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Date: 1826-1935

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2991

Description: Comprises photographs of the Smith family, details of the Paddy Henderson fleet, passenger lists 1871-1880, various shipping papers, family correspondence, all relevant to Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1875-[ca 1930]

By: Mackay, Robert Percy, 1862-1948

Reference: MS-Group-0337

Description: Consists of 3 logs written by Mackay on the whaling ship Splendid for the years 1875-1877. The logs detail the voyages of the ship from Port Chalmers to various places around New Zealand, the Southern Ocean and into the Pacific. Also contains discharge papers dated Oct 1877; an annotated copy of `The Cruise of the Cachalot' by Frank T Bullen published in 1899 and an annotated proof of a galley for a newspaper article, ca 1930s, reporting on Mackay's life and his claim that Bullen's 1899 book was in fact based on the Splendid. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 4 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Quilters Bookshop, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1849-1870 (1909)

By: Orbell, Macleod Clement, 1838-1914

Reference: MS-1731-1732

Description: Includes description of voyage to New Zealand on the `Mariner' in 1849 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; brown calf)

Date: 1868-1869

By: Green, George, active 1860

Reference: qMS-0881

Description: Annotated copy of petition to Legislative Council covering land on Stewart Island that the South Island claimed to have been purchased between 1830 and 1840. Letters from Green to W B D Mantell and Andrew Buchanan; copies of letters to Green from Alfred Domett and Land Claims Commission. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (31 cm, ¼ red morocco, pink boards) Transfers: Transferred from qPAM, 22 April 1976.

Date: 1860s

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: Micro-Art-004

Description: 1. Sketchbook of a journey up the Rangitikei River 1862 (51 drawings); 2.Sketchbook of a journey to Havelock and the Pelorus Sound and Central Otago, 1864 (75 drawings); 3. A journey up the Manawatu River, 1862 (94 drawings); 4.Journey up the Wanganui River, 1861 & 1862 and other journeys (71 drawings - ); 5. A journey from Upper Hutt to Waikanae, Jan 1863. 6. A journey to the Waikato, Feb. 1864; 7 & 8. A journey to the Wairarapa, 1863. Physical Description: Negative microfilm (486 frames)

Date: 1873-1928

By: Baker, Josephine Harriette Anne, 1858-1913

Reference: MS-Papers-0167

Description: Mainly diaries and inward correspondence from her husband, relations and friends including Flora Acland, 1879-1885; Fanny Bagot, 1875-1876; her grandmother, F. A. Dicken, 1879; sister Ada Dicken, 1876-1899, Beatrice `Bebe' Knight, 1899, and Eleanor Inman, 1873-1899; Emma Packe, n.d.; her aunt Augusta Parker, 1875-1889; and Amelia Soder, 1885; referring to domestic events. Includes reminiscences of her childhood in England written between 1891 and 1905. Also essays, recipe books, poetry, sketches and other writings, as well as some personal material associated with her husband who had a private school for boys at French Farm, Akaroa Includes shipboard diary kept by T S Baker on board the Dallam Tower, 11 May-26 Jul 1873, and a fragment of the original passenger list. The ship left London in May 1873. The ship encountered a cyclone in July 1873 which dismasted the ship. Some passengers were transshipped to the `Cape Clear' for Sydney and others stayed on the `Dallam Tower' to Melbourne where they transshipped to the SS Albion for the final voyage to New Zealand Josephine `Dodo' Dicken emigrated from England in 1873 with her father Thomas and sisters and brothers. The Family settled on a property at French Farm, Banks Peninsula. She married Thomas Southey Baker in Christchurch, 17 December 1878. They had four daughters. Quantity: 86 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1974

By: Main, Colleen Patricia, active 1974-1994

Reference: MS-Papers-1356

Description: Includes information on his descendants Source of title - Transcribed John Dewe came to Port Chalmers on the `Blundell' in 1848 and settled in Milton in 1850. He became Resident Magistrate; active in establishing Anglican Church. Ordained in 1874, was vicar of Clyde and elsewhere in Otago. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (42 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1988-1989

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-09

Description: Rita Ellen Lee's reminiscence of her teaching career in Canterbury, Southland and Otago, 1928-1958; Miss L Leonard's reminiscence of Marlborough School, 1905-1907; R Hazel Lill's reminiscence of Willowby School, 1911-1917; Mrs Laura Law (nee Mawhinney), Eweburn School; W E Langford's brief history of Hastings Central School, 1875-1975. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript

