Series 4 Notebooks

Date
1926-1938
Reference
Series-4578
Description

Notebooks, some numbered, comprising a wide range of journal entries, research notes and drafts of novels, poems and other works. 25 manuscripts from this series have been digitised to enable remote access to this part of the collection.

Quantity: 28 volume(s) 1 folder(s).

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Part of
Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Format
28 volume(s) 1 folder(s)
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Manuscript

Notebook

Date: 1814-1842, [ca 1934]

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MSX-8200

Description: Contains notes for novel about Baron Charles de Thierry, "Check to your King", including notes specific to De Thierry as well as more general notes about that period of New Zealand colonial history Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Manuscript

Notebook (photocopied extracts)

Date: [ca 1936]

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MS-Papers-9110-151

Description: Contains photocopies of parts of `Exercise book 15', including drafts of poems and notes for the 1936 version of `The godwits fly' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms (photocopy)

Manuscript

Extracts from 1935 journal

Date: 1935

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MS-Papers-9110-232

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Manuscript

Notebook

Date: [ca 1934]

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MSX-8199

Description: Contains notes for novel about Baron Charles de Thierry, `Check to your King', a poem list and notes for New Zealand Observer articles. Labelled as Exercise book 11. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Online Manuscript

Exercise book 5

Date: [193?]

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MSY-6663

Description: Contains a dedication `To the little Saint Christopher'. The poems contained in this exercise book are Revelation, Chanson, Hospital, The wall, Jeunesse, A daughter to their mother, Rain, Hills, The gipsy of Heaven, To a lady, Pierrette, The mouse, Friend, Fire-swept, Bush-enchanted, Spellbound, Prodigal, The unlighted shrine, Remembering, English trees, Song of a thrush forlorn, To C R H, Triangle, Unsought, Acushla machree, Musician, The gates of sleep, Epitaph, Joan of Arc, The eagle sonnet (`The eagle' crossed out), Man, The slave girl, Quietude, The old caretaker, When the mirror was mended, Hail and Farewell, Meditations of a very young gentleman in his bath, Dedications for a book, Poppaea, Old-fashioned, Wayfarers, Sea love, Firelight, Outcast, Grass, Earth-mother, The Chalice, Orchids, In memory, The unspoken, Knights and the dragon, Summer night, The poet, Paris in Troy, The desolate star, Full moon, Running water, The light, The littlest moon, The shadow, The farmer's wife, Singing, and Haven. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Online Manuscript

Exercise book 1

Date: [ca 1935]

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MSX-8208

Description: Contains notes on New Zealand colonial history Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Online Manuscript

Journal (Exercise 13)

Date: 20 Feb-28 Jul 1935

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MSY-6674

Description: Contains substantial but irregular journal entries. These vary from personal issues, to matters relating to writing, and were at least partly written while in residence at the Grey Lodge in Auckland. The journal also contains some poems, and lists of poems. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Online Manuscript

Exercise book 19

Date: [193?]

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MSX-8184

Description: The poems contained in this exercise book are Seekers, The lost queen, Christchurch, The long journey, The kaiaka trees, Vigil, Reincarnation, Wind and skies, Mountains, Moonsails, Many eternities, Shrine, Waiting, The dweller, Harvest, The last captain, and The traitor Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms

Online Manuscript

Notes on 19th Century and early 20th Century New Zealand history

Date: [between 1934 and 1937]

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MS-Papers-9110-150

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms

Online Manuscript

Journal

Date: October 1935 to March 1938

From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde

Reference: MSX-8206

Description: Contains intermittent journal entries up until Robin Hyde left Shanghai for Canton Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms