The John Mansfield Thomson Archive - Overview (2025)

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Each archive box in a broad category is then numbered within the coding as follows:

JMT / Oxf / 01 OHNZM box 1
JMT / Oxf[...]OHNZM box 2
JMT / Oxf / 03 OHNZM box 3

Some material was not located when the Archive was transferred and such items are

indicated in pink.

1. Autobiography group[...]Autobiography box 3
JMT / Auto / 04 Diaries box 1

JMT / Auto / 01 Autobiography box 1

1 ‘Blenheim Borough School 1935/6, Marlborough College Intermediate, 1937’:
2 School projects ‘Jean Batten project, Primary school, J.M. Thomson’, school
project of press-clippings; ‘A Century of Progress’; ‘Versailles 1918 until
November 1940’
3 ‘J.M.T. Au[...]al Matl 1936-1943’: Brown Folder.
Contents: St John Ambulance Association certificate 1943; “Blackout” a
wartime show presented by No. 27 Squadron Air Training, 1943; ‘a Bluey’,[...]942; letter from “Bright” Magazine; ‘Univ[ersity] Entrance’
[examination papers]; Nelson College school reports 1938-1941; ‘Notes on
Vienna – goodness knows why, J.M.T.’; envelope with ‘My father’s
handwriting’; ‘Exam papers from a friend in 4A; obituary for ‘Our
housemaster at Fairfield (Fell); Nelson College school reports 1938-1941; letter
from J. W. Russell (Nelson College) to J.M.T’s father; School Certificate
Examination results 1941; Nelson Repertory Club programme 1941; Nelson
College Song Book; prize certificates in History, Junior Literature, and ‘First
Prize in Form 4A’, 1940; letter to Mrs Thomson from Jean MacDonald on
behalf of the former maid, ‘Mattie was the sadistic demon who wrecked our
early lives’; concert programme 1939 that has Thomson and Wemyss
businesses mentioned; Nelson School of Music reports 1939, photos and
newspaper cutting attached of piano teacher; NZ Education Department
Primary School Certificate; article on William H. Allen, Art Master Nelson

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College; NZ Amateur Swimming Association certificates 1938 and (2) 1941;
1938 newspaper cutting on Dr. John Fell; card of ‘1938, Fairfield House,
Nelson College’; 1938 newspaper cutting of Fairfield House; Absentee Sheet;
‘Early 1940s and 1941 Rutherford House Mag, Nelson College’; ‘Fel-Lapses’
(2); Nelson College letterhead paper (3); Maisian Musings ‘Typical of the
publication my father received and passed on to me’; ‘Sep (?) 1935’ school
essay
4 1942-4, Air Training Corps Blenheim: white folder. Wings; flying map; photo of
A.T.C No. 27 Squadron, Blenheim, 1944
5 Blenheim, wartime – 1944, 6 ‘Champions’: white folder. Contains 6 ‘Champion’
boys’ magazines
6 ‘J.M.T. Auto Biog. Matl. 1945-1949’: Brown Folder.
Contents: reference from headmaster March 1949; 1948 Victoria University
College ‘Exam Papers’; Broadsheet . . .V.U. C Literary Society ‘very rare,
1948’; ‘Salient, March 17 1948’ minutes?; Salient, April 7, 1948, Films and Stage
reviews (2) by J.M.T.; Dublin Gate Theatre programme, autographed by cast
including Hilton Edwards and Michéal MacLiammoir; ‘Feb 1947 Rimutaka,
He was a passenger on the Rimutaka in 1947 when I retd. To NZ. Bob
Muldoon was another!’, obituary notice for Mr Thomas Twomey; ‘23 Sep-Dec
1946 Playhouse Broadstairs’ programmes (12) and brown envelope containing
13 duplicates; ‘1945 Public Trust Accs’ from period 1945-47, in envelope
addressed to J. M. Thomson . . . London, England; E.N.S.A Entertainments
programme ‘Mar 1945 – touring Welsh Coalfields’; ‘Aug 1945, J. M. T. Posted
to Skegness, until atomic bomb dropped and Japanese war ended’, contains
advertisement from Listener, Dec 25, 1993; ‘1st Ballet 1945’, New Theatre, The
Sadler’s Wells Ballet; ‘An amazing event – just like an English film, 1945’,
H.M.S. “Daedalus”, Royal Naval Barracks and Air Station annual Sports
Meeting
7 J.M.T 1942 Early Short Stories MSS, ICS Correspondence Course in Writing
white folder containing short stories, related correspondence
8 JMT A3/3 ‘Family Research’: letters and misc. Letter to Mr Robert Thomson,
U.S.A. 1993, from Japanese Ambassador, ‘cousin –
Uncle Bill’s son’; letters (2) to John from Janet 1992; to Jan from John June
1992, The Godwits Return, John Wemyss’s ring, Dr Beeby’s 90th birthday; from
Jan June 1992; Thomson family tree; to Anne Morrison, Sept 1988, and
duplicate; two letters from Lilian; photocopied letter to father, Mr Thomson,
from Maths Master Nelson College (23 Apr 1942); birthday wishes from
Glaudema Wemyss; from Jan Smail May 77; from Jan June 1991; from Jan July[...]orah; from Margaret Barker Dec 1988;
pages of handwritten family notes (7); from Shirley Jan. 1987; to Anne
Morrison; newspaper cutting 1905 advertising business; obituary for Mr. C.S.
Wemyss, Aug 1973; note from Margaret Barker; letter, receipt, papers (2) from
Anne Morrison; Thomson family photo and papers (3) of family notes, and

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duplicate; from Frances Kennington (Wemyuss) Dec 1988; to Anne Morrison
August 1989; from Anne Morrison May 1989; to Shirley and John from Molly
Furness/ – /Barker Nov 1988; birth register papers (4) and related papers (2);
booklet about the Thomson Lake Regional Park , Saskatchewan (1961), project
of Dr. L.B. Thomson from Blenheim; to Russ Packard, Nov 1988; letter and
obituary for Arthur R. Thomson from Anne Morrison, Oct 1988; from
marriage certificate for David Wemyss and Helen McIsaac; uncle Russ to his
daughter Janet, letter and press cuttings; obituary for Dr. L.B. Thomson; press
cuttings (2); card from Jan May 1991; letter from Jan Apr 1994; letter from
Anne Morrison Aug 1989; sheets on suggestions for genealogical research (6);
papers and booklets regarding genealogical research (8); small pamphlet on
Joe Bootham’s art exhibition; press cutting of Antarctic Expedition and Mr.
Robert Thomson’s comments, Jan 1963; Tribute to Edith Mildred Wemyss,
Apr 1988; reminiscences of Edith Mildred Wemyss ‘About Pioneer Women’;
‘Thomson family – Blenheim, c. 1912-13’, brown envel[...]written on back
9 JMT A3/4 ‘Family’: folders and loose papers
Letter from A. M. Thomson to Molly (Furness/Troup Barker); to Diane and
Pete Beatson, Sept 1987; two articles : ‘Henry James: Lessons of the Master’
and ‘The Art of Autobiography in the 19th and 20th Century England’;
‘Proposal to write and autobiography, outline of themes’ submitted to ARTS;
letter to Mick Sep 1988, connections with the Mulgan family; misc news
clippings; memos; ‘Rules for “Bush-Hunting” (game); note to Donald
Mitchess regarding holidays taken, Oct 1969; letter to Tony, incomplete, talks
about J.M.T.s situation; play ‘Scetchology’; ‘The Marlburian, Nov 1946; sub-
folder ‘Blenheim’, booklet ‘The Southern Cross flies again’; A4 posters ‘Gold
in a tin dish (2); news cuttings and memos; letter to Pohuathou (?) July 1983,
includes great-grandfather’s obituary; To Lex with best wishes from Jean and
Arthur; card from Margaret Barker, includes two advertisements of W.
Thomson’s confectionery, 1873 and 1876; ‘Blenheim Thomson’s Music Shop’;
notes and clippings; from Jan with news clipping enclosed; ‘Recollections of
the Thomson and Wemyss families of Blenheim, retained by Molly
(Furness/Troup Barker in 1989’ 4 pages; booklist (2 pages) and
autobiographical notes (2 pages) on Blenheim; ‘Blenheim Marl Express
cuttings, 1942-43, 1991[end]; sub-folder 2 ‘Blenheim Interviews’ (2); sub-folder
3 ‘Blenheim/J.M.T, Autobiog/pictorial, photocopied photos (37), photo,
articles (a) ‘The Wild White Men of the Wairau’ wine; ‘Memories of the
Coastal Scows’; ‘Journal of the Nelson and Marlborough Historical Societies
Nov 1983’; ‘Ada Crossley Concerts’ (J.C. Williamson) [end]; article
‘Marlborough River Transport of Bygone Days . . .; ‘In My Grandfather’s
House’ (autobiographical, about the havoc caused by servant girl)

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JMT / Auto / 02 Autobiography box 2

1 Two programmes in which J.M.T. is performing, 1955/6
2 H.E Bates, The Vanished World, an autobiography
3 Return to Europe – Autobiography 1: green folder
Description of journey from Sydney to Naples on the Fairsky. Includes
Crichton Royal Hospital (Dumfries) card, photo with Agatha Christie
4 Curriculum Vitae to 1980
5 ‘Picton and the Sounds’ pages (6). Also various papers and articles on the pioneer
ship, Edwin Fox (14)
6 Convoys, Fairsky: ‘March 1945, Convoys, background material’ news cuttings,
‘Fairsky’ 1961
7 ‘Cards and notes to A. Eda from John, and letter(s) from A. Eda to J.M.T.’ 1981-
1986 card, postcards (4); notes (3); review of Frederick Page: A Musicians
Journal, 1986; letter from A. Eda Mar 1980; miniature book Photographs by
Richard Germann
8 ‘Family Background’: note (1); obituary for Miss Melvyn Wilson; letter and reply
from Muriel Bradshaw (daughter of headmaster who taught parents)
9 ‘Other members of family’: Obituary for Ray Hill ‘c. 1979, my sister Janet’s
husband’; press cutting regarding death of Ian Ramsay Wemyss, and
sympathy thanks card; death notice and press cuttings (5); press cutting
‘Colonel Smail of Tweedledale Press’ Listener Nov 1991; press cutting about
Fifeshire (Wemyss) Guardian Weekly, June 1985
10 ‘Selected Press Criticisms, J.M. Thomson’ (15)
11 Music Programmes and exhibitions: Contemporary Music Society Concert,
23.1.1980; Musical Images Concert Series, Oct/Nov 1990; Bartok, the Six String
Quartets. New Zealand String Quartet in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch,
Dunedin September26 – October 9, 1995. Comprehensive programme notes by
Martin Lodge; Peter Grimes, a Retrospective Exhibition, 1995 (2);
Contemporary Ne[...]Warwick Brown Gallery, 5 Nov ?;
12 Hilltop: Papers pertaining to books and magazines written, edited by, or
contributed to: Hilltop: copy of Vol.1, No. 1; News cutting – poet Alistair
Campbell’s literary reminiscences of literary life in the 1940s and 50s; Alistair
Campbell’s article on Wellington Group; excerpt by James Bertram on the
Wellington Group; reviews of Hilltop in Salient by F. Schwimmer, 1949; editorial
from Hilltop, Vol.1 No.2
13 CANZ: Composers’ Association of New Zealand Newsletter, March 1977
(magazine); notes of third AGM, 26.3.1977
14 Oxford University Press Quincentenary Biography Competition: letter 20.4.1978
from Bridget Williams announcing that the Alfred Hill biography was one of
two winning entries; invitation for 6.5.78 celebration and announcement at
Turnbull House; guide to quintencenary exhibition; news cutting; press release
for 6.5.1978; p/c news cuttings of the winning entries 19.5.78; letter 26.3.1998

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from Elizabeth Mason, incl. family tree of Alfred Hill
15 Stout 1993-1998: 23.6 1983 Document of purpose, functions, membership,
administration and finance; letter 29.4.1984 to Jock from W.H. (Bill) Oliver,
thoughts on choice of first appointment of researcher; reply 4.5.1984 on
appointment of J.M.T.; draft of letter to Mr Adam requesting funding for re-
designed Stout Centre publication New Zealand Studies, and J.M.T. introduction
to the latest publication ‘Farewell Colonialism: the International Christchurch
Exhibition 1906-07 (2 copies)
16 Into a New Key: review in Star 25.8.1985; Page, Frederick J : contract for
Dictionary of NZ Biography entry; Oxford History of New Zealand Music : five
news cuttings, letter 20.11.90 to John Hopkins from J.M.T regarding preface;
letter 13.5.[...]of review; article on
J.M.T. in North and South, May 1989, 2 pages
17 Early Music Articles: The Early Music Yearbook ‘Twenty-five Years of Early Music’
1997; Musical Event Renaissance 13.2.78; ‘Bringing Silenced Music to Life’
extracts from Neal Zaslaw editorial, Early Music May 1992; undated
questionnaire from Grove Dictionary; cartoon from The Times 1980
18 Miscellaneous Booklets: ‘Savile Club’ list of members 1970; ‘The Parish Church of
St. Peter Yoxford, Suffolk 1972, and memorabilia; ‘Kia Kaha, New Zealand’s
involvement in World War II’; ‘A Handsome Pile, the story of the Hunte
Building’; ‘Inverlochy Art School, June 1995’, leaflets encl.; Sotheby’s ‘J.M.T.
Show editions sale’; ‘French Edition of Elliot’s Four Quartets, annotated by J.M.T.
c. 1951/2’; booklist and catalogue
19 Pamphlets: ‘Works of art in New Zealand House 1961/2?’ (1); ‘Pamphlets
European Trip 1994’ (14, and 3 related pages)
20 Obituaries for friends, colleagues, acquaintances (32)
21 Miscellaneous Folder : Photocopied articles kept: ‘The Sale of Popper’s Library’,
auction of Karl Popper’s library after his death, writer Jim McCue, The Times
Magazine, May 13 1995; Pages 7 – 10 of News and Views: Vol. 5 No. 1, June 1995.
Three articles: ‘Enlightened BBC Views’(writer not named), ‘Interviewing: a
professional comment’(writer not named), and ‘The Last of the World Wars’
(author Earl Britland). Poster: Roger Davies Design and Production;
Programme with speaking engagements, 1-7.4.1962, ‘Australia Emphasis Week,
Buffalo’; Programme with speaking engagement 20.11. 1976, Early Music;
‘Buckman, Elgar, Kotare’: pamphlet, membership renewal N.Z Historic Places
Trust, Historic Places issue 68, May 1998 with article on Edwin Fox, and[...]route back to UK, Oct 1982’ programme of Balinese play; map of
Bali; ‘July/Aug Rome/1966, Fred Hartmann J.M.T staying at the Suore di S.
Elisabetta’; 16 receipts/cards/memorabilia; ‘Messa degli Artisti in S. Gaetano’ 13
May 1957, card; St Mary’s, Stoke D’Abernon, Brass Rubbing: instructions sheet,
strip of 5 proofs, note 8.4.1984 from the Monumental Brass Society, information
about heel-ball, news-cutting; ‘J.M.T Festschrift’, list of names; ‘1970 For Greer
Garden, Short Guide to French Wine, Christmas 1970’; ‘3 July 1975, Ch.

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Abouton Rothschild, drink with Julian Bream!’ label; ‘Xmas 1982 Wines at
Horham’ list, and menu pamphlet with guests’ notes; Brooklyn Café and Grill
6.4.1991, menu with guests’ notes, Margaret Nielsen, Jim Dakin, Margot Leigh
Milner, Janet Paul; ‘Notes towards the definition of culture, from T.S Eliot Faber
1948’; Photocopied picture ‘Le Couronnement du Roy’; page related to Crozat’s
book on Raphael’s pictures; Handwritten score by Dorothy Freed 1983, ‘Happy
Birfdy Song’; ‘Brush Stroke by Colin McCahon for The Dark Ages’ Issue 1,
Seven Poems by John Caselberg, and Issue 2, Poems by J.M. Thomson; design
by Colin McCahon; ‘As Broadcast’ Is that Fool Still Alive? by John Bowle; Press-
cuttings (17) 1962-1998; Plays with J.M.T in cast (2); graduation ceremony VUW
1991; essay ‘An outward exchange clerk in the Bank of New Zealand’
22 Journal entries - loose
23 Magazines – Cappicade 1948; Order of the British Empire
24 ‘Proposal to write an autobiography’
25 ‘Towards a Usable Past – bibliography of the writings of J.M.T’
26 ‘Bibliography – Towards a Usable Past’
27 Correspondence – Arthur M Thomson/Jean (Weymuss) Thomson and J.M.T 1938
28 ‘1952 J.M.T’s return to NZ on Rangitata’
29 ‘Theatre’: J.M.T’s involvement in

JMT / Auto / 03 Autobiography box 3

1 Creative NZ 1997
2 JMT / Grants, etc
3 Grants, Scholarships, etc Mardsen Fund
4 VUW research grant
5 McCarthy Fellowship
6 Lilburn Trust award 1999

JMT / Auto / 04 Diaries box 1

Notebooks, diaries, journal entries and address books: notebooks: 1961(2), 1987;
diaries: 1988 (2), 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 (2), 1995, 1996 (2), 1997; Journal entries:
1975 Jan 1 – 22; 1976 Jan 30 – July 19; 1976 Dec 17 – 1977 Jan 16; 1989 Mar 23 – Jun 22;
Christmas 1985; 1993 May 7 – Aug 9; address books (3)

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2. Oxford History of New Zealand Music (OHNZM) group (Oxf)

JMT / Oxf / 01 OHN[...]oral box 1
JMT / Oxf / 15 OHNZM Exhibitions box 1
JMT / Oxf / 16 OHNZM Exhibitions box 2

JMT / Oxf / 01 OHNZM box 1

1 ‘OHNZM – notes’
2 ‘OHNZM various’
3 ‘OHNZM Miscellaneous’
4 ‘History – Editorial Notes’
5 ‘1987 OHNZM’
6 ‘OHNZM – letters re bibliography/research’
7 ‘Miscellaneous – includes period background’: includes photos
8 ‘OHNZM material’: includes important correspondence
9 ‘OHNZM 1975-6’
10 ‘1977 – 1988[...]OHNZM box 2

1 Phanzine and OHNZM: three issues of magazine – March, July, Nov 1997; B.R.
Patterson Early Colonial Society Through a Prism: Reflections On Wellington’s First
Anniversary Day (photocopy)
2 ‘OHNZM VUW Photograph’: letter Mar 1990 from Peter Downes, after
Dictionary launch, Pollard photos; negatives (2); photo and photocopies of Billy
Percy (4), Tom Pollard (3), May Poll[...]Page 8 of 68 Last updated August 2014

JMT / Oxf / 04 OHNZM box 4

1 ‘Arts Admin/Patronage etc’
2 ‘Auckland’: photos
3 ‘Bands’: photos, press cuttings, cards
4 ‘Broadcasting’: photos, pictures
5 ‘Bromides from Hocken’: photos
6 ‘Cambridge Summer School of Music’: photos
7 ‘Canterbury’: photos, pictures
8 ‘Chamber Music’
9 ‘Dance Bands/Jazz’
10 ‘Dunedin’
11 ‘Education/Schools, Universities’
12 ‘Exhibitions’
13 ‘Film’
14 ‘Grainger’: also includes manuscripts
15 ‘Gramophone’
16 ‘Instrumentalists’
17 ‘Instruments’
18 ‘The Universe of Music/Barry Brook project’
19 ‘Henri Verbrugghen 1’: includes 2 early booklet publications
20 ‘Henri Verbrugghen 2’

JMT / Oxf / 05 OHNZM box 5

1 ‘NZ Music – negatives’
2 ‘Sheffield Choir’: includes photos and programmes
3 ‘OHNZM N.Z/Origins, Social Class etc’: quotes from composers; methodology;
chapter headings and sub-headings; A Synopsis of 19th Century Women’s Fashion,
21 selected drawings; book review; pg from Keith Sinclair History of NZ; notes
and press clippings
4 ‘OHNZM General Theoretical and Philosophical Papers etc’: misc – press article
on Colin McCahon, Landfall editorial June 1961, comments on state of culture;
M.P. Lissington N.Z. and the U.S. 1840-1944; press clippings; notes; Cook and a
Hundred Years After art catalogue; S.R Strachan Archives for Social History; J. Hind
A Note on Musical Composition in Australia – Survey No. 1; review
5 ‘OHNZM Pre-amble/Introduction’: Colonial – letter, notes, press clippings,
reviews, Brandle ‘Continuing Education Courses and the Place of “Culture”’
talk; articles, press clippings; Kirk file; reviews; N.Z. Quarterly, No.3, 1982; W.H.
Oliver, 22 May 1978, proposal for The OUP New Zealand History

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6 OHNZM Folder 1: ‘Introduction, Victorian Music’; press clippings 1986 including
David Lange’s view on expenditure on NZSO, talk to Library Conference, Feb
1978; notes, articles
7 ‘OHNZM Moriarity Thesis’
8 ‘OHNZM 1896 Wellington Orchestral Society’: Alfred Hill’s farewell; Times Great
Monotone, Hinemoa; 1983 concert programme Angelo Forest; Henri Kowalsky;
Musin; Wellington Orchestral Society programmes 1889 -1891 (6); AGM 1893;
Alfred Hill programmes (2);
9 ‘OHNZM The Blanket Controversy’: Karol Kontski (Katski); press clippings 1896;
minutes book; rehearsal notice; A question of Authenticity – or, Was He Beethoven’s
Pupil?draft and notes, press clippings; drafts and notes on the Orchestral
Society, Chevalier de Kontski
10 ‘Visiting Artists’: OHNZM includes photos
11 ‘Visiting Artists’: place chronologically
12 ‘Triad’ folder – Dunedin, photocopies of music events reviews etc, 1894-95
13 ‘Publishing 1970’: brochures, catalogues, news and order forms, correspondence
To Rod at Price Milburn; Philip Norman Interface 640 for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon,
score
14 ‘Folk/Gold’: OHNZM includes photos
15 ‘Triad/Dunedin Baeyertz, 1892-7’: Encyclopaedia of N.Z. entry for Charles Nalder
Baeyertz; G. Seaman ‘Early Music Periodicals in New Zealand’, conference
paper; notes; Baeyertz/Triad documents, includes letter from Rudolf Emil
Baeyertz (son) to Brasch; sample pages from The Triad; draft of article The Triad
16 ‘History’: ‘Thirteen Facets: Essays to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen
Elizabeth the Second, 1952-77’, editor Ian Wards, on music; press clippings,
notes; ‘Dancing in the Dark’, memoir of Epi Shalfoon; ‘Masters in
Monochrome’, from Portrait Gallery; ‘Kahu Morrison, Kuia'; Edward Tregear;
Gladstone Hill

JMT / Oxf / 06 OHNZM box 6

1 ‘OHNZM earlier versions to be sorted or thrown out’
2 ‘Wellington, including Nelson’: includes photos
3 ‘Henri Verbrugghen’: includes photos and programmes
4 ‘Sheffield Choir’: talk
5 ‘Wellington 1840 – 1850’
6 ‘Voyage’: photos
7 ‘Wellington 5’: OHNZM
8 ‘Bibliographies’
9 ‘Towards a National identity’: OHNZM
10 ‘Baeyertz 2’: OHNZM
11 ‘1870s Immigration’: OHNZM
12 ‘Frontier’: OHNZM includes photos

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13 OHNZM – NZ Music History : ‘Victorian Antipodes/Victorian Chronicle – an
essay on music in the antipodes’ outline; ‘The Hidden Muse – recreating a
tradition’ Turnbull talk; ‘Music in Canada’ notes; ‘In Praise of Turnbull – the
history project: Clarendon Press and Denis Arnold’ Turnbull talk; notes
towards a book, some autobiographical; ‘The Feel of Truth’ and ‘The Historian
in the Modern Community (Wood) lectures ‘Notes Towards a Book on New
Zealand Composers’; synopsis and chapter headings/descriptions for book
14 OHNZM Miscellaneous: ‘Settlement of N.Z’ notes; ‘Bibliographic Resources for
N.Z. Studies’; James Robertson ‘Music Scene in N.Z’, approx.1954; Warwick
Braithwaite article ‘Music in N.Z’ 1954; J.O.C Phillips Musings in Maoriland;
‘The Shores of Music’, chapter headings and sub-headings; ‘Pre-amble’; ‘N.Z
Music Studies’, talk 1984; ‘Music in N.Z from the colonial period to the present
day’, Part One – chapter headings and sub-headings; older notes

