Notes on Manuscripts Accessions

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1 October 1979, Page 121

Notes on Manuscripts Accessions

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JULY TO DECEMBER 1978

Acquisitions of manuscripts are listed selectively in the Turnbull Library Record to alert scholars to newly acquired material judged to be of research value. For items marked ‘Access subject to sorting’ or ‘Restricted access’ the Library would welcome notification that access will be sought, preferably with an indication of a likely date. This will help the staff in establishing priorities for sorting collections. The following list updates the Notes in the Record for May 1979. Material produced by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and the Australian Joint Copying Project is not listed except for items copied under the latter’s Miscellaneous series. Further collections transferred from General Assembly Library which have been processed are included in this list. The papers of Sir Julius Vogel, Hon. W. Rolleston, Hon. M. Moohan and MrJ. J. Maher together with Richmond-Atkin-son family papers are not yet available to researchers. This also applies to material recently transferred which includes the papers of Hon. F. Waite, Hon. W. H. Gillespie, Hon. C. F. Skinner, Hon. F. Jones and T. L. Buick.

ADKIN, GEORGE LESLIE, 1888-1964. Papers, 1936-1961. 4 cm. DONATION: MrsJ. N. K. Nicholls, Palmerston North. Further donation includes correspondence on place names, geological and anthropological matters, 1936-1961, notes on botanical names and Maori equivalents, Tararua placenames, 1940, Adkins’ notebook recording research on Horowhenua; talk by F. S. Simcox on Otaki and Colenso associations. Access subject to sorting.

ATKINSON, WILFRED A. R.,b. 1899. Papers, 19427-1946. 1 items. DONATION. Relate to internment with his family in Santo Thomas Camp, Manila, 1942-1945, plan of camp, transcripts of newspaper articles and list of interned adults. Photocopy and typed transcripts. BENTLY, DAWES, Doug Stark-Bomber, with Otago on the Western Front, 1928-1930. 2v. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Recounts wartime experiences of James Douglas Stark, 1897—1942, at Gallipoli, and on the Western Front. “Starkie” became a legend for his brave, rash exploits and for his reckless brushes with military and other authority and his story was the basis for Robin Hyde’s Passport to Hell. Unpublished MS.

BOCK, AMY, b. 1864. Letters, 1912. 6 items. DONATION: Mr J. H. Skelley, Wellington. Letters of male impersonator and general delinquent, subject of notorious trial in Dunedin, 1909. BORRIE, JOHN b. 1915. History of the New Zealand Postgraduate Medical Federation 1874-1973, 1978. DONATION. Address delivered to the Federation at Christchurch, 17 March 1978. Photocopy of typescript. BROWN, HELEN CAMPBELL, b. 1917. Papers, 1959-1977. 23 items. DONATION. Curriculum vitae, letters on exhibitions and sale of paintings, clippings of reviews, photographs of paintings; correspondents include Charles Brasch and Bruce Mason.

BRYON, T. A. The seeds of war, ca. 1975. 2v. DONATION. Research notes for a series of six television documentary programmes covering Maori-European relations, 1769-1868. CARTER, CHARLES ROOKING, 1822-1896. Papers, 1844-ca. 1894. 30 cm. DONATION: Miss P. Robieson, Wellington. Papers of Chartist who came to New Zealand in 1852, builder and surveyor in Wellington before farming in Wairarapa. Collection comprises Book of events, 1844, Wairarapa Small Farms Association papers, 1858-1890, Accounts, 1861-1868, MS life of J. Robieson, 1894, miscellaneous correspondence, plans, clippings re Wellington district, 1848-1868, Sir Julius Vogel, 1884—1886. Access subject to sorting.

COLENSO, WILLIAM, 1811-1899. Glossarium botanicum: Novae Zealandiae, 18381841. 1 reel. PURCHASE. Compiled on journeys to Bay of Plenty, East Coast, Northland and King Country, with systematic numbered list of plant classes, locations and Maori terms. Original in Mitchell Library, Sydney. Microfilm. COMBS-LOPDELL MEMORIAL LECTURE. Records, 1961-1978. DONATION: Mrs B. Lavo, Wellington. Minute Book, 1961-1978, correspondence and financial records of the Committee set up to institute a memorial lecture in honour of F. L. Combs andF. C. Lopdellof Wellington Teachers’ Training College and innovators in New Zealand education; includes G. W. Parkyn’s lecture Sight of that Immortal Sea, 1974.

