Guide to the Papers of Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1114 - M1119
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Long, Walter, 1854-1924
- Title
- Papers of Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1913 - 1923
- Collection Number
- M1114 - M1119
- Extent
- 129 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning: Imperial relations; recruiting in Australia and New Zealand; campaigns in France; 1918 Imperial War Conference; control of former German colonies in Pacific; split in Australian Labor Party over conscription; communications between Britain and Dominions; appointment of governors; honours; Imperial trade; federal-State relations in Australia; W.M. Hughes; Keith Murdoch; Archbishop D. Mannix; and administration of Straits Settlements.
Correspondents include Sir William Birdwood, Sir Charles Crewe, D. Lloyd George, W.F. Massey, Sir George Reid, Sir Walter Davidson, Lord Liverpool, Sir Henry Galway, Sir William Ellison Macartney, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Sir Francis Newdegate, Sir Arthur Stanley, Sir Bickham Sweet-Escott, A.J. Balfour and Sir Maurice Hankey.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Filmed at the Wiltshire County Record Office, Trowbridge, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1979 (AJCP Reels: M1114-M1119). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.
Collection Reference: 947. For further information see: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Catalogue. [https://calmview.wiltshire.gov.uk/CalmView/]
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2248317] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Advisory Statement
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Subjects
Australia; Australia: federal–State relations; Australia: politics and government; Australian Labor Party; Balfour, Arthur, 1st Earl; Birdwood, Sir William R., 1st Baron; Conscription in Australia (1916–1917); Crewe, Sir Charles; Davidson, Sir Walter; Foljambe, Sir Arthur W., 2nd Earl of Liverpool; Galway, Sir Henry; Germans in the Pacific; Governorships; Great Britain; Great Britain. Colonial Office; Great Britain: relations with colonies; Hankey, Sir Maurice, 1st Baron; Honours; Hughes, William M.; Imperial Conferences; Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl; Long, Walter, 1st Viscount; Macartney, Sir William E.; Mannix, Daniel, Archbishop; Massey, Sir William F.; Munro-Ferguson, Sir Ronald, 1st Viscount Novar; Murdoch, Sir Keith; Newdegate, Sir Francis N.; Politicians: Britain; Reid, Sir George H.; Stanley, Sir Arthur, 5th Baron; Straits Settlements; Sweet-Escott, Sir Bickham; Trade: imperial; World War I
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 292, p110. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]
Biographical / Historical
Walter Hume Long (1854-1924), 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall (created 1921). Born at Rood Ashton, Wiltshire. Conservative M.P. 1880-1921. President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 1895-1900, President of the Local Government Board 1900-1905, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1905, President of the Local Government Board 1915-1916, Secretary of State for the Colonies December 1916-January 1919, First Lord of the Admiralty 1919-1921.
Item Descriptions
Series. Irish Papers, 1918
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1114.
Correspondence of J.D. Connelly, July 1918 (File 947/186)
3 items
Correspondence exchanged between Long, Lord Deoies, H.F. Batterbee and the private secretaries of W.F. Massey, W.M. Hughes and H. Burton, August 1918 - December 1918 (File 947/201)
Irish affairs; suggestion that American and Dominion statesmen should visit Ireland.
Correspondence between between Long, H.F. Batterbee, W.M. Hughes MP, Prime Minister of Australia; Lieutenant General J.C. Smuts MP, and H.A. Law MP, 28 June 1918 - 2 July 1918 (File 947/412/n)
Relating to the encouragement of recruiting appeals by prominent Irishmen in the Dominions to be sent to the Voluntary Recruiting Council in Ireland for publication.
Series. President of the Local Government Board, 1916
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1114.
Series. Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1913 - 1919
113 itemsFilmed selectively.
General
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M1114-M1119.
Copies of correspondence between L. Harcourt, Sir Edgar Vincent and Colonial Office officials, January 1913 - March 1913 (File)
Vincent's claim that Suez Canal was underused; proposal that ships engaged in Australian trade should pay lower Suez Canal dues.
