1 Downie Stewart to JCB, 17 November 1938

2 Greg Bowron, 'Firth, Cedric Harold 1908–1994', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol.5; JCB to Richmond, 6 August 1936

3 JCB to Richmond, 6 August 1936

4 JCB to DEB, 16 August 1936

5 JCB to McKay, 7 September 1936

6 JCB to Richmond, 29 December 1936

7 ibid.

8 ibid.

9 ibid.

10 ibid.

11 JCB to DEB, 19 July 1936

12 C.E. Beeby, The Biography of an Idea: Beeby on Education (Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1992), p.93

13 'The Beginnings of the NZCER', reminiscences of C.E. Beeby at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research 50th Anniversary Dinner, Wellington, 19 May 1984, typescript, pp.10–11. I am grateful to W.L. Renwick who drew this to my attention.

14 ibid.

15 JCB to Richmond, 29 December 1936

16 ibid.

17 JCB, The University of New Zealand: An Historical Study (Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1937), pp.viii–x

18 ibid., p.13

19 ibid.

20 ibid., p.388

21 ibid., pp.388–9

22 Evening Post, 10 April 1937

23 New Zealand Free Lance, 5 May 1937

24 Evening Star (Dunedin), 17 April 1937

25 Christchurch Press, 17 April 1937

26 Craccum, 29 July 1937

27 JCB, The University of New Zealand, p.406

28 ibid., p.407

29 E.H. McCormick, 'J.C. Beaglehole 1901–71: A Biographical Sketch', Landfall, vol.25, no.4 (December 1971), p.417

30 JCB to Richmond, 29 December 1936

31 Rachel Barrowman, Victoria University of Wellington 1899–1999: A History (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999) pp.60–1

32 JCB to Richmond, 29 December 1936

33 JCB to DEB, 16 August 1936

34 JCB, Victoria University College: An Essay Towards a History (Wellington: New Zealand University Press, 1949), p.228

35 ibid., p.227

36 Susan Skudder, in '"Bringing It Home": New Zealand Responses to the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939' (PhD thesis, Waikato Univerity, 1982), states (p.302) that John was chairman of the Wellington Spanish Medical Aid Committee (SMAC). However, a letter from the Wellington SMAC to the Auckland SMAC, dated June 1938, on its official letterhead gave his position as vice-president (along with Professor Kirk). (George Jackson Papers. MSPapers-90-234, box 6, folder 2. ATL)

37 JCB, Victoria University College, p.230

38 JCB to DEB, 4 October 1937

39 JCB to DEB, 27 January 1938

40 JCB to DEB, 4 February 1938

41 ibid.

42 J.W. Davidson, 'The New Zealand Scholar: A Note on J.C. Beaglehole, 1901–1971', Journal of Pacific History, vol.7 (1972), p.153

43 In the above paragraph I have drawn on the institute's booklet, The New Zealand Institute of International Affairs: Origins, Developments, Prospects (2002)

44 JCB to Richmond, 10 December 1939

45 An undated cutting of the review, signed C.R.A., which appears to be from the Otago Daily Times, was in the copy of Contemporary New Zealand owned by Joe Beaglehole

46 JCB, 'New Zealand in the Commonwealth: An Attempt at Objectivity', in Contemporary New Zealand: A Survey of Domestic and Foreign Policy, edited by G.R. Powles (Wellington: New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1939), p.5

47 Colin Aikman, 'Powles, Guy Richardson 1905–1994', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol.5

48 JCB, 'New Zealand in the Commonwealth', p.3

49 Peter Munz, 'A Personal Memoir', in The Feel of Truth: Essays in New Zealand and Pacific History, edited by Peter Munz (Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1969), p.23

50 JCB to Richmond, 10 December 1939

51 Evening Post, 26 February 1940, quoted in Nancy M. Taylor, The New Zealand People at War: The Home Front, vol.1 (Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1986), p.191

52 W.J. Scott, 'Civil Liberties in New Zealand', Landfall, vol.10, no.1 (March 1956), pp.36–7

53 The draft survives in his papers. It is not clear from the papers I have seen whether it was part of the final submission; it does, however, give a very clear expression of his reaction to the regulations.

54 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

55 JCB to Richmond, 10 December 1939

56 JCB to Richmond, 10 January 1938

57 JCB to Richmond, 14 June 1938

58 Linda Tyler, 'The Urban and Urbane: Ernst Plischke's Kahn House', in Zeal and Crusade: The Modern Movement in Wellington, edited by John Wilson (Wellington: Te Waihora Press, 1997)

59 Linda Tyler, 'Plischke, Ernst Anton 1903–1992, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol.5

60 Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Keeping a Low Profile: An Oral History of German Immigration to New Zealand (Wellington: Victoria University Press), p.42

61 JCB to JEP, 16 December 1948

62 JCB to Heenan, 13 February 1939; Heenan to JCB, 1 March 1939. J.C. Beaglehole Papers. 73-004-01/10. ATL

63 JCB to DEB, 16 January 1940

64 JCB to Richmond, 10 December 1939

65 JCB to Downie Stewart, 23 November 1944. Downie Stewart Papers. MS-985-1/1/15. Hocken Library

66 Davidson, 'The New Zealand Scholar', p.153

67 Mary Boyd, 'Lecturer in History', in J.C. Beaglehole Some Personal Recollections: Supplement to the [VUW] Gazette, no.11, 1971

68 Noeline Hall to THB, 13 June 2003

69 F.H. Corner, 'Extracts from notes on FHC's university days' (given to the author by Frank Corner, 2003)

70 Boyd, 'Lecturer in History'

71 Munz, 'A Personal Memoir', in The Feel of Truth edited by Peter Munz, pp.20–1

72 ibid., p.20

73 ibid.

