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The Ada Crossley concert party, accompanied by Rose Grainger, left Sydney by the S.S. Warrimoo at midnight on 25 December, arriving in Dunedin on 1 January. The musicians went south immediately by train for their opening concert at Invercargill on New Year’s Night. From Dunedin the party proceeded north, giving concerts at Oamaru and Timaru en route to Christchurch, then crossing to the North Island where the first part of the tour ended with three concerts at Auckland between 28 and 30 January. The party then went to Rotorua for a week’s holiday.
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The Right Hon. Sir George Grey (1812–98), explorer, governor of New Zealand (1845–53) and politician. Author of several books on the Maoris and Polynesian culture, his Polynesian Mythology, and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race as Furnished by their Priests and Chiefs was published in London in 1855. Grainger’s copy was a gift from Charles C. Reade, New Year 1909. Grainger sometimes spells Grey’s name correctly, sometimes not.
John Ruskin (1819–1900). His five-volume work Modern Painters (1843–60) was begun as a defence of the English painter William Turner (1775–1851).
Dudley Kidd, The Essential Kafir … with one hundred full page illustrations by the author (London, 1904).
Atalanta in Calydon (1865), a drama by Algernon Charles Swinburne in the classical Greek form with verse-choruses.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), editor, poet and essay writer. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries was published in three volumes in London in 1850, with new editions appearing in 1860 [1859] and 1903. A friend of Byron and Shelley, Hunt edited the latter’s Poetical Works in four series (London [1871]–1875).
Grainger was reading Mor har Ret [Mother is Right] (1904) by Henri Nathansen (1868–1944)
Frie Haender [Free Hands] (1908) by Otto Benzon (1856–1927) and Hjælpen [The Help] (1904) by Peter Andreas Plum Rosenberg (1858–1935). He told Karen on 9 November that he found Mother is Right to be the best written, and The Help the least good as literature, though he liked it best.
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Dreyfus, K. (1985). 1909. In: Dreyfus, K. (eds) The Farthest North of Humanness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07627-7_9
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