Victoria University Press
Inward correspondence
Date: 1979-1980
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-2402-44
Description: Inward and outward corresponence; identified persons entered under Name below. Also includes correspondence with Dick and Betty, Epsom, Auckland; letters from Rolle, Christchurch, and letter from Michael, Tokyo, regarding his novel and New Zealand contacts. Several poems by Glover included with his letters. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
As fair as New Zealand to me - New Zealand Writers in Katherine Mansfield's Menton
Date: 2000
From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield
By: Victoria University Press
Reference: MS-Papers-11923-92
Description: 'As fair as New Zealand to me - New Zealand Writers in Katherine Mansfield's Menton' - published by Victoria University Press, 2000. ISBN 0 86473 398 4. Inscribed "Brownlee - from the Urry family Christmas 2000", by James Urry, professor of anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound printed matter
Correspondence
Date: 1985
From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5146-38
Description: Contains correspondence received by Edmond from various friends and relating to publication of her work in 1985; includes some letters from Trevor Edmond, and some from the English Department, Massey University. Also letters from David D re quasi-transcription, Clive and Ida of Napier, Tui of Napier, [?] Roida or Ronda and Brian E of Deaking University. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Publishers and printers
Date: 1983 - 1988
From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield
Reference: MS-Papers-11923-09
Description: Correspondence regarding research for Katherine Mansfield bibliography with publishers and printers from the period 1983 to 1988. Includes the following correspondents: - Adelphi Edizioni (Milan, Italy) - The Alden Press (Oxford) - Sandra Cox - Allen & Unwin (Wellington) - Bridget Williams - Beacon Press (Boston) - P A Gallo - Butler & Tanner Ltd (Somerset) - Ross Cornish - Jonathan Cape Ltd (London) - Carcanet Press Limited (London) - Robyn L Marsack - Cassell Ltd (London) - Barry Holmes (Marketing Manager) - Century Hutchinson Limited (London) - Kate Moss - includes pages from printed promotional material - Century Hutchinson New Zealand Limited (Auckland) - Chris Price (Editorial Assistant) - Clark Constable (Printers) (London) - K Dickson (Sales Office Supervisor) - Collins Publishers (Glasgow) - Gerald McFadden (Central Business Administration) - Collins Publishers (London) - Gillian R Gibbins - Constable Publishers (London) - Ben Glazebrook (Chairman and Managing Director); Christine Senior - Coward McCann (New York) - Dover Publications (New York) - Monica Berger (Office of the President) - J M Dent & Sons Limited (London) - Judy Tagg (Everyman Editor) - Antaeus - The Ecco Press (New York) - Megan Ratner (Managing Editor) - The Favil Press of Kensington (Worthing, Sussex) - F Chow - Howard Fertig, Incorporated Publisher (New York) - Howard Fertig - Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (Frankfurt am Main) - Ingrid-Maria Gelhausen (Belletristisches Lektorat) - The Folio Society Limited (London) - Seu Bradbury (Editorial Director) - The Franklin Library (New York) - Diane Shapiro (Rights Director) - Franklin Watts, Incorporated (New York) - Rose Carrano (Editor) - Golden Press Pty Limited (Auckland) - Alan Smith (General Manager); (Drummoyne, New South Wales) - Susan Yell (Editor) - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Incorporated (Orlando, Florida) - Margaret Mary McQuillan (Senior Vice President and Secretary) - Harrap Limited (London) - D Colley (Contracts Manager) - Hodder and Stoughton Limited (Auckland) - Bert Hingley (Publishing Director) - Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberger (Leipzig, Germany) - Roland Links (Director) - Kenkyusha Limited Publishers (Tokyo, Japan) - Yoshiaki Hamamatsu (Chief of Publications Department) - Gomer Press - J D Lewis & Sons Limited (Dyfed, Wales) - John H Lewis - Lloyd O'Neil Pty Limited (South Yarra, Victoria) - Lloyd O'Neill - Longman Group Limited (Harlow, Essex) - Andrew MacLennan (Publisher) - Macmillan of Canada (Toronto) - Dougas M Gibson (Publisher) - The Macmillan Press Limited (London) - Frances A Arnold (Editor); Jill Swainson - Michael Joseph Limited (London) - Sally Holloway - Penguin Books Limited (London) - Naomi Caplin (Secretary to Peter Carson) - Playmarket - Script Reading Service and Playwright's Agency (Wellington) - Ann Paetz; Nonnita Rees - Price Milburn Publishers & Co Ltd (Petone, Wellington) - Jill Cunningham (Research Officer) - Society of Master Printers of Scotland (Edinburgh) - J B Raeburn (Director) - Stanford University Press (California) - Charlene R Androes (Assistant to Director) - Taplinger Publishing Company (New York) - Unwin Hyman (London) - Doris M Ayres - Virago Press (London) - Rosalind Smith; Lynn Knight - Victoria University of Wellington - Fergus Barrowman (Editor - Victoria University Press) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holograph, typescript and printed matter
