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Guide to the Records of J.A. Lyons
MS 4851
National Library of Australia
| Date completed: |
February 1977 |
| Last updated: |
September 2002 |
Collection Summary
| Creator: |
Lyons, J.A. (Joseph Aloysius), 1879-1939 |
| Title: |
Papers of J. A. Lyons |
| Date Range: |
1924-1939 |
| Collection Number: |
MS 4851 |
| Extent: |
1.5m. (6 boxes + 2 folios) |
| Repository: |
National Library of Australia |
Introduction
Scope and Content
The papers contain correspondence, notes, commissions, invitations,
photograph albums, and scrap books covering the years of Lyons' prime-ministership.
Topics referred to in the papers include the Depression, the formation
of the United Australia Party, the selectionof the first U.A.P. Ministry,
trade and customs in the 1930s, the appointment of Lord Gowrie as
Governor-General, financial relations with Great Britain, the abdication
of Edward VIII and the economy during the 1930s.
The main correspondents are C.L.A. Abbott, Lord Bruce, Eric Campbell,
Sir Douglas Copland, Dr J. H.L. Cumpston, A.C. Davidson, Percy Deane,
E.C. Dyason, F.M. Forde, Prof. L.F. Giblin, Sir Robert Gibson, Lord
Gowrie, Sir Henry Gullett, Sir Laurence Hartnett, E.J. Hogan, W.M.
Hughes, Colonel H.E. Jones, Sir John Latham, Sir Henry Lawson, Sir
Essington Lewis, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Walter Massy-Greene, G.A.
Maxwell, Sir Robert Menzies, Prof. E. Morris Miller, Sir Keith Murdoch,
Sir Earle Page, T. Paterson, Sir George Pearce, J.A. Perkins, Staniforth
Ricketson, Sir Charles Rosenthal, J.H. Scullin, Sir Sydney Snow, Sir
Bertram Stevens, Sir Frederick Stewart, M.M. Threlfall, J.B. Were,
and Sir Thomas White.
Access
The collection is available for reference.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the Library by Dame Enid Lyons in October
1974.
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Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject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unpublished material for research purposes is permissable 50 years
after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description
of manuscript item], Papers of J.A. Lyons, National Library of Australia,
MS 4851, [series and/or folder number]'.
Access Terms
Personal Names
Lyons, J. A. (Joseph Aloysius), 1879-1939--Archives;
Subjects
Politicians--Australia--Archives; Prime ministers--Australia--Archives;
Occupations
Federal politicians;
Biographical Note
| Date |
Event |
| 1879 |
Born 15 September at Stanley, Tasmania |
| 1901 |
Qualified as a teacher and taught at small country schools |
| 1909 |
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly |
| 1914-1916 |
Minister for Education, Minister for Railways and Treasurer
in the Earle Labor Government |
| 1915 |
Married Enid Muriel Burnell on 28 April |
| 1923-1928 |
Premier of Tasmania |
| 1929 |
Resigned to enter the House of Representatives for the seat
of Wilmot. |
| 1929-1931 |
Post Master General and Minister for Works and Railways in
the Scullin Government |
| 1930-1931 |
Acting Treasurer |
| 1931 |
Resigned from the Government and formed the United Australia
Party |
| 1932-1939 |
Prime Minister of Australia |
| 1939 |
Died on 7 April in Sydney |
Container List
Box 1
Folder 1 Correspondence, 1924-1929
With the exception of one letter to Lyons
as Premier of Tasmania in 1924, all letters congratulate Lyons on
his election to Federal Parliament in October 1929. Correspondents
include Tom Tunnecliffe, Prof. D.B. Copland, Dr J.F. Goha, Prof.
E. Morris Miller, E.J. Hogan, J.B. Were, Jack Piggott, priests and
Tasmanian friends. Copies of a few replies are included.
Folder 2 Correspondence, 1930
Mostly addressed to Lyons as Acting Treasurer.
Correspondents include E.C. Dyson, F.M. Forde, Prof. D.B. Copland,
Alfred Baker, Keith Murdoch and Henry Gullett.
Folder 3 Correspondence, 1931
Small group of letters and some replies addressed
to Lyons as Leader of the Opposition, from Nationalist Branches,
organisations and people such as J. H. Scullin, T. Waddell, General
Sir Charles Rosenthal, Charles J. Thomas and William Browne. Also
includes a copy of a long letter from Essington Lewis to J. Gunn
of the Prime Minister's Department.
