New Zealand. Department of External Affairs and Cook Islands

Date: 1940-1950

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-8752-274

Description: Telegrams and letters of condolence on Fraser's death, newspaper report of death of Savage, and memorial booklet; memorandum from External Affairs re Pacific Islands Federation and status of the Cook Islands; correspondence re censorship of Edith Moore's `No friend of democracy' with J A Lee (1942) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926

By: Gray, James Dunbar, 1872-1942

Reference: MSX-4407

Description: Private travel diary of J D Gray, Secretary of the Department of External Affairs and Cook Islands, describing official tours in April-May and December 1926, of the Cook Islands, Samoa and Fiji. Entries are detailed, but some are in shorthand; includes lists of expenses. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr M N Blundell, 1996

Date: ca 1940

By: New Zealand. Department of External Affairs and Cook Islands

Reference: PAColl-5302

Description: Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: May-Jul 1987

Reference: OHColl-0176

Description: Commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to collect resource material for the Ministry's historical archives in the form of life histories of a selected group of early and long-serving personnel. The object of the interviews was also to provide a human insight into the evolution of the Ministry. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Relates to an oral history proejct at Library reference OHColl-1261. Quantity: 14 C60 cassette(s). 3 printed abstract(s). 3 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: [1939-1948]

From: Danilow family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6470-082

Description: Correspondence and official papers in English, German, French and Russian, telegrams and notes relating to the efforts made by Nicholas Danilow to bring Ariadne de Conne to New Zealand; includes list of book quantities; inquiries as to the welfare of Ariadne de Conne in Vienna and Anna Danilow in Tartu; financial arrangements by Nicholas in NZ for Ariadne; entry permit applications; telegram from Stockholm (Kelvin Lindemann) that Mrs Daniklow and Ariadne were well (1944); letters to Esper de Conne, Ariadne and Maraietta; letter, `For Mother only' from Nicholas (1946) Ariadne de Conne and Nicholas Danilow were engaged to be married before WWII but were separated by the war with Nicholas arriving in New Zealand in 1940 and Ariadne remaining in Vienna; they were finally reunited in 1948 and were married in Wellington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

By: New Zealand. Department of External Affairs and Cook Islands

Reference: PAColl-5301

Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/4-009906 to 009908 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1931-1978

By: McIntosh, Alister Donald Miles (Sir), 1906-1978

Reference: MS-Group-1120

Description: The papers cover the whole of McIntosh's professional life from his involvement with the development of a National library service in the 1930s while working at the General Assembly Library through his subsequent career in the Prime Minister's Department and as Secretary of External Affairs. They deal extensively with New Zealand's foreign policy as well as with defence and trade issues. Arrangement: The original order of the papers has been retained. The file numbers have been incorporated in the title of individual folders to enable detailed inventories and indexes supplied by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to be used. Served as Permanent Head of Prime Minister's Department, 1943-1966 and Secretary for External Affairs, 1943-1966 Quantity: 481 folder(s). 7.80 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Partial inventories and indexes are available. Original inventory of Series One Dispatch box - Fraser period is located at MS-Papers-6759-466; inventory and index of Series 2-5 (files A01-D40) are located at fMS-Papers-6759-1 and index to Series 6 (Personal correspondence) is located at fMS-Papers-6759-2.. Provenance: These papers were previously held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ministry historian, Malcolm Templeton arranged for the deposit to the Library in 1999. A further 12 folders were recieved from Mr Templeton in 2002.