MS 3155
Records of Sir Peter Heydon (1913 -1971)
Scope and Content Note Biographical Note Summary List
- 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.
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)
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(?) |