COMMITTEE ON VIETNAM. Records 1966-1976. ca 2 m. DONATION: via Mrs R. Bailey, Wellington. Correspondence, minutes, speeches, clippings, publicity material, leaflets etc. relating to issues in which the Committee on Vietnam was involved. Access subject to sorting and restriction. COWAN, JULIET. Rita Angus and the Bolton Street Cemetery, 1978. 2 1. DONATION. Describes sketching excursions made together to the Bolton Street Cemetery prior to and during its destruction to make way for the Wellington motorway with comment on influence of this project on Rita Angus’ paintings completed just prior to her death. Typescript.

CRABB, HELEN PRISCILLA, 1891-1972. Letters, 1952-1969. 68 items. DONATION: Mrs S. A. Ferguson, Auckland. From the artist “Bare” to Palmerston North artist Sybil A. Ferguson, on art matters particularly in Wellington, later in Australia; others to artist M. Tylee discuss place of women artists, art opinions etc. CUMBRIA RECORD OFFICE. Miscellaneous papers relating to the Pacific area, 1790-1938. 1 reel. PURCHASE. New Zealand material comprises obituary for Francis Jollie, 1815-1870, J. W. Marsden, conveyance and letters of Stephen Magden, mining at Pleasant Creek, 1859, and Greymouth, 1866, some James Cook association material; finding list. Microfilm.

DARTNALL, STEPHEN ANTHONY, 1944-1977. Diary, 1939, 1944. lv. DONATION: Mrs R. Dartnall, Wellington. Kept while goldmining in Fiji and at Waiuku the diary of a self-confessed Communist provides incisive comment on national and international issues and popular responses to them, way of life in mining community, family life in Christchurch, Union affairs, recreation.

DELAUTOUR, FRANCIS, d. 1978. Letters to H. C. Williams, 1968-1978. 2 cm. DONATION: Mr H. C. Williams, City Engineer, Gisborne. Further letters concerning experiences as inventor and engineer in the Gisborne —East Coast region including aspects of his interest in history etc. Photocopies.

DENTAL SOCIETY OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY. Records, 1958-1978. 9crn. DONATION: Dr N. E. Wickham, Auckland. Committee Minutes and Annual Meetings, 1958-1963, whereafter the Society was only intermittently active. Includes Cash Book, correspondence. The Society known variously as the Auckland Group for the Study of Dental Psychology, and the Auckland Dental Hypnosis Group was wound up in 1978. Access subject to sorting. FIRTH, SIR RAYMOND WILLIAM, b. 1901. Talk, September 1978. Cassette tape. DONATION: History Department, Auckland University. Delivered to staff members of Auckland University on his early days in anthropology.

FOX, CHARLES ELLIOT, 1878-1977. My Solomon Islands, 1973. 173 p. DONATION. Unpublished autobiography relating his experiences as missionary, linguist and author. Covers his boyhood in Gisborne, school years in Napier and study at Auckland University and for the ministry. The bulk of the MS deals with Canon Fox’s work as missionary with Melanesian Mission on Norfolk Island and in the Solomon Islands, 1901-1973. Includes material on World War II in the Solomons and the beginnings of self-government after the War. Typescript. HALL, ROGER LEIGHTON, b. 1939. Middle age spread, 1977. 8 cm. PURCHASE. Eight drafts of play written while Robert Burns Fellow, University of Otago, 1977-1978. Typescript.

HILL, GEORGE, 1837-1930. Papers, 1851-1927. ca 5 cm. DONATION: Mr J. A. Capper, Wellington. Personal papers and records of Royal Navy and Maori War veteran George (Rowley) Hill. Includes certificate of service in Royal Navy, 1851-1861, prior to coming to New Zealand on troopship Empress, 1864. Deserting he joined von Tempsky’s Forest Rangers and won New Zealand Cross in engagement against Te Kooti at Jerusalem, April 1868; clippings on his career. HODGSON, ELIZABETH ANNE, Notes on Richard Barrett, 1978. 2 cm. DONATION. Research notes including bibliography and copies of original materials relating to Richard Barrett (1807-1847) especially concerning his life and work from his arrival in New Zealand, ca 1828. Photocopy.

HOLMES, IVAN LYALL, 1920-1970. Papers, 1950-1954. 10 cm. DONATION: Mrs M. Holmes, Christchurch. Correspondence, articles, notes and clippings concerning Holmes’ campaign to secure more liberal visiting and access to children in hospitals in New Zealand; includes evidence before Consultative Committee on Hospital Reform, July 1953. Access subject to sorting. INNES FAMILY, Papers, 1811-1894, 1933, 6 items. DONATION: Mrs M. Bradshaw, Christchurch. Chiefly of G. Innes, builder in Christchurch from 1851, with business and family details, Miner’s Right, Tuapeka, 1861. Also diary of John Innes (1860-1941), 1876—1882, covering early childhood, schooling in Christchurch, Canterbury University and later teaching at Timaru and Wellington.

lORNS FAMILY. Papers 1878-ca 1970. ca 2 m. INDEFINITE LOAN: Estate of B. lorns via Mrs B. Nichols, Masterton. Bennett lorns’ (1893-1977) research notes on Wairarapa, correspondence, clippings, photographs, printed material including Historic Places Trust correspondence and papers, Mount Holdsworth subscription register, 1907-1919, committee minutes, 1928-1936, Tararua National Park correspondence and papers, Masterton Mounted Rifles Capitation Roll and Musketry returns, 1904—1911, albums, Masterton Borough Cartoons by Wyllie, Masterton panorama, Joseph lorns’ papers include personal ledgers, 1893-ca 1919, illuminated address. Access subject to sorting.

JEFFERSON, J. M., 1859-1932. The story of the greenstone axehead ... 1 1. DONATION: Miss I. Jefferson, Castle Hill, New South Wales. Background details of gift of greenstone to Jefferson from a young Maori seaman stranded in Melbourne, 1891-1892. Typescript copy. KERR, lAN STRATFORD, 1916-1978. Sealers in Southern New Zealand, 1803-1812, 1978. 42 1. DONATION. Material gathered from various sources; includes list of references. Typescript. KING, MICHAEL, b. 1945. Gustavus von Tempsky: an angry friend, 13 May 1978. 9 p. DONATION. Talk given at the opening of von Tempsky exhibition, Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton.

LETT, BARRY, New Zealand painting, 1978. 7 1. DONATION. Text of 1978 address in University of Canterbury Winter Lectures discussing recent sources of New Zealand art, whether regional, provincial or international being reflections of an Auckland art dealer in late 60s and early 70s. Typescript. LEVY, SIR ENOCH BRUCE, b. 1892. Memoirs of Bruce Levy, grasslander, an autobiography. 224 p. DONATION: Mr R. W. Brougham, Palmerston North. Deals with writer’s family life and researches as agrologist in the Department of Agriculture and as Director of Grasslands Division of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1937-51. Restricted access.

LEWIS, ELLEN, b.ca.1872. Diary, 1905. lv. DONATION: Mr M. J. Lewis, Wellington. Kept by wife of David Lewis farming on Te Mara estate near Geraldine recording farming activities, family matters and domestic arrangements. LISTER, GEORGE JAMES, 1854-1919. Diary, 1879. 91 1. Lent for copying: Mrs I. Lister, Taradale. Kept on board Euterpe on voyage from London to Lyttelton describes shipboard life, first impressions of New Zealand. Photocopy.

LOCKE, ELSIE, b. 1912. Papers, ca. 1976, n.d. 8 items. DONATION. Short story The breaking in of Lester recorded by Elsie Locke from reminiscences of Ken Dawson later expanded into The boy with the snowgrass hair a tramping adventure set in Canterbury and South Westland by Elsie Locke and Ken Dawson published in 1976. Typescript and emended final (?) draft, notes and sketch maps. McDOWALL, DR FREDERICK HENRY, 1900-1974. Papers, 1929-1964. 1.20 m. DONATION: Mr R. M. McDowall, Wellington. Papers and correspondence mostly concerning dairy research, research notebooks, 1939-1962, logs of butter experiments, Tauranga, 1939-1940, proceedings of New

Zealand Dairy Science Research Association, 1929-1964, research reports and addresses, 1943-1964, of Director of Dairy Research Institute, Palmerston North. Access subject to sorting.

MACKENZIE, SIR THOMAS, 1854-1930. Papers, 1899-ca. 1920. 2 cm. Lent for copying: Mr T. Mackenzie, Christchurch. Material concerning aspects of Sir Thomas Mackenzie’s work as High Commissioner in London, 1912—1920, especially with regard to wartime policies on food and the Dardenelles Campaign. Includes letters of W. P. Reeves, Maori chieftains re Mackenzie’s support for Hone Heke’s Maori Land Bill (1900) and James McKerrow re exploration and placenames bestowed in Otago lakes district, 1861-1863. Photocopy. MATAKITE O AOTEAROA, Records, 1975-1977. 25 cm. DONATION: Miss V. Hutchinson, Auckland. Includes official notices, minutes, constitution of the movement, clippings re Maori Land March, 1976, Raglan land issue and other cases involving land, collected by Vivian Hutchinson in her capacity as journalist and in association with the Matakite movement. Access subject to sorting.

MOFFATT, ANN MARGARET, Papers, ca. 1978. 3 items. DONATION. Research notes on pilots and lighthouse keepers in Wellington ca. 1860- ca. 1890 particularly relating to Lancelot Holmes (1840—1891) former Chief Pilot, Wellington including his log which records in detail mishaps to shipping and subsequent official enquiries, family and official correspondence, photos, contemporary newspaper extracts including drowning of James Holmes, 1846; also logs of Joseph Lyall Holmes, 1877 and William Shilling assistant pilot, 1884; Lyall family records principally of William Lyall (1806—1871) lighthouse keeper at Pencarrow Head and Robert Buckridge (1816—1874) keeper of light on Somes Island. Photocopy.

NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS INC. Records, 1836-1976. 13 reels. DONATION. Monumental inscriptions, burials and other cemetery records covering the whole country. Positive microfilm. NEW ZEALAND WOMEN WRITERS’ AND ARTISTS’ ASSOCIATION. Minute book, 1932-1937. 1 v. Lent for copying: Mrs T. France, Wellington. Inaugurated in 1932 the Society encouraged literary meetings, visits and lectures by writers including Nelle M. Scanlan, Rosemary Rees and Will Lawson, and produced its own occasional journal, The Quill. Photocopy.

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS’ ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND . Records, 1921-1923. 27 items. DONATION: Mr H. de S. C. Mac Lean, Wellington. Re proposed bibliography of New Zealand newspapers; never published. Typescript and printed material. NG, DR JAMES, Papers, 1978. 2 items. DONATION. Discuss development of Community Councils established by Local Government Act, 1974, their relationship with other local bodies, with special reference to Dunedin. Typescript. NOAKES, JOHN LYLE, b. 1907. Papers, 1941-1949. 8 cm. DONATION. Papers of Secretary of Defence in Sarawak prior to internment there 1941-1945, including file of internees’ statements of experiences prior to capture by Japanese, internment particulars and nominal roll of prisoners of war, Kuching Camp.

Noakes’ Report on defence measures in Sarawak . . . 1941, 1946 and The principles and objects of land administration in Sarawak, 1946. Japanese language newspapers from occupation period, material dropped by Allied Forces, 1945, clippings and postwar documents.

O’REGAN HON. PATRICK JOSEPH, 1869-1947. 1.20 m. Papers, 1893-1947. DONATION AND DEPOSIT, Mr R. O’Regan, Wellington. Includes The Mirror of Memory, Mr Justice O’Regan’s autobiography, diaries and scrapbooks, 1893-1937, letters and pamphlets, pre-1900, letters and sundry papers 1900-1947 including correspondence re Dunedin Rating Poll, 1934, election to the Bench, 1907, and letters re missions, 1940. Access subject to sorting and restriction.

PACIFIC GRAPHICS ARCHIVE, est. 1976. 30 cm. PURCHASE. Primarily material related to Art New Zealand —correspondence, emended typescripts of articles, some MS, also photographs, catalogues, gallery newsletters and other printed material, letters to Peter Webb, 1957-1958. Interviews with Robin White, M. Smither, Barry Brickell, Tom Turner, Graham Sydney, cassette tapes. Access subject to processing and restriction. PEARCE, EDNA BETHA, b. 1906. Letter, 25 November 1976. DONATION: Mrs C. Newman, Christchurch. Member of first intake into Women’s Division of New Zealand Police Force, June 1941, describes training, duties, episodes in career, 1941-1966; care of Japanese women and children from Tonga in Detention Camp, Auckland area, 1941-1943, development of women’s role in Police Force, biographical details. Typescript.

