MANUSCRIPT
Diary
- Date
- 7-13 Aug 1844, 28 Nov 1844, 16 Dec 1846-9 Jan 1847, 17-19 Apr 1847
- Reference
- MS-1218
- Description
Diary entries for 16 December 1846 through to 9 January 1847, and 17-19 April 1847, which includes detailed descriptions of activities around New Plymouth and at Maori settlements to the south (the 18-20 December portions of which are also copied into MS-1217). Included are long passages of reminiscences recounted to McLean by a Mr Bosworth whose trading post near Patea McLean stayed with for several days, from 22-24 December, on the way south. Bosworth had been living in New Zealand for 19 years and McLean was fascinated by his fund of stories.
Included are loose pages with rough notes giving diary entries and lists of documents for late 1844.
Other - The 1846 entries are transcribed in MS-1284, and the 1847 entries in MS-1285
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Holograph
- Additional description
MS-1215-1219 are boxed together
Alternative form available: Microfilm available. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0664-2
- 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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