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A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar

10 Public Life, Books, Music and Art, 1936–50

10 Public Life, Books, Music and Art, 1936–50

1 'Conversation with Allen Curnow', Islands, vol.4, no.2 (Winter 1973). Quoted in Lawrence Jones, Picking Up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932–1945 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2003), p. 204

2 Jones, Picking Up the Traces, p.204

3 JCB, review in Book, 3 (1941). Quoted in Jones, Picking Up the Traces, p.205

4 Jones, Picking Up the Traces, p.291

5 JCB, 'Centennial Meditations', Spike, no.68 (1940), p.19

6 Jones, Picking Up the Traces, p.291

7 Bart Fortune, interviewed by Rachel Barrowman. Quoted in Rachel Barrowman, A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1991), p.93

8 ibid., p.94

9 Minute Book, 1938–41. Wellington Co-operative Book Society Papers. MS-Papers-1122-37. ATL

10 Bridget Williams, 'Parsons, Roy George 1909–1991', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol.5

11 Nash to JCB, 2 February 1939. J.C. Beaglehole Papers. 73-004-01/08. ATL. A draft of John's letter to Nash, 1 December 1938, together with two other letters from Nash on the subject, are in the same folder.

12 Minute Book, 1938–41

13 JCB to Richmond, 10 December 1939

14 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

15 Barrowman, A Popular Vision, p.116

16 Minute Book, 1938–41. Wellington Co-operative Book Society Papers. MS-Papers-1122-37. ATL

17 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

18 Nancy M. Taylor, The New Zealand People at War: The Home Front, vol.2 (Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1986), p.997

19 ibid., p.1001

20 JCB to Nash, 21 November 1940. PM 25/2/5. ANZ. Quoted in Taylor, The Home Front, vol.2, p.1002

21 Fraser, 9 July 1942. NZPD, vol.261, p.87. Quoted in Taylor, The Home Front, vol.2, p.1007

22 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

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23 Parsons to Griffin, 8 June 1942. Wellington Co-operative Book Society Papers. MS-Papers-1122-50. ATL

24 Williams, 'Parsons, Roy George 1909–1991'

25 Barowman gives a good account of the PPS in A Popular Vision, chapter 5

26 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

27 Ernest Beaglehole, Islands of Danger (Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society, 1944), p.[ii]

28 JCB, 'The Work of the Typographical Committee', Co-op Books, vol.1, no.13 (November 1944), p.[2]. Quoted in Barrowman, A Popular Vision, p.168

29 JCB, 'Note on Modern Books and Publishing Society, 19 October 1942'. Wellington Co-operative Book Society Papers. MS-Papers-1122-41. ATL

30 Glover to JCB, 18 June 1943

31 JCB to JEP, 19 June 1946

32 JCB to JEP, 7 May 1947

33 JCB to JEP, 1 July 1948

34 JCB to JEP, 1 July, 22 July, 4 August 1948. Tombs to the Registrar, UNZ, 25 June 1948

35 J.E. Traue, 'The University of NZ Press', New Zealand Libraries, vol.26, no.1 (January–February 1963), p.22

36 Dennis McEldowney, 'Scholarly Publishing in New Zealand', Scholarly Publishing (University of Toronto Press), vol.1, no.1 (October 1969), p.108

37 'Report of the New Zealand University Press Board' (signed by JCB as chairman), in University of New Zealand. Minutes of Senate… (Wellington, 1961), p.73

38 McEldowney, 'Scholarly Publishing in New Zealand', p.108

39 Mary Ronnie, Education for Librarianship in New Zealand (London: Mansell, 1996), p.29

40 JCB to JEP, 4 August 1947

41 Eva B. Ottillinger and August Sarnitz, Ernst Plischke: Das Neue Bauen und die Neue Welt Das Gesamtwerk (Munchen: Restel Verlag, 2003) p.350

42 JCB, address to the Chamber Music Federation Annual General Meeting, 23 March 1968, typescript

43 Fred Turnovsky, Turnovsky: Fifty Years in New Zealand (Wellington: Allen &Unwin, 1990) p.81

44 Wellington Chamber Music Society, minutes of AGM, February 1946. Wellington Chamber Music Society Papers. MS-Papers-4566-01. ATL

45 J.M. Thomson, Into a New Key: The Origins and History of the Music Federation of New Zealand 1950–1982 (Music Federation of New Zealand, 1983) p.41

46 Thomson, Into a New Key, p.34

47 ibid.

48 Minutes of committee meeting, 26 June 1945. Quoted in Thomson, Into a New Key, p.37

49 Thomson, Into a New Key, p.44

50 James Bertram, Capes of China Slide Away: A Memoir of Peace and War 1910–1980 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993), p.267

51 JCB to JEP, 26 July 1946

52 JCB to JEP, 10 July 1947

53 Thomson, Into a New Key, p.50

54 Owen Jensen, The NZBC Symphony Orchestra (Wellington: A.H & A.W. Reed, 1966), p.16. I draw on Jensen's useful account of the orchestra's beginnings in the paragraphs which follow.

55 These names are given by Bolke Water in his article, 'The Birth of a Nation: J.C. Beaglehole and the National Orchestra'. Music in New Zealand, no.40 (Summer 2001–02), p.42

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56 JCB to JEP, 1 May 1946

57 JCB to JEP, 14 May 1946

58 JCB to JEP, 1 May 1946

59 JCB to JEP, 14 May 1946

60 Jensen, The NZBC Symphony Orchestra, p.26

61 JCB to JEP, 26 March 1947

62 H.J. Finlay, 'Have We an Orchestra? A reply to Dr. Beaglehole', NZ Listener, 3 April 1947, pp.6–7

63 Heenan to editor, NZ Listener, 3 April 1947

64 JCB to editor, NZ Listener, 24 April 1946

65 Ormond Wilson to editor, NZ Listener, 18 April 1947

66 This point is made by Water, 'The Birth of a Nation', p.43

67 JCB to JEP, 11 September 1947

68 Jensen, The NZBC Symphony Orchestra, p.23

69 Frederick Page, A Musician's Journal 1905–1983 (Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1986), p.98

70 JCB, 'Lots of Poetry'. Reviews of Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe; Lyric Poems of New Zealand 1928–42, chosen by C.A. Marris; Poems by Clyde Carr; Signs and Wonders by Basil Dowling; Beyond the Palisade by James K. Baxter; The Wind and the Sand by Denis Glover; Poetry: The Quarterly of Australasian Verse (December 1944), edited by Hexmore Hudson; Three Essays on Czech Poets by Frederick Ost. New Zealand Listener, 8 June 1945, pp.12–13. Lawrence Jones gives an account of the controversy in Picking Up the Traces, pp.67–8

71 NZ Listener, 6 July 1945

72 JCB, 'Culture Undefined', review of Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T.S. Eliot. NZ Listener, 6 May 1949, pp. 16–17

73 JCB, 'The National Orchestra', Landfall, vol.3, no.4 (December 1948), pp.307–20

74 JCB, 'History and the New Zealander', in The University and the Community: Essays in Honour of Thomas Alexander Hunter (Wellington: Victoria University College, 1946), p.124

75 JCB, 'Grounds for Mild Assurance', NZ Listener, 10 January 1947, p.12

76 JCB to JEP, 12 March 1946

77 Janet Paul, 'McCormack, Thomas Arthur 1883–1973', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol.4

78 JCB, 'Lunch-hour Art in Wellington', NZ Listener, 22 March 1946

79 JCB, 'Colin McCahon's Pictures', NZ Listener, 5 March 1948

80 JCB to JEP, 4 February 1948

81 JCB, 'The Artist and the School', NZ Listener, 28 May 1948. See also his article 'A Small Bouquet for the Education Department', Arts Year Book 7 [1951], edited by Eric Lee-Johnson

82 JCB to JEP, 12 March 1946

83 E.H. McCormick, Eric Lee-Johnson (Hamilton: Paul's Book Arcade, 1956), p.34

84 JCB to JEP, 19 June 1946

85 JCB to JEP, 3 July 1947

86 JCB, 'Note on a Collection of Paintings', Landfall, vol.5, no.3 (September 1951), pp.227–30

87 JCB to JEP, 11 February 1946

88 JCB to JEP, 12 March 1946

89 JCB to JEP, 14 January 1946. The other books mentioned in this paragraph he notes having read in further letters to Janet during 1946.

90 JCB to JEP, 4 July 1947

91 JCB to JEP, 26 August 1948

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92 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Report of the New Zealand Delegation to the Fourth Session of the General Conference, Held at Paris from 19 September to 5 October, 1949. AJHR, 1950, A-11. Unless otherwise noted, the following two paragraphs are based on the report.

93 JCB to Heenan, 17 May 1950. J.W. Heenan Papers. MS-Papers-1132-016. ATL

94 Report of the New Zealand Delegation, p.21

95 JCB, 1949 Unesco Conference, 'General Subject' speech, typescript, p.2

96 JCB, 'Is International Understanding Possible?', BBC Listener, vol.43, no.1102 (2 March 1950)

97 JCB to Richmond, 13 November 1949

98 JCB to sons, 17 October 1949

99 JCB to Richmond, 13 November 1949

100 JCB to sons, 17 October 1949

101 JCB to JEP, 2 December 1949

102 JCB to Mary Beaglehole, 14 November 1949

103 JCB to JEP, 15 November 1949

104 Vincent O'Sullivan, Long Journey to the Border: A Life of John Mulgan (Auckland: Penguin, 2003), p.111

105 JCB to JEP, 2 December 1949

106 JCB to family, 13 December 1949

107 JCB to family, 20 December 1949

108 JCB to EMB, 2 January 1950

109 JCB to EMB, 10 January 1950

110 EMB to JCB, 8 February 1950

111 JCB to EMB, 9 February 1950

112 JEP to JCB, 19 March 1950

113 JCB to EMB, 25 February 1950

114 JCB to EMB, 6 March 1950

115 JCB to McKay, 1 February 1950

116 JCB to JEP, 26 January 1950

117 JCB to EMB, 30 March 1950

118 JCB, 'Learning, Law, Politics, Friendship', Parsons Packet, no.23 (July 1953), pp.8–10

119 JCB to EMB, 15 March 1950

120 JCB to EMB, 20 April 1950

121 ibid.

122 ibid.

123 JCB to EMB, 27 April 1950

124 JCB to EMB, 4 April 1950

125 JCB to EMB, 23 March 1950

126 For the information on Nan Kivell I have drawn on the essay by John Thompson, 'Self-made: Towards a Life of Rex Nan Kivell', in Paradise Possessed: The Rex Nan Kivell Collection, published by the National Library of Australia in 1998, the centenary of Nan Kivell's birth.

127 JCB to EMB, 4 May 1950

128 ibid.

129 JCB to Heenan, 12 May 1950. J.W. Heenan Papers. MS-Papers-1132-016. ATL

130 JCB to EMB, 4 May 1950

131 JCB to Heenan, 12 May 1950. J.W. Heenan Papers. MS-Papers-1132-016. ATL

132 JCB to EMB, 19 May 1950

133 The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization: Report of the New Zealand Delegation to the Fifth Session of the General Conference, Held at Florence, Italy, from 22 May to 17 June, 1950, p.7. The other quotes in this paragraph, unless otherwise noted, are from the same introductory section of the report.

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134 JCB to EMB, 1 June 1950

135 JCB to EMB, 25 May 1950

136 JCB to EMB, 1 June 1950

137 JCB to EMB, 8 June 1950

138 JCB to EMB, 19 May 1950

139 ibid.

140 ibid.

141 JCB to EMB, 1 June 1950

142 JCB to EMB, 21 June 1950

143 JCB to EMB, 28 June 1950