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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.

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)