74 Davidson, 'The New Zealand Scholar', p.153

75 Boyd, 'Lecturer in History'

76 Corner, 'Extracts from notes on FHC's university days'

77 Hall to THB, 13 June 2003

78 Davidson, 'The New Zealand Scholar', p.153

79 JCB, 'History and the New Zealander', in The University & the Community: Essays in honour of Thomas Alexander Hunter (1946), p.124

80 ibid.

81 JCB to Vivienne Rich, 6 May 1950

82 JCB, Victoria University College, p.232

83 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

84 JCB to JEP, 14 March 1946

85 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

86 Davidson, 'The New Zealand Scholar', p.153

87 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941. Fred Wood's file on Elder's threatened libel action is in his history department papers. Exams (correspondence and related material), Box 1, 1934–42. J.C. Beaglehole Room, VUW Library

88 Burnett to THB, 7 October 1996

89 Munz, 'A Personal Memoir', p.24

90 E.T. Williams to JCB, 6 February 1940

91 E.T. Williams, 'The Colonial Office in the Thirties', Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand, vol.2, no.7 (May 1943), pp.141–60

92 Williams to JCB, 14 August 1947

93 Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand, vol.2, no.6 (November 1942), pp.95–113

94 JCB to Richmond, 21 December 1941

95 JCB to Downie Stewart, 7 February 1942. Downie Stewart Papers. MS-985-1/1/15. Hocken Library

96 Historical Studies Australia and New Zealand, vol.2, no.7 (May 1943), pp.129–40

97 JCB to Downie Stewart, 23 November 1944. Downie Stewart Papers. MS-985-1/1/15. Hocken Library

98 New Zealand Listener, 25 May 1945, p.7

99 W.J. Lewis Parker to JCB, 21 June 1946

100 JCB to JEP, 13 June 1946

101 JCB to JEP, 4 December 1946

102 JCB to JEP, 5 November 1946

103 JCB to Ida Leeson, 19 November 1946. carbon copy

104 JCB to JEP, 6 March 1947

105 JCB, draft memo to Sir Thomas Hunter, undated [late November–early December 1947]. J.C. Beaglehole Papers. 73-004-02. ATL

106 JCB to JEP, 22 October 1947

107 Williamson to JCB, 29 October 1947. J.C. Beaglehole Papers. 73-004-02. ATL

108 Edward Lynam to JCB, 12 November 1947. ibid.

109 JCB to Phyllis Mander Jones, 4 December 1947. ML 1709/63. State Library of NSW

110 JCB to Lynam, 19 December 1947, carbon copy. J.C. Beaglehole Papers. 73-004-02. ATL

111 Lynam to JCB, 7 February 1948. ibid.

112 JCB to Mander Jones, 4 February 1948. ML 1709/63. State Library of NSW

113 Chifley to Fraser, 6 February 1948, copy. J.C. Beaglehole Papers. 73-004-02. ATL

114 JCB to Mander Jones, 25 March 1948. ML 1709/63. State Library of NSW

115 JCB to JEP, 20 May 1948

116 Williamson to JCB, 10 June, 12 June 1948

117 JCB to JEP, 24 June 1948

118 JCB to JEP, 14 July 1948

119 JCB to JEP, 8 August 1948

120 ibid.

121 ibid.

122 Fraser to Chifley, 29 July 1948, copy. ML 1709/63. State Library of NSW

123 JCB to Richmond, 4 October 1948

124 JCB to Mander Jones, 4 February 1948. ML 1709/63. State Library of NSW

125 JCB to JEP, 26 June 1947

126 JCB to JEP, 14 August 1947

127 JCB to Richmond, 4 October 1948

128 JCB to JEP, 1 July 1948

129 JCB to JEP, 18 November 1948

130 L.C. Webb, review in Education, vol.2, no.5 (November 1949), p.62

131 NZ Listener, 2 September 1949, pp.12–13

132 JCB, 'A College Jubilee', NZ Listener, 13 May 1949, pp.6–7

133 Landfall, vol.4, no.3 (September 1950), pp.253–7

134 JCB to JEP, 9 October 1950

135 JCB to McCormick, 8 October 1950. E.H. McCormick Papers. MS-Papers-5484-08. ATL

136 McCormick to JCB, 'Saturday' [14 October 1950(?), envelope postmarked 16 October]

137 JCB to JEP, 19 May 1949

138 Editorial, NZ Listener, 13 May 1949, p.5

139 JCB, 'A College Jubilee', NZ Listener, 13 May 1949, p.6

140 JCB, untitled typescript, 27 May 1949 [broadcast?]