Guide to the Papers of Richard Jebb (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2241-M2253
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Jebb, Richard
- Title
- Papers of Richard Jebb (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1885 - 1953
- Collection Number
- M2241-M2253
- Extent
- 35 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 1885-1953. Correspondents include L. Curtis, R.R. Garran, Sir Samuel Way, A. Atlee Hunt, F. Fox, W. Nelson, B. Kerr-Pearse, Alfred Deakin, S.M. Bruce, R.G. Menzies, Fabian Ware and E.A. Edwards.
Journals 1899-1906 containing detailed accounts of Jebb's tours of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
Photograph albums of tour of Australia and New Zealand 1899-1900.
Scrapbooks 1904-1949 containing reviews of Jebb's writings Studies in Colonial Nationalism, Imperial Conference, Britannic Question, Empire in Eclipse and His Britannic Majesty, and Jebb's articles for the Morning Post.
Manuscript of 'Studies in Colonial Nationalism', including unpublished third volume.
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 Senate House Library, University of London.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the Senate House Library, University of London 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: Press cuttings from London newspapers re. the proposed colonial tour, 1905, Senate House Library, University of London. (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-903774413)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1987 (AJCP Reels: M2241-2253). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Senate House Library, University of London, London, England.
For further information, see Richard Jebb at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London (http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/Details/archive/110023497).
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-vn2298912] 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 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
Australia; Australia: visits to; Bruce, Stanley M., 1st Viscount; Canada; Curtis, Lionel; Deakin, Alfred; Edwards, E.A.; Fox, Sir Frank; Garran, Sir Robert R.; Hunt, A. Atlee; Jebb, Richard; Kerr-Pearse, B.; Menzies, Sir Robert G.; Nelson, W.; New Zealand; New Zealand: visits to; Photographs: Australia; Photographs: New Zealand; South Africa; Ware, Fabian; Way, Sir Samuel
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 253, p.94.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Jebb, 1874-1953 was educated at Marlborough and New College, Oxford He had intended to serve in the Indian Civil Service, however the death of his father and brother left him finacially independent and enabled him to travel widely - Egypt, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and India in 1897-1901; Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, 1905-1906; and West Indies 1909. These visits turned his attention to the problem of Britain's Empire and especially trade with in that Empire. He spent the rest of his life writing about and publicising the Empire, both as a correspondent for the Morning Post and in his books Studies in Colonial Nationalism (1905), The Imperial Conference 2 vols. (1911), The Britannic Question (1913), Empire in Eclipse (1926), and His Britannic Majesty (1935). He stood unsuccessfully for parliament in 1910.
For a more detailed life of Richard Jebb and a discussion of his imperial theories see JDB Miller Richard Jebb and the problem of Empire (Commonwealth Papers, 3) Athlone Press, 1956.
Item Descriptions
Series A. Correspondence Files, 1885 - 1953
Selections include following correspondents: L. Curtis, R.R. Garran (Melbourne), Sir Samuel Way (Adelaide), A. Atlee Hunt (Melbourne), F. Fox (Sydney), W. Nelson (Hawkes Bay), B. Kerr-Pearse (Melbourne), A. Deakin (Melbourne), L.S. Amery, S.M. Bruce, W. Mackenzie King, R.G. Menzies, Lord Milner, J. Chamberlain, Fabian Ware, E.A. Edwards (Perth), W. Triggs (Christchurch).
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M2241-M2244.
Series B. Journals, Diaries, Notebooks
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M2244-M2246.
Subseries B.2.2-27. Journal of tour of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, 1899 - 1900
4 items
Canada; voyage from Vancouver to Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji on Warrimoo, 6 May 1899 - 22 July 1899 (File Vol. 2)
Tour of Australia, visiting Brisbane, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Penrith Newcastle, Hunter Valley, Narrabri, Moree, Quirindi, Moss Vale, Kiama, 23 July 1899 - 19 October 1899 (File Vols. 3-5)
Includes detailed descriptions of towns and countryside, visit to parliament, clubs, Sydney University, sporting events, sheep stations, dairy farms, wool stores, meetings with Sir William Owen, G.H. Reid, A.B. Weigall, Sir Joseph Frizelle, G.C. Wade, R.R. Garran, impressions of and reports of conversations about economic condition Federation, schools, N.S.W. politics, Imperial Federation, Dreyfus agitation in N.S.W.
