A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
7 'Unemployed and Odd Jobs', 1933–35
7 'Unemployed and Odd Jobs', 1933–35
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 unpublished typescript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