Notes on Manuscript Accessions

Turnbull Library Record, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 1 May 1981, Page 50

Notes on Manuscript Accessions

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, fANUARY TO JUNE 1980

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 October 1980. 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.

AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS. Additional records, ca. 1930-1960. ca.lOm. DONATION. Minutes of Executive and National Council, disputes committees including relations with other unions, membership records and some financial papers, annual reports and conference papers. Access subject to sorting.

ANDERSEN, JOHANNES CARL, 1873-1962. Rata Fire and the Saga of Sigurd, ca. 1902-1911. 2v. PURCHASE. Collection of MS and printed poems with annotation and emendation together with Sigurd and Brynhild, a verse play. ANDERSON, JEAN, Letter, 3 February 1931. 4 1. DONATION: Mrs E.N. Young, Wanganui. Written from Napier as the disastrous earthquake struck the district. AVERI, PETER, f 1.1980. Music score, 1971. 1 item. DONATION. Music score of the Liturgy of the Church of the Province of New Zealand 1970.

BEAGLEHOLE, JOSEPH SAMUEL, 1875-1962. Papers, 1908-1936. 13cm. DONATION: Mrs E. Beaglehole, Wellington. General and family correspondence (1909-1936) includes letters from Professor J.C. Beaglehole, 1909-1926; diary (1911), photos and correspondence cover service as guide, based at Te Anau, with Department of Agriculture, Commerce and Tourists, 1908-1916; also letters and testimonials relating to employment in various other capacities, 1908-1926. BEAUCHAMP FAMILY. Letters, 1914-1918. 19 items. DONATION: Mr G. McNamara, Toronto, Canada. Letters from Katherine Mansfield to her parents, 1914-1918, Leslie Beauchamp to his sister, and letters to Mrs Beauchamp at the time of Leslie’s death, 1915.

BEAVAN, JOHN. Diary, 1906. 81 1. DONATION: Mr F. Beavan, Blenheim. Day-by-day account of voyage from London to Wellington aboard S.S. Kumara, 26 July to 15 September 1906. Photocopy. BENNETT, FRANCIS OSWALD, 1898-1976. The shadow of my neighbour, 1975. 329 1. DONATION: Mrs M. Scott, Wellington. Emended typescript of an unpublished work subtitled ‘An historical survey of social progress in New Zealand, 1835-1975’. Dr Bennett ranges through social welfare services as they evolved in this country.

BODLE, RALPH ERIC. A knight of Otaheite, 1757-1834. 222 1. DONATION. ‘Memoir of the early life of John Elliott’, midshipman in H.M.S. Resolution, 1772-1775 describing his naval career to 1782, with editorial material concerning his family, his career and his possible authorship of The travels of Hildebrand Bowman . . . (1778). Typescript.

BODY, JOHN STANLEY, b. 1944. Papers, 1951-1980; music scores, 1953-1980; music tape, 1970. ca.4lcm., 1 tape. DONATION. Papers include school certificates, awards, 1951-1976; correspondence 1965, 1969-1970, 1974; newspaper cuttings, programmes; miscellaneous writings 1966-1980; music scores; music tape of‘Lecture’. Partially restricted access.

BOLEYN, JAMES, 1830-1912. Letter, March 1852. 2 1. DONATION: Mr S. Boleyn, Palmerston North. Arriving at Lyttelton in 1851, Boleyn moved to Little Akaloa shortly after. Unfinished letter describes topography of Banks Peninsula and Canterbury Plains. There follows an account for timber sold to one E.J. Jans. Photocopy.

BRANDON FAMILY. Diaries, 1831-1842. 2v. DONATION: Lady Frances Jack, Wanganui. Diary (1840) kept by Constance Anne Brandon (d. 1842) from her marriage to Alfred de Bathe Brandon and their departure for New Zealand by London, August 1840; also her commonplace book which includes a short diary kept in Wellington, 1840-1842. This volume was later used by her son Henry E. de Brandon.

BRASCH, CHARLES ORWELL, 1909-1973. Indirections, 1967-1973. 2v. DONATION. Memoirs as revised by Charles Brasch in 1972 together with James Bertram’s edited version later to be further reduced and published as Indirections, a Memoir 1909-1973. Typescript.

