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Date: 25 Jul 1822

By: Lawry, Walter (Rev), 1793-1859

Reference: qMS-1143

Description: Letter written a fortnight after the writer's arrival in New Zealand; contains a short account of the conditions then existing in New Zealand Source of title - supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (36 cm; dark green cloth)

Date: [ca 1840]

By: Pickering, Charles, 1805-1878

Reference: fMS-Papers-3856

Description: Contains diary of a visit to the Bay of Islands Feb-Apr 1840 which included two trips inland; also detailed description of the natural environment under various headings, `Climate', `Vegetation', etc Source of title - Supplied Member of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (82 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 31 Jan 1840, 11 Feb-30 Nov 1841

By: Colenso, William, 1811-1899; Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978

Reference: MS-Papers-4622

Description: Contains five letters addressed to William Colenso in Paihia. Comprises letters from James Busby, 31 Jan 1840, re printing and distributing of circulars; J Stuart Freeman, dated 30 Nov; Edward Godfrey, dated 27 May 1841, from Auckland, about printing work for the Land Commission; R Davis, dated 11 Feb 1841, from Waimate re printing of notices relating to land claims; Felton Mathew, undated, about firewood and requesting use of canoe. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Formerly part of the Colenso papers owned by George Conrad Petersen, who had acquired the papers from the Simcox family, and split it up for sale.

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: 1829-1845

By: Hamilton, Douglas, active 1986

Reference: MS-Papers-11000

Description: Letters from a number of prominent early settlers and missionaries, with envelope Letters appear to have been collected for their postmarks. On each letter there is a note re the handstamp Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 19 Jan 1844-8 Apr 1846

From: Marist Fathers. Archives : Papers relating to the Catholic Mission in New Zealand

Reference: Micro-MS-0669-01

Description: This reel contains the journals when he was stationed at Mangakahia on the Northern Wairoa. The entries are continuous throughout the period, apart for a few missing pages. The journals are written in a series of books. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Index to Volume 1 in inventory. See inventory for a summary of the contents (pp 12-17).

Date: 1871-1880

By: Macfarlane, James, 1847-1899

Reference: Micro-MS-0483

Description: Record book kept by MacFarlane as United States Consul at the Bay of Islands, listing in particular the arrivals and departures of ships and their cargoes Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 160 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1827

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: Micro-Art-023

Description: Shows coastal profiles, view of missionary settlement, Paihia; pa of Kahuwera and other Bay of Islands scenes Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) Microfilm reel (26 fr.) ; positive and negative.

Date: 1833 - 1840

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Laderer, active 1830s

Reference: A-327-003

Description: Shows head and shoulders portraits of two women, one man and an infant. These are selected from Plate 70 in Dumont DUrville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe ... (Paris, 1833), portraits 3,5 and 6, and therefore show Ekara, young girl of the Bay of Islands, and Tawiti and his wife. Tawiti's wife holds a baby wrapped in her cloak by her shoulder. Plate 176 from an unknown publication in German or Dutch, derived at least partly from Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe". Other Titles - New Zealand. Portraits of inhabitants Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 100 x 154 mm.

Date: 1823-1949

By: Kaikohe Parochial District

Reference: Micro-MS-0882

Description: Marriages, Paihia and Kororareka, 1830-1841; marriages, Bay of Islands and Pararaka, 1857-1866; baptisms, 1823-1840 & burials, 1830-1842, Paihia and Kororareka; burials, 1872-1912, Pararaka; burials, 1843-1949, Russell; marriages, 1858-1881, Paihia; marriages, 1852-1871, ?; baptisms, 1855-1949, burials, 1852-1885, Paihia; baptisms, 1840-1844, marriages, 1840-1877, burials, 1841-1879, Paihia Relationship complexity - Other registers at Micro-MS-0263 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive.

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: 1845-1848

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-005

Description: Considerable detail of activities in Australia and New Zealand including account of disturbances in Bay of Islands and Wellington, troop movements, capture of Te Rauparaha, etc. Comment on settlers and settlement, social events, and scandal in the colony as well as Maori way of life. Possibly rewritten from earlier diaries. Ends with biographical notes by C J Crawford Quantity: 1 volume(s).

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: 2-10 Aug 1823 (1965)

By: Williams, Marianne, 1793-1879

Reference: qMS-2244

Description: Describes the arrival of Rev Henry and Marianne Williams, accompanied by Rev Samuel Marsden, in New Zealand and their journey to Kidee Kidee Relationship complexity - See also other typescripts of the letters of Henry and Marianne Williams Quantity: 1 volume(s) (6 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (33 cm; blue pam case)

Date: 1842-1844

By: Williams, John Brown, 1810-1860

Reference: Micro-MS-0186

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (Positive, ca 153 pages).

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: 1793-1895

From: Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) : Records

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-10-28

Description: Further Antarctic papers re the expedition under Ross, notebooks on the flora of Bay of Islands, 1841; proposed expedition to the Antarctic 1887-1901; Transit of Venus expedition, 1874; lecture notes. Also selected letters from the inwards letterbooks, including indexes, 1793-1895. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: See inventory for fuller description of the contents of this reel.

Date: May 1832

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838

Reference: A-274-011

Description: A carved pataka supported by two poles, one with a carved figure at its base. A Maori man with a weapon is standing nearby and a curved bay with hills, probably the Bay of Islands, can be seen in the background Page removed from Narrative of a nine months residence in New Zealand by Augustus Earle (London, Longman, 1832). Opposite page 20 Sepia aquatint Ellis number 243 Other Titles - Tabued, tapued Earle was in New Zealand for six months, 1827-1828, mostly in the Bay of Islands Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, on sheet 219 x 139 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.