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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon and Godley, John Robert : Letters to J E FitzGerald
Date: 1849-1861 (1940)
By: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862
Reference: MS-2205
Description: Letters mainly concern the foundation and settlement of Canterbury Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (1, 180, xvii pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ dark green morocco) Finding Aids: Indexed.
Caygill, James, fl 1864 : Voyage to New Zealand / transcribed by Marsha Donaldson
Date: 4 Apr-8 Jul 1864, 2001
From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection
By: Caygill, James, active 1864
Reference: MS-Papers-7211
Description: Diary attributed to James Caygill from Yorkshire, a married steerage passenger aboard the `Amoor' during a voyage from England to Lyttelton. He describes the ship's progress, weather, shipboard life (interspersed with lines of verse), and his first impressions of Christchurch. Also a poem written by `Speightspeare' (Caygill?) in which he expresses his reason for immigrating Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson of Upper Hutt, 2001
Howitt, Herbert Charlton, 1838-1863 : Journal
Date: 1 Jan-20 Jun 1863 (1956)
By: Howitt, Herbert Charlton, 1838-1863
Reference: MS-1038
Description: Journal records his work cutting and forming tracks between Canterbury and the West Coast; meeting with groups of Maori and prospectors; a visit to John Henry Whitcombe's grave at the Taramakau River (he had been drowned on a similar expedition in May 1863) and the wet weather. There is mention of a Maori guide, Jack Tainui, re-burying Whitcombe and marking the grave with two paddles (page 28). Farmer and gold prospector who arrived from Australia to farm in 1860. Leader of a working party contracted by the Canterbury Provincial Government to cut a track to the West Coast, via the Hurunui Plains, Harper Pass and Lake Brunner to the Grey River mouth. Howitt, together with two other members of his party, Robert Little and Henry Miller, disappeared on Lake Brunner on 27 Jun 1863 (the journal ends 20 Jun). The surviving member of the expedition was James Belgrave Hammett. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (28 pages). Physical Description: Typed transcript (27 cm; red linen)
Selfe, Henry Selfe, 1810-1870 : Correspondence
Date: 1853-1857
By: Selfe, Henry Selfe, 1810-1870
Reference: MSX-8815
Description: Correspondence mainly concerns the Canterbury Association and the settlement of Canterbury Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (27 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, blue pamphlet case)
Hammett, James Belgrave, fl 1863 : Loss of the Canterbury road party in Lake Brunner
Date: 1863
By: Hammett, James Belgrave, active 1863
Reference: qMS-0910
Description: From the "Nelson Examiner", 1 Sep 1863 - Journal of Hammett Hammett was the only survivor of Howitt's party despatched by the Canterbury Provincial Government to cut a track by way of Lake Brunner to the West Coast. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (17 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; brown buckram)
Brooks, William, fl 1879-1880 : Diary of William Brooks
Date: 1879-1880
By: Brooks, William, active 1879-1880
Reference: MS-0316
Description: A daily account of the voyage from England to New Zealand on the `Waitara', Sep-Dec 1879, and when employed as Inspector for the Christchurch District Drainage Board Quantity: 1 volume(s) (75 pages). Physical Description: Typed transcript (27 cm; green linen)
Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1929-1906 : Diary extracts
Date: Dec 1866-Aug 1872
By: Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906
Reference: MS-1933
Description: Brief daily entries concerned with surveying in Timaru, including acreage and owners of land surveyed, and social and domestic duties including gardening, maintenance of his house, purchases and the health of wife and children. Annotated and edited by Mr J B Hamilton for the South Canterbury Historical Society. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (110 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with mss annotations (Photocopy, 27 cm, red buckram)
Stephens, Sarah Elizabeth, 1851-1920 : Diary
Date: 26 Sep 1876-23 Jan 1877
By: Stephens, Sarah Elizabeth, 1851-1920
Reference: MS-Papers-10633
Description: Written in the form of a letter to relatives at home, the diary gives details of shipboard life including the dislike of the matron assigned to the single women, cooking difficulties, storms, deaths, Christmas drunkenness and mutiny. Sarah Stephens travelled with her family on the Cardigan Castle from Gravesend, London to Lyttelton. The ship was effected by fever and quarantined for nearly 3 weeks on arrival in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Mersyside Maritme Museum, Liverpool, England
Strange, Frederick, d 1854 : Narrative of a trip sixty four miles to the West of Port C...
