MANUSCRIPT
Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
- Date
- 1873-1928
- By
- Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913Baker, Thomas Southey, 1848-1902
- Reference
- MS-Papers-0167
- Description
Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa
Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand
Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters.
Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holograph, Mss
Finding Aids: Inventory available.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 86 folder(s), 0.30 Linear Metres, Personal correspondence, Diaries, Drafts (Documents), Autobiographies, Manuscripts, Holograph, Mss
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Copyright
UnknownAutograph book containing poems
Date: 1848-1872
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-86
Correspondence
Date: Jan-June 1879
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-24
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
School notes(?) in French
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-07
Correspondence
Date: 1877
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-21
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Journal
Date: Apr 1883-Oct 1884
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-56
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Notes, news clippings and hymns
Date: [ca 1890-1908]
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-09
T S Baker - Log of the Dallam Tower
Date: 1873
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-01
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Recipes
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-10
Journal of experience working in tearooms and diary
Date: 187-?, 1904
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-13
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Correspondence
Date: Jul-Nov 1879
From: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0167-25
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.