Notes on Manuscript Accessions

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 14, Issue 2, 1 October 1981, Page 116

Notes on Manuscript Accessions

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JULY TO DECEMBER 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’ 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 1981. 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. AMERY, COLIN. The Last Bastion, 1978. 193 1. DONATION. Unpublished manuscript, a chronicle of the seige of Bastion Point, May 1978, and subsequent court proceedings. Photocopy. BERTRAM, JAMES MUNRO, b. 1910. Literary papers, ca. 1950-1980. 50cm. DONATION. Editor’s annotated typescripts of The Letters of Thomas Arnold the younger, 1850-1890, copies of letters, notes and related correspondence. Restricted.

BIBLE SOCIETY IN NEW ZEALAND. Records, 1917-1970. ca. 7m. DONATION. Minute books, 1917-1966; Account books, 1943-1970; Correspondence files, 1940—1971; Branch correspondence and returns 1934—1970; Maori Bible files, 1922-1964; Legacies, 1914-1969; London and overseas correspondence, 19491965. Files of the Bible Translator, 1949-1963; United Bible Societies Bulletin, 1953-1970. BODY, JACK (JOHN STANLEY), b. 1944. Additional music scores, 1966, 1970. 2 items. DONATION. BOWIE, RONALD, b. 1907. Papers, 1937-1976. 33 items. DONATION. Producer’s annotated copies of plays presented in Auckland, Wellington and elsewhere by repertory and other theatre groups, programmes, photos and review material.

BURNETT FAMILY. Papers, 1850-1871. 10cm. DONATION: Miss A. Burnett, Wellington. Letters from George Burnett in Auckland, and James Burnett, surveyor, from Auckland, Nelson, Whangarei and the Grey River, to their family in England. Canterbury Pre-Adamite Settlers Rolls, ca. 1978. 400 1. DONATION: Mrs A. Mee, Christchurch. Alphabetical roll of settlers who arrived in Canterbury prior to the arrival of Charlotte Jane, 16 December 1850, compiled by Mrs Mee and her committee for Christchurch City Council. Photocopy. CODRINGTON, ROBERTHENRY, 1830-1922. Papers, 1867-1882. 2reels. PURCHASE. Letters and journals whilst serving with Melanesian Mission as headmaster of St Barnabas’ College, Norfolk Island, 1867-1881; includes journals of trips around the islands, 1872, and Australasia in 1880 with detailed descriptions of flora, fauna.

customs and daily life with particular reference to his interest in Pacific languages and anthropology, comment on slavery and death of Bishop Patteson. Originals held by Melanesian Mission, Watford, England. Microfilm.

COLENSO, WILLIAM, 1811-1899. Letter, 30 August 1897. 1 leaf. PURCHASE. To his nephew William Colenso, Penzance, from Napier, 30 August 1897, regarding published papers and addresses, his health, and mail lost in wreck of S.S. Tasmania in July 1897. CRUICKSHANK, ALEXANDER, 1856-1938. Scrapbook, 1879-1938. lv. DONATION: Mr L. S. Donnelly, Wellington. Police career of long-serving officer who came from Scotland in 1878, served as Superintendent of Police in New Zealand, and as Commissioner of Police in Samoa, 1922-1928; autobiographical details and family data. DELL, DAME MIRIAM PATRICIA, b. 1924. Papers, ca. 1960-1980. 6m. DONATION. Collection covers involvement in National Council of Women and as President of International Council of Women, Association of Anglican Women, member of National Development Council, Committee on Women, Royal Commission on Equal Pay, Hutt Valley Marriage Guidance Council; also material arising out of United Nations conferences and projects, environmental organisations. Access subject to sorting and restriction.

DICKSON, EILEEN DECIMA. Papers, 1928-1979. 3cm., 1 V. LONG TERM LOAN AND DONATION. Papers of Decima Dickson, Wellington accompanist and teacher, include biographical notes and scrapbook of musical activities in Christchurch and Wellington. DICKSON, HAMILTON, 1906 P-1980. Music scores, ca. 1930-1977; scrapbook; music tapes, 1953-1957. ca. 30cm. 1 v., 6 tapes. LONG TERM LOAN AND DONATION:Mrs E. D. Dickson, Wellington. Music scores include light operas The Gypsies and General Gore, cello and piano sonatas, various songs and instrumental works; tapes of The Gypsies, General Gore and the ‘Gang Show’. Restricted.

