Guide to the Records of the Eugenics Society (as filmed by the AJCP)

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Created: 2019

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Series B. Early Files, n.d.

Filmed selectively.

Recommendations of the Research Committee of the Eugenics Education Society concerning the proposed 'Eugenic' Survey of New Zealand Children, n.d. (File B 10)

Eugenic Society's comments on a medical inspection of school children proposed by the New Zealand Government as suggested by Dr. Valentin at Hospitals Conference held at Wellington in June 1911.

Series C. People, 1922 - 1950

Subseries C 176. Mrs Edith How-Martyn, September 1949 - September 1950

Filmed selectively.

How-Martyn, Sydney, to Dr Blacker, 14 September 1949 (File)

Forwards her copy of the Review to a birth control worker in New Zealand.

The Society to How-Martyn, 27 September 1949 (File)

Re her desire to become a life member.

How-Martyn, Sydney, to Miss Shenk, 21 July 1950 (File)

Re award of Fellowship.

How-Martyn to Miss Shenk, 12 September 1950 (File)

No interest in Eugenics in Sydney.

The Society to How-Martyn, 19 September 1950 (File)

Thanking her for donation.

Subseries C 255. Joshua O'Brien, February 1924 - October 1928

Correspondence between the Society and Joshua O'Brien (Brisbane), 25 February 1924 - 1 October 1928 (File)

Re his election as a Fellow and methods of sending money to the Society.

Subseries C 343. H. Twitchen, July 1922 - February 1930

Correspondence between H Twitchen (Perth, London, Nice) and the Society, 3 July 1922 - 10 February 1930 (File)

Subjects include Twitchen's health and ideas on eugenics, donations to the Society, possible visit to Twitchen in Australia by Sir Ernest Allen on behalf of the Society. Also includes correspondence between officials of the Society concerning Twitchen, the possible bequest and information and reports to be sent to him...

Series D. General Correspondence, 1922 - 1954

Foreign Countries, 29 June 1938 - 26 July 1939 (File D 69)

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Dr. C.P. Blacker to Hilda Pocock, 10 October 1938 (Item)

Re Eugenics Society of Victoria.

Victor Wallace, Eugenics Society of Victoria (Melbourne) to Dr. Blacker, 29 June 1938 (Item)

Re membership of the Victorian Society. (copy)

Hilda Pocock to Dr. Wallace, 14 October 1938 (Item)

Sending literature.

Hilda Pocock to Wallace, 2 November 1938 (Item)

Re purchasing film "From Generation to Generation".

Wallace (Melbourne) to Hilda Pocock, 10 March 1939 (Item)

Decided to purchase film.

Hilda Pocock to Wallace, 24 March 1939 (Item)

Acknowledgement

Eugenics Society, Victoria, to The Society, 17 June 1939 (Item)

Requesting handbook (telegram).

Wallace (Melbourne) to Hilda Pocock, 18 June 1939 (Item)

Officials of his society disappointed in the film, and sending syllabus of lectures for 1939.

Hilda Pocock to Wallace, 19 June 1939 (Item)

Sending literature.

Hilda Pocock to Wallace, 3 July 1939 (Item)

Re criticism of the film.

Visual Education Committee, Department of Education, Hobart to The Society, 8 December 1938 (Item)

Requesting copy of their film.

Hilda Pocock to the Committee, 2 February 1939 (Item)

Sending particulars of the film.

Hilda Pocock to Dr Gordon re film, 18 January 1939 (Item)

Mrs L.P. Goodisson, Racial Hygiene Association of NSW, to Dr. C.P. Blacker, 21 June 1939 (Item)

Requesting details of their film, enclosing leaflet re their Marriage Advisory Centre.

Hilda Pocock to Goodisson, 26 July 1939 (Item)

Sending details of the film.

Immigration and Emigration, n.d. (File D 103)

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Letter sent to members of the Tennyson Commission on Emigration, n.d. (Item)

Re the Society's views on emigration to the Dominions. (1p. copy)

Letter sent to prominent people in the Dominions, n.d. (Item)

Sending literature and requesting their views on quality of population of the Empire. (2pp. copy)

Letter sent to Agents General and High Commissioners sending literature on emigration. (1p. copy), n.d. (Item)

Imperial Conference, 1926 (File D 105)

Includes draft letter on aims of the Society to be sent to colonial premiers and acknowledgements from G.B. Cooke, Australia House 27 November 1926; F. McLaughlen, Dept.of Defence, 27 November 1926; A. [Canser?] P.M. Office, New Zealand, 28 November 1926; H.W. Gepp, Australia House.

Migration Council, 1950 - 1954 (File D 122 - 128)

Minutes, 23 November 1950 - 5 December 1951 (Item D 122)

Minutes and agenda of the Migration Council, 2nd meeting to 7th meeting. (76pp.)...

Minutes, 6 February 1952 - 11 December 1952 (Item D 123)

Minutes and agenda of the Migration Council 8th meeting. (69 pp.)...

Minutes, 25 February 1953 - 22 July 1954 (Item D 124)

Minutes and agenda of the Migration Council meeting 14th - 17th. (54pp.)...