JMT / Oxf / 07 OHNZM box 7

1 ‘Richmonds/Atkinsons’
2 ‘Miscellaneous’: mainly bands drafts of OHNZM chapters
3 ‘Music in WWI’
4 ‘General Themes’: exhibitions
5 ‘Dunedin 7’
6 ‘Butler, Samuel article’
7 ‘Early Published Music’
8 ‘1906 – 7 Christchurch’: NZ National Exhibition, includes photo and programme
9 ‘1925 – 6 Dunedin’
10[...]1 ‘Auckland 6’
12 ‘1865, Dunedin’: includes reprint of The First NZ Exhibition and Dunedin in 1865,
Alfred Eccles
13 ‘NZ Performers’
14 ‘OHNZM WWI, Xeroxes from Triad’
15 ‘OHNZM Ideas for Chapter Headings’

JMT / Oxf / 08 OHNZM box 8

1 ‘A.R.D Fairburn’: ‘xeroxes with musical references’
2 ‘OHNZM NZ Folksongs’
3 ‘OHNZM – NZSO’
4 ‘Wellington Symphony Orchestra’: includes photo and information on Leon de
Mauney

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5 ‘Rock, Pop etc’
6 ‘Folk Music’
7 ‘D.G.L Land/Music’
8 ‘Canterbury 8’
9 ‘19th Century Themes – Landed Gentry’
10 ‘Edwardian Musical Life’
11 ‘Education – file material’[...]T / Oxf / 09 OHNZM box 9

1 ‘Education Master Set’
2 ‘Sounz’
3 ‘NZ Sheet Music’
4 ‘Lilburn – including Central Otago’: includes photos
5 ‘NZ Performers /Overseas visiting artists’
6 ‘Music Publications 1 ‘God Defend’’: includes photo
7 ‘Music Publications 2’: photos
8 ‘Music – literary publications on music etc’
9 ‘Orchestral’: photos
10 ‘Maori/European’: pictures
11 ‘OHNZM NZ Music important to file’
12 ‘OHNZM History of NZ Music – Victorian Inheritance: to sort’
13 ‘Baeyert & Triad’

JMT / Oxf / 10 OHNZM box 10

1 ‘1989 – 90, Book Ideas/History Final Revisions’: yellow, spiral-bound book
2 ‘Vaughan Terry/Whistle as We Go (the Gozo Boat) 1989 – 95’: Kiwi Concert Party,
large correspondence
3 Radio NZ Sound Archives Timaru
4 NZ Listener spoof letters 1956/7
5 Patronage of the Arts in NZ
6 ‘1953 Alex Lindsey orchestra founding’
7 ‘9 Depression years 1930’
8 ‘set of papers: Carillon; Gram recitals; Orch life; Music in NZ; Other xxx Arch, Lit;
Dunedin Jan/Feb 1865’
9 ‘OHNZM Music of the Landed Gentry’
10 ‘OHNZM Instruments notes etc’
11 ‘Music for the movies’

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1 ‘Between the Wars’
2 ‘NZ Historical Prints’
3 OHNZM
4 ‘Public Broadcasting 1996’
5 ‘OHNZM NZ General’: photos
6 ‘OHNZM Music Xeroxes’
7 ‘NZSO Concert FM [1996]’
8 ‘OHNZM NZ Composers, includes pioneer’: photos

JMT / Oxf / 12 OHNZM box 12

1 ‘OHNZM’ misc cuttings, booklets and articles, unsorted
2 ‘Jenny McAndrew Memoirs’
3 Peter Campbell, drawings etc
4 ‘OHNZM The Voyage’
5 ‘OHNZM Frontier’
6 ‘OHNZM Regions-1, Blenheim/New Plymouth’
7 ‘OHNZM Regions-2, Otago/West Coass’
12 ‘OHNZM Australia – NZ Relations’
13 ‘OHNZM Education’
14 ‘OHNZM History of NZ Music, illustrations, library correspondence’: includes
photos

JMT / Oxf / 13 OHNZM Opera box 1

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1 ‘Miscellaneous Data (J. Commons)’
2 ‘Opera 1’
3 ‘Opera 2’
4 Unsorted Data
5 ‘Lyster’s influence on Opera in NZ (Adrienne Simpson)’
6 ‘Lyster Opera Co. Dunedin [Aug] Sep. Oct 1864, Otago Daily Times; Natl. Lib.
Oct.1987; Lytt. Times 8 Oct, 13 Oct 1864’
7 ‘Opera – 3 Pollards’: includes photos
8 ‘Opera Etc’: ‘A Night at the Opera’ Allan Highet; Ulric Williams ‘The Forgotten
Years of Opera’ article, (tours of 1928/1932); notes on Mary Hume (soprano
1888), Alfred Hill’s Tapu; ‘Opera Grove Dictionary’ – drafts for Jenny McLeod,
Ross Harris, Alfred Hill, David Farquhar, correspondence regarding Grove
Opera entries; ‘Opera, General File’ – articles on singers, NZ Opera News,
press cuttings, draft for OHNZM chapter on opera, Winnie Fraser (soprano);
‘Grove Opera History’ – photos of NZ Opera productions, Landfall articles and
reviews by J.M. Thomson, David Farquhar, Frederick Page, Desmond
Mahoney, Jeremy Commons, John Steele, Denis Grey, James Bertram, press
cuttings
9 ‘Opera 1864 – 1880’ press-cuttings
10 ‘Opera’: large file with drafts of chapter sections, files on performers, articles,
correspondence, reviews
11 ‘Opera 4 including Pollard’
12 Loose programmes; copies of Opera News; loose articles; drafts; correspondence

Not located
‘Opera’ Grove: entries, list

JMT / Oxf / 14 OHNZM Choral box 1

1[...]nic
7 ‘Choral World 1988’
8 ‘Choral Christchurch’
9 Bands

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JMT / Hist / 04 History box 4

1 Page
2 OHNZM corrections etc
3 Into a new key
4 Biographical Dictionary – additions etc
5 History – pro tem
6 Forrest bibliography
7 History – choral updates
8 Final checks
9 ‘Acculturation – main file’
10 ‘Appendices – Education/in process of revision’: correspondence
11 ‘Musical Instruments and Instrument Makers and Collections’
12 Complete MS ‘version used to prepare Adrienne Simpson’s copy Jul 1988’

JMT / Hist / 05 Readings in NZ Music History box 1

1 ‘Biographical Dictionary of NZ Composers – revisions’
2 ‘Programmes’
3 ‘Alley – Jack Body opera’
4 ‘Hamilton Chamber Music’
5 ‘Electric Piano Rolls’
6 ‘Music in NZ’
7 ‘J.M.T Forgotten Composers’
8 loose papers, articles, background notes, correspondence

4. Biography group (Biog)

JMT / Bio[...]Biog / 03 Biographical Dictionary box 3 LO-SC
JMT / Biog / 04 Biographical Dictionary box 4 SE-ZA
JMT / Biog / 05 New Grove, DNZB, MGG b[...]Dictionary box 1 AL-CO

1 Biog Dicty 1990, Letters, Genl. Matl., Press Cuttings, Approaches to Publishers
Several files at start not used in final choice:

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on Wolfskehl, letter from Nadia Boulanger, concert programmes)
Castro-Robinson, Eve;
Cheesman, Oswald;
Cousins, John (includes essays and interviews);

JMT / Biog / 02 Biographical Dictionary box 2 CR-LI

1 Individual files:
Cree Brown, Chris;
Crossman, Bruce;
Crotty, Gerard (Noel Sanders Gerard Crotty’s Music: a short appreciation);
Crowe, Peter (includes reminiscences, music copies, The Crisis of Identification:
why NZ composers should take an interest in oceanic music, large
correspondence);
Dadson, Philip (includes ‘Scratch’ and ‘From Scratch’ background material, F.S.
information and press kit);
Dart, William;
Daverne, Gary
Dellow, Ron
Drummond, John (includes paper by Patrick Little, librettist, about Plague
upon Eyam,
Dyett, Kim;
East, Jack;
Elmsley, John;
Elton, Anthony;
Farquhar, David (includes premier programme for Shadow,articles, many
press cuttings);
Farr, Gareth;
Franchi, Dorothea;
Freed, Dorothy (includes paper ‘Music Library Resources in N.Z, p/c scores of
Captain Gerald S. Doorly, published c. 1913);
Friedman, Stanley;
‘From Scratch’ check Dictionary, move to box 3 Dadson if no entry;
Galway, Victor;
Garcia, Russell;
Gray, Thomas;
Griffiths, David;
Griffiths, Thomas Vernon;
Hamilton, David
Harris, Ross (includes premier programme for Waituhi, article Looking Behind
the Music by J.M.T);
Haydon, Claude;
Heenan, Ashley;

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Hill, Alfred (includes radio broadcast,
Hoffmann, Richard;
Holmes, Leonie;
Hulford, Denise;
Jagger/Phillips, Bryony;
Jenner, Ernest;
Keay, Nigel;
Ker, Dorothy;
Ladd,[...]d, Mark;
Leibert, David;
Lilburn, Douglas;

JMT / Biog / 03 Biographical Dictionary box 3 LO-SC

1 Individual files:
Lockwood, Annea (includes writing about her music, interview notes, premier
programme, photo);
Lodge, Martin (includes article ‘Perils of Pluralism’)*photocopy
Luscombe, Harry (includes correspondence about performances and
competitions);
McDonald, Ian (includes ‘One Thousand Words For John Thomson’, talk
‘Composition plays an integral part in society’,
McGlashan, Don;
McLeod, Jenny (includes report on leave from VUW, 1970s, chairman’s report
to Civic Centre re ‘Under the Sun’, articles);
Maconie, Robin (includes interview with J.M.T, article on electronic music,
premier programmes);
Madden, Richard;
Mews, Douglas (includes score for ‘The Love Song of Rangipouri’;
Moon, Chloe;
Moss, Barry;
Norman, Philip;
Norton, Chris (includes interview with J.M.T. cover for Microjazz 1;
Parker, Robert;
Perkins, Andrew;
Platt, Peter
Powell, Kit (includes score for Texts for Composition, interview with J.A Moreau,
1984 Landfall article, analyses of works, study leave report 1980/82;
Pruden, Larry (includes Composer of the Week talk, Margaret Mabbett talk about
sorting Pruden’s papers, citation in Canzona, analyses of works, article by
Mabbett, outline of interview with Owen Jensen, photo;
Rimmer, John (includes score for De Aestibus Rerum;

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Ritchie, Anthony;
Ritchie, John;
Sanders, Noel;
Saunders, Max;
Scholes, Peter;
Schramm, Diny and Paul

JMT / Biog / 04 Biographical Dictionary box 3 SE-ZA

1 Individual files:
Searell(e), William Luscombe;
Sell, David;
Small, Christopher;
Smalley, Denis (includes interview with J.M.T, Computerkulturtage Linz – Orf
Prix Ars Electronica, correspondence, programme notes, brochures;
Smither, Michael;
Southgate, William;
Speirs, Jack;
Tremain, Ronald (includes interview notes);
Trimnell, Thomas Tallis
Trowell, Arnold;
Tyrer, Anderson;
Utting, Craig;
Vercoe, Barry;
Vinten, Michael;
Watson, Anthony;
Whitehead, Gillian (includes articles, interview with Noel Sanders, interview
with J.M.T notes, interview with Helen – includes Nicola Lefann, four talks
– two about Peter Maxwell Davies, programmes, correspondence;
Wilson, Ken;
Woods, John Joseph (includes history of NZ Anthem/God Defend NZ);
Young, Jo[...]Young, Ken;
Zagni, Ivan
2 ‘Dicty NZ Composers, Genl./leaflets etc’: 1987 Sonic Circus (includes rehearsal
schedule, Jack Body interview with Martin Lodge); The Asian Composers’
Conference Australia 1985; preface by Michael Bassett; Mozart Fellows;
volume of Bruce Steane’s The Ascension, (possibly a NZ composer); pamphlets
and music catalogues

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JMT / Biog / 05 New Grove, DNZB, MGG box 1

1 Grove, Admin: ‘Guidelines for Contributors’, Composers’ Questionaire, article
receipts, Complete Stocklist for Macmillan, General Grove Correspondence
1994-96, 1997-99
2 Grove Individual Entries A – J
Early Music;
Body, Jack;
Baghuis, Elly;
Bergmann, Walter;
Bruggen, Frans;
Buchanan, Dorothy;
Carr, Edwin;
Castro-Robinson, Eve de;
Clemencic, Rene;
Collegium Aureum;
Cresswell, Lyell;
Crozier, Eric;
Davenport, Lanoue;
Farquhar, David;
Field-Dodgson, Robert;
Godfrey, Peter;
Heenan, Ashley;
Hill, Alfred;
Jennings, Anthony
3 Grove Individual Entries K – Z
Lilburn, Douglas;
Linde, Hans-Martin;
McLeod, Jenny;
Mews, Douglas K;
Otten, Kees;
Page, Fred;
Platt, Peter;
Pruden, Larry;
Scheck, Gustav;
Steele, John;
Tremain, Ronald;
Walsh, Philip
4 ‘Grove/JMT, Martin Lodge’s entry’
5 ‘Grove’
6 ‘Dictionary of NZ Biog[...]Page 23 of 68 Last updated August 2014

9 ‘MGG Grove’
10 ‘MGG Transit’
11 ‘MGG Biographies and E. Carr autobiography letters’

12 DNZB Robert Parker + Hill

5. Performers group (Perf)

JMT / Perf / 01 Performers box 1
JMT / Perf / 02 Performers box 2

JMT / Perf / 01 Performers box 1

Description: typically these files contain few papers. Where more are included, these
have been noted briefly.

NZ Performers – Where are they now? A retrospective on New Zealand musical
scholarship winners (includes 1988 letter from George Griffiths, Otago Daily Times,
a viewpoint about NZ composition);
Airey Elisabeth Balling, Herr Michael programmes,
Albani, Emma (includes memoirs of the correspondence,)
Alda, Frances (includes Wesley family) Bollard, David
Adrienne Simpson’s Baroque Players Bond, Russell (includes
biography of Alda, article Barsby, Bill obituary by Ian Cross and
in Music in NZ Spring Beaglehole, Dr. John C interview notes)
1989, and application for Beatty, Maud (‘see Borwick, Leonard
Stout Research Trebelli’) Botham, Harry
Fellowship) Beauchamp, R (‘see also Boyd Neel
Amadio, John Nes, van J) Bracefield, Hilary
Aspey, Vincent Beck, Harold (includes Bradshaw, Dr John C
Auckland Lieder Group article in Music in NZ, (includes radio
Auckland Trio 1932, NZ Radio [written] programme)
Austin, L.D Record, 1934) Braithwaite, Nicholas
Austral, Florence Begg, Heather Braithwaite, Warwick
Averi, Sandra Bilson, Malcolm (includes (includes article in
Ayson, Graeme (includes photo) Landfall, June 1971)
correspondence Birnie, Tessa Broadbent, Alan
concerning E.C. Simpson) Bishop, John (includes Brown, Gwyneth
Bachaus, Wilhelm article in Music in NZ, Jan (includes substantial
Baillie, Peter 1934, pp. from biography, notes)

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Kaikorai Brass Band Major, Malvina (includes Music Players (Gavin
Karlheinz Company articles) Saunders, Barry Margan,
Krause, Lili (includes Mallinson, Anna Gary Brain, Alan Gold)
articles and Mangin, Noel Muston, Colin
correspondence) Mansfield, Katherine Nalden, Charles
Kreisler Mapp, Richard Natzke, Oscar (includes
Kubelik, Jan Marc, Alessandra (‘see substantial articles)
Kurtz, Edmund also Vogan, S.J Newson, Geoff (includes
Lawrence, Ashley Martin, Mary (Marya) interview notes)
Leo, Dame Sr Mary Matheson, John Newson, Noel
Lindsey, Alex (‘file Mauny, Eric de (includes Nielsen, Margaret
remover to Biog. Dicty interview notes) Nisbet, Peter
entries 28/8/97’) Mauny, Evelyn Notariello, Angelo and
Lisle, Rae de Mauny, Leon de[...]oveday, Alan Melba, Nellie (includes Brown)
Lund, Herman Meier articles and obituaries) Oakes, Frank J
(includes article from Menuhin, Yehudi Oliver, Robert (includes
Music in NZ, March 1932) (includes articles) two photos, interview
Macann, Rodney Montgomery, Lionel notes)
McCaw, John (includes Moore, Vera (includes Oliver, Stanley
interview notes) interview notes by Peter Oort, Bart Van
McClelland, Sarah Crowe Orpheus Choir (‘see
McCormack, John Morrow, Doreen Oliver, Stanley’)
McGavin, Ross Mummery, Browning Ostova, Greta (‘see
McGlashan, Don Munro, Donald[...]itch 28, Oct
McKellar, Honor Murray, Stewart and 88/Feb 89’)
McStay, Janetta (includes Alison
two articles)

JMT / Perf / 02 Performers box 2

Paderewski 1927 (‘source RNZ Library’);
Page, Bernard;
Schwimmer, Ziska (interview, speaks about Frederick Page and family);
Page, Frederick (includes interview and obituaries);
Parsons Family (includes Judith Exley paper, ‘A Nest of Linnets’);
Patti, Adelina (includes articles);
Pearl, Ruth;
Perry, Marie Olive (nee Manthel);
Peters, Victor;

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Peterson, Magnus;
Phillips, Sybil;
Pople, Ross(includes interview notes);
Pratt, Mary;
Princess Iwa (‘see Iwa, Princess’);
Prouse, John (includes reminiscences, publication Pre-Conference Special Supplement to
June, 1969, Phonographic Record);
Rad[...]1 front);
Rapley, Tracy;
Rickard, Malcolm (includes notes from interview);
Robertson, James (includes interview with Fred Turnovsky, correspondence, article
for The Concert Goer’s Annual, England);
Rolfe, A.E (‘see Hutchens, Frank for obit);
Rosner, Francis;
Rudolph, Henry (‘singers’);
Salzman, Pnina;
Saunders, Lyn C.M;
Scherek, Max;
Schola Cantorum (‘see Oliver, Stanley’);
Schola Musica;
Shennan, Jennifer (see also Sonnerie);
Simenauer, Wilfred;
Six Volts;
Slapoffski (includes Frank Wallace performer);
Sonnerie (see also Shennan);
Sousa, John Philip;
Spivakovsky, Jascha;
Stephenson, Diana (Morcom);
Stewart, Nellie;
Still, Alexa;
Stralia, Elsa;
Stravinsky, Igor;
Stringer, Gilbert;
Sutherland, Joan;
Symons, Ava;
Tait, Frank;
Tchaikowsky, Andre (includes correspondence with biographer, sections of
autobiography, biographical notes);
Te Kanawa, Kiri;
Temple-White, H;
Te Rangi, Pai (Fanny Rose Howie);
Te Wiata, Inia;

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Thatcher, Charles;
Thomas, Patrick;
Till, Maurice;
Tintner, Georg;

Towsey, Arthur;
Trebelli, Antoinette;
Trowell, Arnold and Garnet;
Truda, Alf P (includes correspondence and aged photo;
Turnovsky, Frederick (includes interviews);
Tyrer, Anderson (includes Music in NZ July 1933, correspondence);
Vandewart, Marie (includes interview notes);
Verbrugghen, Henri;
Vine, Alfred;
Vogan, S.J (‘see also Marc, A’) no notes;
Waretini, Deane;
Walker, Jocelyn;
Wallace, Frank (‘conductor of CHCH Orchestral Society, see Slapoffski’);
Watkins, Gladys (‘Wgtn’s first carillonist, 1931. Also pianist – studied abroad’);
Webb, Gordon;
Weir, Gillian;
Wellington Chamber Music Players;
Welsh Ladies Choir, Wellington;
Williams, Robert Bradford;
Woodward, Amy;
Woodward, Roger;
Young, Helen (includes interview);
Zelanda, Margherita;
Zellan-Smith, Georgina;
Zwartz, Peter

6. Literary group[...]Literary box 1
JMT / Lit / 04 Writings on various topics box 1
JMT / Lit / 05 Writings on various topics box 2
JMT / Lit / 06 Miscellaneous writings box 1
JMT / Lit / 07 Passing Notes box 1

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4 ‘Strands from a Shining Sea’ : The Bulletin – an Australian Legend; Tribute to Bob
Thaine, 1 Dec 1988; David Low; The First Voyage (Ruahine); Pollensa Patterns;
Wanted: A Shop Window (BBC); The Luckiest Man Alive – Kingsley Martin in
Australia; Entrance to Immortality; No Sale for Dame Ethel; Exploring the
Dordogne; Beatles in the British Museum; Ship with a View – a Last Long Voyage;
Henry Handel Richardson; The Rude Australians
5 ‘Ischia’: San Pollensa, cholera epidemic, Sept 1973
6 Loosel filed material arranged alphabetically
Description: scripts – tributes, festivals, personalities, reviews, interviews;
various talks – wine, etc
Akbar the Great
Akbar – 2
Aldeburgh festival
Australia – Music 1
Australia – Music 2 talk to Bitish Composers Guild
Australia – NZ
Australia – NZ union
Australia – reading the beacon
Autobiography – Canzona articles
Bach, J.C.
Balanchine
Ballet – children’s New York
Baroque Players
Baxter, J.K.
Beatles 1960s
Beethoven Fidelio
Biographical Dictionary of NZ Composers – March 1990 Michael Tippett
Presentation
Bollard, David
Bookplates
Boston Festival 1983
Bream, Julian
British music magazines
Bruges
Calligraphy
CANZ
China
Clemencic, Rene
Constantine the Great
Dakers, Lionel
Dessau, Paul
Distant Music, a
Doctorate of Music 18 April 1991

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Early Music 10th birthday issue January 1983
Early Music 1983
EGK, Werner
Eldon, Alex
England
English Literature
Farrell, Richard
Frank, Alan
Graham, Martha
Grainger, Percy
Grove Park
Handel
Harris, W.B.
Haydn
Hill, Alfred
Horizon
Laufen 1984
Le Coq, Jacques
Lilburn 06 February 1980
Literature of Music
London concert hall
Macann, Rodney
Macbeth
McLean, Gavin
Marks, Trevor
Mayo, Eileen
Menuhin, Yehudi
Messiaen - Turangalila
Missionaries
Mozart – musical joke
Music – British
Music – French
Music – New Zealand
Music - printed
Music books – lecture @ Nat Book League c1970
Music electronic notes
Music survey London
Musical instruments
Neilson, Shaw
New Grove Dictionary
NZ Composers
NZ House
New Zealand music studies

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9 ‘Perils of Performance – talk Jan 1994’
10 ‘BBC Scripts’
11 Artaria
12 ‘Goldfish’
13 Festival programme notes 1994
14 Programme notes
15 Canzona articles
16 Robert Parker – his life and work
17 Losse material including “Sandy’s problem and other stories”, by Emily A. Roff;
award application by Elizabeth Airey

JMT / Lit / 05 Writings on various topics box 2

1 Wine trails of the troubadours
2 NZ essays 1991
3 Hocken lecture 1978 & selected essays on music
4 Watteau slide/tape
5 the Albatross that never wamdered
6 Into a New Key - Mus Fed illusn Xeroxes
7 Contracts incl CUP
8 Cambridge University Press
9 Dunmore Press – Farewell colonialism contract
10 Recorder comp – contract terms
11 References [for people]
12 Rise of classical orchestra - VUW leture
13 New Zealand new music – mini festival of NZ music Edinburgh Dec 1998
14 JMT lectures / conferences & miscellaneous
15 Music magazines – JMT’s plan to develop Canon
16 1947-1949 Victoria Univ. Wellington; Hilltop issues
17 Lectures
18 Walter Bergmann – historical material
19 VUW Lectures (JMT to sort)

