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Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
- Date
- 1922-1943
- By
- Coates, Joseph Gordon (Rt Hon), 1878-1943
- Reference
- MS-Group-0030
- Description
The collection includes alphabetical subject files, correspondence, political party and election papers, War Cabinet papers, speeches, newspaper cuttings, printed material and personal papers
There is nothing in the collection relating to Coates's early years as Member of Parliament for Kaipara.
Source of title - Supplied
Coates was Member of Parliament (Reform, Coalition and National) for Kaipara (1911-1943) and Prime Minister (1925-1928)
Quantity: 258 folder(s). 4 volume(s). 5 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs
Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Provenance: The papers were sorted and arranged after Coates' death by his Private Secretary, Miss Helen Montague
Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives; material transferred to the Photographic Archive and the Cartographic Collection - To Photographic Archive - Photograph from MS-Papers-1785-210 of Hargest (back view) shaking hands with Winston Churchill, Freyberg behind him - To Cartographic Collection - Plan of P Jerebine's farm, Tangowahine, from MS-Papers-1785-211 (MapColl832.11gc/[ca.1938]/Acc.46931).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 258 folder(s), 4 volume(s), 5 Linear Metres, Business correspondence, Business records, Diaries, Clippings, Publications (Documents), Speeches, Manuscripts, Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs
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Copyright
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Correspondence - Rootes-Wilson
Date: 1936
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-193
Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Acland-Coates
Date: [1942]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-214
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes letter from Alex, The Bungalow, Farnham, Knaresborough, Yorks Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Milne-Petersen
Date: [1942]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-220
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; includes a number of letters of introduction relating to a visit of Walter Nash to the United States; some contacts replied Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Allen-Rolls
Date: 1936
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-192
Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Phillips-Russell
Date: [1942]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-221
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes letter from [?] R T Lawrence, Trentham Military Camp Other Titles - Sixth annual report of the Auckland Centre of the NZ Red Cross Society (1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Smith-Withers
Date: 1939
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-202
Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; includes letters from [?] Trevor Withers who described himself as `Your affectionate son'; a list of suppliers of clothing and services in London for the Tolhurst family Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Overseas trips on War Cabinet business - Visit to Fiji
Date: 1942
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-182
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Morton-Young
Date: 1938
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-198
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - I M R-Little
Date: [1942]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-218
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes circular newsletter on the situation in India from S and M Townend, Dunedin Other Titles - Frit Danmark; the Danish weekly published in London (1 Jan 1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Jenkins-Missing motor cars
Date: [1941]
From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1785-211
Description: Inward and outward correspondence; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Includes file on missing motor cars. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Plan of P Jerebine's farm, Tagnowahine (MapColl-832.11gc/[ca.1938]/Acc.46931.