Correspondence, 1950 - 1951 (Item D 125)

Correspondence between Dr C Blacker and other members of the Eugenics Society and Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith and other members of the Migration Council on Migration to the Dominions. (120pp.)...

Correspondence, 5 January 1952 - 25 July 1952 (Item D 126)

Correspondence between Dr C Blacker and Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith on the work of the Migration Council. (17pp.)

Correspondence, 2 March 1953 - 14 March 1953 (Item D 127)

Correspondence between Dr C Blacker and Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith. (15pp.)...

Various Papers, 1954 - February 1959 (Item D 128)

Includes: Circular re new constitution as a limited liability company, 9 July 1954; Memorandum and articles of association of the Migration Council Ltd. 1954; Balance sheets, 1954/55; 1957; Activities, 1953/54; press cuttings; minutes of AGM, 26 July 1956, and 25 September 1957; Commonwealth Migration Council Newsletter no.3, October 1957 and no. 7 February 1959...

Premiers, India and Colonies, 1922 - 1927 (File D166)

29pp...

Series D 204 - 247. Correspondence: Voluntary Sterilisation, 1930 - 1932

Other Countries I, 25 July 1930 - 13 November 1930 (File D 207)

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The Society to High Commissioner (New Zealand), 25 July 1930 (Item)

Requesting data on Eugenic Bill passed by New Zealand Parliament.

Alexander Crabb (New Zealand House) to The Society, 28 July 1930 (Item)

Forwarding various publications

A. Crabb (New Zealand House) to The Society, 28 August 1930 (Item)

Requesting return of Bill.

The Society to New Zealand High Commission. Requesting invoice, 28 August 1930 (Item)

A. Crabb (New Zealand House) to Society, 19 September 1930 (Item)

Requesting payment of 4/9d

The Society to Crabb. Sending postal order, 2 October 1930 (Item)

A. Crabb (New Zealand House) to the Society. Enclosing receipt, 6 October 1930 (Item)

The Society to New Zealand High Commission. Requesting further loan of Bill, 27 October 1930 (Item)

A. Crabb to Society. Allowed to retain Bill, 29 October 1930 (Item)

The Society to New Zealand High Commissioner. Acknowledgement, 31 October 1930 (Item)

The Society to W. Leslie Farrer. Re the Bill, 31 October 1930 (Item)

The Society to New Zealand High Commissioner returning Bill, 13 November 1930 (Item)

Memoranda Concerning Various Laws Compiled by Dr J Crowley, Board of Control 111 British Empire, 1932 (File D 228)

Index: resume of state of legislation [on sterilisation] of the mentally unfit in Dominions.

Index: resume of state of legislation on sterilisation of the mentally unfit in Dominions, n.d. (Item)

Appendix A: report on situation in Tasmania (11pp.), 1932 (Item)

Appendix C: memorandum on legislation in New Zealand (5pp.), 1932 (Item)

Series E. Branches and Other Societies, 1912 - 1961

Subseries E 2 - 5. Australian Eugenics Societies, 17 December 1912 - 10 April 1961

Eugenics Education Society in New South Wales, 17 December 1912 - 3 November 1930 (File E 2)

Correspondence between J Chambers Eldridge, Secretary [Eugenics Education Society] in NSW, Mosman, and officials of the Eugenics Society, London re the activities of the NSW Society, 17 December 1912 - 3 November 1930 (Item)

Includes: Notice of Galton Day Dinner at Baumann's Cafe, Pitt Street, 23 February 1914; Motherhood Movement in Australia; survey of events and legislation, 1921; Proposal Bill for the proposed Qualification of Marriage Act, 1925 - correspondence with Mrs. Marion Piddington (1930), Sydney, and copies of her publications Eradication of Promiscuity and Venereal Disease; Sex Training, Sex Education and Parental Metaphylaxis; Just One Slip: the case against medical prophylactics. (45pp.)

Victorian Eugenics Society (110pp.), 3 March 1914 - 20 October 1939 (File E 3)

Correspondence between Dr Victor H. Wallace, Angela Booth, Prof. W.E. Agar, Eugenics Society of Victoria and officials of the Eugenics Society London, 2 June 1937 - 20 October 1939 (Item A)

Subjects include: despatch of Eugenics Review; explosion on Narkunda enroute to Melbourne, 1939; grants to the [Eugenics Society of Victoria] by Eugenics Society; publicity; enquiries by Eugenics Society into Bona Fides of the Victorian Society...

Other Correspondence, 3 March 1914 - 14 January 1926 (File B)

The Society to Agent-General for Victoria, 14 January 1926 (Item)

Acknowledgement

Agent General for Victoria to the Society, 21 October 1925 (Item)

Re Marriage Acts in Victoria.

W. Ernest Jones, Lunacy Dept, Melbourne, 10 February 1915 (Item)

Victorian Eugenics Society is in 'suspended animation'.

The Society to Mrs C Greenshields (Melbourne), 18 August 1914 (Item)

Re work to be done during the war.

