Places

Date: 1857-1858, [ca 1828-1990]

By: Saxton family

Reference: MS-Papers-5443

Description: The collection comprises part of a journal in which George Saxton recorded the daily movements on the Saxton family property at Stoke, Nelson, (10 Aug 1857 to 23 Jan 1858) and a project on family history compiled by Jillian Saxton which includes photographs and brief family details, a letter re John Waring Saxton's death in 1865, Priscilla Crumpton's passport (1828) and a photograph of her in 1830, extracts from published works about the Saxton family, and other papers Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - The Library also holds J W Saxton's Journal (qMS-1758-1762), his fragments of a diary on the `Clifford' (1841-1842) at MS-Papers-0107-1, a workbook and diary fragment for 1844 at MS-Papers-0107-2 and a typescript of MS-Papers-0107-1 at MS-Papers-4417 The diary is one kept by George Saxton in an exercise book formerly used by Caroline Saxton (John Waring Saxton's sister) in 1834; the Saxton family history was compiled by Jillian Saxton for a school project. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Photographs of Saxton family members, a copy of the alleged Saxton crest, photographs of Saxton family homes and sketches by John Waring Saxton, have been reproduced

Date: [ca 1842-1846]

By: Pratt, Sarah, 1828-

Reference: MSX-3895-3896

Description: Journals describe Sarah Pratt's (Fowler) life in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, her trip to Nelson on board the `Indus', 1842-1843 and first few years in Riwaka and Nelson, [ca 1843-1846]. Journals have in depth description of childhood in Ramsbury, the voyage to Nelson, setting up a farm in Riwaka and life in Nelson helping her brother run a coastal trading business with comments on the Wairau Affray, meetings and trading with local Maori, accidents, crops, fellow white settlers, the New Zealand Company and the developing communities in Riwaka and Nelson. Some of the entries are written as if the events described had happened very recently but the donor thought that the journals had actually been written some years after the period covered. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs of Sarah Pratt and several postcards of Ramsbury, England.

Date: 1827 - 1833

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Adam, Jean Victor, 1801-1867; Milbert, Jacques Gerard, 1766-1840

Reference: B-052-003

Description: French sailors from Dumont d'Urville's ship the Astrolabe washing their clothes and relaxing by a stream flowing out into Astrolabe Roadstead, Tasman Bay (now Watering Bay, part of the Abel Tasman track). Trees growing from rocks to the left and right of the sailors and a large rock formation with trees at the water's edge in the middle ground. From an original watercolour in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Other Titles - Watering-place in Astrolabe Bay, New Zealand (translation) Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, 1826-1827-1828-1829. Paris, 1833. Atlas, Plate 39. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 232 x 327 mm

Date: 1827 - 1833

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Atlas historique. Paris, Tastu, 1833.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Langlume, active 1820s-1830s

Reference: PUBL-0038-1-18r

Description: The right half of a lithographic plate showing a low thatched hut with a half-barrel roof in a bush clearing. A food platform can be seen on the left. Torrent Bay is in the Tasman Region. (The left side shows an Australian Aboriginal Hut) Other Titles - New Zealand. Cabins of Torrent Bay, 4 feet high [translation] Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Paris, Tastu, 1833. Atlas historique. Vol 1. Plate 18, right-hand side detail. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 140 x 170 mm

Date: 1839 - 1827

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-347

Description: Looking along the beach with several low thatched huts and a canoe pulled up on the beach, bush on the hills behind. Two Maori men are seated in the foreground, and other men and women are also present. A toetoe is in flower to the right of the nearest dwelling Similar to, but reversed from Sainson's lithograph 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe'. Possibly based on a drawing looking in the opposite direction Other Titles - Houses of Astrolabe Bay [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 94 x 115 mm

Date: 1826 - 1836 - 1829

From: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :[Twelve engravings from Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde" (Paris, 1836)]

Reference: A-433-022

Description: Top image shows a settlement of Maori huts in a small bay. Several Maori figures are seated a standing. The lower image shows a ravine in the centre of lush vegetation. A European man and a Maori man are negotiating the crossing of the ravine by means of a fallen tree trunk. Other Titles - Houses in Astrolabe Bay; Ravine in New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 275 x 183 mm.

Date: 1827 - 1836

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Werner, Jacques Christophe, 1798-1856; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862

Reference: A-191-024

Description: Shows a scene at Astrolabe Roadstead, a beach with a Maori kainga at the right. A war canoe is being pulled into the water in the centre foreground, and another canoe is in the water at the far left. Other Titles - Village at Astrolabe Roadstead, Bay Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842. Entdeckungs-Reise der franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe ... aus dem Franzosischen mit einem lithographirten Atlas. Schaffhausen [Switzerland], in J. Brodtmann's lithograpischen Anstalt, [1836? Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, image 160 x 260 mm, on sheet 252 x 340 mm. Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 2008.

Date: 1827-1863

By: Wilson family

Reference: MS-Papers-1404

Description: Letters from Joseph Foord Wilson to members of his family before and after emigration to Nelson, where he became Acting Colonial Surgeon: family, financial and business matters, criticisms of government and NZ Company, Maori unrest. Letters from his family on family matters, social events in Nelson and the Wairau affray. Also list of birth dates of Wilson's children. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Processing information: One letter previously Misc MS 1184 (Acc 76-032)