Mahupuku, Maata, 1890-1952

Date: 1900-1905

By: Hutton, George Thomas Fredrick, 1854-1937

Reference: qMS-1032

Description: Press-copy impressions of correspondence as licensed interpreter, mainly on land matters in the vicinity of Greytown Contains notes and information about many Wairarapa Maori, and details of their land transactions and economic activities Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (250 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (29 cm; ½ calf, brown buckram)

Date: 29 Jun-3 Jul 1992 - 29 Jun 1992 - 03 Jul 1992

From: Women in World War II Part II

By: Crisp, Enid Elizabeth, 1919-2009

Reference: OHInt-0064/12

Description: Enid Crisp was born in Greytown on 28 March 1919. Her father was a barrister and solicitor who also stood as a National Party candidate. Her mother was Plunket Society president and a founding member of the Little Theatre. Describes their home life, her schooling and teenage activites such as Bible Class dances, ping pong and going to movies. Talks about living next door to Maata Asher, a good friend of Katherine Mansfield's, and describes Maata's style. Talks about doing a secretarial course at Masterton Technical College, boarding at Masterton, working at Wright Stephensons and then with an accountant's firm. Describes her first date with husband to be John (Jack) Crisp and a group of friends socialising in `jalopies' with some alcohol. Notes that Masterton was a `dry' area. Describes Jack joining up at the start of the war, being sent to Burnham and as an officer sent overseas on long range desert campaigns. Focuses on her wartime involvement with patriotic activities including playing the piano at the Anzac Club and organising dance performances. Recalls soldiers camps at Solway showgrounds, Tauherenikau and other locations, which became tent cities. Talks about the American troops. Describes her involvement in the Emergency Precautions Scheme (EPS) and talks at length about the 1942 Masterton earthquake. Notes that Jack Crisp was invalided home from the war. Venue - Greytown : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Dr Cathy Casey Venue - Greytown Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004768; OHC-004769; OHC-004770 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 851.

Date: 4 Jun 1948

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11326-053

Description: Letter relates to correspondence between John Middleton Murry and Pat Lawlor relating to Maata Mahupuku, and to the dispersal of Katherine Mansfield's letters after her death. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with mss annotations

Date: [ca 1947-1952]

From: Murry family : Literary and personal papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11326-082

Description: Letters from literary agencies, editors, publishers, academics and readers, relating to Murry's publications on Katherine Mansfield's life and work. Subjects of letters include requests for information from students, readers and writers (from the United Kingdom, European countries and New Zealand), the purchase of Mansfield manuscripts by the Alexander Turnbull Library and the death of Maata Asher. Writers include 1. representatives of institutions - New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Richard Steele & Son, Penguin Books. 2. individuals - G H Scholefield (relating to the death of Maata Asher), Edward Shanks, G H R Taylor and Michael Turnbull (from the Alexander Turnbull Library) and P O Walzer. Language - Minority of letters in French Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts (some carbon copies)

Date: ca 1950

By: Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962

Reference: MS-Papers-4020

Description: Letter relates Ramsden's knowledge of Mahupuku's family background, the occasion on which he saw (met?) her and attitudes towards her from her own people Maata Mahupuku was from a wealthy family in the Wairarapa and a Wellington school friend of Katherine Mansfield. Referred to in `Katherine Mansfield: manuscripts in the Alexander Turnbull Library' Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Vincent O'Sullivan. Material obtained from Te Heke Rangatira Ki Nukutaurua Boyd, 1946 Transfers: Transferred from MS-Papers-0119.

Date: [1930-1977]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers

Reference: 77-067-8/26

Description: File described by Lawlor, `KM, a key file; some new material: schooldays, Maata, EKB, Sylvia Payne. Rewrite and type diary notes [...]'. Includes interview by W J Phillipps of Naani Asher-Grober (1959), clippings about Maata and Lawlor's book about her, and of other aspects of Mansfield, a condensation of Lawlor's book, reviews by various people and other papers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1989-1994

From: Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-9349-231

Description: Includes research notes on Trowell family and Maata Mahupuku, and correspondence with relatives and descendants of Maata Mahupuku Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [1899-1950]

From: Norwood, Hugh, fl 1978-1999 : Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield and other matters

Reference: MS-Papers-7293-06

Description: Mansfield miscellanea (as described by Lawlor); includes copies of letters, reviews, essays, articles etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca1900-1902]