Not located:
1 British Council Link 1997 Benjamin Britten Mini Festival
Programme of special events 3 September – 3 October 1997; notes; ‘Concert at
Residence(?)’ (4 pages, includes budget); letters (Sept 1996 – Nov 1997)
between Donald Mitchell, Robert Alston, J.M.T, Nicholas Kenyon, Judy
Young, Barbara Procter, Peter Walls, Judith LeGrove, Jocelyn Keith, Judith
Cla[...]Page 33 of 68 Last updated August 2014

2 ‘Khouri Murray’: letter to Oxford University Press re publication of Murray
Khouri’s A Clarinet Method; draft of book; Khouri CD labels promotional sheet
(2); poster of author (4)
3 ‘Lectures’: Haydn’s Last Symphonies, MUSI 252 VUW, 29.7.85; Wellington’s Early
Music Festival, 1.5.99; Music during the 1940 Centennial, includes photo;
Berlioz and his relevance today; Frederick Page and Douglas Lilburn
26.5.1999 (2, one includes notes for recordings), Stout
4 ‘Literary’: 1996 pre-concert talk, Sir Michael Tippett (obituaries and
tributes) Rose Lake, ‘The Ragged Garden – some aspects of Australian music
(talk), ‘Down With Critics’ (about Australian music), ‘Programmes for Opera’
(article discussing opera programmes), tribute for Bill Hopkins (1993), Stout
Centre reception (1996) – highlights of five years
5 Creative NZ
6 ‘Berner, Christine and Peter Daxner etc’:
7 ‘NZS Roger/Proofs’: includes Alistair Campbell
8 Art Exhibitions
9 ‘Programmes, Edwardian Material incl. Rosina Buckman’: large Elgar file
10 ‘Festival 1996’: includes photos
11 Typography File
12 ‘Music – literary publications on music etc’

JMT / Lit / 06 Miscellaneous writings box 1

1 ‘Waikato University’
2 ‘VUW School of Music – 50 years’
3 ‘VUW Resources including Waiteatea Press’
4 ‘J.M.T Duplicate of reviews/articles etc – many original newspaper cuttings’
5 ‘Misc Articles’

JMT / Lit / 07 Passing Notes box 1

1 ‘First Voyage’ In my grandfather’s house
2 ‘Passing Notes – working copy’ 1991
3 Passing notes Byrd
4 Passing notes: a musical miscellany (large yellow foder
5 Loose material: essays on various musical topics prepared for publication; drafts –
Akbar the Great, festivals, architecture, Arts Council, Australia, autobiography,
Baxter, Beatles, book plates, Boston Festival, Julian Bream

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JMT / Book / 05 Pleasure Gardens box 1

1 ‘Canad[ian] High Commission Vauxhall Gardens Aug 1989’: background articles,
talks, photos and pictures, David Coke ‘The Muses Bower – Vauxhall
Gardens’ exhibition book, music scores
2 ‘Vauxhall Gardens, VUW/July 1989’: articles – ‘Select Reading List for Style Galant
and Vauxhall Gardens’, ‘Vauxhall Gardens , Introductory lecture on Style
Galant for Music 2, July 1989’, ‘The Sons of Bach, Composer of the Week,
Radio N.Z’, David Coke ‘Section III’ on Pleasure Gardens
3 ‘Vauxhall Gardens London and Dunedin, Christmas Entertainment 1988’:
notebook, pictures, programmes, notes, slide, press clippings 1862, draft
‘Vauxhall Gardens London and Dunedin’
4 ‘Sons of Bach and London Pleasure Gardens’: correspondence; Bach Family
Members – Grove; ‘London Pleasure Gardens’ draft; Evan Owens dissertation
proposal; misc notes and drafts;
5 ‘Music in the London Pleasure Gardens’ draft
6 ‘Pleasure Gardens 2’
7 ‘Vauxhall Gardens’ in safe care of Robin Langley: S.F Riethmuller Music making in
the London Pleasure Garden’s, a Bibliography, letters including David Coke,
Edward Croft-Murray, publishers for proposed book on Pleasure Gardens
8 ‘The London Pleasure Gardens’ David Higham)
9 Loose material including: Images of the Sea, Otago Early Settlers’ Museum, entry for
‘Vauxhall Gardens Dunedin after 1868; Festival Fireworks; Historic Places June
1986 article – Victorian Dunedin’s place of pleasure; ‘School of Music, EMU,
7/10/89 letters etc relating to benefit concert; notes, press-clippings, articles, etc
about Vauxhall Gardens;

JMT / Book / 06 Music in New Zealand box 1

1 ‘Sections omitted’
2 ‘Master Copy’: John Steele’s and Richard Bolley’s comments
3 Draft copy 1
4 ‘J.M.T’s final copy’ –green folder
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8. People group (Peop)[...]Michael Balling box 1
JMT / Peop / 04 Rosina Buckman box 1
JMT / Peop / 05 Callot / Castle / Cresswell box 1
JMT / Peop / 06 Bergmann / Carr / Ellwood / Mansfield
box 1

JMT / Peop / 01 Blackwood and Janet Paul box 1

1 ‘Master 1 Catalogue and captions’: photos of Janet Paul (2); Janet Paul talk to
Society of Authors on History of Blackwood and Janet Paul; ‘Paul’s Book
Arcade’; proposal to write a biography of Blackwood Paul; preliminaries
towards exhibition; ‘Authors’; index of authors and editions; Blackwood
/ Brasch correspondence 1953-63; JMT/Page floppy disc; reference by Janet Paul
for Chrissie Hemming
b2 Master 2: envelope of exhibition expenses; review of ‘Landmarks in N.Z’;
correspondence 1945-96; ‘A Library Exhibition of Small Presses in N.Z’; Brian
Opie ‘N.Z History of Print Culture’; tributes, reviews, book covers; Waikato
Children’s Camp; testimonial from Auckland University College; Janet Paul
Painting Exhibition
3 Blackwood Paul, Folder 4: book illustrations and [photos of ] authors; pix W.H
Paul [Blackwood Paul’s father]; etched plate ‘for Max Rodgers from Jeannette’;
photos and negatives Blackwood Paul and shop; ‘Blackwood Paul’ p/c photos
and pledge; Arts Council grant [for biography of Blackwood Paul]
4 ‘Blackwood Paul, General Material’: background essays; B.P writings – articles by
B.P, articles about B.P; Phyllis Gant ‘The Fifth Season’; James Bertram ‘Flight of
the Phoenix’; Phoebe[...]ntal Life’; Hector Monro ‘Fortunate
Catastrophes’; ‘The 1950s, Keeping it Decent’ – from book on booksellers; misc
and press clippings
5 ‘Blackwood and Janet Paul – miscellaneous’
6 ‘Blackwood and Janet Paul – Auckland and Hamilton Interviews’
7 ‘Blackwood and Janet Paul – book catalogue’
8 ‘Blackwood Paul – Stout Centre July 1991’
9 ‘J.C Beaglehole – typography examples’
10 ‘Paul, Janet’

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JMT / Peop / 02 Eric Crozier box 1

1 ‘Correspondence: ‘J.M.T’s copy, April 1996, Archive of NZ Music Turnbull, Eric
Crozier/M.M.T 1989 – 1993’.
2 Crozier Mss - Autobiography of Eric and Nancy Crozier. Index missing.
3 Crozier – further correspondence
4 ‘The writing of Billy Budd’
5 ‘Notes on Benjamin Britten’
6 ‘Nancy Evans and Eric Crozier in conversation with J.M.T’
7 Press Cuttings and pix
8 Correspondnce, 1986 – 1989.
9 ‘Nancy and Eric Crozier – final manuscripts’
10 ‘Eric Crozier – miscellaneous 1’
11 ‘Eric Crozier – miscellaneous 2’
12 ‘Eric Crozier, photos’
13 ‘Crozier, Eric ‘ Seventy Years On’: diary 1984 – 1985
14 ‘Crozier Eric and Nancy’: card from Nancy; travel pamphlets France (4); notice of
sale of John Piper painting, gift to Crozier on occasion of their collaboration
on Albert Herring (Britten opera)’ programme notes for The Little Sweep
(1988); obituaries Sept 1994 (6); tribute J.M.T (1995); fax from William Dart
(1995); press clippings on Britten and Aldeburgh; letters and cards from
March 1997 – July 1997 (9)
15 Crozier – Original manuscripts
16 Correspondence about Crozier manuscript

JMT / Peop / 03 Michael Balling box 1

1 ‘Balling 1’
2 ‘Balling 2’: press cuttings
3 ‘Balling 3’: includes photos and old programmes
4 ‘Balling, Michael’: contains valuable 1900s scripts

JMT / Peop / 04 Rosina Buckman box 1

1 JMT Rosina Buckman box 1 - photos
2 ‘Rosina Buckman, J.M.T script for projected biography
3 ‘Buckman, Rosina’: includes programmes 3
4 ‘Buckman – RNZ script’
5 ‘Rosina Buckman, programmes etc’
6 ‘Buckman, R for Kotare & Music in NZ 6’

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JMT / Peop / 06 Bergmann / Carr / Ellwood / Mansfield
box 1

Walter Bergmann

1 Walter Bergmann - correspondence

Edwin Carr

1 Edwin Carr – Autobiography (A life set to music) plus correspondence
2 Edwin Carr – letters

Ellwood Trio

Four folders, include photos of the Ellwood family (18); Kumalo Kanyile court case
inquiry by T.P. Garrity; letter 1991; school essay (biography) by George’s niece;
poster of the Drake family of musicians; programme of Ellwood Trio 1912-14;
death notices (2), and tributes (2) for Gregor Bartonyi (George changed name);
press articles (2, handwritten from Lyttleton Times); press cuttings (2); notes on
family history from Hocken Library; press clippings

1 ‘Ellwood 1’
2 ‘Ellwood 2’
3 ‘Ellwood family’
4 ‘Ellwood Material’:

Katherine Mansfield

5 ‘Katherine Mansfield and Music’ - large folder includes correspondence, photos,
music, press cuttings

9. Lilburn group (Lil)

JMT / Lil / 01[...]burn box 3
JMT / Lil / 04 Lilburn correspondence box 1

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2 ‘2 Lilburn 1937 – 1[...]964’
5 ‘5 Lilburn 1963 – 1980, Electronic Music’: includes correspondence with
R.A.KMason, James K. Baxter
3a ‘Lilburn – Central Otago’[...]Lilburn box 2

1 ‘D.G. Lilburn – references in National Archives’
2 ‘Douglas Lilburn – letters to/from J.M.T’: 1966 – 1985
3 ‘D.G. Lilburn and the young David Farquhar’: correspondence
4 ‘D.G. Lilburn – Biographical Notebooks’: J.M.T’s notes
5 ‘Lilburn’
6 Hugo Manson – critical biography on Douglas Lilburn. Notes on Lilburn letters;
scope of letters; thematic elements for proposed biography; letter to Richard
Arnsell 8.1.98; letter from Arnsell 13.1.98
7 ‘DGL – Frederick Page, Miscell. Matl. Xeroxes’ 4 letters 1940 – 1970, incl Lilburn’s
explanation for the rift with Page
8 ‘D.G. Lilburn and Ralph Vaughan Williams Xeroxes’: letters from R.V.W February
1947 – May 1951
9 ‘D.G. Lilburn Press Reviews’: 1942 – 1978, some concert programmes
10 ‘Lilburn re 80th birthday celebrations (2 Nov 1995’: Sounz article; photos (8);
concert programme and review; Concert F.M ‘A Birthday Offering’;
programme notes; pre-concert talk by J.M.T; press clipping and articles;
‘Celebrating Douglas Lilburn’ J.M.T; press article on Allan Curnow; piano
music of Douglas Lilburn; Jill Palmer’s captions for A.T.L exhibition; photo
proof sheet; ‘Theme’ July 1995; Douglas Lilburn ‘Early Explorations and
Discoveries (J.M.T); note from David ‘Music in N.Z’; Roger Joyce article in
‘Victorious’; Rod Biss article in ‘Listener’; Three Symphonies
11 Canzona Volume 1 No. 3 Douglas Lilburn
12 ‘D.G.L’: Murray Khouri Lilburn CD; Difficulties with D.G. Lilburn
13 Lilburn Miscellaneous
14 ‘D.G.L – OHNZM’
15 Loose items

JMT / Lil / 03 Lilburn box 3

1 ‘Philip Norman – doctoral thesis’
2 ‘D.G.L – Three Symphonies’: includes correspondence between Lilburn and J.M.T
3 ‘Lilburn – Drysdale, Wanganui, CanterburyUniversity, London, Christchurch,
Wellington’

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bibliography
5 ‘Valuable to London: More True to Life’: draft chapters of book – ‘Punch and the
English Tradition’; John Cawse; Max Beerbohm; Richard Doyle; Melchiorre
Delfico; Ch. 9 ‘Busch Simplicissimus etc’; pp 20-21a of draft; Ch. 10 ‘The shapes
Of contemporary music’; Edmond Kapp; Ch. 12 ‘Inconclusive conclusions’;
further notes, drafts, review; introduction and bibliography; notes, pp. 1 and 22
6 Chapter 6: Charivari Workshops: notes, drafts, article on Paul Nadar, captions
7 Pages from various lectures and seminars – J. Hillis Miller, David Borowitz,
Nicola Bentley, Einer Nermann, Denys Sutton, Edmond X. Kapp; Diana
Donald

Plus lots of loose material which could include the following
1 Correspondence 1970-84; large quantity of p/c caricatures. Large brown
envelope, note: ‘Material still of value as at 2/9/86. All Xeroxes etc from Mus.
Delights discarded. Includes some b & w prints suitable for press
reproduction’.
2. J.M.T article in The A[...]y like a proverb’,
William Hogarth and Music; article ‘A Triumphant Facility’: Flirtation,
Fashion and Sentiment – music in the work of Rowlandson’ (Thomas); folder
of caricatures, pasted onto paper, some colour prints; lecture ‘More True to
Life: an excursion into musical caricature’;

JMT / Car / 02 Caric[...]ure’
2 ‘Caricature’
3 ‘Caricature – notes, master set’: brown envelope
4 ‘Caricature – Rowlandson pix’
5 ‘Cruikshank’
6 ‘Gillray’
7 ‘Caricature – Rowlandson’: includes photos
8 ‘Rowlandson’
9 ‘Music Prints and Engravings’
10 ‘IAML Caricature Jul 1999’: includes photos
11 ‘Caricature’: Note about the draft, introduction and 17 pages of part one of the
first draft
12 ‘Caricatures NZ Sources’
13 ‘Caricatures Permissions/Mus. Delights’: correspondence with various publishers,
foundations, Margot Leigh Milner 1983-4
14 ‘Caricature, to be sorted’: folder containing draft of index and notes; large
Collection of drawings; Excerpts from Music to My Eyes Alfred Bendiner (1952);
part of Bendiner’s (1952); book; Le Tic-Toc-Choc: Journal de musique ancienne, Dec

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1983; postcards (2); slides (3); Christie’s Pictorial Archive catalogue
15 Motley Books Catalogue
16 ‘Caricature – correspondence and articles’
17 ‘Caricature, Bibliog[raphy]’: envelope containing cards and notes
18 ‘George Cruikshank’: ‘A fine Rough English Diamond: musical occasions in the
caricatures of George Cruikshank (1792 – 1878)’ J.M.T; notes and press articles,
photo prints (stuck)
19 ‘Caricature – Rowlandson File’
20 ‘Caric[atures]/Stock Pile: alphabetical by artist, anon at front’ includes 10 photos
of Australian artists works
21 ‘Caric[ature] Ongoing’: articles – J.M.T ‘Caricature in Music’ parts I, III, IV; misc
booklets, press cuttings, cards, catalogues, letters and financial statements
22 ‘Caricatures’

JMT / Car / 03 Hogarth box 1

1 ‘O Vain Extravagance’
2 ‘Handel/Hogarth MS – top copy original version’
3 ‘Hogarth’s Musical London – superseded’
4 ‘Hogarth – duplicate xeroxes’
5 ‘Hogarth – top MSS xerox copy Apr 1986’
6 ‘Handel’s London through Hogarth’s Eyes/ Documents and References’
7 ‘Handel’s London through Hogarth’s Eyes’
8 ‘Hogarth Talk: Natl Gallery Oct 1991, Wgtn Nov 1992, SRC Jul 1996, Melbourne
Jul 1996’
9 ‘Hogarth Lecture for David Maskill May 1999 VUW’
10 ‘JMT/Hogarth/Johnson’: talks on Ben Johnson and William Hogarth, given in
Melbourne
11 ‘Hogarth – illustrations and Mrs Robinson print’

Plus lots of loose items
Description: background notes, drafts

JMT / Car / 04 Hogarth box 2

1 Hogarth – photos and negatives: kept in Caricature Photo Files
2 ‘Hogarth to London’
3 ‘Hogarth – miscellaneous cuttings etc’: includes correspondence
4 ‘Hogarth/Handel – case and exhibits’
5 ‘Handel’s London through Hogarth’s Eyes’

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6 ‘Handel’s London through Hogarth’s Eyes – EMU talk, VUW’
7 ‘Hogarth – Sigrid’s article’: ? (J.M.T’s article)

JMT / Car / 05 Marriage-à-la-Mode box 1

1 ‘Complete Xerox of Libretto and Music’
2 ‘Marriage a la Mode, Scenes 1,2 and 3, Vocal Score’
3 ‘MALM – letters, 1988’: correspondence with Rod Biss, Peter Walls, music
sketches
4 ‘MALM – libretto . . . music sketches’: programme, introduction, libretto and
drafts, sketches of music
5 ‘MALM – libretto, possibly latest version, J.M.T 5/v.99’
6 Marriage-à-la-Mode – libretto by J.M.T, music by Roderick Biss
7 ‘Marriage a la Mode’: songs, some notes
8 ‘MALM’: libretto and correspondence
9 Various files of scores
10 Yellow rehearsal folder, some notes
11 Press clipping: Jenny Uglow William Hogarth: A Life and[...]Flute box 1

1 ‘Flute – Vivaldi’
2 Flute miscellaneous
3 Flute Correspondence
4 ‘Flute Companion’

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5 ‘Flute Companion – additional material’
6 ‘Flute 18th century’: includes photos
7 ‘Duplicates’
8 ‘Pictorial Flute references’
9 ‘Renaissance’
10 ‘20th century Flute’: includes photo
11 ‘The Flute – an illustrated history’: draft
12 ‘Flute repertoire’

JMT /[...]Flute – raw material and bibliography’
2 ‘Tashio Takahashi’
3 ‘Flute – 20th century main chapter’
4 ‘Companion to the Flute – Instruments and Makers’
5 ‘Flute – programmes and courses’
6 ‘Medieval Flute – J.M.T’s original chapter’
7 ‘Flute – earlier material not required’
8 ‘Medieval and Renaissance Flute’: includes photos
9 ‘Flute/General Special’
10 ‘Flute Instruments’: photos
11 ‘Flute – transit’
12 ‘Flute General’
13 ‘Flute’

JM[...]Flute box 3

1 ‘Ancient/Primitive’: includes photos
2 ‘Flute MSs photos
9 ‘Flute Illustrations – xeroxes’
10 ‘Music’
11 ‘18th century French and 19th Century French/Blakeman’: includes photos
12 ‘Flute Illustrations, includes some original pix’: includes photos
13 ‘Flautists/Biographical notes’

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5 Flute 2
6 CUP – correspondence, Flute’
7 ‘Flute – Madeau’s programme’
8 ‘Earlier Version – 18th century France’: flute
9 ‘19th Century’: flute, includes photos

JMT / Flut / 06 Flute Companion box 3

1 ‘Flute French Baroque 1990 Seminar’
2 ‘Main Flute Manuscript’
3 Flute 3
4 ‘Hadden, Nancy’: flute
5 ‘Flute Companion – contributors’ letters’

Not located
‘Flute ? 19th century’: essays and drafts
Flute

JMT / Flut / 07 Recorder box 1

1 ‘Recorder Companion/Reviews’
2 ‘The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder 1963 – 1966’: correspondence
3 ‘Recorder – miscellaneous’
4 ‘Recorder General’
5 ‘Recorder File’
6 Recorder Book: typed manuscripts, correspondence
7 ‘Recorder and Early Music Historical Programmes’
8 ‘American Recorder Book – correspondence’
9 ‘Cambridge Companion to the Recorder – reviews and the Alec Loretto
Controversy1996-7’
10 ‘Recorder in the 19th Century’
11 ‘Recorder Concertos’
12 ‘David Munrow/John Turner’
13 Recorder 3 – reviews of Oxford Companion to the Recorder, by Alec Loretto, John
Turner, Greg Dikmans; correspondence, press cuttings, articles from Recorder
and Music;
14 Recorder Exhibition 1995 VUW; Faber Recorder Music (catalogue)

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JMT / Flu / 08 Recorder box 2

1 ‘Illustrations’: draft of The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder, with photos; p/c
of draft
2 J.M.T’s copy of Your Book of the Recorder
3 Loose papers, photographs, etc, including recorder illustrations, Teleman score for
recorder quartet
4 Description: correspondence, drafts, background material

JMT / Flu / 09 Recorder box 3

1 ‘Illustrations – Recorder Companion’: includes photos
2 ‘Short Illustrated Introductory History of the Recorder’:
3 ‘Recorder 1’ – green folder with research articles;

Not located
‘Recorder 2’ – green folder with research articles;

12. Opera group (Oper)

JMT / Oper / 01 Bayreuth box 1

1 ‘Passing Notes, Illustrations’: large envelope of opera photos from Bayreuth 1962,
Leipzig 1962, Ella Lee and others from master-class 1962, negatives
2 ‘Bayreuth 3: 4 talks for NZBS’: includes final typed scripts for proposed book
3 ‘Bayreuth 5: Friedelind Wagner ? – 1991, letters, obituaries’
4 The Path to Bayreuth: article by J.M.T on the 1962 masterclass
5 ‘Bayreuth: opera lectures’: from the 1962 master-class
6 ‘Leipzig’: essay and draft
7 ‘Bade – German influence’

13. Research group (Res)

JMT / Res / 01 NZ Studies / Stout box 1

1 ‘Stout Centre Review / NZ Studies’
2 ‘NZ Studies/Stout Miscellaneous’
3 ‘NZ Studies Special Issue Exhibitions’

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4 ‘Glenda Kean / Land, 1985 Conference, Stout Research Centre’
5 ‘Stout Centre Review – current’: includes photos of Havel, Cuban Republic
6 ‘NZ Studies – General’
7 ‘NZ Studies Special Exhibition Issue’
8 ‘NZ Studies Mar/Apr 1999’
9 ‘NZS Mar – Sep 1999’
10 ‘NZ Studies march 1998’
11 NZS Mar 1999 Sept 1999
12 Stout projects
13 ‘NZ Studies’: photos
14 ‘NZ Composers etc current 1987’
15 ‘NZ Studies’
16 ‘Jacques Callot lectures/correspondence’
17 ‘Margaret Orbell – Tikawe’s Last Song’: includes photo
18 ‘Talk – NZ seen by the French, National Library’
19 ‘NZStudies - Alistair Campbell’

Not located
‘Moriarity Thesis’

14. Radio / Newspaper group (Rad)

JMT / Rad / 01 Programme Notes box 1
JMT / Rad / 02 Music on Sundays box 1
JMT / Rad / 03 Composer of the Week box 1

JMT / Rad / 01 Programme Notes box 1

1 ‘A Listener’s Guide to Programme Notes’
- Amadeus/Music Federation and Open Score Material
- Programme Notes Music Federation 1991
2 ‘Open Score and Programme Notes’

JMT / Rad / 02 Music on Sundays box 1

1 ‘Musical Occasions/Sunday Times Press Set’: J.M.T writing on broadcasting,
books, composers, events, musical instruments (2), N.Z themes, opera,
performers and performances, recordings, tributes’
b2 ‘Music on Sundays Composer Portraits Press Set’: Letter to Barabara Larson,

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21.12.93, re publication of Music on Sundays: the occasional writings of J.M.T.;
set of writings on composers
3 ‘Music on Sundays’
4 ‘Music on Sundays John Mansfield Thomson’: Classical Column for Sunday Times
92/93: articles to be included in publication
5 ‘Early Versions: Composer Portraits, add to Music on Sundays’: drafts
6 ‘Music on Sundays Press MSS’
7 ‘Composer Portraits’: papers ready for publishing

