Last updated: 2 June 2009
FILDES, Horace Edward Manners, 1875-1937 (collector)
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Title:
FILDES, Horace Edward Manners, 1875-1937 (collector)
Creator:
FILDES, Horace Edward Manners, 1875-1937 (collector)
Level of description:
Collection
Extent:
4m
Reference number:
MSS Fildes
Former NRAM reference number:
A5
Description:
Fildes was a Post Office official, rising to Assistant Postmaster of Wellington before his retirement in 1929. His mother was the daughter of J.J. Taine, a merchant in Wellington from 1840, and Leocadia di Oliviera, adopted daughter of E.G. Wakefield. Fildes was keenly interested in those aspects of New Zealand history most clearly connected with early settlement, particularly the influence of Wakefield. He collected books and corresponded with writers on New Zealand history and related topics, including the life of Wakefield.
The papers are chiefly letters from various historians and descendants of early settlers, with much of his book-purchase correspondence and some personal letters. There are also newspaper clippings and some family papers.
Two letters to Horace Fildes from James Cowan have been digitised, and may be viewed at these links:
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Fil001.html and http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Fil002.html’
Papers
Dates covered:
1728 - 1937
Access conditions:
Not restricted
Finding aids:
Card index to correspondence.|Summary description in Iris M. Park, 'A study of two special New Zealand collections'. Wellington, Library School, National Library Service, 1961.
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