MANUSCRIPT
Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922 : Reminiscences / transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson
- Date
- 1851-1858, 1910 (2000)
- By
- Mieville, Frederick Louis, 1830-1922Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-; Mieville, Fanny Stokes, 1836-1912
- Reference
- MS-Papers-6938
- Description
Reminiscences written in 1910 of Mieville's life in New Zealand, mainly on Glenham Station in the Mataura Valley, Southland, and in Dunedin; transcribed and indexed by Marsha Donaldson.
Includes shipboard accounts of the voyage to Port Chalmers on the 'Dominion' in 1851 with the Richardson family, a voyage home to England via Melbourne on the 'Thomas and Henry', and 'Royal Charter' in 1857, and the return voyage to Port Chalmers in 1858 on 'Agra'. He includes some of his wife's diary entries in his reminiscences. His first year in New Zealand was spent at Otepopo on the sheep station owned by Charles Suisted. He married Fanny Richardson in Dunedin in 1854.
Source of title - Supplied
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (106, 7 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres.
Finding Aids: Accompanied by index to people and ships mentioned, and some places.
Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Marsha Donaldson, Upper Hutt (Nov 2000)
- Additional description
Alternative form available: A digital copy is available at MSDL-1272
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection / Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945- : Research papers and transcripts
- Format
- 1 folder(s) (106, 7 leaves), 0.02 Linear Metres, Transcriptions (Documents), Personal narratives, Autobiographies, Manuscripts
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