Taylor, Edith Palmer, 1839-1914

Date: 1860s-1900s

Reference: PAColl-6239

Description: Photographs relating to the family of Rev Basil Kirk Taylor. These are part of a larger collection which includes correspondence to and from members of the Taylor family, mainly Rev Basil Kirke Taylor and his wife Edith. There is a typeset letter from Rev Richard Taylor to his daughter Laura, 1847. Diaries and notebooks, mainly kept by Rev Basil Kirke Taylor, although the earliest ones were kept by Rev Richard Taylor and his wife Caroline. The diaries of Basil Taylor record his time in England before ordination, and later when he joined his father at the Wanganui Mission, and up until his premature death in 1876. The privately printed reminiscences of Richard Basil Taylor, the grandson of Rev Basil Taylor, entitled `Family recollections'. These memoirs give details of his missionary forebears, as well as describing his diplomatic career and own family. Includes many photographs and family trees Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1858 - 1885

By: Knight, James P, active 1858; Taylor, Edith Palmer, 1839-1914; Taylor, Basil Kirke (Rev), 1831-1876

Reference: E-591

Description: Sketchbook contains handwritten verses copied from Longfellow, Clara Thwaites, Lord Macauley, and others. These verses are signed and dated 1861 (one at Tewkesbury at that date) through the 1870s, and one slipped in dated 1885. One loose one is by B.K.T. and is entitled "On Mary's rescue from drowning by Bertha at Wanganui Heads, March 16, 1863". Watercolour paintings are stuck in or inserted throughout; some of these are addressed to B.K.T. (Basil Kirke Taylor?), and are by Mrs Barker, I.H. (1859), Jas P Knight (accomplished works showing the River Avon 1858, Lynmouth North Devon 1858), Bertha C A T[aylor] (showing "A view on the Waikato" 1864), Miss K Tylee (Rustic European scene with windmill). There are two anonymous sketches, probably both by the same hand, one showing Coveney Rectory and Church, Oct 4 1855, and the other showing the School House at Coveney built in 1833. There is an anonymous miniature watercolour showing a camel being led over a bridge with three thick stone pillars supporting it. Another small circular miniature painting by Georgina Hardy[?] shows a rural road with two figures in the foreground, and possibly a church along the road in the background. Another page includes a cut-out figure, purported to be by Queen Victoria for Her governess. Inscriptions: Album page - top right - (on front page) :Edith Tylee Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook of 57 leaves, 227 x 183 mm with numerous insertions.

Date: 1861-1878

By: Taylor, Basil Kirke (Rev), 1831-1876

Reference: MS-Papers-1865

Description: Letters and financial reports, 1861-1878; annual letters, 1862-1874 from the Wanganui mission of the CMS. Includes minutes of an Otaki meeting re finance, 1867 and letters of his wife Edith, written after his death. Son of Rev Richard Taylor Quantity: 1 folder(s) (139 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (microfilm printout)

Date: ca1900

Reference: PAColl-4812

Description: These photographs have no certain identification. A Richard Taylor was the vendor at auction. The Pakeha man is Basil M Taylor, father of Richard Taylor (vendor). The Pakeha woman is Edith Taylor. The Maori man may be P Hipango. The location may be the Wanganui district. The photographs were found loose in Richard Taylor's copy of Sir George Grey's "Poems, Traditions and Chants of the Maori" Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1876, 1898

From: Taylor family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6817-09

Description: Letter to sister Bertha from Basil Kirke Taylor, 13 Sep 1876; Edith Taylor to son Basil Maples Taylor, 23 Mar 1898 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1864-1870

From: Taylor family : Papers

Reference: MSX-5577

Description: Inscribed `Miss E P Tylee with W S Cantrell's best wishes, 21 July 1863' Contains brief diary entries 1-4 Jan 1864, 11-31 Apr [1864], 17-21 Oct 1866; notes 1870; household accounts, Apr-May [?]; further brief dated entries 1 Jan-Mar, Dec 1868 Also `Mary's questions', 7th July [?]; and pressed leaf Edith Palmer Tylee married Basil Kirke Taylor on 3 Dec 1863 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Various sketches: Te Ao Marama; Ohinemutu; Big Bush, Havelock, Napier, Dec 1863; Kidnappers from Napier; Ahuriri; The Bluff, Napier, 29 Dec 1863; Castlepoint inside & outside, 30 Dec 1863; Port Nicholson (entrance and lighthouse), 31 Dec 1863; Judges Bay, Taurarua from Sir J Martin's gardens

Date: [1870s-1880s]

From: Harper, Laura Helen Bruce, 1888-1970: Photographs

By: W R & R Gowland (Firm); Foy Brothers (Firm); Smith, W G, active 1860s; Botterill, John, 1817-1881

Reference: PAColl-4395-1

Description: Carte de visite portraits of Samuel Wiley, Mrs Stacpoole, Dr George Stacpoole, Edith Tylee, Tomaki, Ahiwera Te Arero, an unidentified Maori man, and William Selwyn, taken 1860s-1880s by various photographers. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

By: Thompson & Daley (Firm)

Reference: 1/4-008821-G

Description: Mrs Taylor, photographed ca 1870s-1880s by Thompson & Daley. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: ca 1860

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-008153-G

Description: Reverend Basil Taylor and his wife Edith, photographed circa 1860 by William James Harding of Wanganui. They stand before a painted backdrop depicting a colonnade and a landscape. Reverend Taylor is seated on a wooden chair. He wears a suit and holds a book in one hand. His hair is swept back from his forehead and he has side whiskers. Mrs Taylor stands alongside wearing a belted crinoline with loose sleeves, a small collar, and bows down the the front of the bodice. Her hair is parted in the middle and forms two ringlets that fall upon her shoulders. She holds a straw hat in one hand. Around her neck hangs a locket. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - above image - Rev Taylor & wife Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

By: Thompson & Daley (Firm)

Reference: 1/4-008843-G

Description: Mrs Taylor, photographed ca 1870s-1880s by Thompson & Daley. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches