Chapter One: A young man in the colonies

Note: Several biographers refer to Thomas King as having been a member of the British Parliament before emigrating to New Zealand. This is impossible as the minimum age for representation is twenty-one, and Thomas was twenty when he arrived in New Zealand. This was pointed out to me in correspondence with the House of Commons.

1. J. B. Priestley, Victoria's Heyday (London: Penguin, 1972).

2. Mary King, Truby King — The Man (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1948), p. 12.

3. Margot Fry, Tom's Letters: The Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001), p. 52.

4. Ibid., p. 53.

5. Ibid., p. 196.

6. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 20.

7. Ibid., p. 22.

8. Ibid., p. 22.

9. Ibid., p. 23.

10. Obituary, Taranaki Herald, 29 April 1893.

Chapter Two: Little Truby

Note: Several biographers erroneously credit Truby King with the Eccles scholarship at Edinburgh University. It was the Ettles scholarship.

1. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 28.

2. Ibid., p. 29.

3. Ibid., p. 31.

4. Letter dated 21 June 1874, King Family Papers, ATL.

5. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 36.

6. Ibid., p. 50.

7. Ibid., p. 64.

8. Ibid., p. 68.

9. Ibid., p. 76.

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Chapter Three: Who am I?

1. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 81.

2. The Crozier collection, Dr Paul Crozier, Kingseat Hospital.

3. D. M. Wilson, A Hundred Years of Healing, Wellington Hospital 1847-1947 (Wellington: Reed, 1948).

4. Theodore Gray, The Very Error of the Moon, (Ilfracombe, 1959), p. 98.

5.    Wilson, A Hundred Years of Healing, Wellington Hospital 1847-1947.

Chapter Four: An asylum by the sea

1. Dr Brunton, in The Seylla-Charybdis Syndrome', quoting the first keeper at Oakley Hospital, 1853, p. 3, the Crozier collection.

2. Appendix to Journals of the House of Representatives 1886, section H.

3. Brunton, The Seylla-Charybdis Syndrome', p. 11.

4. Cheryl Caldwell, Truby King and the Seacliff Asylum 1884-1907, University of Otago, BA Hons thesis, 1984, p. 48.

5. Gray, The Very Error of the Moon, p. 98.

6. Frank Tod, Seacliff, A History of the District to 1970 (Dunedin), 1970, p. 29.

7. AJHR 1889, section H.

8. AJHR 1905, section H.

9. Caldwell, Truby King and the Seacliff Asylum, p. 4.

10. Tod, Seacliff, A History of the District to 1970, p. 29.

11. Barbara Brookes, 'Frederic Truby King and the Seacliff Asylum', New Perspectives on the History of Medicine, (Melbourne: University of Melbourne), 1990.

12. Ian Church, Truby King's initiatives, modernised fishing in Karitane', Otago Daily Times, 20 October 2001.

13. Kath Lonie, former resident of Seacliff village, personal communication, 2000.

14. Dr Brunton, The Seylla-Charybdis Syndrome', 1893, p. 11.

15. Letter to Mrs Cracroft. Wilson, Christchurch, Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

16. Lionel Terry, 'God is Gold", quoted by Frank Tod, Seacliff, A History of the District to 1970, p. 78.

17. Dr Charles Moore, Medical Superintendent, Seacliff 1960-70, personal communication, 2000.

18. Lionel Terry, quoted by Frank Tod, Seacliff, A History of the District to 1970, p. 92.

19. Lionel Terry, quoted by Gordon Parr)', A Fence at the Top (Dunedin: John Mclndoe, 1982), p. 51.

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20. Ibid., p. 51.

21. Eleanor McLagan, Stethoscope and Saddlebags (Collins, 1965).

22. Ibid.

Chapter Five: Colonising the Catlins

1. A. R. Tyrrell, Catlins Pioneering (Dunedin: Otago Heritage Books, 1989).

2. King, Truby King - The Man, p. 227.

3. Ibid., p. 229.

4.  Mrs Stott, Lauriston farm resident, personal communication, 2000.

5. Ibid.

6. Letter to Andrew Sutherland, Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

7. King, Truh King — The Man, p, 231.

8. Memorandum of Association, Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

9. King, Truby King - The Man, p. 225.

10. The Argyle Gold Dredging Company, Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

11. Allister Evans, 'Waikaka Saga', Waikaka Historical Committee, Dunedin, 1962.

Chapter Six: A sound mind in a healthy body

1. AJHR, 1886, H-7.

2. Truby King, Annual Report on the Lunatic Asylums of the Colony, AJHR, 1902, H-7, p. 5.

3. Cheryl Caldwell, Truby King and the Seacliff Asylum, p. 29.

4. Frank Tod, Seacliff, A History of the District, p. 31.

5. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 151.

6. Truby King, AJHR, 1906, H-7, p. 19.

7. Caldwell, Truby King and the Seacliff Asylum, p. 63.

Chapter Seven: Some curious attitudes of his own

1. Sir Randall Elliot, son of Truby King's personal physician, personal communication, 2000.

2. Truby King, The Feeding of Plants and Animals (Dunedin: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1905).

3. Ibid.

4. Dr F. C. Batchelor, address to the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children, 19 May 1909, p. 7.

5. Truby King, address to the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children, 19 May 1909, p. 11.

6. Beryl Hughes, The Book of New Zealand Women (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1992), p. 80.

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7. Truby King, 'The Evils of Cram', Dunedin Evening Star, 1906.

8. Baroness von Marenhltz Bulow, 1848. www.geocities.com/froebelweb/webline.html

9. Gordon Parry, A Fence at the Top (Dunedin: John Mclndoe, 1982), p. 49.

10. Kieran Egan, 'The Flaw in Progressivism', p. 9. www.educ.stu.ca/people/faculty/kegan/flawc1-part_2.html

Chapter Eight: Conservation at Karitane

1. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 108.

2. Truby King, lecture in Tree Culture in New Zealand, 1902.

3. McLagan. Stethoscope and Saddlebags.

4. Mary King White, oral history, ATL AB879, 1992.

Chapter Nine: The adoption of Mary

1. Hamish McDoull's great aunt, via Hamish, personal communication.

2. McLagan, Stethoscope and Saddlebags.

3. Eliza Gordon, Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Auckland University Press, www.dnzb.govt.nz

Chapter Ten: A prototype for Plunket

1. Truby King, speech at the annual conference of the National Farmers Union, Wellington, 1904.

2. Pierre Budin, The Nursling, the Feeding and Hygiene of Premature and Full Term Infants (London, 1907), translated by Malone.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Lynne Milne, The Plunket Society — an Experiment in Infant Welfare, University of Otago, MA thesis, 1976, p. 34.

6. Ibid., p. 41.

7.    Parry, A Fence at the Top, p. 18.

8. Milne, Tlie Plunket Society — an Experiment in Infant Welfare, p. 41.

9. Ibid., p. 42.

10. Ibid., p. 44.

11. Ibid., p. 45.

12. Truby King, 'Karitane Products', p. 4.

13. Milne, The Plunket Society — an Experiment in Infant Welfare, p. 46.

Chapter Eleven: The Plunket movement

1. Milne, The Plunket Society — an Experiment in Infant Welfare, p. 48.

2. Ibid., p. 50.

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3. Ibid., p. 54.

4. Ibid., p. 55.

5. Ibid., p. 55.

6. Ibid., p. 71.

7. Ibid., p. 77.

8. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

9. Parry, A Fence at the Top, p. 45.

10. Ibid.

11. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 100.

12. Dianne Armstrong, personal communication, 2000.

Chapter Twelve: The elusive Bella

1. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 44.

2. Ibid., p. 48.

3. Ibid., p. 49.

4. Ibid., p. 48.

5. Mary King White, oral history, ATL AB879, 1992.

6. Obituary, Otago Daily Times, 17 January 1927.

Chapter Thirteen: Taking Plunket abroad

1. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 232.

2.  Ibid., p. 233.

3. Ibid., p. 233.

4. Ibid., p. 234.

5. Ibid., p. 234.

6. Ibid., p. 243.

7. Ibid., p. 245.

8. Ibid., p. 255.

9. Ibid., p. 264.

10. Ibid., p. 277.

11. Ibid., p. 281.

Chapter Fourteen: The later years of Plunket

1. Truby King, Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

2. G. M. Smith, More Notes from a Backblocks Hospital (Caxton, 1941).

3. Helen Deem, Plunket records, Hocken Library.

4. Rachael Selby, Reflections: Otaki Women Looking Back in 2000, Otaki Women's Health Group, 2001, p. 1.

5. Lynne Giddings, Women Together (Wellington: Daphne Brassell, 1993), p. 259.

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6. Plunket website, www.plunket.org.nz

Chapter Fifteen: A mausoleum in Melrose

1. Anene Cusins-Lewer, The Karitane Hospital in Wellington: Swaddled Babies and Muffled Walls', Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture, p. 4.

2. Ibid., p. 4.

3. Chris Cochran, 'Truby King House', Conservation Report, Wellington, 1992, p. 8.

4. Ibid., p. 14.

5. Boffa Miskell, Truby King Park Conservation and Management Plan, Wellington, 1992, p. 8.

6. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 300.

7. Ibid., p. 310.

8. Cusins-Lewer, 'The Karitane Hospital in Wellington: Swaddled babies and Muffled Walls', p. 1.

9. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 306.

Chapter Sixteen: The manic gardener

1. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

2. Margot Fry, Thomas King's biographer, personal communication, 2000.

3. Boffa Miskell, Truby King Park, Conservation and Management Plan, p. 32.

4. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

5. Cusins-Lewer, 'The Karitane Hospital in Wellington Swaddled babies and Muffled Walls', p. 1.

6. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

7. Ibid.

8. Truby King, excerpt from a letter in Scotland, quoting Kipling. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

9. Ibid.

10. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

11. Donal Duthie, Wellington garden historian, personal communication, 2000.

12. Truby King, letter to ? Bennett of Dunedin, August 1922, Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

13. A precis of the information tabulated in Appendix Eight.

14. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

15. Dr James Ritchie, whose father worked with Truby King at Melrose, personal communication, 2000.

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16. Plunket archives, Hocken Library.

Chapter Seventeen: The end

1. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 334.

2. E. N. Tibbie, interviewed 22 December 1970, Crozier collection.

3. Ibid.

4. Dr Neil Begg, The Intervening Years: a New Zealand account of the -period between the 1910 visit of Halle)¹'s Comet and its reappearance in 1986, (Dunedin: John Mclndoe, 1992), p. 99.

5. Mrs James Begg, Plunket Society, Otago Daily Times, 11 February 1938.

6. The Dominion editorial, 11 February 1938.

7. Dr Watt, Director-General of Health, Evening Post, 11 February 1938.

8. Wellington Plunket Nurses, Evening Post, 14 February 1938.

9. Obituary, New Zealand Medical Journal, 1938.

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