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Date: 1875-[ca 1930]

By: Mackay, Robert Percy, 1862-1948

Reference: MS-Group-0337

Description: Consists of 3 logs written by Mackay on the whaling ship Splendid for the years 1875-1877. The logs detail the voyages of the ship from Port Chalmers to various places around New Zealand, the Southern Ocean and into the Pacific. Also contains discharge papers dated Oct 1877; an annotated copy of `The Cruise of the Cachalot' by Frank T Bullen published in 1899 and an annotated proof of a galley for a newspaper article, ca 1930s, reporting on Mackay's life and his claim that Bullen's 1899 book was in fact based on the Splendid. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 4 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Quilters Bookshop, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1840-1870

By: Williams, Jane, 1801-1896

Reference: MS-Papers-1527

Description: Record kept at irregular intervals of mission work, domestic affairs and social activities of the wife of William Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, at Turanga, Poverty Bay, 1840-1865, Paihia 1866, and in Napier 1870. Includes visit to England in 1851. Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 3 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1825-1855 (1964?)

By: Williams, William, 1800-1878

Reference: qMS-2248-2251

Description: This is a copy of the journal sent home to the CMS, and is a fuller account than that contained in the Private journal held in the ms collection Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (34 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)

Date: 1849-1853

By: Brierly, Oswald Walters (Sir), 1817-1894

Reference: fMS-024-025

Description: General shipping notes of the HMS Rattlesnake 1840-1850 and the HMS Meander 1850-1851. Includes descriptions of rigging for ships and canoes, sketches, vocabulary notes on Australian language and notes on painting technique. Journal kept aboard HMS Meander includes descriptions of Norfolk Island, Port Nicholson May 1850 with descriptions of watering facilities at Auckland and Bay of Islands. Sketches 1849-1853 include Bay of Islands. Sketches in the South seas, includes views of New Zealand. Quantity: 2 volume(s) (400 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (42-47 cm; green buckram)

Date: 1822-1824

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2409-2410

Description: Covers journey to New Zealand and life and relations with Maori at Bay of Islands; interval in Australia Feb-Aug 1823 Source of title - Transcribed Extracts copied by an unidentified compiler; vol 2 is apparently in a different hand. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (24-22cm, ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram)

Date: 4 Apr 1845-13 Oct 1847 (ca 1890)

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: MS-0257-0258

Description: Account of the war against the Maori in the Bay of Islands, with a list of those killed at Okaihau, 1845 Source of title - Title page Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (22 cm; red linen)

Date: 1823-1878, 1880

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2413-2414

Description: Extracts from Williams family letters and diaries covering the period 1823-1878 Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Full title: Records of two brothers, being passages from the lives of Henry and William Williams Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (Various sizes, ¼ brown morocco, brown buckram and black calf; MS-2413 in blue case)

Date: 21 Mar 1835-10 Apr 1850

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: qMS-0277-0278a

Description: Comprises typescript copy of Brown's diary (1835-1846); and microfilm printout (1847-1850). A journal kept while Brown was a missionary for the Church Missionary Society at Matamata, Tauranga and the Bay of Islands. He describes conversion and education of Maori, inter-tribal war while at Matamata and his journey on HMS `Rattlesnake' with James Busby and Samuel Marsden from the Bay of Islands to Queen Charlotte Sound (1837). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm printout (35 cm; red buckram & phase box)

Date: 23 Dec 1841-30 Jun 1846

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-0129-0132

Description: The diaries give detailed descriptions of life in the mission settlements, frequent references to Selwyn's work, and numerous drawings of New Zealand scenes Relationship complexity - Volume 5 (1846-1848) is shelved at qMS-0122 William Bambridge sailed from England with Bishop Selwyn in the Tomatin, 23 Dec 1841. He was appointed writing master at St John's College till 1848 when he returned to England Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Various sizes and bindings, in ¼ red morocco red buckram slip cases) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander H Turnbull, 1914. Numerous illustrations

Date: 1885 - 1891

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904

Reference: E-393

Description: Includes route sketches from Bay of Islands, views of the Coromandel district, Wairarapa, Upper Hutt & Cheviot, plus unidentified landscapes & portrait studies. Sketches by J.M.Nairn from this volume removed by previous owner and sold to National Art Gallery at subsequent Dunbar Sloane auction, 14.9.89; replaced by photocopies in the Library's sketchbook. See shelf-list for list of titles and negative numbers Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 44 pages. Physical Description: 36 pencil, 1 sepia wash, 1 pencil & sepia wash, 1 ink, 3 pencil & pastel sketches page size 137 x 20 cm

Date: 1846-1850, 1858-1860

By: White, John, 1826-1891

Reference: qMS-2203

Description: Includes Journal of survey of the Scrip and other land claims in Hokianga, Oct 1858 (pp 260-288). Plus additional manuscript documents, Government warrants and certificates, and photographs inserted in back. Relationship complexity - The typescript section is identical to qMS-2202 except for the index which has been omitted Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript and ms (32 cm; blue morocco) Finding Aids: Index available in qMS-2202. Includes photograph of John White (9 Jan 1891) and Mrs White (ca Aug 1891) and photographs used to illustrate the "Ancient history of the Maori".

