Spencer, Seymour Mills (Rev), 1812-1898

Date: 23 Nov 1843-31 Dec 1868

By: Spencer, Seymour Mills (Rev), 1812-1898

Reference: qMS-1856

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (55 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; ¼ brown calf, brown cloth) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 7 Feb 1857

By: Tiffen, Frederick John, 1828-1911

Reference: MS-Papers-3786

Description: Letter to Tiffen's sister in England describing a horseback journey from Homewood, at Patangata, Hawke's Bay to Taupo, Rotomahana, Whakatane and back. Describes in detail the landscape, particularly in the thermal areas, and the people he met along the way, mostly Maori but also the family of the Rev Seymour Mills Spencer. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves). Physical Description: Typed transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Mr G S J Read, Lower Hutt, 1983

Date: 1838-1904

By: Spencer, Frederick Hamilton, 1854-1932

Reference: Micro-MS-0835

Description: Describes decision of father, Seymour Mills, to become a missionary, tracing his progress from the United States to England, then to New Zealand with Bishop Selwyn in 1842. Describes Maori life near the mission station at Kariri near Lake Tarawera, and the wars of the 1860s. Joined the army in the 1870s; later studied for the ministry under Bishop Suter in Nelson. Much information about Maori life and customs and individual Maori. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 180 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1848 - 1852

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

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Ward, S F, active 1840s-1850s

Reference: E-143-111-a

Description: View across water to a peninsula with a chapel with a tall spire on the ridge. Several Maori seated and standing in the foreground, most holding taiahas. There are also canoes in the water. Mount Tarawera is in the background. The associated mission station was that of Seymour Mills Spencer 'S F W' has been identified as S F Ward, a visitor to Tarawera with his mother in 1849 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph

Date: May 1845-June 1846

By: White, John, 1826-1891

Reference: qMS-2209

Description: Compiled by the CMS missionary S M Spencer while stationed at Tauranga and Rotorua. Contains daily religious notes 1845-1846 (some of which have been pasted over with magazine illustrations); and brief biographical and personal notes. Also includes Maori material from the area, including 95 waiata - almost all of Te Arawa origin; an extensive Maori vocabulary for letters A-P giving English meanings; 82 whakatauki (proverbs) and other local notes in Maori only. Originally catalogued under John White's name, although written by Spencer - (this may have been part of the material White collected) Other Titles - Binder's title - John White. Notes Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 264 pages). Physical Description: Holograph & printed matter (34cm; ½ sheep, marbled boards (damaged), green edges. Black hinged lid box) Finding Aids: A list of the first lines of waiata numbered 1-95 is in backfile, (ask staff for this).

Date: 1822-1879

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-04-58

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

Date: nd

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0039-10P

Description: Includes Rotorua, Taupo etc - History; Life of Rev Seymour Mills Spencer, missionary (from ms lent by his son F H Spencer, Rotorua, 1926); Hauhaus & Archdeacon Williams at Gisborne & Napier (stories) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume). Processing information: Digitisation details - Loose pages digitised at the end of the structure map after the back cover

Date: [ca 1880s-1890s]

Reference: 1/2-038132-F

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Anglican missionary Seymour Mills Spencer. Photograph taken circa 1880s-1890s. Photographer unidentified. Other - This is a copy negative taken from 'Te Arawa' by D M Stafford, Wellington, Reed, 1967. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1846-1875, nd

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0583

Description: Correspondents: Ellen S Spencer, Tarawera and Maketu, 1860-1875 (4 letters); J E Spencer, Kawhia, 1846 (1 letter); John Spencer, Taupiri, 1875 (1 letter); Rev S M Spencer, Tauranga and Rotorua, 1871 (2 letters); Harvey Spiller, Auckland and Hokitika, 1869-1870 & undated (3 letters); Henry Thomas Spratt, Greytown and Wellington, 1858-1862 (4 letters); John Stables, Napier and Dunedin, 1867 & 1875 (2 letters); James W Stack, Lyttelton and Kaiapoi, 1860, 1874-1875 (3 letters); W G Stack, Wellington, 1874 (1 letter) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1857

By: Maling, Christopher, 1843-1917

Reference: A-108-015

Description: View across a promontory, with the steeple of a church and low houses. In the background is are the volcanic cones of Mount Tarawera. A cultivated garden lies to the left of the church. In the foreground are groups of Maori, and there are two waka on the lake. Probably orginally from a drawing or lithograph by William Bambridge - there is a copy of this lithograph in the British Library. On the left is an inscription 'from a sketch by S. F. W', possibly S. F. Ward. The church shown was on Kariri (Galilee) Point at Lake Tarawera. It was established by Rev Seymour Mills Spencer in 1843. Spencer moved to nearby Te Wairoa in 1852. Inscriptions: Signed: C. Maling Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 126 x 200 mm

Date: April - December 2008

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000250

Description: Photographs of the exterior of buildings in Rotorua, taken April-December 2008 Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within folders called "New Zealand Buildings April to July 2008" and "New Zealand Building July to December 2008" Quantity: 9 digital photograph(s).