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Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-080

Description: Several images on one pagle. At the top of the page, two shacks and a cabbage tree, 'Smith's station' at the mouth of the Waianakarua, looking inland, with the river to the right. Left, below that, Taiaroa standing on the beach, staff in hand, appearing to be speaking, observed by several people lying down. The title refers to Rauparaha's conquest of the east coast and to the local paramount chief's defiance while Rauparaha is safely in the North Island on Kapiti. Below on the right, three drawings of the same man's head in a bonnet, and a right-angles, a coastal view looking north along the beach from Onekakara, Moeraki, with several canoes pulled up on shore to the left. At the bottom left of the page, a cryptic drawing possibly of a rocky outcrop, titled Penal Sett. Moeraki, possibly refering to the number of ex-convicts amongst the whalers at Moeraki Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 28 Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MSDL-1272

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson. Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places. Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-011

Description: Identifies Bluff Hill; Mr Wills [i.e. the artist, seated sketching to one side, a sunhat on his head]; John McCormack's farmhouse with outhouses in the centre foreground, and in the background, Moeraki, Little Kuri Wood and Te Kuri Wood. Appears to be two or possibly three landscapes on top of one another, with the lowest view looking along Moeraki Beach from the south and the highest view looking along the beach from the north. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 3 drawing(s) on sketchbook page.. Physical Description: Ink, 85 x 230 mm, and 100 x 230 mm, on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1851

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-332-001

Description: An extensive view of the coastline and coastal hills, looking north Other Titles - Waikouaiti. Purakanui. April Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - from Purakaunui Ap 1852; Recto - bottom right - Coast from Waikawaiti to Moeraki Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (side on). Physical Description: Ink, 229 x 185 mm (page size)

Date: 1995-2002

By: Adams, Joseph Langton, 1935-

Reference: MSDL-1188

Description: Memoir comprised of three sections covering different times in his life, including growing up in Moeraki. Also includes details based on his parents' recollections of mining for gold at the Lindis Pass camp and his own work assisting in the construction of the Aviemore dam on the Waitaki River. Quantity: 3 Electronic document(s).