The JS Battye Library Private Archives Collection includes correspondence with Alfred Deakin.

Holdings include:

ACC 778A
James, Sir Walter Hartwell – letter from Deakin to the former Premier of Western Australia concerning immigration, 24 October 1905.

ACC 1530A
Leake, Sir George, correspondence, 1899 – letters and telegrams from the Western Australian parliamentarian to Deakin on Federation.

See the JS Battye Library of West Australian History website.