BIOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVES OF DR. SCHOLEFIELD
THE GIFT OF B.P. (NEW ZEALAND) LTD. The Library takes especial satisfaction in the gift made by Messrs. B.P. (New Zealand) Ltd. which purchased and presented the biographical archives of Dr. G. H. Scholefield. These comprise the materials gathered over more than fifty years for the five editions of his "Who’s Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific”, and his monumental "Dictionary of New Zealand Biography”, 1940. They contain apart from the original texts of the published works, much unused information, minor biographies, correspondence, etc., which can have considerable value to the research student.
A pleasant ceremony was arranged by the Friends of the Turnbull Library on Bth March, 1962, when the records were received by the Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs, on behalf of the Library. Mr. G. G. Gibbes Watson, Chairman of Directors, represented Messrs. B.P. (New Zealand) Ltd. and in his speech dwelt upon the policy now growing in the commercial world, of contributing in this way to the cultural life of the community.
The corrections to biographies assembled by Dr. Scholefield against a possible reprint of the "Dictionary" were the result of a separate purchase by the library, but these form a natural complement to the main collection above described.
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Turnbull Library Record, Volume XV, 1 November 1962, Page 3
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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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