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Speech titled 'A Fantastic Tale' about the fantasy and magical realism genres with particular reference to 'The Lord of the Rings. Paper has been reused, handwritten note: "Attention Mark Williams" in blue ink.

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Speech by Margaret Mahy titled 'A Place in the World: the impact of childhood reading', incomplete. Handwritten annotations in pencil.

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Incomplete speech given by Margaret Mahy in November 2005 at Te Papa as part of the project 'Are Angels ok', a collaboration between New Zealand writers and scientists. A short piece of writing with some crossover was published in the book 'Are Angels ok?' edited by Paul Callaghan and Bill Manhire.

Scope and Contents Speech 'Building Bridges through Children's Books' given by Margaret Mahy during a 1995 United States Board on Books for Young People conference with the theme 'The World at Our Doorstep: Building Bridges of Understanding Through Children's and Young Adult Books'. Typescript with handwritten annotations in blue and black ink, appears to be incomplete. Later published in 'Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature' Volume 34, No. 4, Winter 1996 under the title ‘The...

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Photocopy of a speech by Max Fatchen at the book launch of 'The Horrible Story and Others'.

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Speech by Margaret Mahy titled 'Dissolving edges: Jokes and passion in Reading Acquisition' about writing for educational reading programmes and the Whole Language theory of teaching children to read. Handwritten annotations in black ink.

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An after-dinner speech by Margaret Mahy titled 'Food in Children's Books'. Discusses the food mentioned in various children's literature and its possible nutritional value. Handwritten note on first page reads: "Food in Children's Books Lunch time speech".

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Speech in poetic verse by Magaret Mahy in her role as poet laureate of the 1997 Christchurch Arts Festival.

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A speech titled 'Patchwork' given by Margaret Mahy on receiving the Children's Literature Association Phoenix Award for 'Catalogue of the Universe' in 2005.

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Speech titled 'Seeing the Lion' given by Margaret Mahy at Endings and Beginning: The Shape of Story, CLNE at Harvard University, 1996. Two copies.