The Australian Women's Register

MS 4913 includes ten diaries kept by Catherine Deakin between 1866 and 1920, a copy of the Deakin family tree, press cuttings about Alfred Deakin, books which were presented to him as school prizes and others that have a connection with him. The collection also comprises correspondence of Catherine, Alfred, Pattie, Stella and William Deakin, photographs, newspaper cuttings, postcards and correspondence of David Rivett and Walter Murdoch. Also included is a notebook containing an inventory of furnishings, etc. in Catherine Deakin’s home at South Yarra, 1909 (7 boxes).