Lysaght, Sylvia Villebois, 1906-2000

Date: 1920 - 1930

By: Stowe, Jane, 1838-1931; Lysaght, Sylvia Villebois, 1906-2000; Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005

Reference: A-178-020

Description: Shows a steamship and a sailboat in a calm Wellington Harbour, on a misty morning. There are trees framing the lower and right foreground. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top left - For Sylvia / with loving Xmas wishes / from Grannie. "A misty morning"; Backing board recto - top centre - (Detached thin paper sheet): Wellington Harbour / J. Stowe Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 140 mm (sight) Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, through the family of the artist, in 2002. Mrs Watt is a sister of Sylvia Lysaght, and their grandmother was the artist, Jane Stowe.

Date: 23 Jan-9 Feb 1925

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-08

Description: Account of riding holiday taken by Phyllis Long and Sylvia Lysaght on horses Ngaio and Ladybird. Describes route from Punarima via Mokoia, Hawera, Ngaere, Stratford, Te Whera, Pohukura, Whangamomona, Ohura, to near Aria. Then by car to Te Kuiti and on to Waitomo Caves. Return journey by foot to Te Kuiti and back to Aria by car. Route on horseback continues with the two women travelling down the Awakino River to the sea and then back to Punarima via Tongaporutu, White Cliffs, Urenui, and New Plymouth. Account describes the people they meet and places they stayed along the way. Camping spots, bush, the condition of the horses (including Ngaio almost drowning), rats, mosquitos, bathing, and food (including picnics). Also description of Waitomo Caves. People of note include: Mr Henry and Mrs Ida Barwick (of near Te Wera): the Good family (also of near Te Wera) who rode through the Tangarakai Gorge with them; and the Ritchie family (including Thomas, Mary, and John) of Aria, formerly of the Chatham Islands, where they left their horses when they travelled on to Waitomo. Also includes description of Waitomo Caves with tourist postcards pasted in. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, photographs Also includes Long's photographs and sketches as well as a hand drawn map of the route taken (with location of accommodation and campsites marked).

Date: 12 Dec 1890, 1894, 30 Dec 1925-26 Jan 1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-09

Description: Account of riding tour taken by Phyllis Long and Sylvia Lysaght on horses Ngaio and Ladybird. Describes route from Wanganui to Kakatahi, Karioi, Waiouru, and Desert Road, to camp on Lake Taupo and later near Tokaanu, and trip back again via Waiouru, Ohakune, and Raetihi. Also includes accounts of staying with farmer Mr Watt near Wanganui and with two Maori families (including that of Mr Ham) between Turangi and Waiouru, meeting up and camping with fellow teachers at Nga Tawa (Else and Herve) and Eric Tyndale-Biscoe, Mr Cooper, Rev Hugh Austin, [and Mr Darcy?] who joined the party. Describes the terrain, condition of the horses, getting lost, a visit to Wairekei and the geothermal sights there, and sleeping out in the open. Also contains part of legal document relating to Maori land taken by Long from an "old Maori church, very much fallen to pieces". Titled "Te Ture Kooti Whenua Maori, 1894". Regards Kotohiko Kiriwehi [or Waitana, crossed out on document] of Hiruharama (Whanganui) who died on 12 December 1890 and had land at Whakaihuwaka and Pipiriki. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs Includes Long's photographs and sketches as well as a hand drawn map of the route taken on the trip.

Date: 9 Nov 1927-3 Dec 1934, 28 Aug 1985

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-07

Description: Contains outward correspondence from Phyllis Long to her friend Doreen Ross of Waitomo. Long writes from England and Srinagar in Kashmir about her life. Includes descriptions of teaching and schools in both England and India, Long's engagement to Eric Tyndale-Biscoe, wedding, and birth of their son Hugh (and raising him by Truby King's method) and daughter Ann. Description of Kashmir include where they live; having servants; lakeside and houseboat holidays as well as skiing, hiking, and horse riding trips in the mountains; the family donkey and teaching the children to ride; riots by the Muslim population; and still and film photography. Long also reacts to the news from New Zealand including the health of friends, slump in wool prices, and construction of Tongariro Chateau at Mount Ruapehu "it sounds to us the place must be entirely ruined with this new hotel". Also describes returning to England to live with her parents in Cambridge and travelling around the United Kingdom with Tyndale-Biscoe as he gives talks about Kashmir. Also contains an official bulk letter from Tyndale-Biscoe in his position at the CMS Schools relating news that Hindu widows may now be remarried, the 1928 flood in Srinagar, and the religious riots. One letter sent from Doreen Ross to Eric Tyndale-Biscoe (dated 29 Aug 1985) describes finding Phyllis's letters under the bed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 16 Sep 1923-14 Jul 1925

