Missionaries - Diaries

Date: 21 Mar 1835-10 Apr 1850

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: qMS-0277-0278a

Description: Comprises typescript copy of Brown's diary (1835-1846); and microfilm printout (1847-1850). A journal kept while Brown was a missionary for the Church Missionary Society at Matamata, Tauranga and the Bay of Islands. He describes conversion and education of Maori, inter-tribal war while at Matamata and his journey on HMS `Rattlesnake' with James Busby and Samuel Marsden from the Bay of Islands to Queen Charlotte Sound (1837). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm printout (35 cm; red buckram & phase box)

Date: 1862

By: Buller, James (Rev), 1812-1884

Reference: MS-0354

Description: Buller describes his daily activities and his pastoral work, listing peole visited, services taken, leisure activities and especially meeting with other church men Source of title - Catalogued from wrappers Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 130 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (20 cm; ¼ blue morocco, blue linen)

Date: [ca 1900-1906]

By: Engst, Johannes Gottfried, 1819-1910

Reference: MSX-6305

Description: Journal in English and German including notes for sermons, material on land titles, Maori leases, European settlement in general and detailed outline of the original aims of the mission and Engst's personal friction with particular settlers Language - Some of the journal is in German Source of title - Supplied Engst and four other Evangelical missionaries from the Gossner Mission of Berlin arrived at the Chatham Islands in 1843 Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1839-1843

By: Ironside, Samuel, 1814-1897

Reference: Micro-MS-0474

Description: Diary kept while Ironside was in New Zealand as a Methodist missionary. Includes description of mission stations and of the Wairau affray. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 150 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [ca 1931-1932]

By: Watkin, James, active 1931-1932

Reference: MSX-2752

Description: Scrapbook of clippings including the diary of the Rev James Watkin from the `Press' re the first South Island mission including memories of Te Rauparaha, `Bloody Jack', visit of Pompallier, Maori events, whaling, surveying and other matters. Also, `A Surveyor's diary' by John Baker, poems, `The Return to nature; youth movement' by Frank Milner, `Banks Peninsula' by Prof R Speight, `Birds of Banks Peninsula' by J C Andersen, `Native plants of the Peninsula' by R M Laing, `Youth hostels on Banks Peninsula' by E M Jacobsen and `Maori curios and Maoris on Banks Peninsula' by Louis Vanioni; `Seventy years ago' by Rev Samuel Lawry; and address, `Early days in Woolston' by W H R Dale Also articles re various wedding anniversaries for the Priests, and the Lawrys; 75th anniversary of the Durham Street Methodist Church and 70th anniversary of St Mary's, Heathcote; `Early Canterbury, privately printed books' by A H Johnston'; civic welcome to the Cobhams; articles by Peraki; and other topics Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1883-1891

By: Hutchin, John Joseph Knight (Rev), 1857-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-1746

Description: Diaries kept while Hutchin was principal of London Missionary Society Training College for Native Teachers in Rarotonga. He comments on college affairs, Rarotongan society, land problems, commerce, language and lore. Later entries more concerned with LMS business. Source of title - Supplied title Rev Hutchin was principal of the LMS's Training College for Native Teachers (1883-1891) Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies) Provenance: Rev Hutchin was the grandfather of owner of the originals, Mrs Tereora E Pethick

Date: [1883?]-1919 - [2004]

By: Keam, Ronald Frank, 1932-2019

Reference: ATL-Group-00573

Description: Comprises collection of material relating to Alfred Fairbrother's time as a Baptist Māori Missionary in the Rotorua region from 1883 to 1886. Collection includes a handwritten journal by Alfred Fairbrother containing Māori hymns, clippings, and diary entries relating to his life in Te Wairoa and Ōhinemutu, particularly his interactions with local Māori. Also includes a folder comprising handwritten notes, a transcript of Bible passage Job 22.21, a greeting postcard, and two booklets relating to Egypt. Also includes four photographs, comprising one glass lantern slide portrait of Fairbrother, taken by Josiah Martin between 1883 and 1886, a digital print of the same image (likely made by Ron Keam), one albumen print of the Pink and White Terraces, annotated verso, and one albumen print of a man, possibly Fairbrother, with an annotation verso that reads "Road to Hot Lake New Zealand North". Both albumen prints were taken by an unknown photographer circa 1883. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w lantern slide(s). 2 folder(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The collection was sent by descendants of Alfred Fairbrother to Associate Professor Ron Keam of the University of Auckland, who authored books about Alfred Fairbrother and other Baptist Māori Missionaries, and the Tarawera eruption. Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: 1830-1859

