Guide to the Papers of Sir William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M2616-M2618

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Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator
Beveridge, William Henry, Sir, 1st Baron Beveridge
Title
Papers of Sir William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
1921 - 1962
Collection Number
M2616-M2618
Extent
58 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

General and personal correspondence, a diary and other papers relating to Beveridge's visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1948, and papers relating to his lectures and broadcasts, and the 'Crusade for world government'.

Correspondents include Lucy Mair, Sir Douglas Copland, G. Fitzpatrick, Sir Walter Nash, Sir Richard Boyer, D. Raphael, A.G. Downs, Sir Patrick Duff and G. Billing.

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 London School of Economics and Political Science.

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the London School of Economics and Political Science 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: Cannan to S Evans, 12 December 1920, London School of Economics and Political Science. (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1080498921)

Archival History

Filmed at the British Library of Political and Economic Science part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1990-1991. (AJCP reel M2616-2618). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

British Library of Political and Economic Science. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England. For more information see British Library of Political and Economic Science (https://archives.lse.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-vn2589565] 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 2018. 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

Ashworth, T.R.; Australia: economic conditions; Australia: immigration to; Australia: politics and governance; economists; Findlay, Sir John; University of Melbourne; New Zealand: economic conditions; New Zealand: immigration to; New Zealand: politics and government; trade unions; unemployment

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry number 36, page 13.

Biographical / Historical

Sir William Henry Beveridge (1879-1963), 1st Baron Beveridge (created 1945). Director, London School of Economics 1919-37, Master of University College, Oxford 1937-44. Liberal MP 1944-45. Author of many works including Full Employment in a Free Society (1944).

Item Descriptions

Series II. Letters, 1921 - 1962

47 items

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2616.

Subseries b. General and Personal, 1921 - 1962

47 items
Correspondence, February 1921 (File 20)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

S. Webb to Beveridge, 7 February 1921 (Item)

Visit of New Zealand statesman Sir John Findlay; suggests he be invited to visit London School of Economics and give public lecture.

Correspondence, February 1923 (File 22)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

J.H.P. Murray to Beveridge, n.d. (Item)

Seeks meeting before returning to Australia.

Lady Masson (Melbourne) to Beveridge, 8 February 1923 (Item)

Introduces J.H.P. Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Papua.

Correspondence, May 1923 - July 1923 (File 22)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

W. Harrison Moore to Beveridge, May 1923 (Item)

Seeks interview; interest of Melbourne University graduates in undertaking research in England.

Correspondence concerning visit of T.R. Ashworth, President of Victorian Employers Federation, May 1923 - July 1923 (Item)
Correspondence, March 1924 - April 1924 (File 23)
3 items

Filmed selectively.

Lt. Col. H. Hillary to Beveridge, 17 March 1924 (Item)

Research for Australian Royal Commission on National Insurance; seeks interview.

Lt. Col. H. Hillary to Beveridge, 20 March 1924 (Item)

Thanks for pamphlet Insurance for all and everything.

E.F. Wise to Beveridge, 2 April 1924 (Item)

Sends copy of letter to South Australian Agent-General on increase in proportion of wool worked up in Australia.

Correspondence, April 1924 - June 1924 (File 23)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Papers and correspondence between Beveridge and J. McWhae, Agent-General for Victoria, concerning selection of Professor of Commerce at Melbourne University, (c.120pp), April 1924 - June 1924 (Item)
Correspondence, April 1925 - May 1925 (File 24)
3 items

Filmed selectively.

Beveridge to Sir Joseph Cook, 29 April 1925 (Item)

Requests set of Commonwealth Arbitration Reports for London School of Economics Library.

G. Hogben (Australia House) to Beveridge, 12 May 1925 (Item)

Supply of Commonwealth Arbitration Reports.

Beveridge to G. Hogben, 16 May 1925 (Item)

Acknowledgment.

Correspondence, April 1926 (File 25)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

J.C. Finlay (Auckland) to Beveridge, 15 April 1926 (Item)

Publication of book The theory of gratuitous credit.

Correspondence, June 1926 (File 25)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

H.E. Butler to Beveridge, 8 June 1926 (Item)

Visit of G.V. Portus to England; interest in giving course of lectures.

D.B. Copland to Beveridge, 12 June 1926 (Item)

Seeks interview; employment of economic experts in Commonwealth Public Service.

Correspondence, 1926 - 1927 (File 26)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

J. Jenks (Te Kuiti) to Beveridge, 1926 - 1927 (Item)

Work with New Zealand Department of Agriculture; rural exodus; interest in returning to England.

R.H. Tawney to Beveridge, 20 September 1926 (Item)

Visit of G.V. Portus; possibility of series of lectures on trade unions in Australia.

Correspondence (M-R), February 1929 (File 28)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

Beveridge to H. Dalton, 12 February 1929 (Item)

Report of Overseas Settlement Committee; attitude of Dominions to immigration of non-agricultural labour.

H. Dalton to Beveridge, 15 February 1929 (Item)

Migration to Dominions; Australia and New Zealand much more agreeable places than Canada.

Correspondence, September 1928 (File 28)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

B.S. Rowntree to Beveridge, 7 September 1928 (Item)

Request by E. Dyason for opinion on suitability of S. Florence for Chair of Economic Research at Melbourne University.

Correspondence, February 1930 - May 1930 (File 29)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

Sir Otto Niemeyer to Beveridge, 23 May 1930 (Item)

Wishes to meet R.C. Mills of Sydney University.

G. Lloyd (Department of Overseas Trade) to Beveridge, 7 February 1930 (Item)

Research by G. Mackay of Adelaide University on American penetration of Empire; course of studies for Australian civil servants.

Correspondence, February 1933 (File 32)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

D.B. Copland (Melbourne) to Beveridge, 20 February 1933 (Item)

Impending visit to Britain; research on early theories of international trade and tariffs.

Correspondence, July 1933 (File 32)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Beveridge to Lady Sidey (Dunedin), 3 July 1933 (Item)

Sympathy on death of Sir Thomas Sidey. Includes cutting from Otago Daily Times 24 May 1933.

Correspondence, September 1935 (File 35)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Lord Bledisloe to Beveridge, 30 September 1935 (Item)

Question of whether unemployment in Dominions is effective argument against immigration; believes New Zealand with its public works could support five times its population.

Correspondence, December 1936 (File 36)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

F. McDougall to Beveridge, 18 December 1936 (Item)

Sends note on nutrition and defence.

Correspondence, October 1936 (File 36)
1 item
R.E. Baily to Beveridge, 8 October 1936 (Item)

Invitation to lecture by D.B. Copland on Australia's economic recovery at Royal Empire Society.

Correspondence, October 1936 (File 36)
1 item
Lord Lothian to Beveridge, 28 October 1936 (Item)

Invitation to dinner to meet D.B. Copland.

Correspondence, March 1938 - June 1938 (File 37)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

T.A. Hunter (Wellington) to Beveridge, 21 March 1938 (Item)

Appointment as Professor of Public Administration at Victoria University College.

A.G. Davis to Beveridge, 18 June 1938 (Item)

Application for Chair of Law at Auckland University College. (7pp.)

Correspondence (part iii), February 1943 - September 1943 (File 42)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

Lucy Mair to Beveridge, 8 February 1943 (Item)

Seeks assignments for New Zealand journalist Christine Comber.

Lucy Mair to Beveridge, 7 September 1943 (Item)

Assignments for Christine Comber.

Correspondence (part i), September 1944 (File 44)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Beveridge to W. Nash, 1 September 1944 (Item)

Thanks for account of New Zealand.

Correspondence (part iv), March 1945 (File 44)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

W. Nash (Wellington) to Beveridge, 23 March 1945 (Item)

Acknowledges Full employment in a free society; New Zealand considering proposal for minimum income for every family.

Correspondence (part v), April 1945 (File 44)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Lucy Mair (Melbourne) to Beveridge, 8 April 1945 (Item)

Introduces J. Kerr, deputy head of Army Research Directorate.

Correspondence (part viii), August 1945 (File 44)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

G. FitzPatrick (Sydney) to Beveridge, 1 August 1945 (Item)

Sympathy on election defeat; Beveridge's monumental achievement.

Correspondence (part i), September 1945 (File 45)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

G. Fitzpatrick (Sydney) to Beveridge, 19 September 1945 (Item)

Election defeat; peace terms with Japan; White Australia policy.

Correspondence (part ii), October 1945 (File 45)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

J. Oldham to Beveridge, 8 October 1945 (Item)

Sends, on behalf of H.V. Evatt, White Paper on San Francisco Conference.

Correspondence (part iii), November 1945 (File 45)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

G. FitzPatrick to Beveridge, 2 November 1945 (Item)

Article on full employment books.

Correspondence (part iv), January 1946 (File 45)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

D. Raphael to Beveridge, 13 January 1946 (Item)

Appointment as Professor of Philosophy at University of Otago.

Correspondence (part vii), June 1946 (File 45)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

I. Esplin (Sydney) to Beveridge, 28 June 1946 (Item)

Congratulations on peerage; difficulty of settling down in Australia.

Correspondence (part ix), July 1946 (File 45)
3 items

Filmed selectively.

W. Nash (London) to Beveridge, 2 July 1946 (Item)

Plans for departure for United States.

I.N. Steinberg to Beveridge, 1 July 1946 (Item)

Visit to Australia to investigate possibility of settlement of Jewish refugees.

G. FitzPatrick (Sydney) to Beveridge, n.d. (Item)

Sends copy of Australian Labor Digest.

Correspondence (part vii), May 1947 - June 1947 (File 46)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

D. Raphael (Dunedin) to Beveridge, 27 May 1947 (Item)

Interest in Nuffield College Fellowship; work at University of Otago.

D. Raphael to Beveridge, 17 June 1947 (Item)

Inquiry by Beveridge about relatives in New Zealand.

Correspondence (part iii), June 1948 - July 1948 (File 47)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

G. Fitzpatrick (Sydney) to Beveridge, 23 July 1948 (Item)

Sends food parcel; effect of miners' strike in N.S.W.; high cost of living; tour by Sir Laurence Olivier and his company.

A.G. Davis (Auckland) to Beveridge, 2 June 1948 (Item)

Introduces P. Demsey, studying diplomatic histroy at London School of Economics.

Correspondence (part i), October 1948 (File 48)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

F. Daniell to Beveridge, 2 October 1948 (Item)

Offers to show film 'Britain down under'.

Correspondence (part ii), January 1949 (File 48)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Sir John Medley to Beveridge, 7 January 1949 (Item)

Thanks for presenting book to Melbourne University.

Correspondence (part iii), May 1949 (File 48)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Beveridge to Gwen Barringer (Adelaide), 12 May 1949 (Item)

Visit of Lady Moore to Adelaide; publication of Beveridge's book on Australia and New Zealand.

Correspondence (part ii), December 1949 - January 1950 (File 49)
3 items

Filmed selectively.

W. Bodkin (Wellington) to Beveridge, 20 December 1949 (Item)

Thanks for congratulations on appointment as Minister for Internal Affairs.

H. Holland (Wellington) to Beveridge, 11 January 1950 (Item)

Thanks for congratulations on election victory.

R. Algie (Wellington) to Beveridge, 12 January 1950 (Item)

Election results; federalism and world government; F.W. Doidge.