Correspondence exchanged between Long, Lord Stamfordham, Lord Derby, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Lord Liverpool, January 1917 - March 1917 (File)
Derby's proposal that Duke of Connaught be appointed Inspector-General of Overseas Forces training in U.K.
Correspondence exchanged between Long, Sir Donald Munro–Ferguson, Lord Stamfordham, Clive Wigram, A. Bonar Law, H.P. Batterbee, J.C.C. Davidson, January 1917 - March 1917 (File)
Treasury decision that Australia should raise loan in U.S.A; King's view that this might strain relations between Britain and Australia.
Copy of diary of Long's visit to France to inspect Dominions troops, 8 March 1917 - 13 March 1917 (File)
Correspondence exchanged between Long, H.F. Batterbee and A.J. Balfour, October 1917 (File)
Despatch of Lord Bertie referring to French Government's view on retrocession to Germany of any of its colonies; Colonial Office view that retention of German colonies was vital to Dominions and to Empire.
Correspondence of A.J. Balfour, 8 January 1917 - 17 January 1918 (File 947/532)
13 items
Long to A.J. Balfour, 8 January 1917 (Item a)
W.F. Massey's views on effects on Dominions of treating territory conquered by Dominions forces as pawns in diplomatic game.
Long to A.J. Balfour, 19 January 1917 (Item a)
No reference to German colonies in reply to President Wilson's Peace Note; transfer of Cameroons to France.
Long to A.J. Balfour, 21 February 1917 (Item h)
Urges Foreign Office to permit Sir Thomas Robinson (Agent-General for Queensland) to receive Legion of Honour.
E. Drummond to C.J. Phillips, 28 August 1917 (Item k)
Encloses letter from Sir George Reid to A.J. Balfour stating Reid plans to visit U.S.A. to make series of public addresses; Balfour does not believe it will do any harm.
Long to A.J. Balfour, 22 October 1917 (Item n)
L.S. Amery's 'appreciations' on Western and General Reports.
Correspondence between Long and Sir William Birdwood, June 1918 - December 1918 (File)
Subjects include command of A.I.F., Birdwood's appointment as Commander of 5th Army, situation at Front, capture of Lille, claims that Australian troops were kept too long in the line, grievances of overseas and home troops, demobilisation, Birdwood's relations with Sir Douglas Haig, W.M. Hughes, Keith Murdoch.
Long to Lord Robert Cecil (and draft by Sir George Fiddes), 1 March 1918 (File)
German colonies; urges arrangement with France to secure its support on colonial question in return for British support on France's lost provinces.
Correspondence of Sir Charles Crewe, 28 November 1918 - 5 February 1919 (File 947/546)
4 item
Sir Charles Crewe (Java) to Long, 28 November 1918 (Item)
Impressions of Java; problems of Dutch in dealing with native peoples; attitudes to Germany, Japan; irrigation.
Sir Charles Crewe (Singapore) to Long, 29 December 1918 (Item)
Dissatisfaction in Straits Settlements and Malay States; lack of business experience; Sir Arthur Young, Sir Edward Brockman; need for more representative institutions; problems in government administration; opium trade; possible union between Straits Settlements and Malay States.
Correspondence of Lord Derby, 19 November 1917 - 23 October 1918 (File 947/547-548)
6 items
Lord Derby to Long, 19 November 1917 (Item 547 k)
Proposal for special medal for Australians who served at Gallipoli.
Lord Derby (Paris) to Long, 5 July 1918 (Item 547 z)
Ireland; Conservative Party; visits of Dominions representatives to France; problems with New Zealanders.
Correspondence of Sir Maurice Hankey, 8 May 1917 - 21 June 1918 (File 947/555)
8 items
Roderick Jones (Ministry of Information) to H.C.M. Lambert, 12 September 1917 (File b)
Encloses cable sent to papers in Australia and New Zealand on appointment of Sir Walter Davidson as Governor of N.S.W.
Correspondence of A. Bonar Law, 21 September 1917 - 28 June 1918 (File 947/563)
4 itemsCorrespondence of David Lloyd George, 12 December 1916 - 23 June 1918 (File 568)
8 items
D. Lloyd George to Long, 12 December 1916 (Item 568 a. (1))
Need for Britain to consult colonies to much greater extent.
