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Biographical notes on and memoirs of Tudor Washington Collins

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  • Description

    Contains photocopied material. Typescript volume (29 cm) titled "Tudor Collins Memoirs". These memoirs, though in the first person, have evidently been written by Charles W. Chandler, who has made interpolations from time to time throughout the manuscript. The information has been taken by Chandler from tapes and interviews, and then collated and typed by him.

    The memoir recalls schooldays in Grey Lynn, Auckland, including a brief period at Battley school. Collins worked for Warnock Bros., then Donald Bros., and then on boats plying the Hauraki Gulf. Accounts of two visits to Little Barrier Island (pp. 34-38); a visit to Macquarie Island in 1952 aboard the British frigate "St. Austral Bay" and a description of the island (pp. 41-46); Collins' time bush felling kauri and the many photographs he took there; also gum digging; a visit to Britain and Europe (pp. 88-110); his purchase of a farm at Takatu, which he sold in 1961, retaining one section; tribute to Tudor Collins by Bill Beattie of the newspaper 'New Zealand Herald', with some account of Collins' life and photography (pp. 114-18); description of European trip continues, followed by an account of a trip to America. (154 leaves)

  • Other Id

    2109 (Presto content ID)

    MS-1015 (Reference Number)

    21851 (DBTextworks system ID)

    78/44 (Registration number)

  • Department

    Manuscripts

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Catalogue

  • Object Type

    manuscript

  • Name/Title
    Biographical notes on and memoirs of Tudor Washington Collins
  • Primary Maker

     Charles Chandler

  • Physical Description

    1 hardcover volume

  • Level of Current Record
    Single Item
  • Subject Notes
    Tudor Washington Collins was born at Paiaka, Hukerenui, Whangarei, in 1898. His family later moved to Grey Lynn, Auckland, where they lived in Old Mill Road, near where the Auckland Zoo is now located.
  • Last Update
    04 Nov 2022
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