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Date: 1851-1852

By: Williams, William, 1800-1878

Reference: MS-2436

Description: Henry Williams' copy of William Williams' journal; includes statements before the committee of the Church Missionary Society concerning the charges of Governor Grey against the missionaries in New Zealand aand the accusations against Archdeacon Henry Williams Source of title - Transcribed Variations in title - On title page: H W's copy of William Williams' journal in London Quantity: 1 volume(s) (172 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, blue buckram)

Date: 1832-1863

By: Whiteley, John, 1806-1869

Reference: MS-2390

Description: Records Whiteley's journey to New Zealand; work as a Methodist missionary at Hokianga, Pakanae and Kawhia; quarrel with the Rev W White; attempt at mediation in an intertribal war; attitude to the Waitara question and the Taranaki war; discussions with Sir George Grey, Donald McLean and R R Parris on Maori and Pakeha relations; journal lacks entries Jul 1843-1860 Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See typed transcript available (qMS-2212 or qMS-2213) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (542 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (20cm, ½ blue calf, blue slip case)

Date: 1838-1846, 1846-1855

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2408

Description: First 5 pages, containing 1845 extracts, are missing. Deals mainly with Williams' land claim and antagonism with Governor Grey. Bound at end are 34 pages of extracts from letters to William Williams, 1838-1847, mainly describing mission work on the East Coast. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (54 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (23cm, ¼ blue calf, blue buckram) Provenance: Extracts copied by unidentified compiler

Date: 1849

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-020

Description: View from a rocky foreshore, with a bush-clad headland to the right, looking across to Kororareka (now Russell) with several houses along the beach at the town and, at the west end, the large hakari built to celebrate the visit of Governor Grey at Christmas, 1849. Rising above the hakari (large food storage platform or scaffolding) is a series of hills with a flagpole on top of the highest hill Compare the wood engraving illustration of the same scene from A. S. Thompson's The Story of New Zealand (London, 1859), with caption Kororareka in 1849 from a sketch by Colonel Bridge. The location of Bridge's drawing or watercolour is not known. The wood engraving includes the carved prow of a large waka on the far right, and another large waka in the water being rowed into shore. Williams' pencil drawing includes a very small waka on the water. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 252 x 365 mm Transfers: Removed from the Bridge / Williams sketchbook E-320-f? The paper is the same as A-079-019, also removed from this sketchbook, and marks alongthe left side on the verso of the work suggest that it was once glued into a bound volume.

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1877

By: Gordon-Cumming, Constance Frederica, 1837-1924

Reference: D-022-010

Description: Shows Mansion House Bay also called Bon Accord Harbour, on Kawau Island, with the Mansion House, a flagpole on the water's edge, the wharf and a paddlesteamer approaching the shore. The view is framed by pohutukawa trees which are identified in a caption in the left foreground. The coastline of Auckland is in the far distance. The Mansion House is shown at a time before the verandah extension was built. The work is signed at lower right by the artist, and also by Sir George Grey ("G.Grey") and Lavinia Coates, the sister of Grey's banker friend Sir James Coates. The artist painted three views of Kawau Island while staying there in January 1877. The other two works are in Auckland Art Gallery and Te Papa. Only this view shows a steamer in the bay (Bon Accord Harbour) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 400 x 590 mm (sight)

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-030-007

Description: An enormous open hakari, or wooden construction, with flags flying from poles on the top and people climbing up its sides, seated beneath it, and moving around its base. A long low whare is in the foreground, with another at right angles to it, and piles of food are on the ground with the whole enclosed by a low fence. This watercolour was originally in the Bridge/Williams album (E-320-f). See also: B-030-006, E-144-002 and a watercolour in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia for three other almost identical views by Cuthbert Clarke. This view appears to be a copy by John Williams The feast was mounted at Russell (Kororareka) in honour of Governor George Grey Other Titles - Williams, John, d 1905 Inscriptions: Cuthbert Clarke del. September 1849; Recto - bottom right - title in ink [not in the hand of Cuthbert Clarke; probably the hand of John Williams] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 302 x 427 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased from W. Brown of Edinburgh, 19 July 1893, as part of album E-320-f, along with drawings watercolours by Cyprian Bridge and John Williams in the same album. Was possibly on the final page of the album