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Illingworth, J E, fl 1866-1867 : New Zealand, etc

Date: 1866-1867

By: Illingworth, J E, active 1866-1867

Reference: MS-1068

Description: Gives much political and social gossip of Wellington, describes sheep runs in Hawke's Bay and the Wairarapa, as well as his trips to Christchurch, Auckland, Parewanui and Wanganui Source of title - Transcribed Illingworth came to New Zealand with H J Kennard who was representing Kennard Brothers in negotiations with the Wellington Provincial Council over the patent slip at Evans Bay; he made brief trips to Auckland and Christchurch and in Dec 1866 was present at the Manawatu purchase meeting at Parewanui Pa, after which he visited Wanganui and travelled by canoe on the Wanganui River. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (409 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (22 cm; ¼ brown calf, brown morocco boards)

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Taylor, Clyde Romer Hughes : Photographs of Wellington

Date: ca 1860-1870

By: Taylor, Clyde Romer Hughes, 1905-1997

Reference: PAColl-6511

Description: Five photographs of Wellington in the 1860s and 1870s: one of St Andrews, Lambton Quay; one of Thorndon from Tinakori Hill; one looking towards Tinakori Hill from the top of Molesworth Street; one looking down Molesworth Street looking towards Mount Victoria; and one from the Terrace looking towards Queen's Wharf. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-010011, 010014, 010016, 010019, 010020, 010022, and 021042 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives Transfers: Print from one negative at PAColl-6208-22..

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Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington...

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

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Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849 : Diary / transcribed by Marsha Donaldson

Date: 1841-1847 (transcribed, 1993)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849

Reference: MS-Papers-4882

Description: Typed transcript of diary of a voyage to New Zealand on the `Lady Nugent'; farming at Lowry Bay, 1841-1843, at Purau, Banks Peninsula, 1843-1845 and at Motunau from 1845. Contains details of farming, trading and community activities and describes other Banks Peninsula and Wellington families. Also contains an account of journey from Lowry Bay via Wanganui to New Plymouth, Feb 1843 for trading reasons and up the Wairarapa coast in search of pastoral land. Diary refers constantly to Greenwood's older brother James Dent Greenwood who farmed with him. Source of title - supplied title Relationship complexity - Original at MS-0878. Microfilm at MS-Copy-Micro-0345, photocopy of original at qMS-0885. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 163 pages.. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Wellington, 1994

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Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887 : Letter started on board the `Clydeside' and continued in Po...

Date: Aug-Nov 1841

By: Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887

Reference: MS-Papers-3271

Description: Describes his feelings on leaving Scotland, his family and friends; voyage to New Zealand on the Clydeside from Greenock to Wellington via Adelaide (with reference to his fellow passengers); short period spent in Adelaide en route; impressions of the town and aborigines; arrival in Wellington; European settlers; Te Ati Awa Maori and customs (reference to cannibalism); business opportunities, etc The letter addressed to John G Grieve of Whitsome, Dunse, Berwickshire was begun on board the `Clydeside' on 16 Aug and continued in Port Nicholson on 8 Nov 1841. It was postmarked Dunse, 25 March 1842. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (cross-hatched)

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McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897 :Govt House, Wellington. 1851

Date: 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: E-144-046-2

Description: Looking down Molesworth Street to Wellington Harbour, with Government House and its flagpole and sentry box on the right. Three Maori stand in the road with a dog. A fourth man is seated by the roadside. The cliff above Lambton Quay is in the right background. Several shops in the harbour. A building, probably Barrett's Hotel is at the foot of the road, by the harbour. Part of another building is on the left, with three European men seated in the shade outside Other Titles - Government Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W M 1851 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original 8.4 x 12.6 inches

Manuscript

Costall, John James Joseph, 1859-1949: Notes on Karori, Makara and Port Nicholson, copi...

Date: 1843-1874

By: Costall, John James Joseph, 1859-1949

Reference: MS-Papers-3540

Description: Material copied from official papers, newspapers, diaries and published material on roads, education, postal affairs, census and other statistics, Wellington market prices, Maori and the formation of a savings bank Source of title - Supplied Material presumably compiled by John Costall Quantity: 1 folder(s) (80 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, ms and printed material contained in grey cardboard folder, labelled `Notes'

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Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington...

