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Date: 1864-1900

By: Rye, Peter Hugh Jekyll Lewes, active 1860-1911

Reference: MS-Papers-2177

Description: Central fragment of letter, describing arrival in Auckland on the Blue Jacket, Maori-pakeha relations, and his service during New Zealand Wars in Waikato Campaign and the siege of Orakau Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (and photocopy)

Date: 1837-1850, 1896, 1933

By: Thompson, Thomas John, 1814-1900

Reference: qMS-2016

Description: Biographical notes on Thompson compiled by L H Sheat, 1933 (5 pages); typescript notes on John Wallis Barnicoat and Frank Ward (with ms annotations); letter to Thompson from J W Barnicoat on occasion of Thompson's Golden Wedding, 6 Jul 1896; Thompson's British Museum reader's ticket; letter to Thompson from C S Dubourg, Jul 1844; his surveyor's certificate, Dec 1879. Diary 1837 (written during a tour from London to Switzerland and back via France); diary, 1840-1841 before embarkation; letter-diary dated 26 Jan 1841, and diary re his voyage to New Zealand on the Lord Auckland, 22 Sep 1841-5 Feb 1842; diary, 1848-1850 (Richmond, Nelson); Mrs L H Sheat's transcript of 1840-1841 diary (all diaries and transcript are in back pocket) Thompson was surveyor for the Waimea Road Board and subsequently MPC Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; blue boards)

Date: 1834-1988

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2856

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1841-1949

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2847

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1850-1909

By: Baines family

Reference: MS-Papers-1125

Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1921, [1930-1950]

From: North, Esther Mary, 1892-1968 : Papers

Reference: MSX-6015-6016

Description: Address book kept by North. Also diary for 1921 kept by her while teaching at Pahiatua District High School and in London and Kentish Town at the beginning of her grant of one of the University Passages to Europe. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (two pieces in case folder).

Date: 1960, 1993-1998

By: Lash, Max D, active 1940-1997

Reference: MS-Group-0875

Description: Papers relating to Edwin and Ann White who settled in Waimea South, Nelson Also comprises corrected account of E Ireland's family history (qMS-1040), and Palmer family history, `The Palmer family of Milton Malzar' by Lash, in which he describes the history of the family before emigration, their voyage to New Zealand on the `Olympus' and their arrival in Nelson in 1842 and subsequent settling in Waimea East. Also copy of an article in an English newspaper written by Edwin White describing his experiences as an immigrant to New Zealand. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Another copy of E Ireland's `Family history' at qMS-1040 Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies)

Date: [1914?]

By: Giles, Edmund Douglas, 1853?-

Reference: MS-0832

Description: Reminiscence of his early years in Somersetshire including details of the Giles forbears back to 1772; description of the voyage to Nelson on the `John Bunyan' in 1868; time spent in Westport where his uncle Dr Giles was the Resident Magistrate; gold mining on the West Coast; travel to Queensland via Sydney (includes descriptions of Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton); working as a bullock driver and later a ration carrier and drover, etc in Queensland; describes station life and his other outback experiences; Kanaka labourers in Queensland; Tasmania; return to Barcoo, Queensland; aborigines in Queensland; time spent on New Hebrides, Fiji and other islands in the Pacific; return to New Zealand; family and travel in the early 1900s. Edmund Giles immigrated to New Zealand with his brother Edgar on the `John Bunyan' in 1868. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (231 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)

Date: [ca 1920-1921]

From: Holroyd, Reuben, 1883-1958 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0403-18

Description: Describes voyage to NZ on the RMS Ruahine, setting up house in Petone, and factory work Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1915-1936

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2972

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1873-1928

By: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-0167

Description: Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters. Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1903-1951]

From: Crabb, Pearl Unice Elizabeth, b 1903 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6158-1

Description: Scrapbook mostly comprising matters of personal interest including invitations, clippings on health, decorating, knitting and tennis, but also including itineraries of official visits, an obituary for Maui Pomare and similar items. Includes copy of Crabb's birth certificate and summary of her working career (at W), and `When I am dead' by H E Holland. Arrangement: Loose pages in MS-Papers-6158-2 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1920]

