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Papers include correspondence, diaries, notebooks,
legal briefs, press cuttings, pamphlets, books, official documents and
publications, menus, programmes, literary manuscripts, bills, receipts,
photographs and tourist publications. Deakin corresponded with international,
national, state and local politicians, Sir Edmund Barton among them. The
collection documents the moves towards Federation and the early Commonwealth
ministries. Correspondents also include Lord Tennyson, Lord Northcote, R.E.
O'Connor, Richard Jebb, L.S. Amery, R.M. Collins, Sir Walter James, Sir William
Lyne, Arthur Jose, David Syme, B.R. Wise, Sir Samuel Griffith, Sir Josiah
Symon, Sir John Quick and Hubert Murray. Family papers include letters from his
parents, sister (Catherine), wife, daughters and son-in-law Herbert Brookes.
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