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

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Memelink, Alfred, 1961- :The arrival of the barque Aurora and trading barque Helena at ...

Date: 1840 - 1990

Reference: A-168-002

Description: Shows two sailing ships with furled sails approaching Petone beach and a group of Maori from the pa looking on. The palisade fence of the pa is at right foreground, and there are flax bushes at left. This is print no. 161 of a run of 250. A modern reconstruction of the appearance of the ship, of which no known contemporary depictions exist Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Limited edition [in pencil] 161/250 [Title] [Signature in pencil] A Memelink Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, black and white, 219 x 312 mm.

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Calender family : Papers relating to passengers on the Bolton

Date: 1839-1851

By: Calender family

Reference: MS-Papers-3809

Description: The papers consist of a volume containing transcriptions of letters written by (Eliza?) Hargreaves and (apparently) Sarah Falwasser, passengers on the Bolton, 1839-1840. The letters are addressed to Mrs Calender and Miss C and describe the voyage out and life in Port Nicholson during the first half of 1840 and observations of Maori life and customs. The volume also contains newspapers clippings about Rev J F Churton and his family. Also included is a number of newspaper clippings, a race card from the 1851 Auckland races, Dora Churton's dance card and a copies of letters relating to provenance. Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - Accompanied by copies of letters relating to provenance Rev John Frederick Churton was incumbent of the parish of Threapwood at Wrexham immediately prior to his emigration. Eliza Hargreaves and Sarah Falwasser were also from Wrexham. Presumably the Calenders were Wrexham residents who compiled this collection about their emigrant friends. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor obtained papers from the Bridgeman estate in Cheshire.

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Hobson, William (Captain), 1791-1842 : Instructions to Major Bunbury

Date: 25 Apr 1840

By: Hobson, William, 1792-1842

Reference: MS-Papers-9436

Description: Copy of Willam Hobson's instructions to Major Bunbury to circulate the Treaty of Waitangi and to gather signatures of chiefs, in Tauranga and the Southern District; also to report on the settlement at Wellington. Includes comments on certain chiefs, such as Te Rauparaha, and on Maori at Tauranga. The manuscript is in the hand of Willoughby Shortland was written at Paihia. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (Photographic copy) Processing information: Transfer from Printed Section, ATL, 2009

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Reid album 1

Date: [Between 1880s and 1890s]

From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926; Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PA1-o-431

Description: Photographs taken during the 1880s and 1890s, chiefly by Henry Charles Clarke Wright, with others probably taken by Herbert Deveril. All show scenes in New Zealand except one, prabably taken by J W Lindt, of an Australian aboriginal man and woman standing over a kangaroo which they have caught. They have boomerangs and a spear. Photographs of the town of Tarawera and the White Terraces were taken before the eruption in 1886. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, coloured picture of two cats playing with a ball of wool inset, and bordered by gold and black decoration, entitled `Children's scrap book'; 25.0 x 32.5 cm

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[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :Whare-Pouri [and] Te Puni. [From John White's Ancient hist...

Date: 1890 - 1891

From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to John White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, 1890

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-274-033

Description: Copies of Charles Heaphy's two lithographs of Port Nicholson chiefs in 1839 or 1840, first published in 1845. Wharepouri is on the left, pointing to his left with a mere in his right hand, with a background of Wellington Harbour and the ship Tory. Te Puni is on the right, holding a taiaha in his right hand, with a background of Petone Pa with a White Ensign flag flying, the Western Hills and part of the Harbour A copy of Heaphy's lithograph 'The two head chiefs of Port Nicholson. Warepori or 'Dark house' and Epuni or 'Greedy', published as Plate 1 in E. J. Wakefield's Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845) Other Titles - Warepori or dark house, Epuni or greedy, the two head chiefs of Port Nicholson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two lithographs, on sheet 225 x 285 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

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"Views in New Zealand" vol 1 - Photographs taken by Herbert Deveril

Date: 1873-1876

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-f-173

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Manawatu and the central North Island, taken between 1873 and 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Manuscript

Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887 : Letter started on board the `Clydeside' and continued in Po...

