Election and political material

 
Component identifier:
Series 13
Content Summary:

Glynn stood for elections from 1887 to 1919 at state and federal levels. He was Member for Light (1887-1889); North Adelaide (1895-1899); a member of the South Australian Delegation to the Commonwealth Constitutional Convention (1897-1898); South Australian representative in the first Federal Parliament (1901 - November 1903) and Federal Member for Angas (December 1903 - December 1919).

This series consist of Glynn's handwritten and typescript notes and speeches on elections, printed pamphlets and booklets, draft bills, letters, certificates, some newspaper cuttings and various other political and electoral material collected while Glynn was a Member of Parliament. They concern political parties, mainly the Liberal Party, election candidates and figures, electoral reform, absentee voting, proportional representation (including a draft bill relating to preferential voting of members of the House of Representatives in 1909), the Electoral Amendment Bill of 1914, and some issues of Representation, the journal of the Proportional Representation Society.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The Glynn papers were received between 1958 and 1973 from Mrs J. O'Collins, Father G. O'Collins and Mrs J.S. Peters of Melbourne and Mr Aiden McMahon Glynn of Ireland. The marriage proposal from Glynn to Abigal Dynon was presented by Professor Maev O'Collins and Moira Peters in 1996.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn333142).
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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