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Date: 1836-1904, 1920

By: Selwyn family

Reference: MS-Group-1897

Description: Comprises the personal papers of John Richardson Selwyn, formerly Bishop of Melanesia and Warden of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and those of his parents, George Augustus and Sarah Harriet Selwyn. They include correspondence, diaries, reminiscences and other paper. As well there are some official Church records. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: A numbering system of the letters and documents, divided into rough series and using a reference SEL010/[series number]/[number of item] was used prior to the purchase of the papers. We have added these references to the titles where appropriate. However large numbers of the papers were never listed under this system. The papers have been placed into three series, according to their origin with George Augustus, Sarah Harriet and John Richardson Selwyn. Many of the folders have been described to piece-level Quantity: 46 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter Provenance: The papers, held by the descendants of John Richardson Selwyn, were sold to the Library in 2010 Transfers: Collection taken into the Manuscripts Section as a whole, transfers made from there. Paintings made by G A Selwyn and others held at Drawings and Prints collection as C-162-003 and A-439-006/008. Photographs transferred to Photographic Section and held at PA-Coll-9823 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - - To Photographic Archive - (PA-Group-00665). Processing information: Letters described to piece level

Date: 1841-1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: qMS-1774

Description: Mainly copies of letters written by Bishop Selwyn to his family in England, including one to the Rev E S Coleridge. Describes his voyage to New Zealand on the Tomatin, and his ecclesiastical visitations throughout New Zealand, including commentary on landscape and native habitat, with emphasis on preaching and teaching carried out among the natives, the establishing of mission stations, especially the Waimate, and on the attack made on Heke's pa and the sacking of Kororareka. Includes letters from the Archbishop of Canterbury, short extracts from the letters of H & W Williams and copies of newspaper reports on Bishop Selwyn's activities in Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (26 cm; red buckram hinged lid box) Illustrations possibly by Caroline Abraham

Date: 1845-1847

By: Schirmeister, Carl Friedrich Alexander Franz, 1814-1887

Reference: qMS-1764

Description: Letters from Schirmeister and Baucke describing the progress of the mission, outlining its difficulties, and asking for Selwyn's protection Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (9 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue pamphlet case) Provenance: Formerly in the possession of Bishop Selwyn's grandson

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-084

Description: Shows glaciers and mountains in a double page spread. Other Titles - Neumann Range Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 390 mm.

Date: 28 Mar 1846

From: Selwyn family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10105-15-07

Description: Letter to William Selwyn, written on HM Brig Victoria, off Cloudy Bay, Cooks Strait. Sailing for Waikanae Mission Station. Hadfield ill. Anxiety over effect on Maori of news of the fighting at Kororareka. War in the North Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-139

Description: Cross sectional/panoramic view of the land formations between Coleridge Pass Hill (on the left) to River Selwyn (on the far left). Named features: Coleridge Pass Hill, Lake Lyndon, Big Ben Basin, sources of western Ko... branch, Big Ben, sources of River Selwyn. Includes compass bearings and text below the drawing. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink, 105 x 260 mm

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-007

Description: Shows a view of the group of wooden buildings making up the first Auckland buildings of St John's College. Shows a two-storeyed building in the right foreground, with several figures sitting and standing in front of it, a row of four houses nearby and further houses at the far left, with fences linking the buildings over the cleared land. At the river is a stream, probably Purewa Creek and to the west, hilltops including Mt Wellington and a higher flat plateau in the distance (possibly Mount Hobson). See also a sketch of the same subject, from the same vantage point, by Thomas Biddulph Hutton, at Auckland Art Gallery, accession number 1939/17/1. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 148 x 222 mm.

Date: [ca 1860]

From: Urquhart album

By: Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PA1-q-250-17

Description: Beach front scene at Kohimarama, Auckland, circa 1860, with Bishop Selwyn's Melanesian Mission station. Two waka, and a group of whare, are visible in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Nicol Crombie. Image, and information regarding it, in "Auckland through a Victorian Lens" by William Main, 1977, page 27. Inscriptions: Album page - Kohimarama near Auckland NZ Arrangement: In folder stored with album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16.5 x 21.3 cm, mounted on card Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1843-1847, 1855, 1864, 1959

By: St. Mary's Church (New Plymouth, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-5809

