W E L C O M E T O T H E H O C K E N FRIENDS OF THE HOCKEN COLLECTIONS : BULLETIN NUMBER 4 : MARCH 1993

A Guide to Literary and Theatre Research Material Although creative literature was a distant second to non-fictional history and politics in Dr T.M.Hocken’s original collection, he nevertheless accumulated a good number of 19th century poetry and fiction titles. Further titles continued to be accessioned are strongly advised to write first to after his death, and the collection was greatly the library about availability. enhanced with the purchase, in 1967, of the The Copyright Act, 1962 applies, and Lawlor Collection. P.A.Lawlor, the readers must be aware of its ramifications. writer, publisher and bibliophile, Almost all the material readers are likely to had built up an unrivalled collection of c.1000 see from this list will be protected by the volumes of New Zealand verse, covering the Copyright Act, and the onus is on readers to period 1860s-1950s and enhanced by make themselves familiar with the Act’s newspaper cuttings, reviews, and his own workings, particularly in regard to pencilled notes. The Lawlor Collection is reproduction. While the Librarian may make housed in the main building of the Hocken material available for research or private Library, with its own separate card file. study, it is quite another matter to seek to No attempt is made in this Bulletin, reproduce that material in published form. however, to describe the Hocken’s greatly expanded holdings of published creative P R E S E N T L I S T writing. Or the innumerable photographs of Adcock, Fleur. Portraits: A.Pearson (2 Ð New Zealand writers held in the library’s oil; ball-point pen) extensive photographic collection. Alexander, W.F. Papers include letters from The Bulletin covers three main fields: Mary Scott, C.R.Allen, Robin Hyde; and a (1)Êthe papers of individual writers and WEA (Canterbury) booklet on Jessie archives of organisations held in Hocken Mackay. Also, see Mackay, Wilkinson. Archives, Leith St; (2) a brief coverage of Allen, C.R. Diary, 1907; letters to his father, portraits of writers held in the art collection, Sir James Allen MP, 1907-14; letter from main building; and (3) relevant material in the Edith Howes, undated; letter from Hocken’s collection of tapes, also in the main G.H.Scholefield, 1950. Also, see building. Alexander. This first, preliminary public list of the Anderson, D.M. Book reviews, letters, Hocken’s holdings, while not necessarily photographs, reports, articles etc. complete, reveals an interesting range of Baeyertz, R.E. Family papers relating material and, particularly, a surprisingly particularly to C.N.Baeyertz, editor of The strong coverage of local and national theatre. Triad. Baxter, Archibald. Draft of unfinished I M P O R T A N T novel in family papers. Intending users should note that not all the Baxter, James K. Extensive collection of material recorded here is readily available. poetry notebooks, drafts of poems, Some has still to be sorted and listed. Some is lectures, articles, plays, mimes, prose, under strictly enforced embargo required by personal papers, photographs, c.1926-73. the depositor. And some may be seen only Also, in Baxter family papers, letters, after gaining permission from the depositor, poems, photographs, and newspaper from his or her literary executor, or at the cuttings. Also, see Dowling, Friends of discretion of the Hocken Librarian. No Globe, Ginn. Portrait: E.Noordhof exceptions are made. (pencil). Hocken Tapes: Nos. 4, 7, 761, Readers and students must check the 762, 809 (The Temptation of Oedipus). availability of material before embarking on a Baxter, Millicent. Autobiographical course of study, and those living outside material. Bertram, James. Hocken Tapes: No.9 illustrations for poems and stories; Bethell, Mary Ursula. Letters