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Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
- Date
- [1931-1981]
- By
- Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981
- Reference
- ATL-Group-00873
- Description
Papers include correspondence with family, friends, academic colleagues, school children; correspondence with literary agent and his various publishers; drafts of fiction and non fiction works, including unpublished novels and an autobiography of his early life; articles, essays, reviews and lecture notes. Includes a sound recording of a talk about his novel 'A Soldier's Tale'.
Title supplied by Library.
Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-11748 for a letter by Michael Kennedy Joseph written to his father that details a 1952 bus trip through Spain.
M K Joseph was a writer and academic
Quantity: 131 folder(s). 6 volume(s). 1.55 Linear Metres. 1 C90 cassette(s).
Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, audiocassette and printed matter
Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs M J Joseph, Auckland, 1999, Feb 2005
Transfers: Collection as a whole received by Manuscripts; material transferred to other Sections from here - To Photographic Archive - 1 folder of photographs (PAColl-8824).
Processing information: Access Restrictions removed December 2022.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 131 folder(s), 6 volume(s), 1.55 Linear Metres, 1 C90 cassette(s), Notes (Documents), Autobiographies, Résumés (Personnel records), Personal correspondence, Speeches, Poetry, Clippings, Diaries, Logs (Records), Manuscripts, Audiocassettes, Holographs, mss, typescripts, audiocassette and printed matter
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Copyright
Unknown
Sound recording of M K Joseph
Date: ca 1979-1980
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: OHC-031062
Description: M K Joseph talks to a Northcote College seventh form class about his novel 'A Soldier's Tale'. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing. Write-protection tab removed by Library.
The Tram; Poem about camels
Date: 1960, n d
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6678-113
Description: Two poems; `Poem about camels' was recited at an Auckland Music Festival Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter
Travel diary
Date: 19 Aug-10 Sep 1939
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MSX-7471
Description: Contains an account of a visit to France and Belgium while a student at Oxford University. Joseph was in Begium when Germany invaded Poland and returned to Dover on 2 September, the day before the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms
Lecture notes - Science fiction
Date: 1976, 1979
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6678-081
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter
Talk on the role of the university
Date: 1965
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6678-018
Description: Text of a talk given to the Catholic Society on the role of the university Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Correspondence - Publishing and personal
Date: 1924, [1970-1980]
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8234-07
Description: Inward and outward correspondence relating to publishing; entered in the Name field Also includes photocopy of letter from George F Joseph to nis wife, Ernestine (1924) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Lecture notes - C S Lewis and the medieval mind
Date: [197-?]
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6678-070
Film and radio reviews
Date: 1950-1953
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6678-060
Description: Reviews of films and radio programmes published in `Zealandia' and `New Zealand listener'. Most are in the form of cuttings from these two publication but there are also several holograph and typescript drafts included. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts and printed matter
A Soldier's tale - Draft
Date: [197-]
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6678-048
Description: Typescript draft of `A Soldier's tale' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
I'll soldier no more - Draft
Date: [195-]
From: Joseph, Michael Kennedy, 1914-1981 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6678-034
Description: Pages 1-125 of holograph draft of `I'll soldier no more' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph