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Caygill, James, fl 1864 : Voyage to New Zealand / transcribed by Marsha Donaldson (electronic transcription of MS-Papers-3970)
- Date
- 4 Apr-8 Jul 1864, 2001
- By
- Caygill, James, active 1864Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-
- Reference
- MSDL-1279
- Description
Diary attributed to James Caygill from Yorkshire, a married steerage passenger aboard the `Amoor' during a voyage from England to Lyttelton. He describes the ship's progress, weather, shipboard life (interspersed with lines of verse), and his first impressions of Christchurch. Also a poem written by `Speightspeare' (Caygill?) in which he expresses his reason for immigrating
Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).
Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project
- Additional description
Alternative form available: A paper copy is available at MS-Papers-7211. Photocopy of original at MS-Papers-3970
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection / Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945- : Research papers and transcripts
- Format
- 1 Electronic document(s), Diaries, Electronic records (Digital records), Poetry, Transcriptions (Documents), Electronic documents
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