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- 1945-1967 (Creation)
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5 folders
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Father Hayes was born in 1889 at Frederickton, New South Wales, and began book collecting at age seven. He commenced studies for the priesthood at St Columbia's College, Springwood, in 1911 and was ordained after further study at St Patrick's, Manly, in 1918. Over the course of 70 years he amassed one of the greatest collections of Australiana, including more than 25,000 volumes, 30,000 manuscript items, 1,500 Indigenous artefacts, maps, stamps, coins, weapons, geological specimens, cattle bells, and a variety of other material. On 19 - 20 October 1967 a convoy of removal trucks transported eighty large crates and 400 cartons of material to The University of Queensland Library at St Lucia, doubling its holdings on Australian subjects and effectively putting the Library on the map as an institution capable of supporting high-level research in Australian studies -- excerpted from Found in Fryer.
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Biographical history
O'Brien was an explorer and historian. From 1941-1965 he was the Honorary Director and General Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland.
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Scope and content
Material consists mostly of correspondence from Father Hayes to his sister Mary (Mrs Ambrose Brown) and his niece Jean Brown. Other correspondence includes letters from Daniel Augustine O'Brien.
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Accruals
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Chronological
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies. Contact the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
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Box 1
Note
Folder 1: Correspondence from Father Edward Leo Hayes to Mrs Ambrose Brown, 1949-1965
Folder 2: Other correspondence to Mrs Ambrose Brown, 1955-1963
Folder 3: Correspondence from Father Edward Leo Hayes to Miss Jean Brown, 1945-1967
Folder 4: Other correspondence to Miss Jean Brown, 1950-1963
Folder 5: Other correspondence to Father Edward Leo Hayes, 1949 - 1960
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Name access points
- Hayes, Edward Leo, 1889-1967 (Subject)
- O'Brien, D. A. (Daniel Augustine) (Subject)
- Brown, Mary Zillah, 1893-1966 (Subject)
- Brown, Jean Marie, 1925 -1986 (Subject)
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Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation revision deletion
Created, BS, 16-Dec-2021