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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.
Green, George 1810-1872 : Correspondence and petition
Date: 1868-1869
By: Green, George, active 1860
Reference: qMS-0881
Description: Annotated copy of petition to Legislative Council covering land on Stewart Island that the South Island claimed to have been purchased between 1830 and 1840. Letters from Green to W B D Mantell and Andrew Buchanan; copies of letters to Green from Alfred Domett and Land Claims Commission. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (31 cm, ¼ red morocco, pink boards) Transfers: Transferred from qPAM, 22 April 1976.
Schaffter, Albert fl 1853 : Letter from Frederick Thompson
Date: 30 Nov 1853
By: Schaffter, Albert, active 1853
Reference: MS-Papers-4214
Description: Letter was written nine months after Thompson's arrival on the `Minerva' and describes the topography, settlements and people of Canterbury with comment on local issues and conditions together with advice on emigration Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - Typed transcript, biographical information on Schaffter and letter, 25 Jan 1988 from donor; also biographical information on Thompson from Canterbury Museum, Christchurch Thompson was a teacher, businessman and Canterbury Provincial Councillor, 1861-1862. He met Rev Schaffter while Vice-Consul in Leghorn (Livorno), Italy and Schaffter requested information about Canterbury from him. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - R D Simonds Jr, New York, 1988
Bruce, Alfred Selwyn, 1866-1936 : The Early days of Canterbury
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)
Middleton, Thomas, d 1900 : Correspondence from Benmore Station
Date: 1873-1874
By: Middleton, Thomas, -1900
Reference: MS-1637
Description: Signature incorrectly transcribed as J Middleton Quantity: 1 volume(s) (107 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; green linen)
Rolleston family : Further papers
Date: 1868-1949
By: Rolleston family
Reference: 79-287
Description: Family and other personal correspondence. Includes some of William Rolleston, his wife Mary, but mainly their son Francis Joseph; also including other family members. There are some letters of political, social and community significance relating to the careers of William Rolleston, and his son F J Rolleston. Writers include Professor J B Condliffe, Sir Francis Bell, Sir James Parr. Added in 1980 to this accession were 11 letters 1891-1893 from J D Ormond, Harold Kemp, E J Watts etc; 15 letters of family to F Rolleston at school, 1881-1889; various records of F Rolleston's life at school; his `Parodies on Gilbert and Sullivan' etc. Later in same year further Rolleston letters, 1868-1949 were added, including letters relating to the political career of John Christopher Rolleston. Source of title - Supplied title Other - Rosamond Rolleston was the author of `William and Mary Rolleston; an informal biography' which was published in 1971 Relationship complexity - See also MS-Group-0377 (1971 accession) Arrangement: The bulk of the letters had been arranged chronologically before they were deposited. Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: When the papers were still with Rosamond Wilson, Steven Eldrid-Grigg listed those letters that seemed to him of chief interest, and this list is in a back file. These letters have been merged into the chronological sequence. Loose photographs
Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand album
Date: [ca 1873-1875]
By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926
Reference: PA1-q-330
Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.
