Doric (Ship : 1883-1906)

Date: 1884-1885 (1934)

From: Anderson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10737-3

Description: An account of a visit to New Zealand in 1884-1885 written by Georgina Gertrude Anderson. Anderson describes the experiences of herself and her mother, sailing on the `Doric', arriving in Wellington, going to Wanganui by land, the wedding of Anderson's sister at Wanganui and then travelling to the South Island via Palmerston North, Masterton and Wellington, sailing to Christchurch, back to Wanganui, the Pink and White Terraces, Cambridge, Rotorua, the Blue and Green Lakes, Taupo, Tarawera, and their voyage back to England on the `Rimukaka'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1886, 2010

By: Brown, William, 1858-

Reference: MS-Group-1916

Description: Holograph diary of Brown's journey to New Zealand with Mrs Jessie Borwn aboard the steam ship Doric. Details shipboard life and their daily activites and interaction with crew members. The Doric sailed from Gravesend, London with stoppages at Plymouth, Teneriffe, Cape Town, Hobart, Wellington and Dunedin. Also includes typed transcript (photocopy) of voyage, and accompanying research material. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript, dried plants Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2010

Date: 1884-1885, 1935

From: Diaries and sketchbook

Reference: MSX-8404

Description: Volume is a compilation of an original manuscript diary (1884-1885) with pencil and watercolour illustrations which has been copied and revised (1935). The diary has been rebound with the original manuscript pages removed to be replaced by typescripts. The original illustrations and title pages appear intact. The diary begins with the departure from England on 29 Aug 1884 of the travelling party aboard the `S S Doric'. The party includes Georgina Gertrude Anderson, her mother, sister and maid. There is a brief description of the voyage, shipboard life and ports of call (Cape Horn, Teneriffe and Hobart). Wellington is reached on 17 Oct 1884. The diary continues with details of a visit around Wellington township then recalls an adventurous journey to Foxton by coach, followed by a train ride to their destination in Wanganui. Next day the travellers continue to family properties in the Makirikiri Valley. The chief reason for the author's visit to New Zealand is for her sister's wedding on 20 Oct 1884 in Wanganui. From here she journeys with her mother to Wellington via the inland route through Marton, Palmerston North and Masterton. From Wellington they ventured aboard the steamer `Wairarapa' to Port Lyttelton, then onto Christchurch. The next big event is Christmas 1884 in Wanganui and the dairy reccounts their preperations for the celebrations and church service. The next section details the last adventure through the North Island by steamer, coach and train visiting New Plymouth, Auckland, Cambridge, Rotorua, the Blue and Green lakes, Lake Tarawera, Te Wairoa and Napier. Included in this passage is a detailed account of visiting the Pink and White Terraces (a year before the 1886 eruption). On 13 Mar 1885 the return journey was made to England aboard the `S S Rimutaka' via the Straits of Magellan. Mention is made of the many icebergs they sailed past and the stopover in Rio de Janeiro and their sightseeing trips on land. Diary ends 26 Apr 1885 with the arrival at the Albert Docks, Liverpool. The diary recounts an eight month travel experience to New Zealand. The author is in a party of four visiting New Zealand to attend the wedding of her sister Helen Anderson to William Forster Mills. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms, typescript & illustrations Volume includes many watercolour and pencil illustrations. Themes for the sketches are local tourist spots of interest, New Zealand fauna, icebergs in the Straits of Magellan, and ports of call during the voyage to and from New Zealand. Processing information: Archivists notes - The author notes she was a young woman on this trip and that she returned to New Zealand for another visit 20 years later. This typescript is indicated as being 50 years after the first trip and includes annotated corrections.

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Hamerton, N & G (Misses), fl 1967 :Photograph albums of Wellington scenes

Reference: PA1-o-539

Description: Album of photographs of early Wellington, circa 1880s to 1900s. One view shows the wreck of the "Oliver Lang" at Kaiwharawhara. Other views of the harbour show sailing ships, the SS Doric at Queens Wharf, the arrival of the RMS Aorangi, the small ship Manawatu in port, and the Cobar ferry. Away from the inner city and harbour there are three views of native bush with a stream running through, and one of the house under construction. The album is not full, with photographs only found on pages 8-15, and 19-21. The view of the Union Bank of Australia on the corner of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay shows Johnny Martin's fountain in the foreground. There are several views of inner Wellington, some from Bolton Street, with others showing Government House and Offices. The Chief Post Office is seen behind the wharf where the ship Manawatu is moored (p 14) This is the first of two albums which may have been given to the Misses Yamerton as birthday gifts at the same time, both having the same birthday greeting card, and both having a similar collection of photographs, though not all are the same. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 22.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1888

