Betts, Mary, 1806-1885

Date: 1802-1897, 1934

By: Marsden family

Reference: MS-Papers-0453

Description: Correspondence of Samuel Marsden regarding his service in New South Wales, and establishment of Church Missionary Society mission in New Zealand, with comments on "Boyd massacre", Elizabeth affair, and Baron de Thierry; including letters to Hongi Hika. Also correspondence of Mary Betts, Jane and Thomas Marsden, and letters relating to J B Marsden's Memoirs ... of Samuel Marsden (London, [1858?]) Quantity: 13 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (some photocopies), typed transcripts, and printed matter Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1844

By: Betts, John, 1804-1852

Reference: MS-Papers-7092

Description: In a letter to his wife, Mary, Betts writes of shipping sheep, cattle and horses and the amount of water required by them (Jan 1844). In March he writes to her describing his journey first by ship and then across the North Island from Tauranga to Wellington. He sailed from Auckland to Great Barrier Island and Mercury Bay, landed at Tauranga and journeyed toward Rotorua meeting various Maori and missionaries. After spending some time at Rotorua he travelled to Piroua Plains near Ohaki and reached the Waikato River. The group then travelled to Taupo, Wanganui, the Kapiti Coast and Wellington. Betts then travelled on the 'Calypso' to Queen Charlotte Sound and Nelson and after drifting for a week between Cape Farewell and North Cape, reached Sydney in May. Betts describes in some detail the route travelled, Maori settlements, landscape and sights, trees, people they met including several missionaries, in Rotorua, Chapman, Richard Taylor in Wanganui and Octavius Hadfield on the Kapiti Coast. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (photocopy) Provenance: Given to Mr Richards by Dr Elder (died circa 1996) of Tuatapere

Date: 1830-1831, 1938-1939

From: Samuel Marsden Collegiate School (Wellington) : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-7354

Description: Papers comprise: fragment of an undated sermon by Rev Samuel Marsden accompaied by an ms transcript; letter to the principal of the Samuel Marsden School from Eric Ramsden, Sydney, 26 Aug 1938 donating the sermon to the school; letter to Miss McFarland of Samuel Marsden School from Eric Ramsden, Sydney, 10 Oct 1939 referring to Samuel Marsden; typed transcript of a letter from Mary Marsden (daughter of Samuel Marsden) to Mrs Brown, 13 Jul 1830 and typed transcript of a letter from Samuel Marsden to Rev Mr Brown, Bay of Islands, 5 Jan 1831 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts