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Date: 1836-1904, 1920

By: Selwyn family

Reference: MS-Group-1897

Description: Comprises the personal papers of John Richardson Selwyn, formerly Bishop of Melanesia and Warden of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and those of his parents, George Augustus and Sarah Harriet Selwyn. They include correspondence, diaries, reminiscences and other paper. As well there are some official Church records. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: A numbering system of the letters and documents, divided into rough series and using a reference SEL010/[series number]/[number of item] was used prior to the purchase of the papers. We have added these references to the titles where appropriate. However large numbers of the papers were never listed under this system. The papers have been placed into three series, according to their origin with George Augustus, Sarah Harriet and John Richardson Selwyn. Many of the folders have been described to piece-level Quantity: 46 folder(s). 3 volume(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter Provenance: The papers, held by the descendants of John Richardson Selwyn, were sold to the Library in 2010 Transfers: Collection taken into the Manuscripts Section as a whole, transfers made from there. Paintings made by G A Selwyn and others held at Drawings and Prints collection as C-162-003 and A-439-006/008. Photographs transferred to Photographic Section and held at PA-Coll-9823 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - - To Photographic Archive - (PA-Group-00665). Processing information: Letters described to piece level

Date: 1841-1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: qMS-1774

Description: Mainly copies of letters written by Bishop Selwyn to his family in England, including one to the Rev E S Coleridge. Describes his voyage to New Zealand on the Tomatin, and his ecclesiastical visitations throughout New Zealand, including commentary on landscape and native habitat, with emphasis on preaching and teaching carried out among the natives, the establishing of mission stations, especially the Waimate, and on the attack made on Heke's pa and the sacking of Kororareka. Includes letters from the Archbishop of Canterbury, short extracts from the letters of H & W Williams and copies of newspaper reports on Bishop Selwyn's activities in Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (26 cm; red buckram hinged lid box) Illustrations possibly by Caroline Abraham

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/2-029830-F

Description: Shows Bishop Selwyn's House, Waimate North with a man sitting outside. Photograph taken ca 1912 by Northwood Brothers. Bishop Selwyn's house was erected in 1831. It was used by Bishop Selwyn as the first St. John's College in 1843. The roofline was changed to a gabled roof with large central dormer ca 1870s, and the shingled roof was replaced with iron ca 1912. This photograph was probably taken shortly after the iron was replaced. Sources of information: The Waimate mission station / by M.W. Standish; letter from Stuart Park, 30 April 2003. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1852-1857

From: Selwyn family : Papers

Reference: MSX-8691

Description: Comprises copies of 8 letters from G A Selwyn to his father, to Edward Coleridge, Captain Collinson, the Australian Mission Board, his son, John and his sister. SEL010/4.00/1 To his father, writing from Taurarua, 19 Jun 1852. About to sail on 5th voyage to Islands. To bring back 14 students. illness; death of Toi, baptised as George Nelson Hector. SEL010/4.00/2 To Coleridge 28 Oct 1852, writing from schooner Border Maid in Coromandel Harbour. Gold discoveries; 22 students from Melanesia; ordinations SEL010/4.00/3 To Coleridge 3 Dec 1852, writing from schooner Border Maid, firewooding at Waiheke Island. Colonial Bishoprics Fund. Not neglecting NZ for Pacific Islands SEL010/4.00/4 to Captain Collinson ca 1847 or 1848, writing from St John's College. The murders at Wanganui SEL010/4.00/5 to Rev W B Clarke, Australian Mission Board, Sydney, n d [ca 1853] Reports on 1853 voyage to Islands; French and French missionaries in New Caledonia. Norfolk Island; settlement by Pitcairn Islanders; recommends establishment of Melanesian college there SEL010/4.00/6 To John Selwyn 16 Sep 1856 Describes visit to Norfolk Island and his pastorate of Pitcairn Islanders there.Spiritual guidance SEL010/4.00/7 To his sister, Fanny {Frances?], Landwell Hall, Birmingham UK 24 Aug 1852 Writing from Kawau Island where is repairing Southern Cross. Lists clergymen and laity at College and other mission stations SEL010/4.00/8 To John Selwyn 27 Feb 1857 Decribes his travels in NZ Jul 1855-1857. Lists numbers of confirmations, also in Sydney and Melanesia Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-007

Description: Shows a view of the group of wooden buildings making up the first Auckland buildings of St John's College. Shows a two-storeyed building in the right foreground, with several figures sitting and standing in front of it, a row of four houses nearby and further houses at the far left, with fences linking the buildings over the cleared land. At the river is a stream, probably Purewa Creek and to the west, hilltops including Mt Wellington and a higher flat plateau in the distance (possibly Mount Hobson). See also a sketch of the same subject, from the same vantage point, by Thomas Biddulph Hutton, at Auckland Art Gallery, accession number 1939/17/1. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 148 x 222 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: MacDiarmid, C L, (Mrs) :Photographs of Bishop Selwyn

Reference: PA2-2773

Description: A group portrait with 5 Bishops. Back standing, Bishops Selwyn, Harper, Abraham and front: - (sitting) Bishop Williams and Bishop Patteson standing. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1860]