DUNEDIN WATERWORKS COMPANY. Prospectus, 1863. 2 items. PURCHASE. Draft prospectus for Dunedin Water Supply Company incorporated in October 1863. Includes a list of provisional directors, company officials, and a share list. GAIR, GEORGE FREDERICK, b. 1925. Parliamentary papers, 1961-1978. ca. 20m. DONATION. Correspondence files and papers of Member of Parliament for North Shore, Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Restricted.

GLOVER, DENIS JAMES MATTHEWS, 1912-1980. Papers, 1948-1980. ca. 13cm. DONATIONS: Mr H. Innes, Auckland, and others. Collection comprises letters, published and unpublished poems, articles and essays, obituraries, clippings and cassette tape of Insight documentary tribute. Partially restricted. GLOVER, DENIS JAMES MATTHEWS, 1912-1980. Additional papers, ca. 1950-1980. 1 m. DONATION: Estate of Denis Glover. Correspondence and miscellaneous literary papers mostly from 19705. Restricted.

GORDINE, RAPHAEL W. Scrapbook, 1948-1960. 1 v DONATION. Newspaper clippings and photographs dealing with gymnastics and physical education. GRAINGER, PERCY ALDRIDGE, 1882-1961. Letter, 8 February 1959. 1 leaf. DONATION: Mr C. J. Williams, Auckland. Letter from Percy Grainger to Mr Williams re family and personal matters, and life as a musician.

HENRY, ANNIE, 1879-1971. Papers, ca. 1918, ca. 1965. 2 items. DONATION: Mr J. B. Rountree, Auckland. Letter, photograph, obituraries of Presbyterian deaconess in Maori mission service who opened a mission at Ruatahuna in 1917. HUNT, ARTHUR LEIGH, 1876-1968. Additional papers, 1909-1906. 60cm. DONATION: Mr D. L. Hunt, Wellington. Includes New Zealand Club minute book and clippings, 1909-1950, Dominion Settlement and Population Association correspondence, 1951-1960, articles on population, clippings, 1949-1960. Access subject to sorting.

JENKINS, ROBERT, 1825-1894. Log o/H.M.S. Miranda, 1863-1865. PURCHASE Log of captain of Miranda during service in Auckland, Thames and Bay of Islands areas and as commander of the naval brigade at the Battle of Gate Pa, April 1864. Photocopy of original in Salop Record Office, Shrewsbury, England. JOHNSONVILLE TOWN BOARD. Records, 1874-1950. 3v. DONATION: Mr A. H. Carman, Wellington. Minute Books, 1874—1883, 1896-1900, rate book, 1874, Board election records, 1874—1950. The Board was abolished in 1953.

JOHNSTON BROTHERS. Records, 1854-1815. 12cm. DONATION: Mrs C. J. Adeane, Nelson. Wellington stock and station agent’s records include mortgages, land transactions, wool securities, etc.; also correspondence re flax market, specifically Manawatu Flax Mill Company; inventory of flax mill plant, 1868. JONES FAMILY. Letterbook, 1860-61. 1 v. DONATION: Mrs Edna Brown, Titahi Bay. Letterbook containing 16 letters between members of the Jones family, settlers in Nelson, on Church affairs, family matters and the affairs of John Jones. JOURNEAUX, PHILIP. Australian Sedge Survey, 1979. 11 1. DONATION. Report on survey conducted on randomly selected farms in Northland, 1977, as part of initial training as farm advisory officer. Typescript.

LANDER, ROGER WILLIAM, 1903-1980. Papers, ca. 1906-1980. 1.3 m. DONATION. Collection relates to the development of automatic telephone exchanges in New Zealand with drafts towards a history of the telephone, clippings and photos. Access subject to sorting. LILBURN, DOUGLAS GORDON, b. 1915. Additional music scores, 19327-1978. ca. 35 cm. LONG TERM LOAN. LYON, JOHN HOLT, 1872-1956. Papers, ca. 1950. 2cm. DONATION: Rev. W. W. H. Greenslade, Khandallah. Historical articles chiefly concerning central North Island based on personal pioneer experiences as a farmer at Utiku and later at Matiere and Inglewood. Typescript.

