Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928

Date: 1930-1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning New Zealand poets, poetry poetry readings]

Reference: Eph-A-POETRY-1930s

Description: Includes: 1934: St Andrew Burns Club. The regular monthly meeting ... Rechabite Hall, 125 Willis Street, 15 October 1934. Speaker Rbt Hogg esq. Invitation card 1935: Wellington Verse-Speaking Choir, conductor W J Mountjoy; accompanist Barbara Bannister. Second annual recital. Blue Triangle Hall, Boulcott Street, 5 December 1935. Souvenir programme and book of words 1936: Wellington Verse-Speaking Choir, director W J Mountjoy; accompanist Barbara Bannister. First recital of 1936-37 season. Blue Triangle Hall, Boulcott Street, 2-3 October 1936. Souvenir programme and book of words (Poets included New Zealanders Katherine Mansfield, Eileen Duggan, O N Gillespie, Gloria Rawlinson, David McKee Wright) 1937: Wellington Verse-Speaking Choir, director W J Mountjoy. Final recital. Concert Chamber Town Hall, 7 July 1937. Souvenir programme and book of words Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1939 - 1973 - 01 Jan 1939 - 01 Jan 1967

From: Stout Research Centre Oral Literary Archive

By: Lee, John Alfred Alexander, 1891-1982

Reference: OHInt-0013-175

Description: Tape 1, Side 1:- 1. Tribute to Robin Hyde (Iris Wilkinson). 2. 'On the swag' No. 1 ; Talks about swaggers and recalls meeting Henry Lawson - 1948. 3. Talks about 'John A Lees's Weekly', his book, 'Children of the poor', and his attitude to life - 1964. Side 2:- 4. 'On the Swag' No 2 - work of swagger poets, David McKee Wright, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson - 1948. 5. Talks about his writing, specifically, 'Delinquent days', 'Children of the Poor', 'The Hunted' - 1967. Tape 2:- (1948/1969) Side 1. 1. Joins in a panel discussion on the 'Penny dreadful', Is it a menace to our children? - with A R D Fairburn and Miss M Peat (Librarian) - part of 'The Peoples' Forum', Auckland - 1948. TAPE 3. John A Lee talks about David McKee Wright, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, and reads their work - 1973. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003409 - OHC-003410 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 3 interview(s). 1 event(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: [1969], 2010-2011

From: Garland, Phil, 1942-2017: Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-11839-057

Description: Contains song lyrics and poems transcribed by Garland from books, newspapers, and other sources. Some material appears to have been copied from items held in the Hocken Library (Dunedin), when Garland undertook research in 1969. Includes poems and songs written by Charles Thatcher, David McKee Wright, George Meek, Hamilton Thompson, and others. Also includes poems printed from historic newspapers on the PapersPast website. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1930s-1950s

From: Mulgan, Alan Edward, 1881-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0224-19

Description: Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 17 Feb 1941

From: Music by New Zealand composers : Manuscript music

By: Taylor, Joye Wilhelmina, 1898-1979; Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928

Reference: MS-Papers-1127-12-2

Description: Enclosures - Newsclippings concerning David McKee Wright and his poetry Physical Description: 2 pages ; holograph, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Joye Taylor, 1969

Date: 1945-1950

From: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004 : Papers

By: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004; Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939; Southey, Robert, 1774-1843; Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928; Dekker, Thomas, 1572-1632; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674; Hall, Derek Stephen, active 1950

Reference: MS-Papers-8779-025

Description: Includes originals and copies of The lake isle of Innis free and How Beautiful is night and a manuscript book containing the same songs and others Other Titles - Rondo ; for piano / by Ronald Dellow ; (1945) Other Titles - Down by the Salley Gardens ; for voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words by WB Yeats ; (1946) Other Titles - How beautiful is night ; for voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words by Robert Southey ; (1947) Other Titles - The Lake Isle of Innisfree ; for voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words by WB Yeats ; (1947) Other Titles - Morn's desire ; for high voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words by David McKee Wright ; (1947) Other Titles - O the month of May (The first three man's [men's] song) ; for voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words from The Shoemaker's holiday by Thomas Dekker ; (1947) Other Titles - She walks in beauty ; for tenor voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words Byron ; (1948) Other Titles - Upon a gentlewoman with a sweet voice ; for voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words by Robert Herrick Other Titles - Snow ; for high voice and piano / by Ronald Dellow ; words by Derek Stephen Hall ; (1950) Other Titles - Will Shakespeare - songs ; for voice and piano Other Titles - Boy's song (Act III Scene I) Other Titles - Drinking song (Act III Scene II) Other Titles - Mary's songs Other Titles - Hawkers cries Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1950-1977

From: Farquhar, David Andross, 1928-2007 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

Reference: f-81-029-177

Description: Other Titles - Paire of wings / Stephen Hawes (1965, rev 1977) Other Titles - Half a popular song (1958) Other Titles - Primrose / Herrick (1951) Other Titles - Falling asleep / Charles Brasch (1950) Other Titles - Mary / David McKee Wright Other Titles - Wild iron / Allen Curnow (1951) Other Titles - Hand without heart / Denis Glover (1951) Other Titles - Two songs ; for Raydia Other Titles - Combing song / George Peele (1955, rev 1977) Other Titles - Take thou this rose / Helen Waddell (1955, rev 1977) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: ca 1897, ca 1926

