MS 4852
National Library of Australia
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Collection Summary
- Creator
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Dame Enid Muriel Lyons
- Title
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Papers of Dame Enid Muriel Lyons
- Date Range
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1931-1974
- Collection Number
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MS 4852
- Extent
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9.51 metres (31 archive boxes + 2 small folio boxes + 5 medium folio boxes + 1 map folio + 1 folio packet in SB000578+ 1 folder in SB000970)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of correspondence, but also includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, speeches, and broadcasts, manuscripts of Dame Enid's books So we take comfort, The old haggis and Among the carrion crows, invitations and programs. The correspondence largely comprises condolence letters from individuals and organisations following J.A. Lyons' death in 1939. The remaining letters are from politicians, Tasmanian friends, and numerous organisations - mainly women's groups, religious organisations, and the Liberal Party. This correspondence, and the speeches and broadcasts, cover such topics as maternal and infant welfare, social services and abortion law reform.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2631909).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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 Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.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 Dame Enid Muriel Lyons, National Library of Australia, MS 4852, [series and/or file number]'.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the Library by Dame Enid Lyons in 1974. Additions were received in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1989.
Papers of J.A. Lyons are held at MS 4851.
An oral history interview with Dame Enid Lyons is held by the Library at Oral TRC 121/30.
A film 'Dame Enid Lyons' is held in the film collection at NA 1689.
Biographical Note
Enid Muriel Burnell was born on 9 July 1897 at Leesville, Tasmania and educated at state schools and the Teachers' Training College at Hobart. On 28 April 1915 she married Joseph A. Lyons (d. 1939), who was Prime Minister of Australia between 1932 and 1939. The couple had 5 sons and 6 daughters. Enid Lyons accompanied her husband to Royal Jubilee celebrations in England in 1935 and to the Coronation of King George VI in 1937. She was created a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1937.
In 1943, Dame Enid became the first woman Member of the House of Representatives, holding the seat of Darwin, Tasmania until 1951. In 1949-1951 she was Vice President of the Executive Council and in 1951-1952 a member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Dame Enid published several books including a book on J. A. Lyons entitled So we take comfort (1965) and an autobiography Among the carrion crows (1972).
She died in 1981 in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
Item Descriptions
Correspondence, August - September 1934 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Includes letters received in hospital.
Photocopies of J.A. Lyon's Correspondence, 1933 - 1934 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Photocopies of J.A. Lyon's Correspondence with St Joseph's Convent Windsor, N.S.W., 1932 - 1934 (File 3) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, October 1934 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Includes letters of gratitude.
Correspondence, August - September 1934 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Includes letters of gratitude.
Correspondence, July - August 1934 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, September 1934 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Includes letters of gratitude.
Correspondence, September - October 1934 (File 8) - Box 1 (MS 4852)
Includes letters of gratitude.
Correspondence, 1931 - 1933 (File 9) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1934 (File 10) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1935 (File 11) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1936 (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1937 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1938 (File 14) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1939 (File 15) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1940 (File 16) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1941 - 1943 (File 17) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1944 - 1945 (File 18) - Box 2 (MS 4852)
Telegrams and Congratulation, 1943 (File 19) - Box 3 (MS 4852)
Letters of Congratulation 1943 Election, 1943 (File 20) - Box 3 (MS 4852)
Letters of Congratulation Maiden Speech, 1943 (File 21) - Box 3 (MS 4852)
Letters on Election, 1943 (File 22) - Box 3 (MS 4852)
Letters on Election, 1943 (File 23) - Box 3 (MS 4852)
Letters on Election, 1943 (File 24) - Box 3 (MS 4852)
Elections, 1946 (File 25) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1946 (File 26) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1947 (File 27) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1947 (File 28) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1948 (File 29) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1948 (File 30) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1949 (File 31) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Congratulatory Message, 1 of 2, 1949 (File 32) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Congratulatory Message, 2 of 2, 1949 (File 33) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Illness Messages, 1949 (File 34) - Box 4 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1950 (File 35) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1951 (File 36) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence on retirement, 1951 (File 37) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1952 - 1953 (File 38) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1954 - 1955 (File 39) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1956 (File 40) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1957 (File 41) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1959 (File 42) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1960 (File 43) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1961 (File 44) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1962 (File 45) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1963 (File 46) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1964 (File 47) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1965 (File 48) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1966 (File 49) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1967 (File 50) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1968 (File 51) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence, 1969 (File 52) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence (undated), n.d. (File 53) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Correspondence (unsorted), 1933 - 1966 (File 54) - Box 5 (MS 4852)
Anthony, H.L., 1914; 1951 (File 55) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Boyer, Sir Richard, 1954 - 1955 (File 56) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Cameron, A.G., 1948 (File 57) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Chamberlain, 1939; 1962 (File 58) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Darling, Sir James, 1964 - 1968 (File 59) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. - birth certificate, marriage certificate, school report, 1897; 1909; 1913; 1915 (File 60) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. - Suggestions to sit for Parliament, 1939 (File 61) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Gullet, Penelope Joe, 1966 (File 62) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Holt, Harold, 1948; 1955 (File 63) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Lewis, Lady, Sir Stanley and Lady Burburg, 1939 (File 64) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
McBride, Sir Phillips, 1951 (File 65) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Medley, 1939;1952; 1969-70 (File 66) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Murdock, Sir Keith, 1940 - 1951 (File 67) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Page, Sir Earle C.G., 1941 (File 68) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Ricketson, Staniforth, 1939; 1964-65 (File 69) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Shaw, 2nd file, 1948 (File 70) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Snowden, 1937 (File 71) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Thorby, H.V., 1939 (File 72) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Speech Notes - Quotes etc., 1913 - 1949 (File 73) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Miss Lenihan, 1915; 1937-51 (File 74) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. Junior teachers agreement, 1912 (File 75) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Correspondence Old Haggis, 1970 (File 76) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Letters E.M.L., 1951-54; 1972-73 (File 77) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Professor Morris Miller, 1934-35; 1949; 1973 (File 78) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Letter to Archbishop Mannix, 1949 (File 79) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Lord Huntingfield, 1938 (File 80) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : So we take comfort - Correspondence with Heinemann, 1964 - 1967 (File 81) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Buckingham Palace, 1935 - 1937 (File 82) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. Correspondence re female rates of pay, 1950 - 1951 (File 83) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Correspondence - Debate on Population Unlimited, 1944 (File 84) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Lord and Lady Gowrie, 1936 - 1940 (File 85) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Lord and Lady Casey, 1939-47; 1968-73 (File 86) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Correspondence R.G. Menzies, 1939; 1951; 1962-72 (File 87) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Correspondence E.W. Birks, 1947 - 1948 (File 88) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Keller, Helen, 1946-1951; 1967 (File 89) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Avery, L.G., 1939 (File 90) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Runciman, 1939 (File 91) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Baldwin, 1935-39; 1959 (File 92) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Bennett, R.B., 1939 (File 93) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Lang, Cosmo, 1951 (File 94) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Dame Mary Gilmore, 1937 - 1952 (File 95) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
JAL : Obituary from the Ottawa Journal, n.d. (File 96) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Hankey, Sir Maurice, 1939 (File 97) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Hertzog, JBM, 1938 (File 98) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Hughes, W.M. and Dame Mary, 1935 - 1949 (File 99) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Correspondence - various, 1914; 1935-39; 1946-51 (File 100) - Box 6 (MS 4852)
Also includes Home and Empire, no. 3 vol. 6, June 1935.
