Chief Secretary, 1885-1897

 
Component identifier:
Subseries 9_3
Content Summary:

Correspondence, notes, memoranda, press clippings and other printed material. These papers relate to various administrative matters (including a memorandum on Marcus Clarke and his family), and such issues as the 1888 Chinese Immigration Conference, the Land Act, the Councils of Conciliation Bill, the Contractors Lien on Land Bill, the Declaration of Affidavits Bill, the Residence Areas Bill, the Partition Bill, the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the Metropolitan General Cemetery Bill, plural voting, females in the public service, the appointment of the Solicitor-General, defence matters and some parliamentary debates. There is more extensive material on the Distress for Rent Bill, the Infant Life Protection Bill, the 1890 Maritime Strike, the Factories and Shops Act and various financial matters. There is also a report prepared for the Royal Commission on the Parliament Buildings on which Deakin served, entitled A short history and description of the Parliament House (1886).

This subseries contains Items 9/113 - 9/337.

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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This collection is available for research.
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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