MS 3155

Records of Sir Peter Heydon (1913 -1971)


Scope and Content Note
Biographical Note
Summary List


SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

  • Papers: 1901 - 1971
  • 3.36m. (24 boxes, including Box 15a) and one folio item
  • Partly closed. Boxes 16-21 are shelved in the Closed Run but individual files of official correspondence may be released after 30 years from date of creation.

The collection was presented to the Library by Lady Heydon in 1972. In 1976 further correspondence, drafts, speeches and articles were added. The diaries, added in 1990, were lent to the Library for copying by Heydon's daughter, Julia Hoffman.

The bulk of the collection comprises drafts, research material, newspaper clippings, articles, illustrations and copies of letters used by Heydon in writing Quiet decision: a study of George Foster Pearce. There is also correspondence with various individuals and institutions about Pearce and the biography.

OTHER MATERIAL

  • An interview with Heydon is held in the Oral History Collection at TRC 21/2
  • Photographs are held in the Pictorial Collection.

FURTHER INFORMATION

There is an entry on Heydon in C.A. Burmester's publication National Library of Australia: guide to the collections, Volume 4, page 169

Crisp, L.F. Peter Richard Heydon: a tribute from his friends, was privately published in 1972. A copy is held in the lists cabinet under Heydon.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Sir Peter Heydon was a diplomat and public servant. Main dates are:

1913 Born 9 September in Sydney

1935 Honorary Secretary of Commonwealth Council of the Australian Institute for International Affairs

1936 Admitted NSW Bar. Joined Department of External Affairs. Became private secretary to Minister for External Affairs, Sir George Pearce and also to Attorney-General, R.G. Menzies

1940 Posted to Washington as Second Secretary of the Australian Mission

1942 Married Naomi Slater on 7 May

1948; 1957 Member of Australian Delegation to U.N. Assembly

1950 Chargé d'Affaires, the Hague, May-October 1950

1951-53 Australian Minister to Brazil

1953-55 Australian High Commissioner to NZ

1955-59 Australian High Commissioner to India

1959 Created C.B.E.

1960-61 First Assistant Secretary, Department of External Affairs

1961-71 Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Immigration

1971 Died, May, in Canberra

Publications:

Quiet decision: a study of G.F. Pearce (Melbourne University Press, 1965)

The effects of immigration on Australia's growth (Wagga Wagga Teachers' College, 1968)

SUMMARY LIST

BOX 1

Folder Quiet decision: a study of George Foster Pearce (1965)

1 Notebooks (2)

2 - 3 Draft of manuscript

4 Articles about G.F. Pearce

5 Articles by or about Pearce from 1937

6 Notes on Pearce draft

7 Pearce book: notes from other books and theses

8 'Arbitration in the Commonwealth Public Service; (thesis by E. E. Crichton) - copies of pages relating to Pearce. Copies of pages from thesis by John Merritt. Miscellaneous approvals

9 Correspondence with Mrs Ellison, P.F. Pearce, L.G. Pearce, John Merritt, Murray James, Malcolm Uren, Mollie Lukis, Tom Hartrey

10 Correspondence with Lord Bruce, Sir John Latham, E.J. Holloway, Sir Robert Menzies, Paul Hasluck, Arthur Calwell, Shane Paltridge, Sir Frederick Shedden

BOX 2 Quiet decision (cont.)

11 Correspondence with embassies

Cheshire

Department of Interior re place names

Miscellaneous correspondence

12 Quiet decision - miscellaneous data on persons

13 - 16 Hansard extracts

17 - 20 Newspaper extracts

BOX 3 Quiet decision (cont.)

21 Copies from Pearce Papers in NLA

22 Copies of items on Pearce 'Rural indebtedness' - report of Committee under Sir Charles Nathan, 1934

23 Pearce Papers in Archives and War Memorial

24 Correspondence with government departments

25 Correspondence re territories

26 Article on Pearce for A dictionary of world history (1969, Thomas Nelson and Sons)

Article on Pearce for Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea, 1968

27 Lecture by Heydon on Pearce for Royal Institute of Public Administration, 27 June 1963

28 Pearce Papers: cartoons, photographs

29 Galley proofs

BOX 4 Quiet decision (cont.)

30 - 31 Galley proofs

32 - 34 Annotated typescript - revised order

35 Typescript: dedication, preface (foreword), acknowledgments

36 Typescript list of illustrations, introduction

37 Annotated typescript: Chapter 1: 'Focus'

38 'The Day' (later Chapter 1: 'Focus') Chapter 2: 'Ascent'

39 Chapter 3: 'The Senate' / Chapter 4: 'Power' / Chapter 5: "Defiance'

BOX 5 Quiet decision (cont.)