to Rodney personal items and photos; c.1948-80s. Kennedy, 1936-44 (about 200 items). Also, see Dowling. Also, see Dowling. Devanny, Jean. See Mason. Birch, Paula. See Lawlor. Domett, Alfred. MSS poems. Portrait: Bland, Peter. See Doyle G.Lance (w/colour). Brasch, Charles. The extensive collection of Dowling, Basil. Collection of MSS of 20th personal papers, MSS, correspondence, century N.Z. writers: Brasch, 3 poems; diaries etc is closed until 2003, with access Dowling, 24 poems; Baxter, 3 poems; to scholars then available only through the Hervey, 17 poems; Bethell, 3 poems; literary executor, Mr Alan Roddick Gaskell, 2 short stories; Witheford, 4 (). The files of poems and a letter; Sinclair, 3 poems; correspondence connected with Dallas, 3 poems; Newbury, MSS and are separate and may be consulted now, drafts of poems; Sargeson, portions of I provided permission is granted by Mr Saw in My Dreams and When the Wind Roddick and by the other correspondent Blows; Caxton Press worksheets of work (or his/her literary executor); files are by Edith Sitwell and Laurie Lee. Hocken sorted according to correspondent, and a Tapes: No.242. list of correspondents is available. Also, Doyle, Charles. Correspondence 1953-66 see Dowling, Doyle, France, Grenfell, with Peter Bland, , Denis Kennedy. Portraits: by M.A.Austin Glover, Robin Dudding, Louis Johnson, (w/colour), P.J.Beadle (bronze), Alistair Campbell, etc. J.M.Bertram (pencil), J.Crocket (oil), Dudding, Robin. See Doyle. H.Kapp (2 Ð gouache; pen/wash), E.A. Du Fresne, Yvonne. Hocken Tapes: Nos. Lee-Johnson (2 Ð pen/ink; pastel, pen/ink), 748-749 (The Growing of Astrid F.S.Manner (2 Ð both pen/ink), Westergaard). M.T.Woollaston (2 Ð both pen/ink), Duff, Alan. Hocken Tapes: No. 1540 (on unknown artist (pencil). Hocken Tapes: race relations). Nos. 8, 104. Dunedin Repertory Society. Minute books Buchanan, D.G. etc, c.1930s-60s. Fund papers 1970-73. Edwards, Mihi. Hocken Tapes: Nos. 1519, Campbell, Alistair. See Doyle. Hocken 1520, 1522 (Mihipeka). Tapes: No.203. Fairburn, A.R.D. See Mason. Hocken Campbell, Maringikura. Hocken Tapes: Tapes: Nos. 4, 808 No. 1071 (Maori Writers Read). Finlayson, Roderick. Short stories, draft Carnegie, David. Material on the history of novels, essays, newspaper articles, theatre in Dunedin. children’s stories for School Journals, Caselberg, John. Poems, stories, plays, correspondence, c.1920s-71. Also, see correspondence, personal papers, papers Woollaston. relating to R.A.K.Mason, c.1940s-84. Frame, Janet. Drafts of MSS. No access. Courage, James. Play typescripts (9 three- Hocken Tapes: Nos. 31 (interview), 592 (A act, 6 one-act), correspondence, journals, State of Siege), 751. diaries, drafts of novels and short stories, France, Ruth. Juvenilia; stories, novel in unpublished poems, c.1925-73. Further TSS; MSS of unfinished novel, The Courage MSS are included in the Brasch Tunnel, and sailing memoirs, Ahoy; papers. Also, see Kennedy. photographs; correspondence from Cross, Ian. Unpublished typescript, with publishers, also from Holcroft, Dennis emendations, of The God Boy. Hocken McEldowney, Curnow, Johnson, Tapes: No.10. McCormick; TSS poems, some Curnow, Allen. See France. unpublished; journalism. Photocopies of Dall, Douglas. Theatrical papers. 64 letters to McEldowney, 1959-67. Programmes, photographs, stage plans, Correspondence with Brasch in Landfall annotated playscripts, newspaper reviews correspondence file. etc of stage productions in Christchurch Friends of the Globe Theatre. Records and and Dunedin, 1930s-60s. Programmes, papers; programmes, posters; playscripts clippings of Dunedin Shakespeare Club by Baxter, Merton Hodge, Peter Olds; productions, 1925-60. British Drama articles, photographs and clippings on the League. Theatre Arts Guild. theatre’s productions, etc. Hocken Tapes: Dallas, Ruth. Correspondence subject files; Nos. 196, 208. MSS poems, stories; proofs and Gaskell, A.P. See Dowling. Gaylene. Hocken Tapes: No.1235 (Dunedin McIndoe Ltd. Files on literary projects, and More Poems). correspondence etc of the John McIndoe Ginn, Noel. Letters from J.K.Baxter and Ltd publishing house, c.1970s-80s. poem, c.1940s. Mackay, Jessie. Five poems; letter to Glover, Denis.Typescript of Hot Water W.F.Alexander. Sailor; verses, satire; farce, They Always Macky, Willow. Hocken Tapes: Nos. 264, Float at Sea. Also, see Doyle, Lawlor. 