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New Zealand and the world of ideas

… engagement with the wider intellectual world through letters, books, newspapers and visitors from overseas. From …

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Part of story: Ideas in New Zealand

The seal of New Zealand

… and the ships – with the middle ship replaced by the letter ‘E’ and a crown, surrounded by roses. …

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Part of story: Coat of arms

… Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender and other important men of letters. In 1944 Glover returned reluctantly to New Zealand … his close friend A. R. D. Fairburn and helped to edit his letters for publication. His last task was to select poems … with a great sense of humour.' Glover's conversation and letters could be wickedly witty and subversive. He was an …

Type: Biography

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McCormick, Eric Hall

… editor, Oliver Duff . He himself contributed a volume, Letters and art in New Zealand . From an early age McCormick … two theses could not have been a better apprenticeship for Letters and art in New Zealand. In so short a book, only …

Type: Biography

Pompallier, Jean Baptiste François

… He kept in touch with the outlying clergy by frequent letters and had constant contact with the Māori, who … His mana among Māori remained high but, in spite of his letters and efforts, he had to watch helplessly as Māori … to Māori customs. He also left behind more than 600 letters, and these, more than anything else, tell the real …

Type: Biography

Tricker, Walter Pettit

… the way to the ferry, and on his return journey delivered letters to two settlers, G. W. Wheeler and A. Winks. At the … across sandhills and swamps in 46 minutes. Editorials and letters in Wellington and Wanganui newspapers either claimed … of Tricker's innocence while visiting him in gaol. In letters to the press and in a petition to the government he …

Type: Biography

Garmson, Aileen Anna Maria

… first came to public notice by writing well-expressed letters to the editors of the Lyttelton Times , the Oamaru … a command of the gritty language of shearers, while her letters to the newspapers gave her a wider audience. The …

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Martin, Samuel McDonald

… line. Martin began his editorship with an open letter, 'To His Excellency Captain Hobson, R.N.', attacking … the 5½ month voyage Martin wrote New Zealand in a series of letters (1845), a well-written and wide-ranging account of …

Type: Biography

New publishers, 1930s and 1940s

… Reed. In the same year they published their first book, The letters and journals of Samuel Marsden . Other works on … Zealand, were produced. The surveys included McCormick’s Letters and art in New Zealand (1940) and J. C. Beaglehole …

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Part of story: Publishing

Shaw, Helen Lilian

… took up the cause of D’Arcy Cresswell , in 1971 editing his letters for publication, and in 1983 Dear Lady Ginger , letters between him and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She herself …

Type: Biography

Snelson, George Mathew

… credit on purchases at his store while Louisa provided a letter-writing service at 6d. a letter. Known affectionately as Aunt Lou, she also took in …

Type: Biography

Te Wainohu, Hēnare Wēpiha

… Māori newspaper Te Kōpara published some of Te Wainohu's letters home. In one of these he answered the criticism that … they did not have sufficient experienced officers. Other letters revealed Te Wainohu's concern for the moral and …

Type: Biography

Wilson, John Alexander

… Court on the East Coast, first published as a series of letters to the Otago Daily Times and subsequently … A town meeting was held at which it was resolved to send a letter to the minister of justice censuring Wilson's …

Type: Biography