Portfolios,, 1901-1923 (bulk 1903-1910)

Component identifier:

Subseries 15_5

Content Summary:

Correspondence, notes, a notebook, memoranda, reports, receipts, memorabilia, programs, pamphlets, press clippings and other printed material. This material relates to the most significant portfolios of Deakin's time as Prime Minister, including External Affairs, Trade and Customs, The Treasury, Home Affairs, Attorney-General, Postmaster-General and Defence. There are papers concerning immigration, administration of the territories, Australia's High Commission in London, trade, fiscal policy, the location of the federal capital, the High Court, defence policy, military infrastructure and other matters.

Among the correspondents are Sir Edmund Barton, Thomas Bavin, Octavius Beale, Sir Thomas Bent, Joseph Carruthers, Austin Chapman, Andrew Inglis Clark, Sir George S. Clarke, Timothy Coghlan, R.M. Collins, Joseph Cook, Captain William Creswell, Lord Crewe, Henry Dobson, 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, John Jenkins, Arthur Jose, J.H. Keating, William Kidston, Sir George Le Hunte, Sir William Lyne, Sir William MacGregor, Kenneth Mackay, Arthur Morgan, G. Read Murphy, Richard E. O'Connor, George Pearce, Thomas Playford, Sir John Quick, Ernest Rason, Sir George Reid, Richard Seddon, M. Staniforth Smith, Baldwin Spencer, David Syme, Sir Josiah Symon, Lord Tennyson, J. Unsworth, Charles Wade, Sir Joseph Ward, J.C. Watson, Sir Samuel Way, R.E. Williams and B.R. Wise.

This subseries contains Items 15/2081 - 15/4296.

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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