Series 3 Drafts

Date: 1927

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-32

Description: Incomplete printer's proof for The Tongariro National Park, also incomplete printer's proof for Travel in New Zealand (with annotations). Photographic print of Mount Ruapehu (possibly associated with The Tongariro National Park book). Photograph has inscription on back `Ruapehu from near Waihohonu hut' and is stamped with New Zealand and New Zealand Government Tourist Dept's Photo on back of print. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were a part of 45 in the preliminary list Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1938-1940]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-43

Description: Drafts and research papers relating to New Zealand history, particularly relating to the New Zealand wars, and New Zealand maritime history, and native birdlife in New Zealand, particularly in the Urewera country. Arrangement: Contained in bundle 58 in original listing. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1939-1943]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-42

Description: Drafts, research papers and clippings on various topics, mainly Maori and New Zealand history. Includes draft of `The Waikato War. Defence of the Auckland frontier'. A film narrative `Pathfinders and treasure seekers: The story of the land of gold and greenstone'. A draft of `The lightning: A West Coast Iliad' and typewritten research notes relating to the early history of Westland including information about land purchases and excerpts and copies of correspondence by Ngai Tahu chiefs and James Mackay. Newspaper articles relating to South Island land purchases and the biography of John Tikao `The story of a Maori sailor'. Draft chapter `Gun-running in the King Country' and typewritten research papers and copies of correspondence relating to `Captain Mair's battles: His defeat of Te Kooti. 1870. Hard running fight near Rotorua' this includes a copy of a letter from Gilbert Mair to his brother Robert Mair, written from Ohinemutu in 1870 and copies of other letters. Newspaper articles relating to Te Kooti. Draft of `The story of the Mahuhu' which Cowan describes as a Maori-Polynesian immigrant vessel, also includes a copy of a published article by the same title. Typewritten draft of `Urewera notes: The valley of the bellbirds' (annotated by Cowan). Draft of `Little legends of Maori land: The message of the sea-shell. A story of the East Coast of New Zealand' (carbon copy). Arrangement: Contained in bundle 58 in original listing. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1840-1940]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-25

Description: Typewritten and copies of drafts including one written for the New Zealand Railways Magazine (number 32 in the Famous New Zealanders series) the title in the draft is Maori Chiefs: Te Heuheu Tukino. Other drafts in this folder include `Along the main trunk railway' and `Chapter 2: The mountains of the gods' and `Ruapehu: Its peaks, glaciers and crater lake' and `Guardians of the tapu: The spirits of the mountains' and some handwritten notes about the Te Heuheu family including some whakapapa. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were a part of 45 in the preliminary list Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [18--?-193?]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-26

Description: Mixed and incomplete drafts and research papers relating to various topics including the Ngau-taringa rite (involving the ear of a dying tohunga to transfer the mana tapu or `spiritual power' of the tohunga as they lay on the point of death,' Raureka and the greenstone, Buller Gorge, West coast of the South Island, Westport to Hokitika, Von Haast and the Franz Josef glacier. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were a part of 45 in the preliminary list Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1927]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-27

Description: Handwritten drafts (incomplete) on the topics of Mount Cook National Park and the Tasman Glacier, the Southern Lakes district, Fiordland National Park. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were a part of 45 in the preliminary list Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-30

Description: Incomplete printer's proof of The Tongariro National Park, New Zealand, with annotations. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were a part of 45 in the preliminary list Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1927

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-31

Description: Incomplete printer's proof of The Tongariro National Park, New Zealand, with annotations. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were a part of 45 in the preliminary list Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1823-1940]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-48

Description: Drafts on various topics including Canterbury pastoral lands, Maori history, native forests and birds, Maori tribal warfare, Te Ngutu-o-te-manu battle, a story of a canoe voyage on the Mokau river, whaling and Maori legends. Also biographical stories about Barracouta Jack from `old Whangarei' and Wi Te Manewha of Ngati Raukawa, and a typewritten sheet of whakapapa from Tama-te-kapua to the Warbrick family. Arrangement: From box 58 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1920?-1940?]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-190

Description: Drafts relating to Maori place names mainly around Rotorua, the South Island and Taranaki. Quantity: 1 folder(s).