Guide to the Papers of Andrew Fisher
MS 2919
National Library of Australia
| Date completed: | August 2007 |
| Last updated: | August 2007 |
This finding aid was created by the Manuscripts Branch of the National Library of Australia with the assistance of the Australian Prime Ministers Centre.
Table of Contents
Collection Summary
Introduction
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Access
Copying and Publishing
Preferred Citation
Provenance
Related Material
Biographical Note
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 General correspondence, 1885-1940
Series 2 Financial and legal papers, 1892-1930
Series 3 Parliamentary papers, 1891-c.1927
Series 4 Canberra as the Federal Capital, 1904-1910
Series 5 Finance and banking, 1901-1915
Series 6 Defence and foreign relations, 1896-1915
Series 7 Dardanelles Commission, 1916
Series 8 Election papers, 1890-1939
Series 9 Miscellaneous papers, 1899-1962
Series 10 Newsclippings, 1883-1952
Series 11 Personal documents, 1885-1937
Series 12 Photographs, 1883-1951
Series 13 Publications, 1884-1943
Series 14 Papers of Margaret (Peggy) Fisher, c.1900-1983
Container List
Collection Summary
| Creator: | Fisher, Andrew, 1862-1928 |
| Title: | Papers of Andrew Fisher |
| Date Range: | 1883-1983 (bulk 1901-1921) |
| Collection Number: | MS 2919 |
| Extent: | 7.73 m (14 boxes) + 8 folio boxes and 5 elephant folio items |
| Repository: | National Library of Australia |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, departmental minutes and administrative papers, press cuttings, photographs, personal documents, books and pamphlets documenting Andrew Fisher’s political career, especially his terms as Prime Minister of Australia (1908-1909, 1910-1913, 1914-1915), and his work as Australian High Commissioner in London (1915-1921). |
Introduction
Scope and Content
The Fisher Papers include correspondence on family and official matters, departmental minutes and administrative papers, press cuttings, photographs, personal documents, and books and pamphlets. Much of this material documents Fisher’s political career, especially his terms as Prime Minister of Australia (1908-1909, 1910-1913, 1914-1915), and his work as Australian High Commissioner in London (1915-1921). The correspondents include George Ryland, Matthew Reid, W. Demaine, J. C. Watson, Frank Tudor, D. C. McGrath, James Page, Albert Gardiner, W. G. Higgs, Josiah Thomas, Sir George Pearce, Keith A. Murdoch, W. M. Hughes, Sir George Reid, Colonel Anderson and General Birdwood.
One folder of material which was added to the collection in 1983 relates to social engagements and other activities of Fisher’s daughter, Margaret Fisher.
Arrangement
The Library has arranged the Fisher Papers into fourteen series, each of which has been described in this finding aid.
A name index to correspondence was produced along with a finding aid in 1973. Correspondence received since this date has not been indexed.
During the 2007 revision of the finding aid, instalments of material received between 1981 and 1990 were integrated into the series arrangement of the original instalment. These folders have been assigned numbers with a, b and c suffixes as required.
Provenance
The papers were donated to the Library in several instalments by Fisher's family between 1958 and 1990.
Copying and Publishing
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Related Material
In addition to the Fisher Papers at MS 2919, the Library holds several smaller collections of papers of Fisher, which were received from various sources. A number of other manuscript collections (including collections on microfilm) contain letters from or papers relating to Fisher. Oral history interviews relating to Fisher are held in the Oral History Collection. As well as being accessible through our catalogue (http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue), these materials are described separately in a guide titled Special collections relating to Andrew Fisher in the National Library of Australia (http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/2919rm.html).
Photographic material held in the NLA collection is listed in the Library's catalogue and on Picture Australia.
Other papers relating to Andrew Fisher can be found in the Denis Murphy collection which is held in the Fryer Library, University of Queensland (UQFL 129). Murphy had been working on a biography of Fisher before his death in 1984.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Andrew Fisher, National Library of Australia, MS 2919, [series and/or folder number]'.
Biographical Note
Andrew Fisher was born at Crosshouse, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 29 August 1862. He left school, probably around the age of ten, to work in the local coalmines. In 1879, at the age of 17, he became secretary of the local Crosshouse branch of the Ayrshire Miners' Union. In 1885, he left with his brother James for Queensland. After working briefly at the Burrum coalfields, he settled at Gympie to work as an engine driver in the gold mines.
Fisher became active in the labour movement. He joined the Gympie branch of the Amalgamated Miners Union and was soon its Secretary and President. In 1892, as the Workers’ Political Organisation delegate from Gympie, he helped the Labour-in-Politics convention prepare for the 1893 State elections. Fisher himself was elected to the seat of Gympie, which he held from 1893 to 1896 and from 1899 to 1901. During the latter term, he was briefly Secretary for Railways and Minister for Public Works in the Dawson Labor Government of 1899.
Fisher was a supporter of Federation. In May 1901 he successfully contested the Queensland Federal seat of Wide Bay. The following December, he married Margaret Irvine, the daughter of his landlady in Gympie.
Fisher had an outstanding career in Federal politics from 1901 to 1915. Having defeated W. M. Hughes for the position of Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in 1905, he replaced J. C. Watson as Leader and Chairman in 1907, and led his first ministry as Prime Minister in November 1908, when the Party withdrew its support for Deakin. Fisher in turn lost Deakin’s support and thus the Treasury benches in June 1909, but regained power at the general election of April 1910.
During the three years of Fisher’s second term, many of the Labor Party’s policies became law. Maternity allowances were granted; land taxes introduced; three destroyers, three cruisers, and two submarines were purchased for the Royal Australian Navy; administrative responsibility for the Northern Territory was transferred from South Australia to the Commonwealth; work was begun on the Federal Capital; the Commonwealth Bank was established and Commonwealth bank notes issued; and the construction of the trans-Australia railway line commenced. During the same term in office, Fisher represented Australia at the opening of the Union of South Africa Parliament (1910); at the Imperial Conference (1911); and the Coronation of King George V (1911).
At the general election of May 1913, Joseph Cook’s anti-Labor coalition narrowly defeated the Labor Party. However, the Senate, which was controlled by the Labor Party, defeated several Government Bills and the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, granted a double dissolution. As a result of the election in June 1914 the third Fisher Ministry came into office. War had just broken out and the new Government put through censorship and security laws, directed the Navy to capture German New Guinea, and sent the first Australian troops to the Middle East and Gallipoli. During December 1914 Fisher travelled to New Zealand to confer with the Prime Minister, W. F. Massey, about trade and defence arrangements. In October 1915, he resigned to succeed Sir George Reid as Australia’s High Commissioner in London. This work involved Fisher in much of the liaison work for the Anglo-Australian war effort. He retired in 1921.
