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The Turnbull Library Record
The Turnbull Library Record is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal
in the humanities published yearly by the Turnbull Library in association
with the Friends of the Turnbull Library. It contains a wide range of material,
with special emphasis on the societies of New Zealand, Australia, and the
islands of the Pacific. Other topics of relevance are the history of printing,
early printed books, John Milton and his contemporaries, and fine printing.
These are areas in which the Alexander Turnbull Library's own collections
and research interests are particularly strong.
The Record is distributed free to all members of the Friends. Back copies are
available to the public on application to the Secretary,
Friends of the Turnbull Library, PO Box 12-186, Wellington ($15 per copy
from 1994 onwards, earlier issues $5 each, including packing and postage).
Articles in the most recent (2009) issue included:
John A Lee, 1891-1982. Philip Rainer looks at the considerable impact
made by the life and controversial career of the colourful Labour Member
of Parliament.
Royal Scenes from the Empire City: The Prince of Wales in Wellington, 5-8
May 1920. David Colquhoun describes the exuberantly patriotic welcome
offered to the charming and fashionable Prince, and reveals some of the
frankly unfavourable comments the royal visitor wrote privately to his
lover at the time.
Te Hokowhitu-a-Tu: What Did They Come Home To? Monty Soutar analyses
some of the economic, social and political impacts of Maori participation
in the First World War and during the period of continuing inequalities
in the 1920s and 1930s.
'Facing an Uncertain Future': New Zealand's Enemy Aliens and the
Aftermath of War. Andrew Francis examines a little-known episode in
our history, the continuing mistrust of New Zealand's 'enemy alien'
communities in the post-war rehabilitation period.
'Poetry of Motion, Sound and Colour': Anna Pavlova in New Zealand.
Ian Lochhead celebrates the excitement generated by the 1926 visit to New
Zealand of the great ballerina and outlines its wider legacies.
'Like all the Roosters in the World Crowing Together': Pioneers in
the Dissemination of Jazz in 1920s New Zealand. Chris Bourke's focus
is on the emergence of jazz in New Zealand from about the 1920s, and
he considers the careers and influence of two of its earliest proponents,
Walter Smith and Bob Adams.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS:Chris Bourke was the National Library's Research Fellow in 2006, embarking on a history of mid-20th century popular music in New Zealand - work he continued in 2008 as Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato. Blue Smoke: The Lost Years of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964 will be published by Auckland University Press in 2010. David Colquhoun has been Curator of Manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library since 1989. He has an MA with First Class Honours from the University of Auckland, and has written many articles on aspects of New Zealand's history and archives. His book As If Running on Air: The Journals of Jack Lovelock was published in 2008, and he is now writing a book about the royal visit of 1920. Andrew Francis completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 2009. His thesis examined the treatment of German and Austro-Hungarian residents in New Zealand during the Great War. He was formerly employed as a lecturer and tutor in the History programme at Victoria, and has worked in Published Collections at the Alexander Turnbull Library. He is currently a researcher for the Waitangi Tribunal. Ian Lochhead teaches Art History at the University of Canterbury. Although better known as an architectural historian, he has been a balletomane from an early age, and has been researching the impact of the Ballets Russes tours of New Zealand in the 1930s. Philip Rainer left the Alexander Turnbull Library in January 2009 after 25 years' service. He is currently working for a publishing company, using the resources of the Library to support authors writing in the areas of New Zealand history and culture. Monty Soutar is a Guardian of the Alexander Turnbull Library and member of the Archives New Zealand Council. He has significant experience in historical research, vast knowledge in dealing with Maori Land Court records, and has worked widely with iwi and Maori communities. He was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 2002, and is currently Chief Executive of Te Runanga o Ngati Porou. Articles in the 2008 issue included: 'Where Did They Come From?': Incunabula in the Special Printed Collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Ruth Lightbourne, Curator, Special Printed Collections, at the Alexander Turnbull Library, describes some of the unique aspects of the Library's 90 incunabula, and explains who collected them and the subsequent donations and purchases which brought them into the Special Printed Collections. Milton and the Theology of Secular Politics. Benjamin Myers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, gave the 2008 Founder Lecture in Wellington on 19 June 2008. This essay, in which he considers John Milton's political pamphlets, is a slightly revised version. 