Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Date: [ca 1970]

By: Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: MS-Papers-4445

Description: Photocopy of a narrative of the life and times of William Mein Smith. Gives details of William Mein Smith's early years but mainly describes his trip to New Zealand on board the `Cuba', his role as Surveyor-General to the New Zealand Company in early Wellington, Wanganui, Manawatu, Rangitikei and Wairarapa and his report on an exploration of the principal harbours of the South Island in 1842. Source of title - Cover title The library holds an original typescript of the work, donated by the author. See qMS-1139. Quantity: 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: The narrative possibly originally belonged to Smith's father, Sydney Wordsworth Smith, who is mentioned in the preface of the work as having assisted the author. Processing information: Updated origination field and note about related material added after information from a researcher in 2016.

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: MapColl-832.4595gbbd/[1856]/Acc.36615

Description: Cadastral surveyed map of Masterton as a small farm settlement in circa 1856, eastwards of the Ruamahanga River, westwards on either side of the Waipoua River, along the Waipakako Creek, and on the northern side of the Kuripuni Creek, and east of that Creek. Over 100 sections are surveyed showing section number, acreage, owner's name (a few are unnamed); most over 40 acres. Map also shows reserves, unnamed roads, and Masterton's centre. Written on verso: XI, 11. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on dressed linen, part coloured, [1:3 960], 77.8 x 155 cm.

Date: 1863

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-171

Description: Subjects: Details of geological formations and views of Wellington, Kaiwharawhara, Kapiti, Otaki, Titahi Bay, Wanganui, Hutt Valley, Akatarawa, Featherston and Castlepoint The sketchbook of 74 pages, contains 45 pencil and ink, 3 pencil,and 8 pencil, ink and monotone wash drawings; see subsidiary records for full cataloguing of individual pages. Signed in ink on p 1 Inscriptions: On fly-leaf: signature, J C Crawford Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Drawings (56) various media 136 x 218 mm 1/2 red morocco, green marbled boards, metal clasp Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1957

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to antiques, the antique trade and antique fairs in New Zealand]

By: Palmerston North Public Relations Organisation

Reference: Eph-B-ANTIQUES-1957-01

Description: A handbook to the fair, with a guide to the stalls, which were run by: David C D Cooke (Auckland), John Dixon & Company (Wellington), Rich's Antiques Ltd (Christchurch), Russell Smith (Masterton), The Galleries (Wellington), G H Bennett & Co (Palmerston North), Raphael Furnishing Studios (Napier), Delahaye's of Napier (Napier), General Trading Co (Christchurch), Mr R Madden (Palmerston North), Littlejohns (Wellington), Dominion Museum (Wellington). Two copies held. Quantity: 1 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 285 x 225 mm.

Date: 1863

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-172

Description: Subjects: Details of geological formations and views of Rimutakas, Ruamahanga River, Waiohine River, Mangatainoka River, Tutaekuri River, Manawatu River and Gorge, Tararuas and Otaki River Supplied title. Acquired with E-171 and E-172 Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook, the former signed J C Crawford. Sketchbook contains 41 pencil and and monotone wash drawings; see subsidiary records for full catalogue details The sketchbook comprises 75 pages Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 44 drawings various media 147 x 235 mm, ¼ green morocco, green buckram Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 18 Jan 1983

From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.

By: Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: OHInt-0015-08

Description: Russell Smith outlines his family background: Great grandfather, Captain Smith; grandfather, Wallace Smith; his father's early life (Sidney Wardsworth Smith); the family silver; Russell Smith's work as family historian; the Greytown house where his aunts lived; the family home; home help; cars; Landsdowne Dam; meals, parties and games; his mother and a spiritual medium; 'The Masterton Club' and its membership system; going to Wanganui Collegiate; his views on boarding schools; Tanglewood; balls; Homewood; religion; parents politics; Russell Smith's work in politics, the Farmers Union, Bert Cooksley - National member for the Wairarapa; Russell Smith's work with Forestry Committee and Catchment Board. Describes sex education; meeting his wife, Edith Thrittle; buying Te Hau; local characters: Karl Haas, Jack Reagan, Jee Eely; swaggers (tramps) during the Depression; packmen; first plane in Masterton; his going to the World Forestry Conference in Madrid in 1966; his 1973 trip to China; his hobby collecting silver; raising money for the Laura Fergusson Trust; his views on the standard of antiques in New Zealand. Discusses the main families in the Wairarapa: Wardell, Beetham, Riddiford; people: Doctor Archer Hosking, Mr Drummond; teachers, Mr Drummond, Mrs Gleghorn; mayors, Tommy Jordon and Norman Tankersley. Mentions prohibition; spiritualism, Pearl Judd - medium; the effect of World War II; childhood impressions of Masterton. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 41 Renall Street, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004425 - OHC-004429 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 889. Search dates: 1913 - 1983

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Pharazyn, Frances Mary, 1847-1927; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-062-023

Description: View through a gap in native bush in the foreground to houses and a church, with bush on the far side of the settlement. A small stream and a bridge can also be seen. Date of 1870s sugggested, since the artist's marriage in 1870 gave her Masterton connections. Described in McArthur's catalogue as View of Masterton but wrongly ascribed to Charles Johnston Pharazyn, husband of the artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F. M. P. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 300 x 483 mm Provenance: Previously from the estate of Russell Smith, Te Hau, Masterton; previously in the collection of Ken Webster, London.