Fisher made two subsequent attempts to re-enter politics. Soon after retiring as High Commissioner, he stood unsuccessfully for Labour pre-selection for the House of Commons seat of Paisley. Later, during a brief visit to Australia, he was rejected as a potential Labor candidate for West Sydney, the electorate previously held by T. J. Ryan.
Andrew Fisher died in London, on 22 October 1928.
Series List and Descriptions
Series 1 General correspondence, 1885-1940
This series contains letters, telegrams and postcards, arranged chronologically, with undated letters placed last. There is family correspondence between Fisher, his wife, his brothers, and his children; letters of congratulations on Fisher’s election as Prime Minister and appointment as High Commissioner; and letters of condolence to Mrs Fisher on her husband’s death in 1928. Most of the correspondence, however, comprises letters sent to Fisher while in London as High Commissioner (1915-1921). Primarily received from old Labor Party colleagues, these letters document much of the contemporary political scene in Australia, including the activities of the Prime Minister, W. M. Hughes, the conscription referenda, and the war.
The correspondents include the Queensland Labor men, George Ryland, Matthew Reid, and W. Demaine; Fisher's former parliamentary colleagues J. C. Watson, Frank Tudor, D. C. McGrath, James Page, Albert Gardiner, W. G. Higgs, Josiah Thomas and G. F. Pearce; the war correspondent Keith A. Murdoch; and army officers, Colonel Anderson and General Birdwood.
Folder 4 General correspondence, 1917
Includes correspondence relating to the award of the Order of the British Empire to people in England not serving in the Australian Imperial Force along with a list of recommendations by General Birdwood.
Comprises items 292-425.
Folder 5 General correspondence, 1918-1920
Includes correspondence, a report and nominal roll relating to a recruiting campaign by Captain C. Carmichael. The nominal roll is headed 'Carmichael Thousand'.
Comprises items 426-534.
Folder 6 General correspondence, 1921-1940
Includes a file of correspondence concerning the education of the children (registered British subjects) of W. E. Clark, Harbour Master, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, at the British Municipal Council School, British Concession, Hankow, China (items 537-556).
Comprises items 535-651.
Series 2 Financial and legal papers, 1892-1930
Correspondence, certificates, guarantees, minute books, cheque butts and receipts make up the series. They relate, in particular, to Fisher’s life in Queensland and to his involvement in a number of cooperative investment schemes; the Truth Publishing Co. (of which Fisher was founding chairman); and the newspaper Gympie Truth. The paper was founded by Fisher as a reaction against Gympie’s anti-Labor press which had been largely responsible for his defeat at the 1896 state elections. At Fisher’s request, H. E. Boote became the paper’s first editor.
The series also includes papers connected with separate personal, financial and legal events which followed his move to national politics, and to Melbourne, in 1901.
Folder 8 Financial and legal papers, 1892-1922
Includes correspondence, certificates, receipts and reports relating to Fisher's activities in Queensland including his employment in the mines; his involvement in a number of cooperative investment schemes; the Truth Publishing Company; and the newspaper, Gympie Truth.
Documents relating to his later political life include correspondence concerning a bank loan to Thomas Dunstan; the purchase of a piano; and letters, telegrams and accounts from the legal firms Hedderwick, Fookes and Alston and Sly and Russell, in connection with a slander suit brought jointly by Fisher and G. F. Pearce in 1915.
Comprises items 1-115.
Folder 9 Cheque books, passbooks and certificates, 1896-1930
Includes cheque books and butts belonging to Fisher (1901-1905); a cheque book for the Gympie Truth newspaper (1896-1897); minutes of meetings of the directors and shareholders of the Gympie Printing and Publishing Company (1896); an unused passbook for the Gympie Industrial Co-operative Society; and an insurance policy certificate belonging to Andrew Fisher's son, John (1930).
Comprises items 116-190.
Folder 9a Miscellaneous papers, 1896-1915
Includes a minute book of meetings of the shareholders of the Truth Newspaper Company (1896) and a copy of a prospectus for the Isis-Bank presented to Fisher in 1915.
Comprises items 191-193.
Series 3 Parliamentary papers, 1891-c.1927
Fisher’s career in federal politics was extremely successful. He was elected to the first federal parliament in 1901, was a minister in the Watson Government of 1904, Labor Party leader in 1907, and later Prime Minister three times. His activities as Party leader, chief adviser to the Governors-General Lord Denman and Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson and as Australia’s representative at a number of overseas ceremonies and meetings can be traced in the correspondence, telegrams, manuscript notes from cabinet meetings, notes, speeches, departmental minutes, and parliamentary bills and papers. For example, there are correspondence and notes on Joseph Cook’s request for a double dissolution in June 1914, and a copy of Fisher’s letter of resignation to Lord Denman. The papers cover much of the social legislation introduced in 1910-1913, the two referenda of 1911 and 1913, and administrative matters following the transfer to the Commonwealth of the Northern Territory in 1911. Other topics relating to his political career are covered in Series 4-6.
Folder 10 Correspondence, 1901-1912
Includes representations from Maryborough timber merchants and shipping companies on tariff protection and the shipping combine; other legislative matters; and the question of home rule in Ireland.
Comprises items 1-102.
Folder 11 Correspondence and reports, 1891-1914
Includes a copy of Fisher's letter of resignation to Lord Denman in 1913 (item 128); some discussion of Cook's dissolution in 1914; general election issues; and a copy of a report prepared in 1891 on dredging operations at Owen's Anchorage (Port of Fremantle), WA.
Comprises items 103-191.
Folder 12 Correspondence, reports and telegrams, 1915
Includes discussion on the war effort; reports and statutory declarations on a looting incident in Rabaul involving members of the Expeditionary Force; the extension of the term of office of Sir George Reid as Australian High Commissioner in London; and relations with Japan, in particular, the situation of Japanese workers employed in the sugar industry in Queensland.
Comprises items 192-302.
Folder 13 Correspondence and notes, 1904-1915
Consists mainly of undated manuscript notes on the Constitution and the Labor Party and miscellaneous notes from Cabinet discussions, 1909-1915.
Comprises items 303-391.
Folder 14 Correspondence, notes and reports, 1912-1915
Notes and reports probably prepared for the 1913 elections; a summary report of the legislation passed by the Labor Governments; and notes/text for a policy speech by Fisher in Maryborough, March 1913. Also includes correspondence and notes on Cook's request for a dissolution of Parliament in June 1914 and notes on alterations to the Constitution.
Comprises items 392-523.
Folder 15 Notes, speeches, 1910-1915
Includes a typescript of Fisher's policy speech in Maryborough, March 1913 (copy also in Folder 14); extracts from Sir Josiah Symon's speech at Adelaide, 25 April 1913; and summaries of the Fisher government's policy and legislation, 1910-1912.
Comprises items 524-681.
Folder 16 Miscellaneous parliamentary papers, legislation and notes, 1904-1915
Includes reports on the Radio-telegraphic Conference held in Melbourne, 1909; the unification of railway gauges in Australia, 1911-1912 and amendments to the Constitution, 1914.
Also includes a 'Ministerial policy - statement of' by Joseph Cook (1913) and a copy of 'Simultaneous dissolution of both Houses of the Parliament' (1914).
Comprises Items 682-706.
Folder 17 Notes, reports, 1904-1915
Includes notes from newspapers on trade issues; speech notes; and a report on postal and telegraphic services (1911-1913).
Comprises items 707-836.
Folder 17a Correspondence, memorandum, notes, reports, 1904-1914
Includes manuscript notes by Fisher on events surrounding Deakin's resignation in November 1908 and the formation of the Fisher Ministry; policy papers for the 1913(?) elections; correspondence relating to Cook's double dissolution, 1914; and various papers relating to the Pacific Islands.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 1/Box 12.
Folder 17b Notes, 1909-1915
Manuscript notes from Cabinet meetings.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 2/Box 12.
Folder 17c Correspondence, notes, telegrams, 1904-1915
Topics include defence, shipping, telegraphic communications and the occupancy of Government House, Sydney.
Also includes miscellaneous telegrams sent to Fisher while visiting New Zealand (1914-1915).
Folder 17d Notes, 1910-1915
Manuscript notes from Cabinet meetings.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 4/Box 12.
Folder 17e Correspondence, notes, telegrams, 1902-1915
Includes discussion on a religious instruction referendum in Queensland; the war effort; financial and banking issues; and miscellaneous telegrams sent to Fisher while visiting New Zealand.
Also includes a newscutting of Fisher's wedding to Margaret Irvine (1901) and an order of proceedings for the laying of the foundation stone for Australia House, London (1913).
Folder 17f Correspondence, drafts, notes and reports, 1904-1915
Includes drafts of various bills and parliamentary reports.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 8/Box 12.
Folder 17g Cabinet minute, n.d.
Outlines reasons for a dissolution of Parliament.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 3 /Box 13.
Folder 17h Correspondence, notes, reports, 1911-c.1927
Includes papers relating to Western Australian electorates and the Port Augusta-Kalgoorlie railway.
Also includes a reflection on the city of Canberra (c.1927).
Folder 17i Correspondence, notes, reports, 1901-1915
Miscellaneous papers on a variety of issues. Includes correspondence with H. Jensen, Director of Mines in the Northern Territory.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 7 /Box 13.
Series 4 Canberra as the Federal Capital, 1904-1910
During Fisher’s first and second terms as Prime Minister, the site for the Federal Capital was resolved in favour of Canberra and the inauguration and naming ceremony held (1913). The series incorporates miscellaneous materials relating to these events. There is correspondence (including letters from David Miller, the Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, and the Director-General of Works, P. C. Owen, to King O’Malley, the Minister responsible for establishing Canberra); departmental memoranda; parliamentary acts; and a copy of a report Federal capital - proposed site at Yass-Canberra (1909).
Comprises folder 18.
Series 5 Finance and banking, 1901-1915
The series contains correspondence relating to the Commonwealth Bank (1912); the issue of Commonwealth bank notes; the raising of war loans; the proposed Public Debts Commission; land tax legislation; and some statistical material. Correspondents include the Commonwealth Bank’s first Governor, Sir Denison Miller, the Commissioner of Land Tax, G. A. McKay, representatives of the major private banks, and some of the State Premiers, such as J. S. McGowen and Sir Alexander Peacock.
Two publications on the Commonwealth Bank can be found in Series 13, and a photo album (1915) on the construction of the Commonwealth Bank central office building, Sydney, is in Series 12.
Folder 19 Correspondence, memorandum, notes, 1901-1915
Mainly correspondence on banking matters including the Commonwealth Bank, the Australian note issue and war loans.
Comprises items 1-103.
Folder 19a Correspondence, memorandum, notes, 1905-1915
Includes notes on various aspects of the Commonwealth Bank, the Australian note issue (1914) and comments by G. F. Pearce on the formation of an Imperial General Staff.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 6/Box 13.
Series 6 Defence and foreign relations, 1896-1915
Under the Fisher Labor Government, the movement to strengthen Australia’s defence forces was intensified. In accordance with the 1908 Federal Conference resolution, Fisher introduced compulsory military training for all males between 12 and 26. In 1909, he bought the Royal Australian Navy’s first ships, and by 1913 the fleet had expanded to include a battle cruiser, and two submarines. These developments, as well as preparations for war in late 1914, and the 'Dreadnought scare', are covered by correspondence, speech notes, and departmental memoranda in this series. As well, there are telegrams relating to Fisher’s suggestion for an Imperial Conference in late 1914; the terms of capitulation following the Navy’s capture of German New Guinea, the Solomons and Samoa; notes on Australia’s relations with the United States; and comments on talks between Fisher and New Zealand Prime Minister W. F. Massey in January 1915.
Folder 20 Correspondence, reports, telegrams, 1909-1915
Mostly relating to Australia's naval defence. Includes discussion between Fisher and Deakin on the Dreadnought proposal.
Comprises items 1-85.
Folder 21 Correspondence, notes, reports, 1896-1915
Includes the defence of Australia; memorandum on the Japanese in the Pacific, 1915; terms of capitulation of German New Guinea, September 1914; and comments on talks between Fisher and the New Zealand Prime Minister, W. F. Massey in Auckland in December 1914.
Comprises items 86-168.
Series 7 Dardanelles Commission, 1916
In 1916, Fisher joined the Dardanelles Commission, which was set up by the Asquith Government in Britain to investigate the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. The series contains a small amount of correspondence relating to Fisher's appointment, together with copies of the Commission's minutes of evidence for the first eight days (23 August 1916-6 October 1916).
Comprises folder 22.
Series 8 Election papers, 1890-1939
Fisher was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Gympie in 1893, and again in 1899. Subsequently he represented Wide Bay in the Federal Parliament, from 1901 to 1915. This small series contains papers connected with these elections in the form of election statistics, 'How to Vote' cards, leaflets on Labor Party policies and the 1902 Federal Labor Party platform, and a copy of the Rules of the Australia Labour Federation (1890).
Two items were added to this material in the 1930s, probably by Margaret Fisher. These items are a copy of the Australian Labor Party Federal Executive report, 1938-1939, and a leaflet entitled The case against the National Register (1939).
