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Date: 1840-1870

By: Williams, Jane, 1801-1896

Reference: MS-Papers-1527

Description: Record kept at irregular intervals of mission work, domestic affairs and social activities of the wife of William Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, at Turanga, Poverty Bay, 1840-1865, Paihia 1866, and in Napier 1870. Includes visit to England in 1851. Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 3 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1869-1872

By: Turner, Henry James, 1849-1914

Reference: MS-Papers-0253

Description: Outward correspondence from Cambridge, Waikato where Turner worked as a stockrider and on a flax mill, written to his mother and brother in England. The letters include references to economic and agricultural conditions and to the shortage of Anglican clergy in New Zealand, with some emphasis in troubled relations existing between Maori and Pakeha, and on the system of unofficial land sale Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

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: 1844-1871

By: Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883

Reference: MS-Papers-4568

Description: Folder one consists of letters, some incomplete, written by Hamilton to his parents during the period 11 April 1844 to 25 Dec 1845. These letters describe Hamilton's experiences as private secretary to Governor FitzRoy, including comments on the fighting in the Bay of Islands, his opinions on the state of New Zealand and news of FitzRoy being recalled in late 1845. Folder two contains; a letter from Charles Clifford dated 25 Aug 1845 to Col Richmond answering questions about the treatment of flax and possible production of flax products, specifically canvas for wool bales; several letters from FitzRoy, one incomplete and undated, to Hamilton, dated 29 July 1846, 12 and 13 Sept 1847 giving news of FitzRoy's activities and comments on Hamilton's career including advice on an opening on the survey vessel the `Acheron' and a letter from Henry John Tancred to Hamilton dated 25 Sept 1871 dealing with local and national politics and economic matters and passing on news of University developments. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - Typed transcript of WJW Hamilton's diary covering the period 6 June 1844 to 22 April 1845 held at MS-Papers-2302 Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies) Provenance: Donor is Hamilton's grand-daughter

Date: 1860-1884 (1894)

By: O'Halloran, George S, 1844?-

Reference: MS-Papers-1345

Description: O'Halloran arrived in Australia in 1860 from Ireland and held a variety of jobs in Melbourne and Victoria before coming to New Zealand in 1861. He worked at gold mining in Otago, hotel and store-keeping, driving and contracting in the Thames, Auckland, and central North Island. He spent nine years with the Mounted Militia, 1865-1874, in Taranaki, central North Island and East Coast and saw frequent action. O'Halloran returned in Australia in 1884. This autobiography was completed in 1894. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (132 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [ca 1848-1900]

By: Williams family

Reference: 77-198

Description: Folders of letters from mainly the women members of the Williams family. The letters are mainly written by the women members of the family, and are of a personal and social nature, although with some commentary on current events such as the New Zealand wars, and mission news. Some partial diaries are also included. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Rough preliminary inventory available.. Processing information: Fourteen folders have been sorted. The rest have yet to be arranged and described.

Date: 1864-1874

By: Harrison, Thomas, 1822-1893

Reference: fMS-083-084

Description: The diary records family affairs, buying and leasing of land, building the house, establishing the farm, day by day work, growing and harvesting of crops, stock raising, prices received for farm products and payment made for supplies. Brief noting of historical events such as the killing of settlers by Maori, attendance at militia parades. A son prospected for gold in the Kaitaki range. Inserted on loose sheet is a list of `Forts, blockhouses... occupied by the troops and militia 1863 and 1864'. Also included are a copy of the marriage certificate of William Harrison and Harriet Wells (1837) and photocopies of the end-papers of family books giving genealogical information; newspaper cutting concerning Mr P J McComish and Thomas Valentine's diary; obituary for Mrs R A Northwood (daughter of Thomas Harrison). The writer and his family left New Plymouth in 1865 to farm at Poutoko, Omata. Quantity: 2 volume(s) (ca 150 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (& printout) (33 cm; blue linen box)

Date: 1864-1866, 1872?

By: Greer family

Reference: MS-Papers-7663

Description: Comprises letters of Henry Harpur Greer to his wife, Agnes, in Auckland (1864); letters from Governor Grey to Greer; and letters to Greer from Maori on his departure from New Zealand in 1866. One draft letter appears to be dated 1872. Source of title - Supplied Henry Harpur Greer served in New Zealand from 1864 to 1866 Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to Henry Harpur Greer's service in New Zealand - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Two album leaves of watercolours of Maori, Tauranga, attributed to Henry Harpur Greer (ca 1864). Map of Te Papa showing Archdeacon Brown's house and peninsula

Date: 1863-1899, 1977

By: Bluck family

Reference: MS-Papers-2556

Description: Collection consists of the journal of Alfred Bluck covering his voyage from England to Lyttelton on the `Zealandia', 31 August - 8 December 1863, active service as a Taranaki Volunteer 1863-1866 & farming at Tuakau to 1867; Edgar Bluck's journal, June 1888-April 1889 written as a letter to his brother Frederick recounting his travels in Queensland & gold-mining in New Guinea; one photograph of Agnas Bluck, one letter from Lucy Bluck, 1 March 1877, to the Secretary of the Canterbury Board of Education requesting equipment for the newly-opened Harrisville School where she was the first teacher; pamphlet, Harrisville school centennial 1877-1977. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts, printed matter, photograph

Date: 1860s-1950s

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-8066-01

Description: Three images of groups of veteran soldiers of the New Zealand Wars photographed outside Government House Auckland. Groups and portraits of people including Elsdon Best. Also Best's study and house "Mataimoana" at Highland Park, Wellington. One image of a Fijian man dating from ca 1880s. Unidentified monument, and scenic postcards of places in New Zealand which include Wairoa, Auckland, Howick, Devonport, Waihi, Taumranui, and the lagoon at Miramar, Wellington. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1845-1871

By: Wilson family

Reference: MS-Papers-1712

Description: Letters to Sir Donald McLean from Dr Peter Wilson and his wife, Helen Wilson, from Wanganui, 1845-1847 and from New Plymouth, 1847-1871. Letters discuss domestic affairs, problems with the local Maori, politics and land. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 2 folder(s) (34 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1867-1933

By: Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933

Reference: ATL-Group-00435

Description: Notebooks, correspondence, and papers relating to the history, geology and geography of the Napier-Taupo-Kaingaroa region, notes on Maori canoes, art and history, the moa, education, hydro-electricity, the Shakespearean controversy, his political beliefs, and other subjects. There are also land deeds and papers of W Howard Hill and William Colenso. Notebooks, correspondence, and papers on the history, geology, and geography of the Napier-Taupo-Kaingaroa region, notes on moa, Captain St George's diary, Shakespearean controversy, and other topics. Papers include notes and papers on geology, history of the Kaingaroa-Taupo area, Te Kooti campaign, and early history of New Zealand; correspondence from W Colenso to Mrs E Hill. Also journal for 1897 which deals largely with school inspecting in Hawke's Bay. Henry Thomas Hill was the Inspector for Schools for Hawke's Bay and the East Coast. He joined the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute in 1884 and became President in 1891 and managed the Colenso Bequest for the Institute. Quantity: 159 folder(s). 1.16 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available - see backfile.. Transfers: MS-Papers-0153 (Series C) Inventory notes the transfer of 9 photographs to the Photo Section, 18 September 1960.. Processing information: ATL-Group-00435 formed in 2019, merged previously separated collections - MS-Papers-0004 (Series A), MS-Papers-0146 (Series B), MS-Papers-0153 (Series C) and MS-Papers-0172 (Series D) - of the same provenance. NOTE: Series numbering by staff, 18 June 1987.

Date: ca 1870-1890

By: New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: PAColl-3389

Description: Arrangement: The photoprints have the following copy negative numbers; F17026-31-1/2, 1/2-017027 to 1/2-017031, F17040-1/2, F17047-1/2, F28055-1/2; 1/4-034977 Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Photographs found in the "A" and "B" sequences of the loose prints series. The copy negatives produced from these photoprints belong to a sequence in the negative register (F17026-51-1/2) that seems to indicate that the original collection is larger than the ten photographs listed here

Date: [ca 1835-1880]

By: Bennett, Hemi Rangiahuata Te Tiwha, 1904-1979

Reference: PAColl-1761

Description: Photograph of Bishop Suter's wife, Amelia; prisoners of war from Omaranui in the quarry at the foot of Coote Road, Napier (taken by TBH); and the interior of Old St Paul's Cathedral, Thorndon. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1851-1862

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0151-01

Description: Letters from Maori to various colonial officials (mainly Sir George Grey and John White) about various issues, including land issues on the West Coast of the North Island, from Wellington to Wanganui (rent disputes, intertribal disputes, outstanding payments etc); there are also letters about the New Zealand wars, with rumours about Kingitanga activities, a request for compensation because land had been taken by Kingitanga followers, and a request for a war pension for an injury sustained while fighting Hone Heke There are also letters about the erection of a Maori House at Wellington, about arranging meetings, and letters with requests for agricultural implements. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (57 leaves). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1863-1866, 2000

By: Stuart, Henry John Richard Villiers, 1837-1914

Reference: MS-Group-0834

Description: Comprises journal kept by Stuart from 1863-1866 while he was travelling on the continent through Paris, Nice and Geneva, then his embarkation on the `Sea King' at Gravesend (Nov 1863) and coaling at St Vincent. He describes the entertainments on board, the weather, storms, death of a child born on board, arrival at Auckland (27 Jan 1864), meeting the 4th Company which had come from India, his journey to Otahuka and his first impressions. He writes of escorting carts and other military duties, painting views, problems of paying the men, Maori prisoners, in camp at Koheroa, of the engineers making a road, cutting firewood, seeing Tauranga, Te Puke, Wheranghi, fighting, arrival at Wairoa, orders received from Major Shuttleworth, visiting Te Papa, social activities in Auckland, Christmas (1864) and ends at Te Papa on 10 Jan 1865. Also includes abstract logs of the `Sea King' to New Zealand (13 Nov 1863-26 Jan 1864), `Wellesley', Melbourne to England (31 Mar-15 Jul 1866), `Prince Alfred', New Zealand to Sydney (2-7 Mar 1866), `Bengal', Calcutta to Southampton (23 Mar-1 May 1865); journal of voyage, `Wellesley' to Plymouth (16 Jun-15 Jul 1866); list of letters written (1863-1864); and chronological index to main part of the diary. Typed transcript of journal added to collection Electronic transcript is included in this collection. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Typed transcript completed in-house, May 2000 Quantity: 2 folder(s). 2 microfilm reel(s). 512 kilobyte(s) textual material. 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy and microfilm) and typescript

Date: Nov 1863-Aug 1865 - 1958

By: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H, 1836-1870

Reference: MS-Papers-2310

Description: Collection comprises the private journal of Andrew Thomas H Carbery, dated 1863 to 1865; two commissions appointing Carbey as assistant surgeon to the British army and to the 14th Regiment of Foot in 1858, and a leave of absence dated 1865 which gives Carbery leave of absence from the army starting from 29 June1866 to his retirement from service. The journal outlines Carbery's activities during this period 1863 to 1865 and comments on the conduct of the war and the Hauhau movement. It also contains miscellaneous anecdotes, verse and sketches. Also includes a type transcript of the journal created by Andrea Shand in 1958. Source of information on Carbery's regiment was taken from MS-Papers-2310-2. Source of title - Title page Accompanying material - Transcript of the journal (folder 2) Carbery was Assistant Surgeon with the 2nd battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. He was based in New Zealand between 1859 and 1866. He saw active service in the Waikato, Auckland and Raglan areas with a detachment (flying column) of the 12th, 14th, 65th and 70th Regiments. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typed transcript, and printed forms completed in ms Provenance: Typed transcript made in 1958 when journal was in the possession of Mrs Andrea Shand of Christchurch. Ink and pencil sketches at rear of volume. Processing information: The text in the Biography or history field previously read "Carbery was Assistant Surgeon with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment". This was unable to be verified, and the description updated with verifiable information on 1 December 2022.

Date: 1835-1906

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: MS-Papers-0238

Description: Includes letters from Heaphy to Donald McLean concerning land disputes; letters and documents relating to the award of the V.C. and to official appointments; testimonial letters and the various Heaphy wills Includes letter from Te Wherowhero to Taranaki chiefs advising them not to follow the example of Te Rauparaha (ie. the Wairau Affair). North Taranaki opposition to the the New Zealand Company's activities. Quantity: 7 folder(s) (32 items). 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Items that have been microfilmed have been marked with an asterisk.

From: Urquhart album

Reference: PA1-q-250-40

Description: Page 40 from the Urquhart album. Top: Unidentified Maori chief. Bottom: Officers of the Imperial forces outside the Mess whare, 12th Regiment camp, Pokeno. Physical Description: 2 photographs mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm

Date: 1860-1900

By: New Zealand. Army. Wanganui Militia District

Reference: MS-Group-1887

Description: Letter books of Militia and Volunteer Office, Wanganui, 1861-1900; letter books of Military Settlers Office, New Plymouth 1864-1868; and various records of the Wanganui Rifle Volunteers, 1860-1877 Quantity: 18 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (various sizes and bindings) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 24 Nov 2014 as it contained no additional information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..