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This series comprises material concerning various honours bestowed on former Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook and his wife, Dame Mary Cook.  Included are booklets concerning the ‘Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George’ (the order of Sir Joseph’s knighthood); certificates re royal commemorative medals for both Sir Joseph and Dame Mary Cook; correspondence of Sir Joseph and Dame Mary’s son, Justice RC Cook, concerning negotiations for a memorial to Sir Joseph Cook in Canberra; a draft gazettal notice appointing Sir Joseph the Australian High Commissioner in London; prints of, and documentation re, the painting ‘Some Statesmen of the Great War’ by Sir James Guthrie; and examples of the 1972 postage stamp of Joseph Cook from the ‘Prime Ministers’ series of stamps.

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Single number control symbols [1]-[6] have been imposed on the items in this series by National Archives. 

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Series history

In 1993 the Cook family donated Sir Joseph Cook papers, including series M3583, to the National Archives of Australia.  The collection was initially located at the New South Wales Office of National Archives but was transferred to the National Office of National Archives in Canberra in 2001.

Provenance

Series M3583 is part of the personal collection of former Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook, although also contains material regarding Cook’s wife, Dame Mary Cook.  The Cook family donated the collection to the National Archives in 1993.

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