Places

Date: 1841

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: C-029-005

Description: A panoramic view of New Plymouth viewed from the sea, with Gannet and Albatross Islands on the right, the Wai Tera (Waitara) 'originally fixed on for the New Plymouth Settlement", the 'present site of New Plymouth' (before any houses were built) - all on the left side of the panorama. On the right are Mount Egmont, 'Barrett's [Accommodation] Houses and Hotel', 'Native Pah' and the Sugar Loaf Islands 'The islands on which Barrett defeated 5000 natives' In 'Information relating to New Plymouth (London, Smith Elder, 1841). p. 9-10, under 'Climate and soil' 'Mr G. Duppa states:- 'Amongst other sketches, I have sent you a panoramic view of the Sugar Loaves, Mount Egmont, and the Taranaki district generally, which I made when I went down there in the Brougham, with the Plymouth Company's surveyors. It will give you a better idea of the country than any verbal description I could give, beyond a few observations. The land for about three miles inland is slightly undulating, but not so steep but that a plough would go over the whole of it ... It is for the most part covered with fern and brushwood (which fire levels with the ground) for several miles inland, when you first meet with groves of timber, present a most park-like aspect ...' Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, hand-coloured, 190 x 1450 mm (total length of full panorama)

Date: 1846-1853

By: Hodgson family

Reference: MS-Papers-1063

Description: Letters of William Hodgson and family to J F Lee, owner of Hyde Ironworks, Kinver, England. Describes voyage to Nelson on 'Himalaya', 1843-1844; state of Nelson settlement; land problems and difficulties of establishing a farm there. Includes photocopied letters of Rev John Hobbs; ms account of excursion to Mount Arthur tableland; extract from journal of J W Barnicoat Quantity: 2 folder(s) (18 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1848 - 1850

By: Great Britain. Admiralty; Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883

Reference: MapColl-834atc/[1849-50]/Acc.1379

Description: Map of South Island, south of Kaikoura and including Stewart Island, and not drawn to scale. Shows harbours, rivers, lakes, Maori tracks, boundaries of the New Zealand Company's land purchase of the Canterbury Region; includes descriptive notes on areas of land such as 'very extensive grass plains'. Note on map before copying: 'Kaiapoi is the southern boundary of the Nelson Block'. Includes many Maori placenames. Written below map: Copy of charts in custody of Admiralty, 1- Canterbury-Otago explorations (1848), 2- Nelson explorations (1846) Title from catalogue card Written on catalogue card: Shows New Zealand Company's purchase of land. See also annotated copy, redrawn by Department of Survey and Land Information, 1989, entitled Map of part of the Middle Island by Charles H Kettle, ca. 1848, shelved at MapColl-834atu/[1849-50]1989/Acc.21689 Inscriptions: top left - Stamped New Zealand Company, 31 Oct 1848 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, glued to paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 53.4 x 31.5 cm Provenance: Photocopy from chart held in custody of the Admiralty

Date: 1841-1854, 1935-1936 - [1Ca 1950s]

By: Webb, George Hannam, 1929-2007

Reference: MS-Group-1490

Description: Papers relating to Samuel Stephens, a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. Includes journals and diaries kept by him, letters to his family back in England which describe his life in New Zealand, research material collected about Stephens' life including copies of his death notice, survey maps and pages from the `Nelson Examiner', transcripts of diaries and journals, and photographs of his grave. The journals have details of his voyage to New Zealand from England on the `Whitby' in 1841, of his daily life as a settler in Nelson, on the weather, agriculture and horticulture. He includes sketches of plants and listings of the plants and weather conditions. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives March 2006; material transferred to the Published Collection, Ephemera Collection and the Cartographic Collection..

Date: 1841-1844, 1844-1852, 1852-1854, 1935-1936

By: Stephens, Samuel, 1803-1855

Reference: MS-2053-2055

Description: Journals kept by Stephens which include a biographical sketch by his nephew, J Edmund Clark (ppi-ii of v1, 1935), a note to an extract of 1842 (v3, 1936), and a letter to him from Robert Pattie (1935) re the excerpts (pp846-850, v3), letters from Stephens and Sarah Stephens to his mother and sisters, Anne and Ellen and extracts from his journals. Stephens describes his daily life as a surveyor and settler, events in New Zealand, people he met and other aspects of his working and private life. Each volume has a list of contents and v3 has an index. The pages are numbered chronologically through the three volumes. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (850 leaves, 35 leaves)

Date: 1809 - 1842

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain); Stewart, William, active 1806-1809; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: MapColl-835aj/[1809?]/Acc.46972

Description: Hydrographic chart of Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, showing depth soundings and some place names around harbour. Dated from a New Zealand Company stamp on the map and with Charles Heaphys signature in bottom right hand corner this is possibly a copy by Heaphy of a survey by William Smith in 1809. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca.1:190 080], 33 x 24 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1848

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: New Zealand Company; National Archives (Great Britain); Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: MapColl-834.52gbbd/1848/Acc.46989

Description: Shows Purakanui Bay and inlet and the boundaries of the Maori reserve adjoining these. Gives topographic details such as 'fine beach', 'sandy flat', 'wooded land'. Several areas are marked as 'native gardens' and a pa site and burial grounds are shown. Some Maori placenames are noted. The estimated acreage of the reserve is given. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - New Zealand Company Jan .. 7..50 [stamp] Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca.1:7 920], 52 x 40.5 cm. Provenance: Original stamped 'New Zealand Company'. Handed over to the Colonial Office upon the surrendering of the Company's charter in 1850. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 6 Nov 1841

