Research Notes

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1 October 1978, Page 121

Research Notes

Mrs June Starke, Subject Specialist (Manuscripts) in the Turnbull Library, is editing the journal of John Boultbee (1799-1854) for publication by the Oxford University Press in 1979. The original manuscript ofßoultbee’s reminiscences, ‘Journal of a Rambler' was deposited in the Library by the Boultbee family in 1975. The journal is described in the Turnbull Library Record 9 no 1 (May 1976) 18-30. A grant for research costs has been made to Mrs Starke by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust.

The catalogue of the Turnbull’s John Milton collection compiled by Kathleen Coleridge, Senior Librarian (Special Materials) at the Library of Victoria University of Wellington, has been accepted for publication on commission by the delegates of the Oxford University Press. The National Library has received a substantial grant from government funds to cover the costs of publishing the catalogue. Miss Coleridge received a grant from the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust for her research expenses.

Dr Michael E. Hoare, Manuscripts Librarian, has been commissioned jointly with Dr John Springhall, a lecturer in history at the New University of Ulster, to produce a scholarly centenary history of the Boys’ Brigade International. Dr Springhall is the author of Youth, Empire and Society (London, 1977), a history of British youth movements from 1883 to 1940. Dr Hoare will be contributing three chapters on the Boys’ Brigade outside Britain including Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, North America, Africa and Asia, and will be building on his research for Urchins, Boys and Men: a History of the Boys’ Brigade in Australia and Papua-New Guinea (1882-1976) now in press with Reed’s in Sydney.. The Turnbull Library is the official repository for the records of the Boys’ Brigade in New Zealand and the Pacific islands and Dr Hoare is the official Brigade historian for New Zealand and the Pacific islands.

John Mclndoe of Dunedin is about to publish Bush Carpenters: Pioneer Homes in New Zealand, a collection of illustrations and text on New Zealand indigenous colonial architecture compiled by Janny McDonald from materials in theTurnbull collections. Many of the materials were first used in an exhibition mounted by Janny McDonald and Ray Grover in the Library in mid 1977.