Date: 1872-1873, 1878-1880

By: Jollie, Edward, 1825-1894

Reference: MS-Papers-4207

Description: Reminiscences of Jollie's early life (1841-1865) commencing with his voyage to Wellington on the `Brougham' (1841-1842). A New Zealand Company survey cadet, he assisted with surveys of Wellington (1842-1845), Otago (1846-1847) and Nelson; also worked on Canterbury Association surveys (1849-1851) with Captain Joseph Thomas. He later practised as a surveyor in Canterbury and was active in provincial and national politics. Source of title - Supplied Variations in title - Two titles given: Diary and Our Great-Grandpa's Diary Retyped in 1971 from an earlier transcription Relationship complexity - Holograph reminiscences with some textual variations at qMS-1071 Jollie was a New Zealand Company and Canterbury Association surveyor, and a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council and the House of Representatives Quantity: 1 folder(s) (44 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) with holograph annotations

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Charles James, 1823-1894

Reference: E-106-f-041-1

Description: Shows three prospectors looking down from a rocky ledge high above the Molyneux (Clutha) River. The settlement of Teviot can be seen in the distance. Wood engraving after the style of C J Nairn. Includes accompanying text. Other Titles - Sketches from the New Zealand gold fields Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 43, Nov 1863, p 504 (after Nairn) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 150 x 240 mm

Date: 1839-1886

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2281

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1854-1926

Reference: MS-Papers-0156

Description: Legal documents concerning the transfer of lands, maintenance of pounds, appointment of trustees, etc Quantity: 31 folder(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-027

Description: This essay tells of the O'Halloran and Fraser families who came from Ireland and Scotland in the 1860s and settled in Otago Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photographs of family members

Date: 1849-1937 (1957)

By: Gregory, John L, active 1957

Reference: MS-1792

Description: Anonymous unpublished historical work with ms annotations. Deals with the history of printing, printing firms and associations, and the newspaper industry in Dunedin and Otago. Copious references to personalities involved. Covers period 1849-1937 Source of title - Title page Relationship complexity - Chapters VIII-XI, omitted from this volume, are at 84-080 Relationship complexity - Similar version to this at 74-162 with authors given as John L Gregory and R V S Perry Quantity: 1 volume(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (26 cm; ¼ red morocco, red buckram)

Date: 1998

From: Isern, Thomas D, 1952- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6453

Description: Title continues:`...The quest for region in the tussock grasslands of New Zealand'. Isern compares his experiences in his quest for region with Samuel Butler and others studied during his year as a Fulbright Scholar based in the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1991; his concern is with grasslands, particularly in Canterbury but also in Otago and Marlborough and he includes full references to material consulted. Accompanying material - Letter from editor, `Turnbull Library record' re non-publication of the article Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-04

Description: Essay on the Jolly, How, Keir, Skeen, Smith, Gray and Hughes families who emigrated to Otago, Canterbury and Southland (1856-1880) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1851-1858 (1910)

By: Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922

Reference: MS-1638-1642

Description: Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly in the Mataura Valley, Southland, on Glenham Station. Includes 2 pages of photocopies of sketches by Mieville; and a Mieville and a Richardson family tree Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to New Zealand on the Dominion, and a voyage home to England via Melbourne, on `Thomas and Henry' and `Royal Charter' in 1857, and return voyage in July 1858 on the `Agra'. Includes diary entries written by his wife, 1854 Publication - Extensive extracts used by Herries Beattie in his histories of Southland Mieville and his future wife Fanny Richardson both immigrated to Lyttelton in 1851 on board the `Dominion' Quantity: 5 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (in red buckram hinged-lid box) Sketches by Mieville

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-52

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Jeffrey Blair Young; brief history of the Young family and land owned by them. The original owner of Heathcote was Samuel Young who purchased 4300 acres in 1905. In 2005 it was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript

Date: 1863-1870

By: Cooper, Thornhill, 1840-1940

Reference: MS-Papers-7106

Description: Comprises photocopies of newspaper articles on Cooper and typescript extracts from journals describing his travels from Hokitika to Panama in 1868, a walk from Dunedin to the West Taieri diggings in 1863 and an excursion by coach and foot from Hokitika to the Otira Gorge in 1870 Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0279 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed (photocopies)

Date: 3 Apr 1868-8 May 1868

By: Hubback, John Henry, 1844-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-1209

Description: Diary extracts describing the writer's visit to New Zealand in 1868; mainly refer to his visit to Canterbury sheep runs, but there are also descriptions of Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington. His route after arrival at Bluff on the SS Auckland, lay overland from Dunedin to Christchurch and Lyttelton, thence by ship to Wellington. He made a brief visit to the Wairarapa before embarking for California Accompanying material - Note re provenance from Margaret Alington Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Deposited by Margaret Alington, 1957, on behalf of Sir John Hubback, Surrey, England