Desmond Lyons History Notes - Intermediate, 1929 (Item 101) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Election Poster, 1912 (File 102) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The Tragedy and Challenge of National Health - a series of articles by Sir Hugh Devine, n.d. (Item 103) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The Tasmanian Trainee, May 1915 (Item 104) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Four signs and a song for children (with illustrations), by Cathie Surria, n.d. (Item 105) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Songs of Australian Trees, by Ethel L. Newcombe, 1952 (Item 106) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The Tasmanian Trainee, April 1913 (Item 107) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Methodism in Bernie, 1868 - 1968, August 1968 (Item 108) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Poems, by Marcelina Kossak, 1940 (Item 109) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The Tasmanian Trainee, December 1913 (Item 110) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Burnie Tasmania, compiled by Burnie Chamber of Commerce, n.d. (Item 111) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The Tasmanian Trainee, December 1912 (Item 112) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Towards a Christian Society, September 1942 (Item 113) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The inaugural address delivered by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, Lord Wakehurst.
On With Thy Fortunes by Marion and Delia Craig, 1946 (Item 114) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The Gateway of Hope compiled by Viva Counsell, Brighton, SA, 1944 (Item 115) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
White Australia : Why and How by C.A., 1944 (Item 116) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Constitutional Interpretation in Australia by H.V. Evatt, 1939 (Item 117) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Education for Community, Report, n.d. (Item 118) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Newspaper cuttings and correspondence (photocopied), 1937-57; 1971 (File 119) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Includes Thought : a book of literary and art works by young Tasmanians, with foreword by Dame Enid Lyons, October 1971.
Proposal for formation of the "Macquarie Guild" to be founded by Dame Enid Lyons", n.d. (Item 120) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Bricks and Morter being the Reminiscences of Sixty Seven Years in Architecture and Town Planning by Harold Boas, 1965 (Item 121) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Correspondence - photocopied, 1935 - 1959 (File 122) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Liberal Party of Australia Draft Commonwealth Budget, 1950/51, 1914; 1946-51; 1967 (File 123) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Includes newspaper cuttings, and typescript of Canberra University College The Place of the University in Modern Society by W.J. Edwards. Also includes Memorandum and Articles of Association of Memorial College of Household Arts and Science, October 1914.
75th Birthday, 1972 (File 124) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Guilford C. Young Archbishop of Hobart, 1968 - 1969 (File 125) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
The Catholic Women's Review, 20 September 1935 (Item 126) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Abortion Bill - 1973, 1972 - 1973 (File 127) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Letters - From America Family Cousin with Watergate Cuttings, 1933; 1973-74 (File 128) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Canadian Tribute, 1933 (File 129) - Box 7 (MS 4852)
Verses, Songs, etc., 1932 - 1951 (File 130) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1940 - 1969 (File 131) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
Macquarie Broadcasting, 1939 - 1940 (File 132) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
Broadcasts - Political, 1947 - 1949 (File 133) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
Broadcasts - Macquarie Broadcasting, 1940 - 1951 (File 134) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
Macquarie Broadcasting - Handwritten Notebooks, n.d. (File 135) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
EML Correspondence re broadcasts, 1939 - 1942 (File 136) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
Broadcasts (ABC) non political, 1942 - 1950 (File 137) - Box 8 (MS 4852)
Dorothy L. Schneider, 1970 - 1971 (File 138) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
Requests for Speeches, 1939; 1966-72 (File 139) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
Invitations - E.M.L., 1968 - 1971 (File 140) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
Letters from organisations and persons unknown, 1971 - 1974 (File 141) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
L.. Pauline Ryder - Printed Material, 1974 (File 142) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
Includes newspaper cuttings on President Richard Nixon.
Letters : Miscellaneous, 1969 - 1972 (File 143) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
Invitations etc. to speak, 1972 - 1974 (File 144) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. Letters from organisations and others not personally known, 1973 - 1974 (File 145) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
L.. Pauline Ryder - Printed Material, 1974 (File 146) - Box 9 (MS 4852)
Includes newspaper cuttings on President Richard Nixon.
E.M.L. : So we take comfort - letters, 1965 - 1974 (File 147) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Among the Carrion Crows - Newspaper Cuttings, 1973 (File 148) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Dinner to celebrate launching of So We Take Comfort, n.d. (File 149) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Among the Carrion Crows - Letters, 1972 - 1973 (File 150) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
The Old Haggis - Correspondence with Heinemann, 1968 - 1972 (File 151) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
I am Surprised, n.d. (File 152) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Chapter II, n.d. (File 153) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
[file title illegible], n.d. (File 154) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
The Maiden Speech, n.d. (File 155) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Chapter III : The Challenge, n.d. (File 156) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Chapter I, n.d. (File 157) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Chapter (?) : Waltzing Matilda, n.d. (File 158) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Radio Station Speech, n.d. (File 159) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Archie Galbraith Cameron, n.d. (File 160) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Two men and a legend, n.d. (File 161) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
[file title illegible], n.d. (File 162) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Curtin's Death, n.d. (File 163) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
King O'Malley, Whitsitt, and Bell, n.d. (File 164) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Fadden, McEwen etc., n.d. (File 165) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
The Predators, n.d. (File 166) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
War incidents and Reconstruction, n.d. (File 167) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
The Complement, n.d. (File 168) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Chapter IV : The Party Room, n.d. (File 169) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Unknown chapter notes, n.d. (File 170) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Menzies, n.d. (File 171) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Cartoons for Old Haggis, n.d. (File 172) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Illustrations by Allan Langoulant.
E.M.L. : So We Take Comfort - Reviews, 1965 - 1966 (File 173) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Includes Stella Maris News : Burnie Parish Magazine, 67th Issue, February 1966; Harvest : Life in the Pacific Islands, September 1965.
Sir John Morris Memorial Lecture - Hobart Town Hall, 19 October 1973 (File 174) - Box 10 (MS 4852)
Includes typescript of The Role of the Christian Moralist in Present Day Australia, by Enid Lyons, 1973.
E.M.L. : Correspondence - newspaper column, 1948 - 1954 (File 175) - Box 11 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Notes from newspaper column, 1936 - 1944 (File 176) - Box 11 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Correspondence - newspaper column, 1951 - 1954 (File 177) - Box 11 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Correspondence - newspaper column, 1949 - 1954 (File 178) - Box 11 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Correspondence - newspaper column, 1937 - 1951 (File 179) - Box 11 (MS 4852)
Newspaper Articles, n.d. (File 180) - Box 11 (MS 4852)
Among the Carrion Crows - First Manuscript, n.d. (File 181) - Box 11 (MS 4852)
Sympathy, 1939 (File 182) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Sympathy, 1939 (File 183) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Speeches - Non-political, n.d. (File 184) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
Speeches - Political, 1942 - 1955 (File 185) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
My Diary, 1935 - 1937 (File 186) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
Notes for Speeches - Menzies Page, 1943 - 1954 (File 187) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Manuscripts - various, n.d. (File 188) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : My Life Story, n.d. (File 189) - Box 12 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Social Security notes, 1943 - 1947 (File 190) - Box 13 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Maternal Welfare - notes, 1933 - 1950 (File 191) - Box 13 (MS 4852)
Includes Exit Australia : The Future of Australia's Population by Rev. C. Mayne; Without Prejudice? : Dedicated to Australian Motherhood by Mark Green, 1937; Healthy Motherhood : for the Mother and the Mother-to-be New South Wales Department of Public Health, 1943.
Jubilee Women's Convention, October 1951 (File 192) - Box 13 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Family Training notes, 1940 - 1944 (File 193) - Box 13 (MS 4852)
E.M.L. : Women's Status notes, n.d. (File 194) - Box 13 (MS 4852)
[EMPTY FILE]
Public Health, 1948 - 1949 (File 195) - Box 13 (MS 4852)
Poster of Joseph Lyons, n.d. (File 196) - Box 14 (MS 4852)
Personal : Miscellaneous, 1934 - 1939 (File 197) - Box 14 (MS 4852)
Includes Monsignor P.M. Haydon : A Memoir, by W. Farmer Whyte, 1952.