Notes of interview with D. Lloyd George, 22 January 1917 (Item 568 a)
Imperial Conference; Sir Joseph Ward's attendance at War Cabinet.
Long to D. Lloyd George, 26 October 1917 (Item 568 k)
Criticisms of L.S. Amery's 'appreciations' on Western and General Reports sent to Dominions.
Long to D. Lloyd George, 2 November 1917 (Item 568 l)
Encloses press cable reporting speech by W.A. Holman in Sydney expressing despondency on war situation.
Long to D. Lloyd George, 23 November 1917 (Item 568 q)
Encloses draft cable to Dominions on Allied Conference in Paris.
Correspondence between Long and W.F. Massey, February 1917 - June 1919 (File)
Subjects include Lord Liverpool's change of title from Governor to Governor–General, Massey's epeech to the House of Representatives on his visit to England in 1917, confidentiality of proceedings of Imperial War Conference, F.M.B. Fisher, Lord Jellicoe's visit to the Dominions in 1919, Long's departure from the Colonial Office.
Correspondence between Long and Sir George Reid, February 1918 - June 1918 (File)
Suggesting Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke as Chairman of Emigration Committee: Reid's resignation from Parliament owing to abolition of one of Westminster seats.
Correspondence of Sir Walter Davidson, July 1917 - August 1918 (File 947/606-608)
3 item
Sir Walter Davidson to Long, 18 September 1917 (Item 606. 21)
Thanks for appointment as Governor of N.S.W.
Correspondence exchanged between Long, H.F. Batterbee, W.A. Holman, G.S. Wade, July 1917 - September 1917 (Item 607)
Appointment of Governor of N.S.W.
Correspondence between Long and Sir Walter Davidson, December 1917 - August 1918 (Item 608)
Subjects include War Cabinet papers, relations between Agent–General in London and Colonial Office, W.A. Holman, Sir Ronald Munro–Ferguson, military situation, Labor Party and recruiting, Ireland, Archbishop Mannix, Queensland politics, wool, references to Labor Party in Davidson's speeches.
Includes newspaper cuttings.
Correspondence between Long and Sir Henry Galway, December 1917 - February 1919 (File 947/612)
Subjects include governors' pensions, Galway's request for the governorship of Ceylon, the extension of his tenure to 1920, South Australian politics, Archbishop Mannix.
Correspondence between Long and Lord Liverpool, January 1917 - April 1919 (File 947/615)
Subjects include New Zealand politics, W.F. Massey, Sir Joseph Ward, Sir James Allen, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, General A. Godley, recruiting, Gallipoli medals, German colonies, coal strike, land settlement, Northcliffe press, Irish in New Zealand, honours, channels of communication, visits of Ministers to Britain, visit of Prince of communication, visits of Ministers to Britain, visit of Prince of Wales, change of title to Governor–General; Liverpool's decision to remain in New Zealand until 1920, Long's departure from Colonial Office.
Correspondence of Sir William Ellison Macartney, August 1915 - April 1919 (File 947/616-618)
3 items
Correspondence between A. Bonar Law, Long and Sir William Ellison Macartney, August 1915 - April 1918 (Item 616)
Subjects include Tasmanian politics, 1916 conference of Tasmanian Workers Political League, split in Labor Party, conscription referendums in 1916 and 1917, W.M. Hughes' actions following defeat of 1917 referendum.
Correspondence of Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson (File 947/623-626)
Extracts from private correspondence between L. Harcourt and Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, January 1915 - May 1915 (Item 623)
Future of former German colonies north of Equator.
Correspondence between Long and Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, January 1917 - October 1917 (Item 624)
Subjects include Pacific Islands, Japan, Australian borrowing in U.S.A., W.M. Hughes' attendance at Imperial Conference, Sir John Forrest, Sir William Irvine, Ireland, recruiting, Archbishop Mannix, Catholic disloyalty, State Governors, Sir Gerald, Strickland, Sir William Birdwood, Sydney Government House, ship construction, industrial disputes, country tours.