By: Barrett, Richard, 1807-1847

Reference: MS-Papers-1183

Description: Written from Port Nicholson, Barrett describes his family and life while living at Mt Egmont, Taranaki and whaling in Queen Charlotte Sound; also mentions arrival of the `Tory', his hotel and whaling in New Plymouth Richard Barrett was early Wellington publican Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages on 1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Contemporary copy of letter, possibly by brother (noted as received 31 Mar 1842)

Date: 1844-1846 (1952)

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: MS-0160

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ii, 27 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; red linen case)

Date: 1841-1959

By: Heine family

Reference: Micro-MS-0260

Description: The collection divided into four series (a) Mission period and missionaries (b) Lutheran Churches in Nelson (c) Heine family (d) and German families Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Typescript of Anna Dierks (nee Heine) diary held at MS-Papers-2326 The Heines came to New Zealand as the first Lutheran missionaries to New Zealand in 1843 on the St Pauli Quantity: 6 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (microfilm) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1842 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s

Reference: A-109-045-a

Description: Shows aerial view of Wellington Harbour, Hutt Valley and beyond, from a point south of Wellington Heads. Based on Heaphy's "Birdseye view of Port Nicholson..." (1840). Other Titles - Birdseye view of Port Nicholson Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles Franklin. "New Zealand, or Zelandia..." London, Edward Stanford,...1857. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 155 mm.

Date: 16 Dec 1841-9 Jun 1851

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: qMS-1758-1762

Description: Saxton recorded both the minutiae of his daily life, such as food, crops he was growing, as well as observations on local politics, New Zealand Company affairs, negotiations between the Company, government officials and settlers and especially describes the discomforts and lowered expectations of being an immigrant. Not all persons mentioned frequently have been entered (see index for full list). Relationship complexity - Some original fragments at MS-Papers-0107 and typescript of fragments at MS-Papers-4417 Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript with annotations by transcriber (36 cm; green linen) Finding Aids: Index is part of collection (qMS-1762). Provenance: The diaries were intended to be destroyed at the death of the diarist. However, they survived and Dr F A Bett, whose collection is now in the Nelson Provincial Museum, transcribed the extant diaries. There are two sets, one in the Bett Collection in Nelson, the other in the Turnbull Library. The Turnbull copy has many annotations by Dr Bett, generally with additions to the text. It is understood that parts of the diaries were in Greek and Hebrew but it is not known how much Dr Bett translated or how much of the diaries he retained.

Date: 1843

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: B-051-004

Description: Shows and names Taupo Bay (i.e. Plimmerton) and the entrance from the sea. Thom's whaling station in the background, Maori pa at Plimmerton, man on horse and Maori burial ground, in foreground Detached from: Wakefield, E J ; Illustration to Adventure in N Z , 1845. Plate XII Other Titles - Paremata Extended Title - From: Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand" by Edward Jerningham Wakefield. (London, 1845). Plate 12. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 237 x 370 mm

Date: 1840-1842 (1939)

By: Weekes, Henry, 1804?-1894

Reference: MS-2362

Description: Journal describes the voyage to New Zealand in the William Bryan and the settlement of New Plymouth Source of title - Supplied Weekes first arrived in New Zealand in 1841, as surgeon to the New Zealand Company, on the ship 'William Bryan'. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27cm, various paginations, ¼ dark green morocco, green boards)

Date: 6 Nov 1841 (transcribed 2006)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Barrett, Richard, 1807-1847

Reference: MS-Papers-8681

Description: Letter to his brother, written from Port Nicholson, 6 Nov 1841, giving details of his life since he arrived in New Zealand, ca 1830. Transcribed by Marsha Donaldson, with footnotes relating to Richard Barrett's three daughters Accompanying material - Photocopy of original letter (MS-Papers-1183) and pages from DNZB Vol 1 (Richard Barrett) Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript, mss, printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

Date: [1982]

From: Dakin, James Campbell, 1908-2005 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2294

Description: Two versions of an unpublished article covering New Zealand Company's policy and selection, recruitment of working-class emigrants, and the origin and characteristics of those emigrants who arrived at Wellington, Nelson and New Plymouth settlements between 1839-1843. Second version, which is very similar to the first, is entitled 'The Background of the working-class pioneers; an exploration of the social and educational background of the earliest emigrants... ' Both versions include references, notes and tables Source of title - Transcribed from items Other - See MS-Papers-8222 for reference index cards used by Dakin for the articles Other Titles - The Background of the working-class pioneers Quantity: 1 folder(s) (63 leaves). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1840-1845

By: Carrington, Frederic Alonzo, 1808?-1901

Reference: MS-0471-0473

Description: The papers deal with the surveying of New Plymouth and surrounding blocks Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ dark green morocco & pale blue pamphlet) Finding Aids: Vol 3 is the index.

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: MapColl-834.48gbbh/1848/Acc.6041

Description: Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale 1:316 800, 27 x 38 cm.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Great Britain. Admiralty; Brown, (Mr), active 1841

Reference: MapColl-834.1atc/1841/Acc.1373

Description: Topographic map of Motueka River, from its mouth at Tasman Bay, and showing the intended site of Nelson, inland from Kaiteriteri Harbour, as explored by Brown and Heaphy for the New Zealand Company. Shows area explored by Mr F G Moore, valley of the Rewai-eka, topographical features with comments, areas of timber and fern, and pa sites near the mouth of the Motueka River. Text on map is very hard to decipher. The number 2 is written on the map. Other Titles - Plan of the course of an expedition up the valley of the Motueka River, Tasman's Gulf. Written on map: Portfolio D, New Zealand, 15. Signed by Charles Heaphy Stamped New Zealand Company, Mar 29, 1842 Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed by Charles Heaphy; top left - Stamped New Zealand Company, Mar 29, 1842 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 38.6 x 28.2 cm