Date: 4-10 Mar 1849
By: Strange, Frederick, 1826-1854
Reference: MS-Papers-0976
Description: A naturalist's observations of a trip across the Canterbury Plains. Extract from supplement of `Sydney Morning Herald', 26 Jan 1850. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
St Leonard's Station : Journal kept on St Leonard's station, the property of George Duppa
Date: 1855-1861 (1940)
Reference: qMS-1739
Description: Diary describes life on the station, farming, duties, prices etc Quantity: 1 volume(s) (3, 142, 15 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey clothh)
Bowen, Georgiana Elizabeth, 1810-1902: Letters written to her sisters in Ireland
Date: 1851
By: Bowen, Georgiana Elizabeth, 1810-1902
Reference: qMS-0264
Description: In these two letters Mrs Bowen describes her family's arrival at Lyttelton on the `Charlotte Jane' on 16 Dec 1850, and the early attempts of the settlers to make homes in Canterbury. She discusses the cost of living and the roughness of accommodation in considerable detail. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (34 cm, grey pam case)
Cox, Sarah Shephard, 1840-1938 : Recollections
Date: 1926-1927
By: Cox, Sarah Shephard, 1840-1938
Reference: MS-0620
Description: Author's typescript which includes her annotations to photographs appearing parallel to the text. First leaf bears the annotation: `Helen Barbara Stewart from Sarah S Cox June 7th 1935' Describes her early years in England before the Harper family immigrated to Canterbury on the Egmont in 1856; her marriage to Charles Cox and their home at Mt Somers Station, their children and life on the Station up until 1877 when they moved to Christchurch. Mentions Bishop Selwyn and Samuel Butler. Includes a description of the voyage to New Zealand with reference to fellow passengers Sarah Cox was the daughter of Rev Henry John Chitty Harper and became the wife of Charles Percy Cox Quantity: 1 volume(s) (14 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photoprint) (21 cm; grey linen)
Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906 : Diaries
Date: 1887, 1891-1893, 1904-1905
By: Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906
Reference: MS-1928-1932
Description: Full entries for 1891-1892 covering farming activities, primarily cropping. Interests include service on school committees and Levels Road Board. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (26cm, various bindings) Provenance: The journals passed into the hands of Charles Shaw's second daughter, Bertha Shaw, and were placed in the Turrnbull Library by her son, Mr K J Ray, at her request.
Holmes, William Howard 1825-1885 :Lyttelton and Port Victoria / Henry Adlard sc. - Lond...
Date: 1852 - 1853
By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885; Adlard, Henry, active 1822-1853; Rowe, Shirley Precey, 1911-1992
Reference: A-259-019
Description: View of Lyttelton from above looking out to the harbour, with Quail Island on the right, Diamond Harbour and Mount Herbert straight ahead. Sumner Road is indicated on the left and the immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house and the Esplanade are marked with numbers. Extended Title - From: Adams, C Warren. A spring in the Canterbury settlement. (London, 1853) Plate 3 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving black & white 202 x 248 mm
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862 : Letters to Lord Lyttelton together with a few oth...
Date: 1850-1854 (1945)
By: Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 1796-1862
Reference: MS-2206
Description: Mainly concerned with the Canterbury Association and the settlement Variations in title - Spine title: Letters to Lord Lyttelton, 1850-1853 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (92 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, maroon linen)
Richmond, James Crowe 1822-1898 : Journal of a journey from Nelson to Hanmer
Date: Jan-Feb 1863
By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898
Reference: qMS-1702
Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; blue pamphlet case)
Caygill, James, fl 1864 : Voyage to New Zealand / transcribed by Marsha Donaldson (elec...
Date: 4 Apr-8 Jul 1864, 2001
From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection
By: Caygill, James, active 1864
Reference: MSDL-1279
Description: Diary attributed to James Caygill from Yorkshire, a married steerage passenger aboard the `Amoor' during a voyage from England to Lyttelton. He describes the ship's progress, weather, shipboard life (interspersed with lines of verse), and his first impressions of Christchurch. Also a poem written by `Speightspeare' (Caygill?) in which he expresses his reason for immigrating Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project
Moore, Walter Montagu, 1851-1929 : Journal / transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldso...
Date: 31 Oct 1873-8 Feb 1876 (transcribed 2007)
From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection
By: Moore, Walter Montagu, 1851-1929
Reference: MSDL-1260
Description: Account of voyage to Canterbury on Crusader with his brothers Francis and Henry, 1873-1874, and return voyage to England a year later on the Merope. Describes his stay in Christchurch, trips to Governor's Bay and Akaroa, to Hokitika via Arthur's Pass, trip to visit numerous sheep stations in South Canterbury, social events, cricket matches, balls, Professor Bickerton's lectures, Transit of Venus Expedition (lead by Major Palmer, R.E., chief astronomer), Canterbury runholders and settlers including Lysaght family, Thomas Potts (Ohinetahi), etc. Trip to North Island via Wellington, thermal region, Tauranga, Auckland, and return to Christchurch before leaving for England on the Merope in Jan 1875. Includes brief account of Walter's return voyage to New Zealand, Oct 1875-8 Feb 1876 on the Crusader. Includes index of people, sheep stations and ships mentioned Accompanying material - Newspaper report of 1873-1874 voyage of Crusader, & 1874 voyage of the Merope (Transit of Venus expedition on board) (from Lyttelton Times); biographical notes & 1861 census for Moore family; biographical entry for Thomas Potts (NZ dictionary of biography / Scholefield) Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)
Walker, John George, 1841-1925 : Journal of a voyage to New Zealand
Date: 1862-1863
By: Walker, John George, 1841-1925
Reference: qMS-2107
Description: Describes voyage to Lyttelton on board the `Queen of the Mersey' as a saloon passenger, life on a Canterbury sheep station and gold prospecting in Dunstan Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0366 for letters written by J G Walker Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue cloth)
Parr, James, fl 1857-1868 : Journal of James Parr and letters of Mary, James and Will Parr
Date: 1857-1868
By: Parr, James, active 1857-1868
Reference: qMS-1628
Description: James' shipboard journal contains very brief entries written every few days, mainly giving the ship's position and weather encountered. Includes one letter from Mary in Christchurch circa 1859 to her sister Lizzie in Liverpool in which she comments on local fashions and social activities Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (191 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (22 cm; red linen)