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Date: 1851-1892

By: Blackett, John, 1818-1893

Reference: MS-Group-0186

Description: Personal journals, 1851-1892, kept during voyage to New Zealand on the `Simlah' and during his time as Provincial Engineer, Nelson, 1859-1870. Lists of goods and chattels and time books kept while farming in New Plymouth. Also some official papers relating to his political career. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 13 volume(s). 3 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 27 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Provenance: Donated to the General Assembly Library by Mrs I M Houston and Miss A K Blackett, Wellington, 1952. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs - PAColl-8810.

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: 1931

By: Gibson, Arthur Henry, 1861-1935

Reference: qMS-0835

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (50 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (33 cm, ¼ black linen, red marbled boards) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donmated by Mr A H Gibson, Ngaio, Wellington, July 1935

Date: 1861, 1863

By: Maskell, William Miles, 1839-1898

Reference: MS-1564

Description: Account of voyage to Lyttelton on the William Miles, 6 May-19 Aug 1860, and return to England by Chrysolite, 1 May-27 Jul 1863; impressions of Canterbury, Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland 1860; comments on war in Taranaki and Maori fortifications; observations of Maori, settlers and work on Sir Frederick Weld's run at Flaxbourne, 1860, before taking up own property Source of title - Transcribed Variations in title - Spine title: Log to and from New Zealand, 1860, 1863 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (181 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (18 cm; ½ dark green morocco, green cloth) Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)

Date: Jan 1809-Jun 1843

By: Heberley, James, 1809-1899; Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962

Reference: MS-0971

Description: The early section of the diary recounts Heberley's experiences as a captain's apprentice and cabin boy on vessels sailing out of London to many destinations including Hamburg, Sydney and the West Indies. Much of the later narrative describes whaling and the life of a whaler in Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds. Also describes life with local Maori which includes comments on Maori tribal wars, his experiences with Te Rauparaha, the taking of slaves and conflict with Europeans. In 1831 Heberley took as his wife a Maori woman at Port Underwood (later married by Samuel Ironside in 1840). Heberley purchased land in Port Nicholson before the arrival of the New Zealand Company. He piloted the Tory into Port Nicholson, and round the coast to Wanganui and Taranaki. While she was at Kaipara he climbed Mount Egmont with Dieffenbach (Dec 1839). Diary ends in June 1843 as Heberley gives up his role as a pilot operating in Worser Bay and moves into Port Nicholson to start fishing and returns to whaling. Diary probably transcribed by an unknown hand, with further annotations added, giving proper Māori spellings for words used in the original manuscript. Heberley was a whaler who became a pilot in Wellington. He was also known as `Worser' and Worser Bay is named after him. His brother's name, 'John Hebley', appears at the top of the first page. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: MS (20cm; blue binding case)

Date: [ca 1843-1849]

By: Wainhouse, Robert, active 1843-1849

Reference: MS-2202

Description: Lists property held in Wellington, Nelson, New Plymouth and the Manawatu; survey maps of each property; list of tenants leasing land from Wainhouse Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (116 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (26cm, ½ brown roan, marbled boards) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Sotheby & Co, London, 1975 Copiusly illustrated with survey plans, often showing location of houses

Date: 1877-1908

By: Mackay, Alexander, 1833-1909

Reference: MS-Papers-2089

Description: Letters concerning land purchases and court hearings at Thames, Paeora, Te Aroha, Feilding, Greytown, Wakapuaka and Nelson; schedules of Maori rents in Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough and Westland Source of title - Supplied title Commissioner of Native Reserves; judge of Native Land Court, 1884-1901 Quantity: 4 folder(s) (ca 36 pieces). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts