W. H. (William Henry) Kelly - personal papers, 1898-1959, including illuminated addresses, together with the papers of Daphne May Johnson mainly concerning the Estate of W. H. Kelly, 1959-1968

MLMSS 6559/Boxes 1-3
MLMSS 6559/Boxes 4X-8X

series

1898-1968

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings

153669

Microfilm : W.H. Kelly personal papers, 1911-1954).

I. W. H. (WILLIAM HENRY) KELLY
1927-1939; 'A-B-C-D', being an empty file and 'M-N-O-P', being a file mainly of literary oddments for Kelly's writings, with draft letter to [H. L.?] Mencken, Date unknown, and copy of letter to Editor, The Bulletin, 31 Oct. 1939, with copies of his enclosed lampoons (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1914, Date unknown; 'Q-R-S-T', being a file of unsigned Christmas cards (3) from The Australian Club, Sydney, and 'Y-Z', being a letter received from the Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, 11 Nov. 1914 (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1905-1919; Untitled file, including ephemara concerning the Wentworth Electorate; Kelly's farewell speech to his Committees, Coronation Hall, 18 Nov. 1919; and his parliamentary speeches on the Budget, 1905, the Commonwealth Naval Expenditure, 1905, and the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, 1910 (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1906-1915; Untitled file, being MS. draft speech, Date unknown; issue of a French publication, Patria, No.15, 1 Apr. 1906; and excerpt from the Commonwealth Gazette, 31 May 1915, concerning No.1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1920-1936; 'Notes for fiction A', including material for the novel Winifred Wakes Up, with copy of letter to W. M. Hughes, 17 Apr. 1936, concerniong the German Colonies (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1927-31, Date unknown; 'Notes for Pictor[ial?]', being mainly examples of Kelly's verse and prose (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
Date unknown; 'Doggerel', being an empty file (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1898-1919, Date unknown; Empty envelopes received and a copy photoprint of a caricature of W. H. Kelly ?, Date unknown (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1939-1940; 'Correspondence with and re M. W. Kelly Union Bank of Aust. London., T. H. Kelly etc re Carleton', including correspondence with his daughter, Mary Wentworth Kelly, and his brother, T. H. Kelly [Some of W. H. Kelly's letters are signed 'Goblet'] (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1914-1941; 'Mary & Robin Stuart-French', being mainly correspondence with Robin Stuart-French, 1941, concerning the German torpedo attack on the ship carrying him and his Australian wife (killing her) from Canada to Ireland, and related letters received from Muriel Macrae and Hilda Pagan (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1920-1926; 'Two Little Diggers', including corrected and final versions of same-tiled story, with correspondence, including letters received from Lord Loughborough, 1925-1926, and A. W. H. Grant, 21 Jan. 1920 (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1934; Untitled file including Kelly's letters to The Times about the deaths of dogs on the British Graham Land Antarctic Expedition (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
1912-1931; 'Public questions', being newscuttings, including Kelly's article, 'The Panama Canal: It's Relations to Australia', Australia To-Day, 1 Nov. 1912, with letters received, 1921-1931, from, among others, A. Lawrence Lowell (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/1)
194-; Typescript concerning the Press and World War II, being chapters 1-5? (Folder 1) (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/2)
194-; Corrected carbon typescript concerning the Press and World War II, being chapters 1-5? (Folder 2) (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/2)
194-; Typescript concerning the Press and World War II, being Chapter 6 (Folder 3) (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/2)
1899-1900, 1904-1922; Newscuttings album mainly concerning personal mentions and political topics, with draft article on the Australian Navy and letters received from his brother, T. H. Kelly, 1899-1900 (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/2)
1905; Newscuttings album mainly concerning the Third Australian Political Labour Conference (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/2)
1939-1941; Newscuttings album concerning a graving dock for Australia, with report: 'A Graving Dock for Capital Ships' by Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, Jan. 1940 (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/3: Issue microfilm copy at CY 4665)
1948, Date unknown; Newscuttings of obituary of T. H. Kelly and of erroneous/premature obituary of W. H. Kelly (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/3: Issue microfilm copy at CY 4665)
1911-1936, 1954; Miscellaneous papers, including letters received from, among others, Archbishop John Charles Wright, 10 July 1914; financial papers; ceremonial booklet concerning the Royal Coronation of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary, 1911; and leather wallet with WHK monogram (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/3: Issue microfilm copy at CY 4665)
1919-1920; Letters received from, among others, Sir Joseph Cook, Albert Gardiner, Sir John Monash and Sir Archdale Parkhill, originally enclosed with illuminated address presented to Kelly on his retirement from politics located at MLMSS 6559/6X (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/3: Issue microfilm copy at CY 4665)
1913; Commission of appointment to Federal Executive Council, 24 June 1913 (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/4X)
1913; Illuminated address (album) received from the constituents of Wentworth Electorate, in appreciation of his valuable services and on his appointment as Honorary Minister of the Crown, at Coronation Hall, Waverley, N.S.W., 25 Oct. 1913, being watercolour and pen & ink with 4 photoprints of entrance to Sydney Harbour, Bronte and Coogee Beaches, and Rose Bay (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/5X)
1920; Illuminated address (album) received from the electors of Wentworth on his retirement from politics, Feb. 1920. Gilt embossed dark blue leather cover, watered taffeta endpapers, and 2 pages of illuminations, 6 separate pages of watercolours of Glenyarrah, the Kelly residence at Double Bay, N.S.W., and Vaucluse House, Waverley Council Chambers, and Bondi, Bronte and Coogee Beaches, followed by 8 pages of signatures. (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/6X)
1910; Illuminated address received on the eve of his voluntary retirement from the position of Whip and Secretary to the Liberal Opposition Party in the Federal Parliament, Federal Parliament House, Melbourne, 1 July 1910. Signatories include G. H. Reid, Sir Joseph Cook, Dugald Thomson and George W. Fuller. (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/7X)
Date unknown; 'Subscription list. To reimburse [?] W. H. Kelly the sum of 10/- which he was fined by a brutal, provincial, Victorian bench of magistrates' Signatories include J. C. Watson, Sir Joseph Cook, G. H. Reid, Dugald Thomson, George W. Fuller and P. McM. (Patrick McMahon) Glynn. (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/8X)
Date unknown; Gramophone record: W. H. Kelly / Sydney Harbour / Defence League. 6 tracks. Harmony Recording, 177 George Street, Sydney (Call No.: GR 260)
II. DAPHNE MAY JOHNSON
1959-1968, Date unknown; 'Perpetual Trustee Co. Letters', including correspondence with Molloy & Schrader, Solicitors, and Perpetual Trustee Company Limited; letter from Mary Wentworth Kelly to W. H. Kelly, 19 Oct. 1959; and letter received from Beatrice McPhillamy (niece of W. H. Kelly) (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/3)
1960; 'Perpetual Trustee Co. Ltd.', being copy of inventory and valuation by Coleman, Page Pty Ltd of the household furniture and effects and personal jewellery in the Estate of late (Hon.) Wm. Henry Kelly, 24 Feb. 1960 (Call No.: MLMSS 6559/3)