf’ (‘1973 file closed’)
Memorandum of advice, opinion, correspondence and petition, 1973-1974.

File ‘Transcript of proceedings Bingham v A.B.C., Solicitors: Hall + Hall, 60 Martin Place, Sydney. 2000’
Transcripts of proceedings, 1981.

File ‘Opinions, passing off’.
Contains last page of legal opinion document, 1952.

File ‘Re: A.J.C.’
Memorandum, 1986.


BOX 5 - LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

Material relating to various court cases (some annotated): ‘Case for the respondent’, ‘Case for the appellant’, transcript record of proceedings, judgments, 1973-1993. Also includes a notebook with case notes and drafts.

File ‘Pioneer International Ltd’
Correspondence and case material including transcripts, 1994-1995.
 

BOX 6 - SPEECHES, ADDRESSES AND INTERVIEWS

Folder 1:

File ‘The Hon. John Lockhart, AO’
Invitation Tom Hughes 80th birthday (2003), tribute and obituary The Hon. Antony Larkins Q.C. Also includes a printout of ‘The IAMA News’ containing a member profile on ‘The Hon John Lockhart AO QC’ (2005).

File ‘Personal’
Eulogy John Lockhart (2006), correspondence, guest list, photocopy article relating to Francis Theodore Page Burt QC, eulogy The Hon. Kenneth Asprey, letter to the editor Sydney Morning Herald (1992).

File ‘Farwell [sic] Crown Solicitor: Renfree. May 4, 1970’
Address.

File ‘Transcript address National Packaging Dinner. Wentworth Hotel. May 11, 1970. Subject: Parliamentary Drafting. Trade Practices.’
Address.

File ‘Family Life Movement: St. James Hall, Sydney: April 20, 1970.
Address.

File ‘The Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf. Address by A/G Cremorne Branch of Liberal Party 28 May, 1970’
Address.

File ‘Bowman Area Conference: Queensland. 11th April, 1970. Subject: Off Shore Mineral Rights’
Address. Also includes a minute paper and speech notes.

File ‘Transcript of Answer to Question at State Liberal Party Conference Perth. July 7, 1970.’
Transcript.

File ‘Information from Bowen Re. Education - Expenditure + Teachers. Ministerial Statement. Commonwealth Education Programme.’
The Hon. N.H. Bowen speech (Ministerial Statement, Parliamentary Debates, 1970), notes, correspondence from N.H. Bowen to Tom Hughes with attached statement, 1970.

File ‘Four Corners: Dunstan + Willesee 27.6.70.’
‘Transcript of interview on Four Corner with the Commonwealth Attorney-General, Mr. T.E.F. Hughes, Q.C., The Premier of South Australia, Mr Don Dunstan. June 27. 1970’.

File ‘Address by A/G. to Aust. + N.Z. Society of Criminology. Univ of Melbourne. Nov. 21, 1970’
Address (1969).

Folder 2:

File ‘Parliamentary Statements and Second Readings: 1. Bills of Exchange Act 2. V.M.C.; 3. Company Law Reform.’
Ministerial Statement on ‘Company Law Reform’, speeches by The Hon. T.E.F. Hughes relating to ‘Bills of Exchange Bill 1970’ and ‘Vietnam Moratorium Campaign’ (Parliamentary Debates), 1970.

File ‘Marriage Guidance Townsville: April 3, 1970.’
Address.

File ‘Insider Trading (paper delivered 20/7/89 Intercontinental Hotel)’
Address and booklet on insider trading legislation.

File ‘The University of New South Wales Commerce Society’
Annotated address, The University of New South Wales Commerce Society dinner programme and correspondence (1972), Tom Hughes speeches on various matters (Parliamentary Debates, 1971).

File ‘National Service, 1970’
Copies of newspaper clippings, speech notes, press statements and an address by Malcolm Fraser relating to National Service (1970). Also includes a paper on the right of dissent.

