GROUP
Series 3 Frederick Revans Chapman
- Date
- 1872-1936
- By
- Chapman, Frederick Revans (Sir), 1849-1936
- Reference
- Series-4296
- Description
Correspondence and writings of Frederick Revans Chapman, comprising official and correspondence with friends and legal associates; drafts of his writings on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from New Zealand history, Maori antiquity and reminiscences to his research into his father's career and into the Chapman family in general. Legal material only comprises a small proportion of the collection. His extensive family correspondence is held under subseries 3/1, and newspaper clippings and scrapbook material are with subseries 3/2.
Quantity: 94 folder(s).
- Part of
- Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
- Format
- 94 folder(s)
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Notes relating to the islands south of New Zealand
Date: [ca 1887-1891]
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MSX-7938
Description: Notes on shipwrecks on and around the Sub-Antarctic islands, descriptions of the islands and their exploration, compiled preparatory to a trip by Chapman on the Government steamer, Hinemoana, in 1891 Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Governor Phillip in retirement - Notes and correspondence
Date: 1896-1936
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-105
Description: Notes, correspondence and other papers relating to the article Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers re Henry Samuel Chapman and his activities in Canada
Date: [ca 1890]
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-108
Description: Undated material collected by Frederick Revans Chapman concerning his father's activities in Canada in the 1830s Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Inward letters
Date: 1880-1899
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-151
Description: Letters from acquaintances and friends, mainly on non-legal matters. Includes a Miner's Right issued to Chapman, letters concerning Maori culture, botany and proposals for the naming of the Tasman Sea, as well as political gossip, especially re the Seddon Ministry. Not all names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Diary of an excursion to the Sounds of Otago
Date: 1878
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-247
Description: Diary kept on an excursion to the Sounds of Otago (i.e. Fiordland) in the SS Hinemoa. Apparently an official tour, with Sir George Grey on the excursion, as well as the use of the government steamer. Includes other notes and memoranda. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence re Maori sources of greenstone
Date: 1892
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-217
Description: Correspondence with Stephenson Percy Smith re Maori sources of greenstone on the West Coast Quantity: 1 folder(s).
A Walk through Taranaki
Date: 1920, 1844
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-220
Description: Typescript account by Frederick Revans Chapman on his father's travel through Taranaki in 1844. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Governor Phillip in retirement
Date: 1925
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-104
Description: Multiple typescript copies, seperately emended and annotated of a long article by F R Chapman on Governor Phillip's life in England after his return from New South Wales. Material from the Neate family, and from the letters and diaries of Christiana Fanny Chapman are extensively used. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Copy of W B D Mantell's Otago notebook re land purchases geography etc
Date: 1892
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-222
Description: Handwritten copy of Walter Mantell's Otago notebook. The writing is in the hand of Frederick Revans Chapman. Contains lists of Maori names and whakapapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Maori papers
Date: 1846, 1922
From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8670-245
Description: Whakapapa chart of Urewera and Rangitaiki tribes; typescript of Maori census for the Whanganui River; correspondence with the Polynesian Society. Quantity: 1 folder(s).