Reports, balance sheets, pamphlets and other documents, 1885-1911

Component identifier:

Subseries 12_2

Content Summary:

List of the executive committee members for 1885, the reports and balance sheets for the period 1893-1904, a list of members supporting Parkin's visit in 1894, Deakin's presidential address, 'Imperial Federation' delivered in 1905 at the Melbourne Town Hall, letters to members, 1907 and 1910, League pamphlets by Professor E. Morris Miller and J. Castell Hopkins, 1909 and 1911, notes by Miller on a report presented to the League, July 1909, and the annual report for 1908-1909.

This subseries contains Items 12/31 - 12/89.

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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