File ‘Senate Campaign 1970’
Speech by Sir John Gorton, notes and reference material relating to the 1970 Australian Senate election. Also includes a document relating to public order legislation.

Folder 3:

File ‘Interviews, addresses’
Transcripts of interviews (1970), (extracts from) addresses by Tom Hughes (1970), notes, reference material, court transcript, transcript of proceedings and correspondence with The Hon Michael Kirby and others (1974, 1975). Also includes speeches in honour of Roderick Pitt Meagher (2002) and Alexander Barclay Shand (2011).

File ‘Miscellaneous material’
Legal opinion and memorandum documents (1966), Tom Hughes speech on public order (Parliamentary Debates, 1971) and notes (1972).


BOX 7 - SPEECHES, ADDRESSES AND INTERVIEWS

Folder 1:

File ‘Archibald Speech 2005’
Annotated speech copies, printouts of newspaper articles and a court judgment relating to the 2004 Archibald Prize. Also includes correspondence from the St. George-Sutherland Law Society Inc. relating to a dinner meeting speaking event (2005) .

File ‘Australian War Memorial’
Correspondence relating to war medals donated by Geoffrey Forrest Hughes to the Australian War Memorial, 2001. Also includes two photographic prints and miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1996-2011.

File ‘The Role of a Supreme Court’
Paper ‘The Role of A Supreme Court’ by Tom Hughes, including annotated versions and correspondence with the University of Western Australia Law Review, 1967. Also includes newspaper clippings, 1970-1971.

File ‘Apology’
Copy of ‘A Withdrawal and an Apology to The Hon. T.E.F. Hughes, Q.C., M.P.’ relating to a political commentary in a Sydney Morning Herald article by Mr. Ian Fitchett, undated.

Folder 2:

File ‘Law Term Dinner Speech’, 2006. Contains address.

File ‘Addresses, eulogies, correspondence, 1980-2002’
Correspondence, various addresses and a lecture by Tom Hughes, including eulogies for Sir John Gorton and Sir Garfield Barwick, 1980-2002. Also contains a newspaper clipping (1985) and a eulogy programme for Sir Clarrie Harders OBE (1997).

Folder 3:

File ‘Articles and speeches, 1993-2008’
Photocopies of newspaper clippings and magazine articles featuring Tom Hughes, photocopies of speeches held by or relating to Tom Hughes, 1993-2008.

Notebook
Contains draft speeches, addresses, lectures


BOX 8 - SPEECHES, ADDRESSES AND INTERVIEWS

Folder 1:

File ‘Speeches’
Speeches by Tom Hughes, approximately 1992-2009

Folder 2:

File ‘Speeches’
Speeches by Tom Hughes, 2001, 2002. Also includes correspondence and printouts relating to a government law group seminar presented by Tom Hughes, 2005.

File ‘Biography (2016)’
Correspondence, newspaper clipping, printouts of newspaper articles and media release relating to ‘Tom Hughes QC: A Cab on the Rank’ biography, 2016.

File ‘Paper Delivered – Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Wednesday 16 October 1996’
Addresses (1987, 1996), court case judgment (1979).

Folder 3:

File ‘The Art of Advocacy’
Paper, address by Tom Hughes at dinner Australian Insurance Law Association (1987)

File ‘Papers delivered: 1) The Art of Advocacy 2) Assessment of Credibility + Reliability of Witnesses’
Papers, 1983, 1996.

File 'Various speeches’
Speeches and addresses (some annotated), 1970-1971.

Folder 4:

File ‘Oration (Doctor of Laws)’
Printout of news release and oration relating to conferral degree Doctor of Laws ‘honoris causa’ (University of Notre Dame) on Tom Hughes, 2012.

File ‘Rhetoric Series: Seminar 5 - Panel Discussion’
Printout seminar announcement The New South Wales Bar Association, 2007. Papers, speech (1999), photocopies reference material. Also contains an issue of Australian Dental Journal (1972) with a submission by Tom Hughes.

File ‘Miscellaneous material’
Correspondence, eulogies Lord Roskill (1997) and Francis Theodore Page (‘Red’) Burt (2004), speaking notes, printout court judgment (2003), papers, speeches, addresses, reflections, approximately 1970-2018.


BOX 9 - SPEECHES AND LEGAL MATERIAL

Four notebooks containing case notes, approximately 1970s.
Record of Proceedings ‘Suva City Council (Privy Council Appeal)’, annotated, 1977.

Folder containing:

File ‘Beyter Pty Limited – 177 Underwood Street, Paddington’
Correspondence, rate notices, notices of valuation and valuation report, 2000-2012.

File ‘Speeches file. The Hon. T.E.F. Hughes, Q.C., M.P. Closed’
‘Obituary Maurice Byers’ by Tom Hughes (1999), letter from the Chief Justice relating to The Supreme Court Annual Conference (1995), lectures (1971, 1992, 2002), photocopies reference material, addresses (1970, 1971) and notes, issue ‘The Bulletin’ with article featuring Tom Hughes (1978), issue ‘The Journal of The Institution of Engineers, Australia’ with submission by Hughes (1972), 1970-2002.


BOX 10 - POLITICS

Folder 1:

File ‘Opinions – General’
Flyer Oxford Union Society with notes on verso.

File ‘Federal Elections, 1963, 1966, 1969’
Federal electoral ephemera for Tom Hughes, member Liberal Party for Parkes and Berowra, 1963, 1966, 1969.

File ‘Berowra – Campaign Literature Etc.’
Federal electoral ephemera for Tom Hughes, member Liberal Party for Berowra, 1969. Also includes a report of the Education Sub-Committee (1968) and correspondence (1969).

Sydney Grammar School award cricket T.D. Hughes (half-colours), 1979.

File ‘Silks 1974 File closed 1982 (opened 1974)’
Correspondence, memorandum relating to appointment of Queens’ Counsel, 1974. Also includes a photocopy of an architectural study.

File ‘File opened 1975. Re: Applications for Silk 1975. File closed 1982.’
Correspondence, annotated lists ‘Applications for SILK - 1975’, notes relating to appointment Queen’s Counsel, 1974-1975.

Folder 2:

File ‘Miscellaneous material’
University of Sydney Ceremony of Conferring Degrees Bachelor of Law programme 1982 (Lucy Hughes Turnbull); correspondence relating to newspaper article withdrawal and apology (1971); lecture (annotated) on defamation by Tom Hughes, photocopy of tribute to Tom Hughes in journal Bar News (2009), notes, journal issue ‘The Round Table’ with correspondence (1967). Also includes letters to editor The Australian Financial Review and newspaper article (1975), an interview transcript and addresses (including ‘Senate T.V. Election Speech, 1970). Also includes a legal paper (1964) and a Tom Hughes speech (Ministerial Statement, Parliamentary Debates, 1971).


BOX 11 - BUSINESS (PRIVATE)

Notebook ‘Wool book’, 1981-1986.

Folder 1:

File ‘Wool into the 21st Century Committee’
Material relating to ‘Wool into the 21st Century Committee’ and the Australian wool industry, 1990-1991. Includes meeting agenda, correspondence, petition, discussion paper and monograph.

File ‘Wool Debate’
Correspondence, letters to editor various newspapers, copies of newspaper clippings, notes, article drafts, 1990-1991. Also includes the Australian Wool Corporation annual report (1990).

Folder 2:

File ‘Wool Correspondence’
Correspondence, letters to editors various newspapers, magazine clipping featuring Tom Hughes (The Bulletin, 1991), (photocopies of) newspaper clippings, photocopy patent relating to stretching of staple fibres, court case documentation, research report and circulars ‘Wool into the 21st Century Committee’, media release, material relating to the Wool Marketing (Temporary Provisions) Amendment Bill 1991, Wool Marketing Reform group correspondence and paper, 1990-1991.

Folder 3:
File ‘Consolidated Press Holdings: Fees’
Correspondence, 1991.

File ‘“Marsland” South – Birnam Forests’
Correspondence relating to pruning activities by Birnam Forests at the Marsland South property, 2002-2007. Also includes a 2008 Birnam Forests newsletter.

File ‘Farm management’
Correspondence Boileau Farm Management relating to Hughes’s farming properties (1997, 2000), correspondence Elders Limited relating to wool sales (2000).


BOX 12 and 13 - DIARIES
Tom Hughes diaries, 1968-2011 (some gaps in sequence).


BOX 14 - PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE

Folder 1:

Notebook
Contains case notes, approximately 1970s.

File ‘Congratulations - Attorney-General. Telegrams’
Received telegrams. Also includes an annotated list ‘Telegrams’ containing names, 1969.

File ‘Personal Corres.’
Correspondence relating to Hughes’s resignation as Director of R&N Statham Limited, 1969.

File ‘Purchase Land - Gurrundah’
Correspondence and documentation relating to land purchase. Includes a photocopy of a draft agreement, 1984.

File ‘Purchase - Goulburn 1986’
Correspondence and documentation relating to land purchase, 1986.

Folder 2:

File ‘Mulwaree Shire Council’
Correspondence and photographic prints relating to marked vehicular river crossing, 1992.

File ‘Fr. Emmet P. Costello, S.J.’ 1993-1995.
Correspondence, includes photocopies of articles and sermons. Also includes two photographic prints.

File ‘Fr. Richard Leonard, SJ’
Correspondence, 1996-1997.

File ‘Miscellaneous material’
Received correspondence (includes Anthony Mason, 1971-1972) and case notes (1981).


BOX 15 - FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE

Various correspondence files relating to Tom Hughes and other members of the Hughes family. The listing below is a general overview and does not bear a one-on-one correlation to the file titles and contents.

Tom Hughes personal correspondence, 1942-2018. Correspondents include Michael Kirby, Francis James, Lord Hailsham, Leon Punch, Billy McMahon, G. Whitlam, Lucy Hughes Turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, Robert Hughes, Constance Crisp (Hughes) and others. Also contains correspondence relating to Selborne/Wentworth Chambers (1975-1975), and to the ‘China Walls’ and ‘BarraGurrundah’ properties (2005-2006). Also includes an invitation to the wedding of Tom Hughes and Joanna Paget (1951) and a childhood drawing by Lucy Hughes Turnbull.

Tom Hughes Royal Australian Air Force family correspondence, 1930-1945:
Tom Hughes incoming and outgoing correspondence to family while enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (1942-1945). Includes a letter from Mary Hornyold-Strickland MBE to Mrs. G.F. Hughes regarding Tom Hughes (1945). Also contains two childhood drawings and a letter by Tom Hughes (approximately 1930).

Correspondence relating to other Hughes family members:

Sir Thomas Hughes. Letter from Ernest Shackleton (1907), letter to Captain Browne (1917) with separate note by T.E.F. Hughes dated 29 March 2010: ‘Hand delivered by Mr Desmond Browne QC’, letter from A.C. Fox Davies relating to ‘Armorial families’ (1928).

Geoffrey Forrest Hughes: correspondence to parents, 1928. Correspondence from ‘Second Mummy’ (1922), G. S. S. Vidal (1922) and S.M. (Maurice) Artaud (R.A.A.F. Pacific), 1945. Also contains a childhood drawing, and newspaper clippings relating to Geoffrey Forrest Hughes (wedding, career and death), 1922-1951.

Also includes a letter from ‘Sam’ to Roger Forrest Hughes (1916), two letters from Margaret (Forrest Hughes, née Sealy Vidal) to ‘Ganny Gan’ (Lady Hughes) (undated), and the Government House Investiture programme relating to Lucy Hughes Turnbull receiving the Order of Australia (2011).


