Places

Date: [1971]

By: Carr, W E Allon (Rev), active 1970s

Reference: MS-Papers-0666

Description: Survey by Rev Carr of the history of the churches in Nelson since the foundation of the settlement in 1841, with particular reference to Methodism; subtitled `with geographical, historical and inter-church reference' Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (24 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Rev A Carr, Auckland, Aug 1971

Date: 1857-1872

Reference: MS-Papers-2809

Description: Includes: Act to amend the regulations for the sale or disposal of Crown Lands in the Province of Nelson (1862); papers relating to land purchase and miner's rights for Andrew Kerr, 1857-1862; land orders for immigrants who arrived at Auckland from Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope on the `Sir George Grey', May 1864 (Benjamin & Mrs Lanham, William & Rosalie Davies, James Davidson, Allen Marshall, William Morrison, William Bartlett, Robert Wilson, William Burton, William Daveny); papers relating to Captain John Holliday and land in Queen Charlotte Sound, 1868-1872. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: [1982]

From: Dakin, James Campbell, 1908-2005 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2294

Description: Two versions of an unpublished article covering New Zealand Company's policy and selection, recruitment of working-class emigrants, and the origin and characteristics of those emigrants who arrived at Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth settlements between 1839-1843. Second version, which is very similar to the first, is entitled 'The Background of the working-class pioneers; an exploration of the social and educational background of the earliest emigrants... ' Both versions include references, notes and tables Source of title - Transcribed from items Other - See MS-Papers-8222 for reference index cards used by Dakin for the articles Other Titles - The Background of the working-class pioneers Quantity: 1 folder(s) (63 leaves). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: Apr 1842-Jul 1843

By: Wilson, John Henry, 1797-

Reference: MS-Papers-3356

Description: Describes voyage to Nelson on the London arriving Apr 1842, living conditions and land settlement in Nelson; gives an account of the Wairau affray. Includes six envelopes. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 24 May 1861

By: Handyside, Henry, 1831-1877

Reference: qMS-0911

Description: Report addressed to the provincial superintendent of a survey of the area extending from Hanmer Plain, west to Lake Sumner and north to Lake Tennyson. Surveyor for Nelson Provincial Council. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (67 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; ½ brown morocco, brown buckram) Illustrated with 19 pencil drawings and map of the area

Date: [ca 1840s-1850s]

From: Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0148-129

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1863-1873

By: Lowe, John Henry, 1841-1928

Reference: MS-Papers-0664

Description: Eight letters from Lowe to his father (and one to his brother) (1863-1873), written from Plymouth, the `True Briton', Lower Moutere, Matakitaki, Westport, Wellington, and on the `Lord Warden' plus notes from newspapers with comments by A G Bagnall re Lowe's arrival at Nelson (1864); the letters describe surveying on the Buller River, work as District Surveyor of Goldfields at Westport and later as District Engineer at Wellington. Also a short diary of trip in New Zealand bush near Ngatimoti and trip from Nelson to Wellington on board the `Auckland', with small sketches. Also notes sent to W J Lowe by J H Lowe referring to and correcting a work. Includes sketch map of part of the North Island of New Zealand and a small part of the north east South Island. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (39 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Sketch book.

Date: 1839-1936

By: Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957

Reference: Micro-MS-0510

Description: Manuscripts collected by Dr Bett, mainly, but not only relating to the early history of the Nelson settlement. Includes letters, invoices, memorials, reports and a multitude of other material. Includes letters written by Lydia Acland, 1837; Elizabeth Fearon, 1862; and Mary King, 1860. Also entry from a baptism register for Helen Burnett, 1866. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 600 pages). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1865-1899, 1907-1909

By: Nelson (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Micro-MS-0509

Description: Bills, receipts and tenders for Board of Works jobs; contracts; returns of water and gas rates; letters and petitions concerning roads, sanitation, etc; disbursements of Waterworks Dept of Nelson Provincial Council; Lands and Survey reports; lists of Crown grants. Quantity: 8 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1840-1904

By: Stanton, William Moses, 1829-1905

Reference: Micro-MS-0792

Description: Transcript of William Stanton's chronology of events in Nelson and his reminiscences. Copy of reminiscences of Mrs E Caldwell of domestic life in Nelson ca 1850. Lists of deaths, fires, shipwrecks etc in Nelson during the period. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 150 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1854-[ca 1870]

By: Kennedy, Dugald Archibald, 1830-1908

Reference: MS-Papers-2786

Description: Incomplete reminiscences of a ship master, who arrived in Nelson in 1854, and who sailed on a number of ships between Australia, New Zealand and the Chatham Islands; was involved with the transport of Maori prisoners (including Te Kooti) to the Chatham Islands. Written sometime after 1893 Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Photocopy of letters outlining full career of Captain Kennedy from S M Christina Kennedy, 1981 & Lesta Kennedy, 1992. Typed transcript by Marsha Donaldson, June 2007 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: [2006-2007]

From: Wilkinson, James Douglas, 1926-2014: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-9511-06

Description: Draft of Nelson and the West Coast shipping section for `Early NZ steamers, Vol II. Also chapters re gold; Nelson-Marlborough-West Coast pre-colonisation; etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1856

By: Jenkins, Alfred George, 1813-1890

Reference: MS-1081

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (15 cm; stamped red roan, brass clasp)

Date: 1856-1879

By: Cotterell, Thomas Warriner, 1840-1921

Reference: MS-0614-0616

Description: As well as notes on surveying work, the notebooks include mathematical formulae related to surveying, itineraries, shopping lists with Nelson prices, addresses, jokes and sketches; also diary notes for a visit to Wanganui and the Manawatu in 1879. Enclosures (in MS-0615): Sketch of a woman and a prayer, 1858 Source of title - Supplied title Cottrell left England in 1857 and worked as a surveyor in Nelson, Marlborough and the West Coast between 1858 and 1866. Quantity: 3 volume(s) (ca 350 pages). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (13 cm; maroon leather (1-2), black leather (3), in box; 15 cm, black buckram) Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 4 photographs, including daguerrotype portrait. Includes sketches in MS-0614.

Date: 1843-1853

By: Dillon, Constantine Augustus, 1813-1853

Reference: MS-0685

Description: While most of the letters were written by Dillon to his family in England, there are a few by his wife and one each by Domett and Fox Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ dark green morocco) Finding Aids: Index available at MS-0686.

Date: 1869-1870

By: Blackett, John, 1818-1893

Reference: MS-0219

Description: Detailed account, with accompanying sketches, of surveying, dredging and digging of areas around the Slate River at Collingwood, in order to build a bridge, and, in the vicinity of the Pearce and Graham Rivers, Motueka, for the purpose of making a road Blackett was Engineer-in-Chief for New Zealand from 1884-1889 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (67 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (9 cm; black linen slip case)

Date: 1868-1875

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-111

Description: Consist of letters between members of the Helps family and their friends. The main correspondents are Alfred and Francis Helps. Chatty in tone, they are concerned with social life and events in Nelson and on the Collingwood and West Coast gold diggings. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1980

By: Weetman, George, 1866-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-2131

Description: Reminiscences written 1935 with considerable information on contemporary social life, accounts of local shipwrecks and also biographical notes by Mrs C E Weetman Weetman was born at Swyncombe Station, Kaikoura. He spent his childhood on a farm at Kaiwhare, having close contact with the Maori from Mangamaunu. In 1898 he married Constance Barnes in Nelson. They had three children. He worked chiefly in Marlborough and Nelson Provinces in various pastoral and labouring jobs. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopies)

Date: 1907

From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0407-12

Description: Contains a copy of an account by Hemi Matenga about the rescue of seamen from the shipwreck Delaware in Cable Bay, Whakapuaka (Marlborough region) with a related news clipping from the New Zealand Times, an original account by Te Whatahoro about the recording of cosmological and other information from Te Matorohanga and other tohunga, and about the production of books based on the material, which is reproduced by the New Zealand Times (translation by Keys), and where Te Whatahoro names Keys as his agent for sales of the books There is also an account by Te Whatahoro about the incestuous relationship between the Ngati Kahungunu ancestor Rakaihikuroa and his granddaughter There are letters to Keys from Maori about personal affairs, Maori vocabulary and whakatauki (in answer to questions by Keys), notes about the Kuaka (Godwit) and its place in Maori tradition, ethnographic notes (again in answer to questions by Keys), and notes about a potato blight and a measles epidemic at Omaio There are also copies of letters from Maori to James Carroll; one of the letters contains a report on a major Kingitanga gathering at Waahi in 1907, and the other letters are from Nireaha Tamaki seeking government assistance with food to supply a four month whakapapa hui at Dannevirke, and noting that Tamaki's potato crops were blighted Quantity: 1 folder(s) 16 pieces. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1875-1896

From: Buller, Walter Lawry (Sir), 1838-1906 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0048-03

Description: Includes a list of names in Waotu South, notes on Ngatiapa iwi, notes in Maori re land at Whangaehu and miscellaneous letters and telegrams. Also comprises notes on the Taitapu Block (Nelson) and the Taupo Block (Plimmerton) as well as various items regarding land in Otaki with accompanying list of Ngati Raukawa chiefs. Includes several handwritten receipts from original Maori sellers.