Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Date: 11 May-16 Jun 1847

By: Gisborne, William, 1825-1898

Reference: qMS-0844

Description: Gisborne and Petre went by sea to Coromandel and then by land, first up to Thames and travelling up the river, passing through pa, including Opita, then to Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Lake Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. They returned to Auckland by way of the Waikato River, passing through Maungatautari and Waipa. The journal includes interesting descriptions of Maori life and Gisborne meet the Revs Brown, Spencer, Chapman and Ashville [sic] and various prominent Maori. Variations in title - Binder's title: Gisborne journal The journal is loose in a cover with a typescript and index in an envelope at the back Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages, 30 leaves)). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (32 cm, blue linen)

Date: 21 Mar 1835-10 Apr 1850

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: qMS-0277-0278a

Description: Comprises typescript copy of Brown's diary (1835-1846); and microfilm printout (1847-1850). A journal kept while Brown was a missionary for the Church Missionary Society at Matamata, Tauranga and the Bay of Islands. He describes conversion and education of Maori, inter-tribal war while at Matamata and his journey on HMS `Rattlesnake' with James Busby and Samuel Marsden from the Bay of Islands to Queen Charlotte Sound (1837). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm printout (35 cm; red buckram & phase box)

Date: 1962

By: Matamata Founders Park Memorial Committee

Reference: MS-Papers-3592

Description: Outlines plans for the park designed primarily to commemorate J C Firth, W Tamihana and A N Brown. Gives historical information about these people. H G Baigent, Committee Chairman. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1970-1972

By: Adams, Patricia, -1996

Reference: qMS-0275

Description: Compiled by Pat Adams, 1970-1972, for the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 190 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (32 cm; red hinged lid box)

Date: 1858, 1905

By: Stack, Eliza Rachel Jane, 1829-1919

Reference: MS-2042

Description: The journal begins in March 1858 and ends in November 1858. A note, 24 years later, describes her revisit to Kohanga and gives a brief historical summary. The journal describes life in Auckland, a voyage to Tauranga on the cutter `Hope', and visits to mission stations there and at Maketu, a trip through the thermal area and back to Auckland through Thames, the Waikato and Taupiri. Eliza Jones describes Maori life and conditions, flora and fauna as well as many of the people she met on her journey, including Archeacon Brown, Rev Volkner, John Kinder and Thomas Chapman, whose poem `The rats' lament', about the Maketu rats, is given in full. The journal has been copy edited, probably by A H Reed This journey described in `Further Maoriland Adventures of J W and E Stack', (Dunedin: Reed, 1938) Source of title - Title page Variations in title - Spine title: New Zealand 1858 Eliza Jones visited New Zealand in 1857 and married the missionary, Rev James West Stack in 1861. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (187 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy) (27 cm; black boards) Photographs, reproductions from published items, and two original watercolour sketches presumably done by Eliza Jones, one of Kohanga Mission Station on the Waikato River and another of a river scene

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-052

Description: View from the shallows of the shore, looking towards a bank with the mission station on top, surrounded by a garden. On the shore below are six Maori with two waka Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and wash drawing

Date: 1858 - 1863 - [1980?-1999?]

By: Te Waharoa, Wiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi, 1805?-1866; Ellott, Gerald James, 1926-; Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933

Reference: MS-Papers-12703

Description: Collection comprising copies of extracts from two original letters written by Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi Te Waharoa (William Thompson), and two undated translations of the letters into English. Both te reo transcriptions are signed "True Copies, E Shortland", and written on paper watermarked '1858': - Letter to Paraone Minita, Minister Browne, probably Alfred Nesbit Brown Church Missionary Society Archdeacon of Tauranga. Discusses “Ringaringa” or Ringatū in Tauranga. Dated 1 August 1863. - Letter to an unidentified person. The original letter held at Auckland City Libraries identifies the recipient as Ruia Paranihi. Discusses Tāmihana’s letter to Brown. Dated “Ākuhata 22 1863” (22 August 1862). The English translations are written in ink on lined paper. These were made at a later date, probably in the late 20th Century. Title supplied Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: From the collection of Gerald Ellott (postal historian). Ellott purchased copies and translations from McArthur & Co. in May 1978. Believed to have been previously held with the W.N. Searancke Collection by Henry Hill.

Date: 1830-1859

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-4403

Description: These papers consist of inward correspondence to Brown and three of his journals recounting his early visits to the Waikato and Bay of Plenty in the 1830s. The papers also include correspondence between Robert Maunsell and Bishop Selwyn and other documents concerning the Church Missionary Society. Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - Note in backfile on Henry William Nixon. These papers came from his estate Church Missionary Society missionary at Bay of Plenty and Tauranga. Quantity: 6 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Transfers: To Book Collections - A number of publications, mainly religious texts in Maori have been transferred to the printed collections..

