Written texts of stage plays, screenplays, and radio or television broadcasts.
Scripts (Documents)
Atkinson, Jane Mary (Molly), 1909-2008 : Papers
Date: 1888-2005
By: Atkinson, Molly, 1909-2008
Reference: ATL-Group-00872
Description: Papers relating to Molly Atkinson's career as a singer and teacher include scrapbooks (1929-1955), photographs, programmes, newsclippings, radio scripts, music scores and items relating to her father, Karl Atkinson. Includes sound recordings of Molly Atkinson speaking about music. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 54 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 3 C60 cassette(s). 2 C90 cassette(s). 2 audiocassette(s). 1 C100 cassette(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Basic listing available. Provenance: Molly Atkinson gave some papers to Morva Croxson herself; others handed on by estate trustees Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into manuscripts, transfers made from here - From Published Sound Collection - Songs by Oscar Natzke, Mobil Song Quest 1963, When the saints go marching in, Wellington Schola Cantorum - From Sound and Music Centre - Patti singing `Batti batti' - To Photographic Archive - Photos relating to broadcasting and Karl Atkinson, musicians, Centennial `Faust' transferred 19 Dec 1988 (55 photos) - To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Molly Atkinson, including formal portraits and award ceremonies (lPAColl-0979 & PAColl-9407)l-0979 a. Processing information: some child records described
Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers
Date: [1908-1986]
By: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Maria Theodor, 1910-1986
Reference: MS-Group-0563
Description: The collection comprises Strewe's correspondence with his family in Germany (much of this is in German), his New Zealand family and friends. It also includes papers relating to his Somes Island internment, his work as a lansdscape gardener and architect, tapes and transcripts of interviews with Frank Sargeson, poetry, articles, short stories, journals, a film project for the Australian Film Commission with Marsha Bennett and other material. Language - Most of the family correspondence between Strewe and his family in Germany is in German; clippings and articles and other papers also in German Source of title - Supplied Strewe left Germany late in 1937 and arrived in New Zealand via Canada, Hawaii and Fiji in 1938. He was interned on Somes Island from 1941 to 1946 and worked as a journalist following his release. He was a member of Orini and Riverside communes (1947-1949), studied and then practised landscape architecture. From 1949 to 1969 he lived and worked in Auckland. Around 1972 he moved to Australia. He wrote plays, poetry, and was actively involved in many protest movements. Quantity: 121 folder(s). 2 Linear Metres. 5 C90 cassette(s). 3 C60 cassette(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Oral History Collection - 8 cassette tapes of interviews with Frank Sargeson.
Day, Peter, 1937- : Papers relating to Ida Baker
Date: [1868-1995]
By: Day, Peter, 1937-
Reference: MS-Group-1137
Description: Comprises correspondence between Ida Baker/Lesley Moore and Peter Day (1969-1977); letters from Helen L R Harvey to Ida Baker/Lesley Moore (1868-1953); Letters from Mary M Murry to Ida Baker/Lesley Moore (1969-1972); and miscellaneous letters (1930-1995). Also Lesley Moore's address book, two of her notebooks of `Random thoughts' for Peter Day, transcript of radio programme on Laurens van der Post (1972) and `Great writers' on Katherine Mansfield (v4, n43) The letters from Ida Baker/Leslie Moore to Peter Day are addressed to him as her grandson and signs them as his grandmother; they mostly discuss mutual friends, their friendship and the book, `Katherine Mansfield, the memories of LM' (1977) which Day ghost-wrote Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 13 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Collection listing in Back file. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from the Book Trade Benevolent Society, per Mr D Hicks, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England, Nov 2002 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs (most from ATL) - To Other - Fabric writing case formerly belonging to Leslie Moore/Ida Baker.
Three plays / by George de Clive-Lowe
Date: 1931, 1934, 1936
From: de Clive-Lowe, George T H, 1859-1944 : Musical works and plays
By: de Clive-Lowe, George Thomas Humphrey, 1859-1944
Reference: MSX-2567
Description: Librettos and scripts for three plays by George de Clive-Lowe Other Titles - Runnymede ; historical light opera / by George de Clive-Lowe ; (1934) Other Titles - What's bred in the bonn (?) ; a sketch of London life / by George de Clive-Lowe ; (1936) Other Titles - Fey ; a radio mystery-murder-drama in a prologue and two acts / by George de Clive-Lowe Quantity: 1 volume(s) [10] 74, [], [6] 50 leaves. Physical Description: Holographs and annotated typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (88-351)
The Doge of Venice ; a tragedy / by George de Clive-Lowe (Trevor Selwyn)
Date: 1926
From: de Clive-Lowe, George T H, 1859-1944 : Musical works and plays
By: de Clive-Lowe, George Thomas Humphrey, 1859-1944
Reference: MSX-2563
Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) [5] 38 pages. Physical Description: Typescript copy (annotated)
Hinemoa, a musical comedy - Scripts
Date: [ca 1925], 1959
From: Brumfit, Ethel, 1881-1961: Diaries, compositions, related papers, and photographs
Reference: MS-Papers-5394-1
Description: Three copies of the script for 'Hinemoa', described both as a a musical comedy and a libretto; all are heavily annotated by Brumfit and one copy is labelled a prompt copy. Inside one copy is a letter from Norman Payne of the Music Corporation of America to Brumfit (1959) together with a programme and write-up following a request by her to produce the show. Other Titles - Hinemoa, a musical comedy Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Fak-Ao Tinapua Mata, Dick, fl 1944 : Texts from Tongoa Island
Date: 1944
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1125
Description: Two texts in the language of Tongoa Island, Shepherd Islands Group, Vanuatu, titled `Natulakeana ni nawasiana ni tuai' [The beginning of work long ago], and `Ranginatulatean waina teatere eru umai' [In the beginning when white people first came]. These documents are poor quality photocopies of the original manuscripts, which are now missing, and which were collected by Kirk Huffman. Language - Tongoan, a Vanuatu language. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998
Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress : Archives
Date: 1968-1995
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1117
Description: Records consist of minutes and correspondence 1968-1984, which appear to be the only surviving records of the time when the Congress was located at Lae, together with minutes, press releases, and other papers. Source of title - Transcribed The predecessor of the Congress was the Federation of Workers Associations, which was formed in 1969, and based at Lae. The current name was adopted in 1974, and after the affiliation of the Port Moresby Council of Trade Unions, the headquarters were moved to Port Moresby. Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998
Melanesian Institute - Xavier Institute of Mission : Orientation Course papers
Date: Jun-Jul 1972
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1312
Description: Bound set of some 80 papers presented by various speakers: Section 1 The Anglican, Lutheran, United and Catholic churches in PNG and the Solomon Islands; Section 2 Melanesian pre-history, culture and indigenous religious and millenarian movements; Section 3 Theology, missions, morality, rites and training of catechists and pastors; urbanisation in Melanesia; Section 4 Liberation and development theology, developmental programmes, race relations, education, medicine, agriculture, land tenure and anthropological fieldwork Source of title - Transcribed from item The Mission Orientation Course was convened by the Melanesian Institute and Xavier Institute of Mission in 1972 at Alexishaven, Madang Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2009
Richmond family : Papers
Date: 1862-1966
By: Richmond family
Reference: 84-056
Description: Papers comprise Mary Elizabeth and Emily Richmond's diaries 1893-1947, correspondence, mainly of Mary and Emily 1883-1947, speech notes of Mary, school exercises, scrapbooks, drafts of poems, Unitarian Church papers, League of Mothers papers, and various miscellaneous papers. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: Includes 84-056-Q1007 and 84-056-B1041 Quantity: 7 box(es). 2 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 2.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photos Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Pen & ink sketches, water colours and children's drawings - To Photographic Archive - Photograph album and loose photographs - To Serials Collection - Newspapers and periodicals - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Curios.