Cartoons and Posters, 1914 - 1950 (File 198) - Box 14 (MS 4852)
Programme : King George VI Coronation, May 1935 (File 199) - Box 14 (MS 4852)
Also includes Burnell family crest.
Articles and Correspondence, 1932 - 1940 (File 200) - Box 14 (MS 4852)
Political Ephemera, 1948 - 1949 (File 201) - Box 14 (MS 4852)
Correspondence : Catholic Religious Organisations, 1939 (File 202) - Box 14 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Political Bodies, 1939 (File 203) - Box 15 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Womens Organizations, 1939 (File 204) - Box 15 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Returned Soldiers, etc., 1939 (File 205) - Box 15 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Miss Lenehan, 1939 (File 206) - Box 15 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Letters to Sir Earle Page, 1939 (File 207) - Box 15 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Sympathy Letters and Responses, 1939 (File 208) - Box 15 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Organisations, Societies, etc. : General (bereft church associations), 1939 (File 209) - Box 16 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
C.T.A.; Chambers of Commerce; Chambers of Manufactures; Clubs; Consulants and Foreign Representatives; Educational Bodies, Schools, etc., 1939 (File 210) - Box 16 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Mayors, Municipalities and City Councils, etc., 1939 (File 211) - Box 16 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Government and Semi Government Bodies; Hospitals, Red Cross, etc.; Ladys, Friendly Societies, etc.; Primary Organisation, etc.; Press; Sporting Bodies, 1939 (File 212) - Box 16 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Banks; Commercial and Business Houses, etc., 1939 (File 213) - Box 16 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Anonymous, 1939 (File 214) - Box 16 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Letters of Sympathy, 1939 - 1940 (File 215) - Box 16 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death. Includes a list of those whom Dame Enid may wish to write by hand.
Among the Carrion Crows Draft (i), n.d. (File 216) - Box 17a (MS 4852)
Among the Carrion Crows Draft (ii), n.d. (File 217) - Box 17a (MS 4852)
The Old Haggis Manuscript, n.d. (File 218) - Box 17a (MS 4852)
The Old Haggis Manuscript Draft, n.d. (File 219) - Box 17a (MS 4852)
The Old Haggis draft - photocopies, n.d. (File 220) - Box 17b (MS 4852)
Materials From The Old Haggis, n.d. (File 221) - Box 17b (MS 4852)
Typescript from So We Take Comfort (pt. 1) Chapters 1 - 14, n.d. (File 222) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
Typescript from So We Take Comfort (pt. 2) Chapters 15 +, n.d. (File 223) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
Copy of So We Take Comfort, n.d. (File 224) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
Type script of I'll Give my Heart Away (prt. I) Chapters 1 - 12, n.d. (File 225) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
Type script of I'll Give my Heart Away (prt. II) Chapters 13 - 24, n.d. (File 226) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
Type script of I'll Give my Heart Away, n.d. (File 227) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
I'll Give my Heart Away ; Manuscript, n.d. (File 228) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
So We Take Comfort; Manuscript, n.d. (File 229) - Box 18 (MS 4852)
Correspondence : A, 1939 (File 230) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Ba - Bk, 1939 (File 231) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Bl - Bz, 1939 (File 232) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Ca - Cl, 1939 (File 233) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Co - Cz, 1939 (File 234) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : D, 1939 (File 235) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : E, 1939 (File 236) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : F, 1939 (File 237) - Box 19 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : G, 1939 (File 238) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : H, 1939 (File 239) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : I, 1939 (File 240) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : J - K, 1939 (File 241) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : L, 1939 (File 242) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : M, 1939 (File 243) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Mc, 1939 (File 244) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : N - O, 1939 (File 245) - Box 20 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Q - R, 1939 (File 246) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : S, 1939 (File 247) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : T, 1939 (File 248) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : U - V, 1939 (File 249) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : W + Y, 1939 (File 250) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : (ODD), 1939 (File 251) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Various (i), 1939 (File 252) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : Various (ii), 1939 (File 253) - Box 21 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Correspondence : P, 1939 (File 254) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
In regards to Prime Minister Lyons' death.
