Leigh-Wood, Joanna Elizabeth (Lady), 1870-1955

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: 1/2-002574-F

Description: Wall plaque by Wedgwood of Captain Cook, presented to the Alexander Turnbull Library by Lady Leigh-Wood, sister of Alexander Turnbull. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1880s-2007

By: Tatham, George, active 1978-2017

Reference: ATL-Group-00177

Description: Collection relating to Lady Joanna Elizabeth Leigh-Wood, née Turnbull, comprising an autograph album with enclosures (correspondence, ephemera, illustrated envelopes, and bookplate); and a folder of genealogical material including birth certificate, copies of marriage and death certificates, a group photograph possibly taken on board the vessel 'Ionic', and four facsimile photographic printouts of portraits. George Tatham is the grandson of Lady Joanna Elizabeth Leigh-Wood (née Turnbull) and great-nephew of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. Quantity: 1 folder(s) includes a b&w original photographic print. 1 volume(s) with loose items originally laid in volume. Physical Description: Manuscripts and photographs.

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-094

Description: Names of correspondents not entered in Name Field include: A E Wolfe-Aylward; Mrs H H Wolters; J Wolters; Miss E A Woodhead; Esther O'Grady (niece of Miss Woodhead) re her father Colonel P D Vigors; Henry Wright; Joseph Wright re The English Dialect Dictionary (1926); Mrs Katharine R Wright; Wright Stevenson & Co (Wellington); Wyatt & Wilson (Christchurch). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1934

By: Clarke, Angela H, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-4350

Description: Portrait of Lady Joanna Elizabeth Leigh-Wood, nee Turnbull (1870-1955) taken in 1934. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies laser print. 0.02 Linear Metres.

Reference: PAColl-3905

Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 35mm-0507 & 0508 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s) 35mm strips.

Date: ca1900

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Clarke, Angela H, active 2002; Leigh-Wood, Joanna Elizabeth (Lady), 1870-1955

Reference: Objects-0030

Description: Artist not identified. A tortoiseshell paper knife, with one end thinned and the rounded edge sharpened.  Ornate gold monogram on one side reads "AHT", for Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Tortoiseshell, 275 x 34 x 5 mm, with attached metal monogram, set 2/3 way down one face. Provenance: Mrs Clarke's initials before marriage were also AHT (Angela H Tatham), and that is the reason she was given the knife, which originally belonged to Alexander Turnbull. Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-002-004 Previous title: Artist unknown :[Tortoiseshell paper knife, with gold monogram AHT, for Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. ca 1900].

Date: Jan or Feb 1900

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 19

By: Ross, Malcolm, 1862-1930

Reference: PAColl-7985-01

Description: Tasman Glacier, Southern Alps, with climbers Bessie Ross and Joanna Turnbull. Photograph taken by Malcolm Ross in January or February 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 21.9.x 16.4 cm

Date: 28 May 1898 - 17 May 1900

From: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918: Letter books

Reference: qMS-2052

Description: Letter book comprising 1000 numbered leaves of tissue paper, preceded by a section of pages with alphabetised index, for the entry of names (and addresses) of correspondents with blotting paper interleaving. The holograph letters are written in ink, and some have amendments in pencil, and annotations in blue pencil, some are typescript, with autograph signatures and amendments in ink. Letters in this volume are dated between 28 May 1898 and 17 May 1900. The spine title label "Letter Book" is augmented with "Private" above, "A H Turnbull" and "A H T 3" below. There is a typescript letter dated 13 August 1898 to James Leigh-Woods of Natal, South Africa tipped in on page 1, and a newspaper clipping mounted to rear free endpaper ("Obituary: Mr. J. M. Deck", 'Evening Post', 18 February 1943, page 3), featuring a portrait of John Massy Deck (1869-1943). The letter Turnbull has mounted at the front of the letterbook, dated 13 August 1898, relates to his sister Joanna Turnbull, later known as Lady Joanna Elizabeth Leigh-Wood, 1870-1955: "Dear Sir, Enclosed I beg to hand you copy of cablegram sent to you today at my sister's request and from it you will gather that she has finally decided to break off her engagement with you." The addressee was James Leigh-Wood, later Sir James, who married Turnbull's sister two year later in the year 1900. Quantity: 1 volume(s) in slipcase. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript in letter book of 1000 numbered leaves of tissue paper in leather half binding with maroon cloth boards and marbled endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, 28.5 cm. Typescript letter mounted on first page and newspaper clipping tipped in on rear free endpaper. Black morocco slipcase with lettering stamped in gilt on spine.

Date: 1779 - 1780

By: Flaxman, John, 1755-1826; Darwin, William Erasmus, 1839-1914; Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Josiah Wedgwood & Sons; Leigh-Wood, Joanna Elizabeth (Lady), 1870-1955; Rathbone, Frederick, active 1907-1915; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-681

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Captain James Cook. A unique surviving example of this Wedgwood portrait, of which seven were originally cast. Design cast by Flaxman after portrait by Hodges (cf. engraving held at B-085/002). One of original set of seven Inscriptions: Verso - Inscribed: Wedgwood & Bentley Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Jasper ware, blue and white 240 x 180 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander H. Turnbull from Frederick Rathbone, London, in 1913 for £25. It had previously been in the collection of William Erasmus Darwin. See McCormick, E. H , Alexander Turnbull (Wellington, 1974) p. 250. Inherited by Turnbull's sister Joanna, Lady Leigh-Wood and donated to her by the Library. For more detail, see "The Wedgwood Society newsletter", no 59 [1982], pages 3-4 (in Art Ephemera 1982). A H Turnbull bought the medallion from Frederick Rathbone in 1913. Rathbone had bought it at auction in London in 1907, sold it to William Erasmus Darwin, who then sold it back to him again in 1913. W E Darwin was the oldest son of Charles Darwin, a grandson of Josiah Wedgwood.