Series 15:
Prime Minister, 1901-1923 (bulk 1903-1910)
Subseries 15.3:
Imperial Conference, London, 1907
Correspondence, conference papers and other material that Deakin received while in London for the Imperial Conference in 1907. Imperial defence, imperial preference and the conference itself predominate in the correspondence. Some of the other topics are wireless and telegraphic communication, insurance companies, offers of honorary doctorates from Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, interviews with the Press and women's suffrage. There are also many invitations. Among the correspondents are L.S. Amery, the Duke of Argyll, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Joseph Chamberlain, Sir George S. Clarke, Lord Elgin, Richard Jebb, Lord Jersey, Lord Knollys, Tom Roberts, the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Tennyson, Lord Tweedmouth, J.C. Watson and B.R. Wise. There are also papers specifically concerning the conference, including the published minutes of proceedings, conference resolutions, reports, typescripts on an Imperial Constitution and Judiciary and others on Australian resolutions, a pre-conference memorandum by Sir Samuel Way, Richard Jebb's 'The Empire development fund and board', and a copy of Deakin's report to Parliament made on his return to Australia. Press clippings, souvenir volumes, invitations, posters of Deakin addressing the Pilgrim's Club and an illuminated scroll conferring the Freedom of the City of Manchester upon Deakin complete the subseries. This subseries contains Items 15/1382 - 15/1741, 15/4297 - 15/4302.
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