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Selwyn family : Papers
Date: 1836-1904, 1920
By: Selwyn family
Reference: MS-Group-1897
Description: Comprises the personal papers of John Richardson Selwyn, formerly Bishop of Melanesia and Warden of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and those of his parents, George Augustus and Sarah Harriet Selwyn. They include correspondence, diaries, reminiscences and other paper. As well there are some official Church records. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: A numbering system of the letters and documents, divided into rough series and using a reference SEL010/[series number]/[number of item] was used prior to the purchase of the papers. We have added these references to the titles where appropriate. However large numbers of the papers were never listed under this system. The papers have been placed into three series, according to their origin with George Augustus, Sarah Harriet and John Richardson Selwyn. Many of the folders have been described to piece-level Quantity: 46 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter Provenance: The papers, held by the descendants of John Richardson Selwyn, were sold to the Library in 2010 Transfers: Collection taken into the Manuscripts Section as a whole, transfers made from there. Paintings made by G A Selwyn and others held at Drawings and Prints collection as C-162-003 and A-439-006/008. Photographs transferred to Photographic Section and held at PA-Coll-9823 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - - To Photographic Archive - (PA-Group-00665). Processing information: Letters described to piece level
Davis, George, fl 1860s : Reminiscences
Date: [186-?]
By: Davis, George, active 1860
Reference: MS-Papers-1593
Description: Notes, apparently by Davis, on whaling activities in Foveaux Straits area, 1830s; account of life on Codfish Island, including Bishop Selwyn's visits there; list of Codfish Island early settlers Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph
Williams, Henry, 1792-1867 : Miscellaneous papers and letters
Date: Jul 1830-Dec 1847 (1946-1948)
By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867
Reference: qMS-2236-2238
Description: Letters to and from Williams, the CMS, Colonial Secretary's Office, Selwyn, Fitzroy, and others; papers relative to the missionaries' land claims; letters to newspapers, reports of war at Bay of Islands Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (34 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown linen)
Spencer, Frederick Hamilton 1854-1932 : Reminiscences
Date: 1838-1904
By: Spencer, Frederick Hamilton, 1854-1932
Reference: Micro-MS-0835
Description: Describes decision of father, Seymour Mills, to become a missionary, tracing his progress from the United States to England, then to New Zealand with Bishop Selwyn in 1842. Describes Maori life near the mission station at Kariri near Lake Tarawera, and the wars of the 1860s. Joined the army in the 1870s; later studied for the ministry under Bishop Suter in Nelson. Much information about Maori life and customs and individual Maori. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 180 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm
Bolland family : Papers
Date: 1836-1869, 1910
By: Bolland family
Reference: MS-Papers-2004
Description: Chiefly family letters from William Bolland, first minister at New Plymouth, 1843-1847; and from his wife Jane, after his death. Also two letters from Bishop Selwyn, and one from John Morgan, Wanganui to Rev W E Bolland, Norfolk, England, dated 1910 Included are three letters by William Bolland to his mother Sarah Bolland. In two of them William describes his happiness at having married Jane Wright. They were married in 1841, and sailed for Taranaki the same year. In three letters written by Jane from New Zealand she describes their arrival, life as a clergyman's wife, her home, and nursing her son through an illness. A two page sheet entitled `Description of Sunday', was probably also written by Jane. Quantity: 3 folder(s) (18 pieces). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)
Correspondence MSS 44239-44320
Date: 1837-1883
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2233
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
McKeever, Isaac (Captain), 1794-1856 : Letterbook
Date: 1837-1851
By: McKeever, Isaac, 1794-1856
Reference: MSY-6511
Description: Copies of his correspondence with US Government and others, at sea on the USN ships Falmouth, Independence and St Louis, and while in the United States. Includes some 28 pages for 1845, when St Louis was in the Bay of Islands on a return voyage from the East Indies. Describes negotiations with Hone Heke, evacuating Pakeha, and the American trading post, from Kororareka, and his role in the blockade. Includes two letters to the Secretary of the US Navy on the events in the Bay of Islands; correspondence with Bishop Pompallier, Fitzroy, Bishop Selwyn, Magistrate Beckham, the commanders of HMS Hazard and North Star, US Consul in Sydney, and in 1851, letter from Rev A N Brown. Also, memoranda re US traders in Bay of Islands. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, May 2007
Correspondence - Volumes 4 (continued) to 7 BLA to CLA
Date: 1889-1836
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2273
Description: Other Titles - Birds of New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Register of male and female population - He Tuhituhinga o nga tangata o te Hahi - Kapit...
Date: 1835-1846
From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records
Reference: MSZ-0081
Description: Folder of loose material removed from volume stored with it in phase box Contains a census of the Anglican Maori female population of the Kapiti and Horowhenua areas, with occasional notes about various individuals Arrangement: Boxed together with MSZ-0080, MSZ-0082, MSZ-0083, MSZ-0084, MSZ-0085, and MSZ-0085A-C (folders) Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Liverpool Record Office : Miscellaneous collections
Date: 1838-1924
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
By: Liverpool City Libraries
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2060
Description: Comprise selections relevant to Australia and New Zealand from the papers of Lawrence Hall, the Sea Insurance Company, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, E Turner (shipboard diary kept during voyage of the `John Gambles', 1882), the During and Holt families, George Melly, Alfred J Tomlin and Nicholas Waterhouse Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1988