Guide to the Collections held by the University of Birmingham (as filmed by the AJCP)
M867-M868
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Collections of the University of Birmingham
- Title
- Collections held by the University of Birmingham (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1894 - 1962
- Collection Number
- M867-M868
- Extent
- 41 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 of Joseph Chamberlain; principle correspondents include Lord Salisbury, Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord Ashbourne, and Lord Northcote. Subjects Include; Imperial affairs, Colonial affairs, Samoa, overseas trade, appointment of Govenors, domestic politics, and fiscal policy.
John Galsworthy's notes on New Zealand.
Correspondence of Alan Strode Campbell Ross concerning linguistics, particuarly his research on the language and vocabulary of the Pitcairn Islanders.
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.
Citation 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
Material selectively filmed at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1972 (AJCP Reels: M867-M868). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. For further information see University of Birmingham archives catalogue.(http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/)
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-vn2248025] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
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.
Subjects
Agricultural Congress (1899); Antarctica; Army and defence; Australia; Barton, Sir Edmund; Politicians: Britain; Canterbury College, New Zealand; Chamberlain, Joseph; Colonial Conferences; Deakin, Alfred; Edward VII, King of England; Fiji; France; Galsworthy, John; Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert A.T., 3rd Marquess of Salisbury; Germans in the Pacific; Great Britain. Colonial Office; Honours; Imperial Conferences; Pacific Cable Conference (1896); Pitcairn Island; New Zealand: politics and government; Australia: politics and government; Postal services; Great Britain: relations with colonies; Ross, Alan S.C.; Royal visits; Samoa; Shipping; South Africa; Straits Settlements; Suez Canal; Tariffs; Telegraphic communication; Tonga; Trade: imperial; United Empire Trade League; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain; New Zealand: visits to2; Australia: visits to; Vocabularies.
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998 . Entry 470, p. 183.
Item Descriptions
Fonds JC. Joseph Chamberlain Collection, 1886 - 1999
39 itemsBiographical / Historical
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), born in London, became a successful Birmingham businessman and was Mayor of Birmingham in 1874-1876. Standing as a Radical candidate, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1876. He was elected the first president of the National Liberal Federation in 1877. In the second Gladstone Ministry in 1880-1885, Chamberlain was President of the Board of Trade and in the third Gladstone Ministry in 1886 he was briefly President of the Local Government Board. He resigned in March 1886 on the issue of Home Rule for Ireland. He became leader of the Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons in 1891 and subsequently drew closer to the leaders of the Conservative Party. When the Conservatives under Lord Salisbury returned to power in 1895, Chamberlain became Secretary of State for the Colonies. He held the office for eight years, resigning in September 1903 so that he could campaign freely for the cause of tariff reform and closer imperial ties. He suffered a stroke in 1906 from which he never fully recovered.
Series JC5. General correspondence, pre-1900
5 itemsLord Salisbury, 1887 - 1899 (File 5/67)
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Lord Salisbury to Chamberlain, 31 July 1895 (Item 28)
Colonial paragraph in Queen's Speech; Suez Canal shares.
Lord Salisbury to Chamberlain, 22 January 1899 (Item 106)
Approves appointments of Lords Beauchamp and Tennyson as governors of New South Wales and South Australia.
Series JC9. Imperial affairs
10 itemsAustralia, 1895 - 1900 (File 1/3)
1 itemArchival History
[The rest of the file (17 items) could not be filmed for technical reasons.]
Straits Settlements, 1895 - 1898 (File 6/1)
3 itemsAnglo-French negotiations, 13 December 1895 - 14 December 1895 (File 6/3C)
3 itemsMiscellaneous correspondence, 12 July 1895 - 12 March 1900 (File 6/3D)
21 itemsFilmed selectively.
Lord Ashbourne to Chamberlain, 27 January 1898 (Item 2)
Appointment of Irish lawyers in the colonies.
C. E. Borchgrevink to Chamberlain, 13 November 1897 (Item 4)
Seeks interview concerning British Antarctic expedition.
Lady Braddon (London) to Chamberlain, 16 July 1897 (Item 6)
Thanks for hospitality to representatives of the colonies.
Hall Canie (Isle of Man) to Chamberlain, 29 December 1895 (Item 7)
Recieved his letter which he will value always. Canadian copyright. Will send a copy of his recently published novel to Birmingham for Chamberlain.
George Curzon (Foreign Office) to Chamberlain, 25 June 1897 (Item 9)
Action of some colonies in severing connections with International Tariff Bureau.
J. Henniker Heaton to Chamberlain, 7 March 1899 (Item 14)
Declines honour; no honour held in less esteem in Australian colonies; his services.
Sir Edmund Monson (Paris) to Chamberlain, 2 July 1897 (Item 20)
Visit of Australian premiers to Paris should be considered social rather than business; Sir John Forrest.
Sir John Forrest to Chamberlain, 5 July 1897 (Item 23)
Has declined to speak in Paris on gold mining industry in Western Australia.