Correspondence (part v), August 1952 - October 1952 (File 51)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

R.J.F. Boyer (Sydney) to Beveridge, 26 August 1952 (Item)

Apprehension about sponsorship on B.B.C. television; need for nationally controlled television; visit of H.L. Anthony to England.

R.J.F. Boyer to Beveridge, 7 October 1952 (Item)

Regrets Beveridge did not meet H.L. Anthony.

Correspondence (part vii), February 1952 (File 51)
1 item
T.A. Hunter (Wellington) to Beveridge, 1 February 1952 (Item)

Introduces H.M. Studholme, agricultural editor of Christchurch Press.

Correspondence (part v), May 1953 (File 52)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

R.J.F. Boyer (Sydney) to Beveridge, 4 May 1953 (Item)

Royal Commission on Television; asks Beveridge to meet Chairman, G.W. Paton.

Correspondence (part vi), June [1953] (File 52)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

G.W. Paton to Beveridge, 20 June [1953] (Item)

Travels in England; hopes for meeting.

Correspondence (part i), September 1953 (File 53)
1 item
G.H. Moore (Australia House) to Beveridge, 28 September 1953 (Item)

Visit to England of Sir Earle Page; sends speech on Australian National Health Plan.

Correspondence (part ii), February 1956 (File 55)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Sir Richard Boyer (Sydney) to Beveridge, 22 February 1956 (Item)

Thanks for congratulations; introduction of dual television system in Australia; commercial exploitation of press, radio and television.

Correspondence (part ii), January 1957 (File 56)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

A.G. Davis (Auckland) to Beveridge, 21 January 1957 (Item)

Congratulations on 80th birthday; happy memories of London School of Economics.

Correspondence (part iii), July 1959 (File 58)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

Sir Roland Wilson (Canberra) to Beveridge, 23 July 1959 (Item)

Recommends S.R. Carver for membership of International Statistical Institute.

Correspondence (part i), March 1960 - June 1960 (File 59)
2 items

Filmed selectively.

Minnie Thomas (Palmerston North) to Beveridge, 8 March 1960 (Item)

Requests inscribed book; encloses article on her library of 1300 inscribed books.

Minnie Thomas to Beveridge, 20 June 1960 (Item)

Thanks for Full employment in a free society.

Correspondence (part viii), August 1962 (File 61)
1 item

Filmed selectively.

R.C. Testro (Melbourne) to Beveridge, 20 August 1962 (Item)

Australian opposition to British entry into European Economic Community; importance of Commonwealth.

Correspondence (Out-letters), October 1931 - November 1931 (File 63)
3 items

Filmed selectively.

Beveridge to J. Hight, 27 October 1931 (Item)

Unable to offer Visiting Chair to D.B. Copland.

Beveridge to C.W. Cragg, 29 October 1931 (Item)

Relations between W.E.A. in Australia and Students Bookshops Ltd.

Beveridge to D. Stewart (Sydney), 19 November 1931 (Item)

Relations between W.E.A. in Australia and Student Bookships Ltd.

Series VII. Other Interests And Activities, 1948

2 items

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M2617.

Subseries 55. Crusade for World Government, March 1948 - September 1948

9 items

Filmed selectively.

Lectures and broadcasts given in Australia and New Zealand, April 1948 - June 1948 (File 1-6)

The titles include 'The conditions of world peace' (Dunedin), 'Necessity for world government' (Dunedin), and 'Crusade for world government' (Adelaide).

(typescripts)

J.E. Bowker (Melbourne) to Beveridge, 20 August 1948 (Item)

Sends 50 copies of Australian edition of World Government News.

Beveridge to S.C. Wright (Wellington), 25 May 1948 (Item)

Sends typescript of Australian broadcast on Crusade for World Government.

Patricia Armstrong to Beveridge, 8 March 1948 (Item)

Sends list of people in New Zealand likely to be interested in Crusade.

A.C. Boyle (Sydney) to Beveridge, 18 August 1948 (Item)

Progress of World Federal Union in Australia; hopes to enlist support of D. Bradman.

