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Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
- Date
- 1928-1981
- By
- Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985Hansen, Olive Amy, 1907-2003
- Reference
- 84-204
- Description
Papers relating to Hansen family and its association with the Beeville Community. Comprises an incomplete run of the periodical, The Word (Vol 2 Oct 1940-Vol 25 1964); folders on various subjects; drafts for an intended book on the community; 10 letter books 1944-1949; published letters and poems; some photographs.
Source of title - Supplied title
Other Titles - The Word (Periodical)
Arrangement: Material remains in order received
Quantity: 6 box(es). 2 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss
Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr R E Hansen, 1984
Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Loose photographs (PA-Coll-8512).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 6 box(es), 2 Linear Metres, Drafts (Documents), Personal correspondence, Poetry, Serial publications, Clippings, Manuscripts, Mss
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Inward and outward correspondence
Date: 1954-1969
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-43
Description: Includes Howard League for Penal Reform correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers relating to Beeville Community and related material
Date: 1959-1961, nd
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-63
Description: Includes addresses of honey customers; `The Honey story'; correspondence re death penalty for Karyl Cheesman in San Quentin prison; education of son Martin, 1959; Max Heinegg; names and addresses of people sent Jan issue of `The Word'; NZ Peace Council minutes (undated) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Various files
Date: [1960-1967]
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-11
Description: Files (1) Outside world (attitudes both ways) with `Beeville bulletin' n148 (Dec 1964) and Open letter to every man and woman, especially to the head of every government, and those who rule the world in other ways with poems, `Call of love' and `Myself and the world' (1963); (2) Other communities, newsletters from Koinonia Community, Georgia (1967); (3) 1961, Ra;'s India trip, with poem, `Rishi Valley visit (narrative)' by Ray Hansen (1961) and a newsletter to the consumers of Beeville honey by Francis Hansen; and (4) Art, culture, mores, Beeville, with circular letters etc from the Hebrew Evangelization society, brochure for one-day school in interior design (Auckland University) and part of `Beeville bulletin' n 147 (1964) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward and outward correspondence
Date: Oct 1960-Feb 1961
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-54
Description: Correspondence relating to trip to India Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Family (file)
Date: [1946-1956]
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-06
Description: Notes, letters and other papers relating to the Hansen family; includes business card for Owen Hansen; minutes of meeting; poem written from Mt Eden Prison to Lucien aged 13 years; open letter to Ann, `Problem of relationship'; letters, Francis to Ray and Ray to Ida (1956); copy of editorial from the `Southland daily news' re conscientious objectors; copy, letter Graham Spencer to the Hansens and copies of articles on the community the (Sunday morning post, 19 Jun, 10 Jul, 7 Aug 1955) Other Titles - Sunday morning post, some pages with articles on Beeville Quantity: 1 folder(s). 37 pages.
War resistance (file)
Date: [1922-1963]
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-05
Description: Pamphlets on war resistance; annotated leaflets to householders of Lucien and Reginald Hansen's imprisonment (1953); correspondence; clippings; open letter from M Young re their imprisonment (1956); outward letters from prison (1956) Other Titles - C.O.'s and the community; this concerns you, by `Humanist' (Auckland, 1945) (pseud of Sydney Wignall) Other Titles - Pagan patriotism, by H R Urquhart (Auckland, 1922) Other Titles - War resistance (n6, v11, 3rd quarter, 1963) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
School (file)
Date: [1960-1964]
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-07
Description: Papers relating to Beeville setting up its own school; includes correspondence with Maurice Wilsie; clipping re registration; statement re proposals passed by Trust Board; notice re weekend school, `The Child at school' by A Grey; submission, `A Community school' by Dan Hansen (1963); `Beeville bulletin, n149; extracts from letters relating to the community school project including from Barbara Taylor, Italy, Kripp Sexton, Los Angeles, and Chester McQueary, Colorado, and songs by Derek Strahan (1963); and notes toward writing about the school Other Titles - Beeville bulletin (n 149) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Outward correspondence
Date: 1960-1961
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-38
Description: Letters sent back home to Beeville (and writings) sent during Ray Hansen's trip to India. Letters sent from The Theosophical Society, Adyar, Madras. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Francis Hansen - Correspondence
Date: 1959
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-59
Description: Letters written by Francis Hansen to Beeville while in Germany and other parts of Europe and England in 1959; also copy of report of protest at Dortmund from `Peace news' in which Francis took part (21 Aug 1959) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Ray's poems (file)
Date: [1940-1960]
From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers
Reference: 84-204-04
Description: Poems, `Twelve small poems (they'll grow bigger)' about his children, written in Mt Eden Prison (1946); `Peril of marriage' (1956); `Beeville Communist?' (1958); `Where is the man?' (1958); and notes re the current state of the community (n d) Quantity: 1 folder(s).