Letters from Iris Milutinovic (My second cousin - also a writer), 1969 - 1976 (File 255) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Includes short stories Boy with Talent, W.H.O.L.L.Y. C.I.T.Y, A Home is Not a Home, Cooking with my Friends, and Red Currant Jelly by Iris Milutinovic. Also includes Epicurean Magazine August / September 1973.
Everyman by Ambrose Pratt, 1933 (Item 256) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Includes personalised message to Prime Minister Lyons.
The Waverlian published by the Christian Brothers' College Waverly, May 1939 (Item 257) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Vol. 10, No. 3.
Calamus Scribae, May 1939 (Item 258) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Term magazine of St. Patrick's College Goulburn, NSW, vol. 2 no. 1.
Thought : A book of literary art and works by young Tasmanians, October 1971 (Item 259) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Foreword from Dame Enid Lyons.
Townsville : The Queen City of North Queensland - Portals of Tropic Isles and Coral Seas by Freda Barrymore, 1933 (Item 260) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Report of the Australian delegation and the functions of the round tables and other information for delegates : Fourth Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, Vancouver, B.C., July 1937 (Item 261) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
For the Australian Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.
State Aid and Tasmanian Politics 1868 - 1920 by R.P. Davis, 1969 (Item 262) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
"Princess of Tasmania" - Commissioned September 14, 1959, The Australian National Line, c.1959 (Item 263) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Annual Report 1971 by Rev. BR.K.K. Stewart, 1971 (Item 264) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Photograph (black and white) of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, n.d. (Item 265) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
The Silver Years : The Story of the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, 1922 - 1947, n.d. (Item 266) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
An Epoch of Radio Communications, n.d. (Item 267) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
The Melbourne Centenary Music Book : Australian Composers - Piper's Music, 1934 (Item 268) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Australian Songs for young and old, n.d. (Item 269) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Words by Annie R. Rentoul, Music by Georgette Peterson, Illustrations by Ida S. Rentoul; imperial edition no. 335.
Letters of a young Marist Priest (Father Harry Moore) a missionary on Bongainville and his brother Peter for distribution and family and friends, 1971 - 1972 (File 270) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
80th Birthday, 1977 (File 271) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Official Invitations : E.M.L., 1954 (File 272) - Box 22 (MS 4852)
Texas Quarterly, 1974 (Item 273) - Box 23 (MS 4852)
Summer, vol. XVII no. 2.
Victory Commemoration - A book to commemorate a common victory, 1945 (Item 274) - Box 23 (MS 4852)
Issued by the Chinese Community in NSW.
Prominent Tasmanians, 1924 (Item 275) - Box 23 (MS 4852)
Souvenir of Memorial for His Late Majesty King George V., 1936 (Item 276) - Box 23 (MS 4852)
Certificate of Commemoration - Laying of the first sub-marine telephone cable between Tasmania and Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, 25 March 1936 (Item 277) - Box 23 (MS 4852)
Regional Missionary and Eucharistic Congress, Newcastle, 1938 (Item 278) - Box 23 (MS 4852)
Lectures for Everyman : Joseph Aloysius Lyons by Sir Bertram Stevens, 12 December 1949 (Item 279) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Random Speech Notes, n.d. (File 280) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Women in Question, 1978 (File 281) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Reviews : Among the Carrion Crows, 1973 (File 282) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Public Bodies : Invitations, etc., 1969 - 1979 (File 283) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Personal Letters : E.L., 1969 - 1974 (File 284) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Luis nee Osborne : 2 Marriage Milutinovic, 1976 - 1979 (File 285) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Includes three colour photographs of Luis and Milan Oxford. Also includes short stories by Iris Milutinovic, Our Liberated Aunt Liz, My Aunt Olivia's Martians; short stories by Jay Kay, The Guppys.
