1 JCB to Norman Richmond, 7 February 1933

2 JCB to Richmond, 9 March 1933

3 JCB to Richmond, 18 January 1933

4 See, for example, his review of John Strachey, The Coming Struggle for Power, in Phoenix, vol.2, no.2 (June 1933)

5 JCB to Richmond, 5 December 1933

6 Unfortunately, Richmond's letters to John for 1933 do not seem to have survived. Copies survive of many of those he wrote from March 1934 on.

7 JCB to Richmond, 20 February 1933

8 JCB to Richmond, 9 March 1933

9 ibid.

10 JCB to Richmond, 12 February 1933

11 JCB to Richmond, 18 January 1933

12 JCB to Kathleen Mckay, 6 February 1933

13 JCB to Richmond, 12 February 1933

14 ibid.

15 Phoenix, vol.2, no.2 (June 1933)

16 JCB to Richmond, 25 May 1933

17 JCB to Richmond, 7 November 1933

18 Art in New Zealand, vol.7, no.1 (September 1934)

19 JCB to Richmond, 18 April 1934

20 This section was published in New Zealand Best Poems of 1934, edited by C.A. Marris (Wellington: Harry H. Tombs, n.d.(?1935))

21 JCB to Richmond, 12 February 1933

22 Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, eds., The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (Melbourne: Oxford University Press New Zealand, 1998) p.49

23 Tomorrow, 29 August 1934, reprinted in A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923– 45, edited by Allen Curnow (Christchurch: Caxton, 1945)

24 Robinson and Wattie, Oxford Companion, p.45

25 ibid.

26 Denis Glover, 'Pointers to Parnassus', Tomorrow, 30 October 1935, p.17. Quoted in Lawrence Jones, Picking Up the Traces: The Making of a New Zealand Literary Culture 1932–1945 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004), p.154

27 Christchurch Press, 18 June 1936

28 JCB to Richmond, 6 April 1933

29 JCB to Richmond, 25 May 1933

30 ibid.

31 JCB to McKay, 15 June 1933

32 JCB to Richmond, 18 July 1933

33 JCB, Victoria University College: An Essay Towards a History (Wellington: New Zealand University Press, 1949), pp.213–19; Rachel Barrowman, Victoria University of Wellington 1899–1999 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999), pp.92–4

34 JCB, Victoria University College, p.215

35 Barrowman, Victoria University, p.93

36 [JCB], 'Academic Memoirs 1934'. unpublished typescript

37 JCB, Victoria University College, p.217

38 James's letter, together with other material on the controversy, is reprinted in F.A. de la Mare, Academic Freedom in New Zealand, 1932–34 (Auckland: Unicorn Press, 1935), pp.40–5

39 JCB to editor, Evening Post, 17 July 1933

40 JCB to Richmond, 25 July 1933

41 JCB, 'Academic Memoirs 1934'

42 JCB to Richmond, 7 November 1933

43 JCB, 'Academic Memoirs 1934'

44 JCB, Victoria University College, p.217

45 JCB to Richmond, 7 November 1933

46 JCB to Richmond, 25 July 1933

47 JCB to Richmond, 7 November 1933

48 JCB to de la Mare, 3 November 1933

49 JCB to Richmond, 7 November 1933

50 JCB to Richmond, 25 July 1933

51 ibid.

52 JCB to Richmond, 7 November 1933

53 It appeared on 19 October, 2 November, 16 November, 30 November and 14 December 1933, 18 January, 1 February, 15 February, 1 March, 15 March, 29 March, 12 April, 26 April, 10 May, 24 May and 7 June 1934

54 JCB to Richmond, 7 November 1933

55 Chris Hilliard, 'Island Stories: The Writing of New Zealand History 1920–1940' (MA thesis, University of Auckland, 1997), p.105

56 JCB to DEB, 6 October 1933

57 JCB to Richmond, 5 February 1934

58 JCB to Richmond, 13 March 1934

59 JCB to Richmond, 14 March 1934

60 JCB to Richmond, 1 July 1934

61 JCB to EMB, 15 July 1934

62 JCB to DEB, 31 July 1934

63 JCB to Richmond, 5 February 1934

64 JCB to Richmond, 27 February 1934

65 JCB to Richmond, 30 July 1934

66 JCB to Registrar, Auckland University College, 6 September 1933

67 JCB to DEB, 16 November 1933

68 Keith Sinclair, A History of the University of Auckland 1883–1983 (Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford Univeristy Press, 1983), p.159

69 JCB to Richmond, 15 November 1933

70 JCB to McKay, 14 December 1933

71 JCB to Richmond, 5 December 1933

72 JCB to Richmond, 5 February 1934

73 JCB to McKay, 14 December 1933

74 Sinclair, University of Auckland, p.159

75 JCB to McKay, 14 December 1933

76 JCB to Richmond, 5 February 1934

77 JCB to Richmond, 1 July 1934

78 JCB to Richmond, 27 July 1934

79 JCB to Richmond, 5 September 1934

80 JCB to DEB, 31 October 1934

81 ibid.