By: Dixon, George, 1820-1898

Reference: MS-Papers-2584

Description: Between August and December 1888 Dixon and his son James toured New Zealand. This collection consists of letters written to his daughter Maggie in England. They commence on board the Doric on which Dixon was a first class passenger. He describes shipboard life and the ports at which the ship called on its way to New Zealand. Whilst in New Zealand Dixon visited Auckland, Napier, Palmerston North, Waverly, Wellington, Featherston, Wanganui, Christchurch, Dunedin, Kumara, Reefton, Greymouth and Nelson. Much of his time was spent on farms and visiting schools. He reported in detail to his daughter his impressions of colonial life as well as information about friends and family living in New Zealand. Accompanying material - Accompanied by presscutting (photocopy) about Dixon's visit and state-aided emigration (Birmingham daily post, 11 Dec 1888). Source of title - Supplied title George Dixon was an English Member of Parliament (representing Edgbaston) and Minister of Education. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (47 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy)

Date: 1876-1949

From: New Zealand Shipping Company : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1148-23

Description: Includes; Report and balance sheet, NZ Grain Agency & Mercantile Co, 19 May 1885; list of officers, nd; promotional brochure - Federal-Joulder-Shire Lines, 1906 & nd; mail timetable, NZ Shipping Co, 1888-89; list of passengers, SS Doric, 26 Jul 1883, London to NZ; list of passengers, SS Doric, 24 Apr 1884, London to NZ; list of passengers, SS Tongariro, 30 Aug 1884 from Lyttelton to Great Britain; list of passengers, RMS Rimutaka, 6 May 1886, Auckland to London; list of passengers, RMS Ruahine, 29 Apr 1897, Lyttelton to London; list of passengers, RMS Rotorua, 15 Dec 1915, Plymouth to NZ; list of passengers MV Rakaia, 11 Feb 1950, Auckland to Great Britain; wine cards, 1876; article of association of the NZ & Federal Company Ltd, 2 Jan 1912; advertisement card, NZSCo, 12 Aug 1879; brochure on the maiden voyage of the RMS Rangitoto, 12 Oct 1949; general information brochure for passengers on voyages from England to NZ, nd Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1880s

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140299-G

Description: Shows the SS Doric at Queen's Wharf, Wellington. Photograph taken by William Williams ca 1881-1887. The Doric was built 1863 by Harland and Wolf, Belfast for White Star line. Purchased by Shaw Savill & Albion. Sold to Pacific Line, 1906 and renamed Asia. Werecked 1911. (Information from back of File Print) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1888-1897

From: Tatham, George, active 1978-2017: Collection relating to Lady Joanna Elizabeth Leigh-Wood

Reference: MSX-9534

Description: Album of Joanna Elizabeth Turnbull with autographs, dedications, musical, poetic and artistic entries from the years 1888 to 1897, along with material mounted or originally enclosed, including sketches, envelopes, letters, botanical specimens, a loose bookplate, and four samples of dog hair. Entries by identified and unidentified contributors include: - Musical score, 'Mazurka Sentimentale' - Sissie Carter, excerpt from 'The rape of the lock' [canto II, lines 13-18], by Alexander Pope - Edith Paton, watercolour depicting a winter landscape - Thomas Yeatman, Paris, 23 July 1888, excerpt from 'The Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Leonie Yeatman, Paris, 21 July 1888, poetic entry in French - Lydia Otto from Elberfeld, dated Paris, 16 June 1888, poetic entry in German - Musical score 'Concerto' by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Paris, 12 July 1888 - A Burnard, ink drawing depicting female subject holding a tennis racquet - Pencil landscape drawing after Jacques Alfred Brielman - Botanical specimens mounted on page - "Ivy from the Bridge Mount Henley" - Queenie Russell, poetic excerpt from 'She walks in beauty' by Lord Byron - L Battersbee, poetic excerpt by Martin Tupper - Botanical specimens from Pompeii and the Roman Forum - Poetic entry dated 15 February 1892 on the RMS 'Doric' - Alice Gibbs, 1 March 1889, watercolour sketch of stork-like bird in lake with plants - Musical score for voice and piano, 'You ask me why I love', by Lawrence Kellie, dated RMS 'Gothic', 26 August 1894 - Printed card "RMS Gothic" with autograph signatures - "Left London Feb 21 1895 Arrived Wellington April 7th 1895" - Page of autograph signatures, including: A H Turnbull, W L Buller, Walter Turnbull, A Turnbull, Robert T Turnbull, and others - Lilian Court, Paris 24 June 1888 - Walter L Simpson, musical score 'Art thou weary' - Drawing in ink and Chinese white, depicting three storks standing in a body of water, 1 January 1890 - A J Simpson - poetic entry by Alfred Lord Tennyson - Edith A Gibbs - poetic entry, 1888, from 'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth - Mabel Gault, Paris 1888, poetic entry - Agnes P Thorburn, 17 August 1889 - poetic entry with painted flower ornament - Ink drawing, ' High Street, Droitwich, 1891' - Nellie Wyld, 24 July 1888, musical score, 'Polonaise de Chopin' - Watercolour landscape and botanical illustration, "Pelorus S[oun]d 1891" - Jean B Virgal[?], 'SS Doric', 27 February 1892 - Seascape in watercolour and Chinese white, 1892 - Page of signatures of passengers on the RMS 'Ionic', including Leigh Wood - James Leigh Wood, 1 August 1897, poetic entry - E A Adams, 11 November 1891, pencil sketch of frogs holding toadstools as umbrellas - Winifred Adams, watercolour of birds - Poetic entry of excerpt from Jeremy Taylor - Charles Alfred Cooper, Newlandburn, 3 October 1889, poetic entry - Pencil drawing 'Table Bay - Cape Town' Loose items originally laid in the album include: - Watercolour drawing of frogs holding umbrellas, hanging on a washing line, and playing guitar, initialed "E.P." - Card with printed 'R.M.S. Ionic' and autograph signatures of passengers, including "Joanna E. Turnbull", and "L[eigh] W[ood]". - Envelopes of letters addressed to Joanna Turnbull in England and France by Robert Turnbull, with original decorative drawings and embellishments - Invitation with guest list, 29 July 1897, "R.M.S. Ionic", including the signature of Leigh Wood, and "Miss Turnbull" among the list of guests - Printed concert programme, "RMS Gothic", 1 April 1895, including performance of a duet by Turnbull - Charles Alfred Cooper, clipped portrait, two letters dated 21 August 1897 and 18 September 1897, and an envelope addressed to Turnbull at the Panmure Arms Hotel, Edzell, postmarked 18 September 1897 - Four botanical specimens of 'Leontopodium nivale', edelweiss, mounted on blue paper, with ownership inscription "J. Turnbull" verso - 'Evening Post Extra', 1 November 1894, conveying news of the wreck of the 'Wairarapa', annotated by Alexander Turnbull - Bookplate of the bibliophile Thomas James Wise. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s) Bound volume and 20 separated loose items. Physical Description: Volume, 105 leaves, black full-leather binding, all edges gilt, 18.5 cm, with blue binder's label ('Ancne Mon Martinet, 172. Rue de Rivoli'); enclosed in red silk lined, white linen cover with blue cross-stitch embroidery and red and blue tassled edge decorations. Autograph album with original enclosures, including printed programmes, sketches, letters, envelopes, bookplate, and pressed botanical specimens.

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: Date unknown

By: Willis, J, active 1890s

Reference: 1/2-150418-F

Description: The ship Doric, photographed by J Willis. Location and date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: between 1875-1899

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003323-G

Description: Scene at Port Chalmers, Dunedin, with the ship R.M.S. Doric (berthed in the centre). The ship in the right foreground is the Ringarooma. Photograph taken by David Alexander De Maus between 1875 and 1899. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - R.M.S. "Doric" at Port Chalmers Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1889

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-010317-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1893-1911

From: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives

Reference: 1/1-003322-G

Description: Steam ship Doric, photographed leaving Port Chalmers by David Alexander De Maus Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - RMS "Doric" leaving Port Chalmers; Marginal notes on negative - top left - 404 Four masted steamer of 4676 tons. Built 1883 (listed as 1863 elsewhere), by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for the White Star Line. First voyage to New Zealand under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company., then under the Shaw, Savill & Albion flag. Wrecked in 1911. See Ships with New Zealand Associations (Vol 4, p 19) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1884-1890

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-2171

Description: Contains logs of several journeys to and from New Zealand; notes of visits to the hot lakes, North Island, and cold lakes, South Island; also account of a trip to the English Lake District, Aug 1887. Includes article on hypnotism; some notes on New Zealand place names; and additional notes of James Davidson Davis' `New Zealand bibliography'. Source of title - Supplied Variations in title - On cover of box: Logs and notes Accompanying material - In envelope inside back cover: Two passports issued to Turnbull, 1889 and 1890 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (146 pages). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (20cm, black roan in black morocco case) Rough pencil and ink sketches inside front covers