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Date: 1 Jan-31 Dec 1877, 1876

By: Potts, Geoffrey, 1852-1929

Reference: MS-1787

Description: Daily entries of activities on South Canterbury sheep farm, with extra notes for 1876 and 1877 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (53 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey linen)

Date: 1863-1877 (1964)

By: St. Mark's (Church : Remuera, Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: qMS-1740

Description: Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (13 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (33cm; blue pam case)

Date: 1832-1877, 1912

By: Russell, John, 1832-1918?

Reference: MS-1837

Description: Reminiscences apparently written by Russell at the age of 80 Source of title - Transcribed Russell came from Australia in 1854 in the Tory, returning there in 1855; he later settled in Canterbury where he owned and managed a number of sheep stations Quantity: 1 volume(s) (61 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, yellow buckram)

Date: 26 Sep 1876-23 Jan 1877

By: Stephens, Sarah Elizabeth, 1851-1920

Reference: MS-Papers-10633

Description: Written in the form of a letter to relatives at home, the diary gives details of shipboard life including the dislike of the matron assigned to the single women, cooking difficulties, storms, deaths, Christmas drunkenness and mutiny. Sarah Stephens travelled with her family on the Cardigan Castle from Gravesend, London to Lyttelton. The ship was effected by fever and quarantined for nearly 3 weeks on arrival in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Mersyside Maritme Museum, Liverpool, England

Date: 2009, 2012 [transcribed 2000-2012]

Reference: MS-Group-2215

Description: The collection contains two files of supporting documentation from the E Ma project, which transcribed and translated series 2 of the Donald McLean Papers, MS-Group-1551. Source of title - Supplied by library The translation project, \"E Ma: Nga Tuhituhinga ki a Makarini\" (E Ma), transcribed and translated the Maori letters sent to Sir Donald McLean from 1840 to 1877, which comprise series 2 of the Sir Donald McLean Papers held at the Turnbull Library (Reference number MS-Group-1551). The 3000 letters comrpise the largest surviving accumulation of nineteenth-century letters in Maori. The earlier letters are mainly from Maori in those areas where McLean was active as an official. The transcriptions and translations are working documents created using the microfilm copy of the collection, rather than the original documents. Each letter has been translated and reviewed by two people and every effort was made to achieve accurate translations. The transcriptions of the letters use modern orthography for ease of reading, and current forms of names and places. The transcriptions and translations have been added to the to the descriptive record for each letter, along with the digitised image of the letter, so readers may apply their own analysis and understanding to these materials. The item records for the individual letters, along with scanned copies of the handwritten letters, are available in Series 2: Inward letters (Maori) of the Sir Donald McLean Papers, Reference number MS-Group-1551. Quantity: 2 Electronic document(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Provenance: The E Ma Project is a team of Te Reo scholars comprising team leader, Dr Ngapare Hopa and main translator, Dr Jane McRae.

Date: 1832-1877 (1912)

By: Russell, John, 1832-1918?

Reference: qMS-1735

Description: Reminiscences apparently written by Russell at the age of 80 Relationship complexity - A slightly more complete version is at MS-1837 Russell came from Australia in 1854 in the Tory, returning there in 1855; he later settled in Canterbury where he owned and managed a number of sheep stations Quantity: 1 volume(s) (37, 24 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; brown linen) Provenance: Canterbury historian, William Vance arranged for typescripts (3 copies) to be made.

Date: 1877 (transcribed, 2012)

By: Webster, John, active 1998-2012

Reference: MS-Papers-11290

Description: Transcription of Margaret Fidler's 1877 shipboard journal kept aboard the `City of Santiago' on its voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne. Further transcription of Fidler's subsequent voyage from Australia to Bluff aboard the `Arawata'. Also includes research endnotes provided by Webster which relate to Fidler's text. Margaret Fidler left Liverpool on 22 Feb 1877 on the ship `City of Santiago' which took her as far as Melbourne. During this part of the voyage she shared a cabin with a six year old girl who was travelling alone to meet her family in Australia. After a short stay in Melbourne Fidler travelled to Bluff on the `Arawata'. She was met by others of her family at Port Chalmers. Fidler provides a detailed account of daily activities aboard ship, the crew and passengers she interacts with, weather events, food and beverage taken with meals and the engaging personalies she witnesses. Also provides copies of the "nautical alphabet" and an In Memoriam composed by a Mr Wood for a deceased passenger. Source of title - Transcribed by Library Fidler travelled from Liverpool out to New Zealand to meet her family at Port Chalmers Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J Webster, Auckland, June 2012

Date: Sep 1877-Dec 1879

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Barraud, Laura Cottam, 1859-1935

Reference: MSDL-1277

Description: Barraud records part of the return voyage to Wellington with her family on the `Zealandia', 12 Sep-26 Oct 1877, ending with two weeks quarantine on Somes Island after a smallpox outbreak. From Apr-Dec 1879 Laura resumed her diary describing family and social life in Wellington. Part of SBDD project Daughter of the artist Charles Barraud. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 4 Jun-1 Nov 1877

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Grant, George, 1859-1901

Reference: MSDL-1262

Description: Describes religious work among passengers and sailors; also describes Rio de Janeiro where ship remained several weeks for repairs after collision on 7 July resulting in the loss of the barque `Ellen Lamb'; and brief description of Somes Island Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)