Quakers

Date: 1834-1988

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2856

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 24 October 1875 - 9 December 1877

From: Jackson, Ann Fletcher, 1833-1903 :Journals and Poems

Reference: MSX-7758

Description: In this journal, Ann Fletcher Jackson describes her life in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. This period in Ann Jackson's life is characterised by much sickness and death of close family members including her Father and Mother, and brother George. Towards the end of the journal she discusses immigration to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1935]-1989

By: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989

Reference: MS-Group-0883

Description: Comprises personal papers relating to Campbell's family, work and interests; correspondence, reports and other papers relating to her work with the Friends' Aumbulance Unit in China and her association with the Friends' Service' Council, photographs relating to personal and Society of Friends' interests and personal correspondence with family, friends and Society of Friends' associations Mary Greig Campbell's diaries for 1939-1962, 1964-1968, 1970-1972, 1976-1983; her mother Joanna A Campbell's diaries for 1940-1941; Mary's address books relating to her time in Edinburgh and Shanghai Source of title - Supplied Mary Greig Campbell was born in Scotland, graduated with a degree in 1929 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1939 where she worked as a librarian at Wellington Public Library in the 1940s and at Massey Agricultural College from 1951 until her retirement. She became a Quaker in the 1930s and was active in the organisation throughout her life, serving in the Field Ambulance Unit in China from 1945 to 1951. Quantity: 70 folder(s). 39 volume(s). 0.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Campbell, her friends, and relating to her service within the Society of Friends.

Date: Jul 1853-Jan 1854

By: Mackie, Frederick, 1812-1893

Reference: MS-Papers-0865

Description: A Quaker visiting New Zealand, Mackie describes the people he meets and their way of life; places he visits, including Wellington, Hutt Valley and Nelson; fauna and flora Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Illustrated his observations with sketches

Date: 1841-1845

By: Stephens, Samuel, 1803-1855

Reference: MS-Papers-3085

Description: Letters written to his mother in Bridport, Dorset relating to his voyage to Wellington on the `Whitby' in 1841 and life in and around Nelson Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1841-1854, 1935-1936 - [1Ca 1950s]

By: Webb, George Hannam, 1929-2007

Reference: MS-Group-1490

Description: Papers relating to Samuel Stephens, a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. Includes journals and diaries kept by him, letters to his family back in England which describe his life in New Zealand, research material collected about Stephens' life including copies of his death notice, survey maps and pages from the `Nelson Examiner', transcripts of diaries and journals, and photographs of his grave. The journals have details of his voyage to New Zealand from England on the `Whitby' in 1841, of his daily life as a settler in Nelson, on the weather, agriculture and horticulture. He includes sketches of plants and listings of the plants and weather conditions. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives March 2006; material transferred to the Published Collection, Ephemera Collection and the Cartographic Collection..

Date: 1841-1844, 1844-1852, 1852-1854, 1935-1936

By: Stephens, Samuel, 1803-1855

Reference: MS-2053-2055

Description: Journals kept by Stephens which include a biographical sketch by his nephew, J Edmund Clark (ppi-ii of v1, 1935), a note to an extract of 1842 (v3, 1936), and a letter to him from Robert Pattie (1935) re the excerpts (pp846-850, v3), letters from Stephens and Sarah Stephens to his mother and sisters, Anne and Ellen and extracts from his journals. Stephens describes his daily life as a surveyor and settler, events in New Zealand, people he met and other aspects of his working and private life. Each volume has a list of contents and v3 has an index. The pages are numbered chronologically through the three volumes. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (850 leaves, 35 leaves)

Date: 1848-1854

By: Stephens, Samuel, 1803-1855

Reference: MS-Papers-3084

Description: Letters re his life in and around Nelson Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1855 - 1902

By: Jackson, Ann Fletcher, 1833-1903

Reference: MS-Group-1501

Description: Ann Fletcher Jackson's journals were kept by her before, during and after her immigration to New Zealand with her family in October 1878. Her journals discuss family and church events, the hardships of rural life in 1880s New Zealand and social concerns of the time. The largest aspect of Ann Fletcher Jacksons life apart from her family was her relationship with the Society of Friends (Quakers) in England and New Zealand. Quantity: 14 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.22 Linear Metres.