JMT / Rad / 03 Composer of the Week box 1

1 ‘Rameau, Composer of the Week 1998’
2 ‘Ives’: notes and memos; drafts; article ‘Documents of a Friendship with Ives
(Elliot Carter); biographical notes from varied sources; notes on play-list and
Recordings
3 ‘Charpentier Composer of the Week Sep 1995’
4 ‘Chabrier’
5 ‘J.M.T /10 Composers, Bibliography, Recordings etc.’: letter to Fergus Barrowman
(Feb1990) proposal for book of introductions to ten composers; two pages of notes;
drafts for Vivaldi, Sullivan, Purcell
6 ‘RNZ – Music for Special Occasions 1993’
7 ‘Composer of the Week Elgar
8 ‘Elgar / Concert FM – RNZ broadcast’
9 ‘Sullivan/comp 8 week’ (Sir Arthur): notes; article ‘The Sullivan Paradox’; letter
from Rod Biss, The Bookstore, Jervois Rd; press cuttings and notes; notes on
play-list and recordings. Score is missing.
10 ‘Antonio Vivaldi’: drafts; notes; notes on play-list and recordings; letter and
memos
11 ‘Monteverdi’: drafts, notes, memos, letters (2) from Ranald McDonald (Concert
Programme); notes on play-list and recordings
12 ‘Scarlatti’ Dominico: memos; letter; notes; draft; biographical background; press
cuttings; article; notes on play-list and recordings
13 ‘Bach/Bylsma’: interview with cellist Anner Bylsma (2 copies); programme of
Cello suites (2 copies, one autographed); Early Music Union brochure; notes;
letters; memos; press cutting
14 ‘William Byrd’: drafts; notes; notes on play-list and recordings; letter and memos
15 ‘Muzio Clementi’: drafts; notes on play-list and recordings; notes and memos
16 ‘John Field’: drafts; notes; notes on play-list and recordings; letter and memos
17 ‘Henry Purcell’: drafts; notes; notes on play-list and recordings; letter and memos
18 Telemann
19 ‘Masters of the King’s and Queen’s Music’: drafts; notes on play-list and
recordings
20 ‘The Third Programme, B.B.C’ (rejected): two essays – ‘The Challenge for

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Broadcasting’ , and ‘The Provinces and the Metropolis’; draft
21 ‘Music at the Mannheim Court’: draft

15. Correspondence group (Corr)

JMT / Corr / 01 Correspondents box 1
JMT / Corr / 02 Correspondents box 2
JMT / Corr / 03 Correspondence box 1
JMT / Corr / 04 Correspondence box 2

JMT / Corr / 01 Correspondents box 1

1 ‘Murray Khouri’
2 ‘Sir Michael Tippett’
3 ‘Denis Waugh, Rivers of Marlborough, 1997’: includes slides
4 ‘Dorothea Turner’
5 ‘Peter Smith – personal’
6 ‘A Musician’s Birthday Book – Jonathon Besser’
7 ‘Alistair Campbell’: includes photos
8 ‘1995 – 1996 [correspondence] Special Folders – Donald Mitchell, Bill Roff, Pat
Wilson’
9 ‘Richard Farrell’
10 ‘Lyell Cresswell’
11 ‘Robyn Maconie’
12 ‘Howard Mayer Brown’
13 ‘Jon Harris’
14 ‘Fred Hartman’: letters, restricted
15 ‘John Swain’
16 ‘Pat Wilson’
17 ‘Wilson, P.S.’
18 ‘Wilson, M.S.’
19 ‘Peter Phillips’
20 ‘Madeau Stewart’
21 ‘Madeau Stewart – correspondence 1982 – 1996’: and earlier
22 ‘John Steele Festschrift 1994 captions etc’
23 Festschrift for John Steele ‘A display celebrating the work of John Steele, New
Zealand’s first musicologist’ Pamphlet about display; notes; curriculum vitae
(5 pages); Tudor Consort concert programme; title and dedication pages for Luca
Marenzio’s Madrigals for Four Voices; bibliographic display; review of Philips: Cantiones

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Sacrae Quinis Vocibus; order form for Liber Amicorum John Steele; contents page of Liber;
press cuttings (2); related letters (Jan – March 1997) between Warren Drake, J.M.T,
John Steele, Robert Petre (13); captions, pamphlets, photo from the 1997 exhibition
24 John Steele xhibn & launch
25 John Steele Festschrift 1994
26 Lorna Clendon

JMT / Corr / 02 Correspondents box 2

1 ‘Margot Milner/Photos’
2 ‘Margot Milner’: personal effects
3 ‘Margot / J.M.T papers’
4 ‘Margot Leigh-Milner – correspondence during her last illness and following her
death on 11 August 1995
5 Final Section of Maud Karpeles autobiography, renowned folk-song collector and
friend of JMT’s
6 ‘J.M.T Precious Momentoes – keep meanwhile’
7 ‘J.M.T Invitation Lists/Reviews etc’
8 ‘British Council Link’
9 ‘Guest Lists’
10 ‘Guest lists Honorary Degree Material’

JMT / Corr / 03 Correspondence box 1

1 Correspondence 1988
2 Correspondence 1970s -1998
3 Earlier letters pre-1995
4 1996 Jan-May
5 1997 Jan-Dec
6 1998 Corr
7 Correspondence 1998-1999
8 Lyell Cresswell

JMT / Corr / 04 Correspondence box 2

1 Tony Pollett letters
2 JMT’s letters to Madeau Stewart
3 General correspondence to be inserted
4 Loose quantity of unsorted letters, postcards, etc

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16. Programmes group (Prog)

JMT / Prog / 01 Programmes box 1
JMT / Prog / 02 Programmes box 2
JMT / Prog / 03 Programmes box 3

JMT / Prog / 01 Programmes box 1

Description: music and drama; some important original, historical programmes
including memorial service for Queen Victoria, Alfred Hill’s welcome home,
exhibition concerts, premier of Lilburn’s violin concerto

1 ‘Early Programmes’: 1932 – 1971, some J.M.T performances’: pre-England,
England
2 Progammes 1856-1949; mixture of originals and photocopies
3 Prog[ramme]s undated – mostly photocopies
4 Opera libretti undated 19th century

JMT / Prog / 02 Programmes box 2

Description: loose programmes for music and drama from 1971 to early 1990s in
England and New Zealand; nearly all originals
1971: Rohan de Saram [E]; Gillian Weir [E](organ); Hewart Ensemble [E]; Rodney
Macann/France Wilson[E]; N.Z House [E]; Young Musicians Series [E];
1972: Royal Choral Society, Kiri Te Kanawa [E];
1973: Charles Brasch funeral service [N.Z]
1974: N.Z Symphonia in London (3 concerts); Helen Dixon [E] (2);
1975: Gabrielli Quartet [N.Z];
1976: N.Z Symphonia [E] (2); Charles Brasch Arts Festival (incl press clipping) [N.Z];
Sonic Circus [N.Z]; Rigoletto (Aus Opera and NZSO);
1977: Alistair Campbell/Barry Margan [N.Z]; 30th Anniversary Concert NZSO;
University of Auckland Concert [N.Z]; Anthony Jennings [N.Z]; 13th Aulla Congress
[N.Z]; Auckland Music Rostrum [N.Z];
1979: The New Golden Age, Musica Reservata [E]; Sine Nomine Singers/Jocelyn
Abbot/Richard Mapp [E]; Michael Burch/Margaret Nielsen [E]; Michael
Houston/Barry Mora [Germany];
1980: The Fires of London/Peter Maxwell Davies [E];
1982: Digorie/Graham Dellow, Katherine Harris, Catherine Newhook, Jeff Scholes,
Peter Scholes [E]; Music Festival (St James organ fund) [N.Z]; Baroque
Players/Emma Kirkby [N.Z]; Lysis [E]; Philemon and Baucis; Consort of Musicke [E];

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Student Composition Competition [N.Z]; Victoria University Lunch-time concerts
[N.Z]; New Zealand Music [N.Z]; N.Z School of Dance [N.Z]; Electronic Music
Concert [N.Z]; Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley [N.Z]; 1982/3 Wigmore Hall Concerts
[E]; New Dimensions in Sound VUW Continuing Education [N.Z];
1983 Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale [N.Z]; NZSO Franz-Paul Decker/Ian Hobson [N.Z];
Gillian Weir [N.Z] (harpsichord); Frederick Page (contemporary music, last concert)
[N.Z]; St John’s Smith Square [E]; VUW National Music Week [N.Z]; VUW Marion
Rayward Memorial Scholarship [N.Z]; York Early Music Festival [E];
1984: Australia Ensemble [Aus]; Deadly Sins at Kinselas [Aus]; VUW Lunch-time
concert [N.Z]; Richard Wistreich [N.Z]; Baroque Players [N.Z]; Alison Crum [N.Z];
Australian Opera Winter Season [Aus]; Gillian Weir [N.Z]; David Burge [N.Z]; 3rd
National Early Music School [N.Z]; John Ferguson/Rosalind Salas [N.Z]; Cantates
Francoises [N.Z]; Baroque Players [N.Z]; Bernadette Greevy [N.Z]; Early Instrument
Workshop [N.Z];
1985: Ensemble Dufay [N.Z]; NZSO and Rae de Lisle, Diedre Irons, Michael
Houstoun [N.Z]; Tamas Vesmas [N.Z]; VUW Handel Concert, and Schola Musica
[N.Z]; Chilingirian Quartet [N.Z]; Bach and Handel Tercentenary Festival [N.Z];
1986: Sydney Sings Messiah [Aus]; Cantoris [N.Z]; VUW lunch-time concerts [N.Z];
1987: VUW lunch-time concerts [N.Z]; Olivers [N.Z]; European Community
Baroque Orchestra [E]; Phoenix Choir [N.Z]; Sonic Circus [N.Z]; Gala Opera Night
[E]; Bach Cantata Cycle [E]; Schola Musica [N.Z]; Deirdre Elliott/Paul Whelan/Emily
Mair [N.Z];
1988: Wellington “Chamber Players [N.Z]; Terence Dennis (piano) [N.Z]; N.Z
International Festival of the Arts [N.Z]; Jack Winter’s Dream James K Baxter/Ashley
Heenan/NZSO [N.Z]; Rudolf Nureyev [N.Z]; Music by Tan Dun [N.Z]; Malvina
Major/Joy Crabtree [N.Z]; Sharon Joy Vogan (piano) [N.Z]; Auckland Lieder Group
[N.Z]; Auckland University Concerts [N.Z]; Firebird (ballet) [N.Z]; VUW Lunch-time
concert [N.Z]; Wigmore Hall concerts [E]; Camerata of London [E]; Taverner
Consort, Monteverdi Mass of Thanksgiving [E]; Arts in the House [N.Z]; Schola
Cantorum [N.Z]; Wigmore Hall ‘Fretwork’ [E]; National Gallery (gamelan) [N.Z];
Tudor Consort [N.Z]; NEMA Conference [E]; Cantoris Christmas Story (Heinrich
Schutz) [N.Z]; Christopher Doig/Terence Dennis [N.Z]; St Mary of the Angels’ Choir
[N.Z]; Schola Musica [N.Z]; Dance/Dance/Dance [N.Z]; ‘Goodbye to Hunter’ [N.Z];
VUW School of Dance [N.Z]; Wellington East Girls’ College International Festival
[N.Z]; N.Z Chamber Orchestra; Baroque Players[N.Z];

Concert Programmes 1989 - 1994
Programmes 1989 – 1994
1989: Cantoris ‘Samson’; Martin Riseley/Maurice Till [N.Z]; VUW lunch-time concert
[N.Z]; Compagnie Philippe Genty[N.Z]; Apollo String Quartet[N.Z]; A Night at the
Pleasure Gardens [N.Z]; Tudor Consort, Victoria Requiem [N.Z]; N.Z String Quartet
[N.Z]; St Mary of the Angels Choir [N.Z]; Australia Ensemble; Sonnerie, baroque
music and dance [N.Z]; Tudor Consort [N.Z]; Vincent O’Sullivan, Billy [N.Z];