McCANCE, ]OHN.fournals, 1882-1884. 4v. PURCHASE. Shipboard diaries kept on sailing ship Invercargill and steamship Aorangi during two voyages from London to New Zealand with comment on layout and appointments of vessels including refrigeration. Account of sojourn in Dunedin, of a visit to Lake Wakatipu district and later to Wellington and Christchurch district. The writer returned to London by British King. Diaries incorporate shipboard sketches, coastal profiles, sea songs and photographs. McDonnell, thomas, 1832-1899. Letters, 1865-1898. 21 items, donation: Mrs K. Cooke, Havelock North. Primarily family letters, but correspondents include Robert Pharazyn, General Duncan Cameron, T. M. Haul tain, discussing Maori affairs, land, politics and New Zealand personalities.

Mclntosh, sir alister DONALD, 1906-1978. Reminiscences, 1975-1976. 5 tapes. DONATION. Interviews cover career as a public servant, with the Prime Minister’s department from 1935, as Secretary to the War Cabinet, 1943-1945, and with External Affairs; transcripts. Restricted. McKAY, KATHLEEN VIOLET. History of Wellington Society of Watercolour Artists Inc., 1980. DONATION. Record of objectives and events from the foundation of the Society in 1975 compiled by foundation President from minutes and correspondence files. Photocopy of typescript.

McLean, JOHN C„ 1871-1918. Notebooks, 1906-1912. 7v. DONATION: Scannell, Hardy and Co., Hastings Poverty Bay farmer’s ornithological notebooks comprise observations in Poverty Bay, Hawkes Bay including Lake Tutira, 1910-1911, and at Stewart Island, 1911; nesting notes. McLeod, JENNIFER HELEN, b. 1941. Additional music scores, 1962-1968. ca. scm. DONATION. MANSFIELD, KATHERINE, 1888-1923. Papers, 1903-1922. 1 reel. PURCHASE. Short stories, excerpts from notebooks, poems from collection held by Newberry Library, Chicago. Microfilm.

MARTIN FAMILY. Correspondence, 1842-1904. 184 1. DONATION: Mrs S. J. Derby, Stokes Valley. Albin Martin, painter, emigrated to New Zealand in the Cashmere, 1851, with his wife Jemima (Kempe) and farmed at Tamaki. Chiefly family letters with some comment on conditions in the colony and art in England; writers include Lady Harriet Gore Browne, Sir George Arney and Samuel Palmer; sketches. Photocopies. MATHEWS, PETER. 1941-1980. Papers, ca. 1960-1980. 2m. DONATION: Mrs P. M. Strange, Hamilton. Cassette tapes of interviews with old Yugoslav settlers and personalities ofWairoa River district, Northland; motion pictures of kauri forests 19205-19405; photographs of kauri forests, gumdigging, early Wairoa history and wars of1860s; printed material reflecting interests.

merchant, PHILIPPA. The Maoris in Australia, 1980. 32 1. DONATION. Research paper surveying the Maori in Australia from 1793 bringing together extracts from primary and published sources. Photocopy.

MURRAY, CHARLES PRESTON. Reminiscences, 1980. 57 1. DONATION. Long-time West Coast resident’s account of Seddonville Flood, 1929, goldmining and coalmining, Mokihinui River, S.S. Nile and other topics. Photocopy. NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN LAND CO. Records, 1862-1963. 16 reels. DONATION. New Zealand Balances, Inventories and Valuations, 1900-1911; New Zealand Day Books, 1911-1946; Balance Sheets, Reports and Circulars, 1865-1926; Miscellaneous volumes including memoranda and articles of association, returns and statistics, 1885-1947; Bills of lading, 1910-1912; Reports on estates, 1909-1930; Taxation files, 1926-1947; Land sales files, 1935-1949; Wool sales files, 1936-1948; Miscellaneous documents re finances, properties, legal matters, 1866-1932. Cashbook of the Glasgow Association, 1862-1865. Maps and plans. Microfilm of originals held in the Scottish Record Office.