Comprises folder 23.
Series 9 Miscellaneous papers, 1899-1962
The series includes the text of Fisher’s speech at the opening of Australia House in 1918; undated manuscript notes; a number of British and Australian parliamentary papers; a summary report on the Gallipoli campaign by Keith Murdoch; two notebooks of reminiscences written by Fisher’s daughter Margaret ('Peggy'), dated 1962; and statistics on some of Sir George Reid’s expenses while High Commissioner in London.
Folder 24 Miscellaneous papers and printed material, 1899-1919
Looseleaf manuscript notes; summary report of Gallipoli operations by Keith Murdoch; summary of a meeting of the Queensland Group of the Round Table, n.d.; text of Fisher's speech at the opening of Australia House in London (1918); and details of Sir George Reid's travelling expenses while High Commissioner in London.
Printed items include various bills (1899) relating to the Constitution; an article on Fisher's brother, John, regarding his appointment as the new Chief Constable of Grimsby, reprinted from the Grimsby Daily Mail, 1899; a copy of an article by C. E. W. Bean, Official Press Representative with the Australian Forces in France, 1916, entitled 'To France: the moving of ANZAC: a padre who said the right thing'; and a copy of 'The first interim report of the Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges after the war', 1918.
Comprises items 1-55.
Series 10 Newsclippings, 1883-1952
The collection’s newspaper material consists largely of seven clippings albums (four of which are indexed) covering press reports of Fisher’s activities in 1904, 1905, 1908, 1911, 1914-1915 and 1916. There are also single issues of a number of Melbourne and London weekly magazines, and some loose clippings. The series covers Fisher’s public life in Gympie, Brisbane, and Melbourne, and in particular the Royal Coronations of 1902 and 1911, the Imperial Conference of 1911, the referendum of 1911, and the tour of New Zealand, 1914-1915.
Folder 27 Newsclippings relating to the 1911 referendum and proposed amendments to the Constitution, October 1910-February 1911
Comprises items 1-74.
Folder 28 Correspondence and newsclippings, June 1921-March 1922
File titled 'Correspondence in the press concerning the exclusion of Eurasian children from the British Municipal Council School, British Concession, Hankow, China. This includes those who are registered as British subjects in the month of January every year at H. B. M. Consulate-General'.
Comprises item 75.
Albums 28a Albums (5) of cuttings, 1883-1930
Comprises items 76-80.
Item 76 Newsclippings album : Personal and General, Book No 1, 1883-1908
Mainly clippings from the latter half of 1908 covering Fisher's first ministry. Earlier clippings from 1901 refer to the death of Fisher's brother, John, in Grimsby, England and the 1901 elections. There is also a copy of an address by William Smyth to the electors of Gympie from the Gympie Times, September 1883. A letter from the Queensland Parliament acknowledging Fisher's resignation from state politics is also included in the album.
An alphabetical index appears in the front of the album.
Item 77 Newsclippings album : Book II : Political articles, debates, speeches, etc, 11 June 1904-29 July 1904
Includes clippings on the Arbitration Bill and the defeat of the Watson government.
An alphabetical index appears in the front of the album.
Item 78 Newsclippings album : Book I : Political debates, speeches, etc, 22 April 1904-15 June 1904
Includes clippings on the defeat of the Deakin government, the new Watson ministry and events leading to its downfall only a few months later.
An alphabetical index appears in the front of the album.
Item 79 Newsclippings album, 1905-1906
Small number of loose clippings mainly relating to the sugar industry in Queensland.
Item 80 Newsclippings album, 1899-1930
The bulk of the album covers the period September 1914-January 1915 and includes cuttings on the results of the 1914 elections and Fisher's visit to New Zealand in December 1914-January 1915. Pages 63-66 relate to the appointment of Fisher's brother John to the position of Chief Constable in Grimsby, England and his subsequent death in 1901. The final clipping in the album reports on the unveiling of a memorial to the late Andrew Fisher at Hampstead Cemetery, London, in 1930, by the British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.
An alphabetical index appears in the front of the album.
Folder 28b Newsclippings and newspapers, 1900-1952
Loose clippings and select issues of newspapers. Subjects covered include Fisher's brother, John, (1900); the Commonwealth Bank; the First World War; Fisher's role as Australian High Commissioner; the General Strike of 1926; and the Secrets Funds Royal Commission (1941).
Comprises items 81-109.
Folio magazines, 28c Magazines (5), 1910-1917
Comprises items 110-115.
Item 110 The Court Journal, Court Circular and Fashionable Gazette, 29 June 1911
Special coronation issue. Contains a photograph of Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher and his wife, Margaret, who both attended the coronation (p.766).
Item 111 Lady's Pictorial, 13 January 1917
Includes an interview with Margaret Fisher: 'The call of the Dominions : II', (pp. 35-36) and a photograph of Andrew Fisher in his new office at Australia House (p. 41).
Item 112 Cape Times Annual, 1910
Item 113 The Southern Sphere, 1 June 1910
Special coronation issue. Contains an article on Australians at the coronation, (pp.1-2)
Item 114 The Graphic, 3 June 1911
Includes a drawing of Fisher by Will Dyson in an article 'Some aspects of the imperial problem', (p. 844).
Item 115 The Sphere, 20 May 1911
Includes an article on the 'Australasian Antarctic Division' (p.174). Three newscuttings from London newspapers on the same subject have been appended to the page.
Folder 29 Newsclippings and newspapers, 1900-1952
Loose clippings and select issues of newspapers. Subjects covered include Fisher's brother, John, (1900); the Commonwealth Bank; the First World War; Fisher's role as Australian High Commissioner; the General Strike of 1926 and the Secrets Funds Royal Commission (1941).
Comprises item 116.
Folio albums 29a Albums (2) of newsclippings, 1911-1916
Comprises items 117-118.
Item 117 Newsclippings album, June 1911-July 1911
Includes Fisher's visit to England in 1911 to attend the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, the Imperial Conference and the wedding of his sister in Liverpool.
Bound volume. Spine title reads 'Press notices, The Hon Andrew and Mrs Fisher, London 1911, Vol II'.
Item 118 Newsclippings album, January 1916-March 1916
Most relate to Fisher's appointment as Australian High Commissioner in London. Includes biographical profiles, his political career in Australia and visits to Australian troops in London.
Bound volume. Cover title reads 'The Rt Hon A Fisher'.
Series 11 Personal documents, 1885-1937
The series includes a large variety of personal material, such as illuminated addresses, name cards, commemorative booklets, testimonials, engagement diaries, invitations, menus and souvenir programs. The invitations, many of which have been gathered into an album, pertain to official functions and dinners which Fisher attended, and include those connected with the opening of the first Australian Parliament (1901), his attendance at the Royal Coronations (1902, 1911), and the visit to Australia of the United States Fleet in 1908.