40 Annotated typescript: Chapter 6: 'Hughes'

41 Chapter 7: 'Bruce' / Chapter 8: 'Adjustment'

42 Chapter 9: 'Fulfilment' / Chapter 10: 'Frontiers'

43 Chapter 11: 'The Departments'

44 Chapter 12: 'Projection', 'The Press'

45 Chapter 12 (sic), actually 13: 'The West'

46 Chapter 14: 'Defeat' / Chapter 15: 'Legacy'

47 Footnotes

48 Endnotes

49 For possible use as appendices

BOX 6 Quiet decision (cont.)

50 Annotated typescript: Bibliography

51 - 53 Index

54 Alterations, corrections to ms

55 Other influences (Chapter 9)

56 Chapter 15: 'Abroad'

57 Endnotes and papers out of place

58 Spare copies

BOX 7 Quiet decision (cont.)

59 - 63 Annotated typescript: Spare copies (cont.)

Addition 27 July 1976

BOX 8 'Polish interests':

64 First draft

65 Second draft

66 Research material

BOX 9 'Polish interests'

67 Drafts and notes

68 - 69 Correspondence and notes

70 Photocopies Articles

71 Article 'Immigration into Australia', 1971 - drafts, correspondence Comment on Crocker's Australian ambassador, 1971 - draft (See also Folder 132)

72 - 73 Article on Sir Keith Officer, 1970 - correspondence, drafts, photographs

74 Article on John Paul Quinn, 1968 - correspondence, drafts

BOX 10 Immigration

75 Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration

76 Immigration papers - to special audiences

77 Address to Vice-Chancellor's Forum, University of New England, Armidale, 13 March 1968

78 'Australia's immigration policy and her international relations', AIIA, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, 1966-67

79 Imperial Defence College Lecture, August 1963

80 - 81 Industrial Mobilisation Course, NSW, 1968-69 Immigration and Defence, 1971 - answers to the critics

82 - 83 Round Table article: 'Immigration policy and international relations' 'Immigration and Australia': drafts, correspondence, notes

84 ''Cooperative administration in immigration': drafts, notes Immigration Arbitration Commission, 1963. Functional division of the Department of Immigration, 1963

Example of a letter to CMOs, August 1969

AIIA - Study Group on Australia and Asia, 1962

BOX 11 Immigration

85 - 86 Immigration notes and addresses, 1962-69 / Managing a Department: notes, 1966-68

87 The Australian Immigration Programme, a study in administrative flexibility, RIPA, NSW Group, 1964. Cooperative Administration in Immigration, RIPA Conference, 1964

Lecture to Wagga Teachers' College, 1948) printed)

'Key to Australia's future', Australian Industries Development Association, July 1963 (printed)

Big Brother Movement, Sydney, 1968

88 Addresses, 1964-68

89 Administration talks, 1963-70

90 Comalco offer, 1970: prospectus / Nominations and references

91 Speeches and articles, 1961-70

BOX 12 Immigration

92 Australian Social Services: notes by B.L. Murray, 1969

Notes on migration control, November 1965

Non-European and mixed descent immigration, May 1969

Joint Committee of Public Accounts, 1967

Enquiry into Immigration: transcript of evidence

History of the Department, March 1967

93 - 94 Financially assisted migration from Italy

Agreement with Turkey

Assistant Secretaries' Conference, 1965, 1966

95 P. Lynch: papers when Secretary of Immigration, 1970

96 - 99 Department of Immigration training courses

100 Addresses by B.M. Snedden, 1969

101 Unpublished immigration papers, 1962-69; Printed items

BOX 13

102 - 110 RIPA and RIPA ACT Group, 1966-71

BOX 14

Department of External Affairs

111 Brazil, 1952-53

112 Shipping and Air Contracts, 1970

113 Heydon's letters from USSR to N. Heydon, 1942-44

114 Travel documents (USSR)

Letters home from Russia to his sister Betty and parents, 1944-45

115 Miscellaneous articles, comments and cuttings on work in Russia, 1943-44 - Correspondence:

116 J. Beasley, 1949

K. Binns, 1947

117 J. Burton, 1948-50

118 Lord Casey, 1955-56

119 Sir Alan Watt, 1956

120 Sir Arthur Tange, 1955-57

121 Maj-Gen. Cawthorn, 1955-58

122 Lord Casey, pre-1959

BOX 15 Department of External Affairs

123 Correspondence with Sir James Plimsoll on India and related matters, 1955-58 (file no. HCH/10)

Qantas-India etc., flight November 1957

124 Correspondence with various Australian External Affairs officers in Canberra etc., 1955-58 (file no. HCH/6)

Correspondence with other Australian missions outside India (selected letters only kept), 1955-58 (file no. HCH/9)