NEW ZEALAND BANK OFFICERS’ UNION. Additional records, 1926-1971. 19v. DONATION. Includes records of associated bodies, Benefit Society and Investment Society. NEW ZEALAND INTER-CHURCH COUNCIL ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. WOMEN’S AUXILIARY. Minutes, 1952-1957. lv. DONATION: Lt. V. E. Blincoe, Heretaunga. Minutes, constitution, annual reports of organisation set up as vehicle for Christian women’s views on public and social affairs and disbanded in 1957. NEW ZEALAND SEAMEN’S UNION INDUSTRIAL UNION OF WORKERS. Additional records, 1923-1978. ca. 10m. PERMANENT LOAN. Executive Council reports and correspondence, 1929-1952; membership books and registers, 1930-1955; files on disputes, Federation of Labour correspondence, 1942-1971; Income and Expenditure, 1931-1971; ships’ minutes and records, award negotiations, files on current social issues, photographs. Restricted.

NEW ZEALAND THEATRE TRUST BOARD. Records, 1952-1970. 13m. DONATION. The Board, incorporated in 1956, took over the activities of the New Zealand Players’ Company formed in 1952; collection also includes records of the New Zealand Theatre Foundation. Access subject to sorting. NGAIO PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION. Records, 1922-1977. 1.3 m. DONATION. Minute books, 1922-1962, correspondence, clippings and local newssheets, maps, tracings of subdivisions and town plans. OWEN, ALWYN PRICE, b. 1926. Mr Morgan and the Maoris, 1980. 1 reel. DONATION. Tape transcript of Spectrum documentary broadcast by Radio New Zealand relating to intertribal warfare in Rotorua, Tauranga and Waikato districts.

PEMBROKE, GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT, EARL OF, 1850-1895. Journal, 18 October-16 November 1870. lv. PURCHASE. Fragment of journal kept during Pacific voyage on board yacht Albatross, describing its loss on a reef off Fiji, with comment on Pacific Island peoples and writer’s sojourn at Levuka, Fiji, not published in South Sea Bubbles (London, 1872). PORTER, JOHN JAMES, b. ca. 1910. Memoirs, 1978. 29 1. DONATION: Mr K. S. C. Stanton, Wellington. Recalls stowing away on a vessel in London at the age of eleven, finding his way to New Zealand in the twenties where he served on coastal vessels. Joined the Communist Party and was imprisoned for his part in Christchurch Tramway strike in 1932. Photocopy of typescript.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW ZEALAND. Bible Class Movement Records, 18901979. 7.5 m. DONATION. Minutes, correspondence, teaching aids, publications, annual reports, financial records etc. Also correspondence (1974—1978) of Rev. Duncan Glen, Youth Consultant, Department of Parish Development and Missions. Restricted. Ripoata o nga Hikoi a te Memoria o te Iwi Maori ki Ingarangi, 1939-1941. 37 1. DONATION: Mr D. H. Maxwell, Tauranga. Report on a Memorial of the Maori People presented to the Privy Council in November 1940 on the continuing usefulness of the Treaty ofWaitangi; the Maori people were represented by Mr M. H. Hampson. Photocopy.

ROBERTS, ELLEN. 1889-1980. Papers, ca. 1930-1975. 1.2 m. donation. Scripts of published works; New Zealand Land of my Choice, Let’s go Racing, and Forever Wandering ; articles and broadcasts, unpublished manuscripts and drafts. ROGERS, FRANK LEWIS, 1934-1980. Parliamentary papers, 1976-1979. 3.5 m. DONATION. Correspondence files and papers as Member of Parliament for Onehunga. Restricted. ROLLESTON, ROSAMOND, 1910-1980. Notes, 1980. lv. DONATION. Author’s annotated copy of The Master: J. D. Ormond of Wallingford, a Family Portrait (Wellington, 1980), with notes of source refereces.

ROSS FAMILY. Scrapbooks, ca. 1904-ca. 1970. 2v. DONATION: Estate of W. Burnett Ross, Wellington. Correspondence, clippings, programmes, photographs, gathered by W. Burnett Ross relating mainly to his connections with the theatre in Hamilton, Wellington and Auckland; includes letters from Lady Rutherford. Also material concerning Mrs Florence Ross’s connection with Victoria League and Pioneer Club in Wellington. RYE, PETER HUGH LEWIS JEKYLL. Letter, n.d. 11 1. DONATION: Mr Brooke Cornwall, Ottawa, Canada. Fragment describing Auckland in 1860, his service during Waikato campaign and at the battle of Orakau, 1864.

