The archival abbreviations noted above are used in the text to refer to items drawn from these collections.

Any archival reference will begin with the abbreviation of the archives, followed by an abbreviation of the ‘creator’ of the collection of papers being referred to. So,

NLA JAL

indicates an item which is part of the Joseph Aloysius Lyons papers in the Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Australia. If the author of the item referred to is not the ‘creator’ of the collection in which it is held, then the initials of the author are appended. For example,

NLA JAL:LFG

denotes an item authored by Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin which is part of the Joseph Aloysius Lyons papers in the Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Australia.

Where only one collection in an archive is used, the abbreviation for the ‘creator’ of the collection is dropped. So, for example, as only the Keynes collection of the King’s College Library Archives is used

KCLA LFG

denotes an item authored by Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin which is part of the Keynes collection of the King’s College Library Archives.