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Date: 1840-1862, 2008

By: Youngman family

Reference: MS-Papers-9269

Description: Writing from Kaiapoi, James and Mary Youngman describe their voyage to Lyttelton on the `Zealandia' in 1858, their first impressions of Canterbury, Maori and their life in general since their arrival in Canterbury. Also photographs of fly-leaf of the Youngman family Bible (taken 2008) showing Youngman family entries dated 1840 to 1862. Note by donor Pat Youngman relating to a cousin Muriel Younger ; note relating to provenance of original shipboard letter/diary Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (copies, some encapsulated)

Date: 22 Sep-9 Nov 1887

By: Clulow, John William, 1854-1927

Reference: MS-Papers-6223

Description: Diary of the voyage from London to Wellington on the ship Ruapehu; gives details of shipboard life, notes on progress made. Includes notes on travel to Eketahuna by railway and coach, as well as accounts of auction sales of what appear to be farms in Staffordshire. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mrs S P M Argue, 1998

Date: 4 Jul-13 Oct 1863, 2000

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Shepherd, Henry Thorne, 1806-1874

Reference: MS-Papers-6914

Description: Two copies of same shipboard account. The writer records the ship's position, weather and mentions some events and fellow passengers. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript

Date: 1863, 1997

By: Bowerman, John Needes, 1838?-1894

Reference: MS-Papers-6171

Description: Comprises photocopies of diary/letter by Bowerman, an account of his voyage on the `Zealandia', beginning at page 9 (Oct 1863) and describing shipboard life, the passengers, crew, birds, weather, health, finishing 8 Dec (page 16) on arrival at Lyttelton; transcription of same by Crowther; and clipping and transcription of account from `Lyttelton times' (10 Dec 1863) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr B Crowther, Te Awamutu, Feb 1998

Date: [ca 12 Jan-Sep 1842]

From: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0107-1

Description: The shipboard diary covers approximately 12 Jan to 5 May 1842 and describes shipboard life with references to previous explorers and commentators. It is illustrated, especially with illustrations of land and bird life. The account is dated 9 Sep 1842. Small sections are in Hebrew. Part of SBDD project Other - The words have been transcribed by Marsha Donaldson, and the transcript is at MS-Papers-4417 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 encapsulated leaves). Physical Description: Mss with illustrations Many illustrations of landforms, fish, birds, plants and ships Processing information: Digitisation details - Fragments digitised in the order they have been arranged and housed in Melinex enclosures. Each enclosure has fragments from separate diary pages. An attempt has been made to arrange the fragments chronologically where possible.

Date: 1879, 1884-1894, [197-]

By: Hamill, Vernor Hugh, 1900-1994

Reference: MS-Papers-2347

Description: Papers include shipboard diaries of David and Hugh Hamill; farm accounts for the period 1884-1894; notes on the Hamill and Adams families by Vernor Hamill; accounts of a religious revival in Maerewhenua during 1908-1909 contributed by Alfred Adams and Aggie Medland; and a description of the settlement of the Catlins district 1884-1918 by W R Adams Source of title - Supplied title David and Hugh Hamill emigrated to New Zealand aboard the `Hermione' in 1879 as steerage passengers. They settled and farmed in the Maerewhenua district, Otago. David married Mary Adams in 1897. Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.09 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1877-1878, 1965-1989

From: Wilson, Derek, 1922- : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11608-76

Description: Contains notes on Wilson family genealogy and several draft family trees. Also letters from Jo, Ken, Godfrey Wilson and Bob. Other material includes typescript of shipboard diary of John Lamb Wilson, who travelled from England to New Zealand aboard the May Queen in 1877-1878. Also undated account of working on a farm in the Awakino area, probably written by Clement Wilson and later published under the penname `Station Manager' (see article in MS-Papers-11608-70). Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1920, [ca 1990]

From: Edward, Jock, fl 2012 :Various papers relating to research interests

By: Edward, Alexander, active 1920-1960

Reference: MSDL-2009

Description: Document concerning the diary of Alexander Edward's voyage from Southampton, England, to Lyttelton, New Zealand on the Corinthic in 1920 written for his mother who lived in Forfar, Scotland. It contains an introductory note probably written at the time of the creation of the electronic document, plus embedded scanned pages of the diary, newspaper clipping and photographs. Alexander Edward's diary gives a detailed account of the voyage, ending with his arrival in Wellington, and his ferry trip to Lyttelton. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Date: 1864-1866

By: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918

Reference: qMS-0934

Description: Account of trip to New Zealand from Plymouth on the `Wild Duck' and subsequent life and travels in Kaikoura Peninsula and Marlborough; especially at Kekerengu and Flaxbourne where Hawkins served as tutor to the sons of J D Tetley Publication - The Hawkins diary has been extensively used and quoted from in a book by Helen Loftus 'The Tetley affair, or, colonial dreams and nightmares: beig and account of the career of Joseph Dresser Tetley...' (Waikanae, 1997) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (203 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (24 cm; black morocco box) Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - E-370 - Purchased at the same time: a sketchbook by Hawkins - Illustrations of New Zealand, E-370, Drawings and Prints Collection, ATL. Numerous pen sketches Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)

Date: 1861, 1863

By: Maskell, William Miles, 1839-1898

Reference: MS-1564

Description: Account of voyage to Lyttelton on the William Miles, 6 May-19 Aug 1860, and return to England by Chrysolite, 1 May-27 Jul 1863; impressions of Canterbury, Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland 1860; comments on war in Taranaki and Maori fortifications; observations of Maori, settlers and work on Sir Frederick Weld's run at Flaxbourne, 1860, before taking up own property Source of title - Transcribed Variations in title - Spine title: Log to and from New Zealand, 1860, 1863 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (181 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (18 cm; ½ dark green morocco, green cloth) Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)

Date: 7 May-4 Aug 1874

By: Bovis, Henry, active 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-7463

Description: Diary kept by Bovis in 1874 of his voyage from London to New Zealand from 7 May to 4 Aug, in the emigrant ship, `Conflict'; the account was published by his brother, William Bovis, in 1874. He described the various events on board, including the time rose each morning, his family's adaptation to shipboard life, the weather, food, ports of call and land passed, and often dramatises a story out of an event. Includes Bovis family history notes assembled by K Jones Source of title - Transcribed Accompanying material - Bovis family history Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms K Jones, Lake Rotoma, Jun 2002

Date: 1872-1874, n d

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 73-150-02

Description: Draft of application for Phillips's admission as advocate, Supreme Court, Fiji; shipboard advertisement for missing piece of tatting on board the `Sea Gull'; bank orders and accounts; notes by Phillips on a voyage from wharf K, Auckland, to the Thames goldfields; on the slave trade, Liberia, trade, on Darwin on coral reefs, Tahiti, on Godefroy, method of skinning and curing sea-birds, Jame Gillies on New Caledonia, notes on settlement at Apia, re purchase of Nukulau, pros and cons of purchasing Smith's shipping business at Levuka, list of steamers for sale from Pothonier, ca 1874; paper, Pour traduction d'Anglais en Francais, 13 Mar 1872 from `de Cinq-Mars' chapitre six Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: 15 Apr-24 Jul 1884, 1994

By: Bridge, Thomas Richard, 1844-1928

Reference: MS-Papers-6063

Description: Bridge provides a very full account of the voyage referring to events on board and his fellow passengers, and includes pencil illustrations of the ship, Captain Phillips, etc Accompanied by a typed transcript done by Dorothea June Bridge (wife of donor), 1994 Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Letter from grandson, H R Bridge providing biographical information. Photographs of T R Bridge and his wife Maria, and their home at Tirohanga, Opotiki Relationship complexity - The shipboard diary of Hannah Seymour contains many references to the Bridge family (Ristori, B. 90-113) Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typed transcript and photographs (some photocopies) Diary includes pencil sketches

Date: 1851-1858 (1910)

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-1638-1642

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly in the Mataura Valley, Southland, on Glenham Station. Includes 2 pages of photocopies of sketches by Mieville; and a Mieville and a Richardson family tree Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to New Zealand on the Dominion, and a voyage home to England via Melbourne, on `Thomas and Henry' and `Royal Charter' in 1857, and return voyage in July 1858 on the `Agra'. Includes diary entries written by his wife, 1854 Publication - Extensive extracts used by Herries Beattie in his histories of Southland Mieville and his future wife Fanny Richardson both immigrated to Lyttelton in 1851 on board the `Dominion' Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (in red buckram hinged-lid box) Sketches by Mieville

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-6938

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (106, 7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt (Nov 2000)

Date: 23 Jul 1914-8 May 1915

By: Bayne, James, 1887-1915

Reference: MS-Papers-1418

Description: Diary kept by Bayne while serving as a private in the Ruahine Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, in Egypt and Gallipoli. The first pages comprise a listing of the officers in Malone's Wellington Infantry Battalion and a timeline of significant dates relating to the start of the First World War. Diary begins on 10 Aug 1914 as Bayne enlists at Dannevirke, is sent to Masterton for equipment and then onto the Awapuni Camp for military training. Further training at Trentham Camp then embarks aboard the `Arawa' to Egypt on 16 Oct 1914. Details shipboard life and gives accounts of the stopovers en-route, included a detailed account of the layover in Colombo. Arrives Alexandria 3 Dec 1914 and gives detailed account of the surrounding buildings, foods and local customs. Continues training at Zeitoun Camp until deployment to the Suez Canal on 25 Jan 1915. Returns to camp and describes living conditions, military life and operations. Diary entry for the "Battle of the Wozzer", 2 Apr 1915. Leaves Alexandria on 10 Apr 1914 aboard the transport `Itonus' for Gallipoli. 25 Apr 1915 is transhipped at 10.30pm to `HMS Bulldog' and taken half a mile from the beach before loading into rowing boats for the remainder of the ANZAC landing. Gives detailed narrative of the fighting and lists soldiers injured in the conflict. Comments on the failed attack on Monash Gully 2 May 1915, leaves Anzac Cove to fight at Cape Helles 6 May 1915. Diary ends 8 May 1915 with Bayne's involvement in preparing for the attack on Krithia. Also includes newspaper report of a memorial service held at Manakau for Bayne, and a newspaper cutting photograph of Private Bayne and New Zealanders on their way to Gaba Tepe. The newspaper cutting that accompanies this diary indicates that this diary was found on Bayne's body five months after his death. Source of title - Supplied Private Bayne fought with the Ruahine Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, in Gallipoli in 1915. Reported missing in action at Cape Helles, 8 May 1915. Later reported killed in action, 4 Sep 1915. Serial No: 10/44. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (55 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (18 x 11cm, grey card binding), printed matter Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 70 digitised images

Date: 31 January 1897-3 August 1897

From: Lingard-Monk, James Boughey Monk, 1853-1905: Travel diaries

Reference: MSX-8888

Description: Lingard-Monk's engaging account of his round the world voyage aboard the British steamship `S.S. Buteshire'. Written in a jocular manner the narrative details shipboard activities, the daily life onboard, weather patterns and the progress of the vessel in minute detail. Volume is arranged into seven chapters and also includes reflections on the journey, quotes, proverbs and a daily log of places visited with latitude and longitude figures. Journey leaves Albert Dock, London on 31 January 1897, returning 3rd August 1897. The `Buteshire' was one of the largest cargo ships of its day and Lingard-Monk was one of the few passengers on the voyage. Recounts the adventures of the ship's cat, the Captain, fellow passengers and crew throughout the journal. Comments on the Cape of Good Hope as the first significant milestone of the voyage. Arrived at Port Adelaide, Australia on 24th March. `Buteshire' continued on to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville and back to Sydney. Steamed across to New Zealand entering Foveaux Strait on 23rd May and visited Bluff where the author tastes Bluff oysters, at two pence a dozen. Many pages are devoted to humorous verse and instruction: "Instructions to passengers when conversing with Officers of the U.S.S. Co vessels" and "A valedictory address to the Union Shipping Company of New Zealand by a long suffering passenger". Both items appear to be written after the Captain advises Lingard-Monk that the ship is not to visit Wellington as planned. Further stop in Christchurch before the `Buteshire' begins her homeward leg via Cape Horn, stopping at the Canary Islands to collect mail, then onwards to Gravesend, arriving 3rd August. Lingard-Monk finishes by noting that the vessel broke down 22 times between Lyttelton and London. Source of title - Transcribed from item Other - Includes Lingard-Monk ex libris bookplate on inside cover Other Titles - The Terrible tramp or how I did six months with the additional chance of being drowned Accompanying material - Some biographical notes regarding Lingard-Monk's manuscripts are available for researchers from the backfile. This was Lingard-Monk's second voyage to New Zealand. This manuscript volume is the third in a series of three volumes entitled "Journeys Round the World". Quantity: 1 volume(s) (188 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (24 cm; blue cloth)

Date: 1890-1893

By: Ledger, James John, 1847-1907

Reference: MSX-9415

Description: Memoir written by James Ledger in Abbotsford, Australia between 1890 and 1893. The narrative primarily concerns Ledger's immigration to New Zealand in 1878, his four years in New Zealand and subsequent relocation to Melbourne, Australia in 1882. Some of the latter parts of the volume relate to events in Ledger's life up to 1893. In the first section of the memoir Ledger recalls his voyage of 119 days aboard the barque `Cape Finisterre' from London to Port Lyttelton, New Zealand. He provides a very detailed account of shipboard life, his fellow passengers, the weather patterns and activities of the crew, the islands and land masses the vessel passes by. At one point on the voyage an iceberg is sighted and a pen and gouache drawing by Ledger captures the likeness. With his travelling companion `Fred' they publish a weekly newspaper called "The Cape Finisterre Weekly News". Upon arriving in New Zealand Ledger gains employment with the gas works for seven months in Christchurch. Throughout the journal Ledger provides detailed accounts of the characters he observes and meets. There are many sketches in this work and his drawings often match the textual descriptions he provides. Ledger continues to record his work experiences over the next four years as he lives the life of an itinerant worker moving from place to place chasing work. He spent time as an engineer, worked as a lithographer and a labourer. Later Ledger spent time in the Waimakariri Gorge employed with a survey party laying out railway lines, and then as a farm hand in South Canterbury on the annual summer harvest. After working as a clerk in Timaru Ledger joined the South Canterbury Contingent of the Volunteer Corps that were recruited to march on Parihaka in western Taranaki in 1881. Ledger has a fascination with local Maori and he recounts his meetings with Maori throughout the occupation of Parihaka and Pungarehu. Ledger continues sketching during his involvement with the military campaign and depicts both Maori and Armed Constabulary subjects. Returning to Timaru via Opunake he recounts the fate of Mary Dobie who was killed by Tuhi while sketching at Te Namu and is buried at Opunake. After returning to the South Island Ledger visits Dunedin and sells his sketches of Parihaka and neighbour surrounds with depictions of Maori life to a publisher for fifty pounds. These sketches are reproduced by Fergusson and Mitchell as a set of 12 sketches in 1882. Ledger became disillusioned with New Zealand and left for Hobart in November 1882 aboard the `Ringarooma'. Passing through Bluff he narrates a chance encounter he had with the Maori King, Tukaroto Tawhiao. The last section of the memoir deals with Ledger's reminiscences of his life in Melbourne, and includes drawings and photographs. One image is of the Federal Coffee House building in Melbourne. Ledger finishes his narrative with his marriage to Mary Florence Lawerence, finding work as an architect and the purchase of two properties `Hinemoa Cottage' and `Bella Vista'. Included as an appendix to the volume is a section entitled "Colonial jottings" where Ledger refers to particular incidents throughout his travels. There is an inscription at the front of the volume to his godson John Bonsor Ledger, and the first stanza is quoted from the poem "To my sister" by the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon who emigrated to Australia from England in 1852 [poem written 4 August 1853]. Publication - Some of the sketches in this manuscript are based on earlier sketches in Ledger's published work `Pen and ink sketches of Parihaka and neighbourhood with scenes of Maori life, Dunedin, Fergusson & Mitchell, [1882?], 12 leaves of plates ; 24 x 31 cm. Source of title - Transcribed from item James (Jas) Ledger spent nearly four years in New Zealand from 1878 to 1882. He worked in many capacities including surveyor's hand, engineer, farm labourer and volunteer soldier with the South Canterbury Contingent at Parihaka in 1881. In 1882 he travelled to Melbourne, Australia and settled down to colonial life. He married Mary Florence Lawerence and worked as an architect living in Abbotsford. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (102 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (25.5 cm; half binding with green leather and marbled endpages) Memoir includes six black and white photographs; 35 sepia ink sketches.

Date: 1884-1885, 1935

From: Diaries and sketchbook

Reference: MSX-8404

Description: Volume is a compilation of an original manuscript diary (1884-1885) with pencil and watercolour illustrations which has been copied and revised (1935). The diary has been rebound with the original manuscript pages removed to be replaced by typescripts. The original illustrations and title pages appear intact. The diary begins with the departure from England on 29 Aug 1884 of the travelling party aboard the `S S Doric'. The party includes Georgina Gertrude Anderson, her mother, sister and maid. There is a brief description of the voyage, shipboard life and ports of call (Cape Horn, Teneriffe and Hobart). Wellington is reached on 17 Oct 1884. The diary continues with details of a visit around Wellington township then recalls an adventurous journey to Foxton by coach, followed by a train ride to their destination in Wanganui. Next day the travellers continue to family properties in the Makirikiri Valley. The chief reason for the author's visit to New Zealand is for her sister's wedding on 20 Oct 1884 in Wanganui. From here she journeys with her mother to Wellington via the inland route through Marton, Palmerston North and Masterton. From Wellington they ventured aboard the steamer `Wairarapa' to Port Lyttelton, then onto Christchurch. The next big event is Christmas 1884 in Wanganui and the dairy reccounts their preperations for the celebrations and church service. The next section details the last adventure through the North Island by steamer, coach and train visiting New Plymouth, Auckland, Cambridge, Rotorua, the Blue and Green lakes, Lake Tarawera, Te Wairoa and Napier. Included in this passage is a detailed account of visiting the Pink and White Terraces (a year before the 1886 eruption). On 13 Mar 1885 the return journey was made to England aboard the `S S Rimutaka' via the Straits of Magellan. Mention is made of the many icebergs they sailed past and the stopover in Rio de Janeiro and their sightseeing trips on land. Diary ends 26 Apr 1885 with the arrival at the Albert Docks, Liverpool. The diary recounts an eight month travel experience to New Zealand. The author is in a party of four visiting New Zealand to attend the wedding of her sister Helen Anderson to William Forster Mills. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms, typescript & illustrations Volume includes many watercolour and pencil illustrations. Themes for the sketches are local tourist spots of interest, New Zealand fauna, icebergs in the Straits of Magellan, and ports of call during the voyage to and from New Zealand. Processing information: Archivists notes - The author notes she was a young woman on this trip and that she returned to New Zealand for another visit 20 years later. This typescript is indicated as being 50 years after the first trip and includes annotated corrections.