BRITTENDEN FAMILY. Papers, 1872-1971. 4cm. DONATION: Mr W. Honey, Deal, England. Letters, papers, notes, photos and genealogical information relating to three brothers and descendants. Edward came to Canterbury in 1874 and records service with New Zealand Railways, 1877-1912; James settled in Dunedin, 1890 and provides impressions of working conditions, prices, etc. there.

BROWN, RICHARD, d. 1860. Description of the Military and Naval expedition from Taranaki to the Warea Pa, April 1860. 16 1. DONATION. A mounted volunteer’s account of the combined expedition and engagement at Warea Pa. He died on 22 August 1860 from wounds received at a skirmish at Waitara. Photocopy.

CLIFFE, ROBERT MCKENZIE. Pirates and blackbirders: tales of the tropical seas, ca. 1930. lv. PURCHASE. Unpublished annotated typescript written under the pseudonym ‘Old Wire-whis-kers’. The writer draws on many years’ experience at sea in Pacific and Australian waters. COLENSO, WILLIAM, 1811-1899. Papers, 1841-1855. 60cm. PURCHASE. Journals andjournal fragments, notes ofjourneys, 1841-1854, letters to the Church Missionary Society, 1852-1854, Maori language notes. Also authors’ research material and correspondence towards William Colenso by A.G. Bagnall and G.C. Petersen.

COMPOSERS’ ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND. Records, 1974-1980; tapes, 1975. ca.7Bcm., 6 cassettes. DONATION. Certificate of incorporation, 1975; minutes, 1974-1979; financial records 1974-1976; contracts, 1976; correspondence; conference materials, 1975, 1977; performance returns 1974-1979; CANZ Newsletter and Canzona proofs 1975-1980; tapes of CANZ Conference. Partially restricted access. CYCLISTS’TOURING CLUB. Records, 1927-1951. 2v. DONATION: Mr D.L. Milne, Auckland. Minute book of the Wellington District Association of the Club formed in 1927, and newspaper clippings.

ELMSLY, JOHN ANTHONY, f 1.1980. Music scores, 1976-1980; tapes, 1978. scm., 2 tapes. DONATION. Music scores; tapes including a New Zealand Day Concert, Brussels, featuring works by Elmsly, Lilburn, and performances by New Zealand musicians. Partially restricted access. FAIRBURN, ARTHUR REX DUGARD, 1904-1957. Theory of Art, series I: Introductorytheory of aesthetics, 1951. 26 1. DONATION: Mrs L. Edmond, Wellington. Dating from Fairburn’s period as lecturer in history and theory of art at Elam School of Fine Arts—paper is a broad-ranging survey of attitudes towards art theory from the classical period onward.

FLEMING, CHARLES COLVILLE, 1837-1901. Lecture, 1896. 13p. DONATION: Sir Charles Fleming, Wellington. MS of a lecture entitled Past New Zealand delivered in Auckland in 1896. It deals with Maori migration and origins, the coming of Europeans, and contains reminiscences of life at Onehunga, of which the author was sometime deputy mayor. FORTUNE, REO FRANKLIN, 1903-1979. Papers, 1926-1936. 60cm. DONATION: Mr B. Fortune, Wellington. Notes and papers on anthropological research originally deposited in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Includes material relating to Dobuan culture, Manus and Ward Island, New Guinea, Omaha Indians; MS of books and published articles, his thesis for Diploma in Anthropology, Cambridge, 1926; also inwards letters, 1931-6933, family photographs and related items. Access subject to sorting and restriction.

FRIENDS OF OLD ST PAUL’S SOCIETY. Records, 1955-1973. Bcm. DONATION. The Society successfully campaigned for the preservation of the old cathedral building and records comprise reports on all aspects of the project, related correspondence, minutes etc. GRAYLAND, EUGENE CHARLES, 1916-1976. Papers, 1933-ca.1960. 12v. DONATION AND PURCHASE. Research notes reflect Grayland’s publications and interest in New Zealand history, earthquakes and other disasters; includes a lecture to cadet reporters, 1962, diary of a motor tour through the North Island, 1933. Donation comprises a dictionary of private presses, notes on Colenso Press and biographical details.

HARTHAM WOMEN’S CENTRE, PORIRUA. Records, 1966-1978. 2cm. DONATION: Mrs B. Brown, Titahi Bay. The centre was inaugurated in 1966 to provide cultural, educational, social and recreational facilities for members in the area. Includes some minutes and financial records, newsletters.

HODGKINS, FRANCES MARY, 1869-1947. Letters, 1926-1932, 1945-1946. 59 Items. DONATION. Letters, postcards, and other notes written by the artist to her friend Mrs Lucy Wertheim, 1926-1932. Also 4 letters to Barbara Coombs describing her health and work in her declining years, 1945-1946, and transcript of a broadcast (1969) by Miss Coombs relating to her meeting and association with Frances Hodgkins in the 19405. Photocopies.

HODGKINS, FRANCES MARY, 1869-1947. Papers, ca. 1901-1961. 4cm. PURCHASE. Correspondence, postcards, notes, telegrams and some annotated catalogues from Frances Flodgkins to Arthur Howell, 1929-1931, and press cuttings of Howell’s reviews of her work, ca. 1901-1962. Photocopies of originals held by the Tate Gallery, London. LAWLOR, PATRICK ANTHONY, 1893-1979. Additional papers, 1918-1979. ca.l.sm. DONATION AND PURCHASE. Unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera etc. relating to New Zealand artists, writers and personalities, cartoons and cartoonists. Access subject to sorting.

LILBURN, DOUGLAS GORDON, b. 1915. Music scores, 1936-1980; tapes, 1964-1979; papers, 1943-1979. ca.3ocm. 23 tapes. LONG TERM LOAN. Music scores, tapes, reviews, typescripts and correspondence mainly concerning broadcasts, biographical information. Partially restricted access. LINDSAY, ALEX SYLVESTER, 1919-1974. Music tapes, 1960-196-. 4 tapes. DONATION. Tapes of recitals of works by Beethoven, Mozart and Debussy, played by Alex Lindsay (violin) and Janetta McStay (piano), Auckland. Tape of Alex Lindsay String Orchestra concert, Sydney, 22 September 1960. Partially restricted access.

mackay, ALEXANDER, 1833-1909. Papers, 1877-1908. ca. 36 items. DONATION. Letters concerning land purchases and court hearings at Thames, Paeroa, Te Aroha, Feilding, Greytown, Wakapuaka and Nelson; schedules of Maori rents in Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough and Westland. McLEOD, JENNIFER HELEN, b. 1941. Music scores, papers, 1967-1969. ca.7cm. DONATION: Mrs Raydia Farquhar, Wellington, and PURCHASE. Music scores Earth and Sky, a production for schools; production directions, programme, correspondence.

MILLAR, NOLA LEIGH, 1915-1974. Additional papers, 1947A971. 3cm. DONATION: Mrs Margaret Turnbull, Wellington. Further papers relating to Miss Millar’s interests in teaching drama, theatre production, criticism, broadcasting and history in New Zealand. Includes some personal papers and photographs and report on her visit to Europe and U.S. A. as a Q.E.11 Arts Council Fellow in 1967.

MOUNTJOY FAMILY. Papers, ca.1933-ca.1955. 15cm. DONATION: Mr B.K. Mountjoy, Wellington. Papers of William Joseph Mountjoy (1884-ca.1971), Secretary of Wellington Employers Association, 1933-1955, comprising correspondence, minutes, reports and other material relating to industrial negotiations, and as employers’ representative at ILO conference, Geneva, 1939. Also papers of William Joseph Mountjoy, 1907-1954, relating to New Zealand stage productions in early 19305, teaching in London, 1940, production notes for plays and reviews in New Zealand

in 19405, diary as acting Director, Adult Education for Victoria College, 1953, photos, clippings, programmes. NEW SOUTH WALES. COLONIAL SECRETARY’S OFFICE. Ships and vessels muster book, 1816-1825. 2 reels. PURCHASE. Records of passenger and ship’s companies of ships and vessels mustered and cleared out at Sydney; some crew members were Maori. Microfilm of originals held by State Archives of New South Wales.

NEW ZEALAND ALPINE CLUB. WELLINGTON SECTION. Records, 1935-1977. 70cm. DONATION. Minute books, ledgers and correspondence files. NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTISTS. Records, 1962-1977. 90cm. DONATION. Minutes, 1962-1977, correspondence, 1969-1976 and financial records of the central office, and records of the Wellington Branch of the Association. Access subject to sorting.

NEW ZEALAND EXPRESS COMPANY LTD. DUNEDIN OFFICE. Records, 1911-1964. 60cm. DONATION. Includes correspondence files, 1911-1954, branch accounts, 1919-1964, contracts, specifications and plans for Dunedin office, photos. Access subject to sorting. NEW ZEALAND FREEDOM LEAGUE. Papers, 1913-1919. 3v. DONATION: A. Barrington, Riverside Community. Chiefly minutes of committee meetings, also rules of the League and Annual report, 1919.

NEW ZEALAND FREE KINDERGARTEN ASSOCIATION. Records, 1954-1980. ca.2m. DONATION. Correspondence, Council minutes, material relating to surveys, questionnaires etc., minutes of New Zealand Combined Educational Associations. Access subject to sorting and restriction. NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL PARTY. Records 1943-1974. 1.20 m. DONATION. Further records of the Dominion Party HQ including reference notes, 1943-50; candidate’s reference notes 1966, 1972, General Election Policy 1960, records of Party Publications Ltd, 1945-1967; records of NZ Nationalist Centre Ltd, biographical details of candidates, 1952-1969. Restricted.

NEW ZEALAND ORTHODONTIC SOCIETY. Records, 1958-1976. 30cm. DONATION. Includes minutes and correspondence. NICHOLSON, PATRICIA LUCY. Nelson Examiner extracts, 1843-1873. 96 1. DONATION. Indexed list of births, deaths and marriages reported during the period. Photocopy. PACKARD FAMILY. Papers, 1849-1926. 4cm. DONATION: Brigadier J. I. Packard, London. Family letters from Farmingham, Suffolk, to Joseph Packard and his wife, 1849-1852, who emigrated to Nelson in 1848 and settled at Motupipi, his farm diary for 1879 and that of his son Peter Bartrum Packard, 1869, letters from M.M. Webster, grocer, Nelson, 1869, biographical details.

POLYNESIAN SOCIETY. Additional Records, 1891-1968. 5.2 m. PERMANENT LOAN. Includes minute books, letter books, correspondence concerning the general running of the Society and its Journal and manuscripts submitted to it. PORIRUA LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY. Records, 1954-1979. scm. DONATION: Mrs Beryl Brown, Titahi Bay. Mostly newsletters and annual reports, some production notes of Porirua Little Theatre founded in 1950.

TE PUKA PUKA WAIKATO, 29 January 1880. 2p. PURCHASE. Shipboard newspaper subtitled The Waikato Times kept on sailing vessel Waikato homeward bound from New Zealand. Includes account ofjourney down Waihou River to Te Puke, Paeroa, Te Aroha and district. PUPONGA COALMINERS INDUSTRIAL UNION OF WORKERS. Records, 1904-1919. 4v. DONATION: Mrs G.M. Rhodes, Puponga. Minute books of the Union formed at a public meeting at Puponga, 20 February 1904; letter book, 1905-1907.

REED, ALEXANDER WYCLIFFE, 1908-1979. Papers, 1848-1919. ca.4m. DONATION: MrJ. Reed, Wellington. Manuscripts and typescripts of his published works, correspondence relating to the Reed family, family diaries and commonplace books, photographs and related material; bulk of collection concerned with publications of A.H. and A. W. Reed. Access subject to sorting. RIOUW (Steamer). Records, 1915-1916. lv. DONATION: Takapuna Public Library, Auckland. Statement of proceeds, account sales, shipment and outturn, reports of survey and disbursements, of voyage from New York to Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne and Sydney, September 1915-January 1916. The vessel arrived in New Zealand with a smoke-damaged cargo.

