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Date: 1832-1869

By: Whiteley, John, 1806-1869

Reference: qMS-2212-2213

Description: The journal records Whiteley's journey to NZ; his work as a Wesleyan missionary at Hokianga, Pakanae and Kawhia; a quarrel with Rev W White; an attempt at mediation in an intertribal war; his attitude to the Maori uprising; the Waitara problem, and the Taranaki war; his discussions with G Grey, D McLean and R Parris on Maori-Pakeha relations. Journal lacks entries for 1837, Jul 1843-1860 Quantity: 2 volume(s) (217 pages). Physical Description: Typescripts (34 cm; ½ Royal blue calf; 2nd copy, ¼ green leather)

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-005

Description: The Mansion House on Kawau Island, the jetty at the waterfront and boats in the harbour, seen from bush-clad hills to the left, the image surrounded with native ferns and flowers Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 105 x 144 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: 1841-1854, 1935-1936 - [1Ca 1950s]

By: Webb, George Hannam, 1929-2007

Reference: MS-Group-1490

Description: Papers relating to Samuel Stephens, a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. Includes journals and diaries kept by him, letters to his family back in England which describe his life in New Zealand, research material collected about Stephens' life including copies of his death notice, survey maps and pages from the `Nelson Examiner', transcripts of diaries and journals, and photographs of his grave. The journals have details of his voyage to New Zealand from England on the `Whitby' in 1841, of his daily life as a settler in Nelson, on the weather, agriculture and horticulture. He includes sketches of plants and listings of the plants and weather conditions. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives March 2006; material transferred to the Published Collection, Ephemera Collection and the Cartographic Collection..

Date: 1841-1844, 1844-1852, 1852-1854, 1935-1936

By: Stephens, Samuel, 1803-1855

Reference: MS-2053-2055

Description: Journals kept by Stephens which include a biographical sketch by his nephew, J Edmund Clark (ppi-ii of v1, 1935), a note to an extract of 1842 (v3, 1936), and a letter to him from Robert Pattie (1935) re the excerpts (pp846-850, v3), letters from Stephens and Sarah Stephens to his mother and sisters, Anne and Ellen and extracts from his journals. Stephens describes his daily life as a surveyor and settler, events in New Zealand, people he met and other aspects of his working and private life. Each volume has a list of contents and v3 has an index. The pages are numbered chronologically through the three volumes. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (850 leaves, 35 leaves)

Date: [ca 1860s-1870s]

By: Lennie, Thomas Daniel, 1871-1967

Reference: PAColl-4459

Description: Photographs of shops, hotels and business in Invercargill including the old immigration barracks on Tay Street and the Howard house. Photographers are not all identified, but include Donald William Ross. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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: 1860 - 1898

By: Grey River Argus (Newspaper); Boys, J W T, active 1883; Ryall, Denis James, 1909-1982

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-1800s

Description: Includes menus for: Complimentary dejeuner to Sir George Grey by His Worship the Mayor and the City Council of Dunedin. J McCubbin, Otago Hotel, Caterer. Fergusson & Mitchell, Printers. [1860s?] (Donor Mr J Stacey, 1960). Lyttelton Harbour Board. Celebration of dock opening. January 3rd 1883. J Buggey, Caterer. 1883 (photographic copy) Wellington Club. Farewell dinner to Mr J C Hanna. July 4, 1896. A public banquet in honor of the Right Hon R J Seddon, Premier of New Zealand. Toast list. January 17th, 1898. Printed at the Argus Office, Greymouth. Complimentary dinner to Right Hon R J Seddon and Mrs Seddon. Printed at the Star Office. [Toast list. ca 1898]. Handwritten menu for an unknown and probably private occasion, but featuring quotations by Crosbie Ward (1832-1867), Alfred Domett (1811-1887), W P Reeves (1857-1932), and W M Maskell (1839-1898). Date probably 1890s. This menu was removed from an unidentified scrapbook of scraps dated ca 1870-1920 (at Eph-A-SCRAPBOOK-01) Quantity: 6 menus.. Physical Description: Engravings, on folded menus, approximately 230 x 140 mm. Plus one mounted photograph.

Date: 1843-1851

By: Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881

Reference: qMS-0418-0420

Description: Letters mainly to his father and aunts in England covers in detail Wellington incidents of the period, with full references to William Wakefield, Charles Barraud, E J Eyre, R Fitzroy and Sir George Grey Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (34 cm; ¼ brown morocco) Finding Aids: Index available at qMS-0421-0422, compiled by Glen W Macmorran, 1943.

