Places

Date: 11 Nov 1830-16 Aug 1832, 1949

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867; Rogers, Lawrence Moter (Rev), 1898-1984

Reference: MS-2411

Description: Spelling of names has been kept as in the original Quantity: 1 volume(s) (137 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, blue 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: 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: 1851-1858 (1910)

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-1638-1642

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly in the Mataura Valley, Southland, on Glenham Station. Includes 2 pages of photocopies of sketches by Mieville; and a Mieville and a Richardson family tree Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to New Zealand on the Dominion, and a voyage home to England via Melbourne, on `Thomas and Henry' and `Royal Charter' in 1857, and return voyage in July 1858 on the `Agra'. Includes diary entries written by his wife, 1854 Publication - Extensive extracts used by Herries Beattie in his histories of Southland Mieville and his future wife Fanny Richardson both immigrated to Lyttelton in 1851 on board the `Dominion' Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (in red buckram hinged-lid box) Sketches by Mieville

Date: [1901?]

By: Bevan, Thomas, 1836-1913

Reference: qMS-0221

Description: Bevan describes incidents in his life in the Otaki and Manawatu districts from 1840 to the 1860s. He was the son of a rope maker and followed his father's trade and farmed. He refers in particular to relationships between Maori and settlers and includes descriptions of Maori pa, legends, customs and the scenery, and a walk he made as a child in 1845 from Wellington to Waikawa, Otaki. Mss written in the hands of Bevan's daughters to whom dictated it, and signed by him Quantity: 1 folder(s) (71 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (33 cm, green tie case)

Date: 1869

By: Bowen, George Ferguson (Sir), 1821-1899

Reference: MS-Papers-0674

Description: Comprises three letters from Bowen to William Monsell, Under Secretary for Colonies, commenting on policies of colonial and British governments toward conduct of NZ War; descriptions of Major Kemp and Hone Pihama. Includes comments on the Maori race and Maori-Pakeha relations. Also clippings of editorial proposing emigration scheme, and Bowen's comments on it (NZ herald, 23 Dec 1869). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (23 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1822-1825

By: Shepherd, James, 1796-1882

Reference: qMS-1798

Description: Entries made 3-4 times per week in periods 24 Nov 1822 - 2 Sep 1823, 5 Mar 1824 - 2 Jan 1825. Includes description of journey made to Whangarei, then to Whangaroa, to choose the site of the Wesleyan mission. Refers to mission and farming activities, relationships between members of the Kerikeri mission and Maori, and intertribal wars. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (78 leaves). Physical Description: Ms (photocopies) (38 cm; brown buckram)

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-6938

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (106, 7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt (Nov 2000)

Date: 1800-1943

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1657

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 10 Feb 1868-25 Aug 1907

By: Turner, Henry James, 1849-1914

Reference: MS-Papers-0949

Description: Twenty letters to his family written from Cambridge, Palmerston North, Wanganui, and some from Dalethorpe Station, Kowai Pass, Canterbury. Details of domestic and farm life; also comments on relationships with Maori and on arrival of Te Kooti in the Waikato. Letter 18 Dec 1901 comments very unfavourably on quality of relationship between England and New Zealand. Includes letter from the `NZ Herald' (4 Aug 1871) from John Munro, Whangarei, to William Buckland, MHR on the decrepid state of NZ. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (115 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies)

Date: 1856-1860, 1944

By: Burnett, James, 1826-1872

Reference: Micro-MS-0666

Description: Describes problems of establishing a farm in the Whangarei district; cattle and pigs trespassing on property leading to the case of Burnett v. sundry natives, tried by H R Aubrey, Resident Magistrate; Burnett's appeal to General Government then Governor; removal to Nelson as Provincial Engineer, 1858. Includes letters from Mrs Burnett to her family. Correspondence between Dr Bett and Mr M Burnett, 1944 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative (ca 130 pages).

