Series 8:
Victorian MLA, 1879-1900
This series deals specifically with Deakin's activities as a private member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, in 1879 and from 1881 to 1900. The papers include correspondence, manuscript and typescript drafts of Deakin's memoir 'Victorian politics', notes, speeches, printed material, posters, press clippings and other papers. A small amount of this material relates to Deakin's constituencies of West Bourke and Essendon and Flemington. Among the correspondents are David Bennett, J.L. Dow, George Graham, H.B. Higgins, the Progressive Political League, John Robertson, William Shiels, Sir Robert Stout and David Syme. This series contains Items 8/1 - 8/539.
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| Subseries 8.1
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Correspondence, 1890-1899 Correspondence, including letters from David Bennett, J.L. Dow, George Graham, H.B. Higgins, the Progressive Political League, John Robertson, William Shiels, Sir Robert Stout and David Syme.
This subseries contains Items 8/1 - 8/42.
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| Subseries 8.2
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Member for West Bourke, 1879-1886 Correspondence, a typescript of Deakin's maiden speech in Parliament, posters and press clippings. Deakin was the Member for West Bourke in 1879, and from 1881 to 1889.
This subseries contains Items 8/43 - 8/73.
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| Subseries 8.3
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Member for Essendon and Flemington, 1889-1894 Correspondence, the election return for 1894, a voting card and press clippings. Deakin was the Member for Essendon and Flemington from 1889 to 1900.
This subseries contains Items 8/74 - 8/79.
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| Subseries 8.4
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Notes, bills, speeches and other documents, 1879-1899 Typescript, compiled by Milner MacMaster for Herbert Brookes, relating to Deakin's work in the Victorian Parliament from 1880 to 1896, together with several notes by Deakin, some mentioning Sir Graham Berry, the 1894 report of the Royal Commission on Constitutional Reform and a poster relating to the Australasian Federal Referendum, 1899.
This subseries contains Items 8/80 - 8/160, 8/539.
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| Subseries 8.5
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'Deakin's work in the Victorian Parliament', 1880-1896 Anonymous typescript draft, undated.
This subseries contains Items 8/161 - 8/221.
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| Subseries 8.6
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'Victorian politics : a personal sketch', 1899-1900 Deakin's memoir 'Victorian politics', begun in 1899, was intended as a history of his role in the Victorian Parliament from 1879 to 1900. Although it was abandoned by Deakin after he had covered the years up to the end of 1881, it survives as a vivid account of his entry into colonial politics. It was later published as The crisis in Victorian politics, 1879-1881 (1957), edited by J.A. La Nauze and R.M. Crawford.
This subseries contains Items 8/222 - 8/534.
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| Subseries 8.7
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Printed material, 1890-1897 On legislative expression, or the language of the written law (n.d.) by George Coode, Queensland's A bill on the acquisition of private property (1890), sent to Deakin by Sir Samuel Griffith, Acts of the Parliament of Victoria (1893) and Griffith's Draft of a code of criminal law (1897).
This subseries contains Items 8/535 - 8/538.
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