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Nairn, Betsey Wright, fl 1845-1883 :Leaving Collingwood for Nelson. Last ride in Nelson...
Date: 1883
From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook
Reference: E-443-q-023
Description: Shows two scenes: in the top half 'Leaving Collingwood for Nelson', the small steamer "Lady Barkley" is being loaded with trunks, while the passengers walk on board along the gangplank behind their trunks. In the lower half 'Last ride in Nelson', two women mounted on horses, walk towards a gate in the left foreground. The foreground fence has a row of barbed wire for its top wire. On the right, faintly sketched in, is part of a house, with a garden archway alongside. Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - [First title]; Recto - bottom left - [Second title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 225 x 195 mm.
Journal kept for Katherine Mansfield
Date: 1-12 Sep 1908
From: Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 : Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield
Reference: MSX-5970
Description: Journal kept for Katherine by her siblings Leslie, Vera and Jeanne describing a Nelson holiday taken by them from 1 to 12 Sep 1908. The main text was written by Leslie with a dedication and several watercolour paintings by Vera and a last rhyme by Jeanne. Includes poem by Jeanne about Pelorus Jack, paintings by Vera of Warwick House, Port Nelson, the Maitai River and Warwick House's driveway and garden and several photographs, some unidentified, of themselves and people they met. Quantity: 1 volume(s).