RUSSELL, JAMES EARL, 1864-1945. New Zealand notes, 1928. lv. DONATION. Brief confidential notes on higher education in New Zealand prepared for Carnegie Corporation by Dean Emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University. Covers University Colleges, University of New Zealand, W.E.A., Teachers Training Colleges, Alexander Turnbull Library and Karitane Hospitals. Typescript. ST ANDREW’S ON-THE-TERRACE, WELLINGTON. Records, 1865-1975. 4.5 m. DONATION. Board of Managers’ Minute Books 1867-1968, Session Minute Books 1906-1975, Baptismal and Marriage Registers 1865-1948, Correspondence 1940-1969, Financial records 1887-1904, 1917-1963, Bible Class material 1919-1960, Sunday School material 1917, 1958-1970, Presbyterian Missionary Women s Union Miriutes 1923-1974, St Andrew’s Literary and Debating Society 1910-1920. Access subject to sorting.

ST MARY’S CHURCH, NEW PLYMOUTH. Records, 1845-1964. 6 reels. DONATION. Includes minutes of Church Trustees, 1845-1875, Church Endowment Fund accounts, 1855-1883, Vestry minutes, 1964, letterbooks, 1884-1904, correspondence, 1887-1956, annual reports, 1879-1952. Also St Mary’s Parochial Trustees minutes, 1901-1934, Tarankai Trust minute book, 1892-1916 and miscellaneous material. Microfilm. Restricted access.

SELWYN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 1809-1878. Letter, 5 January 1873. 4 1. DONATION: MrJ. P. Webster, Auckland. From Bishop of Lichfield to General Sir James Alexander re their sons’ departure for New Zealand and Norfolk Island mission respectively; offers to answer ‘any questions of fact relating to the New Zealand War’. Photocopy.

SHEPPARD, PETER LEWIS, b. 1941. Some notes on Old St Paul’s, 1979. Iv. DONATION. Notes of project architect for restoration of Old St Paul’s on the restoration, new organ (1977), and bells and tower, manual of procedure and maintenance, notes by R. Gibb on original architect Rev. F. Thatcher and related items. SMEDLEY, BERYL MARY HARLEY. Papers, 1976-1979. 30cm. DONATION. Research notes and correspondence towards Homewood and its Families: a Story of Wellington, including papers on the family of John Johnston (1809-1887) and a Featherston Family tree.

SOMES ISLAND INTERNEES’ STATEMENTS, 1915-1918. 2v. DONATION. Statements by internees detailing ill-treatment, fair copied by unnamed internee, with draft letter of complaint, May 1918, to Mr Justice Chapman. Also MS transcript of commandant’s speech and related material. Restricted access. SPEEDY FAMILY. Papers, 1845-1894. 20 items. DONATION: Dr C. W. S. Jerran, Nelson. Letters between members of the Speedy family in England and settled at Waiuku and a diary kept by Major James Speedy, 22 June-14 September 1863, recording events at the outbreak of hostilities in South Auckland. He organised and commanded a troop of volunteer rifles at Waiuku. Miscellaneous letters, papers and photos.

STACK, ELIZA RACHAEL JEAN, 1829-1919. Jottings from my New Zealand Journal, 1858, 1905. lv. PURCHASE. Describes life in Auckland, March-April 1858 prior to journey to Tauranga and later to Rotorua district and back overland to Auckland from Maketu in November with a missionary party. Comments particularly on Church Missionary Society stations visited en route and on Maori and missionary life and personalities; watercolour sketch of station at Te Kohanga. Typescript. TATLER, GEORGE, 1837 P-1868. Letters, 1854-1864. 52 items. DONATION: Mr G. J. Eliott, Auckland. Letters describe writer’s service with 65th Regiment in Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Taranaki. He was killed at Moturoa in 1868. Photocopies.