Folder 4 Correspondence, 1932
Correspondents include Eric Campbell, Colonel
H.B. Jones, Percy Deane, C.J. Cerutty, the Commonwealth Tarriff
Board, S. M. Bruce, Jos Francis, Robert Menzies, Sir George Pearce,
B.S.B. Stevens, H.S. Gullett, C.L.A. Abbott, Ramsay MacDonald and
Sir Harry Lawson.
Folder 5 Country Party, October 1932
Small file of letters between Lyons and Earle
Page, T. Patterson and Hunter.
Folder 6 Bank of New South Wales, 1931-1932
Correspondence between A.C. Davidson and Lyons.
Included are copies of Davidson letters to B.S.B. Stevens and Staniforth
Ricketson.
Folder 7 United Australia Party Subcommittee on Policy,
1931
Includes letters by J.B. Hayes and Tasman
Sheares and drafts of policies and notes by Sir George Pearce, W.M.
Hughes, P.J. Lynch and J.L. Price. There is also a list of subcommittee
members.
Folder 8 Formation of the United Australia Party,
1931-1933
Letters, cuttings, copies of letters, drafts
of agenda, and other papers. Correspondents included Sane Democracy,
J.G. Latham, G. McDowell, Allan N. MacDonald, the All for Australia
League, the Emergency Committee (SA), the Citizens League and various
national associations.
Folder 9 Formation of Ministry, 1931-1932
Correspondence, lists, and telegrams. Includes
letters from the Graziers' Association of New South Wales, Sydney
Snow, J.L. Price, G.A. Maxwell, Dr R.W. Hornabrook, J.M. Fowler,
W. Massy-Greene and Earle Page.
Folder 10 Trade and customs, 1931-1936
Correspondence, minutes, summaries of phone
conversations and cables. Correspondents include J.G. Latham, F.H.
Stewart, T.W. White, E.J. Mulvany and R.G. Casey.
Box 2
Folder 11 Correspondence, 1933
Correspondents include H.M. Threlfall, S.M.
Bruce, J.H. Starling, J.G. Latham, C.L.A. Abbott, J.C. McPhee, F.
Stewart, H.S. Gullett, J.A. Perkins, H. Lawson, J. Ramsay MacDonald,
Sir George Knowles.
Folder 12 Correspondence, 1934-1939
Correspondents include Archdale Parkhill,
W.J. Cleary, S.M. Bruce, W.M. Hughes, C.L.A. Abbott, Lord Gowrie,
King George VI, F. Stewart, Sydney Snow and L.S. Hartnett.
Folder 13-14 Financial and economic statements, 1930-1931
Includes statements, extracts from newspapers
and cables, copies of letters, statistics, minutes and printed material.
Correspondents include J. Heathershaw, L.F. Giblin, Robert Gibson
and J.H.L. Cumpston.
Folder 15 Speeches and addresses, 1931-1938
Mostly addresses by Lyons on the 1931 elections,
Lang and Scullin, the Royal Easter Show, federalism, budgets, broadcasting,
national insurance, world peace, the imperial conference (1937),
and the conferring of the freedom of the City of London.
Folder 16-17 Miscellaneous papers, 1930s
Typescript and roneoed papers with headings
such as 'The sequence of events which led to the fall of the Scullin
Government', 'The Nationalist Party', 'National Association of New
South Wales', 'Broadcast by the Prime Minister. New Year's Eve,
31st December 1936', 'Internal reconstruction, the primary producers'
problems', 'Sydney wool prices', 'Notes on Tasmanian grant', 'An
international problem', 'The beginnings of animal life', 'Hallucination
in excelsis', and 'Essay by Desmond'.
Folder 18 Appointment of Lord Gowrie, 1935-1936
Includes cables and letters by Lyons, Page,
Gowrie, Clive Wigram and Bruce.
Folder 19 Abdication of Edward VIII, 1936
Includes proclamation poster, statements and
cuttings.
Box 3
Folder 20-22 Invitations, programs, menus, certificates
Most relate to Lyons' visit to England in
1937.
Folder 23 Lyons' death - tributes and funeral, 1939
Folder 24 Printed material
Includes The Tasmanian trainee (March
1912), The Catholic school paper (June 1939), The Angelus
(May 1939) and America (July 1935)
Box 4-6
12 albums and 2 folders of cuttings, 1931-1938
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