A.R.D.(Rex) Fairburn literary papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-11

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, scrapbooks, lecture notes, addresses, articles, photographs, programmes, typographical specimens, newspaper clippings, non-commercial phonograph recordings, audio tapes and sound discs of radio talks. The Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, has photocopies of a number of Fairburn letters. The photographs are in Box 3.

Dates

ca.1930-ca.1957

Creator

Fairburn, A.R.D. (Arthur Rex Dugard) (Person)
Murray, G. (Person)
Nicholson, Michael (Person)
New Zealand Broadcasting Service (Organization)
Jackson, Gainor (Person)
Gordon, Ian A. (Ian Alistair) (Person)
Culbert, Bill (Person)
Dennant, Dick (Person)
Macky, Willow (Person)
Eustace, J. (Person)
Glover, Denis (Person)
Nicholson, Robert (Person)
Godley, E. J. (Eric John) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Partly restricted: preservation copies of sound recordings not available for consultation

Extent

0.4 metres (4 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Arthur Sandall, University Librarian, by Fairburn's widow, Mrs Jocelyn Young, 1957-1964.

Related Materials

Related archival material held at MSS & Archives A-167, A-125, A-123 and 89/31.

Separated Materials

Original photographic material consisting of 22 loose sheets from a pjotograph album, and 1 box of photographs and negatives relating to A.R.D. Fairburn were returned to the literary executor in July 1982. 43 prints from these originals werre retained in Box 3.e used in the McNeish biographyThe photographs in this collection, apart from the prints retained in series were returned to Mrs A.P. Holman at her request in 1986.