Series 03: A. J. Vogan notebooks, 1901-1947

MLMSS 9941/Boxes 13-14
MLMSS 9941/Box 15/Folders 1-2

series

1901-1947

Textual Records, Ephemera, Clippings, Graphic Materials, Drawings, Manuscript Cartographic Materials

1008846

0.45 metres of textual material (3 boxes) - manuscript, printed

BOX 13
Folder 1
1. Army book, 1901
2. Army book & field notes, 1901

Folder 2
3. Notebook, inscribed ‘Gatherings’ on first page. Contains loose clippings and letter, 1933
4. Notebook, marked ‘B’ on cover with list of books owned, n.d.

Folder 3
5. Notebook of accounts and dividends, 1930
6. Notebook titled ‘Thoughts and Notes’, undated with brief notes on archaeology, sanity etc.
7. Notebook inscribed ‘Remeny’ on first page, n.d.

Folder 4
8. Notebook ‘Autographs’, with pen & ink & watercolour sketches of burial pots, plants, scenes in Cairns, Trobriands & Kaibola, Papua New Guinea
9. Notebook ‘Autographs’with notes and sketches, Fiji
10. Notebook with sketches of birds, plants, native huts, 1931

Folder 5
11. Notebook inscribed ‘S.S. Maleke’ on first page, with sketch of Lautoka, Fiji, n.d.
12. Notebook with cuttings and addresses, 1930
13. Notebook containing plant names, cuttings and photograph dated 1944
14. Notebook titled ‘Wildflowers’ with names of plants, n.d.
15. Notebook titled ‘Literary thoughts’, n.d.
16. Notebook inscribed ‘Morinda 27/5/31 Cabin 30 Berth A’ with memos and list of possessions
17. Notebook with brief notes on archaeology. Water damaged, n.d.

Folder 6
18. Notebook with notes on Pacific Islands, n.d.
19. Notebook with notes on Fiji, watercolour sketches, pressed flowers and hand drawn maps, 1935
20. Notebook titled ‘Trobriands’ with notes on language, n.d.
21. Notebook, ‘Jap Chinese’ on cover with brief notes on Buddhism and language, n.d.
22. Notebook ‘Fiji’ with brief notes on language
23. Notebook, notes on language, tropical diseases, geology

BOX 14
24. Notebook titled ‘Notes & Useful Words for letters &c.’ with clippings, ca. 1940
25. Notebook of seafaring terms, lists of Dickens characters, notes on Joan of Arc, Muhammed, Islam, names of trees etc.
26. Notebook titled ‘Words’ with clippings and poems, n.d.
27-44. Notebooks and memo books mainly undated with topics including natural history, symbols, parrots, humanity, n.d.
44a. Notebook, inscribed inside cover ‘Taveuni 2’ with notes, drawings and pressed flowers, n.d.
45. Memo book inscribed on front page ‘Remade by A.J.V. 12/10/47 Pacific Lodge Dee Why’
46. Notebook, on cover ‘Capt. Arthur J. Vogan Pacific Lodge Dee Why’. Brief notes & cuttings
47-48. Notebooks tied with string with notes on Biblical & Roman characters, n.d.
49-59. Notebooks, undated, with rough brief notes
60. Notebook, undated, inscribed “Stone worship” on first page
61. Notebook, inscribed A. J. Vogan, Tauranga inside front cover, numbered “S3” or “53”; short prose pieces by Vogan including description of Strathalbyn, South Australia; copied extracts of letters written about 1843 to William Smith, Commander, RN
62. Notebook inscribed on first page “Notes for aboriginal carvings article”, undated; mainly notes on symbols (e.g. triskele, fylfot) in various ancient cultures
63. Notebook, undated, inscribed “No. C. Flags & design. Origin of the ‘Cross’” on first page
64. Notebook, undated, inscribed “Thurston & Spencer non-Brahman [words?]” on first page
65. Notebook, undated, inscribed “Aborigines” on first page, including notes from Dawson’s “The present state of Australia ...” (London, 1831)
66. Notebook, undated. Notes on origin of swastika
67. Notebook, 1937?
68. “X Old Literary Notes”, undated (after 1892). Pocket notebook
69. Pocket notebook, 1942? [numbered 42 on cover]
70. Pocket notebook containing inventory of possessions? dated 12 October 1946 and 12 January 1947
71. Pocket notebook, 1941?
72. Notebook, titled “Thoughts” on cover, undated; water damaged; cursory notes on archaeology, race & politics
73. Notebook, undated; draft notes, possibly for submission to “A.I.”
74. Aust. Natives carvings & customs, n.d.

BOX 15
Folder 1
75. Exercise notebook marked ‘V’
76. Reporters note book marked ‘Evidence of Asiatic influence’
77. Exercise book marked ‘New Caledonian notes & sketches’
78. Exercise book, undated, notes on aboriginal carvings & rough sketches, with letter dated 1938
79. Exercise book inscribed ‘Man 1938’ with notes on the Trobriands
80. Exercise book ‘Asaka India’, notes on archaeology, n.d.
81. Exercise book titled ‘New Caledonia notes from pocket books &c., with clippings, 1922

Folder 2
82. Exercise book titled ‘Mexico’, notes on history and mythology, n.d.
83. Exercise book titled ‘Religions, Age of – Rivers of Life, notes on religion and rituals
84. Exercise book with notes on religion and mythologies, cover damaged, n.d.
85. Exercise book of notes on New Caledonia, with drawings, n.d.
86. Exercise book titled ‘Symbols’, notes on signs and symbols with drawings and copies of rock paintings

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