Date: 1842-1891

By: Tuckett, Frederick, 1807?-1876

Reference: MS-Papers-0246

Description: Mainly letters to members of his family from Nelson; also reports on suitablity of Nelson and Wairau for settlement. Tuckett was a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson, Wairau, and later, Otago. Quantity: 6 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photocopies Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1843]

By: Hill, Isaac Mason, 1816?-1885

Reference: Micro-MS-0366

Description: Contains engravings, poetry, anecdotes, press cuttings and other printed matter; also early sketch of Nelson, and three manuscript maps. Source of title - Transcribed Hill, a prominent nonconformist of early Nelson, arrived there with his wife on the `Fifeshire', 1842 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 28 pages). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, illustrations

Date: 1842

By: Cotterell, John Sylvanus, 1820-1843

Reference: qMS-0560

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (10 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; grey cloth)

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Warren, George K, 1824-1884

Reference: PA3-0241

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - In pencil John Whittier and Whittier John Greenleaf 1807-1892 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941-1947

From: Johnson, Ralph, 1950-: Photographs, mainly relating to theatre company Town and Country Players

Reference: PAColl-10352-1

Description: Photographs chiefly relating to the work of the China Convoy of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) in China between 1945-1947. Taken by unidentified photographers between circa 1941 to 1944, and between 1945 to 1947. Many images have inscriptions on the reverse. - Two images, probably taken in New Zealand, show Al and Margaret cutting a wedding cake and Roy Lucas posing in uniform (the latter image inscribed 'preparing for China' and dated 26 April 1945). - Images of individual FAU and Friends Service Unit (FSU) members taken in China include: Peter F Early (Chairman, Friends Service Unit), Douglas J Clifford (New Zealand), and Spencer L Coxe (Australia). Also includes a group portrait taken on Christmas Day 1945 featuring McClure, Bradshaw, Stokes, Dodds, B[?], Wiehs[?], Gibson, Chen, Kwan, Fransham, Hsiung, Wu, Chu, Briggs, Gunn, Ho, and Fox. - Includes images of Arthur Wallbank with a Chinese student, and Alf Sidwell with a student in a an engineering workshop, both inscribed as possibly taken at the Medical Mechanics School, Chengchou (Zhengzhou) or at the Institute of Hospital Technology in Hankou circa 1947. - Includes images of local people, sheep, cats, and rural landscapes in Honan (Henan) and Kweichow. Includes images of the Yellow River bridge, FAU trucks on a narrow cliff road near Guangyuan, Northern Sichuan, and the O P D and gatehouse at Hwi Mei[?]. One image shows a bombed railway station at Sin Siang. Relationship complexity - see further material relating to the Friends Ambulance Unit at Library references OHColl-0050 and PAColl-6162 New Zealander Wreford Neil Johnson, father of Ralph Johnson, worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit in China circa late 1940s. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 16 Nov 1999

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Roberts, Heather Richenda, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0556-09

Description: Heather Roberts was born in Hobart, Australia in 1946. Describes parents, early life, quaker education, living on a mission station, and academic achievement. Talks about attitudes to men, sex and marriage. Describes teaching under the grammar/comprehensive schooling system in England. Talks about returning to New Zealand, completing a Masters degree in English Literature, teacher's college and being awarded a scholarship to complete her doctorate. Describes pregnancy and motherhood, and her decision to work as the Women's Employment Officer at Department of Labour in Wellington rather than taking an academic position. Talks about involvement in feminist associations such as the Women's Studies Association and the Family Planning Association and being Secretary to the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women (NACEW). Mentions ten months travel with her parents near London. Discusses being awarded the McCarthy Fellowship, researching New Zealand women writers and writing the book 'Where did she come from?'. Describes fourteen year career as public servant and policy positions in Department of Social Welfare and then Youth Affairs. Describes work as Barnardo's national advisor on supervised access, while teaching English as a second language. Talks about editing Jean Devanny's 'The butcher's shop', writing for a general audience and co-editing an anthology of women's writing 'A woman's life'. Mentions interest in literary criticism. Discusses quakerism's espousing of equality of the sexes. Discusses her mother as a role model. Describes early involvement in fertility control issues while working as a volunteer at Family Planning. Mentions influential feminist writers, living in communal housing, her family and feminism, compromising as a feminist and valuing friendships. Talks about 30 year relationship with husband and raising a son. Recalls the gains feminism has made for women, and fertility control in particular. Talks about feminism's inability to prevent violence towards women, yet comments on the achievement of the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) making it possible for women to leave abusive relationships. Talks about the current Women's Studies Association. Mentions current project in Vietnam with Voluntary Services Abroad (VSA) with Vietnamese teachers of English. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, Biographical information, two photos Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2657, OHDL-001006. Photo (coloured) - head and shoulder mid-shot, 1999. Photo (B & W) - head and shoulder mid shot, 1966

Date: 26 Aug 1997

From: CORSO 50th anniversary oral history project

By: Morrison, Colin William, 1912-1999

Reference: OHInt-0504/18

Description: Colin William Morrison born Gore 1912, moved to Dunedin. Describes early childhood in Dunedin before moving to Wellington 1924 and attending Wellington College, travelling by electric tram each day. Recalls playing representative fourth grade rugby for Wellington College and moving to Rongotai College when it opened in 1927. Recalls that Depression prevented him from attending university and became a clerical cadet in chief's engineer's office [Railways] before working for Maori Affairs Department under Sir Apirana Ngata until 1942 when he was seconded to CORSO. Refers to the Quakers (Society of Friends) forming a Quaker relief and reconstruction committee to cope with problem of post war relief - millions of refugees and backgrounds formation of CORSO (ca 1942). Notes that constitution was drawn up by [Mr A] Eaton Hurley. Refers to the Patriotic Purposes Fund Board. Mentions Mr [J H] Boyes (first chairman of CORSO). Refers to request from UNWRA to provide personnel to help countries rehabilitate and describes trip to China in 1947. Talks about Rewi Alley. Mentions Shirley Barton and Tom Somerville. Talks about visit to India, describing poverty of Delhi and Calcutta and contacting amoebic disentery in Bangladesh. Refers to Dr Cook, Commissioner for Salvation Army. Mentions Korean Dae Duk land reclamation project. Recalls being approached by Lady Hogan and being seconded to set up Community Chest in Hong Kong. Concludes interview talking about retirement to Tauranga an wife's illness. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Cecily McNeill Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011233-011235 ; OHC-005515-005517 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3923. Two coloured photographs of [Colin Morrison]

Date: 1833-1840

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2855

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1931-1958

By: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989

Reference: PAColl-6162

Description: Photographs of people who were members of the Friends Ambulance Unit; the Friends Service Council hostel in Shanghai; Photographs of Chinese, and Chinese actors in traditional drama. There are snaps of the sights of Shanghai. Most of these groups of photographs date from 1947 to 1950. The next group which date from 1931 to ca 1950 are photographs of meetings of the Society of Friends. There is also a photograph of an early ban the bomb demonstration, and one group photograph of the staff of Massey Agricultural College. Finally there are a few personal photographs of family and friends Quantity: 205 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Broad lists of material provided by donor.

Date: 1798-1939

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2725

Description: Selected records from the records and papers of Edgar Allen & Co, the Hall family, Mrs M A Rawson, Bernard Gray, George Hadfield, the Creswick family, the Needham, Veall and Tyzack papers, the Quaker records, the Sorby papers and the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society records Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1914-1918, 1968, 1972

By: Rigg, Theodore (Sir), 1888-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-1381

Description: Rigg records his experiences as Society of Friends volunteer relief worker. He describes his initial training in England and reconstruction work in Marne Valley (1914-1915); relief work in Montenegro and Albania including maps, photographs and correspondence (1915); relief work in Russia, based on his letters; and diary of Miss E M White, who became his wife Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, photographs, maps Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs E M Penhale, Upper Hutt, 1975