By: Wright, Kenneth E McKee, active 2003

Reference: PAColl-7604

Description: Portraits of David McKee Wright (1869-1928), shepherd, poet, journalist and Congregational minister. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-201431-F and 1/2-201432-F; colour transparency at PA12-3356; Photocopies on shelf at PAColl-7604 Quantity: 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [between 1957 and 1958]

From: Farquhar, David Andross, 1928-2007 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

Reference: f-81-029-068

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (transparencies)

Date: 1945

By: Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928

Reference: MS-2527

Description: First proof; includes essay on the poet by John A Lee; autographed by the editor; published by Wright and Jacques Ltd, Auckland Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 61 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with ms annotations and typescript additions (26cm, ¼ red roan, red cloth)

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-094

Description: Names of correspondents not entered in Name Field include: A E Wolfe-Aylward; Mrs H H Wolters; J Wolters; Miss E A Woodhead; Esther O'Grady (niece of Miss Woodhead) re her father Colonel P D Vigors; Henry Wright; Joseph Wright re The English Dialect Dictionary (1926); Mrs Katharine R Wright; Wright Stevenson & Co (Wellington); Wyatt & Wilson (Christchurch). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1604-1900]

Reference: 73-151

Description: Comprises letters of Comte de Charles Pierre Claret Fleurien (1791-1808); Capts Louis I Duperry and Legentil (1779-1833); Bruny D'Entrecasteau (1782-1791); Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiere to Sir Joseph Banks re the La Perouse expedition (1796); papers of Louis Antoine Bougainville (1770-1833); article by Trelawney Saunders on Capt FitzRoy's government of NZ (1855); Alvaro de Mendana, `Relacion del descudrimiento que yendo por General hizo on el mar del Sur'; `Paples reunidos para ilustrar la historia del descubrimineto de las Regiones Australes; Luis Vaez de Torres, `Relacion de descudrimientos (1604); `Relaciones varias referentes a la Australia'; and T H B [ie T H Bumby], New Zealand Language (all from the group of papers photocopied for Ray Grover in 1972) Also includes letter, Lili Kraus to Nettie Palmer (1960); letters, Jane Mander to Vance Palmer [?] 1930; David McKee Wright, letters to Mrs Crowther, Mr Mackaness (1927) and poem, `The Unnamed'; drawings and diary entries from Montgomerie's drawings of the South Island, New Zealand (1862-1871) and other unidentified item; John Dunmore Lang, inward letters from Samuel Marsden, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Felix Wakefield Also includes letters of the Philip Gidley King family which include FitzRoy correspondence, letters mainly from G W Rusden to grandson of King re Bryce; printed correspondence between F D Bell and Rusden re date Wiremu Kingi migrated to Waikanae (1883) and letters written from Londond and Italy (1883-1888) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See further collections relating to most of the people; see also MS-Papers-0780 for main part of J D Lang collection Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1912-1913

By: Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928

Reference: MS-Papers-2651

Description: Contents: `The Smugglers', `The Adventurers' and `A political adventure' Source of title - Supplied title New Zealand poet Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Processing information: Transferred from Misc MS W2

Date: [1890-1900]

From: Taylor, Joye Wilhelmina, 1899-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7470

Description: Three edited holograph poems by David McKee Wright, `The Brown witch', `Sanctuary' and `Progress' with note on Maire, Maura, Maure and Moire by Wright The poems were found inside Joye Taylor's copy of David McKee Wright's, `Wisps of tussock' (1900) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: n d

By: Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928

Reference: MS-Papers-0887

Description: Contents: Moira - The overlanders - The dead pixie - A dream of mixed girl, by George Street - Ireland - Dark Rosaleen and a play, The magic of Oisiu, a parable of the times Source of title - Supplied title New Zealand poet Quantity: 1 folder(s) (57 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1900, [ca 1950]

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: MS-Papers-7984-1

Description: Small book of poems by David McKee Wright, published in 1900. On page facing inside cover has a note by John A Lee describing his enthusiasm for Wright's work. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter Processing information: Found in the Roth book collection and transferred to Manuscripts and Archives Section.

Date: Oct 1947

From: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004 : Papers

By: Dellow, Ronald Graeme, 1924-2004; Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928

Reference: MS-Papers-8779-194

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

Date: [ca 1921]-1961

By: Mulgan, Alan Edward, 1881-1962

Reference: MS-Papers-0224

Description: Correspondence with or notes on many New Zealand writers including John A Lee, David McKee Wright, Nelle Scanlan, Jessie Mackay, Eileen Duggan, E L Eyre and others. Also typescripts of some of Mulgan's articles and radio talks, including one on the history of the Wellington Regiment. Notes for `Great days in New Zealand writing' and reference to his other publications. Other Titles - Great days in New Zealand writing Quantity: 32 folder(s). 0.32 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1944

By: Wright, David McKee, 1869-1928

Reference: qMS-2298

Description: Source of title - Title page New Zealand poet Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript with mss annotations (33 cm; ¼ blue roan, blue cloth) Finding Aids: Index of first lines, & glossary.

Date: 1929-1954

From: Scholefield, Guy Hardy, 1877-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0212-C/06

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (57 letters). Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts Finding Aids: See inventory for a fuller description of the contents of this folder.