Series 20:
Miscellaneous personal papers, 1871-1918
The series contains a wide variety of miscellaneous papers, including correspondence, receipts, accounts and other financial papers, material relating to Deakin's associations with the A.M.P. Society and the London Guarantee and Accident Company, details of Deakin's membership of various clubs, certificates for Deakin's matriculation in 1872, personal references, papers relating to Deakin's visit to Fiji in 1879, theatre programs collected on a visit to the United States in 1885, and a miscellaneous collection of visiting cards, invitations, programs, railway and theatre tickets, briefcases (2) and other material. This series contains Items 20/1 - 20/442.
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| Subseries 20.1
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Income and expenditure, 1888-1918 Correspondence and receipts largely relating to shares, subscriptions, income tax details for 1895, accounts, particularly from booksellers, and other financial papers.
This subseries contains Items 20/1 - 20/100.
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| Subseries 20.2
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A.M.P. Society and London Guarantee & Accident Company, 1895-1918 Correspondence, notices of meetings and other papers documenting Deakin's long association with the A.M.P. Society and the London Guarantee & Accident Company, from the mid-1890s to his resignation due to ill-health in 1918.
This subseries contains Items 20/101 - 20/133.
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| Subseries 20.3
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Club memberships, 1896-1913 Papers supplying details of Deakin's membership of various clubs, including the Australian Club, the Adelaide Club, the Compatriot's Club, the Ends of the Earth Club, the Round Table and the Royal Society of St George.
This subseries contains Items 20/134 - 20/153.
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| Subseries 20.4
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Educational certificates and personal references, 1871-1877 Certificates detailing Deakin's matriculation in 1872, together with references written for him as a young man.
This subseries contains Items 20/154 - 20/167.
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| Subseries 20.5
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Visit to Fiji, 1879 Diary, notes and permit relating to Deakin's visit to Fiji in 1879.
This subseries contains Items 20/168 - 20/172.
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| Subseries 20.6
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Visit to the United States, 1885 Theatre programs collected while travelling in the United States in 1885, including programs from San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York.
This subseries contains Items 20/173 - 20/182.
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| Subseries 20.7
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Miscellaneous items, 1873-1915 Pamphlets, invitations, programs, menus, railway and theatre tickets, briefcases (2), 'Australian personalities : Alfred Deakin' manuscript (no author, undated), copies of letters from Thomas Carlyle to his former teacher Johnstone, written between 1819 and 1822, and a copy of a letter from Alexander Berry to Sir Charles Nicholson in 1862.
This subseries contains Items 20/183 - 20/259, 20/330 - 20/442.
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| Subseries 20.8
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Visiting cards Large collection of visiting cards relating to the Deakin family.
This subseries contains Items 20/260 - 20/329.
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