BOX 16 - FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS

Folder 1:

File ‘School. Reports etc’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to mother (1934), correspondence between Geoffrey Forrest Hughes and St. Ignatius College (1941), school reports Edgecliff Preparatory School for Boys (1932-1936) and St. Ignatius College (1936).

File ‘Schools: Sydney Grammar & Cranbrook (1978/1981)’
Sydney Grammar Edgecliff Preparatory School term reports and Sydney Grammar School reports Tom Jr and Michael Hughes, 1969-1980. Cranbrook Preparatory School term reports Tom Jr Hughes, 1966-1967 and Cranbrook School reports Michael Hughes, 1980-1981. Also includes correspondence with Cranbrook School relating to admission Michael Hughes (1970), and Tom Hughes’ resume including St. Ignatius College school records (approximately 1945).

File ‘Personal 1996-1997’
Magazine clipping ‘The Bulletin’ featuring Tom Hughes (2000), correspondence (1981-1996).

Folder 2:

File ‘Correspondence, 1959-1964’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to wife and mother (while travelling), 1959-1964.

File ‘Correspondence and notes, approximately 1970s-1990.’
Correspondence Lucy Hughes Turnbull, Robert Hughes, Constance Crisp (Hughes), cartoon drawing on tracing paper (The Bulletin, March 7, 1978), various biographical notes. Approximately 1970s-1990.

File ‘Personal 2000+’
Correspondence, 1981-2009. Also includes a draft paper (2005), ‘The Bulletin’ magazine clipping (1999) and a photographic print.

Folder 3:

File ‘Frensham’
Frensham Mittagong school reports for Lucinda Hughes, 1970-1973, correspondence Lucy Hughes Turnbull to family (1970s), thank you notes from other Frensham pupils to the Hughes family (1970), children’s drawings, Tom (Jr.) yearly examinations and a written story. Also includes correspondence relating to Frensham School admission (1969) and a photographic print.

File ‘Personal - 1970’.
Correspondence from various correspondents, including family correspondence from Lucy Hughes Turnbull, Robert Hughes, Michael Hughes and Malcolm Turnbull, 1969-2000. Also includes two photographic prints.

Folder 4:

Passport (Commonwealth of Australia) Tom Hughes, issued 1955. Contains VISA stamps 1955-1964. Also includes an International Certificates of Vaccination booklet, 1970.

File ‘Michael Hughes’
Includes correspondence from Michael Hughes relating to the Australian Club, 1992. Also includes correspondence relating to storage, mortgage and insurance, receipts and utility bills, 1988-1992.

File ‘Miscellaneous material’
Newspaper clippings (1963), correspondence (1969, 1997), University of Sydney Conferring of Degrees programme Faculty of Law 1949 (Bachelor of Law, Honours: Tom Hughes), photograph, wedding ceremony programme (1994), paper and address. Approximately 1963-1997.


BOX 17 - FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE

Folder 1:

File ‘Rhodes’
Correspondence relating to Tom Hughes’s Rhodes Scholarship application at the University of Oxford, 1945. Includes Scholarships memoranda, (draft) application, correspondence between Tom Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, correspondence between Geoffrey Forrest Hughes and the University of Sydney, Department of Air and The Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee.

File ‘Tom’s letters Cootamundra May 1943’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to parents, Bundaberg and Cootamundra. Also includes 5 photographic prints.

Folder 2:

File ‘Letters from abroad 1943’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to parents, includes typescript transcripts. Also includes V-mail (Victory Mail) with R.A.A.F. censor stamps.

File ‘Letters from UK 1944’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to ‘Ganny gan’ (1942) and parents (1943-1944), United Kingdom. Includes typescript transcripts. Also contains two postcards from Tom Hughes to Robert Hughes, a letter from ‘Betty’ to ‘Mrs. Hughes’ (1944) and airgraph letters from John Harper and Tom Forrest Hughes to Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, and from Tom Hughes to ‘Lady Hughes’, 1944.