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11956-05

Description: Contains correspondence from Phyllis Long to her family back in England. Letters relate to voyage to New Zealand, including trip through Panama Canal and life and people on board the ship. Describes Panama and the coaling station in great detail as well as activities and events on board the ship such as the ceremony crossing the equator, a cricket match, a tennis tournament, and a dress up party. Describes her impressions of Wellington, Nga Tawa school and the surrounding area, her colleagues, her accomodation, horses kept at the college, and food in New Zealand. Also includes a description of the 1924 fire at Nga Tawa. Letters also relate a number of holiday trips Long took. Tramping, skiing, and climbing around Central Plateau (two trips) including one with her future husband Eric Tyndale-Biscoe feature. Long also describes the Ruby Lounge in Palmerston North and methods of transport including train travel and taxis. People mentioned in the correspondence include Nga Tawa headmistress Frances McCall and colleagues Miss Cooper-Evans, Miss Rowe, Miss Halstead, Miss Kingsford, Miss Rickards, Miss [Lane?], Miss Page, Miss Hinton, Miss Dudding, and friend Sylvia Lysaght. Also travelling companions Frank McGrath, Mr Baines, Mr McLean, and Eric Tyndale-Biscoe. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Includes hand drawn map of Panama Canal

Date: 1925-1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1296

Description: Loose pages of photograph album mainly featuring central North Island holiday scenes, 1925 to 1926. Compiled by Eric Tyndale-Biscoe with photographs possibly taken by Tyndale-Biscoe and Phyllis Long as well as others unidentified photographers. Some photographs are captioned by Tyndale-Biscoe. Tyndale-Biscoe appears in a number of images. Teachers from Nga Tawa School and Wanganui Collegiate also feature, in particular Phyllis Long. The horse Ngaio is also photographed. A camping trip to Kai Iwi Beach with the McGrath and Austin families in January 1926 shows children Mary, Hugh, and Joan McGrath on horseback as well as camp site images and beach and coastal scenes. A further trip to Kai Iwi in September 1926 with the McGraths, Sylvia Lysaght, and Else J. Rowe shows similar scenes. A January 1926 camping trip at Lake Taupo includes informal group portraits of the party, camp site scenes (eating, drinking, sleeping, clothing, tents), a geyser at Tokaanu, and lakeside scenes (swimming, swimming with horses, and posing on rocks). Also contains photographs of an excursion to Turakina Beach. Album contains photographs of two Central Plateau excursions based out of Whakapapa Village in July-September 1925 and September 1926. Images of the first trip show members of the party (Tyndale-Biscoe, C. N. Maclean, Miss Preuter, Miss Pease, Miss Harvey, Phyllis Long, Miss Dudding, N. A . Baines, and Miss Lisaght [sic]), the huts in which they stayed, Long and Tyndale-Biscoe on the summit of Ruapehu, Ruapehu crater lake, and snow scenes. The second trip shows members of the party (Frank McGrath, Elizabeth McGrath, Else J. Rowe, G. Downing, and T. Adams), the huts in which they stayed, tramping, mountaineering, roads in the area, and scenic images (Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Little Tama Lake). Tyndale-Biscoe is also photographed with his motorbike at Mokoia and repairing a wheel on the roadside of Wangaehu Hill. Some images include passengers in sidecar and on the pillion. Another set of images, possibly of a Wanganui Collegiate excursion, show the clearing a pathway in the snow and hut interior scenes: [students?] Dennis Young, Aubrey Fullterton-Smith, and Tom Latham are photographed by a fire and another image shows [teachers?] N. A. Baines and F. H. Latham playing cards in hut. Also contains a large formal group portrait of Wanganui Collegiate students and teachers in front of school building. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 120 prints. Physical Description: Four loose card album pages, 25.2 x 37.6 cm Processing information: Item re-allocated to a different Unit id after being boxed in August 2018.

Date: 1923-1926

From: Tyndale-Biscoe family: Photographs

By: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-1946

Description: Photograph album, mainly of holidays, compiled by Phyllis Long during her time in New Zealand, 1923 to 1926. Some photographs are likely taken by Long but other photographers are unidentified. Album features horse treks and horse riding. Two treks with Sylvia Lysaght are covered; one in Taranaki and Waikato Regions in January-February 1925, and the other from Wanganui to Lake Taupo, December 1925-January 1926. Includes images of Long and Lysaght on their horses Ngaio and Ladybird, places they stayed (camp sites, houses, huts), people they stayed with, and scenic images (bush, mountains, rivers, farmland, and coast). Images from the second trek feature the party of colleagues and friends Long and Lysaght joined (including Eric Tyndale-Biscoe and [Hugh Austin?]) and the Lake Taupo site at which they camped and as well as an unidentified Maori whanau with whom the duo stayed on their return journey. Tramping and mountaineering trips also feature in the album. One set shows a holiday to the Central Plateau, with the party staying in a hut at Whakapapa Village. Photographs include excursions to the summit of Mount Ruapehu, Tama Lakes, Whakapapa Falls, and Taranaki Falls as well as some skiing images. Another set of images is taken on a trip to the Taranaki Region. Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) features with Long and a female companion pictured on the summit. There are also a number of images of Dawson Falls, including some swimming and bush scenes, and scenic images of the mountain and surrounding area, with Doreen Ross pictured in one image. Other places visited by Long include Wanganui and at a farm with an unidentified family [Ross or Lysaght?]. Photographs from the farm show various people (including children), a chicken coop, lambs being fed, dogs, and horses. Another set of photographs show a motoring, camping, and picnicking excursions in a Model TT Ford covered truck. In addition to Tyndale-Biscoe, Frank and Elizabeth McGrath and their children Mary, Joan, [and Hugh?] appear in numerous photographs. McGrath family images include informal as well as a set of formal studio portraits of both groups and individual members. The family in captured motoring, in beach scenes [Kai Iwi camping trip?], on horseback, riding bikes, reading, and at a Mokoia farmhouse, with Long and Tyndale-Biscoe often appearing in photographs with them. Other people that feature include Long's teaching colleagues and friends from Nga Tawa and Wanganui Collegiate schools. Those identified in captions include Tyndale-Biscoe, "Shrimp", Else Rowe , Aubrey Fullerton-Smith, Conrad, Mr Latham, Mr [Cr]opper?, Mr [F.H.?] Latham, Mr Izard, Doreen Ross, and Roy Ross. Album also includes a studio portrait of Phyllis Tyndale-Biscoe in 1927. There are a number of images of Tyndale-Biscoe with his motorcycle. Commercial postcards feature photographs of Mount Ruapehu, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) as well as Waitomo Caves limestone formations, Wanganui River, and Wanganui Collegiate School. Three postcards are addressed to members of Long's family in England (and were sent). Another two postcards were sent to Long by Tyndale-Biscoe and "Himself" [Frank McGrath?]. Also a note from Hugh [McGrath?] to Long sent while she was travelling home to England. Larger mounted print of image of Long's horse Ngaio at PAColl-10463. Two treks and other excursions are described in depth in Long's diaries and letters to her parents. Tyndale-Biscoe's letters also describing mountaineering, motoring, and camping trips to his parents (MS-Group-2409). Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 260 prints, some loose. Physical Description: Photograph album with green textured cover, 21.4 x 25.8 cm Processing information: Prints that have come loose from the album as well postcards and prints stored in pocket at rear of album have been arranged in an enclosure which is held in the back of the box containing the album.

Date: [ca 1870s-1970s]

From: Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005: Photographs

By: Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910; Greenwood, Mary Elizabeth, 1873-1961; Gungall, Arthur Frederick, 1863?-1927; Kinsey's Studio; Nevill Studio (Dunedin, N.Z.); Ross, William Frater, -1954; Watkinson's Studio; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-10706

