Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005

Date: [ca 1980-1982]

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 : Papers and recordings

Reference: 91-047-17/03

Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Includes correspondence re television productions; telegrams of congratulations for `Gallipoli'; notes for conversation in the `Great Kiwi Concert Show'; notes on Gallipoli project; copies of outward letters to many correspondents; Inland Revenue correspondence; eulogy for John A Lee; statement re Geoff Chapple collecting the Wattie Book of the Year Award; letter from Clare of Mt Wellington, Auckland, correspondence with agents and publishers. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 01 06 1997 - 01 Jun 1997

From: Interviews about Denis Glover by Gordon Ogilvie

Reference: OHInt-0576-27

Description: Betty Curnow talks about first hearing of Denis Glover, when she picked up his book of poems in a bookstore in Timaru. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8793 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1940 - 1960

By: Angus, Rita, 1908-1970; MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr, 1922-2020; Page, Evelyn Margaret, 1899-1988

Reference: A-307-085/112

Description: Includes two Douglas MacDiarmid landscapes in France, one of Mt Ruapehu, one of Taihape hills, two at Springfield Canterbury, one of Christchurch in a nor'wester. Includes Rita Angus' portrait of Betty Curnow, portrait of Douglas Lilburn, two self portraits, children in Sydney Street West, and other portraits, as well as a landscape at Cass. Includes Evelyn Page's portrait of Ralph Vaughan-Williams. Also includes smaller coloured reproductions of landscapes by J M Hamilton (?): Lindis Hills, Braided river Upper Waimate, Castlecliff, Orari Hills, Port Hills from Charteris Bay, Orari Hills Mt Peel. Includes S C Brees reproduction of Tinakori Road. Quantity: 28 photograph(s). Provenance: These items were held in the home of Douglas Lilburn at the time of his death and were bequeathed to the Library Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-172.

Date: 13 Aug 1982

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005

Reference: MS-Papers-2292

Description: Letter supplies details of ink drawing by Betty Curnow (held in Art Room, A256/29) published in Canterbury University College's Review, 1943, and comments on the artistic climate in Christchurch in the 1940s noting the controversy over the exhibition of Frances Hodgkins Pleasure garden and contrasting the climate in Auckland where she moved with her husband Allen Curnow in 1951 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 16 Jul 1995

From: Interviews about Denis Glover by Gordon Ogilvie

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005

Reference: OHInt-0576-05

Description: Betty Curnow was a contemporary of Denis Glover. Describes meeting Glover before the war and the relationship between Glover and her husband, poet Allen Curnow. Talks about their intense discussions about poetry and mentions Glover's sense of humour. Describes Glover's mother and his relationship with her. Discusses Glover's relationship with his first wife Mary and then his second wife Khura. Talks about Glover's attitude to poetry and comparison with Allen Curnow. Describes how Curnow relied on Glover's feedback about his work. Compares Curnow's relationships with Glover and Fairburn. Comments on how Glover's life might have been if he had remained in the structured navy environment and talks about marriages breaking up after World War II, Comments on similarities between Fairburn and Glover. Interviewer(s) - Gordon Ogilvie Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8792 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2804.

Date: 13 May 1997

From: Interviews about Denis Glover by Gordon Ogilvie

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005

Reference: OHInt-0576-28

Description: Betty Curnow is interviewed by an unidentified young woman about her memories of Denis Glover, as part of the NSOHP (NS oral history project). Written on cassette cover is 'poor sound quality'. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8794, OHC-8795 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 C90 cassette(s). 80 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1983

By: Burton, Sally Jane, 1949-

Reference: G-659

Description: Head and shoulders of artist Rita Angus, dressed in the shirt worn by her subject Betty Curnow in her portrait Betty Curnow, 1942 (original held by the Auckland City Art Gallery). Behind the subject is part of her painting Flight (held by the Museum of New Zealand) The painting Flight showed the Bolton Street Cemetery in Wellington, during its destruction and replacement with the Wellington motorway, shortly before Rita Angus' death in 1970. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Sally Burton and SB inside a square; Verso - Title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 oil(s) framed. Physical Description: Oil on hardboard 575 x 606 mm

Date: [ca 1937-1950]

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005

Reference: PA-Group-00125

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of A R D Fairburn, Allen Curnow, and Denis Glover Photographs of Dylan Thomas' boat house at Laugharne, Wales, taken ca 1949-1950, Thomas' wife, Caitlin, and son, possibly Llewellyn Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, negatives Provenance: Donated by Mrs Betty Curnow, Auckland, 1986 (two accessions) Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 86-101-09 : Letters from Allen Curnow to Betty Curnow (prints and negatives relating to Dylan Thomas only).

Date: [ca 1964-1980]

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7811-087

Description: Partial transcripts of interviews, some very early, of people's reminiscences of A R D Fairburn. Other Titles - Walking on my feet, A R D Fairburn 1904-1957, a kind of biography Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1937-1941

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005

Reference: MSY-6113

Description: These clippings were collected by Mrs Betty Curnow and all are from The Press in Christchurch. They were pasted on both sides of the page and divided into sections; General topics (six pages containing 27 verses), man (two pages containing 5 verses), nature (three pages containing 11 verses), New Zealand government (eight pages containing 33 verses), Facisim/Nazism/Franco (four pages containing 13 verses) and World War II (eight pages containing 13 verses). This is Curnow's intial working file for his selection for the first Whim Wham volume, `A Present for Hitler', which appeared at the end of 1940. Illustrations were commissioned by The Press in Christchurch and are mainly by Josephine Mayo. The book was given to Mrs Betty Curnow's son Tim in the 1960s. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased 2005

Date: [1937-1947] [1996-1998]

From: Ogilvie, Gordon Bryant, 1934- : Papers relating to Denis Glover

Reference: MS-Papers-7252-018

Description: Comprises correspondence with Betty Curnow relating to her friendship with Glover; includes transcripts of interview and copy of letter from Betty Curnow to James McNeish and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1967, 1974-1975

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 : Papers and recordings

Reference: 91-047-16/14

Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes letters from Jan from Howick and Canada and Phillippa from England; correspondence with John A Lee including one letter from Lee to Barbara Magner; copy of letter to John following his return from Australia; correspondence with various people relating to the Sutch trial; letter to the editor re reviews; and copy of letter from Shadbolt to Magner. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1954-1987

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1988 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6533-057

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1936-1969

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005

Reference: 86-101

Description: Includes letters from Allen Curnow to Betty Curnow, copies of literary works by Allen Curnow, including poetry and drama and a scrapbook of cuttings of reviews and articles. Also includes letters from Rita Angus, Denis Glover, and Ngaio Marsh. Many of the documents have extensive annotations done by Betty Curnow later in her life. Source of title - Supplied title Printmaker and artist. First wife of poet Allen Curnow. Married to him for 25 years and have three children together. Died in Auckland in 2005. Quantity: 15 folder(s). 1 box(es). 0.35 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - Negatives from 86-101-09 (PA-Group-00125).

Date: 1966-1977

From: Bett, Elva Lilian, 1918-2016 : Records of the Bett Duncan Gallery

Reference: 78-115-5/02

Description: Names of identified subjects entered in Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [nd] 1958-1985

From: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7623-141

Description: Correspondence includes note from Douglas Lilburn, announcement `Wind-blown colour; paintings by Betty Curnow', card painted by Betty Curnow Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, printed matter

Date: [2006?]

From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers

Reference: MSDL-0203

Description: Partial biography of Allen Curnow by Jeny Curnow. Most of this biography was dictated to Jeny Curnow by Allen Curnow in 1998-1999. The biography was incomplete when Allen Curnow died in 2001. The document begins with biographical details of Allen Curnow and his family. The next section is `The Gambling grandparent's story - `"Veiled in mystery"' which recounts the life of the Gambling family. This is followed by the sections `The Curnow grandparents', `The parents' and `The grandmother and the brothers'. There is a chronology of Allen Curnow's life for the period 1911-1950. Included in this work are refereneces to many of Curnow's friends including Douglas Lilburn and his marriage to his first wife Elizabeth (Betty) Le Cren. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) tool identified this file as an OLE2 Compound Document Format. It can be opened and read in Microsoft Word 2000.

Date: 1642 - 1942 - 1943

By: Curnow, Elizabeth, 1911-2005; Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001

Reference: A-256-029

Description: Tasman's two ships, the Heemskerck and the Zeehaen, sailing close to the shore of part of Golden Bay, with a foreground of large curved waves The foreground waves resemble the prints of Hokusai in style Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, date & signature in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 77 x 102 mm on sheet 150 x 170 mm Provenance: Presented by Allen and Betty Curnow to Douglas Lilburn, composer of music to Allen Curnow's poem 'Landfall in unknown seas'. Printed by Betty Curnow from a printer's block made from her larger original ink drawing of the same scene for the frontispiece in the Review of Canterbury University College, 1943, with title: Illustrations by Bette [sic] Curnow for the Tasman tercentennial poem 'Landfall in unknown seas'. (See Betty Curnow's letter at MS Papers 2292).

Date: [1945-1970]

From: Sargeson, Frank, 1903-1982 : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0432-031

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes invitation to wedding of Sarah Cole to Anthony Michael Branigan; telegram from Cole and Wentworth; part of letter from [?] Chapman, ANU; part of letter from Kathleen [?] Crawford; two telegrams from Cunningham re arrest of Bell and implication of Wynne (1968) Quantity: 1 folder(s) 31 leaves.

Date: [1970-1977]

From: Sargeson, Frank, 1903-1982 : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4261-037

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letter from Gladys, possibly Gladys Salter, Parnell; card from Jocelyn, Billl, Tony and [?] Pearson; letter from [?] F Collins, Mt Wellington, Auckland; cards from Caroline and Brandon Conron, Ontario, Canada; card from the Cook family of Christchurch (Bertram and Dale Cook); letter of congratulation from Jack and Janet Coombes, Takapuna; letter from Kathleen, Milford, Auckland (1974) Quantity: 1 folder(s) 38 leaves.