Folder 3:

File ‘Bundaberg’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to parents, Bundaberg, 1942-1943. Some of the letters contain censored words.

File ‘Tom’s Letters Sept-Oct 1942 Narrandera’
Correspondence Tom Hughes to parents, Narrandera. 1942. Also includes a letter from ‘Ken Raugen’ to ‘Group Captain’, and from ‘J. Meagher’ to Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, 1942.

Folder 4:

File ‘Letters from UK 1945’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to ‘Noug’ (Constance Crisp (Hughes)), ‘Ganny gan’ (Lady Hughes) and parents, United Kingdom, 1945. Includes typescript copies. Also contains correspondence from Patricia (Pearce [?]) and Mary Hornyold-Strickland to Geoffrey Forrest Hughes (1945).

File ‘1949 + letters’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to Constance Crisp (Hughes) and parents, 1949.

File ‘Personal 2009-11’
Memorial service programmes, a eulogy for Alexander Barclay Shand and correspondence (2009, 2011). Correspondents include Anthony Mason, William Deane, Tom Bathurst (Chief Justice), Geoffrey Miller, Ian Macfarlane, Constance Crisp (Hughes), Robert Hughes.

Folder 5:

Tom Hughes ‘Service diary 1941’. Includes notes dated 1943-1945. Also includes 4 photographic prints.

File ‘Correspondence from Sir Thomas Hughes to Roger Forrest Hughes and Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, 1916’.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1916.


BOX 18 - BIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

‘Oral History Section: Recorded interview with Hon. Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes AO QC’, National Library of Australia, 2000. Transcript interview.

File ‘Oral History Project’
‘High Court of Australia Oral History Project: Aide memoire for the interview with Thomas Eyre Forrest HUGHES QC’, National Library of Australia, March 2008.

‘High Court of Australia Oral History Project: Interview with The Honourable T E F Hughes AO QC’, 2008. Transcript interview.

File ‘Hughes family coat of arms’
Hughes family coat of arms mounted on board (‘The Armorial Bearings of Thomas Hughes, Esquire’), Herald’s College London).

File ‘Autobiography’ (removed from binder)
‘The Hon T.E.F. Hughes, AO, QC. Some spasmodic attempts at autobiography’. Typescript chapters and notes.

Notebook
Contains notes predominantly relating to World War II.

File ‘Miscellaneous material’
Draft synopsis biography, correspondence, newspaper clippings (undated, 1972, 2016). Includes a printout of a Tom Hughes tribute article (Bar News, Winter 2009).

Magazine issues:
The Australian Magazine (July 10-11, 1993, Bar News (Winter 2005, Winter 2006), The Australian Financial Review Magazine (June 2008), featuring Tom Hughes.


BOX 19 - BIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

Book ‘Specimens of Modern French Prose’, MacMillan’s Foreign School Classics, 1900. Title page contains a Riverview College stamp and several inscriptions, including: ‘Memento Mori, G.F. Hughes 1907-1913’ and ‘J. Lyons’.

Book ‘Maurice Tabuteau: Pionnier de l’Aviation’ (French), by Denys B. Tabuteau, 2000. Title pages contains an inscription to Tom Hughes by Giles Tabuteau.

Compiled biography Sir Thomas Hughes and Hughes family (annotated), approximately 2000s.

Diary Geoffrey Forrest Hughes World War I (photocopy), 1916. Includes photocopy of letter Sir Thomas Hughes to ‘Captain Browne’, 1917 (see box 15 for original letter).

File ‘Geoffrey Forrest Hughes’
Printout biographical information Geoffrey Forrest Hughes’s aviation career.

File ‘Hughes family photograph printouts’
Printouts of photographic prints of Tom Hughes and other Hughes family members (some contain inscriptions on verso).

Notebook
Contains notes and miscellaneous inserted material (2 passport photographic prints, notes)

Folder containing:

File ‘London File 1976/1979’
Correspondence from Lucy Hughes Turnbull and Malcolm Turnbull to Tom Hughes and a letter from ‘Betty’ to Tom Hughes (1980). Also contains a letter from Michael Hughes to family (1975) and from Jonathan Aitken to Tom Hughes (1977).

File ‘Robert Hughes’
Correspondence from Tom Hughes to Robert Hughes (2010), 3 photographic prints (proofsheets) of Tom Hughes, timeline Constance Crisp (Hughes) involvement in Thredbo, newspaper clipping (1985), printout of a photographic print of Tom Hughes. Also includes a French award relating to World War II services (‘République Française. Ordre National de La Légion D’Honneur, Honneur Patrie’, 2005.


SCRAPBOOKS

Scrapbooks containing newspaper and magazine clippings relating to Tom Hughes’s professional life. Compiled by Tom Hughes’s secretary.

BOX 20X
6 scrapbooks, 1966-1976

Includes two certificates (1969)
Appointment Hughes Attorney-General Commonwealth of Australia
Appointment Hughes Member Executive Council Commonwealth of Australia

BOX 21X
6 scrapbooks, 1977-1984

VOLUME 22X
Scrapbook, 1970. Also includes a Vogue magazine issue featuring Tom Hughes (September, 1970) and ‘The Maxfield Parrish Poster Book’.

VOLUME 23X
Scrapbook (predominantly photocopies), 1970-1971

VOLUME 24X
3 scrapbooks:
1984-1985
1985-1987
1987-1989

VOLUME 25X
3 scrapbooks:
1989-1991
1991-2008
1991-1992

VOLUME 26X
3 scrapbooks:
1993-1994
1994-1996
1996-1999

VOLUME 27X
2 scrapbooks:
1999
1999-2002

VOLUME 28X
2 scrapbooks:
1999-2004. Includes photographs.
2008


PICTORIAL MATERIAL

PXD 1609/Box 1

Folder ‘Tom Hughes and family’
Contains 41 black and white and colour photographic prints of Tom Hughes and (extended) family, some containing descriptive information on verso. Approximately 1930s-2010s.

Folder ‘Photographs removed from frame’
Contains 3 black and white photographic prints which have been removed from frame. One of the photographic prints contains descriptive information on verso: ‘Date: 16.1.51. (left to right): C. Rolls, J.E. Cassidy, T.E.F. Hughes, T.J. Smith & E. Cleary’.

Folder with ‘Glass - Fragile’ sticker. Photographic print (colour) with framing glass (removed from frame).

2 photographic prints (colour) mounted on board: Tom Hughes and Lucy Hughes Turnbull, undated.


PXD 1609/Box 2

Photograph album (yellow cover) with engraved title: ‘Visit of Hon. Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes Member of House of Representatives of Commonwealth of Australia to the Republic of China. June 29-July 7, 1964. With the Compliments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Republic of China.’ Contains 41 black and white photographic prints and an annotated programme.

Photograph album (red cover) containing 55 black and white and colour photographic prints of Tom Hughes and family.

Folder ‘Tom Hughes and family (loose material removed from red photograph album)’
Contains 40 photographic prints (38 black and white, 2 colour) and 20 negatives. Also includes newspaper and magazine clippings and a postcard. Approximately 1940s-1990s

Folder ‘Further photographic prints and negatives’
Contains 7 black and white photographic prints and 21 negatives of children playing soccer, undated.

1 photographic print (black and white) mounted on board: Tom Hughes and others, August 1980.


PXD 1609/Box 3

Original cartoon drawing by Bill Leak depicting Tom Hughes, undated (removed from frame)

Photographic print of Geoffrey Forrest Hughes in Royal Australian Air Force uniform, undated (removed from frame)

English, French

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