Voltaire, 1694-1778

Date: 1876-1877

By: Cox, Josiah Goodwin, 1861-1949

Reference: MS-0619

Description: At the back are notes on English drama and copies of Voltaire's Merope and Alzira, adapted by Aaron Hill Quantity: 1 volume(s) (164 pages). Physical Description: Mss (20 cm; ¼ blue paper, purple boards)

Date: 1978

Reference: Eph-B-DOWNSTAGE-1978

Description: Includes: "Candide", the best of all possible shows. Music by Leonard Bernstein; book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler. Director Anthony Taylor; musical director Peter Marshall. Hannah Playhouse, 30 November 1978. Programme (2 copies) "Candide", the best of all possible shows. Packaging (2 copies) "Crossing Niagara", by Alonso Alegria, translated by Gwenda Pandolfi. (With Bill Stalker as Blondin; John Banas as Carlo). Direction Jan Prettejohns. 9 February 1978. Programme / flier (2 copies) Press release 7 March 1978: re "Heroes and butterflies", "Stage-Truck" and "Crossing Niagara" Press release 2 May 1978: re "School for clowns", "Three New Zealand poets read their work", "Standard safety" Press release 1 June 1978: re "State of the play", publication of "Middle Age Spread", "Standard safety" Newsletter 1 June 1978: re Downstage Theatre-in-Education '78. ("Varnished faces", "The merchant of Venice") Press release 23 August 1978: re "Fancy's child", Shakespeare the sadist" News sheet re: "The Palace of varieties", and "Crossing Niagara" Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and fliers, sizes varying below 330 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Stella Milne, Wellington, in 2014

Date: 1978

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: C-134-163/168

Description: Includes designs for the costumes of Large male slave, Voltaire as the Host (Ken Blackburn), Tumblers (Lorae Parry, Peter Scott, Kevin Rush), Swings (Bruce May [Phillips?]), Stiltwalker (Stephen Gledhill), Juggler (Lloyd Scott), Gipsy (Philippa Campbell), Chinese wrestlers (Kathryn Rawlings), The Baroness, Don Issachar, Footman, Agents, Paquette (Miss Paula Keenan), Auto da Fe Madonna, Jesuit monk, Jungle, Slave Market, Eldorado, Findle, Pirates, Sailors, Bulgarian soldiers, Slave driver. On the designer's own inventory as item number 11/104. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and gouache, and felt pen, on card of sizes varying from 505 x 295 mm, to 505 x 785 mm.

Date: [ca 1975-1983]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

By: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: A-454-442

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon is trying to balance on a plinth that is slowly coming apart. The top part is labelled “Power” and it is coming away from the bottom. A cat is running out of the way and a dog is saying “As Voltaire said: if the government hadn’t been returned, we would have nothing to laugh at…”. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing, 245 x 210 mm

Date: 1978

From: Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :[Three theatre design drawings. 1975?, 1978]

Reference: C-139-004

Description: Shows costumes on five figures from 'Candide', Scene 22 at Cartagena: Fruit seller, citizens 4 5 & 7, whores 1 & 2, and flower seller. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing, on heavy card, 500 x 750 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1745.. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1962

By: Keys, Allwyn Charles, 1906-1986

Reference: qMS-1104

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (17 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pam case)

Date: 1978

From: Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :[Three theatre design drawings. 1975?, 1978]

Reference: C-139-006

Description: Shows costumes of two marionette puppets for the Fairground prologue scene, for actors Mr Mike Hyde and Miss Susan O'Brien. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on heavy card, 495 x 545 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1745.. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1989

From: Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999 : Papers

By: de Musset, Alfred, 1810-1857; Voltaire, 1694-1778

Reference: MS-Papers-5378-228

Description: Translations of 'The Story of a white blackbird' by Alfred De Musset, translated by Eric Crozier for the grand occasion of Steuart Bedford's 50th birthday, 31 July 1989, and 'The Innocent' a true story by Voltaire (1767) Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 items. Physical Description: Typescript (copy)

Date: 2015

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0030317

Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'Freedom of speech debate continues. Freedom of speech is not always free'. Multiple versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 3 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2015

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0030968

Description: Shows an approximation of a quote from French writer and philosopher Voltaire 'It is forbidden to kill... unless done in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets'. Comments on how war legitimises the killing of men and may refer to the Government's decision to deploy New Zealand troops to Iraq to help in the fight against the Islamic State (IS). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2015

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0031201

Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states "Cartoon punning on the 'je suis Charlie' freedom-of-speech campaign in France. Cartoon depicts Voltaire who famously wrote, "Je pense, donc je suis"." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).