Address books

Date: [1868-1995]

By: Day, Peter, 1937-

Reference: MS-Group-1137

Description: Comprises correspondence between Ida Baker/Lesley Moore and Peter Day (1969-1977); letters from Helen L R Harvey to Ida Baker/Lesley Moore (1868-1953); Letters from Mary M Murry to Ida Baker/Lesley Moore (1969-1972); and miscellaneous letters (1930-1995). Also Lesley Moore's address book, two of her notebooks of `Random thoughts' for Peter Day, transcript of radio programme on Laurens van der Post (1972) and `Great writers' on Katherine Mansfield (v4, n43) The letters from Ida Baker/Leslie Moore to Peter Day are addressed to him as her grandson and signs them as his grandmother; they mostly discuss mutual friends, their friendship and the book, `Katherine Mansfield, the memories of LM' (1977) which Day ghost-wrote Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 13 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Collection listing in Back file. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from the Book Trade Benevolent Society, per Mr D Hicks, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England, Nov 2002 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs (most from ATL) - To Other - Fabric writing case formerly belonging to Leslie Moore/Ida Baker.

Date: [1935]-1989

By: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989

Reference: MS-Group-0883

Description: Comprises personal papers relating to Campbell's family, work and interests; correspondence, reports and other papers relating to her work with the Friends' Aumbulance Unit in China and her association with the Friends' Service' Council, photographs relating to personal and Society of Friends' interests and personal correspondence with family, friends and Society of Friends' associations Mary Greig Campbell's diaries for 1939-1962, 1964-1968, 1970-1972, 1976-1983; her mother Joanna A Campbell's diaries for 1940-1941; Mary's address books relating to her time in Edinburgh and Shanghai Source of title - Supplied Mary Greig Campbell was born in Scotland, graduated with a degree in 1929 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1939 where she worked as a librarian at Wellington Public Library in the 1940s and at Massey Agricultural College from 1951 until her retirement. She became a Quaker in the 1930s and was active in the organisation throughout her life, serving in the Field Ambulance Unit in China from 1945 to 1951. Quantity: 70 folder(s). 39 volume(s). 0.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Campbell, her friends, and relating to her service within the Society of Friends.

Date: 1941-1945

From: Oakes, Francis Joseph, 1869-1949 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0122-4

Description: Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). Physical Description: Holographs, typescript (copy), newsclipping Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1971-1982

By: Wellington Settlement Trading Company Ltd

Reference: 85-001

Description: Records principally relate to the art gallery and comprise files of correspondence with artists, financial papers and accounts, scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, files on various topics, programmes and posters, and 1982 "Save the Settlement" petition. Source of title - Supplied title Company which ran Wellington Settlement restaurant and art gallery, founded and managed by Harry Seresin. Quantity: 4 box(es). 2 volume(s). 4 folder(s). 1.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: [ca 1893-1998]

By: Cook, Freda Mary, 1896-1990

Reference: ATL-Group-00442

Description: The collection comprises the diaries, correspondence, and photographs of Freda Cook; magazines, pamphlets and photographs relating to her interests in Vietnam and other causes; correspondence and papers relating to Eric Cook in the 1930s and 1940s; papers relating to the proposed Freda Cook Memorial Fund. Title supplied by Library. Accompanying material - In addition to Freda Cook's papers is material relating to a proposed Freda Cook Memorial Fund Cook was a teacher in China in 1960s Quantity: 10 box(es). 14 folder(s). 11 colour original negative(s). 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w original negative(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1 colour original transparency/ies. 3.42 Linear Metres. 8 C60 cassette(s). 2 C90 cassette(s). Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts, photographs, and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Painting by Eric K Cook; possibly self-portrait - To Book Collections - Four printed items. Processing information: Collection descriptions were updated in July 2022 to remove requirement to obtain permission of Chief Librarian for diaries and correspondence files.

Date: 1845-1845

By: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: MS-Papers-0705/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies)

Date: 1925-1995

By: White, Dorothy Mary Neal, 1915-1995

Reference: MS-Group-1262

Description: Comprises diaries and notebooks, correspondence and draft articles on children's reading, librarianship and literature in general. Also included are papers and letters on her study at Canterbury University College, her early library work and her time with the Carnegie School of Librarianship in Pittsburgh (1937-1939). Her personal papers contain family and personal letters, memoranda and housekeeping details, which give a detailed picture of Dunedin middle class life in the 1950s. There also papers relating to her first husband, Dick White, the Dunedin bookseller and actor. She collected brochures, printed material and newspaper cuttings on a wide variety of topics, especially on children's literature and on the Otago Branch of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, of which she was a keen supporter. A committed lay member of the Anglican communion in Dunedin, she also kept papers relating to church work and to St Paul's Cathedral. Finding aid updated with information provided by reseacher, February 2016. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: Divided into series by format and subject. Dorothy Neal White, a noted librarian specialising in children's literature, radio broadcaster and writer, had studied at the Carnegie School of Librarianship in the 1930s and worked from the 1940s at the Dunedin Public Library. The Dorothy Neal White Collection of children's literature at the Nastional Library of New Zealand was named in her honour. Quantity: 243 folder(s). 85 volume(s). 3 box(es). 5.27 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms V Feltham, Wellington, 2004 Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Several pamphlets - To Photographic Archive - 42 black and white, 4 colour original photographic prints from A2004-056 (PAColl-7953).

Date: 1928-1990

By: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994

Reference: MS-Group-0315

Description: Contains a small amount of personal correspondence, 1938-1985; two job diaries, 1951-1957; client files for architectural work undertaken by Cedric Firth for private and governmental clients mostly in Wellington, 1951-1985; files of material relating to various architectural processes; copies of conditions of engagement and similar forms; specifications and schedules; six Auckland University College school of Architecture lecture notebooks, [ca 1928-1929]; account books; address books; miscellaneous financial records and other material relating to Firth's architectural work. Also contains an account book belonging to K B Firth recording lists of property, mortgages, debentures and other financial transactions, [ca 1909-1975]. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s). 6 box(es). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Greta and Hilda Firth, Dunedin, 1994 Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - See DP-94-039 for main collection of plans.

Date: 1987-1993

By: Wellington Women's Work (Inc)

Reference: MS-Papers-6175

Description: Includes constitution of the Society, minutes, correspondence, project proposal and submissions relating to women in the workforce Founded in 1987 and wound up in 1993 Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [1952-1983]

By: Silsby, Minnie Edith, 1895-1988

Reference: MS-Papers-7591

Description: Comprises diaries kept by Silsby from 1952 to 1983 in which she noted the weather, what she did each day, people she met etc. The first two, in the early 1950s describe her visit to England with her mother. Also includes a notebook of purchases and payments and another with names and addresses, and a programme for the OMSK Russian State Ensemble (1967). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es) (26 pieces). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr F McCausland, Waikanae, Nov 2002 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - Group photograph which includes Silsby (PAColl-7747).

Date: [ca 1945-1986]

By: Barrington, Archibald Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: 91-007

Description: Comprises records re Riverside Community including address files, books, notes and a photograph Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - New reformation, by P Goodman (1971) Other Titles - God and the future, by H McKeating (1974) Other Titles - New Zealand community (1973) Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further records re A C Barrington and Riverside Community Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms L Rain, Riverside Community, Lower Moutere (postal address, R D 2 Upper Moutere), Jan 1991 Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1856-1879

By: Cotterell, Thomas Warriner, 1840-1921

Reference: MS-0614-0616

Description: As well as notes on surveying work, the notebooks include mathematical formulae related to surveying, itineraries, shopping lists with Nelson prices, addresses, jokes and sketches; also diary notes for a visit to Wanganui and the Manawatu in 1879. Enclosures (in MS-0615): Sketch of a woman and a prayer, 1858 Source of title - Supplied title Cottrell left England in 1857 and worked as a surveyor in Nelson, Marlborough and the West Coast between 1858 and 1866. Quantity: 3 volume(s) (ca 350 pages). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (13 cm; maroon leather (1-2), black leather (3), in box; 15 cm, black buckram) Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 4 photographs, including daguerrotype portrait. Includes sketches in MS-0614.

Date: 1915-1919, 1940

By: Young, John George, 1887-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-2041

Description: The collection comprises three soldier's paybooks (Jul 1915-Apr 1919); personal papers including leave approval, Paris (Sep 1917); a copy of report on Young to Education Dept (1919); JP's certificate address lists, calling cards & bills; printed ephemera from the NZEF Masonic Association sent to Young during the war Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Biographical material written by donor Young was born in Winton, Southland. He entered the Post & Telegraph Dept in 1902. During WWI he served with the NZ Engineers, Divisional Signal Company in Egypt, Gallipoli and France. He returned to NZ in 1919 with rank of Captain. Was Director-General of Post & Telegraph Dept from 1939-1945, appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1940, and awarded a CBE in 1946. He appears to have had connections with the Masonic Lodge Quantity: 1 folder(s) (27 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss and printed matter

Date: 1940-1945 - 1974-1998

From: Curnow family: Collection

Reference: Series-7048

Description: Jenifter Tole's diaries, mainly for her travel to Europe and the United States in the 1970s to 1990s. Also one diary from her childhood, dated 1940, with notes from 1945. Includes one address book dated 1974. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Delivered to the Library wrapped in bubble wrap, in a transit box with bundles of letters. Quantity: 10 volume(s). Provenance: This material was collected and created by Jeny Curnow until her death in 2013. In the possession of her step-sons Tim and Wystan Curnow after that time. Processing information: The diaries were removed from the bubble wrap. All diaries housed individually in 4-flap folders made from manilla card, then housed together in a custom archival clamshell.

Date: ca 1974

From: Curnow family: Collection

Reference: MSX-10283

Description: Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Processing information: Custom housing was made for this diary by Conservation staff in November 2023.

Date: 1980s

From: Ian Mackersey Productions Limited: Collection relating to 'Jean Batten - The Garbo of the Skies'

Reference: MS-Papers-12771-105

Description: Comprises photocopies of Jean Batten's address book and an encyclopaedia entry of artists Angelica Kaufmann. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1980s

From: Ian Mackersey Productions Limited: Collection relating to 'Jean Batten - The Garbo of the Skies'

Reference: MS-Papers-12771-053

Description: Comprises contact information for individuals and organisations relevant to Mackersey's research of Jean Batten. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1970-1984]

From: Danilow family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6470-037

Description: Estate and funeral arrangements; draft wills and bequests; letter to Ariadne re specifics of his estate (1974); article, memoirs of N N Danilow (NZ Slavonic journal, 1976, n1); speech by Patrick Waddington at funeral serice; tribute in university circular (1976); `From sickle and swastika to the Union Jack', story of a double refugee by Nicholas (1940); `Words of comfort', Bible Society; declaration re Esper de Conne's residence (1946); financial transactions including donations; copies and drafts of outward letters; notice of meeting of Wellington Tolstoy Society; papers re Nicholas's death, notices, funeral and catering arrangements etc; claim for broken glasses (1988); and telegram from Diana Mason (1958) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1970-1995]

From: Wills Johnson, Kate Miria, 1929-1995: Papers and photographs relating to the Chatham Islands

Reference: MSX-5427

Description: Alphabetically arranged address book in the front part of the notebook; and from the back, an alphabetically listed priced produce record. Also anecdotal clippings and invitation to Miss T Idiens to the marriage of Gladys Bowie to Arthur Scott at Portstewart (1948). Quantity: 1 volume(s). Processing information: Previous access statement 'Restricted - Content cannot be accessed without permission" was removed in May 2022.

Date: 1967, 1980-1995

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11115-010

Description: Contains appointment diaries (many from the University of Auckland) and address books Quantity: 1 box(es).