ROYAL WELLINGTON CHORAL UNION. Minutebooks, 1924-1962. sv. DONATION: Mr K. J. Lemmon, Wellington. ROYDS FAMILY. Papers, 1862—1875, 1899. 13 items. Lent for copying: Miss E. J. Paterson, Nelson. Letters of John Royds who took up land at Waikiwi Plains and Otatara Bush, Southland in 1862. Illustrated with tiny sketches the letters to his Mother describe breaking in of land, flora and fauna and life in Southland. Letters of Bessie Royds describe family life there. Photocopy.

SCHULTZ, DR ERICH, Samoan laws concerning the family, real estate and succession, ca. 1910. 36 p. DONATION: Mrs C. Nelson, Stanford, California. Translation by Rev. E. Bellward, Roman Catholic Mission, Lepua, Tutuila, of paper prepared by sometime Acting Imperial German Governor of Samoa. Photocopy of typescript.

SCOTTISH RECORDS OFFICE. Material relating to Australia and New Zealand in the Scottish Records Office, 1760-1925. 2 reels. PURCHASE. Finding list available. Microfilm. SMITH, STEPHENSON PERCY, 1840-1922. Letterbook, 17 October 1900-16 August 1906. 245 1. purchase. Letters as Secretary to Polynesian Society and re ethnological matters and Polynesian language with particular reference to Niue Island including report to Lord Ranfurly re his service as Resident there, 1902; letters to H. G. Ell, Dr T. M. Hocken, H. Ling Roth, W. Churchill, W. Tregear and re proposed Wharemaire Society with constitution, personal, family and genealogical letters.

SOUTH AFRICAN WAR VETERANS’ ASSOCIATION. Records, 1937-1976. 30 cm. DONATION. Includes annual reports, lists of members, 1937—1973; minutes, 1958-1968, correspondence, 1968-1976, monthly and executive minutes, Annual Conference records, reports and cuttings, photographs. Access subject to sorting and restriction. STANLEY, EDWARD SMITH, 13th EARL OF DERBY, 1775-1851. Letter, 11 February 1847. PURCHASE. To Rev. W. Colenso re his menagerie and museum at Knowsley and seeking New Zealand specimens.

TOMBS, HARRY HUGO, 1874-1964. Papers, 1948-1964. 6 cm. DONATION: Estate of H. H. Tombs, Wellington. Primarily outwards letters of printer and publisher especially to Eric Lee-Johnson, concerning works produced by Tombs, particularly Art in New Zealand, The Arts Year Book and The Arts in New Zealand. Some business papers of H. H. Tombs Ltd, Wellington. TUI BREWERY LTD. Records, 1923-1966. 30 cm. DONATION: D. B. Central Brewery Ltd, Pahiatua. Minutes of Directors’ meetings, 1923—1967, share registers 1923—1956, and Brewers’ Book of Records. WELLINGTON CLUB. Minute books, 1862-1894. 1 reel. Lent for copying. Annual and special general meetings, house committee meetings, balance sheets, rules and regulations. Microfdm.

WILDEY, ALEXANDER EDWARD, 1887?—1967. Papers, 1950-1966. 19 items. DONATION: MrsJ. Bate, Blenheim. Correspondence of A. E. Wildey, Christchurch printer and colour photographer, son of Alex Wildey, close friend of the explorer and painter, S. H. Moreton. Family photographs and of paintings by Moreton. WILLIAMS, GEORGE ALEXANDER, 1861-1938. Letterbook, 1891-1892. lv. DONATION: Mr N. D. Williams, Havelock North. Concerns sale and purchase of stock, Pourere Station, Hawkes Bay.

WILLIAMSON, j. C., LTD. Records, 1922-1956. 1.5 m. DONATION: State Opera House, Wellington. Minutes, 1923-1926, list of debentures, 1924-1951, share certificates, balance sheets, 1922-1956, articles of association, clippings, rent books, programmes. Access subject to sorting. WOOLLASTON, MOUNTFORD TOSSWILL, b. 1910. Reminiscences, 1978. 2 cassette tapes. DONATION: Mrs S. Francis, Wellington. Informal conversation between Mrs Francis and Nelson artist while painting, followed by his recollections of Mary Ursula Bethell.

workman FAMILY. Papers, 1834-ca. 1914. 3 items. DONATION: MrK. Workman, Wellington. Extracts from reminiscences of Stanton Workman, whaler in New Zealand from 1835 at Bay of Islands and Wellington district, later labourer on sheepruns in Wairarapa, Marlborough and Kaikoura; of son William and wife, discussing contracting, labouring, farming and domestic matters. Photocopy.