Duke of Norfolk to Chamberlain, 10 January 1899 (Item 24)
Appointment of standing committee to consider landing rights for submarine cables.
Lord Onslow (Paris) to Chamberlain, 8 Sept. (Item 28)
Suggests shorter terms for Australasian governorships.
Correspondence, 15 December 1896 - 21 December 1897 (File 9/5)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence, 24 June 1895 - 16 September 1899 (File 9/7)
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series JC11. General correspondence, 15 December 1897 - 26 October 1901
2 itemsCorrespondence with Lord Salisbury, 15 December 1897 - 29 August 1900 (File 30)
14 itemsFilmed selectively.
Chamberlain to Lord Salisbury, 15 December 1897 (Item 109)
Recommends Sir Saul Samuel for baronetcy.
Chamberlain to Lord Salisbury, 18 September 1899 (Item 181)
Transvaal question more serious than any other; in next half century Germany and France will be ousted from Pacific by forces of Australasia; no objection to yielding to Germany on Samoa.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 19 January 1901 - 26 October 1901 (File 39)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Sir Charles Dilke to Chamberlain, 19 March 1901 (Item 47)
Dissatisfaction of Australian governments and press concerning New Hebrides.
Chamberlain to Sir Charles Dilke, 21 March 1901 (Item 48)
Foreign Office considers that New Hebrides question should be kept quiet for present; sensitivity of French public opinion. (copy)
Series JC14. Colonial affairs, 1900 - 1902
4 items
Australia, 1900 - 1902 (File 1/1)
Correspondence concerning Commonwealth Constitution Bill (1900), governorships, visit of Duke and Duchess of York to Australia, Australian troops in South Africa, governor-general's allowances; resignation of Lord Hopetoun. Correspondents include Alfred Deakin, Sir Joh Dodds (Hobart), Sir Arthur Havelock, Lord Hopetoun, Lord Tennyson (Adelaide) and Chamberlain. (60 items)
New Zealand, 1901 - 1902 (File 1/2)
Correspondence with Lord Ranfurly (Wellington) about honours. (7 items)
Series JC16. Miscellaneous notebooks and correspondence, 8 November 1895 - 1 January 1902
4 itemsCorrespondence with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 2 March 1896 - 10 September 1900 (File 5)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to Chamberlain, 2 March 1896 (Item 8)
Proposed Pacific Cable Conference; no reason for British Government to subsidise cable.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to Chamberlain, 29 May 1899 (Item 25)
No justification for a grant to enable artillery volunteers to visit Canada; Pacific cable.
Correspondence with Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, 26 January 1899 - 1 January 1902 (File 6)
10 itemsFilmed selectively.
Chamberlain to Queen Victoria, 26 July 1900 (Item 66)
Appointment of state governors in Australia following appointment of governor-general; difficulty of finding men prepared to make pecuniary sacrifice.
Overseas trade, 28 November 1895 - 30 June 1897 (File 7)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Chamberlain to colonial governors, 28 November 1895 (Item 2)
Seeks information on value of imports into colonies from foreign countries in period 1884-94 and reasons why importers preferred foreign goods to British goods. (circular letter, printed)
Series JC17. Colonial correspondence, 1901 - 1902
3 items
1902 Colonial Conference (File 1)
Drafts of proceedings, correspondence, printed memoranda and notes for speeches relating to the 1902 Colonial Conference. They include copies of letters from A. J. Balfour to King Edward VII, letters and notes by Sir Robert Giffen on commercial relations of the Empire, and memoranda by Lord Selborne and William St John Brodrick on imperial defence matters. (13 items)
Australia, 1902 (File 2)
Correspondence of Chamberlain with Lord Hopetoun, Sir John Forrest, Edmund Barton and George Reid. The subjects include naval defence, honours, the South African War, the Pacific islands, land legislation in Australia, and the overseas travels of Barton and Forrest. (9 items)
Series JC18/1-10. Colonial and foreign correspondence and documents, 1903
2 items
Australia, 1903 (File 3)
Correspondence of Chamberlain with Sir John Cockburn, Alfred Deakin, Sir John Forrest and Lord Selborne, as well as telegrams, newspaper cuttings and printed documents. The subjects include imperial trade, an invitation to Chamberlain to visit Australia, the completion of the Coolgardie water supply scheme in Western Australia, politics in Western Australia, South Africa, naval defence, and the labour trade in the Pacific. (18 items)
Series JC18/16-20. Domestic politics, 1900 - 1932
3 itemsFiscal policy, 1 June 1900 - 1932 (File 18)
28 itemsFilmed selectively.
Sir Austen Chamberlain to Blanche Dugdale, 4 March 1931 (Item 22)
Sends memorandum (34pp.) on the events of 1903 and origins of the tariff reform movement.
Chamberlain to Duke of Devonshire, 29 May 1903 - 21 September 1903 (Item 45-47)
Letters and extracts from letters on tariff reform.
