Series 01: A. J. Vogan diaries, 1877-1947

MLMSS 9941/Box 1

series

1877-1947

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Drawings

1008844

0.16 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript, printed

BOX 1
Folder 1
1. ‘Trip to S. France with sketches &,. by A. J. V. Dec. 1877 to April 1878’, numbered 26 on cover. 14pp., incomplete travel diary (17-18 Dec 1877)
2. Shipboard diary of working voyage to NZ on Lady Jocelyn, 26 September 1880-17 December 1880. Inscribed A. J. Vogan, Tauranga on flyleaf; numbered 27 on covers
3. “Voyage to New Zealand, Journal, 1880”. Numbered 28 “Trip from England” on cover. 18 December 1880-9 March 1881 (arrival at Tauranga 5 January 1881)

Folder 2
4. Diary titled ‘Fiji 1’, essays about Fiji and Melanesian and Polynesian cultures, Asau-i-lau carvings, with sketches and maps and occasional diary entries dated 4 July 1930, 12 August 1930, 16 August 1930
5. Diary titled ‘Fiji 3’, July-August 1930. Diary and notes re Fiji
6. Pocket diary, brief entries, 1939
7. Pocket diary, brief entries, 1940
8. Pocket diary, brief entries, 1941
9. Pocket diary, brief entries, 1942
10. Pocket diary, brief entries, 1947

Folder 3
11. Diary, 23 February-22 December 1944. Mainly about day-to-day difficulties of living in Pacific Lodge, Dee Why; frequent visits to friend C. E. Ridley’s house; observations on walks in area; collecting literary pension, with clippings of meteorological observations
12. Diary of brief entries, with clippings of meteorological observations, 1946
13. Diary with many entries regarding the noise and disturbances at the Home and his concerns about the ill treatment of a puppy there, with clippings of meteorological observations, 1947

Folder 4
14. Diary, 1929. Brief entries in a Swain’s Australian Rough Diary
15. Diary, titled on cover ‘1. Milne Bay’. Travels in Papua New Guinea, June-July 1931
16. Diary, titled on cover ‘2. N.E. Coast’. Travel in Samarai, Papua New Guinea, 4-20 July 1931
17. Diary, titled on cover ‘3. N.E. Coast to Trobriands. Travel in Papua New Guinea, 20-29 July 1931
18. Diary, titled on cover ‘4. Trobriands to Samarai’, 8-29 Aug. 1931
19. Diary, titled on cover ‘Arthur James Vogan’. Events in Fiji with watercolour drawings, 1934
20. Diary, Moreton Bay and Cairns with sketches, May 1931
21. Diary inscribed ‘Arthur James Vogan Kuringa Pymble’, of trip on S.S. Maleke in Fiji with watercolour drawings of places including Tamasu & Vomo Island, 29 Mar. 1934-16 Apr. 1934
22. Tablet diary with clippings while living at Pacific Lodge, 1945

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