Date: 1826-1837

By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865

Reference: qMS-0909

Description: Describes his work among the Maori at Waimate (North), Kerikeri, Mangapouri and Manukau; also visit to Waikato with Archdeacon Brown in 1834 Source of title - Supplied title Church Missionary Society missionary and lay teacher Quantity: 1 volume(s) (112 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (34cm; red buckram)

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s, ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9453-6

Description: Scenic photographs taken for New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1826-1837

By: Hamlin, James (Rev), 1803-1865

Reference: Micro-MS-0296

Description: Describes work among Maori at Waimate (North), Kerikeri, Mangpouri amd Manukau; also visit to Waikato with Archdeacon Brown in 1834 Relationship complexity - Typed transcript at qMS-0909 Church Missionary Society missionary and lay teacher Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 150p).

Date: 5 Nov 1852, 14 Sep 1836

By: Morgan, John (Rev), 1812-1865

Reference: MS-Papers-3254

Description: Morgan gives a 16 page account to the Church Missionary Society of the Maori war at Rotorua, Matamata and Tauranga. Also an account of a robbery, dated 14 Sep 1836 with references to Morgan, Rev A N Brown, Mr Clementson, an American, Mr Knight, Tarapipi (son of Waharoa), and Taiepa (son of Pohi Pohi) (4 pages, incomplete). Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1838-1860, 1902

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: fMS-Papers-7510

Description: Inward letters to Brown from various correspondents, Father John Breen, Henry Williams, James Busby, William Williams and J W Hamilton; letter from Brown to Busby; agreement of sale by Tauranga chiefs of land for Anglican Mission, Tauranga, in Maori with several signatures, James Stack, witness; empty envelope (1860); and copy of telegram from Mr Seddon, signed by J G Ward (1902) Accompanied by photocopy of newspaper clipping about the collection Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and photocopies

Date: 1829-1879

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-0033

Description: Mainly correspondence with Bishop Selwyn and other missionaries; some family letters Quantity: 15 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss and typed transcripts Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1837-1851

By: McKeever, Isaac, 1794-1856

Reference: MSY-6511

Description: Copies of his correspondence with US Government and others, at sea on the USN ships Falmouth, Independence and St Louis, and while in the United States. Includes some 28 pages for 1845, when St Louis was in the Bay of Islands on a return voyage from the East Indies. Describes negotiations with Hone Heke, evacuating Pakeha, and the American trading post, from Kororareka, and his role in the blockade. Includes two letters to the Secretary of the US Navy on the events in the Bay of Islands; correspondence with Bishop Pompallier, Fitzroy, Bishop Selwyn, Magistrate Beckham, the commanders of HMS Hazard and North Star, US Consul in Sydney, and in 1851, letter from Rev A N Brown. Also, memoranda re US traders in Bay of Islands. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, May 2007

Date: 1840s

By: Fedarb, James Williamson, 1816-1890

Reference: MS-Papers-12704

Description: Printed broadside with inscriptions and annotations addressed to Archdeacon Alfred Nesbit Brown, Tauranga. The broadside has been printed in Sydney by James Fedarb, likely ordered by James Busby for his store in the Bay of Islands during one of his visits to Sydney. The header reads "Victoria Store, Victoria, Bay of Islands"; the body of the broadside lists stock for sale at the Victoria Store, including food, beverages, tobacco, hardware, and kitchenware; and the foot of the text reads "James Fedarb, Agent". Above the header is the annotation "Mr Busby..." [sic]. The broadside is annotated verso in two different hands; one reads "Store at Bay of Islands" in pencil, and the other reads "Rev. A N. Brown | Tauranga" in ink. Information on custodial history taken from auction house catalogue. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Laid paper, printed, 320 x 295 mm, with handwritten inscriptions in ink and pencil. Provenance: From the collection of Gerald Ellott (postal historian). Ellott purchased the broadside in 1964 from Cordy's Auction House, Auckland. Believed by Ellott to be from collection of manuscripts and papers belonging to Archdeacon Alfred Nesbit Brown.

Date: Nov-Dec 1870

From: Williams family : Miscellaneous papers, particularly of William, William Leonard and Herbert William Williams

Reference: MS-Papers-0190-06

Description: Correspondents include: W Oldham; A Brown; Bishop Hadfield; W L Williams; R Maunsell; Secretary of CMS; Henry Williams; Bishop of Christchurch (Harper); A Stock; Ashwell; James Clarke Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1833-1876, 1835-1876, 1861-1867

From: Williams family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0069-031

Description: Also includes corresppondence - Archdeacon Brown to Bishop William Williams and Bishop William Williams to Bishop Selwyn Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1835-1866

From: Church Missionary Society : Archives relating to the Australian and New Zealand Missions

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-04-48

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 21 Mar 1835-10 Apr 1850

From: Brown, Alfred Nesbit, 1803-1884 : Journals

Reference: qMS-0278a

Description: Index to Journals at qMS-0277-0278 Physical Description: Typescript