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Black, Greacen Joseph, 1850-1932 : Collection of typescript and manuscript letters, map...
Date: 1924-1926, 1937
By: Black, Greacen Joseph, 1850-1932
Reference: qMS-0236
Description: Comprises correspondence between Black and Johannes Andersen (1928) re pieces in this volume, letter from Wm F Wilson discussing photographs showing facets of where Cook died (1926); statement by Capt Aaron C Simerson discussing sites relating to Cook's death (1926); hand-drawn map showing sites, and printed map of Hawaii (1916); six photographs showing places where Cook said to have fallen, Cook Monument at Kealakeakua Bay, place where Cook's flesh said to have been burnt at Kapuhiolono, temple where Cook worshipped as a god, and `Endeavour' gun, now in Gisborne; and article re doubt about fate of Cook's body from `Pacific Islands Monthly' (1937) Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter
Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Which solves the mystery of Young Nick's Head [ca 1957]
Date: 1869 - 1956 - 1779 - 1958
From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].
Reference: B-140-018
Description: Six-panelled account giving further information about Nicholas Young, his life and premature death in Hawaii and his association with Captain Cook. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Information supplied by a great-niece of Nicholas Young to the cartoonist and supplementing his lack of knowledge displayed in a previous cartoon (B-140-017) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.