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Letter to Professor Kathryn Smits

documentary heritage
  • Kupu whakaahua

    Letter from Sir Edmund Hillary addressed to Professor Kathryn Smits, dated 20 May 1992. The letter reads: "I have to admit that I have never seen a reflection of myself on the sky above me when I was on the summit of a mountain" "...maybe I am too involved in thinking how I can get safely down...again."

  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    11105 (Presto content ID)

    MS-2016-5 (Reference Number)

    ACQ-2015-34 (Acquisition number)

    2016/5 (Registration number)

  • Wāhanga

    Manuscripts

Mātātuhi me ngā tuhinga

Rārangi

  • Momo Taonga

    manuscript

  • Ingoa/Taitara
    Letter to Professor Kathryn Smits
  • Kaiwaihanga Matua

     Sir Edmund Hillary

  • Rā
    1992
  • Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko

    1 leaf

  • Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
    Single Item
  • Ngā Taipitopito Tātai Takenga
    Provenance: Professor Kathryn Smits sent the letter to Kate de Courcy at Auckland Public Libraries, asking where she should donate it. Kate de Courcy forwarded it to Theresa Graham, the then Acting Manager of Museum Library & Enquiry Services.
  • Whakahounga o Mua
    04 Nov 2022
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