Sir Robert Giffen to Chamberlain, 2 November 1903 (Item 65)
Exports to colonies compared to exports to foreign countries.
R. W. Leyland (Liverpool) to Chamberlain, 16 July 1903 (Item 83)
Bounties given by foreign governments to their mercantile marine.
Liverpool Shipowners Association. French shipping bounties as affecting sailing ships (Item 87)
(11pp. + tables)
G. F. Renwick to Chamberlain, 24 June 1903 (Item 109)
Sends letter from W. Farrer Ecroyd on preferential tariffs.
J. Little. The Empire in the crucible: trade reciprocity: the Ottawa Conference. (Bournemouth, 1932), 1932 (Item 135)
The Times. Precis of sixty-seven articles in The Times since 1885 on preferential tariffs and Empire. (4pp.) (Item 136)
Series JC19. Colonial papers and miscellaneous correspondence, 1904
2 items
Australia, 1904 (File 1)
Correspondence of Chamberlain with Lord Northcote (6 letters) and Sir John Forrest. The subjects include the Western Australian water scheme, Federal politics, the visit of Hugh Davies to Britain, free trade and protectionism in Australia, the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, the formation and fall of the Watson Ministry, State governors, Alfred Deakin, George Reid, Northcote's reflections on Australian society, and British-Australian relations. (8 items)
Miscellaneous correspondence, 24 June 1904 - 29 November 1904 (File 5)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series JC20. Colonial papers and miscellaneous correspondence, 28 January 1903 - 1905
3 items
Australia, 1905 (File 1)
Correspondence of Chamberlain with Lord Northcote (7 letters) and Sir Gerald Strickland (Hobart). The subjects include Imperial relations, the need for an Imperial Council, George Reid, imperial defence, proposals for an Australian squadron, preferential trade, Federal-State relations, Alfred Deakin, a dispute between Sir Josiah Symon and High Court judges, the Naval Agreement, immigration, the formation of the Deakin Ministry, B. R. Wise, and the Premiers Conference. (9 items)
South Africa, 28 January 1903 (File 3)
Filmed selectively.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 24 January 1905 - 24 October 1905 (File 4)
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series JC21. Colonial papers and miscellaneous correspondence, 1906
1 itemsMiscellaneous correspondence, 14 March 1906 - 14 December 1906 (File 3)
8 itemsFilmed selectively.
Alfred Deakin to Chamberlain, 14 March 1906 (Item 42)
Imperial Conference; necessity for unfettered discussion of preferential trade within Empire. (typescript extracts)
Lord Northcote to Chamberlain, 2 October 1906 (Item 70)
Federal election; need for Deakin-Watson alliance to advance protection; Western Australian secession; relations with Colonial Office.
Series JC22. Miscellaneous correspondence, February 1907 - August 1912
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Sir John Forrest (London) to Chamberlain, 19 May 1911 (Item 75)
Defeat of referendum in Australia; Imperial Conference; class taxation and socialist ideals.
Correspondence between Chamberlain and Lord Northcote, February 1907 - January 1908 (File 100-108)
Imperial Conference; death of Richard Seddon; Chamberlain's illness; Alfred Deakin 'the hero' of the Imperial Conference; Federal politics; Federal-State relations; ignorance of Colonial Office officials; Deakin's opinion of British political leaders; preferential trade provisions in Australian budget; weaknesses of Australian Constitution; William Lyne; retirement of J. C. Watson; Andrew Fisher; Northcote's plans of retirement; appointment of High Commissioner in London; Lord Chelmsford. (9 letters)
Fonds JG. John Galsworthy Collection, 19 May 1925
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist, playwright and short story writer, achieved fame as the author of The Forsyte Saga (3 vols, 1906-21) and its sequels A Modern Comedy (1924-28) and End of the Chapter (1931-33). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He visited Australia, New Zealand and some of the Pacific Islands in 1892-93.
Fonds L. Add. Additional Letters, 7 May 1946 - 1962
1 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1907-1980) was a lecturer in English at the University of Leeds in 1936-1940. He served in the Foreign Office during World War II and then joined the staff of the University of Birmingham. He was Professor of English Language (1948-1951) and Professor of Linguistics (1951-1974). Among his many publications were Ginger: a loan-word study (1952) The Pitcairnese Language, with A. W. Moverley (1964).
Correspondence, word lists and research material of Ross concerning his research on the language and vocabulary of the Pitcairn Islanders, 1956 - 1962 (File 1546-1629)
The correspondents include E. H. Flint (Brisbane, 9 letters), F. Percival Ward (Sydney), A. Wotherspoon (Hukerenui, New Zealand), H. E. Maude (Canberra, 8 letters), Donald Marshall (Papeete), J. P. Church (Onerahi, New Zealand), M. Mallet (Norfolk Island), L. K. Burch (Papakura, New Zealand), B. E. Parham (Apia), Gordon Williams (Christchurch, 4 letters), James Gray (Christchurch), Eric Partridge (London) and Ralph White (Tahiti).