SELWYN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, BP., 1808-1878. Papers, 1831-1909. 8 reels. PURCHASE. Collection ranges through missionary activity in New Zealand and issues faced in the establishment of European settlements; correspondents include members of Selwyn, Cotton and Williams families, New Zealand clergy, Sir George Grey. Originals held by Selwyn College Library, Cambridge. Microfilm. SHAW, HELEN LILIAN, b. 1913. Letters, 1929-1910. 18 items. DONATION. Letters of W. D’Arcy Cresswell to various people including Helen Shaw all in connection with her edition of The Letters of D’Arcy Cresswell (Christchurch, 1971). Restricted.

SMITH, WILLIAM, 1823-1882. Journal, 1852-1855. 421. DONATION: Mr F. D. Lovatt Smith, Heathfield, Sussex. Describes writer’s association with New Zealand from the time he decided to emigrate to Canterbury until he returned to England in 1855. He took up land near Kaiapoi which he brought into production; comment on fellow colonists. Typescript.

STERRITT FAMILY. Papers, 1911-1980. 6cm. DONATION: Miss R. Sterritt, Christchurch. Journals in verse kept by David Sterritt, 1888-1963, describing voyage to New Zealand on Mamari, 1911-1912, and work on threshing mill at Waikuku, Canterbury; voyage to N.Z. on troopship Mokoia whose complement included soldiers’ wives. Senior Constable Rosalie Sterritt’s accounts of her father’s service with police force in rural Canterbury, 1928-1953, and her published article Women in the Police Force. Photocopy.

STOCKWELL, RODNEY FRANCIS, b. 1920. Papers on the History of New Zealand Dentistry, 1970-1980. 7cm. DONATION. Lecturer in dentistry’s drafts and published essays on origins of dentistry in New Zealand and on Edwin Cox, L.D.S., with photocopied research documents. TIFFEN, FREDERICK JOHN, 1828-1911. Letters, 1857, 1859. 2 items. DONATION: Mrs P. Feikert, Havelock North. Detailed account ofjourney from Patangata, Hawkes Bay, to Taupo and Rotorua and return via Bay of Plenty, 9 January-1 February 1857, describing Maori lifestyle, settlers encountered, terrain traversed. Photocopy.

THE TIMES. ARCHIVES. Papers, 1980. 6 items. DONATION. A guide to the papers of Dr Harold Whitmore Williams, 1876-1928, who was associated with The Times from 1902, biographical details, notes, copies of Mrs Williams’ letters re distribution of papers, 1951; list of correspondents for The Times in New Zealand, 1847-1963. WAITUNA HALL COMPANY. Records, 1912-1961. 6cm. DONATION: Mr R. K. Pearce, Wellington. Minute books, cashbooks, balance sheets and sundry other items relating to operation of the country hall until it came under the control of Kiwitea County Council in 1961.

WEETMAN, GEORGE. 1866-1936. History from Boyhood Days, 1980. 581. DONATION: Mrs C. E. Weetman, Picton. Transcribed by Mrs Weetman, reminiscences describe childhood on Kaikoura farm, and at Mangamaunu Pa, his work at pastoral and labouring jobs in Marlborough and Nelson with considerable comment on contemporary social life; local shipwrecks. Photocopy of typescript. WELLINGTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY. Records, 1944-1976. ca. 45cm. DONATION. Financial records, 1945-1969, correspondence, 1945-1968, contracts, 1945-1951, 1961, miscellaneous papers, brochures, newsclippings.

WELLINGTON HOUSEWIVES ASSOCIATION. Papers, 1949-1971. 30cm. DONATION: Wellington Public Library. Minute books, 1949-1970, Committee minutes, 1957-1959, Members register, 1954, Correspondence and papers, 1960, correspondence with Federation of New Zealand Housewives Associations, 1971, receipts 1961-1966. WILLIAMS, HENRY. 1792-1867. Ko Te Kawenata Hou . . ~ 1853. lv. PURCHASE. Archdeacon Henry Williams’ copy of New Testament in Maori published in 1852 marked and annotated and containing list of texts in English and odd words of Maori vocabulary.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM LEONARD, BP., 1829-1916. Botanical records, 1871-1918. 20 items. PURCHASE. Bishop Williams’ working copy of Manual of the New Zealand Flora presented to him by the author T. F. Cheeseman with thanks ‘for the material assistance in preparation’; MS notes, photos and specimens, notebook listing Maori names of plants; also letters from}. D. Hooker and T. F. Cheeseman.