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-4403

Description: These papers consist of inward correspondence to Brown and three of his journals recounting his early visits to the Waikato and Bay of Plenty in the 1830s. The papers also include correspondence between Robert Maunsell and Bishop Selwyn and other documents concerning the Church Missionary Society. Source of title - Supplied title Accompanying material - Note in backfile on Henry William Nixon. These papers came from his estate Church Missionary Society missionary at Bay of Plenty and Tauranga. Quantity: 6 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Transfers: To Book Collections - A number of publications, mainly religious texts in Maori have been transferred to the printed collections..

Date: 17 May 1824-27 Jan 1826 (1937)

By: Loomis, Elisha, -1837

Reference: MSX-8779

Description: Mr and Mrs Elisha Loomis were among the first missionaries sent by the American Board Commissioners of Foreign Missions to begin missionary work in the Sandwich, or as they were later known, Hawaiian Islands. In 1824 Loomis made a special tour of the island Hawaii. He was a printer in charge of the various publications of the mission. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (68 pages). Physical Description: Typed transcript (28 cm; light brown cloth) Finding Aids: Chronological and alphabetical indexes (the latter called `glossary').

Date: 1836-1876

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0417

Description: Comprises diaries 1835-1876, covering his missionary career from commencement to to his retirement; hymns in the Samoan language, letters to his second wife, Lydia Lantoret 1870-1876, together with some of her own letters to the family 1870-1882. Source of title - Transcribed Nisbet served as a LMS missionary on Samoa and the New Hebrides for much of his life. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also `Complete Annotated Catalogue' (Canberra, PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: 1907, [19--]

By: Coats family

Reference: MS-Group-1670

Description: Diary with a partial transcript recording the travels of Canon Coats as an Anglican missionary with the Bishop in the Pacific Islands, Sep-Nov 1907. The diary commences on Friday 13 September 1907 as Coats' vessel leaves Norfolk Island heading to Vila, New Herbrides. The diary recounts his missionary activities including meeting parishioners, conducting religious services, attending funerals and baptisms. Coats often details the lives of the local people he meets, their rites, customs and social arrangements. Church matters are also discussed including some of the duties of the Bishop. From the diary it is unclear which vessel Coats is travelling on, but it would appear to be a steamer, and is skippered by Captain Hawkins. The partial transcript of the diary covers the period 13 September to 15 October 1907. This material is accompanied by biographical information detailing Canon Coats' life. Source of title - Supplied by Library From 1902-1908 Robert Coats was a lay missionary for the diocese of Melanesia and organising secretary for the Melanesia Mission in the South Island of New Zealand. Returned home from the Solomon Islands in 1908 after contracting malaria. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph & typescript

Date: 2009 (1843-1866)

By: Oettli, Peter Henry (Professor), 1940-

Reference: MS-Group-1829

Description: Comprises typed transcripts in German of the Riemenschneider papers held at the Staatsarchiv at Bremen; includes reports, correspondence, diaries and other papers relating to Riemenschneider's involvement wuth the Evangelical Mission; covers Nelson, Motukarumu, Otago and Warea. Includes index in final volume Source of title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - Micro-MS-0880 holds microfim copies of North German missionary material, taken from the Bremen Staatsarchiv Quantity: 8 volume(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Prof. P Oettli, 2010