Material related to "The Little Ache"
Date: 2013-2015, April-June 2021
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: Series-5943-1
Description: Documents, correspondence, applications, and photographs related to the research and writing of 'The Little Ache' (Victoria University Press, 2021). Dating from 2013 to 2015, and including a file box listing created in 2021. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally delivered to the Library in an archive box with handwritten label "Box 1/2 | 1. The Little Ache | 2. The Reed Warbler". Quantity: 15 folder(s). Processing information: Annotated post-it notes were removed from materials, and not retained. Photocopies of them are kept alongside the material.
Material related to "The Reed Warbler"
Date: 2013-2021
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: Series-5943-2
Description: Material related to the research, writing, publishing, and reception of “The Reed Warbler” (Victoria University Press, 2020) dated from 2013 to 2021, and a box listing created in 2021. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Material was delivered to the Library in two archive boxes. One had a handwritten label "Box 1/2 | 1. The Little Ache | 2. The Reed Warbler". The other box was labelled "Box 3 | Reed Warbler | 3/1 3/2 3/3". Quantity: 17 folder(s). 2 volume(s). Processing information: Annotated post-it notes were removed from materials, photocopied on archival paper and put alongside the material.
Wellington Media Collective 1978-1998
Date: 2010-2013, 2016
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: Series-5944-1
Description: Material related to the archive, book and exhibition projects documenting the work of the Wellington Media Collective dated from 2010 to 2013, and including a box listing created in 2016. The material documents the publication of a book in 2013 through Victoria University Press in conjunction with Wellington Media Collective, and an exhibition at Te Pātaka Toi | Adam Art Gallery from 23 October to 21 December 2012 and from 22 January to 10 February 2013. Both were entitled “We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective 1978–1998”. It also includes documentation for the project to catalogue and digitise the graphic works, mainly posters, produced by the Collective, which are now available at the National Library of New Zealand. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally delivered to the Library in an archive box, labelled by hand "1. Wellington Media Collective | 2. Trifecta | Box #2". Quantity: 5 folder(s).
'Trifecta' (formerly The Nap)
Date: 2013-2016
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: Series-5943-4
Description: Material related to the research, writing and publication of the novel, initially called “The Nap” and published as “Trifecta” in 2015 by Victoria University Press. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally enclosed in a filebox labeled "Trifecta (formerly The Nap)". Material in the filebox was grouped using bulldog clips. This filebox was one of two delivered to the Library in an archive box with handwritten label "1. Wellington Media Collective | 2. Trifecta | Box #2". Quantity: 4 folder(s). Processing information: Material was removed from clips and put in archival folders.
Material related to “The Grass Catcher: A digression about home”
Date: 1957 - 1961 - 2012-2016
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: Series-5943-3
Description: Material related to the book “The Grass Catcher: A digression about home” (Victoria University Press, 2014), from circa 1957, 1961 and 2012 to 2016. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally delivered to the Library in an archive box, labelled by hand "The Grass catcher |Box 1 ". Material in the archive box was grouped in envelopes, bulldog clips and paperclips. A box listing was enclosed. Quantity: 13 folder(s). Processing information: Material was removed from the box and clips and put in archival folders. The box was not kept. Annotated post-it notes were removed from materials. If the information was not included in the box listing, the note photocopied on archival paper and put alongside the material.