Description: Letters from Bishop Selwyn to Rev William Bolland, 1843-1847; memorandum by Bolland, 8 Feb 1844, describing his call to the ministry; letter to David Wright (brother-in-law) from Bolland?, 23 Mar 1845; memorandum on Endowment Funds at New Plymouth, 1855; list of confirmations at New Plymouth, 18 Dec 1864; letters from H E Carey to A P Bolland, 1959 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pieces). Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-006

Description: Shows a view from inside a fence with a cart or plough on the near side of it, looking west northwest from the position of the Purewa Cemetery towards the Orakei Peninsula, the Orakei Basin and in the distance the hill of Parnell with a church (St Pauls' with the spire completed) on top of it. There are two small sailing ships (Selwyn's 'Flying Fish' and 'Marian' and a yacht off the Orakei point, and a group of huts ("Okahu N. Village") at the far right above the stream that flows into the Basin. St Paul's Church was built in 1843 but did not acquire the spire seen in this picture until a year or two later. Selwyn arrived in Auckland in 1843. Other Titles - Church; North Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 146 x 214 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-008

Description: Shows a view from the water of a small stretch of beach on which three canoes are drawn up. A group of Maori inhabitants stand on the shore, and further inland is a group of houses and a higher building which may be a storehouse, with a separate house surrounded by a verandah on a slight rise at the far left. On the shore in the far right foreground is a tree with red blossoms, possibly a pohutukawa. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 147 x 213 mm.

Date: 1829-1879

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0033

Description: Mainly correspondence with Bishop Selwyn and other missionaries; some family letters Quantity: 15 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss and typed transcripts Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Jessett, George F, active 1900s?

Reference: A-247-039

Description: A narrow wooden bridge on tall piles over a swift braided river, probably near Bealey. A house is visible beneath trees on the opposite bank Supplied title Originally mounted on sheet with A-247-039/40-48 Inscriptions: Mount verso - Descriptive notes, signed: Geo. F Jessett Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 80 x 150 mm

Date: 1932

By: Bruce, Alfred Selwyn, 1866-1936

Reference: qMS-0287

Description: Original manuscript for work published in 1936, with same title. Concerns Christchurch, Sumner and Lyttelton, and covers early history, city geography, old identities, pioneer women, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Publication - The Early days of Canterbury; a miscellaneous collection of interesting facts dealing with the settlement's first thirty years of colonisation Canterbury historian Quantity: 1 volume(s) (201 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; maroon roan)

Date: 1841-1847

By: Cotton family

Reference: Micro-MS-0858

Description: Letters are to family members, in particular Sarah and Phoebe; describe voyage to New Zealand on the `Tomatin', discuss family affairs and describe Cotton's activities with comments on the Church's mission to the Maori and Selwyn's pastoral work Source of title - Supplied W C Cotton sailed from England in Dec 1841 with Bishop Selwyn and was chaplain to him at Waimate North and St John's College, Auckland Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Positive microfilm) Finding Aids: Two page index at front of reel.

Date: 1854-1860

By: Hall, John (Hon Sir), 1824-1907

Reference: MS-Papers-2940

Description: Letters from Hall to Vidler, Oct 1849, Jan 1854 and Jun 1855; Typescript copy of the farewell speech to Mr Hall, R.M. from the chiefs of Canterbury, 1860; NZ Gazette, 14 Dec 1854, Vol 1, No XXVI Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 letters). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs with typed transcripts; printed matter

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-072

Description: An account of John Chambers, his wife Ellen and their children who left Ireland as assisted emigrants in 1874 and settled in the Ellesmere District, Canterbury. The story covers three generations of the Chambers family and describes farming life and the rural community Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes photographs

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PAColl-8216

Description: Photograph of the homestead at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed in 1868 (14th of June or August) by Daniel Louis Mundy. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - [barely visible] Mundy NZ No 27 14/[6 or 8 ?]/68; bottom left - Sheep station Canterbury 158 Relationship complexity - Another print of this image is in the Mundy II album PA1-f-040, page 45 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.9 x 21.5 cm

Date: Sep 1872

From: Barker, Alfred Charles :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-032235-G

Description: Grassmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed by Alfred Charles Barker in September 1872. Looks over rocks, and paddocks of tussock grass, towards a group of buildings including the homestead. Snow covered mountains are behind. An unidentified man sits on a rock on the left. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - Grasmere Station Canty NZ Sept [22?] 72 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negative

Date: 1887

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-075

Description: View of the Waimakariri River and the West Coast road, west Canterbury Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 161 x 249 mm