Hyde wrote ‘believe in man’ in this letter, but ‘believe in Men’ appeared on Passport’s title-page. I have been unable to trace the Whitman quotation.

11. Melville Harcourt, A Parson in Prison, pp.222–3.

12. Denis Winter, Death’s Men, Allen Lane 1978, p.170.

13. Winter, p.190.

14. Letter to the Hon. Downie Stewart, from Wairoa Hospital, dated 27/11/26. Copy in the possession of Derek Challis.

15. Letter to the Hon. Downie Stewart from Mt Eden prison dated 4/7/27. Copy in the possession of Derek Challis.

16. The manuscript of ‘Doug Stark—Bomber with Otago on the Western Front’ by ‘Dawes Bently’ (two exercise books written in the same hand as the Murphy/Challis MS) turned up in the Turnbull Library some years ago (see Turnbull Library Record, vol.12, no.2, October 1979, p.121) and was drawn to my attention by Dr Patrick Sandbrook. It had been transferred from the General Assembly Library where it had no doubt been deposited by either Gordon Coates or Downie Stewart, whom Starkie relied on to get it published: ‘Now about that book Downie, can you do anything with it. If so and you think it worth while, can you sell it and help me to furnish my home for the love of Mike’ (letter to Downie Stewart of 3/7/30, copy Derek Challis). And, ‘Now Gordon if that book of mine would only prove a success and you could send me 50£ or 25£ for it …’ (letter to Gordon Coates of 29/7/30, copy Derek Challis).

17. See below, notes for pp.152, 160, 161 on pp.235–6.

18. See below, note for p.142 on p.233.

19. Letter to John A. Lee, 9 June 1936, Auckland Public Library.

20. Letter to Schroder, ‘Nov/Dec 1935’, MS Papers, 280, Schroder, folder 6, no.86, Turnbull Library. See letter no.84 for A. and P. Watt’s response.

21. Letter of 28 February 1936, MS Papers, 148, Andersen, 29, Turnbull Library.

22. See ‘A Note on the Text’, p.xxii.

23. Letter to Lee, 29 May 1936, Auckland Public Library.

24. Sandbrook, ‘Robin Hyde: a Writer at Work’, doctoral thesis, Massey University.

25. See below, notes for p.9 on p.216.

26. Southland Daily News, 5 November 1910.

27. R. H.