Tour of New Zealand, visiting Wellington, Hutt River, Palmerston, Napier, Auckland, Woodville, Wanganui, Christchurch, Cheviot, Timaru, Dunedin, Oamaru, Invercargill, 25 October 1899 - 7 May 1900 (File Vols. 5-20)
Includes detailed descriptions of countryside, visits to parliament, political meetings, agricultural shows, sheep farms, dairy farms, university colleges, fishing, meetings with Walker, Matheson, Sir William Russell, W. Nelson, T.M. Wilford, C.F. Bourne, W. Triggs, W. Rolleston, Sir Robert Stout, S. Fitzherbert, J. McKenzie, impressions of and reports of conversations about books, New Zealand politics, R. Seddon, W.P. Reeves, land legislation, Boer War, newspapers, trade, Pacific cable, industrial arbitration, overseas news.
Tour of Australia, visiting Hobart, Launceston, Burnie, Zeehan, Melbourne, Adelaide, Narrandera, Sydney, Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns, Charters Towers, 10 May 1900 - 3 September 1900 (File Vols. 20-27)
Includes descriptions of towns and countryside, visits to dairy farms in Victoria, village settlements in South Australia, sheep station in Riverina, sugar mill in Queensland, Adelaide University, Melbourne University, sports events, meetings with C.E. Davies, J.S. Horsfall, J. Clark, G.T. Collins, N. Brown, Sir John Dodds, A. Inglis Clark, Sir Henry Wrixon, Sir Samuel Way, Lord Tennyson, W. Harrison Moore, J.W. Salmond, R. Barr Smith, J.H. Macfarland, R.R. Garran, F. Power, C. Lilley, impressions of and reports of conversations about Federation, Tasmanian electoral system, Australian newspapers, Australian politics, State railways, Boer War, racial divisions in Queensland, Kanakas, overseas news.
Subseries B.3.1 (part), 2-4, 5 (p.1-2). Journal of tour of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, 1905 - 1906
5 items
Canada, United States, Hawaii, October 1905 - December 1905 (File Vol. 1. Journal)
Voyage across Pacific from San Francisco via Honolulu. Mainly refers to readings from Australian and New Zealand newspapers and talks with passengers. (16pp)
New Zealand., 13 December 1905 - 13 January 1906 (File Vol. 2. Journal)
Very detailed account of travels in New Zealand, including visits to Auckland, Rotorua and Lake Taupo, conversations, fishing, and impressions of landscape, politics, land legislation.
New Zealand and Australia, 13 January 1906 - 16 January 1906 (File Vol. 3. Journal)
Detailed account of visits to Wellington, Sydney, Cooma, Jindabyne, Tumut and Goulburn, meetings with H.D. Bell, Sir Robert Stout, F. Fox, J.C. Watson, E. Batchelor, discussions on naval policy, military defence of New Zealand, Australian Federal Capital question, fishing.
Australia, 27 January 1906 - 9 February 1906 (File Vol. 4. Journal)
Detailed account of visits to Jindabyne, Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany and Perth, meetings with J.C. Watson, A. Deakin, W. Creswell, R.M. Collins, Lord Northcote, T. Playford, C. Russell, L. Robinson, discussions about Australian politics, Labor Party, protectionism, immigration, Pacific cable, defence, appointment of High Commissioner in London, Western Australian goldfields.
Series C. Photograph Albums
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2246.
Series E. Studies in Colonial Nationalism
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2246.
Series G. Copies of Speeches and Articles
16 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2248.
Series H. Reviews of Studies in Colonial Nationalism
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2249.
Series I. Reviews of Imperial Conference
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2249.
Series J. Reviews of Britannic Question
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2249.
Series K. Reviews of the Empire in Eclipse
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2249.
Series L. Reviews of His Britannic Majesty
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2249.
Series M. Morning Post
4 itemsCuttings of leaders by RJ.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2250.
Series N. Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings of other articles and letters by RJ
11 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reels M2250-M2253.