Correspondence between Long and Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, November 1917 - May 1919 (Item 625)
Subjects include future of German colonies, conscription referendum, attack on W.M. Hughes in Queensland, W.A. Watt, Keith Murdoch, French Mission, General Pau, Transcontinental railway, revision of Constitution, shipping, Sir James Burns' proposal to develop copra, Lord Jellicoe's tour, Long's departure from Colonial Office.
Also includes newspaper cuttings.
Correspondence of Sir Francis Newdigate-Newdegate, December 1916 - April 1919 (File 947/627-628)
2 items
Correspondence between Long and Sir Francis Newdigate-Newdgate, December 1916 - June 1918 (Item 627)
Subjects include journey to Tasmania, conscription and Roman Catholic party, Archbishop Mannix, Ireland, visit of Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, W.M. Hughes and State Premiers, federal system, difficult position of State Governors, Hobart's defences, mineral development.
Correspondence between Long and Sir Arthur Stanley, December 1917 - April 1919 (File 947/632)
Subjects include Federal and Victorian politics, W.M. Hughes, Sir William Irvine, future of Pacific Islands, recruiting, Roman Catholics in Australia, Archbishop Mannix, relations with Colonial Office, abolition of State Governors, honours.
Correspondence between Long and Sir Bickham Sweet-Escott, December 1916 - May 1918 (File 947/633)
Subjects include Long's appointment to Colonial Office, visit of Fiji Labour Corps to Britain, German influence in Fiji, Escott's retirement from Colonial Service, his offer to continue as High Commissioner for Western Pacific until end of War.
1917 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: General file, December 1916 - 25 May 1917 (File 947/638)
12 items
Correspondence exchanged between Long, D. Lloyd George, W.D. Jones, F.G.A. Butler, Lord Stamfordham, Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir George Fiddes, December 1916 (Item a)
Summoning of 1917 Imperial War Conference.
H.F. Batterbee to Long, 23 December 1916 (Item b)
Encloses cutting on views of W.F. Massey, Sir Joseph Ward on double tax on colonial trade and income.
Long to D. Lloyd George, 30 December 1916 (Item f)
Encloses draft cable to Dominions Prime Ministers to make it clear they can raise questions at Conference as well as War Cabinet and are free to bring colleagues.
J.T. Davies to H.F. Batterbee, 17 January 1917 (Item L)
Encloses Lloyd George's reply to W.M. Hughes on settlement of Irish question of Hughes' attendance at Imperial Conference.
Correspondence between Long, Sir Maurice Hankey and H.F. Batterbee, 23 February 1917 - 24 February 1917 (Item p)
Arrangements for Imperial Conferences; access to documents. [4 letters]
Sir Maurice Hankey to Long, 22 March 1917 (Item u)
Form of press announcements for Imperial War Cabinet and Conference.
1917 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: Miscellaneous, 12 February 1917 (File 947/640)
Colonial Office views on Sir Maurice Hankey's draft agenda for Imperial War Conference
The 1917 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: Miscellaneous, 27 April 1917 - 28 April 1917 (File 642)
4 itemsThe 1917 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: Miscellaneous papers of the meetings, 1916 - 25 April 1917 (File 947/643)
4 itemsThe 1918 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: Miscellaneous papers, 11 April 1918 - 4 May 1918 (File 947/649)
2 itemsThe 1918 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: Miscellaneous papers, 12 June 1918 - 25 November 1918 (File 947/650)
7 itemsThe 1918 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: Miscellaneous papers, June 1918 - November 1918 (File 947/651/1)
1 item
Correspondence exchanged between Long, H.P. Batterbee, D. Lloyd George, Sir Robert Bordan, Lord Stamfordham, E.S. Montagu, Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, June 1918 - November 1918 (Item)
W.M. Hughes' proposal to Imperial War Conference that Dominions Prime Ministers should correspond directly with British Prime Minister.
The 1918 Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference: Miscellaneous correspondence, July 1918 (File 947/653)
1 itemMemoranda and correspondence, 13 January 1917 - 26 January 1917 (File 947/656)
6 itemsOn overseas Imperial manpower resources and imperial medals
Series. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1919 - 1920
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1119.
Series. Honours, 1918
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M1119.