From: Urquhart album

By: Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PA1-q-250-17

Description: Beach front scene at Kohimarama, Auckland, circa 1860, with Bishop Selwyn's Melanesian Mission station. Two waka, and a group of whare, are visible in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Nicol Crombie. Image, and information regarding it, in "Auckland through a Victorian Lens" by William Main, 1977, page 27. Inscriptions: Album page - Kohimarama near Auckland NZ Arrangement: In folder stored with album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16.5 x 21.3 cm, mounted on card Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1843-1867, 1940-1945, 1988

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Auckland

Reference: MS-Papers-10456

Description: Comprises Auckland Anglican confirmations register (1940-1945) and transcripts of Selwyn's baptism, confirmation, marriage and burial records, with an accompanying index (1843-1867), transcribed by members of the Auckland Group, New Zealand Society of Genealogists, 1988. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies)

Date: 1843-1847, 1855, 1864, 1959

By: St. Mary's Church (New Plymouth, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-5809

Description: Letters from Bishop Selwyn to Rev William Bolland, 1843-1847; memorandum by Bolland, 8 Feb 1844, describing his call to the ministry; letter to David Wright (brother-in-law) from Bolland?, 23 Mar 1845; memorandum on Endowment Funds at New Plymouth, 1855; list of confirmations at New Plymouth, 18 Dec 1864; letters from H E Carey to A P Bolland, 1959 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pieces). Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 1829-1879

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-0033

Description: Mainly correspondence with Bishop Selwyn and other missionaries; some family letters Quantity: 15 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss and typed transcripts Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1840-1850

By: Williams, William, 1800-1878

Reference: qMS-2252

Description: Williams describes the progress of his mission work on the East Coast, Hawkes Bay and Poverty Bay. He also refers to proposals for a station at Whakatane Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue pam case) Provenance: Formerly in the possession of Bishop Selwyn's grandson

Date: 23 Dec 1841-30 Jun 1846

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-0129-0132

Description: The diaries give detailed descriptions of life in the mission settlements, frequent references to Selwyn's work, and numerous drawings of New Zealand scenes Relationship complexity - Volume 5 (1846-1848) is shelved at qMS-0122 William Bambridge sailed from England with Bishop Selwyn in the Tomatin, 23 Dec 1841. He was appointed writing master at St John's College till 1848 when he returned to England Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Various sizes and bindings, in ¼ red morocco red buckram slip cases) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander H Turnbull, 1914. Numerous illustrations

Date: 1841-1847

By: Cotton family

Reference: Micro-MS-0858

Description: Letters are to family members, in particular Sarah and Phoebe; describe voyage to New Zealand on the `Tomatin', discuss family affairs and describe Cotton's activities with comments on the Church's mission to the Maori and Selwyn's pastoral work Source of title - Supplied W C Cotton sailed from England in Dec 1841 with Bishop Selwyn and was chaplain to him at Waimate North and St John's College, Auckland Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Positive microfilm) Finding Aids: Two page index at front of reel.

Date: Jul 1830-Dec 1847 (1946-1948)

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: qMS-2236-2238

Description: Letters to and from Williams, the CMS, Colonial Secretary's Office, Selwyn, Fitzroy, and others; papers relative to the missionaries' land claims; letters to newspapers, reports of war at Bay of Islands Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (34 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown linen)

Date: 1860 - 1876

From: Harper, Laura Helen Bruce, 1888-1970: Photographs

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA2-2122

Description: Baptised by Selwyn 1843 and took the name Tamihana (Thomson). Became the 1st native apostle to the South Island Inscriptions: Verso - Tamihana Te Rauparaha Otaki 23 September .... Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 6 Nov 1842-21 Jul 1843

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879

Reference: MS-Group-1956

Description: Account of his life at Waimate North as writing master at St John's College; frequent mention of Bishop Selwyn, other missionaries and other northern mission settlements Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1850-1855

By: Greenwood, John, 1832-1909

Reference: qMS-0884

Description: Contains schoolboy notes on historical personages but mostly Greenwood recorded day-to-day accounts of his life while a student at St John's College, Tamaki, Auckland. During this period he twice accompanied Bp Selwyn in the `Undine' when he visited various settlements in NZ, in the South Island, visiting Port Nicholson and Canterbury and as far south as Stewart Island, Bluff and Ruapuke. He writes of Selwyn a lot. Some illustrations of these places are included. Pieces of music, `Lightly tread' and `Under the stone' are at the beginning of the volume. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - MS-Copy-Micro-0194 available Quantity: 1 volume(s) (112 pages). Physical Description: (28 cm, ½ brown morocco binding case, brown boards) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dorothy Oliver, 1949

Date: 1853-1861, 1881

By: Parish of Christ Church (Whanganui, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Papers-1782

Description: Letters from Bishop Selwyn to O Hadfield, Colonel McCleverty, R Taylor, C H S Nicholls and others on Church of England affairs in Wanganui; unauthorised employment by Reverend Nicholls of soldiers clearing land at Industrial School; signatories to principles of Constitution for Church in New Zealand, 1853; letter from B W Mountford on cost of font for Christchurch Cathedral. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1861-1887

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2121

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1850-1855

By: Greenwood, John, 1832-1909

Reference: MS-0879

Description: Diary kept by Greenwood while he was a student at St John's College, Tamaki, Auckland. During this period he twice accompanied Bishop Selwyn in the `Undine' when he visited various settlements in New Zealand. Relationship complexity - Typed transcript of qMS-0884 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (162 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (27 cm; red linen)