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New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

The NZETC has added several new online texts. The Katherine Mansfield collection has more fiction, letters, extracts from her notebooks and diaries and an early "Life of ..."

Thanks to kind permission from the current VUW Chancellor, Emeritus Professor Timothy Beaglehole, NZETC is republishing some of J C Beaglehole's essays on Captain Cook, with more to be added in the coming months.
Captain Cook and Captain Bligh
Some Problems of Editing Cook's Journals
On the Character of Captain James Cook

New texts by authors already featured in the NZETC collection

• Thomas Brunner  "The Great Journey: An Expedition to Explore the Interior of the Middle Island, New Zealand 1846-8" (1872)
• George Pratt "Some Folk-songs and Myths from Samoa" (1891)
• James Cowan A letter from Cowan to Horace Fildes and "Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori" (1925) 
• James Drummond "The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon" (1907) and "Life and Work of Samuel Marsden" (editor 1913)
• Te Rangi Hiroa "Vikings of the Sunrise" (1938)

Other new texts

• "The First Ascent of Mount Ruapehu New Zealand" by George Beetham (1926)
•  "Plume of the Arawas" by Frank Acheson (1938)
  

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