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  Cabinet 1 • Landfall

 

 

1

Landfall, v.1, no.1 (March 1947) - v.20, no.4 (December 1966).

 

 

2

Landfall Country. Work from Landfall, 1947-61. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1962. Bra PR 9634.4/ L758.

 

 

3

The Phoenix, v.1, no.1 (March 1932); v.2, no.1 (March 1933). Brasch Pamphlet Collection.

 

 

4

Tomorrow, v.1, no.16 (31 October 1934). Jnl AP 7.5/ T65/ 1934.

 

 

5

The Adelphi, v.2, no.10 (March 1925). Jnl AP. A/ A33/

   
 

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  Cabinet 2 • Family

 

 

6

Charles Brasch, n.d. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/64.

 

7

Helene Brasch and her son Charles, c. 1912. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/59.

 

8

Helene Brasch to Sara and Willi Fels, 10 June 1914. Brasch Papers, MS 996- 10/33.

 

9

Charles Brasch, Indirections: a memoir 1909-1973. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1980. Private Collection.

 

10

Willi Fels at Stockholm, 1935. Brasch Papers, MS 996, E6132/3

 

11

Willi Fels to Charles Brasch, 24 July 1930. Brasch Papers, MS 996-3/122.

 

12

Photographs of houses: 'Bankton' (MS 996-12/95); 'Manono' (MS 996-12/91); and Heriot Row (MS 996 - E6549/15)

 

13

Lesley Brasch, Esmond de Beer, Dora de Beer and Charles Brasch. Brasch Papers, MS 996 - 12/64.

 

14

Hyam Brasch to Charles Brasch, 29 May 1954. Brasch Papers, MS 996-10/27.

 

15

Charles, Hyam, and Lesley Brasch. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/58.

 

16

Matriculation and law certificates. Brasch Papers, MS 996-10/20.

   
 

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  Cabinet 3 • Waitaki

 

17

Collage of Waitaki Boys' High School. Brasch Papers, MS 996 - 12/542.

 

18

R. W. Emerson, Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1921. Bra PS 1624/ A1/ 1921.

 

19

The Waitakian, v.19, no. 2 (December 1924). Hocken Per. Wai.

 

20

James Bertram, Study of a head in profile of Charles Brasch, 1926. Brasch Pictorial Collection, Hocken Library.

 

21

Sir John Everett Millais, 'Ophelia', 1851-2.

   
 

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  Cabinet 4 • Early Reading I

 

 

22

Timothy Hilton, Keats and his world. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971.Bra PR 4836/ HM74.

 

 

23

Robert Louis Stevenson, The wrecker. London: Heinemann, 1924. Bra PR 5487/ W7/ 1924.

 

 

24

Selma Lagerlöf, The further adventures of Nils. London: Dent, 1953. Bra PT 9767/ F8/ E5/ 1953.

 

 

25

James Elroy Flecker, Collected poems. London: Martin Secker, 1924. Bra PR 6011/ L4/ A17/ 1916.

   
 

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  Cabinet 5 • Early Reading II

 

 

26

Rudyard Kipling, The jungle book. London: Macmillan, 1899. Bra PR 4854/ J8/ 1899.

 

 

27

_____, The second jungle book. London: Macmillan, 1899. Bra PR 4854/ S42.

 

 

28

Franz Hoffmann, Willy. Stuttgart: Schmidt and Spring, 1864. Bra PZ 38/ HP47.

 

 

29

An anthology of modern verse. London: Methuen, 1923. Bra PR1224/ AL65/ 1923.

 

 

30

Robert Browning, Pippa Passes. London: Heinemann, 1906. Bra PR 4218/ A1/ 1906.

 

 

31

J. G. Robertson, The literature of Germany. London: Williams & Norgate, n.d. Bra PT 99/ RM55.

 

 

32

Charles Brasch, c.1927. Brasch Papers MS 996-12/64.

   
 

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  Cabinet 6 • Oxford

 

33

Excerpta E Statutis Universitatis Oxoniensis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c.1925. Bra LF 501/A7/ OZ5.

 

34

Ackermann's Oxford. London: Penguin Books, 1954. Bra LF 518/ A519

 

35

Journal of Katherine Mansfield. London: Constable, 1927. Bra PR 9640/ M35/ Z5/ A345.

 

36

James Joyce, Pomes penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare & Co, 1927. Bra PR 6019/ O9/ P5

 

37

William Shakespeare, Tragedy of Hamlet. London: Dent, 1927. Bra PR 2807/ A1/ 1895

 

38

Charles Brasch, Not far off. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1969. Bra PR 9640/ B67/ N6/ 1969.

   
 

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  Cabinet 7 • Europe

 

 

39

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Rime. Firenze: Raccolta Nazionale dei Classici Diretta da Giovanni Papini, 1927. Bra PQ 4615/ B6/ A17/ 1927.

 

 

40

Martin Hürlimann, Italy. London: Thames & Hudson, 1953. Bra + DG 420/ HY67.

 

 

41

George Moore, Confessions of a young man. New York: Modern Library, [1920]. Bra PR 5043/ A41.

 

 

42

W. B. Yeats, A vision. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1925. Bra PR 5904/ V53.

   
 

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  Cabinet 8 • Egypt

 

43

Charles Brasch in Luxor, Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/63.

 

44

Nina M. Davies, Egyptian paintings. London: Penguin Books, 1954. Bra ND 75/ D767.

 

45

The English poems of Richard Crashaw. London: Methuen, 1901. Bra PR 3386/ A6/ 1901.

 

46

J. S. Willmore, Handbook of spoken Egyptian Arabic. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1927. Bra PJ 6779/ WQ58/ 1927.

 

47

Karl Baedeker, Egypt and the Sudan. Leipzig: Baedeker, 1929. Bra DT 45/ B351/ 1929.

 

48

Queen Nefertiti, postcard. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/506.

 

49

John D. S. Pendlebury, Tell el-Amarna. London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1935. Bra DT 73/ T25/ PC82.

   
 

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  Cabinet 9 • England I

 

50

Missenden Abbey School, Brasch Papers, MS 996- 12/625.

 

51

C.G. Jung, Modern man in search of a soul. London: Kegan Paul, Trubner & Co, 1934. Bra BF 173/ JY33.

 

52

Charles Brasch, Journal, Lawn Road, London, 1942. Brasch Papers, MS 996-9/8.

 

53

Franz Kafka, The castle. London: Martin Secker, 1930. Bra PT 2621/ A26/ S34.

 

54

Fred Manner, 'Charles Brasch as a fire-watcher', c 1941-2. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/625.

 

55

Letter from Joan Rodgers to Charles Brasch, 3 July 1941. In Byron, Works (1926). Bra PR 4350/ 1926.

   
 

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  Cabinet 10 • England II

 

56

E. J. Scovell, The river steamer and other poems. London: Cresset Press, 1956. Bra PR 6037/ C946/ R5/ 1956.

 

57

Charles Brasch, The quest: words for a mime play. London: Compass Players, 1946. Bra PR 9640/ B67/ Q4.

 

58

The Penguin New Writing, No.9. Edited by John Lehmann. Allen Lane: Penguin Books, 1941. Brasch Pamphlet Collection.

 

59

Boethius, The consolation of philosophy. London: Heinemann, 1926. Bra PA 6156/ B6/ 1926.

 

60

Eric Gill, In a strange land: essays. London: Jonathan Cape, 1944. Bra PR 6013/ I343/ I5.

 

61

____, First nudes. London: Neville Spearman, 1954. Stk NC 228/ G53/ A4/ 1954.

 

62

E. M. Forster, What I believe. London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. Bra PR 6011/ O58/ W51.

   
 

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  Cabinet 11 • Translations

 

 

63

Hilde Zissermann, Gedichte aus Neuseeland. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1970. Bra PT 2653/ I677/ G4.

 

64

Alexander Blok, The Twelve. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Bra PG 3453/ D8/ BC55.

 

65

Sergei Esenin, Poems. Wellington: Wai-Te-Ata Press, 1970. Bra PG 3476/ E8/ A23.

 

66

Ivan S. Turgenev, Fathers & sons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Bra PG 3420/ O8/ 1965.

   
 

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  Cabinet 12 • New Zealand

 

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Charles Brasch, Disputed ground. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1948. Bra PR 9640/ B67/ D5.