Re Joe's Grave, 1968-69; 1979 (File 286) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Requests for autographs, etc., 1975 - 1979 (File 287) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
MS and Typescript part of Among Carrion Crows, n.d. (File 288) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Miscellaneous : Ephemera, 1951 - 1976 (File 289) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Includes booklet from Women of the Year Luncheon 1976.
Ryder, Pauline, 1978 (File 290) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
New Call to the People of Australia, 1977 (File 291) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Comments on speeches, articles, etc., 1967 - 1976 (File 292) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Dame Enid Lyons : G.B.E., 1974 (File 293) - Box 24 (MS 4852)
Personal Letters - various, 1974 - 1976 (File 294) - Box 24a (MS 4852)
Typescript of So We Take Comfort, n.d. (File 295) - Box 24a (MS 4852)
News article and pamphlet College of Nursing Nineteenth Annual Meeting 1968, n.d. (File 296) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Anzac Day, 1936 (Item 297) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
The Tasmanian Trainee, December 1912 (Item 298) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
The Tasmanian Trainee, April 1913 (Item 299) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Four Songs and a Song for Children (with illustrations) by Cathie Surria, n.d. (Item 300) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
The Tasmanian Trainee, December 1913 (Item 301) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
The George Adlington Syme Operation, 28 May 1963 (Item 302) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Cuttings, 1966 - 1980 (File 303) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Also includes edition of Men of Destiny.
Personal, 1977 (File 304) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Requests for historical information etc., 1976 - 1980 (File 305) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Personal and general letters, 1979 - 1980 (File 306) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Six photographs (black and white) of Joseph Lyons' funeral.
Personal and general to April 1979, 1976 - 1979 (File 307) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Requests for speeches, etc., 1979 - 1980 (File 308) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Notepad (untitled), n.d. (File 309) - Box 25 (MS 4852)
Requests for speeches, etc., 1975 - 1978 (File 310) - Box 25a (MS 4852)
Broadcasts; 1 of 3, n.d. (File 311) - Box 25a (MS 4852)
Broadcasts; 2 of 3, n.d. (File 312) - Box 25a (MS 4852)
Broadcasts; 3 of 3, n.d. (File 313) - Box 25a (MS 4852)
Photographs (i), 1901 - 1953 (File 314) - Box 26 (MS 4852)
Photographs (ii), 1879 - 1950 (File 315) - Box 26 (MS 4852)
Photographs (iii), 1900 - 1955 (File 316) - Box 26 (MS 4852)
Photographs (iv), 1933-1937 and undated (File 317) - Box 26a (MS 4852)
Photographs (v), 1907 - 1936 (File 318) - Box 26a (MS 4852)
Photo Album (untitled), n.d. (File 319) - Box 27 (MS 4852)
Includes images of Enid and Joseph Lyons.
Photo Album : Niagara Falls, n.d. (File 320) - Box 27 (MS 4852)
Photo Album : The Photo Gallery, 1937 (File 321) - Box 27 (MS 4852)
A memento of her voyage to England for the Coronation from Walter Gilling to Mrs Lyons.
Photo Album : City of Bundaberg, 1938 (File 322) - Box 27 (MS 4852)
Photocopies of letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons (i), 1914 - 1915 (File 323) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Photocopies of letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons (ii), 1914 (File 324) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Photocopies of letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons (iii), 1914 - 1915 (File 325) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Photocopies of letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons (iv), 1914 (File 326) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Photocopies of letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons (v), 1914 - 1915 (File 327) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Letters J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons, 1931 - 1939 (File 328) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons - Before and after marriage, 1912 - 1914 (File 329) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons, 1915 - 1918 (File 330) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons, 1931 - 1933 (File 331) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons, 1934 - 1938 (File 332) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons, 1916 - 1917 (File 333) - Box 28 (MS 4852)
Letters from J.A. Lyons to E.M. Lyons, 9 December - 23 December 1914 (File 339) - Box 29 (MS 4852)
In-Complete letters and letters of congratulations on engagement, 1914 - 1915 (File 345) - Box 29 (MS 4852)
National Library of Australia correspondence to Dame Enid, 1978 - 1980 (File 346) - Box 29 (MS 4852)
Added 30 March 1984.