Personal items belonging to other Fisher family members include Margaret Fisher's visitors book (1916-1919), an unsigned typescript copy of her will, Robert Fisher's autograph book (1911-1935), and a miner's right belonging to Fisher's brother, James (1889).
Folder 1 Diaries, notebooks, invitations, menus, passes and printed material, 1888-1928
Diaries for 1909 and 1913 contain only brief entries. The 1909 diary notes Fisher's request for a dissolution in May. Notebooks have been used mainly for addresses. Other items include an invitation to Fisher's wedding in 1901; dinner menus and railway passes; an entry card to the signing of the Turkish Treaty at Sevres, 1920; and a ticket to a memorial service for Fisher in 1928.
Also includes a passport belonging to Margaret Fisher's mother, Margaret Irvine, 1915-1921. Two printed items relate to the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911.
Comprises items 1-24.
Folder 2 Certificates, greeting cards, invitations, menus and souvenir programs, 1885-1918
Includes the Commonwealth of Australia celebrations in 1901; Fisher's visit to England in 1902 and South Africa in 1910-1911; the arrival of HMAS Melbourne in Port Phillip Bay in 1913 and the opening of Australia House in London in 1918.
Also includes a Queensland miner's right (1889) belonging to James Fisher and a small portrait of Andrew Fisher, aged 18.
Comprises items 25-63.
Folder 3 Invitations and souvenir programs, 1902
Includes Fisher's visit to England and his attendance at the coronation of King Edward VII in June 1902.
Comprises items 64-84.
Folder 4 Notes, souvenir programs and booklets, c.1901-1911
Includes Fisher's attendance at the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary and notes for Fisher's engagements in London at this time (21 June-10 July 1911).
Also features a copy of Links in the chain of empire, a booklet commemorating Australian Federation, 1901.
Comprises items 85-107.
Folder 5 Notes, souvenir programs and booklets, 1901-1919
Mainly items relating to the Commonwealth of Australia celebrations held in Sydney and Melbourne in 1901. Menus for other functions include a dinner organised by the Ayrshire Miner's Union in Kilmarnock, Scotland, 1911 and a banquet in honour of the Western Australian Minister for Mines, 1895.
Also includes an invitation to a public reception for the visit of the United States Fleet to Australia (1908) and an invitation to Fisher's widow, and his daughter Margaret, to a garden party at Buckingham Palace in July, 1930.
Comprises items 108-125.
Folder 6 Greeting cards, invitations and menus, 1901-1920
Mainly invitations and menus relating to Fisher's time as Australian High Commissioner in London. A small number are from the 1902 and 1911 coronations and Federation celebrations in 1901.
Also includes a bound illuminated Christmas card from the Governor of Queensland, 1908; a luncheon menu on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stones for Canberra, the Federal Capital and a luncheon menu for the launch of HMAS Brisbane in 1915.
Comprises items 126-148.
Folder 7 Greetings cards, invitations, menus, newscuttings and postcards, 1900-1937
Includes a small number of items for the 1911 coronation; a score card for a game of golf by Fisher and Keith Murdoch, 1912; souvenir programmes for the turning of the first sod on the Transcontinental Railway, 1913 and the laying of the foundation stones for the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney, 1913. Cards include the Prime Minister's official Christmas card for 1914-1915.
There is also a series of postcards showing the Union Jack flag and inscribed with various foreign languages.
Comprises items 151-176.
Folder 8 Invitations, menus, plans, programmes, 1908-1925
Mainly material relating to the visit of the United States Fleet to Australia in 1908. Includes an invitation to a public reception in Sydney, a programme for Sydney, a menu and plan of tables for a banquet in Melbourne, a copy of an address from the Federal Parliament to Rear-Admiral Charles S. Sperry; and various plans of the city of Melbourne showing the routes of marches of American servicemen attending special functions.
Miscellaneous items include an unsigned typescript of Margaret Fisher's will (c.1925); a postcard of A. Fisher and J. Keir Hardie (1907); and a piece of glass from Rheims Cathedral, France, which was given to Fisher during a visit in June 1917, shortly after the cathedral had been shelled.
Comprises items 177-191.
Folder 9 Certificates and printed material, 1911-1929
Includes a certificate of appointment to the Privy Council (1916) and an oath of a Privy Councillor; souvenir booklet of the opening of Australia House, London (1918) and extracts from the records of the Senate relating to Fisher's death (1929).
Also includes a copy of Part II of the Final report of the Dardanelles Commission.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 7/Box 12.
Folder 10 Printed material and photographs, 1913-1928
Includes a souvenir booklet of Gympie and District; views of Rotorua, New Zealand; items relating to the the Trans-Australian Railway; a copy of 'Federal referendums : the case for and against' and miscellaneous photographs.
This folder is part of the 1981 addition. Previous number : Folder 5/Box 12.
Album 11 Album of invitations, 1901-1913
Mainly invitations to official functions and dinners during Fisher's visits to Europe (1911) and South Africa (1910).
An alphabetical index appears in the front of the album.
Comprises item 192.
Folio documents 12 Miscellaneous ephemera, 1901-1934
Comprises items 193-210.
Item 193 Invitation from the Government of New South Wales to attend the Commonwealth of Australia inaugural celebrations commencing in Sydney, 1 January 1901
Item 194 Australian Commonwealth Celebrations: invitation from the Government of Victoria to a conversazione in the Exhibition Building, 7 May 1901
In celebration of the opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
Item 195 Invitation from the Government of Victoria to the celebrations in Melbourne in connection with the opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York, c.1901
Item 196 Invitation from His Majesty’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth of Australia to witness the opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 9 May 1901
Item 197 Invitation from His Majesty’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth of Australia to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York at an evening reception at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 9 May 1901
In celebration of the opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Item 198 Australian Commonwealth Celebrations: an invitation to the Royal Review at Flemington on Friday, 10 May 1901
In celebration of the opening of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Item 199 Illuminated address presented to Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, by members of the Western Australian Goldfields Water Supply Administration Employees Union during his visit to the goldfields, 16 February 1909
Item 200 Illuminated address presented to Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia from the Victorian Scottish Union, Batman House, Melbourne, 5 April 1911
Item 201 Menu for a complimentary banquet in honour of Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, 18 May 1911
The banquet was organised by the Ayrshire Miners Union and chaired by J Keir Hardie, MP.
