Taranaki Region (N.Z.) - Description and travel

Date: [ca 1868-1870]

By: Whitmore, George Stoddart (Sir), 1829-1903

Reference: MS-2392

Description: Letters written by Whitmore from the field while campaigning in Taranaki, Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty; mainly concern military operations, but also includes observations on the countryside and Maori. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (163 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, illustrated, ¼ blue morocco, blue cloth) Includes sketch maps

Date: 1840-1865

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1050

Description: Comprise Meade's journals on the Esk and Curacao, botanical, biological, meteorological and and scientific observations, sandal wood, and the journal of a tour from Auckland to Taranaki 1849-1850 by Governor Grey Source of title - Transcribed Brenchley first visited the Pacific in 1850 with the French traveller, Jules Remy, during his American tour. He later visited New Zealand in 1864 with Lt Herbert Meade RN, and involved himself in Maori affairs. From Sydney he visited Pacific islands in the Curacoa in 1865 and the Esk in 1866. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1993

Date: 1860-1866 [ie 1864]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: MS-2346-2347

Description: Describes service in India and journey to New Zealand; state of colony and views on colonial government; activities as officer commanding 57th Regiment and troops in Taranaki from 1863; notes social and economic conditions; Maori movements; describes storming of Katikara Pa Jun 1863 and destruction of pa on Patua(?) Ranges Source of title - Transcribed Arrangement: MS-2346-2347 are boxed together Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (24cm, marbled boards, ¼ red calf, black linen) Provenance: Appear to be a draft and a fair copy but there are different corrections and additions on each MS-2346 contains photo-copied sketch showing ppositions of pa on the Patua ranges

Date: 1841-1885, 1974

By: Mason, Thomas, 1818-1903

Reference: MS-Papers-0054

Description: Mason's letters to his uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs Thomas Mason, York, England; also includes family tree of the Mason family, 1758-1974. Subjects include life at Taita in the Hutt Valley and Hawkes Bay, news of the Taranaki war, and political comment and news. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, Typescripts Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [1940-1994]

From: Dickson, Decima, 1906-1995: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5562-15

Description: Comprises `Music throughout my life' in `IRMT journal' (Sept 1994); notes on camping trip to Mt Egmont in the 1920s; correspondence and notes for Peter Harcourt on Hamilton Dickson (1990); music playing instruction piece; `I am content' (1994); letter to Nota Bene Music Publishing Co-operative re publication of Hamilton Dickson's compositions (nd); `Take time' (poem); `Decima's personal religion' (nd); `The Pianist' (nd); `How do we gain control of self?' (1989); notebook for indoor bowls; `Boat trip to Waiheke Island' not written by Dickson (nd); notes re Jill Palmer and the Music Archive (1980); talk on becoming a professional pianist (1990); talk and recital at the Presbyterian Home (1984); notes for Dinesh (1994?); World War II and women of NZ questionnaire; and talkback with Monica Wilson on `My life of music' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1840-1842 (1939)

By: Weekes, Henry, 1804?-1894

Reference: MS-2362

Description: Journal describes the voyage to New Zealand in the William Bryan and the settlement of New Plymouth Source of title - Supplied Weekes first arrived in New Zealand in 1841, as surgeon to the New Zealand Company, on the ship 'William Bryan'. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, various paginations, ¼ dark green morocco, green boards)

Date: 1873-1953

By: Wood, Henry Alfred, 1873-1956

Reference: MS-GROUP-1988

Description: Autobiography deals mainly with dairying and work on the land, especially drainage of Ngaere Swamp; history of the Rawhitiroa district and the New Plymouth settlement; section on waterfront strike (1913); appendix: Reminiscences written by Mrs Phillipa Wood (nee Inch) of her voyage to New Zealand on the `William Bryan'. She was a child at the time. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 volume(s) (112, 11 leaves ie 123 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (25cm; orange cardboard)

Date: 1841-1847

By: Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849

Reference: qMS-0885

Description: Diary of a voyage to NZ in the `Lady Nugent', farming at Lowry Bay (1841-1843), and at Purau, Banks Peninsula (1843-1847). Account of a journey from Wanganui and Taranaki (1843), and some account of other parts of Wellington province. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - This copy is a microfilm printout of original diary at MS-0878. Typed transcript available at MS-Papers-4882. Microfilm available at MS-Copy-Micro-0345 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 160 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (37 cm, ¼ maroon calf, maroon buckram)

Date: 1886-1898

By: Pontifex, (Mr), active 1886-1898

Reference: MSX-8078

Description: Travel journal kept by a Mr Pontifex, apparently a lawyer in Brisbane. Records his travels to the Australian outback, New Zealand, Europe and Britain. Describes travel from Brisbane to St George Qld (1886); Christchurch to Blenheim (Oct-Nov 1889), involving a tour of sheep stations on horseback with a friend, recording names of stations and owners, notes on scenery and state of roads; Christchurch to Hanmer via Kaikoura (Dec 1889) on foot or by coach, with similar descriptions; North Island Jan-Feb 1890, with visits to Maori villages, including Parihaka, where he met Te Whiti. Described in some detail. Other passages record trips to Europe. At the end of the book is a resume of his extensive travels. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Ken Spelman Booksellers, York, UK, 2007

Date: 1858

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: qMS-1832

Description: Typescript copy of a rare pamphlet Quantity: 1 volume(s) (66 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; green linen)