THORNTON, JACK .Joy ita papers, 1930, 1954-1975. 20 cm. DONATION: Mr N. Stace, Beecroft, Australia. Correspondence, photographs, clippings and notes towards a book relating to the disappearance of crew of Joyita abandoned on a voyage which left the Tokelau Islands, 3 October 1955. Material was gathered byj. Thornton, journalist, former crew member and friend of Captain T. H. Miller of Joyita. TSAKOS, ANDREAS, b. 1905. Old Greek-Young Kiwi: Stories of his life, 1980. 1 v. PURCHASE. Autobiography, ca. 1905-1980. Born in Crimea, joined the Soviet army in 1941, captured by the German army and sent to prison camp in Germany. After the war he migrated to New Zealand from Greece, presently retired and living in Christchurch.

TURNBULL, THOMAS, 1825-1907. Papers, 1892. 2cm. DONATION: Mr S. F. Turnbull, Wellington. Plans, survey map and specification and contract with C. Jonson, builder for the erection of a house at 25 Talavera Terrace, Wellington. TE TURUKI, TE KOOTI RIKIRANGI, 1830 P-1893. Notebook, 1867-1868. lv. LONG TERM LOAN from N.Z. Police Dept. Notebook contains Bible extracts, an account ofTe Kooti’s visions in the Chatham Islands from February 1867, and at end lists of adults, children, and monies paid. The notebook was found at the attack on Ngatapa in January 1869.

UNITY THEATRE. Records, 1944-1979. 3.7 m. DONATION. Includes minute books, accounts, correspondence, production records, scripts, programmes and circulars, also New Zealand Theatre Federation printed material. WELLINGTON CONVALESCENT HOME. Records, 1893-1971. 60cm. DONATION. Minute books, 1893-1971, annual reports, legal documents and correspondence of Home founded in Oriental Bay in 1894 where it remained until incorporated in Agnes Stout wing of the Bowen Street Hospital.

WELLINGTON REFEREES’ ASSOCIATION. Records, 1899-1942. 4v. DONATION: New Zealand Football Association, Wellington. Includes minutes of meetings, examination and annual reports. WELLINGTON WORKINGMEN’S CLUB. Records, 1877-1979. 7.8 m. DONATION. Minutes, special committee minutes, subscription books, financial records, building reports and plans, membership records and printers’ blocks relating to 60th anniversary in 1937. Access subject to sorting and restriction.

WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, TARANAKI ST, WELLINGTON. Records, 1897-1958. sv. and scm. INDEFINITE LOAN. Wellington District Young Men’s Bible Class Union, District Council Minutes, 1925-1929; Executive Minutes, 1930-1934; Progressive Committee Minutes, 1928-1934; Wellington District Young Women’s Bible Class Union Account Book, 1923-1932; Wesley House, Management Committee Minute Book, 1955; Wesley House Minute Book, 1957; Wesley House Annual Reports, 1956, 1957, 1958; Sunday School Anniversary Booklets, 1904-1907; Circuit Plans, 1897, 1928-1930, 1941-1944; Journals of the Literary and Debating Society, 1890 s.

WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS LTD., CHRISTCHURCH. Printing record book, 1941-1956. 67 1. DONATION. Records printing of histories, primers, story books and other works, listing titles and authors, with full details including dates of first printing and reprints. Photocopy.

WILSON, JOHN j. Diary, 8 December 1861-7 April 1862. 11 1. DONATION: Professor R. F. Keam, Auckland. Account of journey to New Zealand aboard ship Cashmere. During the voyage he cared for 125 European birds being imported into the country. Photocopy. wrecks, 1795-1921. 2v. purchase. Annotated list of shipwrecks round the New Zealand coast arranged in areas southwards from Taranaki.

WRINPENNY, JOHN. Diary, 1879. lv. DONATION: Mrs M. Duff, Leatherhead, England. Wrinpenny family emigrated to Dunedin by Hermione and diary provides young steerage passenger’s lively account of life on immigrant ship; he comments on denominational antipathies.

YOUNG, THOMAS FREDERICK JAMES, 1902-1980. Papers, 1923-1970. ca. 9cm. DONATION. Papers mainly concerning music education topics, including broadcasts to schools and Wellington Teachers’ Training College; papers re stained glass windows, 1960.