Item 202 Seating arrangements for the Coronation Banquet at Buckingham Palace, 20 June 1911
An alphabetical list of their majestie’s guests showing room and table number for the function. ( 2 copies)
Item 203 Invitation to a royal luncheon at Guildhall for their majesties King George V and Queen Mary, 29 June 1911
Part of the coronation celebrations.
Item 204 Welcome home address presented to Fisher on his return from the coronation of King George V by the Freemantle District Traders Association, Freemantle, 8 August 1911
Item 205 Address of appreciation from the Women’s Organising Committee of the Political Labor Council, Corio, 6 December 1912
Item 206 Welcome address presented to Fisher from ex-residents of Gympie now living on the Witwatersrand Gold Field, during his visit to South Africa, c.1910
Item 207 Souvenir programme for the laying of the foundation stones for the new Commonwealth Bank building in Sydney, 14 May, 1913
Programme is encased in a velvet box.
Item 208 Invitation to Master Robert Fisher to attend the launch of the HMAS Brisbane by Mrs Andrew Fisher at the Commonwealth Naval Dockyard, Cockatoo Island, 30 September 1915
Item 209 Souvenir booklet Souvenir of the new mace for the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, n.d.
Item 210 Pictorial booklet The National war memorial of Victoria : the Shrine of Remembrance. 1934
This item is part of the 1981 addition. Previously unnumbered/Box 12.
Series 12 Photographs, 1883-1951
Fisher was a keen amateur photographer, and this series consists largely of his photographs and photographic albums. All stages of his life are depicted, including his early years in Scotland. The largest group of photographs records the visit to Australia by a delegation of British Labour parliamentarians in 1913. There is also a presentation volume of portrait photographs of all the Federal Labor Members who served with Fisher. It was presented to him on the eve of his departure for London in December 1915.
Folder 1 Photographs and postcards, 1904-1931
Includes images of family and friends; a Brisbane garden party; scenes from Northern NSW; travel pictures taken in Europe and South Africa (1910); and the Australian tour of the British Parliamentary Party (1913).
Comprises items 1-172.
Folder 2 Photographs and postcards, 1891-c.1940
Includes images of John Fisher taken in Gympie in the 1890s; other family and friends; travel pictures; postcard of Andrew Fisher and Keir Hardie (1907); the Australian tour of the British Parliamentary Party (1913); and geographical and historical cards of South Africa.
Also includes a photograph of Mrs Margaret Fisher (c.1940).
Comprises items 173 and 176-240.
Piece 2a Etching of the Exchequer Gate and West Front, Lincoln Cathedral by G Weston, n.d.
Comprises item 174.
Folder 3 Photographs and postcards, 1904-1951
Includes images of family and friends; the Australian tour of the British Parliamentary Party (1913); the inspection of an unidentified naval vessel; and miscellanous travel pictures of Europe and New Zealand.
Also includes three prints of the unveiling of a memorial in honour of Fisher at Hampstead Cemetery, London, by the British Prime Minister, Ramsay McDonald (1930) and a postcard sent to Margaret Fisher (1951), probably by three of her grandchildren.
Comprises items 241-315a. Item 315a was originally filed in a newscutting album (item 118) in Series 10.
Folder 4 Photographs, postcards and negatives, 1883-c.1919
Includes images of an inspection of the Trans Australian Railway and the Australian tour of the British Parliamentary Party (1913). There are also several packets of negatives mainly of family groupings.
Also included is a portrait of shearers as 'Unionist Prisoners' after the shearers strike in Barcaldine, Queensland, 1893.
Comprises items 316-317 and 319-379.
Album 4a Photograph album, c.1901-c.1918
Includes images of Federation celebrations in Perth, 1901; family portraits; city and country landscapes; and servicemen in uniform in England.
Comprises item 318.
Folio pieces/items, 5 Miscellaneous photographs, 1890s-1915
Comprises items 380-411.
Item 380 A meeting outside the offices of the Barrier Truth, Gympie, Queensland, 1890s
Item 381 Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 9 May 1901
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York delivering the message of His Majesty King Edward VII to the members of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
Item 382 Wedding party of Andrew and Margaret (nee Irvine) Fisher, 31 December 1901
Item 383 Studio portrait of members of the Labor Party in the first Federal Parliament, 1903
Contains signatures of all the party members (including Fisher) and party chairman, J. C. Watson. Produced by Barroni Studios, Melbourne and dated August 5th, 1903.
Item 384 Studio portrait of Prime Minister J. C. Watson, his Cabinet Ministers (including Fisher) and the Governor-General, Lord Northcote, c.1904
Contains signatures of Watson and his ministers.
Item 385 Studio portrait of Prime Minister J. C. Watson and his Cabinet Ministers (including Fisher), c.1904
Item 386 Autographed studio portrait of Governor General, Lord Dudley, presented to Fisher, 1908
Item 387 Studio portrait of Andrew Fisher, his wife, Margaret and their five children, c.1910
Item 388 Photograph taken at a luncheon for Australian Ministers given by Sir George R. Reid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia, 17 May 1911
Held at the Trocadero Restaurant, Picacadilly Circus, London.
Item 389 Autographed studio portrait of G. F. Pearce presented to Fisher, 28 June 1911
Inscription on the back reads 'with kind regards to my respected Chief and friend, London, 28/6/11'.
Item 390 Autographed studio portrait of Viscount Harcourt presented to Fisher at the Imperial Conference, 1911
Harcourt was Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1910-1915.
Item 391 Group portrait taken during a visit by Fisher to the Great Boulder Mine, WA, 13 February 1913
Item 392 Group portrait on board HMAS Australia on the occasion of the King’s visit, 30 June 1913
Item 393 Group portrait taken during Fisher’s visit to New Zealand, 1914-1915
Item 394 Exterior view of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 395 Rear view of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 396 Row of ambulances outside the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 397 Group portrait of nursing staff at the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 398 Group portrait of nursing staff and army officers at the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 399 Interior view of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 400 Interior view of medical ward F at the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 401 A patient and staff in the operating theatre at the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 402 Group photograph of the NCOs and other men of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, Cairo, WWI, c.1915
Item 403 Autographed studio portrait of W. M. Hughes, c.1916
Presented to Fisher in June 1916.
Item 404 Autographed studio portrait of Andrew Fisher, n.d.
Item 405 Studio portrait of Ronald Munro-Ferguson and his wife, Helen, n.d.
Munro-Ferguson was Governor-General of Australia from 18 May 1914-6 October 1920.
Item 406 Studio portrait of Charles Edward Frazer, MHR for Kalgoorlie, 1903-1913, n.d.
Item 407 Studio group portrait, possibly of members of Australia's First Federal Parliament, n.d.
Contains signatures.
Item 408 Unidentified group portrait (includes Fisher), n.d.
