MANUSCRIPT
Letters from Henry Chapman 1770-1863
- Date
- 1846-1847
- By
- Chapman, Henry, 1770-1863; Chapman, Catherine, 1810-1866
- Reference
- MS-Papers-8670-037
- Description
Letters from Henry Chapman, his father, to both H S Chapman and his wife, Catherine. Retail family news, the activities of the New Zealand Company, and of others connected with the Company. Also comments on New Zealand news, including the Fitzroy controversy, opinions of Governor Eyre and on Henry's legal career. Also discusses gravitational and astronomical theory, especially with regard to the discovery of the planet Uranus.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Microfilm available
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers / Series 2 Henry Samuel Chapman
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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