Defence, 1903-1913
- Component identifier:
- Subseries 15_5_7
- Content Summary:
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Correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, programs, memorabilia, press clippings and other papers dealing with defence, both naval and military. Letters to Deakin refer to general matters of strategy, Australia's changing relationship with the Royal Navy, the moves towards a Naval Agreement, the deliberations of the Committee of Imperial Defence, the 1909 Imperial Conference on Naval and Military Defence, the new defence scheme incorporating a voluntary training course, cases concerning military personnel, the interchange of naval officers between Australia and England and a graving dock for Melbourne.
Correspondents include Dr Richard Arthur, Colonel William T. Bridges, Sir George S. Clarke, Sir John Cockburn, R.M. Collins, W.J. Colquhoun, Thomas Courtney, Captain William Creswell, Lord Crewe, Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, W. Graham Greene, Richard Haldane, Colonel John C. Hoad, W.M. Hughes, Sir Edward Hutton, Arthur Jose, J.W. McCay, Reginald McKenna, George Pearce, S.A. Pethebridge, Thomas Playford, Robert Scott, J.C. Watson and R.E. Williams.
Other papers include copies of cables sent by Colonel J.F.G. Foxton when in London in 1909 for discussions on naval proposals and financial matters, papers relating to the visit of the American Fleet in 1908 and a file on the visit to Australia of Lord Kitchener in 1910.
This subseries contains Items 15/3515 - 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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- This collection is available for research.
- Parent Terms of Access:
- 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.
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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