Leader of the Opposition, 1902-1933

Component identifier:

Series 16

Content Summary:

This series contains correspondence, notes, speeches, memoranda, reports, minutes, pamphlets, posters, ephemera, journals, press clippings and other printed material relating to a wide range of interests that concerned Deakin as Leader of the Opposition. There is also a considerable amount of material on the various Protectionist and Liberal parties with which Deakin was associated.

Among the correspondents are Colonel J. Antill, Sir Edmund Barton, Thomas Bavin, Norman Bayles, Octavius Beale, Randolph Bedford, Sir Robert Best, Joseph Carruthers, Austin Chapman, R.M. Collins, James Hume Cook, Joseph Cook, Will Donnelly, Sir Thomas Ewing, Andrew Fisher, Sir John Forrest, Frank Fox, Thomas Glassey, A.W. Glencross, Patrick McMahon Glynn, Vida Goldstein, Sir Samuel Griffith, Beatrice Grimshaw, Littleton E. Groom, John Gunning, Richard Hain, John F. Hamilton, Justice H.B. Higgins, F.G. Hughes, W.M. Hughes, Sir Edward Hutton, William H. Irvine, Sir Walter James, Sydney Jephcott, William Johnson, Arthur Jose, H. Brennan Lewis, Sir William Lyne, James McColl, James Marion, William Martin, Samuel Mauger, Edward Miller, John Nash, Simpson Newland, Lord Northcote, Richard E. O'Connor, King O'Malley, Archibald Peake, Colonel Tom Price, Sir John Quick, Sir George Reid, Frank Sambell, David Syme, Geoffrey Syme, Sir Josiah Symon, Dugald Thomson, Sir George Turner, A.J. Watson, J.C. Watson, John West, William Wilson and B.R. Wise.

This series contains Items 16/1 - 16/1952. 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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