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Date: 1849-1850

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: Micro-MS-0639

Description: Cuthbert Clarke's diary, 5 Dec 1849-19 Feb 1850, of a journey in the party of Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, from Auckland to Taranaki, including sketches of scenery and natives and a sketch of Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, 6 Dec 1849 Item 3 of Sir George Grey. Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand See Micro-Art-005 for items 1 & 2 of Sir George Grey. Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand, 1845-1853 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 13 Aug 1850

From: Vigors, Philip Doyne (Lieutenant), 1825-1903 : Private journal of a four months cruise through some of the South Seas Islands and New Zealand in HMS Havannah

Reference: qMS-2081-056a

Description: Vigors' sketch ("No. 18"), is subtitled "a New Zealand girl". She is shown in a plain European dress, with a single ear-ring, short hair and facial tattoo (moko). Sketch is from Vigor's journal of his voyage on HMS Havannah and is mounted on a page following p 56. Lieutenant Philip Doyne Vigors was an officer with the 11th Regiment of Foot. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 174 x 126 mm

Date: 1961-1971

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-4/13

Description: Contains ephemera, correspondence, research notes and articles. Includes two Dominion Museum Education Service pamphlets relating to Maori clothing, housing, warfare and canoes [waka]. Also includes a programme of the Waihirere Maori Club which includes a description of 'The taiaha and the testament' written by Leo Fowler, a pamphlet relating to the Maori publications by Reed, and an article about the Maori rock carvings in the Kaingaroa Forest. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1974]

By: Rodda, Thomas Edward, 1881-1975?

Reference: MS-Papers-9980

Description: Rodda describes his life including background from his birth and arrival in NZ in 1884, his life on his family's farm, near Rangiriri, now Te Kauwhata, the Maori in the district, including their use of flour sacks for clothing, mosquitoes, school days, his first employment on Waerenga Experimental Farm, his experiences with early, and later, grape and fruitgrowing. In March 1905 he began work on road and rail construction at Oio and he describes work conditions and the work in some detail, until he returned to Waerenga inAug 1905. He describes his various positions within the department, often as an inspector. He joined the Legion of Frontiersmen in 1913 and the Hamilton Company of the National Military Reserve in 1939. He describes duties as a justice of the peace, his experiences during the depression and his appointment as farm manager and college superintendent at Ruakura Farm of Instruction in 1932, and breeding of pedigree milking cattle. He concludes with a descriptiion of his life after retirement. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (26 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Auckland Historical Society, Auckland, per Ms Winifred Macdonald, editor, Jul 1976

Date: 1840-1921

By: Buller, Walter Lawry (Sir), 1838-1906

Reference: MS-Papers-0048

Description: Correspondence and papers on Maori Land Court disputes (often in Maori); politics and politicians; ornithology; Maori genealogies and ethnology. Papers of the Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Gold Mining Company 1866-1899. W Leo Buller's correspondence re the gift of Buller's Maori collection to the nation, 1911-1914. Family papers, land deed certificates, clippings. The Maori letters arise mainly from Buller's law practice and deal mainly with land court work. Some of the earlier letters are probably to his father, James Buller. A H Turnbull and Elsdon Best both appear to have worked on the letters. Best did not apparently find them useful to his research, but they will be useful to anyone interested in land matters in the Manawatu and Horowhenua areas. Quantity: 58 folder(s). 0.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available with an index to the Maori letters (folders 11-20) in the back.

Date: Nov 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902 : Letters

Reference: MS-Papers-1038-1-09/bc

Description: Sketch by Thomas Bernard Collinson contained in his letter to his mother of 30 Nov 1846. Numbered key lists prominent buildings and some local Maori. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. Quantity: 1 sketch on two pages. Physical Description: Ink 402 x 185 mm

Date: 13 Jul-10 Nov 1850

By: Vigors, Philip Doyne, 1825-1903

Reference: qMS-2081

Description: Vigors went to Australia with the 11th Regiment of Foot, in 1846. The diary records a voyage to Auckland, Whangaroa, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Fiji, with detailed descriptions of places and peoples visited. The manuscript includes illustrative work by Vigors in ink, pencil and watercolour, of land and geographical features, activities and artifacts of Maori life and culture, and of the culture of the various Pacific peoples he encountered and named portraits of persons encountered; annotated paper from New South Wales Parliament re the Botanic Gardens, Sydney; clippings; and letter in French. The `Havannah' was commanded by Captain Erskine A listing of the holdings of the Public Record Office of Ireland relating to Philip Vigors is located in the back file for this collection Source of title - Title page Relationship complexity - Glass plate negatives of illustrations within the volume are held in the Photographic Archve collection (PAColl-6719). These appear to have been taken for inclusion in the 1924 typescript transcript of the journal (qMS-2082-2084). Lieutenant Vigors was with the 11th Regiment of Foot, serving in New South Wales at the time he undertook this voyage. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (249 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, printed matter with original illustrations (26 cm; ½ black leather) Finding Aids: A list of sketches is included. Includes illustrations; transparencies of many of these are held by Drawings and Prints Section Processing information: Digitisation details - The digitised copy also includes five inserted pages which comprises a printed copy of a letter, a handwriten letter, and two leaves of a newspaper cutting.