MANUSCRIPT
Diary
- Date
- May-Jul 1848, Dec 1848-Jan 1849
- Reference
- MS-1222
- Description
Contains rough diary entries for negotiations around the Wanganui area in May-July 1848 and a visit to Wellington in from December 1848 to January. The later account includes accounts of meetings with the Governor and other officials, his enjoyment of the Wellington Highland Games, and his account of a meeting, accompanying Lieutenant-Governor Eyre, with local Maori about Rangitikei land on his way back overland. As with other diaries in this series the entries are interspersed with notes (including a long discussion of American treaties with tribes) and draft letters describing his actions.
Other - Transcript of the journal entries are in MS-1285
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Holograph
- Additional description
MS-1220-1230 are boxed together
Alternative form available: Microfilm available. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0664-3
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers / Diaries and notebooks
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts, Holograph
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