Victorian Minister, 1884-1897

Component identifier:

Series 9

Content Summary:

This series contains correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, certificates, programs, menus, a photograph, press clippings and other printed material. There is some correspondence and general items relating to Deakin's activities as a Minister in Victoria, but apart from this, most of the material concerns Deakin's work as Chief Secretary and his visit to London as a Victorian delegate to the Colonial Conference of 1887. Among the general correspondents are R.M. Collins, David Davies, J.L. Dow, Sir Sandford Fleming, James Graves, Richard Hain, Jules Joubert, Lord Knutsford, James Mirams, John Quick, Richard Richardson, William Uren, R.S. Walpole and William T. Webb.

This series contains Items 9/1 - 9/479. The bulk of the items in this series have been digitised, and are available online through this finding aid. Please note that where printed items were duplicated within the series, the duplicates have not been digitised.

Immediate source of acquisition:

On 3 December 1965 Ivy Brookes, the eldest daughter of Alfred Deakin, formally presented the Deakin Papers to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, for permanent preservation in the National Library. After Deakin's death in 1919 his papers remained in the possession of his widow, Pattie, until her death in 1934. They were used extensively by Herbert Brookes, and by Professor Walter Murdoch while he was working on the first biography of Deakin, published in 1923. In 1945 the Deakin Papers were examined by an officer of the National Library and it was agreed that the papers would ultimately be deposited in the Library. In 1948 Professor R.M. Crawford of the University of Melbourne became custodian of the papers on the understanding that either an extensive selection of documents or a biography would be based on them. Subsequently his colleague, Professor J.A. La Nauze, began Deakin's biography and the papers remained in his custody until the work was completed in 1965. From time to time other papers relating to Deakin were added to the original collection by Herbert and Ivy Brookes, Lady Rivett and Sir Thomas and Lady White. Professors Crawford and La Nauze also added letters or copies of Deakin letters that they had acquired from other sources.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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