Jean Daly papers, 1935-1986, with associated papers, 2001-2011

MLMSS 9429

fonds

1935-1986, 2001-2011

Textual Records, Clippings

1059096

0.45 metres of textual material (3 boxes)

Jean Daly (1897-1986), Catholic laywoman and women’s rights activist, was born at Strathfield, NSW, the eldest of six children of Walter Edmunds, and his wife, Monica, nee McGrath. She graduated from the University of Sydney (BA, 1918). In 1921 she married medical practitioner and specialist anaesthetist, Harry John Daly, before completing a law course. She co-founded in 1946, and was first President of, the NSW Section of St Joan’s International Alliance, an unofficial organisation of Catholic women established to promote their participation in public life. She wrote a column for The Catholic Weekly in the late 1950s on a range of issues and had been opposed to B. A. Santamaria and the Catholic Social Studies Movement. She was an abiding advocate for social justice for women and represented Australia at Sessions of the Status of Women Commission at the United Nations in 1951, 1955 and 1957. Daly was appointed OBE in 1967.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

The papers of Jean Daly had been in the possession of her nieces, Dr Mary Edmunds, and her sister, Anne McMillan, before being presented to the Library.

BOX 1
Folder 1
Jean Daly diary letters to her mother, Monica Edmunds, and family:
3 Apr.-24 May 1935, pp. 1-99
31 May.-15 Aug. 1935, pp. 1-100
16 Aug.-26 Sept. 1935, pp. 1-45

Folder 2
Diary letters, 24 Apr.-12 Nov. 1949, with copies of letters sent to Mary Tenison Woods (copy of letter, 2 Sept. 1949, has attached a review of Frank and Maisie: A Memoir with Parents by Wilfrid Sheed from The Tablet, 31 May 1986), Con ? and Dame Enid Lyons, 1949-1950, and drafts of ‘Impression of a meeting wilth l’Abbe Michonneau in 1949’ by Jean Daly

Folder 3
‘Canberra Diary’, being carbon typescript of diary, 11-15 Aug. 1952, with processed typescript copy of the diary arranged by Jean Daly, 1982

Folder 4
Letters from Jean Daly to her mother, Monica Edmunds, and family, 4 Apr. 1935-18 Jan. 1936, with letter from Harry Daly to the Edmunds family, 27 Aug. 1935

Folder 5
Letters from Harry Daly to Jean Daly, 5 Sept. 1935-17 Jan. 1936, with letter from Harry Daly to the Edmunds family, 11 Nov. 1935

Folder 6
Correspondence with Harry Daly and the Edmunds family, 1951

Folder 7
Correspondence with K. C. O. (Mick) Shann and Richard Casey (Minister for External Affairs), 4 Oct. 1952-2 Apr. 1953

Folder 8
Correspondence between Jean Daly and Harry Daly, 14 Jan.-5 June 1955 during her official duties in Manila, England, Paris and Rome, with letter from Mother Bernard (Little Company of Mary, Rome) to Jean Daly, 26 May 1955

Folder 9
Correspondence with Edmund Campion, Oct.-Nov. 1982, regarding his enclosed two lectures: ‘10. Parochial Catholics’ and ‘11. Catholic Action’, being part of the series Being an Australian Catholic, published by Catholic Correspondence Centre, Five Dock, NSW

BOX 2
Folder 1
Papers relating to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, being copy of Commission on the Status of Women, Ninth Session – Report of the Australian Representative Mrs J. Daily, New York 27 Apr. 1955; ‘Advances in the Recognition, Exercise and Observation of Women’s Rights’, being reprint from United Nations Review, vol. 1 no. 12, June 1955, with attached identification tag for Mrs Harry J. Daly; issue of Homes and Gardens, Oct. 1955, featuring article on Mary Tenison Woods, pp. 48-49; Women of the Pacific : A Record of the Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the Pan Pacific Women’s Association held in Manila, Philippines January 24 to February 5, 1955. Manila, Philippines : Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association of the Philippines, 1955