'That Serpent Milton': Creating a 'Minds-on' Book Exhibition. J E Traue, Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library 1974-90, was curator of the 1994 National Library exhibition on John Milton. This essay outlines the aims, rationale and achievements of the exhibition. Paper Visions: The Piranesi Collection at the Alexander Turnbull Library. David Maskill and Matthew Norman present a close-up view of the extraordinary group of 75 prints by the Italian architect G B Piranesi, following an exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery in 2007, featuring several of the best works. Articles in the 2007 issue included: Margaret … On the retirement of Margaret Calder as Chief Librarian, 19 March 2007. Philip Rainer pays tribute to the departing Chief Librarian after 16 years at the Turnbull. Collectors, Ownership, and Inspiration. Lydia Wevers discusses the 'visionary and obsessive' activity which was the theme of the National Library "Collect" exhibition that opened on 14 December 2006. The Trinity, their Collections, and the Future. Donald Jackson Kerr. The text of a talk (presented on 8 February 2007) surveying three notable collectors: Sir George Grey, Dr Thomas Morland Hocken, and Alexander Turnbull. Jeremiah Purcell O'Reily and James Ambrose Story: Two Nineteenth-Century Collectors and their New Zealand Connection. Ruth Lightbourne explains what these two private collections contained, and how their books came to the Turnbull Library. The Confessions of an Obsessive Collector. Walter Cook. The text of a talk given at 'Obsessive Collectors', an event held during the National Library "Collect" exhibition, on 1 March 2007. The Sixth Man. Ian Fraser. The text of an address to launch James McNeish's book, The Sixth Man: The Extraordinary Life of Paddy Costello, on 13 September 2007. Articles in the 2006 issue included: Drawing the Line: A Short History of Editorial Cartooning in New Zealand. Ian F. Grant discusses the role of editorial cartoonists over more than 150 years in adding different and often illuminating perspectives to historical research, and comments on their distinctive characteristics. Three great New Zealand Bibliographers: Personal Reminiscences. T. H. Howard-Hill describes some aspects of the life and works of Bill Cameron, Keith Maslen, and Mac Jackson, in an attempt to shed light on why so many bibliographers and editors have emerged in New Zealand. The Fitzgerald Brothers' Circus: Considering Circus Entertainments In Late Colonial New Zealand. Gillian Arrighi. The Turnbull Assignment: From Pedantry to Pleasure in Pacific Studies. Teresia Teaiwa discusses the pleasurable outcomes of introducing students to the Pacific collections in the Library. The trick of standing upright here. Kim Hill's speech at the opening of the poetry exhibition, “Main Trunk Lines: New Zealand Poetry” at the National Library Gallery, 21 July-30 October 2005. The Source of the First Printed Illustration of New Zealand. Rudiger Mack. Further debate generated by Mack's article in the Record in 2004, and Grahame Anderson's 2005 response. The Photographs of Louis John Daroux. A rich collection of images of New Zealand and the Pacific from about 1900 to the 1920s was acquired by the Turnbull Library in December 2005. John Sullivan, Curator, Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, explains their significance. From a soldier's dugout somewhere in France. Kevin Stewart, Manuscripts Section, Alexander Turnbull Library, takes a close look at the papers of Lieutenant Horopapera Karauti, who saw action during World War One. This collection is part of the comprehensive collection of diaries and letters in the Turnbull Library's War Archive. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Gillian Arrighi is currently writing a PhD thesis concerned with the FitzGerald Brothers Circus in Australia and New Zealand. She is based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, where she also teaches acting. Gillian was born and educated in Wellington. Ian F Grant was founder of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and chairman of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive Trust until the archive was absorbed into the Alexander Turnbull Library in 2005. A publisher and writer, three of his 13 books have been New Zealand cartoon histories. Kim Hill is a radio broadcaster and commentator. She works for Radio New Zealand. Trevor Howard-Hill is an eminent bibliographer. He was senior cataloguer in the Alexander Turnbull library in the early 1960s, before going to Oxford and a distinguished career overseas. He is currently editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. Rudiger Mack teaches at the Correspondence School, Wellington. Kevin Steward is the arrangement and description librarian, Manuscripts Section, Alexander Turnbull Library. John Sullivan is the curator, Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Teresia Teaiwa is senior lecturer in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, where she has worked since 2000. Articles in the 2005 issue included: Tribute to Laurie Cameron by Brian Opie. Laurie Cameron, 1922-2005, gave unsurpassed service to the National and Turnbull Libraries. As the Chair of the Trustees of the National Library, he ensured the Turnbull Library's interests were always fully considered. The Curious Henry Wright and his Library. Peter Lineham examines the small and curious book collection formed by Henry Wright, 1844-1936, a Wellington money-lender, debt collector and photographer. The collection is held by the Library. This essay was developed from lectures presented at the time of the Henry Wright exhibition in the National Library Gallery 2002. The Missing Report: Sir David Hutchins and New Zealand Forestry, Part II. Michael Roche examines the contentious circumstances surrounding a report on New Zealand forests and forestry in 1915, by an expert on British colonial forestry, Sir David Hutchins. Digging in the Compost Heap. Frances Porter reflects on her lifelong association with New Zealand history: from her childhood, employment at the Historical Branch, and as an independent researcher. She looks closely at the process of selection and interpretation. Beetham of Brancepeth. In this case study of a Wairarapa family, Lydia Wevers offers insights about the rise of a rural elite, and the cultural, intellectual, and social life of a large farm community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Serenades and Portraits: A Sesquicentennial Tribute to Zealandia (Part 2). Richard Corballis looks at the figure of Zealandia as a female national symbol of New Zealand, through the work of musicians and artists (mainly cartoonists). The New Zealand Journals of Thomas Laslett, 1833-1843. David Colquhoun examines a recent Library acquisition. The journals of Thomas Laslett (1811-1887), offer a unique perspective on the early timber trade, and on interactions between Maori and Pakeha in the 1830s and 1840s. Did Gilsemans and Tasman Collude in Concealing Evidence in Batavia in 1643? In a letter to the Editor Grahame Anderson comments critically on the conclusions of Rudiger Mack's article in the TLR 2004. Did Dutch sailors land in Wainui Bay on 18 December 1642? Articles in the 2004 issue included: Tributes to Ian McLean Wards, Michael King and Dame Janet Paul. Three close friends of the Turnbull have passed away recently. Did Dutch sailors land in Wainui Bay on 18 December 1642? The first printed illustration of New Zealand. Rüdiger Mack observes that an engraved illustration in Nicolaas Witzen's Noord en Oost Tartarye (Amsterdam, 1705), relating to Tasman's visit to the Golden Bay area, provides useful information about population-sites in Wainui Bay and appears to show in the background a Dutch boat on the beach near Taupo Point. Craft and candour in nineteenth-century missionary women's diaries. Judy Nolte Temple shows how comparisons between the journals kept by the American missionary woman Mary Richardson Walker and by two of her New Zealand counterparts, Marianne Williams and Eliza White, provide interesting insights into the extents to which each such journal was crafted for a wider readership, or else genuinely private, and hence relatively candid. Settling on the web: William Golder's New Zealand Minstrelsy(1852). William Golder (1810-76) settled in the Hutt Valley in 1840 and authored the first volume of poetry printed and published in New Zealand. Brian Opie discusses its contents and significance, and provides details of a website he is establishing that will comprehend all of Golder's published writings and their contexts. Serendipitous scholarship: Identifying the author of Alone in the World (1866). Jenny Coleman identifies the author of a novel published in Auckland in 1866 as the local freelance journalist Mary Ann Colclough. Trevor Lloyd, native land, and the contest over the European racial imagination in Aotearoa New Zealand. Matthew Basso discusses the work of Auckland cartoonist and artist Trevor Lloyd who, in the first two decades of the twentieth century, drew many cartoons and sketches relating to Maori that were in one way or another denigratory, and served the purpose of promoting the accelerated acquisition by pakeha of lands remaining in Maori ownership. Speech by Sir Paul Reeves at the opening of the exhibition Dance of the Peacocks. Reflections on the careers of James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan Davin, John Mulgan and others which were explored in this exhibition at the National Library Gallery, opened on 18 November 2003. The Record also contains the annual