Proofs, drafts, applications, documents and listing
Date: 2017-2021
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12895-004
Description: Material dating from 2017 to 2020. Includes: Readers’ report, proofs and drafts, and reviews of the book; grant applications, budgets and reports related to Creative New Zealand funding, dated 2017 to 2019; and a photocopied, signed contract with Victoria University Press, dated 26 August 2020. Includes an annotated and dated file box listing by the donor from June 2021. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Originally enclosed in a file box labelled "The Reed Warbler | Box 2". Material in the file box was grouped in envelopes, bulldog clips and paperclips. This file box was one of two delivered to the Library in an archive box with handwritten label "Box 1/2 | 1. The Little Ache | 2. The Reed Warbler". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Material was removed from the boxes and clips and put in archival folders. The boxes were not kept.
Correspondence with publishers
Date: 1979-1990
From: Shaw, Helen Lilian, 1913-1984 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7642-263
Description: Correspondence contined by Frank Hofmann after Shaws death.Includes royalty statements, publishers' catalogues and related ephemera. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Contracts and agreements
Date: 1979-2010
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-048
Description: Comprises film development and publishing contracts and agreements accompanied by related correspondence. Also includes inwards correspondence related to Ian Wedde's appointment as Honorary Research Fellow, Auckland University, 2007-2010. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss
Papers relating to Now See Hear (3 of 3)
Date: 1989-1990
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-104
Description: Comprises papers relating to the 'Now See Hear' exhibition at Wellington City Art Gallery 1990, and the related book publication. Includes inwards correspondence, copies of outward correspondence, lists, draft essays, newspaper clipping, pamphlet, photocopy of article, and budget. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed material Processing information: Names selectively indexed.
Papers relating to The Catastrophe
Date: Aug-Sep 2009, Feb 2011
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-207
Description: Comprises print-outs of emails, draft publishing agreement, and research papers (print-outs of webpages, newspaper clipping, and notes) for novel 'The Catastrophe' by Ian Wedde. The agreement lists title as 'The Food Writer/White Taxi'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss, printed matter
VUP essays etc (4 of 4)
Date: 1986-1988, 1993
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-222
Description: Comprises fax message and photocopies of published reviews by Ian Wedde of New Zealand art exhibitions, relating to his collection of critical writing 'How to be nowhere'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss
Magazines, reports, lectures (5 of 10)
Date: 1978-1984, 1992, [nd]
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-197
Description: Comprises inwards and outwards letters, fax, draft contents list for 'How to be Nowhere' collection of essays by Ian Wedde, tax invoice, and photocopies. Also includes an unattributed draft of prose relating to a 1981 writers workshop in Masterton. Source of title - Supplied by creator Arrangement: Originally delivered in a box labelled 'Magazines, reports, lectures hard copy? - 2007' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss
Peter Black book project
Date: Mar-Nov 2010
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-218
Description: Comprises papers relating to 'I loved you the moment I saw you' by Peter Black and Ian Wedde: print-outs of emails, drafts of the book essay, notes, letters, and print-out of web article. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss
Making Ends Meet (3 of 8)
Date: Sep-Oct 2004, [nd]
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-265
Description: Comprises readers report, print-outs of emails and notes, and disparate annotated proof pages of the book 'Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks, 1992-2004' by Ian Wedde. Names selectively indexed. Source of title - supplied by creator Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss
Downstage Theatre Trust - publishing agreement
Date: 2003-2004
From: Downstage Theatre Company (Wellington) : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-11801-091
Description: Publishing agreement between Victoria University Press and John Smythe and the Downstage Theatre Trust for the volume, 'Downstage at 40', which was published in 2004 as 'Downstage upfront - the first 40 years of New Zealand's longest running professional theatre'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Subject files - Search for a publisher
Date: 1986-2003
From: Maclean, Elizabeth Susan, 1932-2011 : Research papers relating to Frederick de Jersey Clere
Reference: MS-Papers-11828-70
Description: Subtitled 'A Story in itself!', contains correspondence with publishers, notes, extracts from style books and other material relating to her attmpts find a publisher for her biography of Clere. Quantity: 1 folder(s).