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Date: [1877-1917], nd

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-120

Description: Includes letter from Rev F W Martin re prayer and Hawke's Bay matters and from Major Gerald B Carter with MEF writing from the Dardanelles; and letters from Jessie; WBP of London; part of letter written from `Thorthowald', Napier; and part of one from South Makaretu re fires causing major problems for bush settlers. An undated letter written from Crail has attached a dance programme card for Meta Johnston, Okawa (6 Oct 1905). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1859-1861 (1939)

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: MS-1717

Description: She describes the voyage out on the Eclipse, 1858-1859, and her first impressions of New Plymouth and its inhabitants. Her comments on colonial society are detailed and perceptive Maria came to New Zealand in 1859 on the Eclipse as governess to the family of the Rev H H Brown, a clergyman at Omata, New Plymouth. In 1860 she was evacuated to nelson, and shortly afterwards dismissed from the Brown's service. Unable to pay her fare back to England, she reluctantly worked as governess to Lulu Eyes, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the province. Maria stayed with the Eyes family at Wairau for one year, She returned to England, having decided that the shortage of artistic talent together with the burden of domestic work was not to her liking Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue cloth)

Date: 1852-1855

By: Rose, Louisa George, 1820-

Reference: MS-Papers-2314

Description: In these four letters to her sister, Constance Smith, Louisa described her new home, the shortage of servants, the prospects for bringing up and educating children successfully in the colony, and social life in Christchurch. Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - "Poaching song", "Traits of French character" (a poem), and brief notes on dates of birth of members of the Rose family (none apparently written by Louisa Rose) Louisa George Rose and her husband, Conway Lucas Rose, arrived in Canterbury on the "Midlothian" on 8 Oct 1851. They came to the colony with the intention of staying ten years but left after only three years. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 letters, 31 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1892

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-5-023

Description: At the top, two separate pencil drawings. On the left, a short stout woman holding a broom, possibly the Hodgkins' family servant 'Phemie' (Euphemia). On the right, a stout casually dressed working man. Below, in ink, a bowling match with a man cheering as a bowl runs down the green, another man in a top hat seated on the side, watching the game. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil or ink on laid paper glued into sketchbook, page size 244 x 123 mm.

Date: Apr 1867

By: Hunter, Mary Ann, active 1867

Reference: MS-Papers-1279

Description: Letter from Mary Hunter to Mr Johnson, Henshaw, Yorkshire, from Remuera describing life in Auckland, conditions and pay as servant; and Maori dress and way of life; Volkner murder Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss (some photocopies)

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] F. Hodgkins. 1890

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-425-q-007

Description: The Hodgkins' maid Phemie, washing clothes in a large tub Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 176 x 114 mm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] F. Hodgkins. 1890

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-425-q-006

Description: The Hodgkins' maid Phemie, pegging out clothes Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - "Phemie" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 176 x 114 mm

Date: 1890

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] F. Hodgkins. 1890

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-425-q-011

Description: A short woman hanging laundry on a clothes line. She wears a hat and has an apron on her front The subject was the Hodgkins family's servant around 1890 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 176 x 114 mm

Date: 1890

By: Leggatt, T T, active 1890; Grivaz, Eugene, 1852-1915

Reference: A-036-017

Description: The flax mill, Lower Parihaka Road, run by James, and later by George, Rutherford, father and brother of Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson). Shows workmen at a swamp's edge in front of the mill buildings, to the right, with a steamer at sea behind. The soaking ponds and mills are surrounded by flax, and two poles with processed flax are in the water. The mill comprises two low wooden buildings with a separate tank in front, in which a man is standing, possibly pounding flax in water. Another man stands by a tall structure in front of the left-hand building. On the verso is a chromolithograph signed E. Grivaz, titled 'Dont' touch', showing a servant girl in a kitchen, shaking her finger at a cat on a chair. Beyond the cat is a table with milk and cake or cheese. Eugene Grivaz (1852-1915) was a French genre painter, active from the 1880s. The young woman's clothing suggests a late nineteenth century scene. Ernest Rutherford, in his school holidays, helped to lay out the levels for the ponds, which were used for soaking flax. They stored water from the creek, which came in from the right of the drawing. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour ; image 224 x 317 mm on sheet 270 x 370 mm

Date: Oct 1889-May 1890

By: Lighting, R, active 1889

Reference: MSX-2894

Description: Travel journal by Lighting who was the valet to the Hon Algernon Egerton. Diary begins on 31st October 1889. The first part of the journal describes the voyage via Cape Town and Hobart to Wellington on the SS Arawa, then onto Auckland on SS Patricia via Picton, Wellington, Napier and Gisborne. After a stay in New Zealand the party continues to Sydney then onto France aboard the steamer `Yarra'. Returns to London on the 7th May 1890 after a journey of seven and a half months. Inside cover includes two stamps "Remember Edith Cavell" (1915) and "Remember Lusitania" (1915). Rare account of a travel journey by a 19th Century servant, valet R Lighting. Also in the travelling party were Hon Egerton, his wife and her maid, 18 year old Marquess of Downshire and his valet, Jack Cackswell, and Dr Kingsley. Accompanying material - Notes from bookseller. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (100 pages). Physical Description: Holograph; brown box Provenance: End page contains a provenance note relating to the diary recorded by one of Lighting's children.