510. Grace, Patricia. Hocken Tapes: No. 1253 McNeish, James. Hocken Tapes: No. 4. (Electric City and other stories). McQueen, Cilla. Scrapbook of photos, Grenfell, E.S. Second MS draft of Old programmes and clippings about plays at Tolly; papers, 1925-65; notebooks, story Allen Hall, Globe, Fortune, Regent etc, drafts; some letters from Brasch; 1960s-70s; Fancy Numbers papers, 1986; photograph. drafts of poems, diaries, correspondence, Grey, Sir George. Portraits: W.W.Alais 1970-92. Hocken Tapes: No. 673 (Dream (engraving), J.I.McDonald (gouache) Acoustics). Hall, D.O.W. Correspondence, reviews, Mahy, Margaret. Hocken Tapes: Nos. 971- drafts of talks, lectures: typescript, History 976 (The Changeover, narrated by of Writing in Otago (MS 986/13); minutes E.Pappas), 1371 (interview). of N.Z. Literature Fund Advisory Cttee, Manhire, Bill. Malady TS, and watercolour 1955-61). drawings by Ralph Hotere. Hall, Roger. Playscripts, TV scripts; Mansfield, Katherine. Hocken Tapes: correspondence; Monitor Inc. papers, No.1135 (C.Downes, The Case of c.1970 and proceeding; tapes of Katherine Mansfield), also Hearts and productions of Middle Age Spread, Glide Minds (6 stories, Education Kit, National Time, Footrot Flats; clippings. Library), 1989. Hervey, J.R. See Dowling. Marsh, Dame Ngaio. Portrait: P.Johns (silk Hodge, Merton. See Friends of the Globe. screen) Holcroft, M.H. See France. Mason, Bruce. Hocken Tapes: The End of Hooper, Peter. Literary and personal papers; the Golden Weather (3 tapes), in Kit MSS of poems, stories, novels etc, 1940s- collection. 1980s. Mason, R.A.K. Autobiographical material, Howes, Edith. See Allen. scripts, notes, plays, poetry, fiction, satirical Hulme, Keri. Hocken Tapes: No. 855 (The prose, articles, reviews; papers on political Bone People). interests; correspondence, 1916-71; tape, Hyde, Robin. See Wilkinson, Iris; also ‘R.A.K.Mason on Rex Fairburn,’ c.1964; Alexander. Phoenix correspondence. Material for the Isopo, A. Hocken Tapes: No.1071 (Maori unpublished fifth issue of Phoenix, Writers Speak). including Mason’s notes for editorials; Johnson, Louis. See Doyle, France. articles by G.E.Fairburn (on Brahms), Kennedy, Rodney. Letters from Brasch in Jean Devanny (on communism), England, 1955-57; one from Sargeson, D.H.Munro ( and drama), 1955; two from Courage, 1956. Also, see S.W.Scott; reviews, correspondence with Bethell. contributors, galleys etc; and retrospective Kidman, Fiona. Hocken Tapes: No. 1225 notes by Mason on Phoenix and the (interview). reason for its demise. Drama in N.Z., Lawlor, Pat. Two letters from Paula Hanger scrapbooks, programmes of popular Birch, and her Selected Poems (1976); TS theatre groups, New Theatre League. Also, poem by Denis Glover. see Caselberg. Portraits: B.Graham (black Lonie, Ian. Literary papers, c.1960s-1988. & white chalk), U.Platts (pencil), Lord, Robert. Drafts of Bert and Maisy and D.K.Turner (oil). Hocken Tapes: Nos. 9, correspondence; drafts of plays, The Kite 215. Play, The Affair, China Wars, Country Massey University Writers’ Conference. Cops, Peppermint Twist; correspondence Hocken Tapes: No.10. from family, 1970-87, and from friends; Middleton, O.E. Radio play, short story, clippings about productions in N.Z. and proofs for Selected Stories (1975). Hocken U.S. Additional papers etc, 