Places

Date: [1890]

By: Earl, Guy S, active 1892; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: MS-0709

Description: Clippings record sale of land for quicksilver mining by William Earl; also marriages, social occasions and obituaries involving the families of George Williams, 1812-1891, and Alexander C P Macdonald mostly in the Auckland district, and of families in England. Stories including `A Mystery of the New Zealand Alps' and a poem `The Parnell cats'. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (50 pages). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (20 cm; black morocco)

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: 1834-1866

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: qMS-0794

Description: Papers from various sources. (1) Letters about FitzRoy's naval career including Admiralty to Sir Graham Eden Hamond, 3 December 1834, informing him that FitzRoy is to remain in command of HMS Beagle but is promoted to Captain (with duplicate) and the same to the same 28 February 1835, with duplicate, criticising FitzRoy's 'violations of the laws of discipline' and violations of naval etiquette. (2) Series of holograph letters and notes by FitzRoy. Includes FitzRoy to Mr Dolland, 26 September 1839, letter of 7 May 1842 to unknown about finance, private letter to Walter Lawry, 16 July 1844, about Taranaki Wesleyan Mission and John Whiteley, Copy of 'Conditions on which the Governor will consent to a general peace' 20 September 1845 (fornerly in Church Missionary Society archives), notes of am interview with FitzRoy, 7 August 1846 (after his dismissal), letters of FitzRoy to Henry Venn of the Church Missionary Society, 16 September and 4 November 1846 the latter enclosing a testimonial to the services of George Clarke. (3) Private letters of FitzRoy to Hector Straith (Church Missionary Society)in 1851, also from CMS, and one to W. White, 27 May 1864. (4) Typescript of documents relating to FitzRoy by Thomas Lindsay Buick, and associated with his work New Zealan's first war (1926). (5) An issue of the periodical Good Words (1866) with an obituary of FitzRoy. Also copy of `Good words' 1 Jun 1866 (pt VI), an illustrated monthly magazine edited by Norman MacLeod with `An overland journey from San Francisco to New York by way of the Salt Lake City' by Edmund Hope Verney and an article on FitzRoy marked. Other Titles - Good words; an illustrated monthly magazine edited by Norman MacLeod Quantity: 1 box(es) (16 items, plus 48 leaves typescript and periodical issue). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1844-1851

By: Whytlaw, Matthew, -1879; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: MS-Papers-1095

Description: Largely correspondence concerning claim against the Imperial Government for loss of debentures and property at the sacking of Kororareka by Hone Heke Pokai, Mar 1846, and when Matthew and John Whytlaw were trading there. Some official correspondence with NZ Colonial Secretary's Office Quantity: 1 folder(s) (35 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from the estate of K A Webster, London, 1970

Date: 1845-1883

By: Matthews family; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: MS-Papers-4085

Description: Consists of three letters. Two are written by Joseph Matthews. One, dated 26.3.1845 is written from Kaitaia and is to his mother in Oxfordshire. It comments on his family and Hone Heke Pokai's raid on the flagstaff at Kororareka. The second, dated 12.7.1876 Kaitaia is to Rev C.C. Fenn and mentions the ministry of Hohepa Poutama, Maori health issues and encloses samples of writing from Awanui school pupils. The third letter is dated 30.8.1883 and written [to Joseph Matthews?] by Dunn, in Maori asking for a loan. On the back of this letter Joseph Matthews comments on Dunn and the letter. Source of title - supplied title Joseph Matthews was born in Oxfordshire in 1808. He was appointed as a reader and assistant chaplain for the CMS on a convict ship for passage to Sydney in 1831. There he was initiated as a catechist and on 26 Mar 1832 he landed at Paihia. In 1833 he married the eldest daughter of the Rev R Davis. Appointed to assist Puckey in establishing a station at Kaitaia, Matthews was involved especially in carrying on meetings for Maori teachers and operating a small printing press. He attended St John's College in 1844 and was ordained a priest in 1859. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 items). Physical Description: Holographs and mss