Hobhouse, Mary Elizabeth, 1819-1864

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-010

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows a shingled roof, a long verandah with creeper growing over it, neatly planted garden, circular flower bed. The house is seen from the north (see plan on verso of A-306-004), with the skylighted chapel at left, and the bedrooms belonging to Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at the right. There is a hatted figure sitting in the window of Mr Philpott's room, and another figure on the verandah. This sketch is virtually identical to those at A-306-005 and A-306-006, but there is less detail. There are numbers added, and a key at the top left, specifying the chapel, roof of bedrooms, over small spare room and drawing room, and the outside bedrooms. According to Shirley Tunnicliffe, it is Mary Hobhouse's writing of the title and key at the top. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, 145 x 257 mm. Provenance: Donated by Shirley Tunnicliffe in 1997.

Date: 1840

Reference: A-164-047

Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait by an unknown artist. Shows a head and shoulders portrait of a young woman in a dress with a white collar, and with a lace veil on the back of her head. Mary Brodrick married Bishop Edmund Hobhouse in 1858. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Coloured photograph, oval image 220 x 182 mm, on paper 255 x 205 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Shirley Tunnicliffe, Wellington, in 1997.

Date: 28 Dec 1858-10 Jun 1864

From: Hobhouse, Edmund, 1817-1904 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0414-04

Description: Letters are mainly to Eliza Hobhouse Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: [Between 1858-1864]

By: Hobhouse, Mary Elizabeth, 1819-1864

Reference: MS-Papers-3223

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1859-1862, nd

From: Hobhouse, Edmund, 1817-1904 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0414-05

Description: Includes letters from Mary Elizabeth Hobhouse and business letters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1859-1864, 1902

From: Hobhouse, Edmund, 1817-1904 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0414-06

Description: Mainly letters from Mrs C H Abraham to Eliza Hobhouse Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

From: Bridget Williams Books : Papers relating to Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma Te Kaupapa

Reference: 92-130-04

Description: Contains research notes and drafts for entries in `The Book of New Zealand women' Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1852-1976

By: Hobhouse family

Reference: MS-Papers-4495

Description: Contains letters written by Mary Brodrick (Hobhouse) and correspondence to and between various members of the Hobhouse family both in England and in New Zealand. Source of title - supplied title Accompanying material - Donor has provided a list of the letters - in backfile Quantity: 1 folder(s) (30 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopies)

Date: 1860

From: [Nicholson, Maria], fl 1859-62 :Episcopal [house] Nelson [from the south. 1860], with map on recto by Mary Hobhouse.

By: Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997; Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: A-306-003-1

Description: Recto shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows shingled roof, ladder on roof, chimneys, basins and bowls on ledge outside cooking hut. Chapel at right has skylights in the roof. Shows garden in foreground, with water-pump and trough, trees and shrubs. Verso shows plan of house from above. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. According to Shirley Tunnicliff, Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860. Other Titles - Bishop Hobhouse's residence and chapel, Nelson, from the south Verso has plan of house by Mary Hobhouse. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-004

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows shingled roof, ladder on roof, chimneys, basins and bowls on ledge outside cooking hut. Chapel at right has skylights in the roof. Shows garden in foreground, with water-pump and trough, trees and shrubs. Virtually identical to the drawing at A-306-003-1, but with slightly heavier shading. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860, according to Shirley Tunnicliffe. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: [ca 1860]

By: Hobhouse, Mary Elizabeth, 1819-1864; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-114-040

Description: A Maori woman and child, a raupo house in European style with a verandah and chimney and a storehouse in a clearing with hills behind. There is a fence with criss-cross poles marking the edge of the marae. The title appears to be the name of the woman and the child. Attributed on acquisition into the Library as possibly by Mrs Hobhouse Likely to be a scene in Taranaki, where the Hobhouses were living Extended Title - A type of bird Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 260 mm Provenance: Formerly the collection of K. A. Webster and may have previously been owned by the Hobhouse family.

Date: 1860

From: [Nicholson, Maria], fl 1859-62 :Episcopal [house] Nelson [from the south. 1860], with map on recto by Mary Hobhouse.

By: Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997; Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: A-306-003-2

Description: Shows plan of house from above, oriented with North at top. Chapel ("somewhat too large") is shown at right, "my room" in centre, bedrooms of Mr Philpott and Mr Tudor at top left beside the verandah. The cooking place and hall are at the left. There is a book room between the chapel and E[dmund]'s den. The hall has a "dirty, uninhabitable garret above". There is a circular fuchsia bed at top right, on the gravel. At the right is text: 'What is shaded has rooms above it in the roof. no walls. Edmund enclosed a little box for his own den off the passage. What is now Book-room was the old entrance hall - conveniently placed as there is no bell! The Hall was the old kitchen a dreary dirty dark room. We have lined it roughly with calico, put in more little windows, & use it as our dining room - The cooking place & washg shed are chiefly our contribution to Dr R's roofs.' This plan is on the verso of Episcopal [house] Nelson, thought to be by Maria Nicholson. A letter from Mary Hobhouse of June 2nd 1860, says "I have just been making a plan on the back of one of Miss Hobhouse's drawings to illustrate the subject of the house ..." According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Miss Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.