Harry F. Chaplin - album of papers concerning Eve Langley, 1938-ca.1955

MLMSS 7154/Box 1X

fonds

1938-ca.1955

421282

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)

Eve Langley (1908-1974) was born in Australia and moved to New Zealand in 1932 where she married Hilary Clark. She is best known for her novel 'The Pea Pickers', published in 1942. A companion novel, 'White Topee', followed in 1954. Langley wrote a considerable number of poems. Some of these were published in The Bulletin's Red Page which was edited for twenty years by Douglas Stewart.

The album includes 17 letters from Eve Langley in New Zealand to Douglas Stewart ("Dearest Dhas"), 1938-1942, 1951; 4 letters from Gloria Rawlinson to Douglas Stewart reporting on Langley's welfare, 1947-1951; 2 letters from New Zealand author and editor Alan Mulgan to Douglas Stewart, 1948; 1 letter from Harry Chaplin to Eve Langley, 1954; 1 letter and a note from Eve Langley to Harry Chaplin, 1956; 9 typed poems by Eve Langley, one with ms annotations possibly by Douglas Stewart.

The papers were assembled and bound by Harry F. Chaplin. The bookplate of Geoffrey Cains, a subsequent owner, is adhered to the inside front cover of the album.