Places

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/2-029830-F

Description: Shows Bishop Selwyn's House, Waimate North with a man sitting outside. Photograph taken ca 1912 by Northwood Brothers. Bishop Selwyn's house was erected in 1831. It was used by Bishop Selwyn as the first St. John's College in 1843. The roofline was changed to a gabled roof with large central dormer ca 1870s, and the shingled roof was replaced with iron ca 1912. This photograph was probably taken shortly after the iron was replaced. Sources of information: The Waimate mission station / by M.W. Standish; letter from Stuart Park, 30 April 2003. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: MacDiarmid, C L, (Mrs) :Photographs of Bishop Selwyn

Reference: PA2-2773

Description: A group portrait with 5 Bishops. Back standing, Bishops Selwyn, Harper, Abraham and front: - (sitting) Bishop Williams and Bishop Patteson standing. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1860]

From: Urquhart album

By: Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PA1-q-250-17

Description: Beach front scene at Kohimarama, Auckland, circa 1860, with Bishop Selwyn's Melanesian Mission station. Two waka, and a group of whare, are visible in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Nicol Crombie. Image, and information regarding it, in "Auckland through a Victorian Lens" by William Main, 1977, page 27. Inscriptions: Album page - Kohimarama near Auckland NZ Arrangement: In folder stored with album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16.5 x 21.3 cm, mounted on card Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 23 Dec 1841-30 Jun 1846

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-0129-0132

Description: The diaries give detailed descriptions of life in the mission settlements, frequent references to Selwyn's work, and numerous drawings of New Zealand scenes Relationship complexity - Volume 5 (1846-1848) is shelved at qMS-0122 William Bambridge sailed from England with Bishop Selwyn in the Tomatin, 23 Dec 1841. He was appointed writing master at St John's College till 1848 when he returned to England Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Various sizes and bindings, in ¼ red morocco red buckram slip cases) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander H Turnbull, 1914. Numerous illustrations

Date: 1841-1847

By: Cotton family

Reference: Micro-MS-0858

Description: Letters are to family members, in particular Sarah and Phoebe; describe voyage to New Zealand on the `Tomatin', discuss family affairs and describe Cotton's activities with comments on the Church's mission to the Maori and Selwyn's pastoral work Source of title - Supplied W C Cotton sailed from England in Dec 1841 with Bishop Selwyn and was chaplain to him at Waimate North and St John's College, Auckland Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Positive microfilm) Finding Aids: Two page index at front of reel.

Date: 6 Nov 1842-21 Jul 1843

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879

Reference: MS-Group-1956

Description: Account of his life at Waimate North as writing master at St John's College; frequent mention of Bishop Selwyn, other missionaries and other northern mission settlements Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1850-1855

By: Greenwood, John, 1832-1909

Reference: qMS-0884

Description: Contains schoolboy notes on historical personages but mostly Greenwood recorded day-to-day accounts of his life while a student at St John's College, Tamaki, Auckland. During this period he twice accompanied Bp Selwyn in the `Undine' when he visited various settlements in NZ, in the South Island, visiting Port Nicholson and Canterbury and as far south as Stewart Island, Bluff and Ruapuke. He writes of Selwyn a lot. Some illustrations of these places are included. Pieces of music, `Lightly tread' and `Under the stone' are at the beginning of the volume. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - MS-Copy-Micro-0194 available Quantity: 1 volume(s) (112 pages). Physical Description: (28 cm, ½ brown morocco binding case, brown boards) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dorothy Oliver, 1949

Date: 1850-1855

By: Greenwood, John, 1832-1909

Reference: MS-0879

Description: Diary kept by Greenwood while he was a student at St John's College, Tamaki, Auckland. During this period he twice accompanied Bishop Selwyn in the `Undine' when he visited various settlements in New Zealand. Relationship complexity - Typed transcript of qMS-0884 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (162 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (27 cm; red linen)

Date: 1861-1887

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2121

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1838-1904

By: Spencer, Frederick Hamilton, 1854-1932

Reference: Micro-MS-0835

Description: Describes decision of father, Seymour Mills, to become a missionary, tracing his progress from the United States to England, then to New Zealand with Bishop Selwyn in 1842. Describes Maori life near the mission station at Kariri near Lake Tarawera, and the wars of the 1860s. Joined the army in the 1870s; later studied for the ministry under Bishop Suter in Nelson. Much information about Maori life and customs and individual Maori. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 180 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1847-1851

By: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: qMS-0889

Description: Copies of despatches mainly re land claims of members of the Church Missionary Society, particularly land claims of Archdeacon Henry Williams; includes copy of a land grant made to Bishop Selwyn re the building of a missionary school at Porirua Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 154 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (33 cm, ¼ red calf, red buckram hinged lid box) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, K Webster, London, 1966

Date: 1850 - 1859

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the Church of England and Anglican congregations, parishes, churches and buildings in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-A-1850s

Description: Includes: 1850: "Otago Churches Fund". [Appeal for funds to build a church in Dunedin, signed by] Fred[eric]k Richardson, treasurer, Cheltenham, 1 October 1850 1853: To the members of the Church of England in Wellington. Wellington, 15th February 1853. [Circular letter from Bishop Selwyn] 1858?: Service for the Consecration of St Peter's Church, Wellington, by the Right Reverend George August, Lord Bishop of New Zealand [13 March 1858?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: 1854-1871

By: Patteson, John Coleridge , 1827-1871

Reference: qMS-1635

Description: Letters to his family concerning the Melanesian Mission, with comment on Church of England affairs in New Zealand stressing Bishop Selwyn's views; discussion of political events in New Zealand, especially the Waitara dispute and its main protagonists Variations in title - Spine lettered J C Patterson Relationship complexity - Includes items transferred from MiscMs 698, 749, 1424 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (29 items). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (28 cm, in box, ½ blue calf, faded linen) Finding Aids: Inventory of contents.

Date: 1844-1852

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: MS-2412

Description: Letter from Rev E G Marsh (1845) containing excerpts of correspondence from Williams (1844) re Bishop Selwyn's organization of Waimate Mission station and proposed transfer of college to Auckland; Sampson Kempthorne; John Ballance, CMS Committee, to Lord Straith critical of land claims; Lord Chichester's letter to Williams (1852); four pamphlets concerning land claims, 1845-1851 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter (24cm, ½ blue morocco, blue buckram case) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, K A Webster estate, London, 1970

Date: 1841-1848

By: Cotton, William Charles (Rev), 1813-1879

Reference: Micro-MS-0176

Description: Vol 2 missing; pages 71-72 in Vol 6 not reproduced on microfilm Relationship complexity - Photocopies of originals at qMS-0562-0573 Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s) (11 vols).

Date: 1936

From: [Whitefriars Glass Works] :[Six designs for stained glass windows for New Zealand churches. 1940-60s].

By: James Powell & Sons (Firm)

Reference: C-129-028

Description: Shows three-panelled round-arched window in Gothic style with ornate canopies and pinnacles. The central window shows Christ in majesty, standing, above a smaller scene where he reaches out to one man in a group. The panel at left shows Bishop Selwyn above a small wooden New Zealand church, and the right panel shows Bishop Patteson, above a scene of sailing ship and palm trees. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - 8355/219 1936; Recto - top right - Photo 763 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 510 x 380 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's London auction 28.5.1997, lot 92.

Date: 1803-1865

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: MS-2452

Description: History of the East Coast people and district as seen from a missionary's view point. Many topics including hauhauism; land confiscation, Te Kooti; the murder of Rev C S Volkner; the work of the missionaries etc. Source of title - Transcribed from spine Quantity: 1 volume(s) (95 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph corrections (26cm, blue buckram)