82 JCB to Richmond, 31 October 1934

83 ibid.

84 von Zedlitz to JCB, 2 November 1934

85 New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, vol.240 (18 September–10 November, 1934), pp.1076–87

86 Dominion, 6 November 1934, p.10; Evening Post, 6 November 1934, p.8.

87 JCB to DEB, 7 November 1934

88 JCB to Richmond, 31 October 1934

89 JCB to Richmond, 6 March 1935

90 R.M. Campbell, 'In the name of national security', New Zealand Listener, 23 February 1974, p.9

91 JCB to Richmond, 18 February 1935

92 JCB to Richmond, 6 March 1935

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

94 J.A. Williamson to JCB, 5 January 1935

95 JCB to Richmond, 18 February 1935

96 ibid.

97 ibid.

98 JCB to McKay, 13 April 1935

99 JCB to Richmond, 6 March 1935. John thought that the Sydney Vice-Chancellor might have had that information from a council member called Forsyth, who was 'bitterly opposed' to John and at the time of the council meeting was in Sydney (ibid. and also JCB to Richmond, 18 February 1935)

100 JCB to Airey, 9 May 1935. Willis Airey Papers. MSS and Archives, A-201, box 25, file 61. Auckland University Library

101 Hunter to de la Mare, 11 March 1935. F.A. de la Mare Papers. MS-Papers-3865-2/3/5B. ATL

102 Peter Munz, 'Wood, Frederick Lloyd Whitfield 1903–1989', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol.5

103 JCB to Richmond, 18 February 1936

104 Review by F. Kingdon Ward, Sunday Times (UK), 9 December 1934

105 Sydney Morning Herald, 5 January 1935

106 ibid.

107 New York Times, 10 February 1935

108 Spectator, 2 November 1934

109 JCB, The Exploration of the Pacific (London: A. & C. Black, 1934), p.373

110 ibid., p.374

111 ibid., p.375

112 ibid., pp.380–1

113 David Mackay, 'Exploring the Pacific, Exploring James Cook', in Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams, edited by Alan Frost and Jane Sampson (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), p.254

114 JCB to Richmond, 18 February 1935

115 James Ritchie, 'Sutherland, Ivan Lorin George 1897–1952', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol.4

116 Jane Garrett, An Artist's Daughter: With Christopher Perkins in New Zealand 1929–34 (Auckland: Shoal Bay Press, 1986), p.73

117 JCB to Richmond, 31 July/1 September 1935

118 Tomorrow, 28 August 1935, pp.5–7; Pacific Affairs, vol.9, no.3 (September 1936), pp.481–3. The quotes which follow are all taken from the review in Tomorrow

119 JCB to Richmond, 31 July/1 September 1935

120 JCB to DEB, 12 November 1935

121 JCB to Registrar, 27 August 1934

122 JCB to Richmond, 17 December 1935

123 JCB to DEB, 12 December 1935

124 Boyd-Wilson to JCB, 2 December 1935

125 JCB to Richmond, 27 January 1936

126 'James Cook and Mercury Bay' (address delivered at the unveiling of the Cook Memorial at Mercury Bay on 9 November 1969), pp.1–2

127 JCB to DEB, 18 September 1934

128 Williamson to JCB, 28 August 1935

129 Williamson to JCB, 23 December 1935

130 JCB to Duncan, 28 June 1936

131 My discussion of JCB's New Zealand: A Short History (London: Allen & Unwin, 1936) draws on Chris Hilliard, 'Island Stories', especially pp.102–7

132 New Zealand Herald, 22 August 1936

133 Tomorrow, 22 July 1936

134 Jock Phillips, 'Of Verandahs and Fish and Chips and Footie on Saturday Afternoon', New Zealand Journal of History, vol.24, no.2 (October 1990), p.124

135 JCB, New Zealand: A Short History, pp.57–8

136 ibid., p.59

137 ibid., p.73

138 ibid., p.84

139 ibid., p.125

140 ibid., p.94

141 ibid., p.114

142 ibid., p.115

143 ibid., p.152

144 ibid.

145 ibid., p.157

146 JCB, New Zealand: A Short History, p.159

147 Chris Hilliard, 'Island Stories', p.106

148 JCB, 'The New Zealand Scholar', in The Feel of Truth: Essays in New Zealand and Pacific History, edited by Peter Munz (Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1969), p.244