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Date: 1851-1852

By: Williams, William, 1800-1878

Reference: MS-2436

Description: Henry Williams' copy of William Williams' journal; includes statements before the committee of the Church Missionary Society concerning the charges of Governor Grey against the missionaries in New Zealand aand the accusations against Archdeacon Henry Williams Source of title - Transcribed Variations in title - On title page: H W's copy of William Williams' journal in London Quantity: 1 volume(s) (172 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, blue buckram)

Date: [1960?s]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-57

Description: Scrapbook of brochures, information sheets for guests, photographs and other papers relating to the various hotels within the THC organisation and the services they provide Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1830-1866

By: Busby, James, 1802-1871

Reference: qMS-0347

Description: Letters to James Busby, 1830-1866 and letters from Busby to his brother, Alexander, 1830-1839. The letters to his brother provide a detailed record of his activities as British Resident at Waitangi. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (37, 126 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; black buckram)

Date: 1897

By: Holman, Elizabeth Ann, 1824-1917

Reference: qMS-0993

Description: Most of the reminiscences describe life at Whangarei where her husband was mainly engaged in the flax industry. He also spent some time mining and working as a builder at Thames. Elizabeth recalls Hone Heke's sacking of Kororakea in 1845 and subsequent evacuation of Whangarei settlers to Auckland. The Holmans eventually returned to Whangarei where Henry operated a flax mill until the family moved to the Thames goldfields in 1867. A revival of the flax industry saw them once again return to Whangarei. They retired to Auckland where Henry died in 1894 Relationship complexity - Holograph with ms annotations at MS-Papers-3881 Mrs Holman first came out to Hokianga in 1840. In 1841 she married Henry Charles Holman at Kororareka, and they spent some time at the Bay of Islands, and in Auckland where Henry was appointed Superintendent of Public Works. He later bought land at Mimiwhangata in Whangarei County. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (52 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; green linen)

Date: 1827-1867

By: Baker, Charles (Rev), 1803-1875

Reference: qMS-0109

Description: Describes in detail his career as a missionary in the Bay of Islands, Gisborne, the East Coast, and in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty; covers his missionary work, personal life, Maori and settler life and events such as the war in the Bay of Plenty region Accompanying material - Copy of letter dated 28 Jul 1959 from librarian at Auckland Institute and Museum describing circumstances of the copying Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34cm, blue linen) Processing information: Copies of the five originals have been bound into one volume

Date: 22 Feb 1818-28 Feb 1825

By: Lawry, Walter (Rev), 1793-1859

Reference: qMS-1142

Description: Covers Lawry's chaplaincy aboard the convict ship Lady Castlereagh; work as a methodist minister at Parramatta 1818-1820; departure for Tonga and visit to Bay of Islands Jan 1822; Tongan years 1822-1823; return to England 1825 and first few months there. Entries generally made weekly. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (155 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (Carbon copy), 38 cm, green buckram

Date: [circa 1925]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Cole, Herbert Robert, 1890-1962

Reference: A-472-017

Description: Drawing of the whaling ship 'Charles W Morgan', off the Bay of Islands. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Herbert R Cole [in brushpoint]; Verso - top right - J Cowan [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 214 x 262 mm

Date: 1933-1935

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-087

Description: Published by A H and A W Reed, 1935. Also includes a letter, dated 28 January 1934, from an unknown author who resided at Otorohanga, who was related to the Mair and Greenway families. The letter writer speaks of growing up in Russell, at Bishop Pompallier's house, which according to the writer was 'a ruin - before we lived in it'. Also includes clippings of articles relating to the Mair family, dated 1933. The book contains a handwritten message to James Cowan written from the author, dated 1935. The author was nee Lavinia Laura Mair. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: One volume with a folder containing clippings and a letter

Date: 6 Sep 1840-20 Jul 1844

By: Baker, Charles (Rev), 1803-1875

Reference: qMS-0111

Description: Account of work as missionary at the Bay of Islands, then at Tauranga and Uawa, near Gisborne Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (51 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (33cm, blue linen)

Date: 1823-1878 (1965)

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: qMS-2239

Description: Extracts from Williams family letters and diaries compiled by Mrs E L Gardiner and Miss Fanny Marsh, ca 1880 Relationship complexity - Ms of extracts at MS-2413-2414 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (141 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue buckram)

Date: 1820

By: McCrae, Alexander, 1799-1861

Reference: qMS-1172

Description: Comprises copies of McCrae's diary (pp1-24); a similar diary, extending somewhat later, and perhaps complete, with variations in the text as if both were written from some shorter memorandum (pp25-39c); parts of a sea-diary, evidently in McCrae's handwriting describing the voyage of the `Dromedary' to the landing of the convicts (ie the outward voyage) (pp39d-39f); a list of native chiefs in NZ (pp 40-42); notes on NZ (pp43-49); some scraps of notes (pp50-51) McCrae visited the Bay of Islands, Whangaroa and Hokianga harbours and writes of his experiences meetingt Maori and missionaries and describes many of the personalities he met including Kendall and Hongi Hika Language - Some notes in Maori (pp 40-42) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (51 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; ½ brown calf, brown linen) Provenance: McCrae's sister, Mrs Thomas, sent the originals to Sir Frederick Chapman; this typescript was made by Miss Hardie in 1925

Date: [ca 1930-1945]

From: Scott, Donald David (Very Rev), 1875-1948 : Papers

Reference: MSZ-0605

Description: Mention is made of John Marmon on pages 93 & 117 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1834-1910

By: Fairburn, Edwin, 1827-1911

Reference: qMS-0710

Description: Reminiscences of the Bay of Islands, 1830s-1840s; letter from Fairburn's sister, Esther Hickson (1908); and extract on Hongi Hika from Carleton's life of Henry Williams. Records an early amputation of an infected leg carried out by William Williams, assisted by E T Fairburn, at Paihia, on a Mr Gray, a blacksmith, ca 1832. Mention of "first game of cricket in New Zealand" at Paihia, ca 1832 or 1833. Also contains detailed instructions for snaring birds including korimako (bell-bird) and sea gull Source of title - Title page Edwin Fairburn was the son of the CMS missionary, William Fairburn. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (54 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, blue pam case)

Date: 1841-1846

From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers

Reference: 88-103-1/09

Description: Transcript of correspondence from Joseph Dalton Hooker, then with the HMS Erebus on the Ross Antarctic expedition, to his father, Sir William Hooker. Includes transcript of J D Hooker's diary while in New Zealand waters Aug-Nov 1841. Describes in detail the Bay of Islands, residents, and plants. Also transcripts of correspondence, principally on botanical subjects, between Colenso and Sir William Hooker 1840-1846. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Sep 1831-1868

By: Puckey, William Gilbert, 1805-1878

Reference: qMS-1665-1666

Description: Puckey was a missionary at Kaitaia Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Typed transcript (34 cm; ¼ blue morocco) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1839-1894

By: Smales, Gideon, 1817-1894

Reference: Micro-MS-0304

Description: Includes shipboard journal kept on board the `Triton' from Bristol to Hokianga, 1839-1840; record of a journey from Mangungu to the Bay of Islands and from there to the Thames in search of the body of Rev John Bumby, 1840; journal of the trip in 1842 from Hokianga to Aotea Mission Station and back via Auckland; notes and draft letters before, during and after the voyage from New Zealand to England on board the `Sussex', 1859; journal of the voyage from England to New Zealand aboard the `Nourmahal', 1859; notebook, 1860; extracts from the log of the `Northumberland on the voyage from Auckland to London, 1862; copies of poems; M A Smales exercise book, 1863, with some miscellaneous papers; journal of voyage from Auckland to San Francisco in the steamship `Nebraska', 1871; copies of articles from the `New Zealand Herald, 1893-1894 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (958 frames). Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 30 September 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is in the staff backfile..

Date: 1841-1843, 1880-1882 (transcribed 2014)

By: Laslett, Thomas, 1811-1887

Reference: MSDL-2285

Description: Electronic transcription of Thomas Laslett's New Zealand journal (4) by Meri Low with support from Dr Neville Ritchie and David Wilton. The transcription was commissioned by the Department of Conservation and completed in September 2014. This transcribed journal was one of three journals re-written by Laslett in 1878-1881 from his original diaries from his four visits to New Zealand in 1833-1834, 1837-1838, 1839-1841, 1841-1843. The journals contain original drawings from the original diaries. On his first voyage, Laslett was carpenter on the HMS Buffalo assisting the Surveyors. And was Timber Inspector for the Admiralty on the HMS Buffalo for three voyages and the HMS Tortoise for the last. The journals contain full descriptions of the ship parties' activities, including descriptions of places, Maori villages, Maori practices, disputes between Maori and between Maori and the ship's party, timber collecting practices including employment of Maori labour, problems between crew and officers, European population, and descriptions of flora. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Provenance: Transcription commissioned by the Department of Conservation

Date: 12 Mar 1827, 1993

From: Ollivier, Isabel, 1949-2020: Research notes relating to French explorers to New Zealand

Reference: MSDL-0043

Description: Transcript and translation of letter from Lesson to his brother, Rene Primevere Lesson, describing the voyage to New Zealand and the political situation with regard to missionaries and the Maori in the Bay of Islands area. Written from the Bay of Islands. Arrangement: The files are named using the original references and a language identifier. `F' signifies a French transcription and `E' the English translation. Quantity: 2 Electronic document(s).