Description: Group of photographic prints relating to the Lysaght family, dated from the period circa 1870s to 1970s, taken by various photographers and studios (unidentified and known), including J H Brown, William Henshaw Clarke, Mary Elizabeth Greenwood, Arthur Frederick Gungall, Kinsey's Studio, Nevill Studio, William Frater Ross, Watkinson's Studio, and Wrigglesworth and Binns. Includes formal and informal portraits, group portraits, family portraits, and building portraits. Comprises: -01 Child portrait of Sylvia Villebois Lysaght, photograph by "M Elizabeth Greenwood, Woodward St, Wellington" (studio imprint recto of mount). -02 Child portrait of Ruth Briony Lysaght, by Elizabeth Greenwood, Wellington" (blindstamped studio imprint recto of mount). -03 Portrait of female subject, by "The Nevill Studio" (blindstamped studio imprint on recto of print). -04 Portrait of female subject wearing a hat and holding a woven kete bag standing by a fruit tree. -05 Portrait of "John Moore on pony with his father & sisters outside 'Adbury' his home on the Turuturu Rd, Hawera, 1910-11," by "A Gungall, Hawera, NZ" (blindstamped studio imprint recto on mount). -06 Portrait of person standing in a garden, annotated "Mokoia", by "A Gungall, Hawera, NZ" (blindstamped studio imprint recto of mount). -07, -08, -09, -46 Four photographs of a polo game and mounted players at Miramar, Wellington, including Brian Cuthbert Lysaght, photographs by "J H Brown, 180 Upper Willis Street, Wellington" (studio imprint recto of mount). -10 Black and white copy print portrait of James Richard Lysaght, annotated "J R L". -11, -12 Two sepia copy prints, most likely of Leonard and Jane Stowe [See related negatives at 35mm-110859]. -13, -14, -15 Three black and white photographic prints of "Mokoia" portraying rural homestead. -16 Portrait of Brian Cuthbert Lysaght, photograph by "Kinsey & Co, Lamton Quay, Wellington" (studio imprint on cabinet card mount). -17 Black and white copy print of outdoor family portrait featuring 17 named members of the extended Lysaght family. -18 Black and white copy print portrait of Frances Charlotte Lysaght. -19 Carte de visite portrait of Reginald Stowe, Sylvia Courteny Stowe, and Emily Murial Stowe, photograph by "W H Clarke, Lambton Quay, Wellington". -20, -21 Photograph, postcard-backed (and enlarged black and white copy file print), of passengers being hoisted onto a ship in a wicker basket, annotated "Off Napier", but also "Going ashore or Landing off Cape Runaway, 1900". -22 to -39 Various black and white photographs, including group portraits with motor vehicles, an interior view with furnishings, some stamped Nelson, Hawera, and one by Blyth Harper, Te Kuiti, dated portraits include 26 September 1934 and 5 August 1953. -40 Colour portrait of three female subjects, circa 1970s. -41 Black and white copy print of painting of boy and girl with gardening implements as props. -42 Colour copy photograph of artistic portrait of seated female subject at table, by Sarah Greenwood, dated 1852. -43 Group portrait, most likely of stewards and officials of the Egmont A&P Show, Hawera, photographed by "A E Watkinson, Wanganui" (blindstamped studio imprint recto of mount), and related undated "Star Feature" newspaper clipping. -44 Group portrait of Norah Frances Lysaght, Averil Margaret Lysaght, and Sylvia Villebois Lysaght, circa 1912, photograph by "Ross, Hawera" (blindstamped studio imprint recto of mount). -45 Group portrait on printed mount, "The Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society of N.Z. Ltd. Directors and Management, June 1929", with subjects named, including Brian Cuthbert Lysaght. -47 Bridal portrait of Emily Muriel Stowe, married name Lysaght, on wedding day, 1902, photograph by "Wrigglesworth & Binns, Wellington" (Imprint recto and verso of mount). -48 Group portrait of Frederick Villabois Lysaght, Brian Cuthbert Lysaght, and Harry Truman Lysaght, photograph by "W F Ross, Hawera & Patea" (studio imprint recto of mount). -49 Child portrait of Averil Margaret Lysaght, photograph by Elizabeth Greenwood, Woodward St, Wellington" (logo recto, and studio imprint verso of mount) -50 Studio portrait, most likely of Sylvia Villebois Lysaght, by "Elizabeth Greenwood, Wellington" (signature on mount). -51 Family portrait, subjects and photographer not identified. Descriptive metadata transcribed from items, and accompanying notes in Photographic Archive backfile. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 7 b&w copy photographic print(s). 42 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour copy photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographic prints. Transfers: Film negatives at 35mm-110859..

Date: 1963

By: Lysaght, Averil Margaret (Dr), 1905-1981; Lysaght, Sylvia Villebois, 1906-2000

Reference: B-156-011

Description: Shows white-robed figures, possibly nuns, gardening in a walled garden, with cypresses and other trees in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - AL / 1963 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on hand-made paper, 260 x 402 mm, mounted on taxtured hand-made sheet 310 x 470 mm.

Date: 1930

From: Various artists :[Watercolour and pencil drawings by members of the Lysaght and Stowe families. ca 1870-1930]

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-190-002-1/2

Description: A nocturnal view of three people fishing for eels. A lantern on the ground illuminates the scene On the verso is a faint pencil sketch of the same scene, drawn with four people instead of three. One stands behind the others holding a torch Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Eeling [in ink]; Recto - bottom right - Sylvia from John 5/3/30 [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1930 - 1950

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965; Lysaght, Sylvia Villebois, 1906-2000

Reference: B-156-013

Description: Includes: Nikau, Rimu, Grass tree, Celmisia, [Manuka], Shag drying wings, White heron, Pukeko, Black teal. Quantity: 9 b&w art print(s) (woodcuts). Physical Description: Woodcuts, on bookmarks, sizes varying.

Date: [1940s]

By: Lysaght, Sylvia Villebois, 1906-2000

Reference: PAColl-6844

Description: Portrait of Averil Margaret Lysaght (1907-1981) taken, probably in the 1940s, by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 3 x 3 cm

Date: January 1916

By: Hay-Campbell, Charles Duncan, 1867-1936; Lysaght, Sylvia Villebois, 1906-2000

Reference: B-156-012

Description: Shows a young girl with long blond hair painting with a box of watercolours of the verandah of the Lysaght family home in South Taranaki. She is leaning forward in a wicker chair and is using a small stool as a table. Title on piece of backing paper is housed with the item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Hay Campbell / Jan 1916; Backing board recto - top centre - (At top of backing paper): Averil Margaret Lysaght on Punarima verandah Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 280 mm (sight)