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Taylor, Charles Henry, 1858-1928 : Diaries
Date: 1878-1880
By: Taylor, Charles Henry, 1858-1928
Reference: MS-Group-1671
Description: Comprise two diaries, covering Taylor's voyage to New Zealand and his life in Wellington, the Manawatu region, and finally Auckland. The diaries are detailed and provide a lively account of life on an immigrant ship and in the North Island while looking for work. Interspersed with reflections on life and quotations from poems, as well as some sketches of people, ships, housing and scenery. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - The donor is happy for researchers to contact him, for possible further information. His address is 16/166 Mill Point Road, South Perth, WA 6151, Australia. Charles Henry Taylor, lived on the Isle of Man as a child, was a joiner by trade. In 1878 he took advantage of the Vogel government's immigration scheme to emigrate to New Zealand on the `Hudson'. Travelled through Wellington, the Manawatu, where he was an eyewitness to the great bush fires of the period, and to Auckland, looking, often unsuccessfully, for work. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Professor John A Howard, grandson of C H Taylor