Lectures and lecturing
Raurunui a Toi Lecture (a)
Date: 1944
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0085
Description: Lectures given at the Porourangi School of Maori Culture in 1944. Folder contains Rauru-nui-a-toi lectures, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Raurunui a Toi Lecture (c)
Date: 1944
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0087
Description: Contains whakapapa table titled Hauiti, for Lecture 6 of the Rauru-nui-o-Toi Lecture series. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Raurunui a Toi Lecture (d)
Date: 1944
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0088
Description: Contains whakapapa table assiciated with Rauru-nui-o-Toi lecture series. The table lists from Ueroa to Marereotonga, and lists whakapapa from Kahungunu. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Raurunui a Toi lecture (e)
Date: 1944
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0089
Description: The contents in this folder contains working notes for lectures in the Porourangi School of Maori culture. With details of the origins of Ngati Porou including whakapapa tables used for their respective lectures. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
TC Handout (Sydney Con)
Date: [ca 1995]
From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12580-07
Description: Two copies of a handout from a conference in Sydney, includes appendices on tone clock theory from printed publication, plus annotations. These notes may the foundation for McLeod’s essay on the composition of a modern re-thinking of the aria Casta Diva (from the 1831 opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini), in the form of a new aria with original libretto translated into Te Reo Maori, for soprano and symphony orchestra. Title supplied by Library. The Library also holds: MSDL-4645 and MSDL-4646. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopies).
Review and lectures
Date: [1990-1992]
From: Stead, Christian Karlson, 1932- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-7312-01
Description: Draft of review of Thom Gunn's `Collected poems'; lecture delivered at a plenary session of the 27th AULLA congress, Dunedin, `Narrativity, or the birth of story' (Feb 1992); and notes for Dunedin lecture, `The Canon as repressive...' (Nov 1992) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward correspondence - Personal and music related
Date: 2013-2017
From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12580-66
Description: Comprises inward correspondence (emails and letters), pertaining to personal and music related matters, from various individuals and organisations to McLeod. Subject matter includes: 2013 Wellington Gold Awards, recitals, McLeod's music, and teaching and former colleagues at Victoria University of Wellington, lectures, scholarship, funerals, health and socialising. Also enclosed are two draft articles in conversation with McLeod. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with annotations, holograph. Processing information: Not all names indexed. Items in MS-Papers-12580-65 and MS-Papers-12580-66 were received collated together with a note from donor.
Seascapes for piano, violin and cello: Programme note, presentation and pitch sets
Date: [ca 1995], [ca 2015]
From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12580-29
Description: Comprises a range of material including: programme notes for 'Seascapes' for piano, violin and cello, a presentation (incomplete) concerning Māori and Pākehā culture, including music, and pitch sets (8-10). Notes: In Programme notes for Seascapes for piano, violin and cello, McLeod refers to the arrangement of this piece being derived from her Tone Clock Pieces Nos 8 and 11 at the request of Jack Body for a NZ Trip concert. This was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Douglas Lilburn’s birth in 2015. McLeod also refers to creating an earlier piano piece for Lilburn’s 80th birthday, which became Tone Clock Pieces for piano Nos 8-11. The incomplete pitch sets at the end of the enclosed presentation most likely relate to the Tone Clock Pieces McLeod refers to. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: All items were paperclipped together when received from the donor. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with annotations (some photocopies)
Inward correspondence from H Park, Jack Body and Liz Pack
Date: 1980-1981, Date unkown
From: McLeod, Jennifer Helen, 1941-2022: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12580-03
Description: Three envelopes (no contents), spanning period 1980-1981, addressed to Jennifer McLeod whilst she was located in Santa Monica, California, United States of America, from H Park, Remuera, Auckland and Jack Body, Music Department of Victoria University of Wellington. Also included is an undated postcard from Liz Pack [?]. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Donated in a plastic United Travel wallet (not retained). Transcription from label on front of wallet reads: “McLeod”. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 3 envelopes and 1 postcard. Transfers: Donated in an envelope (not retained) with photographs and a cassette tape. Transcription on front of envelope reads: “Cassette tape THE SILENT ONE film score” and “Some of my mother’s letters (to her mother too) & some old photos of us kids”..
[Posters promoting peace, and denouncing war. 1970-1979]
Date: 1970 - 1979
By: Moore, Brian, active 1984
Reference: Eph-C-PEACE-1970s
Description: Includes: 1970s: Fragile; handle with peace [1970s?]. Shows the globe of Earth with the word FRAGILE written over it 1971: PR. Peace Research Media Project. Seminar: Media & Dissent. With Brian Edwards, David Beatson, Ben Coury, John Hardingham, Warren Page, Hamish Keith. Victoria University of Wellington, Saturday April 24 [1971] 1973: We put the heat on Mt John. Harewood's next! [1973] 1974: Brian Moore (designer). Free Press Publications International. Peace erupts on earth! Peace crisis continues! Will the peace crisis never end? Peace in our time! 1974. (2 copies). 1976: Washdyke Mt John demonstration. Saturday March 11, Sunday March 12. Meet Saturday 9 am at Varsity, Town Site Student Union [1976] New Internationalist. The money required to provide adequate food, water, education, health and housing for everyone in the world has been estimated at $17 billion a year. It is a huge sum of money ... about as much as the world spends on arms every two weeks [1976] 1979: Disarmament Week, Oct 22-29 [1979] Lists names of peace organisations in New Zealand and shows a dove with an olive branch (2 copies) Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying below 550 mm.
Ponting, Herbert George, 1870-1935 :Mr Herbert G Ponting's cinema lecture; "With Captai...
Date: 1913 - 1914
From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to Antarctica, Antarctic exploration, discovery and expeditions]
By: Ponting, Herbert George, 1870-1935
Reference: Eph-B-ANTARCTICA-1914-01
Description: The centre spread gives a synopsis of the lecture, dewcribing the images seen during the talk. The booklet contains three photographs of penguins, one of Osman the husky dog, and another of the "Terra Nova" ship beside ice. The front cover shows a photograph of Robert Scott and the back cover shows a photograph of Herbert G Ponting. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, in yellow cover, 253 x 192 mm, with loose sheet inside front cover
Papers relating to Sir Apirana Ngata
Date: 1944, 1972
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-061
Description: Two copies of the intrductory address (lecture one) by Sir Apirana Ngata at the opening of the Porourangi Maori Cultural School, Ruatoria, and lectures two and three (4 Apr 1944, copied 1972); and correspondence relating to this series of lectures Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Raurunui a Toi Lecture (b)
Date: 1944
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0086
Description: includes whakapapa table titled, Taiau, used for Lecture 5 of the Rauru-nui-o-Toi Lecture. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, some with mss annotations
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Whitham. Dunedin Athenaeum. What has become of him...
Date: 1895
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] [ca 1865?]-1896
Reference: E-147-120
Description: Two drawings glued to page: on the left, a white-haired man giving a lecture or singing from a score, seen in profile, possibly a Mr Whitham. On the right, a man performing on a unicycle, drawn on used blotting paper, with blotted ink inscriptions Quantity: 2 drawing(s) pasted in. Physical Description: Pencil 114 x 185 mm
Paul, Janet Elaine, 1919-2004 :Drawings from sketchbook; Katherine Mansfield centenary ...
