Prime Minister, 1901-1923 (bulk 1903-1910)

Component identifier:

Series 15

Content Summary:

This large series contains all of the material in the Deakin Papers that relate to Deakin's three terms as Prime Minister, from 1903 to 1904, 1905 to 1908 and 1909 to 1910, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, notebooks, speeches, receipts, certificates, memorabilia, press clippings and other printed material. Featured in this series are papers that Deakin received as Prime Minister relating to the most important portfolios of his administrations, including External Affairs, Trade and Customs, Treasury, Home Affairs, Attorney-General, Postmaster-General and Defence.

Among the correspondents are L.S. Amery, the Duke of Argyll, Sir Edmund Barton, Thomas Bavin, Octavius Beale, Thomas Bent, J. Langdon Bonython, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Walter Callan, Joseph Carruthers, Joseph Chamberlain, Austin Chapman, Andrew Inglis Clark, Sir George S. Clarke, Timothy Coghlan, R.M. Collins, Joseph Cook, Captain William Creswell, Lord Crewe, Henry Dobson, Lord Dudley, Lord Elgin, Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, Andrew Fisher, Sir Sandford Fleming, Sir John Forrest, Colonel J.F.G. Foxton, Moreton Frewen, Sir Samuel Griffith, Beatrice Grimshaw, Justice H.B. Higgins, W.M. Hughes, Atlee Hunt, William H. Irvine, Walter James, Richard Jebb, Lord Jersey, John Jenkins, Arthur Jose, J.H. Keating, William Kidston, Lord Knollys, Sir George Le Hunte, Lord Linlithgow, Sir William Lyne, Sir William MacGregor, Kenneth Mackay, Arthur Morgan, G. Read Murphy, Lord Northcote, Richard E. O'Connor, George Pearce, Thomas Playford, Colonel Tom Price, Sir John Quick, Ernest Rason, Sir George Reid, Tom Roberts, Richard Seddon, M. Staniforth Smith, Baldwin Spencer, the Duke of Sutherland, David Syme, Sir Josiah Symon, Lord Tennyson, Lord Tweedmouth, J. Unsworth, Charles Wade, Sir Joseph Ward, J.C. Watson, Sir Samuel Way, R.E. Williams and B.R. Wise.

This series contains Items 15/1 - 15/4300. 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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