report of the Turnbull's Chief Librarian, items of current research interest, notes on recent significant acquisitions and a list of donors for the past twelve months. Articles in the 2003 issue, which had a focus on Maori studies, included: "Assimilation" and "Integration": the Maori Women's Welfare League in the 1950s. Barbara Brookes writes of how the MWWL increasingly promoted combining social and economic advancement with reinforcement of Maori identity, culture and language retention. The Personified Newspaper: Metaphorical Addresses to the Maori-language Press. Jane MacRae looks at how Maori-owned and -operated newspapers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were frequently identified affectionately as persons. Tom Ryan's Sketches of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. Judith Binney writes that two sketches made in 1887 are finer and more reliable than the only other known portrayals of him; Ryan's portrait in oil (1891), less reliable, is known only from photographs and photo-lithographs. "A Sort of Scientific Duty": A. S. Atkinson on Race, Civilisation and the Maori. Settler, newspaper editor, MP, lawyer, and self-taught scholar, Atkinson in the 1850s and '60s combined genuine interest in the Maori with the belief that British civilised order should be forcibly imposed upon them, writes Peter Clayworth. Articles in the 2002 issue, which had a focus on early (pre-1801) printed books, included: A tribute to J. R. (Reg) Tye (1915-2001), former Committee member and President of The Friends. A specialist in 19th century periodical literature, Dr Tye was a former staff member of the English Department at Victoria University of Wellington. Reading Machiavelli; Writing Cromwell. An analysis of the significance of draft verses by 17th century English poet Edmund Waller about Oliver Cromwell. The manuscript is in a Turnbull copy of Machiavelli's 'The Prince' published in 1580. Eleanor Davies, 1590-1652: Professional Woman of Letters. Material in the Turnbull and Huntington (California) Libraries provides insights into the works of an eccentric English prophetic writer who commented on the events of her times. Some Seventeenth-Century French Prints. The Turnbull Library holds a volume of magnificent French engravings from 1685 that commemorate the achievements of Louis XIV. The Construction of National Storehouses of Knowledge in Post-War New Zealand. How a new direction in writing history contributed to the development of universities, and library and archives resources. A Mysterious Pamphlet. New Zealand's first Attorney General William Swainson is shown to be the author of a an anonymously published spoof set in 1870s Auckland. The Life and Opinions of Jack Lovelock. A previously unnoticed chapter in a 1935 book and other evidence shed light on Lovelock's personal philosophy of sport, indicating the great runner was not the neurotic figure some writers have suggested. Articles in the 2001 issue, a special issue on print culture, included: A tribute to Douglas Lilburn ONZ (1915-2001). The country's most renowned composer was a devoted champion and major benefactor of the Turnbull both through his estate and by establishing in 1984 the Lilburn Trust, and donating to the Library his important collection of music scores and papers. Print culture in New Zealand. An introduction to this special issue reviews activities over the last seven years supporting research in this field of New Zealand cultural history. The Howard Collection. The Turnbull's special printed collections include a small but select group of Bibles and liturgical texts, mostly dating from the 16th century in England, donated by an English collector. British architectural books in colonial New Zealand. Early settlers and architects in New Zealand benefited from access to a rapidly increasing range of printed material including periodicals relevant to architecture. 'E manu, tena koe!' O bird, greetings to you. Bird images in the Maori language newspapers (1840s-1930s) show the link between Maori oral traditions and the new means of communication through print. Visiting the volcano. Two of the most eminent Englishwomen travellers of the 19th century, Isabella Bird and Constance Gordon Cumming, both spent time in Hawaii and wrote of their visits to the active volcano Kilaulea. A typographical genius? An examination of the styles used by Bob Lowry in the four issues of Phoenix, the magazine of the Auckland University College Literary Club, in 1932-33. Aventur und Kunst in New Zealand. The artist Leo Bensemann's "creative imagination" played an under-recognised role in the achievements of Denis Glover's Caxton Press in Christchurch from the 1930s on. Alan Loney, Ted Jenner and The Love Songs of Ibykos. Alan Loney, the most prolific private press printer of his generation in New Zealand between 1975 and 1998, worked for almost two decades on a limited edition of Ted Jenner's translation of the complete poetic fragments of Ibykos.