Educational reminiscences - Surnames, L
Date: 1988-1989
From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences
Reference: 88-005-09
Description: Rita Ellen Lee's reminiscence of her teaching career in Canterbury, Southland and Otago, 1928-1958; Miss L Leonard's reminiscence of Marlborough School, 1905-1907; R Hazel Lill's reminiscence of Willowby School, 1911-1917; Mrs Laura Law (nee Mawhinney), Eweburn School; W E Langford's brief history of Hastings Central School, 1875-1975. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript
Moore, Thomas Richard, 1845-1957 : Reminiscences of Thomas R Moore of Waimarama
Date: 1845-[ca 1880] (1937)
By: Moore, Thomas Richard, 1845-1935
Reference: qMS-1385
Description: Includes brief account of his voyage to Lyttelton on board the Sir George Pollock with his parents, sisters and governess in 1851 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (13 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; grey pamphlet case)
Nancy McLaughlin - James Preston; a Canterbury settler
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-016
Description: An essay on the life of James Preston, son of Vicar of Warcop, Westmorland, who emigrated to Australia in 1853 and to New Zealand in 1855. He returned to England and married Anna Bradley on the Isle of Man in 1860. The couple returned to Canterbury on the `Harwood' in Sep 1860. Ordained in the Church of England in 1870 and appointed Mission Deacon of Geraldine Parochial District and later Vicar of Gerladine and Curate of Burkes Pass. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Valpy family : Papers
Date: 1849-1869, 1964
By: Valpy family
Reference: MS-Papers-1113
Description: 'In New Zealand', F H Valpy's reminiscences of employment as cadet in establishment of a Canterbury sheep run and as a gold buyer in the Tuapeka district. Photocopy of a letter from W H Valpy to G Lloyd, 11 Oct 1848, refusing support to bring a clergymen to Dunedin. Research paper on W H Valpy's life in New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, and printed matter (some photocopies)
Frances Stewart - Stephen Corlett, a Canterbury pilgrim
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-056
Description: The essay details Stephen Corlett's Manx origins, work in Cheshire, emigration to Canterbury, the voyage out in the `Sir George Seymour' in 1850, early years in Canterbury Province, land purchases, burial of Stephen and wife Jane and their reinterment. Also the lives of the first generation to settle and raise families in New Zealand; and the Corlett brothers purchase of Greta Peaks, and loss of their land. Also includes an addendum added by Frances Stewart in 2006. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photographs
Jollie, Edward, 1825-1894 : Reminiscences
Date: 1872-1873, 1878-1880
By: Jollie, Edward, 1825-1894
Reference: MS-Papers-4207
Description: Reminiscences of Jollie's early life (1841-1865) commencing with his voyage to Wellington on the `Brougham' (1841-1842). A New Zealand Company survey cadet, he assisted with surveys of Wellington (1842-1845), Otago (1846-1847) and Nelson; also worked on Canterbury Association surveys (1849-1851) with Captain Joseph Thomas. He later practised as a surveyor in Canterbury and was active in provincial and national politics. Source of title - Supplied Variations in title - Two titles given: Diary and Our Great-Grandpa's Diary Retyped in 1971 from an earlier transcription Relationship complexity - Holograph reminiscences with some textual variations at qMS-1071 Jollie was a New Zealand Company and Canterbury Association surveyor, and a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council and the House of Representatives Quantity: 1 folder(s) (44 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) with holograph annotations
Photographs including a number relating to the Banks family and "Wildwood", Christchurch
Date: 1885 - 1910
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
Reference: PAColl-0713
Description: Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s) in two envelopes. Physical Description: consisting of 10 photos mounted on card; 9 cabinet cards; 6 unmounted prints; and 4 loose album pages
Bowring, Walter Armiger 1874-1931 :The Hon. Wm Rolleston - Christchurch ; J R Brunt for...
Date: 1899
By: Bowring, Walter Armiger, 1874-1931; Christchurch Press Company Ltd
Reference: B-094-013
Description: Caricature and full-length portrait of William Rolleston, Superintendant of Canterbury, with a farmer and a sheep tucked under one arm and the Cheviot Railway in the background Published as: supplement to the Weekly Press, May 31 1899 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 452 x 288 mm
Irene Lister - The three Ridley sisters
Date: 1990
From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4280-044
Description: The story of the writers great-great-grandmother, Sarah Ann Brunning senior, a widow who arrived in New Zealand in 1855 with her 22 year old daughter, and her two sisters Lucy and Mary Ridley. Includes family trees Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.
Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883 : Papers relating to the Kaiapoi and Akaroa...
Date: 1856-1857
By: Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883
Reference: fMS-Papers-5184
Description: Copies of letters, accounts of W J W Hamilton to Donald McLean and others re the Kaiapoi and Akaroa purchases (1856-1857) Quantity: 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)
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)
Pope, A F 1840-1921 : Diary
Date: 15 Feb-24 Apr 1868
By: Pope, A F, 1840-1921
Reference: Micro-MS-0346
Description: Pope covered most of New Zealand in a brief visit, Feb-Mar 1868. He called at Nelson, Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Lyttelton, Dunedin. From Dunedin he travelled overland to Christchurch, and also visited the West Coast where he stayed with (then) Archdeacon Harper. He travelled through the Waikato in March Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative (36 frames). Physical Description: Holograph (ca 70 pages)
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)