Date: 1873

By: Thatcher, Frederick (Rev), 1814-1890

Reference: MS-Papers-8459

Description: Two letters from Frederick Thatcher written in 1873 when he was secretary to G A Selwyn, then Bishop of Lichfield, to an unnamed friend, who is considering emigration to New Zealand. Discusses New Zealand's prospects, possibility of further wars there, and best places for settlement, particularly Bay of Plenty and South Taranaki. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescript Provenance: Originally found in Auburn, California, where they were sold by an antique shop to the donor. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, R Skinner, 2005

Date: [ca 1890-1899]

Reference: MS-Papers-2891

Description: Writer unknown; notepaper from Tisch's Terminus Family Hotel, New Plymouth Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms

Date: 1857-1858 1919-1920

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: MS-2012-2015

Description: Collection is made up of `Diary of journey to Taupo Rotorua Rangitikei from Taranaki, 1858' with photocopies of maps and plans removed from back of diary, and sketch map of Taranaki, 1857; also a published version `Notes of a journey from Taranaki to Mokau, Taupo, Rotomahana, Tarawera and Rangitikei' (New Plymouth, Printed at the Taranaki News [1858]), a presentation copy to M A Compton, and two small collections, one of photoprints of maps from MS-2015, the other of loose maps from MS-2015. Source of title - Supplied Variations in title - Binder's title: Notes of a journey from Taranaki to Taupo, 1858 Other Titles - Record title formerly: Diary of journey to Taupo, Rotorua, Rangitikei, from Taranaki, 1858 Quantity: 4 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (19 cm, ¼ red morocco, red linen tie case) Additional illustrations to the printed volume, illustrations in the original diary, negative photstats of maps and plans from the back of the diary and sketch maps of areas travelled through

Date: 1841-1847 (transcribed, 1993)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849

Reference: MS-Papers-4882

Description: Typed transcript of diary of a voyage to New Zealand on the `Lady Nugent'; farming at Lowry Bay, 1841-1843, at Purau, Banks Peninsula, 1843-1845 and at Motunau from 1845. Contains details of farming, trading and community activities and describes other Banks Peninsula and Wellington families. Also contains an account of journey from Lowry Bay via Wanganui to New Plymouth, Feb 1843 for trading reasons and up the Wairarapa coast in search of pastoral land. Diary refers constantly to Greenwood's older brother James Dent Greenwood who farmed with him. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - Original at MS-0878. Microfilm at MS-Copy-Micro-0345, photocopy of original at qMS-0885. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 163 pages.. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1859-1861 (1939)

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: MS-1717

Description: She describes the voyage out on the Eclipse, 1858-1859, and her first impressions of New Plymouth and its inhabitants. Her comments on colonial society are detailed and perceptive Maria came to New Zealand in 1859 on the Eclipse as governess to the family of the Rev H H Brown, a clergyman at Omata, New Plymouth. In 1860 she was evacuated to nelson, and shortly afterwards dismissed from the Brown's service. Unable to pay her fare back to England, she reluctantly worked as governess to Lulu Eyes, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the province. Maria stayed with the Eyes family at Wairau for one year, She returned to England, having decided that the shortage of artistic talent together with the burden of domestic work was not to her liking Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Date: 24 Oct 1866-27 Apr 1867

By: Turner, (Mrs), active 1860s

Reference: MS-Papers-7781

Description: Comprises 11 letters from Charles H Turner and Frank C Turner to their mother in England while they were sailing to New Zealand, travelling round New Zealand followed by a visit to Australia. Three of the letters are from Charles and eight are from Frank. They were written on board ship, the `Kent' and the `Tarama', and while they were travelling in New Zealand and Australia. Both sons describe life on board ship, the people they were travelling with, ports visited, activities on board ship and describe in some detail the various places they visited in New Zealand (Papakura, where their brother had a farm, Waikato, Lyttelton, Wellington, Bluff, Dunedin, Nelson, Auckland and Taranaki) and Australia (Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart Town). The letters have been transcribed by Mr Grant. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1890, 1892, 1908-1935

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-132

Description: Two publications relating to travel in Taranaki: 'The Taranaki holiday guide-book' published by the Taranaki Jubilee Celebration Committee in 1890, and 'Complete directions for ascent of Mount Egmont' published by the Taranaki Scenery Preservation Society in 1892. Also includes clippings that were laid in to the guide book dated 1908-1935. These include clippings relating to Parihaka and Te Whiti. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Two publications.

Date: 1999-2001

By: Morgan, Robert R, active 2002

Reference: MS-Group-1117

Description: The papers, transcribed and compiled by John Morgan's great-grandson Robert, include extracts from his diaries and reminiscences. They relate mainly to the 1850s and describe life in Wanganui and Taranaki during this decade, including farming, economic activitity, travelling between New Plymouth and Wanganui and relations between the settlers and Maori. Also included is a description of a trip made by Morgan in 1853 droving sheep from Kai-Iwi to Taranaki published in the `Hawera star', 10 Aug 1935 and a brief talk about John and William Morgan given by Robert Morgan. John Morgan was born in Dorset and emigrated to New Zealand in 1849 aboard the `Berkshire'. After a brief period in Taranaki he settled in Wanganui. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 158 kilobyte(s) textual material. 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1781-1892

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1924

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1843-1844

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8670-189

Description: Typed transcripts of letters from Henry Samuel Chapman, re his arrival in Sydney and Wellington; includes his visit to New Plymouth and walk back to Wellington. Also, earlier letters from the voyage from England to Capetown. Typed and mounted with annotations in the hand of Frederick Revans Chapman. Describes Wairau affray. Quantity: 1 folder(s).