Folder 2
Issues of Newsletter on the Status of Women, prepared by the Section on the Status of Women of the United Nations Secretariat, nos 28, 29, February, September 1964

Folder 3
Papers relating to United Nations Seminar on Civic Responsibilities and Increased Participation of Asian Women in Public Life, Bangkok, 5-17 Aug. 1957, including correspondence with R. G. Casey (Minister for External Affairs) and Report of Seminar obtained by Jean Daly as Observer for Australia

Folder 4
Papers relating to B. A. Santamaria and The Movement, ca. 1954-2001, being letter received from James McAuley, ca. 1956, with his enclosed handwritten curriculum vitae; issue of Modern Age : A Conservative Review, vol. 2 no. 3, Summer 1958, including article, ‘Australia’s Muffled Crisis’ by James McAuley’, pp. 307-314, with enclosed newscutting of abbreviated version, ‘A.L.P. Crisis and Roman Catholic Church’ in The Sydney Morning Herald 1 Sept. 1958; ‘Notes on the Movement and Related Activities’, ca. 1954, being corrected typescript; and articles, newscuttings and book review on Santamaria, 1955, 1958, 1964, 1981, 2001

Folder 5
Papers mainly relating to The Tablet Correspondence, 1954-1981, including cuttings of published letters from, and issues of, The Tablet, 1956; cuttings of articles by B. A. Santamaria in The Examiner : A Catholic Newspaper and Review, June 1955; letters received from Kevin T. Kelly, 1955-1956; two photocopied letters received from B. A. Santamaria, Oct.-Nov. 1956, with issues of Social Survey : Journal of the Institute of Social Order, vol. 5 nos 9 & 10, Oct. & Nov. 1956; ‘A Record and Description in the 1950’s of the Happenings between Santamaria and Jean Daly’, Sept. 1981, compiled by Daly, being typed transcriptions of letters and photocopied articles; corrected typescript of review article by Daly the books, The Split : Australian Labor in the Fifties (1970) by Robert Murray and The Movement (1972) by Paul Ormonde

BOX 3
Folder 1
Papers relating to ‘The Role of Women in Public and Professional Life in Australia’, 1959-1962, being research project sponsored by the Social Science Research Council of Australia, including correspondence with Norman MacKenzie, H. W. Arndt (Honorary Secretary), Robert Parker (Honorary Secretary), Ruth Atkins (Seminar Convenor), Mary Tenison Woods and Meg W. Rorke

Folder 2
Papers relating to article, ‘Career-Family Relationship concerning Married Women’, 1945, 1962, invited for publication by Patrick O’Farrell (Editor of Manna), including correspondence with O’Farrell and copy of letter from Mary Tenison Woods to O’Farrell; drafts of article by Daly; and copies of pamphlet, ‘A Modern Pope on Modern Woman. Points from an address given by His Holiness Pope Pius XII to the Catholic Women of Rome on 21 October, 1945’

Folder 3
Correspondence relating to women and the Catholic lay apostolate, 1964-1967, with Rosemary Goldie, 1964-1965, and Patricia Carroll (National Secretary, University Catholic Federation of Australia), 1967

Folder 4
Talks on women’s issues by Jean Daly, 1958-1963

Folder 5
Curriculum vitae, 1955-197-, of Jean Daly, being four versions

Folder 6
Newscuttings relating to Jean Daly and the status of women, 1955-1967

Folder 7
Printed material, including issues of Time : The Weekly Magazine, 14 Apr. 1961 and 3 Nov. 1961; The Tablet, 3 May 1986, 21 June 1986 and 2 Aug. 1986; Hemisphere, vol. 20 no. 4, Apr. 1976; and Employment Opportunities for Women : Proceedings of the Seminar held at the University of New South Wales on 13th August, 1965

Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which Jean Daly owned copyright
Rights and Restrictions Information:: Dr Mary Edmunds has assigned copyright in the material created by her aunt, Jean Daly, to the State Library of New South Wales
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

The associated papers, 2001-2011, being largely printouts from online sources, appear to have been compiled and inserted in this collection by Jean Daly's nieces after her death.