125 Correspondence with Government of India offices, 1955-58, (file no. HCH/10)

126 Orders for books, stationery etc. to be sent to India, 1955-58 (file no. HCH/52)

127 External Affairs, 1959-60; J. Ryan 1963, reference letters of 1939 and 1944

128 Various letters to Heydon from Sivananda Literature Research Institute, 1959

Talk by Heydon for Radio Australia on the occasion of Republic Day and Australia Day, 26 January 1959

Printed items, letters, memoranda on India, 1957

Various subject files

129 Commonwealth Hostels Ltd - Articles of Association, 1951 . Annual report, 1961

Correspondence: W. Duncan, 1963

Fort Street Boys' High School: Articles of Association, 1951 / Annual report, 1961

130 Correspondence: Institute of Public Affairs, 1966

David Low; printed article

Correspondence: R.G. Neale, 1964

131 New Zealand - cuttings

Correspondence: Presbyterian Ladies' College, Pymble, 1964

Correspondence: Rotary Club of Sydney, 1964

Correspondence: Soroptimist Club, 1963-64

Correspondence: K.J. Swan (Wagga Historical Society), 1968

BOX 15a

132 Various speeches, 1962, 1968; issue of Quadrant for 1971 in which Walter Crocker's book is reviewed (Australian ambassador, MUP, 1971). See also Folder 71)

133 Crocker book review - draft

134 Crocker criticisms: three spare copies

135 Correspondence with thesis writers, 1964-68: with P. Hart on J.A. Lyons, with N. Meaney (Sydney University) and David Potts

Various articles and talks

BOX 16

136 - 141 Correspondence: Lord Casey, 1959-71

BOX 17 Correspondence:

142 - 143 Sir Arthur Tange, 1959-62

W.R. Crocker, 1960-61

145 Sir John Bunting, 1966

146 Sir Alan Watt, 1966

147 Sir Keith Waller, 1966-69

148 Francis Stuart, 1966-68

149 B.C. Hill, 1964-69

150 Sir Keith Officer, 1964-71

BOX 18 Correspondence:

151 - 152 Sir Hubert Opperman, 1966-71

153 J.B. Mackay, 1971

154 Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1962

155 Review of salaries of Permanent Heads, 1968

BOX 19 Correspondence:

156 Sir James Plimsoll, 1959-60

157 Sir Patrick Shaw, 1960

158 Sir Alexander Downer, 1961-67

159 Sir David McNicoll, 1965

D.A. Cameron, 1962;

K.C.O. Shann, 1960

160 A.G.W. Keys, 1962-66

John Quinn, 1963-66

162 Brigadier Spry, 1963-66

163 Sir Reginald Scholl, 1966

164 R.E. Armstrong, 1968-71

Alwyn Lee, 1970

Sir Hubert Opperman, 1970

BOX 20

166 - 168 Official correspondence, 1959-65

169 Turkey - emigration, 1964

170 Good Neighbour Council, J.R. Huelin, 1966

171 C.T. Moodie, 1967-68

172 Correspondence, 1961

173 Correspondence, 1977

BOX 21 Correspondence

174 - 176 Sir Frederick Wheeler, 1968-75

177 - 179 Immigration, 1959-70

180 Immigration Publicity Council and Planning Council, 1968

181 Immigration Publicity Council and Planning Council: corres-

pondence and notes, 1965

182 Records of conversations, submissions, Immigration, 1964-68

183 Immigration: Secretary's private papers, 1963-69

Addition 30 April 1990

BOX 22 Diaries (copies)

184 1961-62

Diaries (cont.)

185 1963

186 January - June 1964

187 July - December 1964

188 January - June 1965

189 July - December 1965

190 July - December 1966

BOX 23 Diaries

191 January - June 1967

192 July - December 1967

193 January - June 1968

194 July - December 1968

195 January - June 1969

196 July - December 1969

197 1970

198 1971

FOLIO RUN

Photographs of drawing of members of the first Imperial Conference

Cartoon of G.F. Pearce(?)