Description |
49 reels ; 36 mm |
Summary |
Papers include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, legal briefs, press cuttings, pamphlets, books, official documents and publications, menus, programmes, literary manuscripts, bills, receipts, photographs and tourist publications. Deakin corresponded with international, national, state and local politicians, Sir Edmund Barton among them. The collection documents the moves towards Federation and the early Commonwealth ministries. Correspondents also include Lord Tennyson, Lord Northcote, R.E. O'Connor, Richard Jebb, L.S. Amery, R.M. Collins, Sir Walter James, Sir William Lyne, Arthur Jose, David Syme, B.R. Wise, Sir Samuel Griffith, Sir Josiah Symon, Sir John Quick and Hubert Murray. Family papers include letters from his parents, sister (Catherine), wife, daughters and son-in-law Herbert Brookes |
Notes |
Filmed by W & F Pasoce Pty. Ltd. for the National Library of Australia |
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Manuscript reference no.: NLA MS 1540 |
Bibliography |
Includes an index to names of correspondents |
Notes |
Barrister, journalist and Prime Minister of Australia |
Finding Aid |
Descriptive list on reel no.1 |
Subject |
Deakin, Catherine, 1850-1937 -- Correspondence
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Deakin, Alfred, 1856-1919 -- Archives.
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Barton, Edmund, Sir, 1849-1920 -- Correspondence
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Brookes, Herbert, 1867-1963 -- Correspondence
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Legislators -- Australia -- Archives.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1851-1901
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Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 1901-1914
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Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence.
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Author |
Brookes, Herbert, 1867-1963
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Barton, Edmund, Sir, 1849-1920
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Deakin, Catherine, 1850-1937
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