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Date: 1820-1906

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-28

Description: Contains copies of letters from various Maori and missionaries from all over the North Island with holographic notes appended in the hand writing of Piripi Walker of Ngati Raukawa, some with translations. Includes photocopies and commentary on the 1855 Northland document "Kote pukapuka ote Tarakona". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies with mss annotations

Date: 1918-1949

From: Grace, John Te Herekiekie (Sir), 1905-1985 : Grace family papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4760-8

Description: Assorted material in many different hands. Includes proverbs; chants; notes on Maori lore; notes from an inhabitant of Taupo; notes re the old missionaries, views of marriages between Maori and Pakeha; names of planets, stars etc. Extracts from writings of Reverend Richard Taylor and Kerry Nicholls. Obituary of Mrs Celia Kinder and a booklet from King Koroki and his people to the Prime Minister entitled `A statement relating to the King Country pact'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1854-1901

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-3762

Description: The collection consists of two diaries kept by Mary during 1854 and 1858-1859, and letters addressed to her. The largest proportion are written by her future husband, Spenser Mansel Medley and record in detail the progress of their courtship. Other letters were written by Richard Taylor, Mary Caroline Taylor, Elizabeth Marriott and Sarah Selwyn. In addition there are some naval certificates of Spencer Medley. Source of title - Supplied title Mary Catherine Medley was the daughter of Richard Taylor and Mary Caroline Taylor. In 1863 she married Spencer Mansel Medley, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy who later became secretary to Sir George Grey. Quantity: 17 folder(s). 0.17 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Three sketchbooks transferred to Drawings and Prints (E346a-c). Contains sketches Processing information: The collection has been described to series and item level

Date: [ca 1962-1966]

By: Auckland Public Library

Reference: qMS-0094

Description: Lists reports, letters, memoirs, lectures, ms volumes etc Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (Photocopy, 35cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: [ca 1885-1910]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-302

Description: Comprises `History and traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast, North Island of New Zealand'; preface entitled `Memoirs of the Polynesian Society' (1910); presidential address to the Auckland Institute, read by S P Smith (4 Jun 1888); `The Lore of the whare-wananga', introduction (5 pages); `An Account of some of the hekes or migrations of the Taranaki and other tribes from the north to Cooks Strait', told by Rangipito of Onaero Taranaki to A Shand and S P Smith (Apr 1897) (25 leaves); `Expansion of England' by Professor Seeley. papers read by Smith before St Mary's Mutual Improvement Society (13 Aug 1885);`A Sketch of the history of the Taranaki and West Coast tribes of Maori...', collected and supplied from original sources by members of the Polynesian Society (27 leaves); page with note by Smith, of printed extracts from the manuscripts of the Rev R Taylor, no II, `Snowed up at Taupo' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1900, 1901, 1908

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-346-3

Description: Views of Mount Peel, Orari, Ruapehu, Tongariro and Mount Taranaki, Plimmerton, Westoe, Wanganui River, gardens and bush. Attributed when first catalogued to Laura Harper, the donor's grandmother, then to M. G. C. Lysaght on the basis of style and contents. However the handwriting, subject-matter and style match those of work in other sketchbooks by Mary Medley, who was the donor, Cranleigh Barton's, great-aunt. The Library has been given other Mary Medley sketchbooks by Cranleigh Barton. There was no known reason why Cranleigh Barton might possess a sketchbook by Mary Lysaght, other than a possibility that Mary Lysaght was a friend of Cranleigh Barton's mother. (A niece of Mary Lysaght's, Mrs Mary Watt, can recall a Mrs Barton, who was a friend of "Aunt Mary's") Other Titles - Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline. Harper, Laura. [Former attributions] Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 17 drawing(s) pencil. 17 watercolour(s) some spread over 2 pages. Physical Description: Pencil & pencil & watercolour on 55 pages 163 x 228 mm

Date: ca1938-ca1943

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-06

Description: A saw mill in operation; dredge gold mining on the West Coast; nurses and clients of a Plunket service in Christchurch in 1943; a toll bridge and the Wellington/Porirua motorway at the Tawa junction. There are also photographs relating to the Rev Taylor and Waimate North, and a portrait of Guide Rangi. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1839-1898, 1999

By: Taylor, Richard Basil, 1920-2000

Reference: MS-Group-0906

Description: Includes childhood letters written by Basil Kirke Taylor and his wife Edith, 1839-1848; typeset letter from Richard Taylor to his daughter Laura, 1847; letters from Basil Kirke Taylor to his wife, 1874-1876; various other Basil Kirke Taylor correspondence, 1859-1876; genealogical material re Taylor and Fox families; and other miscellaneous items Diaries and notebooks of Basil Kirke Taylor (including diary fragments), 1847-1876; notebook of Edith Palmer Taylor, 1864-1870; notebook inscribed in the front `Caroline Taylor' which has been used to record recipes, copies of letters (some from Richard Taylor), etc, 1844-1873; notebook used to record the Wanganui Mission accounts, 1854-1872. Some of notebooks and diaries contain a record of Wanganui Mission baptisms, marriages, burials, and those receiving communion, and many include drawings `Family recollections' by Richard Basil Taylor being the story of his life including a section on his antecedents. Privately printed, 1999 Language - Some entries in diaries and notebooks are in Maori Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 14 folder(s). 15 volume(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photographs Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Commonplace book and loose sketches - To Photographic Archive - 7 photographs (including Putiki Maori Choir, Jan 1896). Some of the diaries and notebooks contain drawings

Date: [1985-1992]

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006 : Research papers

Reference: 2003-228-18

Description: Inward and outward correspondence with Jim Traue on a special women's studies issue of the `Turnbull Library record' to which Starke contributed an essay on Sarah Selwyn; draft of article; and summary of Rev Richard Taylor's work in the Wanganui by J Ross Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1840-1930]

Reference: 73-149

Description: Contains mortgages, deeds, crown grants and conveyances probably mostly for the Auckland area. Some crown grants and conveyances for the Wellington, Wanganui and Wairarapa districts in boxes 1 and 7. Grantees and contractors include Richard Taylor and F D Bell and many people prominent in these areas. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also NZ. Department of Justice. Lands and Deeds Registry (Auckland) (99-234) which is very likely part of this collection Quantity: 7 box(es) Phase boxes. 2.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss