Places

Date: 1828-1880

By: Burgess, Isaac James, 1824-1904

Reference: MS-Papers-1585

Description: Comprises baptismal certificate, school records, indenture certificate; correspondence with Alfred Domett, the Colonial Secretary, when Burgess was commander of HM colonial brig `Victoria' (1847-1850); papers relating to his duties as chief harbourmaster and pilot at Auckland (1868-1894), including testimonials from Gore Browne and Sir George Grey; and brief family history Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescripts Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs transferred to Photographs.

Date: 1843

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Sinclair, Andrew, 1794-1861

Reference: E-143-010

Description: Side view of two fish, one a swordfish Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink drawing

Date: 1848 - 1846

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Sinclair, Andrew, 1794-1861

Reference: E-143-012

Description: Three drawings of Maori by J J Merrett. Three natural history drawings by Andrew Sinclair. From the top of the page, a watercolour of a sponge; a Maori couple embracing; head and shoulders frontal portrait of 'Watson' a young man of Waingaroa; A further sponge; outlines of several beetles; a profile view of a Maori man in a cloak, in front of a tree fern and flax Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolours, ink and wash, pencil and pen and ink drawings

Date: 1848 - 1846

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Sinclair, Andrew, 1794-1861

Reference: E-143-013

Description: Two drawings of Maori by J J Merrett. Two natural history drawings by Andrew Sinclair. From the top of the page, two watercolours of Auckland sponges, dated 1846; two small portraits of Maori, one of a woman in a pa setting, with a whare and a pataka behind her, one of a couple with another man, near an iron cooking pot. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolours, ink and wash, pencil and wash drawings

Date: 1851-1869

By: Geddes, David, -1870

Reference: MS-Papers-1548

Description: Letterbook has copies of letters to John H Challis, Dr A Sinclair and Walter Grahame, Geddes' attorney, on property in New Zealand; contain instructions on purchase and selling; financial, legal, personal matters; comments on Maori affairs. Also biographical information on Geddes' career as ships surgeon Quantity: 2 folder(s) (1 volume & 4 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: [ca 1840s-1876]

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0728A

Description: Names of identifiable correspondents entered in Name Field. Papers also include letter to Susan Strang [?]; List of books headed `Mechanics Institute'; List of Maori who signed deed of conveyance; Richmond letter; letter re Basil [Taylor?]; List of people sent invitations to ball at Police Barracks [New Plymouth]; letter re capture of Te Kooti; list of politicians and where they resided when in Wellington (undated); memo relating to Ngati Maru & Ngati Paoa. Language - Includes some letters in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 5 Apr-21 Aug 1848

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: qMS-1208

Description: Copies of letters relating to police matters, Maori and the purchase of land. They are signed by McLean in his capacity as Inspector of Police, New Plymouth. Correspondents include Lieut-Governor Eyre, Andrew Sinclair (Colonial Secretary), Henry Halse, William Gisborne and W B Chamberlain. Some of the letters are written in Maori. Includes a chronological index to the letters at the front of the volume listing name of the addressee and the subject matter of the letter. Arrangement: qMS-1206-1212 are boxed together Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1954

By: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-184-038

Description: A group of men dance and clap as an ancient man with '"Gaffer" parliamrnt printed on his vest skips under the joined hands of PM Sid Holland and leader of the opposition Walter Nash. Above them are decorations that include a placard bearing the words 'Happy "100th" Gran'dad'. Context - the celebrations marking the one hundredth anniversary of the first meeting of parliament in May 1854. The first colonial secretary was Andrew Sinclair. At bottom of cartoon in pencil is text reading 'What a constitution!' and '3 col Today Monday 24th May '54'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pastel on paper, 390 x 560 mm

Date: 1863

Reference: MapColl-os832.1196gbbd/1863/Acc.1320

Description: Cadastral map of Kororareka showing the original streets and alteration proposals of Mr Cass and the original boundaries of claims and of the lands granted under the Lands Claims Settlement Acts 1856-1858. Shows named streets, numbered lots, large blocks belonging to, for example Bishop Pompallier, the Church Missionary Society, Reverend C. Baker or the Kororareka Land Company, and individual sections along streets. Also shows Native blocks. Signed "A true copy of the original plan" by Andrew Sinclair, C.G.S., 17 Dec. 1863 Original was on long-term loan to Pompallier House, Russell 24/6/57. See correspondence on TL 1/14 Pompallier House. See correspondence on TL: 1/T4 - Pompallier House Gill & copies on TL: 3/1/6 made in 17/8/78. Returned 16/12/2011, see correspondence on C.AA.001.002.002. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - A true copy of the original plan, Andrew Sinclair C.G.S., 17 Dec. 1863 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, linen backed, partially col., 91 x 109 cm.

Date: 1828-1953

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2080

Description: Selected records of the Manchester Regiment (formerly the 63rd and 96th Regiments), and their service in Tasmania and in New Zealand in 1845-1847 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP

Date: 1842-1860

By: Sinclair, Andrew, 1794-1861

Reference: MS-1947

Description: Sinclair was an eminent botanist and the journals record excursions around Auckland, Whangarei, Coromandel and Otago and are chiefly about the botany of the regions, with observations about geology, Maori occupation and people. The correspondence is both personal and official and includes letters from FitzRoy, Donald McLean, Shortland, Sidney Herbert, Grey, Gore Browne and others with a small number from Sinclair on political and current matters. Not all correspondents have been entered in the Names field. Relationship complexity - Original mss material, and carbon copy of this item, at qMS-1809-1812. Transferred from Parliamentary Library in 1977. Dr Andrew Sinclair was a physician and Colonial Secretary, 1844-1856 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 200 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; brown buckram) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Estate of G H Scholefield, 1966

Date: 1868-1895, n d

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0037-245

Description: Draft reports and letters by Haast on the geology of Canterbury; also letters referring inter alia, to the drowning of Dr Andrew Sinclair in 1861, and a letter from Alexander Shand on the culture of the Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Finding Aids: Inventory available.