Cresswell, Walter D'Arcy
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1896 - 1960
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
A.R.D. (Rex) Fairburn literary papers.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-125
Scope and Contents
Acland, Emmie
Adams, W. (2pp)
Adult Education Canterbury University College. (7pp).
Aickin, Rhoda. E.M. (1pp)
Aldrich, Tilli (Frankel). (2pp)
Allerton, A.R. (6pp).
Alpers, Antony (8pp).
Andrews, Isobel (2pp).
Angus, Rita (Mackenzie). (1pp)
...
Dates:
ca. 1940 - 1957?
Milton and the modern world [sound recording].
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-89/21
Scope and Contents
Side 1: Milton and the modern world, 2YA?, 1938. Side 2: On Cresswell, by Ormond Wilson and Robert Chapman, Nov 1982?.
Dates:
1938
Resign or else! : the "Wanganui affair", May 1920 / [by William Mitchell].
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-311
Scope and Contents
Described by the author as the final draft of an attempt to explain a baffling, tragic and almost forgotten episode in New Zealand literary and criminal history. D'Arcy Cresswell, New Zealand poet, tried to blackmail the Mayor of Wanganui, Charles Evan Mackay, into resigning as mayor on the grounds of being a homosexual. Mackay shot Cresswell (who survived) and was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour for attempted murder. Mackay, after serving his...
Dates:
1986-12-12