By: Taine, James John, 1817-1914

Reference: qMS-1974-1976

Description: The reminiscences cover the period 1839 to 1914 and most are based on Taine's own experience although they contain also an outline of the early history of the colony from other sources. He came to New Zealand aged 22 on the `Adelaide' and lived in Wellington till 1862 when he moved to Dunedin. After 1879 Taine lived in Auckland. At the end of volume 3 there is a section on early Wellington street names. Also (volume 3 p 515) there is a note on the history of Waiwera which Taine frequently visited. Variations in title - Spine title: Reminiscences Taine married Leocadia de Oliveira, ward of Edward Gibbon Wakefield Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (33 cm; ¼ blue morocco) Includes illustrations

Date: [ca 1904-1909]

By: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917

Reference: MS-1139

Description: Material extracted by Robert McNab from New Zealand material in French archives (including the archives of the Ministere de la Marine) concerning Lavaud and his vessel l'Aube Contains significant parts of two essays written by Lavaud, commandant of L'Aube. These essays describe the attempts of colonisation of the South Island of New Zealand by the French, principally in Akaroa. Some passages try to rehabilitate Baron de Thierry. Contains various letters, most of them to Lavaud, among are which letters from Bishop Pompallier about Wallis and Futuna, letters from William Hobson and letters from C B Robinson (postmaster at Akaroa). Although most of the volume is in French, some letters are in English. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (pp 248-385). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue buckram) Provenance: Collected by Robert McNab, probably during 1904-1909 when he was doing archival research into early New Zealand history. The handwriting is not by McNab, which suggests the document was compiled for him in France. Processing information: Previously catalogued under Lavaud, Charles Francois

Date: [1963-1965]

By: Mortimer-Jones, Clive, 1880-1965

Reference: MS-Papers-6011

Description: The reminiscences comprise four items relating to Mortimer-Jones's time in Northland, `Some New Zealand coastal steamers and my 1910 visit to Kaitaia; the little coastal steamers of NZ', `The old mission house at Waimate North', `Christ Church, Russell' and `Churches in the north'. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-5871, letters written by Mortimer while a home missionary Accompanying material - Letter from John Mortimer details re the Mortimer-Jones name and obituaries for Clive Mortimer-Jones Mortimer-Jones was a clergyman who came to New Zealand in 1909. For 3 and a half years after his arrival he was Superintendent of Home Mission Clergy looking after the pastoral needs of pakeha in the Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with corrections

Date: 1872-1909

By: Locke, Frederick James, 1839-1915

Reference: MS-Papers-4877

Description: Diary written by Locke on board the `Charlotte Gladstone'. Covering the period 29 Oct 1872-16 Feb 1873, the diary gives a day to day account of the voyage from Gravesend to Port Chalmers including mention of a party of Brogden's workers on board and the high number of deaths due to typhoid. Diary entries for 1891 to 1896 describe Locke's life in the Riverton area, and 1899 entries describe a voyage made to Jersey and Guernsey Islands, London and Paris. The final entries cover the period 1901 to 1909 when Locke lived in Riverton and Invercargill. Also included is a typescript of the part of the diary describing the voyage on the `Charlotte Gladstone', biographical information about Locke and his family and `Otago Daily Times' entries about the voyage of the `Charlotte Gladstone'. Source of title - supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1923-1949

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1956

Description: Reports and correspondence of the Manager and Secretary of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1855-1900

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2910

Description: Selected papers from the records of James Baine and Co, the James Ireland letters (these include a letter written by George & Susan Patterson giving details of their voyage to Auckland on the `Rock City' 1855), and the William Midgley and Captain Henry Hatchwell papers, as well as journals of J T Deighton, F G Pearson and Sarah Stephens and one anonymous writer Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1864-1911

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2051

Description: Comprise selected papers of the Fortescue, Seymour, Lillicrap, Gidley, Kilner, Kitson, Luxton and Tanner families Other Titles - Colonial Floras Other Titles - A history of the British Army Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1863, 1868, 1940

By: Cooper, Thornhill, 1840-1940

Reference: MS-Papers-0279

Description: Concern his varied life, including a trip to gold diggings at West Taieri (Otago) and a voyage to and from New Zealand (1863 and 1868) Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-7106 T Cooper had a much-travelled life in and outside of New Zealand which he recorded in illustrated diaries and sketchbooks Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopies of negative prints and typed transcripts