Places

Date: 1841-1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: qMS-1774

Description: Mainly copies of letters written by Bishop Selwyn to his family in England, including one to the Rev E S Coleridge. Describes his voyage to New Zealand on the Tomatin, and his ecclesiastical visitations throughout New Zealand, including commentary on landscape and native habitat, with emphasis on preaching and teaching carried out among the natives, the establishing of mission stations, especially the Waimate, and on the attack made on Heke's pa and the sacking of Kororareka. Includes letters from the Archbishop of Canterbury, short extracts from the letters of H & W Williams and copies of newspaper reports on Bishop Selwyn's activities in Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (26 cm; red buckram hinged lid box) Illustrations possibly by Caroline Abraham

Date: 28 Mar 1846

From: Selwyn family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10105-15-07

Description: Letter to William Selwyn, written on HM Brig Victoria, off Cloudy Bay, Cooks Strait. Sailing for Waikanae Mission Station. Hadfield ill. Anxiety over effect on Maori of news of the fighting at Kororareka. War in the North Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1829-1879

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-0033

Description: Mainly correspondence with Bishop Selwyn and other missionaries; some family letters Quantity: 15 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss and typed transcripts Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1903-1939

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-62

Description: Includes articles, pictures and other material on Maori history, health, and religion as well as geography, language, science and volcanology Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1840-1850

By: Williams, William, 1800-1878

Reference: qMS-2252

Description: Williams describes the progress of his mission work on the East Coast, Hawkes Bay and Poverty Bay. He also refers to proposals for a station at Whakatane Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue pam case) Provenance: Formerly in the possession of Bishop Selwyn's grandson

Date: 1979

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1979-03

Description: Front of poster shows an arrangement of text in red and white, in English and Maori, on a black background. The verso lists the paintings and gives a short history of Parihaka. Other Titles - Timata atu ite 10 onga Ra o Pepuere kite 7 o nga Ra o Maehe 1979. Ka whaka kitea nga Taonga Peita Whakaahua a Selwyn Muru kite Dowse Art Gallery Lower Hutt. I tirohia e Muru te maunga nei a Taranaki me nga Ahuatanga i raro i tona Marumaru i te wa nga Poropiti; ia Te Whiti raua ko tohu Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 555 x 355 mm.

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: Jul 1830-Dec 1847 (1946-1948)

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: qMS-2236-2238

Description: Letters to and from Williams, the CMS, Colonial Secretary's Office, Selwyn, Fitzroy, and others; papers relative to the missionaries' land claims; letters to newspapers, reports of war at Bay of Islands Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (34 cm; ¼ brown morocco, brown linen)

Date: 23 May 1858

By: Wharekawa, Hoani, active 1858

Reference: MS-Papers-3621

Description: Letter from (Puketeha Pa) Puketapu Pa stressing the urgent need for an Anglican clergyman in the district Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed translation (carbon copy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr P Klarwill, Translation Service, Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1966

Date: 1860 - 1876

From: Harper, Laura Helen Bruce, 1888-1970: Photographs

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA2-2122

Description: Baptised by Selwyn 1843 and took the name Tamihana (Thomson). Became the 1st native apostle to the South Island Inscriptions: Verso - Tamihana Te Rauparaha Otaki 23 September .... Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929

By: Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: MS-Papers-11660

Description: Folder contains a translation into English from Maori by Cowan of George F Allen's account of Bishop Selwyn's visit to Ngati Tuwharetoa leader Te Heuheu Tukino at Re Rapa, Taupo in the 1840s. The account relates the offering of a sleeping partner for Bishop Selwyn by Te Heuheu Tukino. On the last page of the document Cowan discusses the veracity of such an action by the Maori chief. Cowan also notes this account by Allen is referred to in his book `1902 supplementary edition of Willis's guide book of new route for tourists, Auckland-Wellington, via the Hot Springs, Taupo, the volcanoes and the Wanganui River', page 122. Allen's account is in Maori and suggest that the reader must ask "some Pakeha-Maori to interpret it for them". Also contains an unidentified poem which begins "How brightly the dawn maid comes webbed in rosy plumes". Language - Translated from Maori into English Source of title - Transcribed from item Cowan worked as a writer, historian and journalist. He was a fluent Maori speaker and wrote the two-volume `The New Zealand wars: a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period (1922-1923)'. Te Heuheu Tukino III Iwikau, was a Ngati Maniapoto chief, lived at the southern end of Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: [1984]

From: O'Connor, Peter Selwyn, 1926-1994 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5725

Description: Comprises completed draft article re Pukekohe Maori School, `The Adventures of Pukekohe Maori School' and typed transcript by Mary Ronnie May be published in the `New Zealand journal of history' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: ca 1847

By: Simcox, Francis Selwyn, 1880-1967

Reference: PAColl-7505

Description: Photograph of a plan of Rev Ashwell's school for native girls at Kaitotehe which shows the dormitory, school room, dining room and mission house. Photograph of a painting of the school by J J Merrett with the mission house next to it and two waka in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-004441 and 005434 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

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: 1842 - 1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878

Reference: PUBL-0180-1845-084

Description: Two ministers of religion at Lake Taupo, each standing in a small tent, with a large canoe behind them, its centre draped in a white cloth, holding the communion bread and wine. In the foreground a crowed of Maori are seated. The drawing may be the work of G. A. Selwyn, since there is an ink version of this drawing in a letter to his mother dated Wellington, Sept 13 1842 (Manuscripts and Archives Section of the Library) Extended Title - From: The ecclesiologist. Vol. 4. No. 2. March 1845, between pages 84 and 85 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 75 x 91 mm

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: 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).