1989-91. Tapes: Nos. 9, 10. McCahon, Colin. Family and personal Milner, Ian. Hocken Tapes: No.8. papers, c.1914-87. Access reserved. Newbury, Colin. See Dowling. McCormick, E.H. See France. Olds, Peter. See Friends of the Globe. McEldowney, Dennis. See France. O’Sullivan, Vincent. Hocken Tapes: No.14. and other stories). Otago Theatre Trust. Theatre clipping Taylor, William. See Sutherland. books, c.1910-52. Princess Theatre, Temple, Philip. Literary papers; TSS and Dunedin, c.1917-31. Brennan-Fullers Ltd page-proofs of novels; correspondence, vaudeville programmes. c.1950s-86. Otago University Drama Club. Archives Thomson, George M. Portrait: T.H.Jenkin c.1934-1990. (oil). Otago Women’s Club. Archives, including Towards a N.Z. Literature. Hocken Tapes: those relating to Literary and Poetry No.9. circles, c.1910-1980s. Tuwhare, Hone. Portrait: Janet Paul Prior, A.N. Portraits: M.T.Woollaston (2 Ð (monoprint), Joanna Paul pen/ink; pencil, pen/ink). (charcoal/crayon). Hocken Tapes: No.576. Paul, Joanna. Portrait: self-portrait (pencil), . Archives contain files G.C.Sydney (2 Ð both etchings). on the Burns Fellowship and the awarding Renee. Hocken Tapes: No.1657 (profile of of honorary degrees in literature. the author). University of Otago Press. Publication Richardson, Paddy. Hocken Tapes: No.845 records and correspondence files, 1960s- (Missing Pieces). 80s; general correspondence, 1974-86. Ruhen, Olaf. Portrait: Y.Close (oil) Ward, Raymond. MSS of poems in Settler Sargeson, Frank. See Dowling, Kennedy. and Stranger. Portrait: A.Stones (charcoal), A.Thornton Wilkinson, Iris. Typed copies of 9 letters to (oil). Pat Lawlor, 1930-37; 5-page letter to Scott, Mary. See Alexander. W.F.Alexander, 1937. Also, see Shadbolt, Maurice. Hocken Tapes: Alexander. No.1251 (Voices of Gallipoli). Wilson, F.A. (Frank). Handwritten Sinclair, Keith. See Dowling. bibliography of N.Z. verse, together with Sinton, Walter. Diaries of theatrical events records of purchase; c.1480 titles up to the in Dunedin, 1865-1964, clippings, reviews, 1970s. programmes; clipping books, 1875-1904; Witheford, Hubert. See Dowling. musical programmes, opera, vaudeville, Woolaston, M.T. Poems and letters to 1898-1977; photographs c.1920s of Roderick Finlayson. First draft of The theatre scenes and personalities. Far-Away Hills (1960). Smithells, Philip. Personal, family and Writer and the Academic, The. Hocken literary papers. Tapes: No.10. Smither, Elzabeth. Poems, inwards letters, journals, c.1969 and progressing. Portrait: M.D.Smither (oil). Soper, Eileen. Papers, poems, drafts of plays Papers and archives welcome and articles, c.1900s-1980s. The preservation of literary papers and Southern Comedy Players. Minute books, archives is very important to New Zealand’s 1959-69; legal and financial documents; ongoing heritage, and the Hocken Library scrapbooks, photographs of sets and welcomes the deposit of such material from productions, clippings, scripts. organisations and private individuals. Southern Theatre Trust Bd. This includes published and unpublished Correspondence, records, accounts, 1968- writings, with drafts and revisions; 71. correspondence relating to all aspects of the Summers, John. Hocken Tapes: Nos. 719- literary and publishing community; diaries, 720 (Fernie Brae: wee bits and pieces). notebooks, memoranda, legal agreements, Sutherland, J.H. Literary papers, 1935, royalty statements, tax returns, review notices, 1975-79; TSS of short stories, 1976-78; posters, and photographs. MSS of William Taylor. It is particularly helpful if such material is Taylor, Apirana. Hocken Tapes: Nos. 1071 clearly labelled and dated. (Maori Writers Read), 1145 (He Kono

Compiled for the Friends of the Hocken Collections by Heather Murray (with Peter Miller and Tim Garrity). Edited by George Griffiths. Designed by Gary Blackman. March 1993.