Date: 16 Dec 1841-9 Jun 1851

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: qMS-1758-1762

Description: Saxton recorded both the minutiae of his daily life, such as food, crops he was growing, as well as observations on local politics, New Zealand Company affairs, negotiations between the Company, government officials and settlers and especially describes the discomforts and lowered expectations of being an immigrant. Not all persons mentioned frequently have been entered (see index for full list). Relationship complexity - Some original fragments at MS-Papers-0107 and typescript of fragments at MS-Papers-4417 Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript with annotations by transcriber (36 cm; green linen) Finding Aids: Index is part of collection (qMS-1762). Provenance: The diaries were intended to be destroyed at the death of the diarist. However, they survived and Dr F A Bett, whose collection is now in the Nelson Provincial Museum, transcribed the extant diaries. There are two sets, one in the Bett Collection in Nelson, the other in the Turnbull Library. The Turnbull copy has many annotations by Dr Bett, generally with additions to the text. It is understood that parts of the diaries were in Greek and Hebrew but it is not known how much Dr Bett translated or how much of the diaries he retained.

Date: 1863-1913

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2024

Description: Includes the log of Captain Jenkins (HMS Miranda), while serving in the New Zealand Wars Dec12863-Jun 1865. Describes the seige of Gate Pa, the battle at Te Ranga and themeeting between Sir George Grey, Sir Cuncan Cameron and the Tauranga Maori in Aug 1864, as well as copies of despatches, letters and a sketch map of the auckland and Waikato districts. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-037

Description: The essay details the McDonald family story around the life of the youngest daughter Frances Harwood McDonald. She was born on Kawau Island in 1848 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1859

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-001

Description: View across the water towards the jetty and home of Sir George Grey. Hills to the left Copied from a wood engraving in the Illustrated London news. v. 27 no 771 p. 620 1855 Inscriptions: Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 355 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull, from English dealer Albert Berthel, Richmond, 1914

Date: 1845-1990

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-21

Description: Contains copies of papers from the Grey collection manuscripts, mostly from Te Rangikaheke's material. Also contains copy of published work by Samuel Locke about the history and traditions of Taupo and the East Coast. Includes various indexes and inventories to the collection with some holographic notes by Piripi Walker. also contains papers and correspondence between Keith Cairns, the Alexander Turnbull Library, the Masterton Borough Council and the Wairarapa Tribal Committee about Maori records contain within the Monument of Peace erected in Masterton in 1921. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1860s-1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-06

Description: View of Sir George's Grey home on Kawau Island, taken from `The Terrace' to the left of the house, by Daniel Louis Munday, in 1860s or as late as 1870s. Shows the garden area to the left of the house, the flagpole and the jetty. Other views of Sir George Grey's house and garden possibly taken on same day at PA1-f-039, p11 and PA7-48-03. Same image at PA1-f-039, p 10. Inscriptions: Mount verso - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20.3 x 25.2 cm on card 26 x 34 cm

Date: 1849 - 1850

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-030

Description: A view of Lake Rotomahana from Ngawhara Hill. Two men (Sir George Grey, and George Cooper) stand on the left by a dead tree, pointing at the lake. To the right is a whare. In the Lake is Puai Island with steam rising and several low Maori dwellings. The White Terraces and mountains are in the background. Dating: Grey, Cooper and Clarke were at Rotomahana on 29 December 1849 Other Titles - 29 December 1849 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title in ink. Bottom right, signature and date Compare an almost identical watercolour version of this view in the Alexander Turnbull reference number B-030-002, titled 'Hot Springs. Sir George Grey and my father in the early 1850s' There are also similar views in the National Library of Australia, by G F Swainson, after Cuthbert Clarke. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink drawing original 10.5 x 15 inches

Date: 1840s-1850s

From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers

Reference: 88-103-5/20

Description: Contains details of Maori land sold to the Government by Wairarapa Maori in the 1850s; also contains copies of correspondence among Government officials and squatters about the details and proceedings of the sales, including lists of Maori grievances arising from the sales (some of the copies are in typescript)

Date: 1858-1862

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-005

Description: Maori letters (most with translations) to Crown agents re: land purchases and various miscellaneous matters. Also includes lists for Native Assessors, Wardens and Police from the Whanganui district for 1862. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1850-1869

From: Bell family: Collection

Reference: PA1-o-735

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: [ca 1880s-1966]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979; Burke, Walter Ernest Messervy, 1866-1954; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-4454

Description: Mounted photographs of a moa skeleton compared with a human one; a view from Cains Terrace, Timaru showing the Post Office and old St Mary's Church; a group of Maori in traditional clothes outside the carved meeting house at Ohinemutu, Rotorua; view of Parihaka pa with Te Whiti's house on the left and Mount Taranaki in the background; Sir George Grey's house at Kawau Island with a jetty; two stuffed kiwi and a kiwi egg; a woman sitting outside a Maori whare with a pig; a man standing outside the Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans with advertisements for Gaytime ice-cream and Speights beer 1966; and a loose print of a young woman sitting at the pihanga of a meeting house with a carved pare. Photographers include Walter Burke. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-029165, 071676, 071677, 071678, and 071696. Two of the images are described as the same as 1/2-031035 and 1/2-015845 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.