Places

Date: 1907 (1948)

By: Colley, Lucy Anges, 1851?-1923

Reference: MS-0593

Description: Title continues:`...written by their eldest daughter, Mrs Philip Wellesley Colley (Lucy Petre)'. With notes on their children and grand-children from authentic sources and family papers; preface by JBP. Printed privately (1907). Comprises extracts from the book, typed in the Alexander Turnbull Library (Dec 1948). Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (viii, 58 pages). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Date: 1848-1904

By: Parkes, Samuel, 1790-1863

Reference: qMS-1627

Description: Letters from Samuel Parkes written from Wellington and Wanganui comment on the voyage to New Zealand and life in Wellington and Wanganui. Also letters from Susan Weller, Woolwich to her grandchildren, 1865-1869 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 items). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1851-1926

By: Hall-Jones, William (Hon Sir), 1851-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-6186

Description: Draft autobiography by Sir William Hall-Jones. The author writes of himself in the third person, under the name of of Tommy, and uses the pseudonym of Wm J Lenohals. Covers early life in Folkestone, working as a carpenter and builder in Timaru, local body activity, career in Parliament and as a Minister, term as High Commissioner in London, and later life. Includes thoughts, opinions, verse, clippings and pasted-in photographs. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with holograph annotations, printed matter (photocopies) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: [ca 1880-1910]

By: Hill family

Reference: qMS-0957

Description: Includes music programmes, photographs, newspaper clippings, some ms notes, relating mainly to the musical interests of Mr Charles Hill and his family, particularly the sons, Alfred, Edwin James and John W Hill Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 50 pages). Physical Description: Ms & printed matter (31 cm; brown cloth) Provenance: The scrapbook was the property of Mrs Charles Hill

Date: 1847-1900

By: Arnold, Thomas, 1823-1900

Reference: MS-Papers-0231

Description: The letters cover his departure to New Zealand, the voyage and his life in New Zealand and Tasmania Publication - Bertram, J M, `New Zealand Letters of Thomas Arnold the Younger', Oxford University Press, Auckland (1966); `Letters of Thomas Arnold the Younger 1850-1900' Oxford University Press, Auckland (1980). Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: . The letters have been further arranged into series since the collection was microfilmed. The original inventory is available on request. Arnold was the son of Thomas Arnold of Rugby School. He came to New Zealand in 1848 on the `John Wickliffe'. He arrived in Wellington but soon moved to Nelson where he started a school, but was soon attracted to Tasmania. He later returned to England and gained some fame as a Catholic convert and scholar of English literature. His book `Passages in a Wandering Life' (1900) gives interesting information on New Zealand in the 1840s. Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and mss Processing information: Letters described to piece level

Date: [Circa 1880s-1900s]

By: James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Hawley & Company

Reference: PA1-q-251

Description: Album of photographs taken by James Valentine & Sons, circa 1880s-1900s. Most of the images have a caption printed into the photograph, and many also have a hand-written caption beneath. At some point many of the photographs have been removed from their slots, and others have been placed in the wrong slot so that the subject and caption on the photograph does not match with the caption below. Places are listed above. There are five photographs of Maori, three of women, two of chiefs. The names given are difficult to identify, having complicated spelling, and the captions on photographs have faded in some cases. They include "Maori wahine Ngareti"; "Maori chief Hoera Watene"; "Maori chiefs Panapa Tenihotiti and Topopoki" and "Maori wahine Huihana?". One photograph, of Atiamuri, has the name "Hawley" as photographer. Other Titles - "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with greenish cover, entitled "Valentine & Sons. Photographs" in gold lettering; 39 x 31 cm

Date: 1932

By: Kilmister, Albert, 1881-1954

Reference: MS-1117

Description: Some early history of the Kilmister family and early Wellington as they remembered it. Details of voyage to New Zealand on the Lady Nugent, local Maori, and construction of houses and roads. Source of title - Spine title John and Frances Kilmister arrived 1841 on the Lady Nugent, lived in Wellington and Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red buckram)

Date: [ca 1891-1946]

From: Connell, Marjorie Bertha, 1907-1995 : Seed family papers

Reference: 88-051-04A

Description: Scenes of Sydney Harbour; photo of early Nelson taken by W Davis, Nelson; photos of Wellington wharves and nearby buildings; photo of early Oamaru; family members Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1968

By: Aitcheson, Muriel Mavis, 1919-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-1353

Description: Provides an account of Captain William Lewis' whaling activities at Kapiti, Waikopu and Cape Kidnappers; Douglas Mary McKain's account of life on board the `Olympus' in 1841 and her early days in Wellington. Also includes reminiscences of early settlers and settlement in Napier and Wairoa by Mrs Robina Roe (1929). Also copies of family letters (including letter from Thomas and Susannah Barben describing the voyage of the `London' in 1840), extracts from diaries, genealogical material etc. Includes brief biographical notes about Erena Wharekiri, Ngati Porou wife of William Lewis, and their daughter Harata `Charlotte' Torr. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (52 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)