Taken by Ainar Studio, Auburn, Vic.
Item 409 Unidentified group portrait (includes Fisher), n.d.
Taken by Kerry & Co, George Street, Sydney.
Item 410 Unidentified group portrait (includes Fisher and his wife), n.d.
Taken by Olesen-Stroug(?)
Item 411 Unidentified group portrait, n.d.
Taken in London by Bassano Ltd.
Folio album 6 Album of portrait photographs of Federal Labor Party members who had served with Fisher, c.1901-1915
Presented to Fisher in December 1915 on his departure for London.
Comprises item 412.
Folio album 7 Album of photographs documenting the stages of construction of the Commonwealth Bank Central Office Building in Sydney, 1914-1915
Comprises item 413.
Series 13 Publications, 1884-1943
This series includes approximately 60 books and periodicals, together with some pamphlets and leaflets. Many are autographed by the authors. The books reveal Fisher’s interest in the history and literature of Scotland, the labour movement, and economics. The pamphlets include tracts by W. M. Hughes, Alfred Deakin, B. R. Wise, W. Pember Reeves, Sir William Lyne, Bruce Smith, and two copies of The Tolpuddle martys autographed by Will Crook.
Only the monographs and periodicals have been individually listed.
Subseries 13.1 Monographs 1884-1943
Volume 1 Austin, Bertram Herbert. The secret of high wages. London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1926]
Volume 2 Barrett, Sir James William. A vision of the possible: what the RMAC might become. London, H. K. Lewis, 1919
Volume 3 Boote, Henry Ernest. The siren city. Sydney, The Worker Trustees, 1935
Volume 4 Boote, Henry Ernest. Tea with the devil, and other diversions. Sydney, The Worker Trustees, 1928
Volume 5 Brassey, Thomas Allnutt Brassey. Problems of empire: the faith of a federalist. With a foreword by Earl Grey. New (i.e. second) edition. London, Longmans, 1913
Volume 6 Bright, Charles. Imperial telegraphic communication. London, P. S. King, 1911
Volume 7 Brown, William Jethro. The underlying principles of modern legislation. London, John Murray, 1912
Volume 8 Burns, Robert. The cotter’s Saturday night. Illustrated by A. S. Boyd. London, Chatto & Windus, 1905
Volume 9 Burns, Robert, The people’s edition of the poetical works of Robert Burns, arranged and annotated by W. Scott Douglas [and] revised by D. McNaught. 2nd ed. Edinburgh, John Menzies; Kilmarnock, D. Brown, 1897
Volume 10 Budd, John. On the federation of the world. Brisbane, Nichols, Larwill & Butler, 1914
Volume 11 Bunyan, John. The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come. London, Frederick Warne [n. d.]
Volume 12 Campbell, Thomas. The poetical works of Thomas Campbell. With illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. London, George Routledge [n. d.]
Volume 13 Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The link from the hub of the world to the far out-back. [Sydney] Commonwealth Bank of Australia [n. d.]
Volume 14 Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra: capital city of the Commonwealth of Australia. [Melbourne] Commonwealth of Australia, 1913
Volume 15 Crabbe, George Wallace. Scottish humour, songs and lore. Melbourne, George Robertson [n. d.]
Volume 16 Cramp, K. A. William Charles Wentworth of Vaucluse House. 3rd ed. [Sydney], 1923
Volume 17 Edmond, James.' A policy for the Commonwealth'. Sydney, The Bulletin, 1900
Volume 18 Fairlie, J. Kirkwood. Matthew Fowlds, centenarian weaver, 1806-1907 and other Fenwick worthies. Kilmarnock, Standard Printing Works, 1910
Volume 19 Faulkner, Clarence Campbell. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia: a brief history of its establishment, development and service to the people of Australia and the British Empire under Sir Denison Miller, 1 June 1912–6 June 1923. Sydney, Commonwealth Bank, 1923
Volume 20 Foster, Sir George Eulas. Canadian addresses, by the Hon. George E. Foster. Edited by Arnold Winterbotham. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1914
Volume 21 Fox, Sir Frank. Ramparts of empire: a view of the Navy from an imperial standpoint. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1910
Volume 22 Francis, John. History of the Bank of England, its times and traditions. 3rd ed. London, Longmans, [n. d.]
Volume 23 Gibb, John Taylor. Mauchline: town and district. Mauchline, The Author, 1911
Volume 24 Gide, Charles. Political economy. Authorised translation by Constance H. M. Archibald. London, George G. Harrap, 1918
Volume 25 Glasgow City Corporation. Municipal Glasgow: its evolution and enterprises. With a preface by Sir Daniel M. Stevenson. Glasgow, 1915
Volume 26 Goodwillie, Edward. The world’s memorials of Robert Burns. Detroit, Mich., Waverley, 1911
Volume 27 Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith. Gallipoli diary. London, Edward Arnold, 1920
Volume 28 Hobson, John Atkinson. The new protectionism. London, T. Fisher Unwin, [1916]
Volume 29 Hunter, Robert. Socialists at work. New York, Macmillan, 1908
Volume 30 Knibbs, Sir George Hanley. Voices of the north, and echoes of Hellas. London, Atston Rivers, [1913]
Volume 31 Knowles, Lilian Charlotte Anne. The industrial and commercial revolution in Great Britain during the nineteenth century. 2nd ed. London, George Routledge, 1922
Volume 32 Labour Party Executive Committee (Great Britain). Report of the Executive Committee presented to the nineteenth annual conference. London, 1919
Volume 33 Lane, Elinor (MacCartney). Nancy Stair: a novel. New York, D. Appleton, 1908
Volume 34 Lucas, William. Life and letters of Norman Carey Lucas. [Melbourne], 1920
Volume 35 Lunn, Sir Henry Simpson, ed. Coronation procession, the naval review & a tour through Spain, cruise to the Adriatic, Rome, Florence, and Venice. London, 1902
Volume 36 Malloch, D. Macleod. The book of Glasgow anecdote. London, T. N. Foulis, 1912
Volume 37 McCall, Robert, ed. Games of the international draughts match between England and Scotland, Edited and revised by Robert McCall. Glasgow, William Love, 1884
Volume 38 Margaret, Ethel MacDonald. London, 1911
Volume 39 Marwick, Sir James David. Early Glasgow: a history of the city of Glasgow from the earliest times to the year 1611. Edited by Robert Renwick. Glasgow, James Maclehose, 1911
Volume 40 Merewether, John Walter Beresford. The Indian Corps in France. 2nd ed. London, John Murray, 1919
Volume 41 Morris, James Archibald. The brig of Ayr and something of its story. 4th ed. Ayr, Stephen & Pollock, 1911
Volume 42 Murray, Charlotte. Messages from the master: and other poems. London, S. W. Partridge [n. d.]
Volume 43 Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Hainsworth. The rise of the Daily Mail [London], Carmelite House, 1916
Volume 44 Over-seas Club. The Imperial aircraft flotilla. [London n. d.]
Volume 45 Petersen, Marie Bjelke. The captive singer. London, Hodder and Stoughton [n. d.]
Volume 46 The problems of the Commonwealth. London, MacMillan, 1915
Volume 47 Queensland. Parliament. Our first half-century: a review of Queensland progress. Brisbane, Anthony J. Cumming, Government Printer, 1909
Volume 48 Robertson, W. Coo-ee talks: a collection of lecturettes upon early experiences among the Aborigines of Australia delivered from a wireless broadcasting station. Edited with a foreword by Herbert Basedow. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1928
Volume 49 Robertson, W. Ayrshire: its history and historic families. Kilmarnock, Dunlop & Drennan; Ayr, Stephen & Pollock, 1908
Volume 50 Stoddart, Jane T. The new socialism: an impartial inquiry. 2nd ed. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909
Volume 51 Thomazi, A. A. La marine francaise dans la grande guerre (1914-1918) Paris, Payot, 1929
Volume 52 To David’s friends. [London, Unwin, n.d.]
Volume 53 United States Department of State. Diplomatic list: August 1943. Washington, 1943
Volume 54 Views of the Federal Capital Territory. Melbourne, Published under the authority of Senator G. F. Pearce, Minister for Home and Territories, 1924
Volume 55 Wade, Sir Charles Gregory. Australia: problems and prospects. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1919
Volume 56 Wide Bay and Burnett Pastoral and Agricultural Society. Official catalogue of the thirty-second annual exhibition, held at Maryborough, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 24, 25 and 26, 1908. Maryborough, 1908
Volume 57 Will, William. Robert Burns as volunteer: some fresh facts which further help to confound the poet’s critics. Glasgow, John Smith, 1919
Volume 58 Ymddiddanion, Llyfr. How to learn Welsh: being an English-Welsh vocabulary and phrasebook, for the use of travellers and students. Wrexham, Hughes and Son [n. d.]
Subseries 13.2 Periodicals 1897-1916
Piece 59 Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory. Centenary Issue No. VI, January 1897
Piece 60 Labour Year Book, 1916. London: Parliamentary Committee, Trades Union Congress, Labour Party Executive Committee, Fabian Research Department, 1917
Piece 61 The Round Table. June 1916, no. 23. and December 1916, no. 25. London, The Round Table, 1916
Series 14 Papers of Margaret (Peggy) Fisher, c.1900-1983
The bulk of the papers in this series belong to Margaret (Peggy) Fisher, Fisher's daughter. In 1973 she organised a social function to celebrate the 70th anniversary of her father's entry into politics. The correspondence mainly consists of acceptances or apologies for non-attendance at this function.
Miscellaneous items include a passport belonging to Andrew Fisher (1916-1917); invitations; and newscuttings. Photographic material includes a portrait of Mrs Irvine (Margaret Fisher's grandmother); the unveiling of a memorial to Fisher at Hampstead Cemetery, London by British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald (1930); and family members.
Comprises one folder.
Container List
| Series | Folders/Pieces | Items | Box |
| 1 | 1-7 | 1-688 | 1 |
| 2 | 8-9 | 1-190 | 1 |
| 2 | 9a | 191-193 | 2 |
| 2 | 9b-9c | Items unnumbered | 2 |
| 3 | 10-15 | 1-681 | 2 |
| 3 | 16-17 | Items 682-836 | 3 |
| 3 | 17a-17f | Items unnumbered | 3 |
| 3 | 17g-17k | Items unnumbered | 4 |
| 4 | 18 | 1-32 | 4 |
| 5 | 19 | 1-103 | 4 |
| 5 | 19a | Items unnumbered | 4 |
| 6 | 20 | 1-85 | 4 |
| 6 | 21 | 86-168 | 5 |
| 6 | 21a | Items unnumbered | 5 |
| 7 | 22 | 1-13 | 5 |
| 8 | 23 | 1-32 | 5 |
| 9 | 24-26 | 1-57 | 5 |
| 10 | 27-28 | 1-75 | 5 |
| 10 | 28a | 76-80 | 6 |
| 10 | 28b | 81-109 | 7 |
| 10 | 28c | 110-115 | Folio Box 8 |
| 10 | 29 | 116 | 7 |
| 10 | 29a | 117-118 | Folio Box 7 |
| 11 | 1-6 | 1-148 | 7 |
| 11 | 6a | 149 | 8 |
| 11 | 6b | 150 | 8 |
| 11 | 7-8 | 151-191 | 8 |
| 11 | 9-10 | Items unnumbered | 8 |
| 11 | 11 | 192 | Folio Box 1 |
| 11 | 12 | 193-198 | Folio Box 2 |
| 11 | 12 | 199-200 | Folio Box 3 |
| 11 | 12 | 201-202 | Folio Box 2 |
| 11 | 12 | 203 | PW Map Drawer 18 |
| 11 | 12 | 204-205 | Folio Box 3 |
| 11 | 12 | 206 | Folio Box 2 |
| 11 | 12 | 207 | Folio Box 3 |
| 11 | 12 | 208-210 | Folio Box 2 |
| 12 | 1-2 | 1-240 | 9 |
| 12 | 2a | 174 | 9 |
| 12 | 2b | 175 | PW Map Drawer 18 |
| 12 | 3-4 | 241-379 | 9 |
| 12 | 4a | 318 | 9 |
| 12 | 5 | 380-386 | Folio Box 4 |
| 12 | 5 | 387 | PW Map Drawer 18 |
| 12 | 5 | 388-392 | Folio Box 4 |
| 12 | 5 | 393 | PW Map Drawer 18 |
| 12 | 5 | 394-403 | Folio Box 4 |
| 12 | 5 | 404 | PW Map Drawer 18 |
| 12 | 5 | 405-411 | Folio Box 4 |
| 12 | 6-7 | 412-413 | Folio Box 5 |
| 12 | 8 | 414 | Folio Box 6 |
| 12 | 9 | 415-416 | 9 |
| 13 | Publications | Items unnumbered | 10 |
| 13 | Publications | Items unnumbered | 11 |
| 13 | Publications | Items unnumbered | 12 |
| 13 | Publications | Items unnumbered | 13 |
| 13 | Publications | Items unnumbered | 14 |
| 13 | Oversized publication | Item unnumbered | Folio Box 8 |
| 14 | 1 | Item unnumbered | 9 |