Waitangi - I was there
Date: [1986-1990]
From: Campion, Richard Merkiff, 1923-2013:Theatrical papers and recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-7351
Description: Story and script for documentary drama, `Waitangi - I was there' first performed in Wellington in 1986 with assistance from various theatre groups and the newly formed Maori Theatre Trust. Campion proposed this project for Waitangi Day 1986 in the first New Zealand International Festival of the Arts and for the 1990 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript
Timber Towns radio scripts
Date: c1954
From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005 : Further papers
Reference: 91-326-01/12
Description: Scripts for a series of radio shows on "Timber Towns" including Kawerau and Tokoroa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations
Owen, Alwyn T, fl 1960-1977 : Scripts for Arawata Bill broadcasts on NZBC
Date: [1970-1977]
By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-
Reference: MS-Papers-9907
Description: Comprises series of scripts and transcripts of interviews for programme on Arawata Bill for Open Country and includes memories by Mrs Dalley and Mrs Forbes, Fergie and Mrs Heffernan, Jim Bourke interviewed by George Taylor, interviews with Miss Rosey Grant, Jack Cron interviewed by George Taylor, Mrs M, Mr Murray Gunn (Hollyford) and Gilbert Koch (Glenorchy), Mr Swale and Dolly, Bill Beattie, Roy Joseph Elliot of Bridge Hill, Messrs McEwan and Swale, Colin McEwan and W Clingin Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts with corrections Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the NZBC, Wellington, per Mr A T Owen, Aug 1974
Barltrop, Frederick, 1874-1963 : Notes on Pelorus Jack
Date: 1952
By: Barltrop, Frederick, 1874-1963
Reference: qMS-0137
Description: Barltrop's talk covers briefly the history of the area where Pelorus Jack lived, Admiralty Bay to Pelorus Sound, and gives the sightings, people involved, anecdotes and dismisses fantasies about Pelorus Jack and notes a more recent sighting of a similar fish Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (with corrections) (38 cm, blue pam case)
Baillie, Herbert 1863-1941 : A New Zealand naval veteran
Date: 1841-1863, 1920
By: Baillie, Herbert, 1863-1941
Reference: qMS-0108
Description: A lecture on the career of Hannibal Marks, who arrived in New Plymouth in 1841 and later became captain of HM Colonial gun-boats Caroline and Sandfly. Includes copies of official correspondence with Captain Marks, 1861-1863 The "Caroline", originally the "Ruby", was a schooner of 25 tons, built in 1860 at Omaha, North Auckland, by Jas S Meiklejohn. She was purchased by the government to be fitted as a gun-boat to protect the Manukau waters, and used in this capacity from 1860 to 1863 when she reverted to the name "Ruby". As the Ruby, she was wrecked on Walker Rock, Jackson's Head, Cook Strait, on 23 April 1879. See "New Zealand shipwrecks" Source of title - Transcribed Paper read to the History Section of the New Zealand Institute, 1920 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (6 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annoatations (34 cm; ¼ maroon roan)
Hood, A W : Annotated script and papers for play He Mana Toa
Date: 1966
By: Hood, A W, active 1966
Reference: MS-Papers-10972
Description: Script for `He Mana Toa', produced by Prof James Ritchie of Waikato University, marked up with directions, sound and lighting cues; also other memos and newspaper reviews for its presentation at Maori Arts Festival week performance, Founders Theatre, Hamilton, 23 August 1966 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by W E Hood, Pukekohe, 1985 (85-152)
Lester, R H fl 1944: Fijian society and war psychology
Date: 19 Jul 1944
By: Lester, R H, active 1944
Reference: qMS-1155
Description: Comprises talk outlining the differences between western society and Fijian (and other Pacific peoples' societies) on the nature of war with special reference to kinship and tribal affiliations and the effect of war on the Fijians who fought in World War II Source of title - Transcribed From a talk given to the Rotary Club of Suva Quantity: 1 volume(s) (11 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, (34 cm; blue pamphlet case)
St John, John Henry Herbert (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1836?-1876 : Drafts for speeches and ...
Date: [ca 1871]
By: St. John, John Henry Herbert, 1836?-1876
Reference: MS-1847
Description: Two letter-press copy books bound together comprising drafts of speeches Source of title - Supplied title St John was a Lieutenant Colonel with the New Zealand Militia Quantity: 1 volume(s) (15, 20 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (25 cm; unpaged, ½ dark blue roan, marbled boards, with ties) Transfers: Transferred from the Donald McLean Papers (MS-Papers-0032).
Letters from Bill Campbell and other papers
Date: [1948-1989]
From: Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki, 1925-2009: Collection
Reference: 91-046-1/09
Description: Letters from Bill Campbell to Alistair, Alistair and Fleur, Alistair and Meg, and Margaret, written from Singapore, Japan, Australia, Malaysia and various army situations; also clippings and articles about the Cook Islands. Also letter from Bill Campbell to Ray Richards, and from Karen Campbell to Alistair. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1.60 Linear Metres. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Four photographs.
Thompson, Sydney Lough, 1877-1973 : Talks
Date: [1939-1942]
By: Thompson, Sydney Lough, 1877-1973
Reference: MS-Papers-3841
Description: Five talks by Thompson on his experiences abroad, post-impressionism and the Schlesinger bequest to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery; some given on Radio 3YA, Christchurch. Also includes annotated typescripts of two talks on painting. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - With typescript article on Thompson by Marie Scott New Zealand painter who spent much time overseas Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms A Thompson, Concarneau, Farance, 1984-1985