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)

Date: 1883 - 1899

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-361-q

Description: Shows shipboard scenes on H.M.S. Clyde, Romanesque Cathedral at Oloron-Sainte-Marie in S.W. France, horses, shells, and scenes in the Bay of Islands, the latter separately catalogued. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 22 pencil and 1 ink in sketchbook 180 x 250 mm, 1/2 green morocco, marbled boards

Date: 25 Jun 1845-17 Jul 1855, 17 Dec 1861-6 Jul 1872, 15 Jan 1938

By: Richards, Robert, -1847

Reference: MS-Group-1487

Description: Correspondence from Robert Richards to his family in Rio de Janeiro and England. Richards describes the war in the Bay of Plenty against Hone Heke during and after the cutting down of the flagstaff at Kororareka. He gives details of the British response to this event and about the key players involved. Also includes newspaper clippings and legal documents following the death of Robert Richards in 1847 and legal documents relating to the management of land in New Zealand by overseas owners. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, Mss (photocopies), transcripts, typed transcripts Processing information: Material underwent conservation treatment in 2013, which required reprocessing into new folders - old reference was MS-Papers-8523-01 and 02. New reference is fMS-Papers-11558-1 and 2

Date: 1818-1861

By: Jones, Richard Henry, active 1818-1861?

Reference: MS-Papers-4308

Description: The papers relate to the estate of Captain Samuel Stephenson and to the trading activities of Samuel Stephenson, including letters from Stephenson to Jones containing accounts of his experiences in New Zealand. Source of title - Supplied Richard Henry Jones was employed by Messrs Thomson Hankey & Co, merchants of London. His father-in-law, Captain Samuel Stephenson, was lost overboard from his ship, Rosaline, off Java in 1821. Jones' brother-in-law, Samuel Stephenson, a trader in the Bay of Islands, had commercial dealings with Thomson Hankey & Co. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1802-1897, 1934

By: Marsden family

Reference: MS-Papers-0453

Description: Correspondence of Samuel Marsden regarding his service in New South Wales, and establishment of Church Missionary Society mission in New Zealand, with comments on "Boyd massacre", Elizabeth affair, and Baron de Thierry; including letters to Hongi Hika. Also correspondence of Mary Betts, Jane and Thomas Marsden, and letters relating to J B Marsden's Memoirs ... of Samuel Marsden (London, [1858?]) Quantity: 13 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (some photocopies), typed transcripts, and printed matter Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1862

By: Williams, William, 1800-1878

Reference: MS-2418-2420

Description: Account by Williams of the establishment of Church of England missions in New Zealand; covers Maori life and customs. On first page of vol 1 is pencilled: July 3/62 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (22cm, ¼ brown morocco, brown linen)

Date: 1831-1906

By: Hingston, William George Cornelius, 1802-1894

Reference: MS-Papers-0043

Description: Papers include correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to land purchase in the Bay of Islands, and a land dispute with James Busby; also muster roll for the ship `Mary Ann' (1835-1838) Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Hingston (2164 1/4 print only); Tamati Waka Nene (8155 1/2 neg & print); Henry Williams and daughter Jane (2558 1/4 print only). Also memorials to Marsden, and Tamati Waka Nene (104152 1/2). - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Engraving of the arrival of Captain Wallis at O'Taheite. Engraving of visit of Captain Cook to O'Taheite (second voyage). (Both from Millar's 'New Complete & Universal System of Geography'). Transferred 1991 - A111/141 and A111/142..

Date: 1825-1831, 1856-1857

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: qMS-2228-2229

Description: Extracts from letters and some journal entries copied by an unidentified compiler. They describe pioneering life, missionary actiovities and relations with Maori in the Bay of Islands - also East Coast for the later period Variations in title - Dates on spine: 1822-1864 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (36 cm; blue calf)

Date: 1839-1868

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: MS-Papers-0953

Description: Material relating to the discovery of moa bones, 1839, and wars in the Bay of Islands, Wellington, Taranaki, and East Coast. Letters etc in Maori 1846-1868; text of the `Taupo martyrs'; and an account of the Forest Rangers. Language - Letters in Maori, 1846-1868 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (photocopies)