GROUP
Series 4 Notebooks
- Date
- 1926-1938
- Reference
- Series-4578
- Description
Notebooks, some numbered, comprising a wide range of journal entries, research notes and drafts of novels, poems and other works. 25 manuscripts from this series have been digitised to enable remote access to this part of the collection.
Quantity: 28 volume(s) 1 folder(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
- Format
- 28 volume(s) 1 folder(s)
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Notebook
Date: 1814-1842, [ca 1934]
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MSX-8200
Description: Contains notes for novel about Baron Charles de Thierry, "Check to your King", including notes specific to De Thierry as well as more general notes about that period of New Zealand colonial history Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms
Notebook (photocopied extracts)
Date: [ca 1936]
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MS-Papers-9110-151
Description: Contains photocopies of parts of `Exercise book 15', including drafts of poems and notes for the 1936 version of `The godwits fly' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms (photocopy)
Extracts from 1935 journal
Date: 1935
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MS-Papers-9110-232
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Notebook
Date: [ca 1934]
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MSX-8199
Description: Contains notes for novel about Baron Charles de Thierry, `Check to your King', a poem list and notes for New Zealand Observer articles. Labelled as Exercise book 11. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms
Exercise book
Date: [December] 1926
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MSX-8185
Description: Inscribed `To Gwen from Iris, Christmas 1926'. The poems contained in this exercise book are La jeunesse, Revelation, Jungle, Journey's end, A daughter to her mother, Prodigal, Spellbound, Chansonette, Pierette, Musician, Nocturne, Unsought, Hills, Joan of Arc, The gipsy of Heaven, Aue, Helen, Remembering, The mouse, The slave girl, Acushla machree, When the mirror was mended, The unlighted shrine, The haunted house, Cedars of Lebanon, Sandcastles, Song of the drowned jewels, Fool's paradise, Fragment, C R H, Wayfarers, Firelight, Half moon, Summer night, The circus, Singing, Dedication, Running water, The farmer's wife, The hour, Tryst, Babel tower, Ultima Thule, The guardians, Welcome, The last queen, Quietude and Desert. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms
Notes on 19th Century and early 20th Century New Zealand history
Date: [between 1934 and 1937]
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MS-Papers-9110-150
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Ms
Journal
Date: October 1935 to March 1938
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MSX-8206
Description: Contains intermittent journal entries up until Robin Hyde left Shanghai for Canton Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms
The godwits fly (i) (Exercise book 16)
Date: [ca 1936]
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MSY-6669
Description: Contains chapter 3 to page 74 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms
Notes for Nor the years condemn
Date: [ca 1935]-[1938]
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MSX-8211
Description: Labelled as exercise book 7 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms
The godwits fly (ii) (Exercise book 17)
Date: [ca 1936]
From: Challis, Derek Arden, 1930-2021: Papers relating to Robin Hyde
Reference: MSY-6670
Description: Contains pages 75 to 148 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms