Letters sent: 18 Jun. - 26 Jul. 1909., 1909 - 1909
Scope and Contents
Series consists of seventy-five letter books containing handwritten and typescript press copies of approximately 15,000 of Fowld's outward letters and a few inward letters. A small number of outward letters may also be found in Series 2, 5, and 6. The majority of the books contain 250 foolscap, and a few 500 quarto leaves. These are indexed books of the type that was standard at that time for taking press copies of letters by the method described in the Introduction. Most of the original letters must have been written on letterhead paper since the superscription on many of the press copies is of the briefest, such as Auckland
, Wellington
, Waitakere Ranges
, Mt Albert
, Government Buildings, Wellington
, and Office of Acting Minister of Defence
. These examples suggest that the current letter book travelled about with him, and was used for copying wherever office facilities were available, although the letter might have been written elsewhere.
The letters were written by Fowlds himself, or by his Private Secretary, and then copied, of typed and copied, before the original was despatched. In some cases the copies have been added to the book out of sequence, possibly to use up empty pages, but in the main the books form a more of less complete chronological series. They were numbered in Roman figures except for ten volumes. These volumes, and four gaps in their date sequence, have been allotted numbers by the archivist. Since it was necessary to add three items before volume I, these have been numbered 1/1a, 1/1b, and 1/1c. The numbers added at the end of the sequence run from 1/64 to 1/77. The items missing are 1/1b, 1/35, 1/36, 1/45, and 1/74.
The letters cover twenty-three years, that is from the year when Fowlds was first elected to Parliament at the age of thirty-nine until his sixty-second year, when he was beginning his term as Chairman of Auckland University College and had ceased to be actively interested in politics. The content of the letters refers to an extremely wide range of matters to do with his private, business, and public life. The series includes letters to friends and relatives, and to political associates and organisations, and contains replies to a large number of correspondents who wrote to him as a Minister and public man, and whose inward letters may in some cases be traced by date in the next series. The series is notable in that it is a very full record of his day-to-day affairs over the period of his greatest activity in public life.
Dates
- 1909 - 1909
Creator
- From the Collection: Grey, George, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Yates, C. C. (Person)
- From the Collection: Withy, Arthur (Person)
- From the Collection: Young, J. A. (Person)
- From the Collection: Valintine, Thomas Harcourt (Person)
- From the Collection: Turnbull, Alexander (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilson, James (Person)
- From the Collection: Ward, Joseph, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Rutherford, A. W. (Person)
- From the Collection: Spragg, Wesley (Person)
- From the Collection: Taylor, T.E. (Person)
- From the Collection: Tobacco Producers' Trust Ltd (Organization)
- From the Collection: Porangi (Person)
- From the Collection: Renown Clothing Company Ltd (Organization)
- From the Collection: Riddet, W (William) (Person)
- From the Collection: Rotary International. New Zealand (Organization)
- From the Collection: Parenga Tung Oil Ltd (Organization)
- From the Collection: Payne, J. (Person)
- From the Collection: Peren, G.S. (Geoffrey Sylvester) (Person)
- From the Collection: Plunket, William Lee, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Red Cross Society (Organization)
- From the Collection: St John (Organization : N.Z.) (Organization)
- From the Collection: O'Regan, P.J. (Patrick Joseph) (Person)
- From the Collection: Orr, Thomas W. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bengough, J.W. (John Wilson) (Person)
- From the Collection: Barclay, Alfred Richard (Person)
- From the Collection: Cleary, Henry W. (Henry William) (Title of a work--Child in the home and the school .; ) (Person)
- From the Collection: Blomfield, J.C. (Person)
- From the Collection: Cumberworth, F.H. (Person)
- From the Collection: Cohen, Mark (Person)
- From the Collection: Flurscheim, Margaret (Person)
- From the Collection: Eden District Cricket Club (Organization)
- From the Collection: Low, David (Person)
- From the Collection: Mackenzie, Beryl (Person)
- From the Collection: Jenkin, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Jubilee Institute for the Blind (Organization)
- From the Collection: Higgins, George (Person)
- From the Collection: Fowlds, G.M. (George Matthew), 1886-1974 (Person)
- From the Collection: Hiscocks, E.F. (Ercildoune Frederick) (Person)
- From the Collection: Flurscheim, Michael (Person)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Export Traders Corporation (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Land Values League (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic (Organization)
- From the Collection: New Zealand Anti-Opium Association (Organization)
- From the Collection: Meiklejohn, A. W. (Person)
- From the Collection: Mt Tokatea Mineral Fertiliser Company (Organization)
- From the Collection: Manson, William (Person)
- From the Collection: McNab, Robert (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Not restricted
Extent
From the Collection: 8.9 metres
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, University of Auckland Repository
5 Alfred Street
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142 New Zealand
specialcollections@auckland.ac.nz