Charles Balme & Company

Date: May-Jul 1895

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-212

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; also includes letter from Harman with plan of block bounded by Falsgrave Street, Shakespeare Road and the railway, with a government block and connecting road, Thackeray Street in Sydenham; letter from Hall's nephew, Nigel, with note from a parent; letter from Rev H [?] Harner, visiting Wellington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1869-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1034

Description: Most of the papers in the folder relate to R D D Maclean and include correspondence and other papers relating to finance, farming, business, legal matters, insurance, land matters, wool industry and trade, membership and appointments, copies of letters re the Raukawa block, NZI pocket calendar and other papers. One letter is from a Madeline Bedingfield, lamenting her situation as an aunt having the responsibility of looking after her niece and nephew while she is ill and unemployable, and thanking R D D Maclean for his assistance. Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes letter to Donald McLean re the estate of R W I Carver and bankrupt (1869) Includes letter to Rev D McInnes of Oban from John G Campbell, Manse of Tiree re suitable stone for headstone, 1875 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1876-1897]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1024

Description: Most of the papers related to R D D Maclean and includes advertising flyer on sheep dip; National Association of NZ (Auckland) papers; questionnaire re European sparrow (1892); list of passengers and plan of saloon of SS `Oriental', Aug 1889; telegram re [?] Canonville Bridge; farming correspondence; financial transactions; correspondence re possible employees and references; correspondence re Douglas Maclean's contribution toward W Russell's election expense; poem or song on tobacco; piece written in Sanskrit; letters from Sir James Fergusson and Sir Julius Vogel re R D D Maclean's temporary membership to St Stephen's [Club], London; letters and telegrams sent at time of Florence Maclean's confinement and birth of son Algernon. Identified persons entered under Name. Includes piece in Sanskrit (untranslated) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1870-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1044

Description: Most of the papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include accounts and receipts, clippings, report on Hawke's Bay A & P Association AGM (1889), invitations to Lady Knutsford and from Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres, letters on breeding ponies from Fred [?] Swindley, request for attendance as HJP, re hares and hounds racing, property matters, schedule for game of haunted houses, also letter from Napier on headed `Rosam ne rode (1878), and letter in Maori from Rora Poneke, Korongata, asking R D D Maclean if could borrow a buggy (1883). Identified persons entered under Name. Language - Letter from Rora Poneke to R D D Maclean Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Seven small photographs showing aspects of farming, buildings, sheep and a horse.

Date: [ca 1863-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1033

Description: Most of the papers in the folder relate to R D D Maclean; includes accounts and receipts, schedule or wool guarantors, invitations, advertising matter for farming supplies, clippings re NZ matters, copy of report, `In reference to excitement at Wanganui' to the Colonial secretary; letter re Trans-Tasman fares; memberships, correspondence re wool and farming matters, finance, shipping, political circulars, memberships, stocks and shares, card for `Le Pilote' protection agency and other papers (identified persons entered under Name) Includes invitation from Karaitiana Wirihana to unveiling of monument to his late father Wirihana Kaimokopuna at Tahoraite Valuation certificate for property owned by Archibald John McLean at Glenorchy in the district of Kereru & Aorangi, Hawke's Bay, Jan 1879 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1876-1927]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1025

Description: The papers relate to R D D Maclean and include receipts; business and farming correspondence; summary of improvements to Maraekakaho Station; visiting cards; National Association of New Zealand papers; report on the iron trade; records of annuities paid by R D D Maclean per Rev Duncan MacInnes, Oban, to Flora Ann Conway and Jessie McKenzie, 1883; Maclean's honour (1927); and Government of Ireland bill (1893) (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1874?-1898]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1035

Description: Most of the papers in the folder relate to R D D Maclean and include papers papers relating to farming, business, memberships and donations, detailed summary of Ngatarawa Block associations, accounts and receipts, draft outward letters including one to Sir Julius, business, wool and farming, charities, picture delivery from S Hildesheimer and Co (London), letter from E H Parke (London), flyers for Cannon's Dip and Little's sheep dip, Hastings Club membership, decorating notes, letter re importation of dogs and other papers (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: Jan-Feb 1896

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-217

Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field; plans for Parak TErrace house renovations Quantity: 1 folder(s). House plan renovations for Park Terrace house by N Martin

Date: [ca 1870-1900]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1043

Description: The papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include letters relating to business, farming, donations and charitable gifts Maclean has made, requests for help gaining employment, one unsigned [Edmond Bourgeois?] providing a detailed summary of his and his family's financial situation and a list of his children's health status (one died) and that of himself and his wife, land matters including re Goathurst Farm, court matters, thanks for his grant of land to Napier Education Board (1893) and other matters. Also includes photocopy of photograph from John D Enys of an American snow gate with design of same. Letter to Algernon C Fountaine requesting to paint his portrait, 1900. Identified persons entered under Name. Language - Letter from Edmond [?] Bourgeois, Napier, in French Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Original of photograph of Castle Hill Station's American snow gate.

Date: [ca 1868-1876]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1021

Description: Galley proofs of Orders in Council (1870); notice from Charles Balme, wool report (11 Jan 1875); notes re petitioner and claims re land; estimate of probable expenditure for Maraekakaho station (1868-1869); list of members elected for central government (n d); note headed Hon Native Minister with list of various laws relating to elections ending in 1875; note headed Hon Native Minister, electoral laws, in different order but same period, with commentary relating to these; East Coast Maori Electoral District return of polling places and candidates (1870s); copy of letter from Fred Whitaker to I W Carlile, solicitor of Napier re procedures for the Eastern Maori District election (Auckland, 1876); notice re special meeting for winding up of the NZ Steam Navigation Company (1868); proposal to bring down a bill to take the whole coast out of provinces with note that McLean could settle everything; motion to form a branch of the Native Land Laws Reform League in Napier as the present condition is unsatisfactory; notes re makeup of Parliament; Greek/English exercises; financial summary and notes re blocks 62-68, 72 (Collison), Ngatarawa and Napier Language - Short piece of what appears to be Greek with English translations; possibly exercises Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: [ca 1877-1895]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1038

Description: Most of the papers in this folder relate to R D D Maclean and include accounts and receipts, correspondence relating to farming, property, wool trade, stocks and shares. Also includes letter of introduction for Maclean to Messrs W & J Whitehead, Bradford; also letter from Charlotte Burgess re family problems, tax account; Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: May-Aug 1878

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-088

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below; also includes anonymous letter from Wellington; and plan relating to Falsgrave Street sale Quantity: 1 folder(s). Small plan of Falsgrave and Union streets relating to sale

Date: Sep-Oct 1888

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-149

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes a small plan of land blocks probably near Rakaia Station Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jan-Jun 1883

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-106

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Sep-Dec 1878

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-089

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below; also includes clippings on railways and local issues and papers relating to the Lakes Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust Bill Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1879-1897, 1920]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1032

Description: Most of the papers relate to R D D Maclean; identified persons entered under name. Included is correspondence and papers relating to insurance, stocks and shares, land, wool export, power of attorney, invitations; telegram from Raita Makerenei, Marton, to Makereni, Napier, asking him to remove his name from the register as he wouldn't be able to make it, he was experiencing difficulties; forest tree planting regulations, the setting up of a club for youths and girls at Napier; receipt with portion of Arapata Hakura; NZPA business with Julius Bertram, petition from National Association of New Zealand re the borrowing bills and problems at the `Evening press', Wellington; other notes and papers. Arrangement: Second part of folder formerly at MS Papers 32B : 166 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: Jul 1889

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-157

Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field; includes an instruction sheet on steps to be taken with regard to a parcel mail from India on arrival in London, at the Albert Docks, and at the General Post Office, St Martins-Le-Grand Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Sep-Dec 1876

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-081

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name below; also includes letter for Major Atkinson; and letter from J R Dell Hill[?] Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: May-Dec 1874

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-074

Description: Includes quite a few accounts etc relating to shipping and orders Language - Letter in French relating to station matter, Lyons railway Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Mar-Apr 1895

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-211

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; includes letters from Ursula Bethell, letter from [?] Arthur or [?] Aileen Dixon, Christchurch Club, circular regarding government and public affairs signed by W R Russell, E Mirtchelson, W C Buchanan and John Duthie, and letter from Edward [?] Bright, Windermere regarding lime rates Quantity: 1 folder(s).