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Series 18: Post-retirement, 1913-1925

This series contains correspondence, notes, transcripts, memoranda, reports, pamphlets, press clippings and other documents. There are letters that Deakin received after his retirement from Federal politics in 1913, together with the politically oriented material he collected following this period, including papers relating to his involvement with the Dominions Royal Commission and the Royal Commission on Food Supplies and Trade. Among the major correspondents are James Hume Cook, Lord Denman, Richard Edwards, Richard Foster, Patrick McMahon Glynn, Littleton E. Groom, W.M. Hughes, George H. Knibbs, John Livingston, Hugh Mahon, Walter Massey-Greene, Archibald Peake, Anthony St. Ledger, Dugald Thomson, Joseph Varden and William Wilson.
This series contains Items 18/1 - 18/410.

 

Subseries 18.1 Correspondence, 1913
Largely concerning Deakin's retirement, including messages of support from friends, colleagues, representatives of various Liberal associations and others. This subseries contains Items 18/1 - 18/145.
Subseries 18.2 Dominions Royal Commission, 1913-1914
Printed transcripts, with some annotations, of Deakin's report to the Dominions Royal Commission, which was established in 1912 to study the natural resources, trade and legislation of the major Dominions within the British Empire. This subseries contains Items 18/146 - 18/221.
Subseries 18.3 Royal Commission on Food Supplies and Trade, 1914-1915
Correspondence, some of which is printed, official files and press clippings. Deakin began serving on the Royal Commission on Food Supplies and Trade in 1914, together with Dugald Thomson and George H. Knibbs. This subseries contains Items 18/222 - 18/367b.
Subseries 18.4 Memoranda, notes, pamphlets and other documents, 1913-1925
Papers on the 1914 conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Deakin's message to the Australian people to vote for conscription in December 1917, President Wilson's 'Declaration of Freedom, 1918' and material relating to Returned Soldiers. There is also a photocopy of a note by Ivy Brookes regarding her father's decision to retire. The original note is held in the Brookes Papers (MS 1924). This subseries contains Items 18/368 - 18/398.
Subseries 18.5 Press clippings, 1913
Concerning Deakin's retirement. This subseries contains Items 18/399 - 18/410.
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