Date: 1838-1839

By: King, Philip B, active 1838-1839

Reference: Micro-MS-0458

Description: Officer on HM Pelorus, which visited New Zealand 1838-1839. Describes pa and settlements in the Bay of Islands and mission stations in the Hauraki Gulf. Records features of Maori culture and influence of European ideas. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 60 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1809-1811

By: MacArthur, John - 1764-1834

Reference: MS-Papers-0725

Description: Letter from McArthur written from Clapham to his wife, Elizabeth, and two letters from G Blaxcell of Sydney, to McArthur, concerning the `Boyd' and its loss Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (photocopies)

Date: 1843-1846, 1899

By: Allom, Albert James, 1825-1909

Reference: qMS-0060

Description: Describes the personal experiences of the author, who had settled at Tauanui Station, near Huangarua, in the Wairarapa in the early 1840s; describes other Wairarapa settlers, their pioneering way of life, and contact with the Maori (Ngati Kahungunu), particularly Ngairo Source of title - Transcribed Originally read to the New Zealand Literary and Historical Association on 14 Sep 1899 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (13 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, blue buckram boards)

Date: 1994

By: Davies, George Neville, 1921-2010

Reference: MSY-3842

Description: `Not beyond Redemption' by George Davies is a biography of Captain John Guard describing his early life in London, time in Newgate prison, work as a convict transportee, sealer, sea-captain and whaler based at Kakapo Bay in Port Underwood working between New Zealand and Sydney. John and Betty Guard and their two children were onboard the Harriet when it was wrecked off the Taranaki coast in 1834 and the biography details the subsequent experiences of the Guard family and the role the Alligator played in this incident, finishing with the subsequent farming career of John Guard at Kakapo Bay. The biography contains photographs and copies of illustrations of people and places mentioned. Source of title - title page Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (some photocopies)

Date: 1836-1845

Reference: qMS-1080

Description: Entries begin Nov 1836 on Conway in England; describes voyage to East Indies Station via South Africa, Madras, Rangoon, King Island (Bass Strait) and Port Jackson, NSW; in Sep 1837 Conway visited whaling settlements at Kapiti and Cloudy Bay, cruised via NSW, Tasmania, Tonga and Fiji to Rangoon, 1839; entries for Hyacinth voyage 1841-1842 based in Hong Kong, then entries for Acteon in 1843. Journal includes notes on social, economic and political affairs, bearings, weather and sightings on voyages made; also comments on interaction between Maori and whalers, intermarriage, European justice and barter trade Source of title - Supplied Writer unidentified. Served on HMS Conway, transferred to Hyacinth in 1841, and then to Acteon in 1843 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 120 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopy) (35 cm; blue buckram)

Date: 1836-1854

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2331

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1830-1882

By: Watkin, James (Rev), 1805-1886

Reference: fMS-254-255

Description: The journal for 1830-1839 includes Watkin's mission in Tonga and two years on the Sydney circuit of the Methodist Church. Entries 1 May 1840-24 May 1844 concern the mission at Waikouaiti, established at the behest of J Jones, difficulties of mission work compounded by the proximity of a whaling and trading settlement. Entries 28 May 1844-1 Nov 1847 cover his years in Wellington, pastoral work with Maori and Europeans. Mar 1850 concerns Watkin's work as a Methodist minister in Sydney. Entries vary from three or more per week to monthly. (No entries for period Nov 1847-Mar 1855. Quantity: 2 volume(s) (633 leaves). Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (39 cm & 43 cm; black buckram)

Date: 1847, 1849

By: Hendry, George, 1817?-1867

Reference: MS-Papers-3867

Description: The two letters to his father describe living conditions, wage rates, the attitudes of the Maoris, and the condition of Kororareka, which he visited in 1847 Hendry came to New Zealand in 1841 and moved to Auckland in 1847 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 leaves, 5 p). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies) and typed transcripts

Date: 1865-1875

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: MS-2457-2466

Description: Daily entries, mainly concerned with activities in Poverty Bay Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 10 volumes. 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (Various sizes, ¼ brown morocco, brown linen)