 

68

Charles Brasch, 'Journal of a holiday to Fiordland, 8-20 December 1948.' Brasch Papers, MS 996-9/13.

 

69

Mary Ursula Bethell, Collected poems. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1950. Bra PR 9640/ B43/ A17/ 1950.

 

70

Charles Brasch rock climbing. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/219.

 

71

Charles Brasch, The Estate and other poems. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1957. Bra PR 9640/ B67/ E8.

   
 

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  Cabinet 13 • Friends & literary contacts

 

72

Denis Glover's bedside book. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1963. Bra PR 9640/ G5/ D4

 

73

Allen Curnow to Charles Brasch, 2 March 1944. In Curnow's Sailing or drowning (1944). Bra PR 9640/ C8/ S2

 

74

Charles Brasch, Ian Milner, Jack Bennett, and James Bertram, in Islands, v.2, no.3 (Spring 1973).

 

75

Basil Dowling, James K. Baxter, and Charles Brasch. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/169.

 

76

James K. Baxter, A small ode on mixed flatting. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, [1967]. Bra PR 9641/ B3/ S5.

 

77

Janet Frame, Mona Minim and the smell of the sun. New York: George Braziller, 1969.Bra PR 9641/ F7/ M6

   
 

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  Cabinet 14 • An Indian Interlude

 

78

Rabindra Nath Tagore, Gitanjali. London: Chiswick Press, 1912. Bra PR PK 1723/ G5/ A28.

 

79

Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan. London: Four Square Book, 1961. Bra PR 9501/ S5/ T7.

 

80

M. Krishnamurti, The cloth of gold. Vermont (USA): Charles Tuttle, [1951]. Bra PR 9500/ K7/ C55.

 

81

Amitra Pritam, Black rose. Delhi: Nagmani, 1967. Bra PK 2659/ A44/ B5/ A22.

   
 

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  Cabinet 15 • Favourites

 

82

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a young poet. New York: Norton, 1934. Bra PT 2635/ I65/ B7/ A25.

 

83

Alexander Gilchrist, The life of William Blake. London: Dent, 1942. Bra PR 4146/ Gp19/ 1942.

 

84

W. B. Yeats, The Tower. London: Macmillan, 1928. Bra PR 5904/ T69.

 

85

Robert Graves, Collected poems (1914-1947). London: Cassell, 1948. Bra PR 6013/ R35/ A17/ 1948.

 

86

W.H. Auden, Mountains. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Bra PR 6001/ U4/ M6.

   
 

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  Cabinet 16 • Own Writings

 

87

Charles Brasch, The land and the people and other poems. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1939. Bra PR9640/ B67/ L3.

 

88

____, Journal, May 1957. Brasch Papers, MS 996- 9/25.

 

89

____, 'In My View', a selection. Brasch Papers, MS 996- 7/11.

 

90

____, Indirections: a memoir 1909-1947. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1980. Bra PR 9640/ B67/ Z5/ A16.

   
 

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  Cabinet 17 • The Arts

 

91

Arthur R. Howell, Frances Hodgkins: four vital years. London: Rockliff, 1951. Bra ND 1108/ H6/ HU89

 

92

Frances Hodgkins 1869-1947: A centenary exhibition. Auckland: Wakefield Press, [1969]. Bra ND 1108/ H6/ A4/ 1969

 

93

Memorial exhibition of the works of Frances Hodgkins 1869-1947. [England]: The Arts Council, 1952. Bra ND 1108/ H62/ A4/ 1952.

 

94

Colin McCahon, a survey exhibition. Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery, 1972. Bra ND 1108/ M25/ A4/ 1972.

 

95

Five McCahon exhibition leaflets. Brasch Pamphlet Collection.

   
 

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  Cabinet 18  • Legacy

 

96

'This page is to surprise & honour Charles Brasch', facsimile of original tipped in Landfall, 80 (December 1966).

 

97

Charles Brasch, c.1955. Brasch Papers, MS 996-12/94.

 

98

Islands, v.1, no.1 (Spring 1972). Brasch Pamphlet Collection.

 

99

Landfall, no.205 (May 2003).

 

100

Charles Brasch, Home ground. Christchurch: The Caxton Press, 1974. Bra PR 9640/ B67/ H6.

   
 

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