THE LATE ERIC RAMSDEN
New Zealand has had several notable scholar-journalists whose contributions to the history of the country have been valuable and often voluminous. When Eric Ramsden, for more than twenty years special reporter on "The Evening Post", died recently he left behind not only a solid achievement in published works, "Rangiatea, the story of Otaki Church" 1951, "Marsden and the Missions" 1936, "Sir Apirana Ngata” 1948 and others, but many substantial articles in journals and newspapers. In addition, there was a mass of private material, the notebooks, correspondence and memorabilia that the student inevitably gathers about him. Eric Ramsden was working on three particular tasks when the end came. These were biographies of Sir Apirana Ngata, Sir Peter Buck and Princess Te Puea. The two last are in an advanced state, but for the first, only the materials were assembled.
The whole body of these remaining papers he directed to be deposited in the Turnbull Library, where they can be used by whomever is charged with the completion of the tasks he had left. The Library has always enjoyed good treatment by the press, but never so generously and appreciatively as by Eric Ramsden, who was a regular user of the reading room.
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Turnbull Library Record, Volume XV, 1 November 1962, Page 13
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• David Blackwood Paul, “The Second Walpole Memorial Lecture”. Turnbull Library Record 12: (September 1954) pp.3-20
• Eric Ramsden, “The Journal of John B. Williams”. Turnbull Library Record 11: (November 1953), pp.3-7
• Arnold Wall, “Sir Hugh Walpole and his writings”. Turnbull Library Record 6: (1946), pp.1-12
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