Rintoul, Robert Stephen, 1787-1858

Date: [1852-1853]

By: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862

Reference: MS-2207

Description: Written from Plymouth, then Wellington and Christchurch. Describes the voyage to New Zealand on the Minerva, life and manners in Wellington and Christchurch, the scenery, prospects for the colony, political situation, especially with regard to Sir George Grey and the individual settlements, the concept of colonization; discusses various identities such as Sewell, Bellairs etc. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (25cm, various paginations, ¼ dark blue roan)

Date: 1813, 1841, 1871-1910

From: Enys, John Davies, 1837-1912 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0670-5

Description: Includes letters from J D Enys's collection of autographs; letters to F W Hutton; letters to Rev P S Smallfield (Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Auckland); to H Festing Jones re Erewhon dinners; letter from Morton [?] Tavais to [?] N Williams re actors and opera and speculating in minerals; and odd notes and envelopes re W B D Mantell, J Hector and Dr H Woodward Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for a fuller description of the contents of this folder.

Date: 1827-1832, 1859, 1880

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0083-475

Description: Signatures and names cut from envelopes; also letter from Silliman to the young Walter Mantell, enclosing copies of an American magazine for young naturalists (1832); letter from Rintoul to Swainson re publication of an article in the `London Spectator'; letters from Sir Henry Brand (Orange Free State), acknowledging receipt of seeds sent by Walter Mantell (1880); letter of acknowledgement from Sir Richard Bourke for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Gideon Mantell (1829); the tale of Raumahora, an ancestor of Te Ati Awa in the Wellington region, written by Walter Mantell for Jane Carlyle (1859). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.