Collins Royal Diary : Enid Lyons, 1935 (File 347) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Added 17 February 1989.
Walkers Desk Diary for 1937 : Enid Lyons, 1937 (File 348) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Photocopy of Walkers Desk Diary for 1935 : Enid Lyons, 1935 (File 349) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Photocopy of Walkers Desk Diary for 1937 : Enid Lyons, 1937 (File 350) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Wartime Broadcasts and various correspondence, 1947; 1965; 1970 (File 351) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Re Award of A.D. [Dame of the Order of Australia], 1980 (File 352) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Fortescue, 1973 - 1981 (File 353) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Includes two photographs (one colour, one black and white).
Of Special Interest, 1958; 1972-80 (File 354) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Publisher's Agreement, 1964 - 1980 (File 355) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Personal and general letters, etc., 1980 (File 356) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Government House, Canberra, 1979 - 1980 (File 357) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Secretarial Assistance, 1979 - 1980 (File 358) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Australian Archies, 1974 - 1979 (File 359) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Order of Australia, 1979 - 1981 (File 360) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Order of the British Empire, 1979 (File 361) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Requests for historical information etc., 1979 - 1980 (File 362) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
"Home Hill", 1941-42; 1970-76 (File 363) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Includes sub-folders 'Letters to Kingsley Henderson returned to me after his death; AA. Calwell and Others'.
Photocopy of Letter from A. Johnson, November 1913 (File 364) - Box 30 (MS 4852)
Added 6 November 1986.
Devonport Town Hall. Obituary. Funeral & Sunday Report. Lyons Funeral. Dame Enid Lyons. On tape: Lyons Funeral. Dame Enid Lyons Funeral [VHS video] (Item NLA.MS-SAV000358) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-027
1 item,
Correspondence - G. M. Fitzgerald, n.d. (File 366) - Box 31 (MS 4852)
Added 26 June 1984.
Cuttings book, 1930 - 1950 (File 367) - Folio-Box 1 (MS 4852 - folio)
Great Pictures by Great Painters, 12 June 1932 (File 368) - Folio-Box 2 (MS 4852 - folio)
Published book of pictures selected from the public galleries of Great Britain and the continent.
Newspaper cuttings, 1 of 2, 1935 (File 369) - Folio-Box 3 (MS 4852 - folio)
Newspaper cuttings, 2 of 2, 1937 (File 370) - Folio-Box 3 (MS 4852 - folio)
Photographs, 1 of 3 (File 371) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 4852 - folio)
Photographs, 2 of 3, 1916 - 1944 (File 372) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 4852 - folio)
Photographs, 3 of 3 (File 373) - Folio-Box 4 (MS 4852 - folio)
Mrs J.A. Lyons from her friends in Devonport, Tasmania, 21 January 1935 (File 374) - Folio-Box 5 (MS 4852 - folio)
Scrapbook and miscellaneous file, 1941 - 1949 (File 375) - Folio-Box 5 (MS 4852 - folio)
Australian Press References in connection with the death of The R.T. HON. J.A. Lyons, C.H., M.P., Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1939 (File 376) - Folio-Box 6 (MS 4852 - folio)
Press Clippings : Enid Lyons column and writing, 1951 - 1955 (File 377) - Folio-Box 7 (MS 4852 - folio)
Miscellaneous items, 1935 (File 378) - Folio-Box SB-000578 (shared folio box)
Includes photos and scrapbook from trip to Vatican City.