H.N. Rhodes (Sydney) to Beveridge, 17 September 1948 (Item)

Invites Beveridge to be Patron of Australian Division of Campaign for World Government.

A.M. Ramsay (Adelaide) to Beveridge, 17 July 1948 (Item)

Launching of campaign in Adelaide; appointment as General Manager of South Australian Housing Trust.

Beveridge to H. Usborne, 10 July 1948 (Item)

Launching of Crusade in Australia and New Zealand; apathy of general public.

A.C. Boyle to Beveridge, 10 July 1948 (Item)

Launching of Crusade in Sydney on understanding its aim is federal union of nations.

Series XI. Visits Abroad, 1948

9 items

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reels M2617-M2618.

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 66)

Correspondence concerning accommodation and arrangements for travel, speeches and broadcasts during tour of New Zealand and Australia, January - July 1948.

Correspondents include G.C. Billing (Dunedin), B. Hocking (Wellington), E. Williams (Canberra), J. Shelley (Wellington), H. Chapman (Dunedin), Lord Addison, Sir Patrick Duff (Wellington), C.R. Mighell (Australia House).

(1 folder)

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 66)

Correspondence concerning arrangements for tour, speeches, Crusade for World Government, meetings with political leaders, award of honorary degrees Feb. 1948 - April 1949.

Correspondents include G. Billing (Dunedin), J. McKenzie (Wellington), L. Ross (Sydney), S. Carver (Canberra), H. Herron (Dunedin), R. Boyer (Sydney), Sir Patrick Duff (Wellington), A.A. Calwell (Canberra), R.G. Casey (Melbourne), J.B. Chifley (Canberra), D.A.S. Campbell (Sydney), A.G. Davis (Auckland), G. Fitzpatrick (Sydney), E. Herring (Melbourne), W. Nash, A.E.V. Richardson (Melbourne), G. Scholefield (Wellington), S. Wadham (Melbourne), I. Benson (Melbourne), F.A. Bland (Sydney), A.C. Boyle (Sydney), Bishop C.V. Pilcher (Sydney), R.W. Hornabrook (Melbourne), E. Williams (Canberra).

(3 folders)

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 66)

Correspondence, bills, miscellaneous papers, including some letters from people in Australia and New Zealand, but much of it concerning the book India called them and affairs in Britain.

Although listed, this material was not filmed by the AJCP.

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 67)

Extensive correspondence, much of it with relatives in Australia, concerning the history of the Beveridge Family. Includes copies of early nineteenth century letters.

Although listed, this material was not filmed by the AJCP.

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 68)

Speeches and broadcasts, including drafts, made by Beveridge in New Zealand and Australia, 1948. Subjects include Crusade for World Government, public action and voluntary action, social security and after, security and liberty, public action for social advance, New Zealand and Britain compared.

(3 folders)

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 69)

20 photographs of houses in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Lower Hutt, New Plymouth.

'Various booklets on Dunedin and social security in New Zealand' was not filmed by the AJCP.

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 70)

Diary kept by Beveridge of his visit to New Zealand and Australia. The early part of the diary is detailed, containing notes on social services, trade unions, books, education and other subjects discussed. In the latter part there are simply names and addresses. There are also itineraries covering his visits to Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

(2 notebooks)

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 71)

Business correspondence, invoices, receipts and other financial papers concerning New Zealand trip.

Although listed, this material was not filmed by the AJCP.

New Zealand and Australia, 1948 (File 72)

3 items

Filmed selectively.

Reviews and notices of Antipodes notebook and other books written by Beveridge (1 envelope), August 1949 - September 1949 (Item)
Newspaper cuttings concerning Beveridge's Australian tour (1 envelope), May 1948 - August 1948 (Item)
Mounted cuttings concerning Beveridge's New Zealand tour, April 1948 (Item)

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