Date: 1988 - 1990
By: Paul, Janet Elaine (Dame), 1919-2004
Reference: A-307-018/052
Description: Drawings from sketchbooks include sketch portraits from Katherine Mansfield centenary symposium at Victoria University, and from the Writers' and Readers' Festival, Wellington, 1990. Subjects are: Adrian, English Department Auckland University (2 copies); Barbara Anderson, on Continuing Education tour France; Australia professor ?Webby; Tony Bellette, and Prof W H New, Toronto (2 copies); Gillian Bibby; Gil Porter / Marjorie Bernard; Alastair Campbell; Chinese scholar, English Department Auckland University [Schfen Gro..]; James Fenton editor; Dr Cherry Hankin (2 different views, and one duplicate), Epeli Hau'Ofa; Keri Hume; Festus Iyay, Readers & Writers '90 Festival; Tama Janovich , "Slaves of New York" (2 views); Japanese professor "The use of 'and' in Katherine Mansfield"; Ian McEwan, Readers & Writers Week (2 copies); National Orchestra; Rehearsal Verdi Requiem; Maurice Shadbolt; John Mansfield Thomson "That which you give frees you; That which you keep is lost forever"; Entertainment in Wellington, Dr John [E] Thomson; Dorothea Turner at her 80th [birthday]; Villa Franche sur Mer; Geoff Walker; Albert Wendt; Lydia Wevers; and one untitled. Quantity: 35 photocopy/ies including duplicates.. Physical Description: Photocopies on white and tinted sheets, approximately 230 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Janet Paul in 1996. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives..
Correspondence (N-S)
Date: [1992-1993]
From: Waring, Marilyn Joy, 1952- : Collection
Reference: 2000-317-04
Description: Also includes postcard from [?] Jues Smyth Other Titles - Canopy (n11, winter 1993) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Notes for lectures; Ruawaipu, Te Wahineiti, Ngati Uepohatu
Date: [19--]
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7575-059
Description: Content of these notes was taken from the Native Land Court hearings in the Tairawhiti area. Contains whakapapa and the relationships of people to the land. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Barry, William Jackson (Captain), 1819-1907 : Scrapbook containing clippings on Austral...
Date: 1885-1899
By: Barry, William Jackson, 1819-1907
Reference: MSY-4567
Description: Primarily handbills and newspaper clippings covering Barry's lecture tours concerning his Australasian experiences from 1837, in the United Kingdom in (1879), in Australia (1888-1890) and in New Zealand (1885-1899) There are letters, including one from Richard J Seddon, concerning prospecting rights and mineral analysis, and photographs, together with clippings on New Zealand politics in the 1890s and reviews of `Past and present and men of the times', published in 1897 Includes four newspaper cuttings depicting examples of Maori bird snares Source of title - Supplied title Inscriptions: 'Should anything happen to me forward this book to Mr H J Freeman, Watchmaker, Manners Street, Wellington, Capt William Jackson Barry, Oct 12 1895' Whaler, prospector, drover, butcher, hunter, seaman, explorer, local politician and lecturer, Barry had a colourful career in Britain, North America, Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s) (126 pages). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Grey phase box
Geographical Society of Philadelphia presents the Everest team with Sir Edmund Hillary,...
Date: 1954
From: [Ephemera relating to mountaineering and mountain climbing in New Zealand or by New Zealanders. 1900-1959]
By: Geographical Society of Philadelphia
Reference: Eph-A-MOUNTAINEERING-1954-01
Description: Programme for an event in Philadelphia, sponsored by the Joint Himalayan Committee of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club of Great Britain, lists the guests of honour (includes Hon L K Munro, NZ Ambassador to the United States) notes on Hillary, Lowe and Evans, and an illustration and notes about the Hillary Medal designed "to commemorate the greatest achievement of our time" by Edward Warwick, George Borst and Julius Windner, and executed by Helen Stevenson West. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 218 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased at New Zealand Book Auctions, in 2008.
Lectures by H D Skinner - a comparative study of indigenous graphic and sculptural art ...
Date: 1952
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-073
Description: Four lectures (typescript with holograph annotations) of a series of six delivered at the University of Otago by H D Skinner on research work at the Otago Museum; the introduction includes discussion of the taniwha, lectures two and three of the water symbol in Maori art, and lecture four on carving and related topics Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with mss annotations