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

By: Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-171-029/030

Description: Shows a view of a row of houses in Otaki, with the Otaki River in the foreground, and a row of hills behind. The houses follw a fencline across the length of the picture. A sand hill is marked at the left. Thomas Dodds and William Dodds were both living in the Otaki area at the time this sketch was done. Extended Title - From his Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook, 1863. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 136 x 436 mm (double spread). Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1865

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: D-023-016

Description: Shows two horsemen with their horses and a dog, one man standing and using a telescope. Both men are looking down from the raised foreground towards part of a horseshoe-shaped lake, and beyond, through a dip in small hills, to another lake in the distance. There is a range of higher hills at the left, stretching away into the far distance. There are sparse cabbage trees growing on the low-lying peninsula in the nearer lake. A view from the same spot as Barraud's engraving 'Te Aute Lake, Hawke Bay', in his 'New Zealand graphic and descriptive' (London, 1877) on page 23. The accompanying commentary reads 'The lake shown in our sketch, was in 1818, the scene of a terrible disaster to the Hawke Bay natives, inflicted by a war party of the Ngapuhi, led by the great chief Tamati Waka Nene. On the approach of the invaders nearly the whole of the older people with the women and children fled to an island in the Te Aute Lake ... An excellent view of the Te Aute Lakes is obtained from the present line of railway between Napier and Waipukurau ...' While visiting Te Aute in 1865, Barraud visited Rev Samuel Williams and may have stayed with him. He may be one of the men in this view. The work was titled Landscape with two horsemen when it was copied by the Library in the 1970s, while still in private ownership. There was and is no title on the work itself. The identification of the men as surveyors appears to be a later suggestion. Te Aute Lake was drained by Europeans, possibly in the 1880s. Other Titles - Landscape with two horsemen 1866. Surveyors [former titles] Inscriptions: Verso - centre left - Molesworth Page 81, I35; Backing board recto - centre - Item seven referred to in Deed dated 17/10/75 executed by P E Smith Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 482 x 660 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by Russell Smith, a descendant of William Mein Smith.

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Bowry, William Henry, active 1880s; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: A-049-013

Description: Subject: First Wairarapa flour mill, built by A W Renall between 1859 and 1862, destroyed by fire 1896; powered by water from Waipoua Stream. See: Thornton, G. New Zealand's industrial heritage, p. 33 (q725.4) The four-storey flour mill building was built by Alfred William Renall (1813-1902) on the banks of the Makoura Stream in Queen St in 1858. After standing for 38 years it burnt down in Sep 1896. see Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5425, 2 September 1896, Page 3 at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT18960902.2.21 . Photographic views of the flour mill may be depicted at 1/2-111229-F and PAColl-3953. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 182 x 258 mm Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Te Hau, Masterton Processing information: Record updated 2 November 2023 to correct location of mill from Renall Street to Queen Street.

Date: 1863

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-173

Description: Subjects: Details of geological formations and views of Akitio, Te Awaiti, Waipawa, Hautotara, Castlepoint and Pencarrow Acquired with E-171, E-172 and E-174; E-171 includes the signature of J C Crawford The sketchbook comprises 77 pages ; see subsidiary records for full catalogue details of the individual pages Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings (48) 139 x 184 mm, 1/2 green morocco, green marbled boards Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1864

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-174

Description: Views of Kaikouras, Timaru, Oamaru, Queenstown Wakatipu, Mataura River, Tuapeka, Picton and Pelorus Sound Acquired with E-171, E-172 and E-173: Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbooks; E-171 is signed J C Crawford The sketchbook comprises 75 pages; see subsidiary records cataloguing of individual pages Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings (49) (7 with wash) 135 x 179 mm, ¼ navy morocco, purple buckram Provenance: Previously estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1864

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-125

Description: Scenes of East Coast area, Hauraki Gulf, Waikato, Northland and Picton Attribution on stylistic grounds Supplied title. Quantity: 40 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink or ink and wash on paper 135 x 180 mm in album ([68]p.), ¼ dark blue morocco, purple buckram Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Russell Smith of Masterton