By: Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923

Reference: MSX-2378

Description: Katherine Mansfield's birthday book, published by Ernest Nister, London, containing autographs of the Beauchamp family, including Katherine, and friends, including Maata Mahupuku Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1988-1989

From: Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-9349-230

Description: Papers (including correspondence) relating to research on Maata Mahupuku Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [1944-1946]

From: Norwood, Hugh, fl 1978-1999 : Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield and other matters

Reference: MS-Papers-7293-26

Description: Some proof sheets of `The Mystery of Maata' by Lawlor with notes from the printer, Ron Holloway Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1845, 1899, 1933, 1949

By: Norwood, Hugh C, active 1978-1999

Reference: MS-Papers-6498

Description: Comprises letter to Pat Lawlor from Eric Ramsden re Maata Mahupuku (1949); copy of an address given by Chaddie or Vera Beauchamp (Katherine's sisters) to a Wellington reading group, the Home Reading Union, re Katherine and the Beauchamp family (1933); two unpublished early vignettes and two short stories from the Wellington High School Reporter (1899), all by Katherine Mansfield; extracts from family record of the Beauchamp family (1845). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (Photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Hugh Norwood, Aylesbury, England

Date: 1988-1993

From: Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-9349-228

Description: Includes research notes, articles, photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to Maata Mahupuku, KMB, Chesney Wold, and flowers in KM stories Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1989-1996

From: Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-9349-225

Description: Includes notes on Maata Mahupuku and Arnold Trowell from NZ Free Lance magazine, papers and correspondence relating to Barbara Angus's essay on Maata Mahupuku for Dictionary of NZ Biography. Includes 10 photographs of MM's home in Greytown Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: [ca 1901]

Reference: 1/2-049811-F

Description: Maata Mahupuku, also known as Martha Grace. This image is a detail from a photograph taken of Miss Swanson's girls, outside 20 Fitzherbert Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington, circa 1901. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1901

From: Moore, George, 1881-1965 :Photographs of Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay and Lower Hutt

Reference: 1/2-065369-G

Description: Miss Swainson's girls outside their school at Fitzherbert Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington. Included are: Katherine Mansfield (2nd row from back, 7th from left), Vera Beauchamp (3rd row from back, 2nd from left), Jeanne Beauchamp (front row standing, 3rd from left), Charlotte Beauchamp (front row seated, 1st on left) and Maata Mahupuku, also known as Martha Grace, (front row seated, 2nd from left). Photograph taken by George Moore in 1901. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative

Date: [1901]

From: Moore, George, 1881-1965 :Photographs of Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay and Lower Hutt

Reference: 1/2-065368-G

Description: Girls from Miss Swainson’s School (Fitzherbert Terrace School), Thorndon, Wellington, circa 1901. Includes Katherine Beauchamp (Mansfield), and her sisters Vera, Jeanne, and Charlotte. Also includes Martha Grace (Maata Mahupuku). Back row: Frances Chaytor, Sophie Bolton, Muriel Bolton, Esme Dean, Gladys Rhind, Phyllis Bothamley, Mary Seaton. Second Row: Mary Peace, Maina Brandon, Mary Sexton, Marion Tweed, Evelyn Mason, Myra Climie, Kathleen Beauchamp, Hilda Nathan, May Blackburn, Ella Rothschild, Elsie Dymock. Third row: Lillian Treadwell, Vera Beauchamp, Winnie Miles, Kathleen Smith, Jane Moore, Frances Bolton, Dorothy Grey, Phoebe Ronayne, Iris Mandel, Edith Ludwig, Edith Lowe. Front row standing: Violet Tyre, Kitty Grabham, Jeanne Beauchamp, Lulu Bolton, Eleanor Smith, Marjorie Adams, Madge Tweed. Front row sitting: Charlotte Beauchamp, Martha Grace, Rae Mandel, Enid Bell, Hilda Miles, Marjorie Loughnan, Violet Bell. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Girls identified from Tosti Murray, Marsden, The History of a New Zealand School for girls (Wellington, N.Z. : Marsden School Old Girls Association, 1967 (Christchurch : Caxton Press)) plate 15. Some corrections to names made by staff member in October 2020. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

From: Bridget Williams Books : Papers relating to Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa

Reference: 92-130-06

Description: Includes notes on Palliser Bay woman born about 12th century AD Quantity: 1 box(es).