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
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
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
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.
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