John Pomeroy papers, ca. 1890-1996

MLMSS 9393

fonds

ca. 1890 - 1996

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera

457651

4.59 metres of textual material (27 boxes)

John Pomeroy, public servant and historian, was born in Sydney in 1937 and attended Scots College, Bellevue Hill. He graduated BA and MA (History) and PhD (History) from the University of Sydney. He was President of the Sydney University Conservative Association, 1958-1963. In 1961 he enrolled in a Summer Course in German at the University of Cologne. He joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1962 and served chiefly with the Departments of Foreign Affairs (formerly External Affairs), Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Film Censorship Board and the Australian Electoral Commission. In 1988 Pomeroy published a bibliography on the 18th century British liberal politician Charles James Fox (1749-1806).

Include papers concerning service with the Commonwealth Department of External Affairs, 1962-1967; Commonwealth Film Censorship Board, 1980-1981; and Australian Electoral Commission, 1984-1993; minute book of the Sydney University Conservative Association, 1958-1963; papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women, 1963-1995; and his Australian Labor Party candidacy for the electoral division of Bradfield at the 1972 Federal Elections; research material on various projects, including The Magi, and for his MA thesis: 'The Apostasy of James Normington Rawling', 1988, and PhD thesis: 'Morale on the Homefront in Australia during the Second World War', 1995; volume of selected writings by and about Francis James, compiled by his son, Alfred James; and personal and family photographs.

BOX 1
Bound volumes (2) of University of Sydney Arts essays, 1956-1958
‘The thoughts of Francis James’ compiled by Alfred James, being bound volume of mainly photocopied selection of writings by and about James, with printed photograph. Inscribed and signed presentation copy from the compiler, 1995

BOX 2
Bound volumes (2) concerning service with the Commonwealth Department of External Affairs, 1962-1967
File concerning service with the Commonwealth Department of External Affairs, 1961-1967
Department of External Affairs, Statement of Service, May 1966
Bound volume of ‘Report by J. P. Pomeroy, Executive Officer (Professions), Australian High Commission, London, on a Visit to Vienna, 10 Sept. – 18 Nov. 1968’; Dec. 1968
Papers concerning the Film Censorship Board and film censorship, 1980-1991
Folder mainly concerning the Australian Electoral Commission, with personal curriculum vitae, correspondence and a copy of ‘Charles James Fox: a bibliography’, by John Pomeroy, 1988; ca. 1984-1993
Bound volume of ‘Australian Electoral Commission, Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral matters on the Conduct of the March 1993 Federal Election’, 3. Aug. 1993
Bound volume of mainly photocopied papers concerning compensation claim over aggravated asthma occasioned by faulty air conditioning in office of the Australian Electoral Commission, 162 Goulburn St, NSW, 1983-1990

BOX 3
Minute book, 1958-1963, containing minutes of meetings, correspondence, articles and notices of the Sydney University Conservative Association. Correspondents include Peter Howson, 1958-1959; Angus Maude, 1958; Sir Henry Manning, 1959-1960; John Anderson, 1959; The Bow Group (UK), 1959, 1961-1962; E. G. Whitlam, 1959; C. H. Currey, 1959; J.T.S. Lewis (The Capricorn Africa Society, Southern Rhodesia), 1959; John Eppstein (Director and Editor, The British Society for International Understanding), 1959; David S. Macmillan (archivist, University of Sydney), 1960; Sylvia Hale (President, Sydney University Labour Club), 1961; Garfield Barwick, 1962; H.D. Black, 1962; Martono Kadri (Embassy of Indonesia, Canberra), 1962
Issue of the Tramecksans: Journal of the Sydney University Conservative Association, 1959-1960. Inscribed ‘Best wishes, Clive Evatt’ on front cover.

BOX 4
Bound copy of ‘The Apostasy of James Normington Rawling’, MA (Pass) thesis, University of Sydney, 1988
Bound volumes (2) of research material, including photocopies, concerning Rawling thesis, 1988

BOX 5
Research material concerning Rawling thesis and subsequent material, including article for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1991-2000

BOX 6
Bound copy of ‘Morale on the home front in Australia during the Second World War’, John Pomeroy, PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 1995
Volume of research material mainly concerning ‘Morale’ thesis, 1940-1942; 1993
Folder of papers concerning A.P. Elkin on morale, including draft chapter 4: ‘Public opinion and Professor Elkin’
Folder of papers, including material on the Prime Minister’s Committee on National Morale, and A.A. Conlon, Chairman; 1942-1943

BOX 7
Research material concerning ‘Morale’ thesis (8 folders) including photocopied documents and records from the Australian Archives, ca. 1939-1994

BOX 8
Research material concerning ‘Morale’ thesis (3 folders) including material relating to propaganda and publicity; Alfred Conlon, and the Committee on National Morale; ca. 1941-1995

BOX 9
Research material concerning ‘Morale’ thesis (5 folders), ca. 1942-1995, including material relating to life in Australia during WW2, other theses, requests and responses re theses, philosophical and sociological perspectives regarding morale. Includes correspondence with John Passmore, 1990; Margaret Whitlam, 1989; Jean Morrill, Secretary to Bob Hope, 1989; Michael Young, 1995; John Legge, 1995; and Harry Maude; 1995

BOX 10
File of papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women (Sydney Branch), including material on ‘Astonishing Women: 1st National Conference of Anglican Women Clergy’, Women’s College, University of Sydney, 17-19 July 1995; 1993-1995
Bound volume 1: papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women, including correspondence and newscuttings, 1963-1982
Bound volume 2: papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women, including correspondence and newscuttings, 1982-1987
Bound volume 3 (books 5-7): papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women, including correspondence and newscuttings, 1987-1990

BOX 11
Bound volume 4: papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women, including correspondence and newscuttings, 1990-1992
Bound volume 5: papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women, including correspondence and newscuttings, 1992-1996
Bound volume 6: papers concerning the Movement for the Ordination of Women, including correspondence and newscuttings, 1982-1995

BOX 12
‘The House of De La Pomerai’, by Edward B. Powley, 1944
Volume of research material concerning ‘The Magi’, including newscutting of article, ‘The Three Kings’ by John Pomeroy, ‘The Anglican’, 21-29 Dec. 1967
Volume (Book 2) of research material concerning ‘The Magi’, 1967
Issue of ‘Country Life’, Christmas Number, 4 Dec. 1980

BOX 13
Bound volume concerning review of Administrative Law, 1992
Bound volume of interview with and speeches and writings by Clyde R. Cameron, 1988-1993
Bound volume of computer typescript version of ‘Dark and Hurrying Days: Menzies Abroad 1941 Diary’, edited by A.W. Martin and Patsy Hardy, 1993
Folder of Australian and non-Australian bookplates, with copy of ‘Souvenir of Armorial Book-Plates’ (1932) by P. Neville Barnett

BOX 14
Personal and family photographs, including Winifred Pomeroy (1904-1969); ca. 1890-1980s

BOX 15
Bound volume (Part I) concerning Pomeroy’s Australian Labor Party candidacy for the electoral division of Bradfield at the 1972 Federal Election, 1972-1973
Bound volume (Part II) concerning Pomeroy’s Australian Labor Party candidacy for the electoral division of Bradfield at the 1972 Federal Election, 1969-1975
Folder of papers concerning access to his ASIO file held at Australian Archives, 1995
Papers concerning anti-Nazi German diplomat, Wolfgang Pulitz, including photograph, 1961; and photocopied letter received from Ormond Wilson, 1984; 1961-1967; 1979-1985
Issue of ‘Honi Soit’, 13 Mar. 1958, with photocopies of newscuttings concerning Australian miniature painter, Daysi May Brookes, 1947, 1958, 1966
‘Tho Whom It May Concern’, being bound volume of copies of references and testimonials written for others, 1981-1994

BOXES 16-19
Pamphlets and journals, ca. 1910-1970s concerning Australian economics, labour, immigration, politics, history and anthropology. Also includes copies of ‘The Scotsman: a record of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney’, 1953-1956.

BOXES 18-22
Pamphlets, journals and reports concerning Australian economics, labour, immigration, politics, history and anthropology, and women’s rights, ca. 1970s-1995

BOXES 23-27
Pamphlets, catalogues, journals and reports, mainly published in England, concerning economics and labour, politics, history, philosophy, arts, immigration, and international relations., ca. 1903-1995

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