The Society to Mrs C Greenshields, (Melbourne), 24 April 1914 (Item)

Re establishment of branch of Eugenics Society in Melbourne and that Prof Spencer Baldwin be consulted.

The Society to Mrs C Greenshields (Melbourne), 7 April 1914 (Item)

Re establishment of Melbourne branch.

Carletta Greenshields, Melbourne, to The Society, 3 March 1914 (Item)

Requesting literature.

Victorian Eugenics Society, 5 January 1940 - 10 April 1961 (File E 4)

Correspondence between Dr. V.H. Wallace, Dr. K.S. Cunningham Eugenics Society of Victoria and official of Eugenic Society, 5 January 1940 - 10 April 1961 (Item)

Subjects include: decline and disbandment of the [Eugenic Society of Victoria].; legacy of J.N. Peters of St Kilda to establish a lectureship in Eugenics at Melbourne University; Wallace's book Paths to Peace, 1957; introduction of Dr. J.G. Sloman; statement of principles, drawn up by Dr. K.S. Cunningham, 1947; war news, problems of despatch of Eugenics Review during the war. (some very faint carbons)...

Western Australia, 12 August 1933 - 17 January 1934 (File E 5)

(16pp.)

Correspondence between the Eugenics Society and Dorothea Cass, Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia Inc, 2 November 1933 - 17 January 1934 (Item)

Re literature. (3 letters).

Correspondence between the Eugenics Society and Muriel Marion, Eugenics Society, University of Western Australia, 12 August 1933 - 23 September 1933 (Item)

Re formation of the Society. (5 letters).

Series H. Henry Twitchen and the Twitchen Bequest, 1924 - 1938

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Pedigree and Family, n.d. (File H 1)

Information on Henry Twitchen's parents and his emigration to Australia (5pp.), n.d. (Item)

Correspondence re Estate I, 1924 - 23 August 1930 (File H 2)

Public Trustees Office. Estate of late Henry Twitchen: statement (Item)

Shows value of property in Western Australia and details of legacy to Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Inc. Perth. (4pp.)

Nature. Obituary of Twitchen, 19 April 1930 (Item)

Notes upon the late H. Twitchen and press cutting from Times (3pp.), 5 April 1930 (Item)

H. Twitchen's Australian passport (7pp.), 1924 (Item)

Will and codicil of H. Twitchen (6pp.), 1926-07-24; 1930-03-19 (Item)

Gally proofs Eugenics Review, n.d. (Item)

Gives extracts from Twitchen's correspondence with the Society from Towera, WA. (4pp.)

R.P. Baulkwill, Public Trustees Office to Major Darwin, Eugenics Society, 23 August 1930 (Item)

Giving details of the Australian estate. (3p. copy)

Correspondence re Estate, II, 23 January 1931 - 13 April 1938 (File H 3)

Supplemental Statement of account of Estate of Henry Twitchen, 5 October 1936 (Item)

Gives details of property in Australia. (5pp.)

Supplemental Statement of account of estate of Henry Twitchen. (3 pp.), 13 April 1938 (Item)

Leonard Darwin, Forest Row, to Sir Bernard Mallett, [1933]-08-12 (Item)

Re problems with sale of Australian sheep station.

Copy of resolution of Special Meeting of Council of Eugenics Society, 30 December 1931 (Item)

Re purchase of Australian bonds. Approximate estimate of net assets transferable to residuary legatee. Includes details of Australian estate.

Letters from Leonard Darwin to Sir Bernard Mallet, 7 February 1931 - 13 March 1931 (Item)

Letters dated: 5 March 1931, Thursday, 7 February 1931, 11 February 1931, 13 March 1931, 24 February 1931. Re sale of Towera station to Dalgety and sheep losses due to bad weather.

Darwin to Mallet that Towera sold, 18 March 1931 (Item)

R.P. Baulkwill, Public Trustees Office to Darwin, 12 March 1931 (Item)

Re sale of Towera to Dalgety.

B.S. Bramwell, London, to Mallet, 9 March 1931 (Item)

Re Towera property and forwarding memoranda on the sale and on the Australian economic situation. (8p.)

Bramwell to Mallet and Darwin re sale of Towera, 24 February 1931 (Item)

C.P. Blacker to Mallet (6pp.), 19 February 1931 (Item)

Encloses minutes of Council meeting on 11 February 1931 which discussed the Towera estate.

Leonard Darwin to Mallet, 23 January 1931 - 25 January 1931 (Item)

Re offer from Australian syndicate.

Darwin to Mallet, 2 February 1931 (Item)

Re offer from Dalgety.

Sir Ernest Allen to R.P. Baulkwill, 27 February 1931 (Item)

Re Towera sale. (Copy)

Claims of Mrs Drake-Brockman and Madeleine Rocca, 21 June 1930 - 1 August 1930 (File H 6)

Extracts from letters from the Public Trustee to Major Darwin, 21 June 1930 - 1 August 1930 (Item)

Includes copies of letters from Alison Drake-Brockman, Claremont, to Sir Ernest Allen re provision for herself and her children formerly provided by H. Twitchen. Due to friendship between her husband and Twitchen their money was used to purchase Towera and Lyndon stations. (5pp.)

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