Cyril Wyndham papers, 1891-2012

MLMSS 8778

fonds

1891-2012

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

997861

1.20 metres of textual material (8 boxes), some folders contain photographs

Cyril Stanley Wyndham (1930-2012) was the first full-time Federal General Secretary of the Australian Labor Party, 1963-1969. He had been the press secretary to two Federal Labor leaders, H. V. Evatt, 1957-1960, and Arthur Calwell, 1960-1961. He was Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, 1961-1963. Wyndham was Chief Editor of the Daily Commercial News from 1970 and contributed a regular column under the pen name 'Cassius'. In his retirement Wyndham was Chairperson of the Hunter Urban Network for Consumers of Healthcare (HUNCH).

Reference:
Library correspondence file

This collection chiefly documents Cyril Wyndham's activities in the Australian Labor Party.

The following box listing includes multiple folders with titles inscribed by Wyndham.

BOX 1
‘Wyndham – Advertising / TV /Press’

‘Wyndham – Articles’, 1947-1969

‘Wyndham – Commendations’, 1963-1969, 1994, being mainly correspondence

‘Wyndham – Contact with Left’, 1962-1994

‘Wyndham – DLP [Democratic Labor Party]’, 1961-2007

‘Wyndham – Notes’, 1966-2006

‘Wyndham – Organisation (Elections)’, 1961-1969

Folder relating to H. V. Evatt, 195- - 2007, including correspondence, notes, newscuttings and printed material

Folder of photographs of Wyndham with friends and political associates, and small album relating to ‘Splash’, a platypus that had been kept in captivity at Healesville, Vic., that had been prepared for Dr H. V. Evatt to present to the Right Honourable Winston Churchill, but never eventuated, on behalf of the people of Australia

Folder of correspondence, including condolence letters and eulogies for Wyndham, notes, newscuttings, and wedding photograph of Wyndham, with Evatt seated at piano, 195- , 2004, 2011-2012

BOX 2
‘Wyndham – International’, 1958-1968

‘Wyndham – Outside Contacts’, 1964-1995

‘Max Newton’, 1990-1993

‘History’, 1891, 1934-1994, including printed material

‘Harradine [Brian Harradine]’, 1962-1997

‘Minority Groups 66/67’, 1964-1968

‘MPs’, 1967-1999

‘White Australia / Immigration’, 1962-1965, 1992

‘Wyndham – Speeches’, 1962-1969

‘Organisation - Party – Wyndham’, 1963-1968

‘Party Organisation – FPLP [Federal Parliamentary Labor Party]’, 1963-1964

BOX 3
Documents relating to the Australian Labor Party, 1961-2002, mainly the ALP Federal Executive, and the NSW and Victorian Branches, and including folder, ‘Whitlam – Leader’

BOX 4
Documents relating to the Australian Labor Party, 1962-1969, 2008, including folder, ‘Whitlam – Pre Leader’, 1960-1968

BOX 5
The Liberal Party of Australia as seen by Liberal backbenchers of the House of Representatives by Julie Coates. Honours Sub-Thesis, Political Science IV, Dept. of Political Science, Australian National University, 1966

A Party in Disarray: Victorian Labor after the Split 1955-1966 by Lyle James Allan. Submitted for the Degree of Master of Arts, University of Melbourne, July 1990

Spring back binder of ALP Federal Secretariat documents on ‘Redistribution 1968’

Spring back binder of documents relating to ALP 27th Commonwealth Conference 1967

ALP Federal and State Conference reports, 1961-1968

Correspondence and documents relating to ALP Federal Executive and Victorian Branch, 1951-1955

Australian Parliamentary Research Service Background Paper no.1: House of Representatives By-elections, 1959-1994

Croxley Student’s Book, being scrapbook on Federal redistribution of electoral boundaries, 1968

Croxley Student’s Book, being notes and enclosures relating to Australian politics, 196- - 198-

Croxley Student’s Book relating to Federal Labor Party, 196-

BOX 6
Scrapbook relating to Australian Labor Party and Australian politics, 1955-1963

Photocopy of another scrapbook, pages 1-55, relating to Australian Labor Party and Australian politics, 1962-1963

Folder of papers relating to Hunter Urban Network for Consumers of Healthcare (HUNCH), 1996-2008

BOX 7
7 scrapbooks of columns by ‘Cassius’ in Daily Commercial News, 11 Mar. 1977-10 Sept. 1982

BOX 8
4 scrapbooks of columns by ‘Cassius’ in Daily Commercial News, 13 Sept. 1982-21 Oct. 1988

Daily Commercial News: Its Readership and Its Impact (1977), published by Cyril S. Wyndham for the DCN (a division of Marrickville Holdings Limited)

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which Cyril Wyndham owned copyright
Rights and Restrictions Information:: Nola Wyndham has assigned copyright in the material created by her late husband, Cyril Wyndham, to the State Library of New South Wales
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales