Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, 1813-1877

Date: 1867, 1877

By: Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, 1813-1877

Reference: MS-Papers-2715

Description: Three documents signed by Pomare IV : 1) A legal act transferring some land to the Mission (1867). Text in French and Tahitian. 2) Document in Tahitian with date destroyed 3) Document in Tahitian (1877) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, ms

Date: 1826-1888

By: Great Britain. Consulate (Tahiti)

Reference: Micro-MS-0957

Description: Comprises the administrative correspondence, reports, shipping papers, register of distressed seamen and other papers created by the British Consulate at Papeete, Tahiti. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 10 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available at MS-Papers-7846..

Date: 1844-1845

By: Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, 1813-1877

Reference: MS-Papers-3089

Description: Letter written from Vaiaau, Raiatea, 30 Aug 1844 and addressed to Messrs Howe, Jesson, Joseph and More. Written on two leaves torn from a book and numbered 52 & 53. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1846-1848

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3595

Description: Principally concerning the French occupation of Tahiti about French interest in Hawaii and in other islands. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1936-1937]

From: Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0196-386

Description: Comprises correspondence, articles, notes by Ramsden and others, extracts from Dr Haweis's papers, parts of Ramsden's books and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1845 - 1842

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: E-006-f

Description: A portrait of 'George Pritchard, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul' seated at an open window with the bay of Papeete (Tahiti) visible out of the window, showing 'the chapel, Queen Pomare's palace, natives returning from a weekday service'. Pritchard wears a naval uniform with braid on the raised collar and cuffs. He holds a book in his right hand. A portrait of 'Pomare, Queen of Tahiti, the persecuted Christian, surrounded by her family at the afflictive moment when the French forces were landing'. Pomare is shown dressed in European clothes holding a sleeping baby, with two other small children to the right, an older woman and a man behind her. Uniformed French troops can be seen on the beach outside the window, with a French flag, and sailing ships in the harbour Other Titles - Queen Pomare [spine title] Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured Baxter prints bound within boards, each 268 x 227 mm, covers 380 mm

Date: 1845

From: Baxter, George, 1804-1867 :Pomare, Queen of Tahiti. George Pritchard. London, Designed, printed in oil & published by G. Baxter, patentee [1845]

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867

Reference: E-006-f-002

Description: Shows Queen Pomare, her husband, a servant or friend and three small children, seated by an open window, with a beach visible outside, with French soldiers and ships and canoes in the harbour. A proclamation signed A. DuPetit-Thouars is on a chair in the left foreground and a bible lies on the window-ledge Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) bound with one other. Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 268 x 227 mm on mount 372 x 287 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull

Date: 1845

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Claudet, Antoine-Francois-Jean, 1797-1867

Reference: A-039-043

Description: A portrait of George Pritchard sitting in an armchair at the Moorish-arched window of house on the waterfront at Papeete. The fruit and leaves of a breadfruit tree peep in at the archway. Based on a calotype photograph by A J F Claudet Same image as at E-006-f-001, but lacks letterpress page with extended explanatory title. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 275 x 232 mm

From: Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0188-044

Description: Also Episode III; The tragedy of Thomas Lewis, missionary in Tahiti - Episode IV; The sad story of Tahiti's Queen, Pomare IV and Episode XIII; Robert Louis Stevensen's Cannibal queen Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1843-1850,1892-1894

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: MS-Group-1623

Description: Describes in detail, with illustrations by himself and others, trip to Hong Kong with artillery and sapper detachments, to Sydney and Wellington, where he lived at Wellington, took active part in fighting at Wanganui 1846-1847 and travelled through Taranaki, Wairarapa and Nelson-Picton. Includes loose documents, maps and letters, including one from Bishop Selwyn and from Maori acquaintances including Tamihana Te Rauparaha and Mete Kingi 1847-1852. Describes members of Wellington society 1848-1850. Lists Maori tribes and population figures. Describes Tasmania on voyage home. Volume 2 describes return voyage to England and describes Tahiti, Hawaii, San Francisco, Acapulco and Panama. Relationship complexity - Vol 1 purchased at Sotheby's, Nov 1970; copy of Vol 2 provided by John Howell Books, San Francisco, 1971 (Acc 143,936-7); original of Vol 2 purchased from William Reese Company, United States of America, Jul 2006 (A2006-159) Relationship complexity - See also Collinson's letters at MS-Papers-1038, and his sketches held in the Drawing and Prints Collection. Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (40 cm; 35 cm; green buckram) (also a photocopy of vol two) Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Sketches from vol 2. Includes illustrations and maps