Date: 1842-1917

By: Brown, George (Rev), 1835-1917

Reference: Micro-MS-0967

Description: Papers concerning Brown's life as a missionary in Oceania. Comprise missionary journals 1860-1871, 1874-1880, 1888-1890, 1897; letter books 1865-1880, 1886-1890, 1902-1909; miscellaneous volumes of correspondence and papers, including Tongan papers 1842, 1881-1892; letters from natives 1870-1916; scientific and ethnological papers 1877-1917; papers on Polnesian and Melanesian languages 1882-1895; Penisimani - Samoan stories collected and translated by Brown 1861-1870; notebooks, anthropological papers and correspondence; printed and manuscript copies of his autobiography; additional volume of letters 1872-1916; unattributed volume of South Seas reminiscences; photographs. Source of title - Supplied by Library The Rev George Brown served as a Methodist missionary in Samoa, the Bismarck Archipelago, Tonga and Fiji between 1860 and 1897, before returning to Australia. He was a keen natural historian, ethnologist and photographer. Quantity: 22 microfilm reel(s). 1 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: See http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/pacific_island_culture.

Date: [ca 1920-1930]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1156

Description: The journal of Tatai, in Kiribati, records an account of Tatai's visit to Samoa, his training there as a missionary and his return to Nui; a genealogy of Nui; and lastly an account of the visit to Nui by the canoe Toantebuke, including a list of those on board. There is also a typed transcript in Kiribati of the text of the journal. Source of title - Transcribed This is the journal of Mr Tapetulu's grandfather, Tatai of Nui. Nui is a northern island in Tuvalu. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2001

Date: 7 Aug-24 Oct, 21 Nov 1845-7 Jan 1846

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: MS-1065

Description: Journal kept by Reverend Hutton for Reverend W C Cotton during two periods in which Cotton was absent from St John's College, Auckland. The college was at this time in its temporary situation at Purewa. Source of title - Supplied title; spine title "W C Cotton" Anglican minister Quantity: 1 volume(s) (44 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (26cm; green buckram)

Date: 1830-1882

By: Watkin, James (Rev), 1805-1886

Reference: fMS-254-255

Description: The journal for 1830-1839 includes Watkin's mission in Tonga and two years on the Sydney circuit of the Methodist Church. Entries 1 May 1840-24 May 1844 concern the mission at Waikouaiti, established at the behest of J Jones, difficulties of mission work compounded by the proximity of a whaling and trading settlement. Entries 28 May 1844-1 Nov 1847 cover his years in Wellington, pastoral work with Maori and Europeans. Mar 1850 concerns Watkin's work as a Methodist minister in Sydney. Entries vary from three or more per week to monthly. (No entries for period Nov 1847-Mar 1855. Quantity: 2 volume(s) (633 leaves). Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (39 cm & 43 cm; black buckram)

Date: 1954-1955

By: Koch, Benjamin, active 1954-1955

Reference: MS-Papers-2249

Description: Diaries record his daily activities, including visits, correspondence dealt with, work on church buildings, and other routine matters. Book I covers period Mar-1 Sep 1954 and Book II covers 1 Sep 1954-Feb 1955. Relationship complexity - Originally part of Lutheran Church of NZ records (Ref G2a & G2b) Koch was involved in mission work in Auckland for the Lutheran Church during 1954 and early 1955. He appears to have moved back to Australia in 1955 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 volumes). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1 Jul 1854-31 Dec 1855

By: White, James, 1817-1907

Reference: MSX-5428

Description: Diary kept by White relating to his life and work in London visiting Alms houses, the Ragged School, City Mission etc. Includes observations of the people White was helping and religious admonitions about their way of life, lapses from religious belief and notes about his own beliefs and feelings. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Note by A M Hale with biographical details for White White was a missionary and teacher who came to New Zealand in 1859; this diary was kept while he was living in London, 1854-1855 Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1823-1874

By: Methodist Church of New Zealand

Reference: Micro-MS-0612

Description: Correspondence, journals and miscellaneous documents by various persons; district minute books. Diaries and journals of Rev George Buttle, Rev John Aldred, Mrs Eliza White, Rev John Hobbs, Rev Thomas Buddle, and Rev William White. Quantity: 17 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available was removed on 24 Nov as it contained no additional information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: [1837-1839]

By: Colenso, William, 1811-1899

Reference: MS-Papers-6870

Description: Photocopy of a diary kept by William Colenso for 1839; includes notes, drawings, lists and vocabularies; the cover has 1837 written on it, not in Colenso's handwriting Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph