GROUP
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).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
- Format
- 28 volume(s) 1 folder(s)
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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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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