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Wellington City Opera Faust [N.Z]; Tudor Consort [N.Z]; Southern Ballet and Dance
Theatre Journey with Inner-Landscapes [N.Z];
1990: Westminster Abbey, commemorating Treaty of Waitangi [E]; VUW Percussion
International Concert Series [N.Z]; Donald McIntyre/Terence Dennis [N.Z];
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, organ [N.Z]; Circa Theatre Mrs Klein [N.Z]; Castle
Theatre Concert Room Dunedin [N.Z]; Lute Song Workshop, Emma Kirkby and
Anthony Rooley [N.Z]; R.N.Z B[...]irkby/Anthony Rooley Arie
antiche [N.Z]; Tudor Consort/Baroque Players, Monteverdi Venetian Christmas Vespers
[N.Z]; N.Z String Quartet [N.Z]; Arnold Dolmetsch Years exhibition [E]; Wellington
Cathedral Friday Organ Recitals [N.Z]; Anthony Jennings (harpsichord) [N.Z]; Dean
Major/David Guerin [N.Z]; English 17th Century Music (viols and organ) [N.Z];
Tudor Consort, Palestrina Missa Tu es Petrus [N.Z]; Baroque Players [N.Z]; School
Music Contest 1990 [N.Z]; Cantoris Musique pour Le Roi Soleil [N.Z]; Panocha
Quartet [N.Z]; Tudor Consort, John Sheppard Missa Cantate [N.Z]; VUW lunch-time
concert [N.Z]; New Zealand Sounds – concert of N.Z music [E]; N.Z.S.O Imogen
Cooper [N.Z]; Tudor Consort, Bach and Purcell [N.Z]; VUW, music by Sir Michael
Tippett [N.Z], Gabrielli Trio; Restoration Baroque Ensemble, Bach and Blow [N.Z];
Marion Olsen/Margaret Lion [N.Z]; Musical Images Concert Programme [N.Z]; N.Z
Chamber Orchestra [N.Z]; VUW Diane Cooper (harpsichord) [N.Z]; Wellinton
Regional Orchestra, N.Z Commemorative Music [N.Z]; VUW, Gianni Schicchi and
Santa Beatrice D’Este [N.Z]; Festival of the Arts: Musica Antiqua Koln, Arcata
Chamber Orchestra, Lindsay String Quartet, Early Evening Concerts, Lunch-time
Recitals, Peter Schreier ‘Winterreise’ [N.Z]; Li Xiang-ting, a Guqin recital [N.Z];
VUW New Zealand String Quartet [N.Z]; VUW Concert of works by Jacqueline
Fontyn [N.Z]; Marama Singers, Orlando di Lasso [N.Z]; David Griffiths/Terence
Dennis [N.Z]; VUW lunch-time concert; Wellington City Op[...]vatore
[N.Z]; R.N.Z Ballet No mean feet [N.Z]; Nelson Wattie/Gillian Bibby Winterreise [N.Z];
Cantoris, Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine [N.Z]; N.Z.S.O Molto Mozart [N.Z];
Restoration Baroque Muse; Wednesday Organ Recitals, Bloomsbury [E];
1994: Jill Gomez/Julius Drake, Cancionero [E]; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [E]; Bart
Van Oort (fortepiano) [N.Z]; Landes Theater, Dimitri Schostakowitsch Die Nase
[Germany]; Philharmonisches Orchester der Staatsoper Kiew Electra [Germany];
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music [E]; Alan Frank Memorial Concert [E]; Opera
Technique, Michale Vinten The Golden Salamander;
Undated from this period: Fretwork [E]; Stately Homes Music Festival [E]; Baroque
Players/John Holloway, Emma Kirkby/Anthony Rooley, Restoration/Richard
Wistreich [N.Z]; Kirkby/Rooley Duo [N.Z]; N.Z.S.O Evening of N.Z. Music [N.Z];
Cantoris, The Birth of the Baroque, and note by Robert Oliver [N.Z]; N.Z School of
Dance, Les Sylphides [N.Z]; ballet Katherine [N.Z]

JMT / Prog / 03 Programmes box 3

1 Miscellaneous Concert Programmes unsorted; dated 1940s to 1990s

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1 Hill (historic) pink folder:
Alfred Hill’s New Guinea Songs;
Alfred Hill Songs of the Maori;
Alfred Hill Waiata Poi (and[...]oi arranged for Mixed Choir;
Alfred Hill Das Lied, Slumber-song, Schlummerlied-Berceuse;
Alfred Hill Wake Up! Wake Up! Australia;
Alfred Hill Songs From the Bush;
Alfred Hill My Very First Violin School, for Beginners;
Alfred Hill Ra-Ha Chorus;
Alfred Hill Tangi (photocopy);
Alf[...]Moon Tonight (photocopy);
E.J. King The Glasgow D’Alberts;
The Triad Musical Supplement, 1 Oct 1908 and 10 November 1913
2 ‘Music Unsorted’ brown folder:
Toccata Otava (photocopy);
Stephen Dodgson Chanson de Croisade;
J. Townsend ‘Tis the First Watch of the Night (photocopy);
Couperin Cachucha;
Bella Stone Two Sketches (photocopy);
Francis Chassaigne Les Cuirassiers de Reichshoffen;
Florence Fare Kitty Mahone Waltz (cover);
Ashley Heenan (arr.) Four American Folksongs;
J.R. Esq The Highland Character, Ere Around the Huge Oak, My Apron Dearie
3 ‘Music’ –
Quadrilliana;
Nicholson’s Flute Manual;
Willims, J.W. Je Suis Encore dans mon Printems;
Riley’s collection of original Duetts for two German Flutes;
Douze grands solo ou etudes pour la flute
Three Duetts, concertantes for two flutes
Deuxieme Livre de Pieces Poue La Flute Traversiere avez la Basse Continue;
Benjamin Britten The Golden Vanity (cover);
Music by Douglas Steele, selected songs vol 2;
Gounod Ave Maria
Arne Songs (in brown envelope)
Ave Maria – instrument parts (in envelope with caption – found in shop in
Barcelona 1978 by Andrew Campbell
Douglas Lilburn Symphony No 2;
Martin Lodge Divisions for Wind Quartet;
Concorso Internazionale di Canto (Enrico Caruso);

4 Loose:

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Alice Larnach Violin and Piano;
Doris Fisher Whispering Grass;
Eric Waters Trio in D Major;
Ruru Karaitiana As Others Do;
Maye Blackley Fighting the Fritzies for Freedom;
Arthur J. Barth March of N.Z., National Song;
Tom Armstrong ANZAC;
Sydney James The Orari Waltzes;
Christabel (ed.) Mrs Palmer (Rosina Carandini) songbook;
John McGlashan Onward! New Zealand;
Edward J. Wakefield A Land of Our Own (photocopy);
Fred Clutsam The Sea hath its Pearls;
Luscombe Searell The Zealandia (photocopy, cover only);
Gordon Stables The Maniac Maiden;
Angelo Forrest The Porangi Polka (photocopy);
Prof. E.R.[...]reck of the Volturno, and photocopy;
J. Townsend The Night Watch Song (photocopy);
Australsian Galop (photocopy of cover);
Y.T. Mata The Gold Diggers’ Song;
T. White Welcome;
F.W. Jones Zealandia Jubilee Waltz and Josef Meissler Dream Faces;
Maughan Barnett Valse Caprice;
E.W. Secker On the Ball (two photocopies);
John J. Woods God Defend New Zealand (photocopy of cover);[...]h All Hail Zealandia (photocopy);
The Lancers’ Quadrilles;
Alistair Gilkison, 1998 New Zealand Sheet Music, Songs and Piano Solos
(bibliography), letter and note enclosed;
Raymond Hope The New DominionWaltz (2 copies);
Clifton Boanas Market Day in the Old Sea Town;
Terry Shand Possum Song;
Arthur Adams Twinkle Twinkle Little Star;
Y.T Mata The Gold Diggers Song;
Alfred Hill My Fairest Child;
M.A Hilton When Wand’ring Far From those We Love;
John McGlashan NZ Anthem;
R.H Rossiter Our Cycling Song;
F.J Moloney The Call of the Southern Men;
A.J. Merton Christ’s College Grammar School Song College;
Alfred Hill Waiata Maori;
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Green pocket folder: Articles by J.M.T on Nadia Boulanger; George Bernard
Shaw; five talks between 1972 and October 1976 for Music on the Air;
conversation with Julian Bream ‘On playing the lute’; Kingsley Martin;
Lohengrin as Ritual; Tribute to David Low; No Sale for Dame Ethel (sale of
manuscripts at Sotheby’s); Exploring the Dordogne (wine); John Thomson in
Interview (A Distant Music, with Robin Maconie)
Lilburn – Green pocket folder: A Search for a Tradition (autographed by Lilburn,
notes included); A Search for a Language (autographed by friends); Douglas
Lilburn (Composers’ Association of New Zealand publication)

JMT / Etc / 02 Books, journals box 1

Books

Bibliography of NZ Compositions 1940 – 1980;
Tema con variazioni;
H.M Brown Sixteenth-Century Instrumentation: the Music for the Florentine
Intermedii;
Hampstead Garden Suburb: a history;
Burford;
Venetian Drawings of the eighteenth century;
Sotheby catalogue of Highly Important Musical Instruments;
The Mask of Orpheus - programme;
Asia-Pacific Festival papers;
Beaverbook’s England;
The Chronicle of Crichton Royal

Journals

Marlborough Past and Present, three issues Nos 1, 2 and 5 1995-6;
Canon July 1948;
Canon December 1962 Music from Germany;
Islands March 1980 No. 28;
The Publisher March 1964 No. 3;
Mandrake 1950-1;
School Journal Part 4 summer 1958;

JMT / Etc / 03 Wine / Music printing box 1

Wine

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1 ‘Martinborough Wines SRC 1997 trip’ Stout Centre Seminars; Wairapa
Seminar Trip Apr 27 1997; J.M.T The Wine Industry; Brad Patterson Pastoral
history, towns and economic growth; Vincent O’Sullivan Shuriken; vineyard
receipts and brochures; Wine NZ Apr 1997
2 ‘Wine’: blue-grey folder of brochures, press clippings
3 Wine -Miscellaneous notes, order forms, press-cuttings, articles
4 Wine Mine
5 SRC Wine onference 1996

Music Printing / ‘Notes and Embellishments’

1 ‘Notes and Embellishments, Introductory Book’: review of Aldeburgh Exhibition;
exhibition list; Notes and Embellishments chapter outlines and introduction (4);
check list for displays; programmes 2);
2 ‘Music Printing Photos’ (7);
3 Specimens of Music Engraving and Printing Aird: &: Coghill: Ltd, Glasgow (p/c);
4 A Bach Suite for Strings, arr. Reginald Jacques;
5 p/c cover of Charles Czerny’s Musical Greenhouse; miscellaneous notes;
6 ‘Music Printing Photos’: from exhibition in 1972 – three envelopes
7 A. Hyatt King, Four Hundred Years of Music Printing
8 Madeau Stewart The Gestures of Music
9 Maggs Musical Miscellany
10 Captions for Music Printing article
11 Notes and Embellishments (2 copies)

Not located
1 reflections by Adrienne Simpson

JMT / Etc / 04 Christmas cards

Not sorted or listed

Still to be given numbers and interfiled

Miscellaneous

1 ‘1996 Chamber Music Festival’

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3 ‘VUW lectures J.M.T to sort’
4 ‘DNZB Parker, Robert and Hill entry’

People

Buckman

Rosina Buckman: correspondence

Crozier

Crozier, Eric: Additional material; correspondence; obituaries; programmes; etc

Blackwood and Janet Paul

Landmarks in NZ publishing: Blackwood and Janet Paul 16 Nov 1995- Feb 1996

Caricature

Marriage-a-la-mode

Music-a-la-Mode. Music, Roderick Bliss; Libretto, J.M. Thomson. Workshop in Dec
1994. Letters, 1987-1996

Correspondence

1 JMT correspondence: earlier letters, 1975-1994
2 JMT correspondence: 70th birthday 10 March 1996
3 Correspondence 1995 Jan-Mar
4 Correspondence 1995 Apr-Aug
5 Correspondence 1995 Sep-Dec
6 Correspondence 1996 June-December
7 Correspondence sorted 1998 chronol
8 Important letters

Correspondence

1 Folder – more to sort

Opera

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