Date: Aug-Nov 1841

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887

Reference: fMS-Papers-7990

Description: Gollan describes his feelings on leaving Scotland, his family and friends; voyage to Wellington, New Zealand on the `Clydeside' from Greenock via Adelaide (with refrence to fellow male passengers); short period spent in Adelaide en route; impressions of the settlement and aborigines; arrival in Wellington; European settlers; business opportunities; resident Maori (makes reference to cannibalism) Accompanying material - Typed transcript done by M Donaldson, 2007 The letter addressed to his friend John G Grieve of Whitsome, Dunse, Berwickshire was begun on board the Clydeshire on 16 Aug and resumed once he reached Port Nicholson on 8 Nov 1841. It was postmarked Dunse, 25 Mar 1842. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (cross-hatched) (Colour photocopy) and typed transcript

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Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887 : Letter started on board the `Clydeside' and continued in Po...

Date: Aug-Nov 1841

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887

Reference: MSDL-1259

Description: Gollan describes his feelings on leaving Scotland, his family and friends; voyage to Wellington, New Zealand on the `Clydeside' from Greenock via Adelaide (with refrence to fellow male passengers); short period spent in Adelaide en route; impressions of the settlement and aborigines; arrival in Wellington; European settlers; business opportunities; resident Maori (makes reference to cannibalism) Accompanying material - Typed transcript done by M Donaldson, 2007 The letter addressed to his friend John G Grieve of Whitsome, Dunse, Berwickshire was begun on board the Clydeshire on 16 Aug and resumed once he reached Port Nicholson on 8 Nov 1841. It was postmarked Dunse, 25 Mar 1842. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Online Manuscript

Letters in Maori

Date: 1865

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-031C

Description: Maori correspondence mostly from the Whanganui district relating tribal activities, affairs and matters relating to land. Includes lists of names for Maori living at Parewanui; report from a meeting between Governor Grey, Major Kemp (Te Ranghiwinui), and various hapu from Whanganui; a letter about Epiha Patapu, native policeman from Whanganui who gave an oath of allegience to the Queen. Also includes letter from Wikitoa Taringakuri (aka Te Kaeaea) offering to sell large amounts of land in Wellington because of his extreme age and inability to collect the rents of his properties. Arrangement: Previously from 1/1 Official Correspondence series Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.

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Angas, George French, 1822-1886 :Ornamental carvings in wood. George French Angas delt ...

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: PUBL-0014-46

Description: 1. [Centre]: 'The celebrated image of Rangihaeata carved by himself. This forms the lower portion of the central pillar, supporting the roof of Rangihaeata's house on the Island of Mana, called 'Kai-Tangata'...The image is about 4 feet high'. 2 [Centre right]: Stern-post of a large canoe from the River Thames. 3. [Top]: 'Papa' a carved box for the reception of the tail feathers of the huia ... 4. [bottom]: Another box for similar purposes ... 5. [Above the image of Rangihaeata] Head of a carved wooden spear about 12 feet long from the Ngatiawa tribe. 6. [Left]: Raised stand for supporting tapued articles consecrated to the dead. Found at Waitahanui Pa, Lake Taupo. 7. [Below the image of Rangihaeata]: A sketch in Port Nicholson Harbour [a man poling himself along in a small canoe] Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

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[Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :The Hutt Road taken at the gorge looking towards Wel...

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-07-3

Description: Shows bushclearing along the path which became the Hutt Road. One man chops at a tree trunk with an axe, while two Maori stand in the path. The tranquil water of Wellington Harbour surrounded by bush-covered hills, show in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 191 x 160 mm, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

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Letters in Maori

Date: Jan 1862-Jun 1862

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-009B

Description: Various letters from Maori to White regarding Maori land interests, monies, and claims. Also includes a list of names for Ngati Te Ata (Waikato) for 1862. Includes a letter from Te Poria of Ngati Raukawa to Grey pleading for a reduced sentence for his sons, Makaora & Waiata, who were accused of rape and sentenced to two years; also includes supporting letter from senior contemporary chiefs of Ngati Raukawa to Grey concerned that the accused mens legal rights were abused and that a presumption of guilt presided over their hearing. Arrangement: Previously from 1/1 Official Correspondence series Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.

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