A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
8 Victoria University College, 1936– 49
8 Victoria University College, 1936– 49
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?]