Date: 1845

From: Baxter, George, 1804-1867 :Pomare, Queen of Tahiti. George Pritchard. London, Designed, printed in oil & published by G. Baxter, patentee [1845]

By: Baxter, George, 1804-1867; Claudet, Antoine-Francois-Jean, 1797-1867

Reference: E-006-f-001

Description: Shows portrait of George Baxter in uniform sitting in an armchair at the Moorish-arched window of a house on the waterfront. Fruit and leaves of a breadfruit tree are visible through the arch. Based on a calotype photograph by A J F Claudet Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) bound with one other. Physical Description: Coloured Baxter print 268 x 227 mm on mount 380 x 290 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull

Date: [1880s?]

From: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922 :Maori and Polynesian photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Davey, Frank, 1860-; Davey Photo Company

Reference: PA1-f-071

Description: Photographs of various Pacific Islands, particulary Tonga, Hawaii and Tahiti, probably taken during the 1880s The photographers vary, and include the Burton Brothers who took most of the Tongan photographs when visiting in 1884; some of the Hawaiian views were taken by Davey Photo Co. The photographers are not identified in many cases. Inscriptions: Album page - "from Mr S Percy Smith" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown textured cloth cover, black leather corners and spine; 38 x 32 cm

By: Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, 1813-1877

Reference: MS-Papers-2034

Description: Contents: Letter in Tahitian about payment of debts, with translation in English

Date: Jul-Oct 1844

By: Pomare family

Reference: MS-Papers-0827/6

Description: Comprises copies of two letters from Queen Pomare to Commodore Bruat (Jul-Oct 1844); copy of translations by J Platt of letters of Queen Pomare, including two to Lord George Paulet expressing concern over the French seizure of her lands (Jul 1844) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1844-1845

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3592

Description: Principally concerning the French occupation of Tahiti and the Pritchard Affair. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 186-]

By: Mountain, (Mrs), active 1860s?

Reference: MSI-Papers-3477

Description: Note on one folded sheet (with one photostat copy) concerning specimens of tapa cloth made from the paper mulberry tree in Tahiti for Queen Pomare; from the bread fruit tree in the Marquesas as a present for a chief; and a third, also from the bread fruit tree, at Pitcairn Island, made by George Adams's wife. Source of title - Supplied title Other - Formerly Misc MS 1143 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and tapa cloth samples

Date: 1789-1951

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2636

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1845

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3593

Description: Principally concerning the French occupation of Tahiti and the Pritchard affair, concern about French interest in Hawaii and in other islands. Also some information French Catholic missionaries in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1834-1866

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1547

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1818-1836

By: Pomare II, King of Tahiti, 1774-1821; Pōmare IV, Queen of Tahiti, 1813-1877

Reference: MS-Papers-3681

Description: Letters, with translations; letter by Pomare II to Mr William Pascoe Crook, dated October 1818 (letter is written in mati, and has an English translation); letter written by Pomare II to Rev Thomas Haweis, dated 1818; letter, and translation, written by Tamatoa Vahine, wife of the Chief of Raiatea, father-in-law to King Pomare, dated 1834; letter by Queen Pomare IV to Mrs. Haweis, dated 1836; letter from D.Darling, missionary of Tahiti to Mr.Tarn, London, concerning church matters, dated 1825; facsimile of a letter from Paofai, the secretary of the Tahitian Auxiliary Missionary Society, dated 1836; descriptive labels. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs