Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940

Guthrie-Smith, Herbert, 1862-1940, Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940

Farmer, naturalist, writer, bird-watcher, also an accomplished outdoor photographer; lived at Tutira, northern Hawkes Bay. See DNZB (Vol3, 1901-1920, p192-193, G27)

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Correspondence, P-S

Date: 1923-1927

From: Cockcroft, Thomas, 1900-1977:Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11889-5

Description: Incoming and outgoing correspondence between Thomas Cockcroft and J Patttison of Taumaranui, E V Sanderson, Bernard Sladden, H Guthrie-Smith, and W W Smith. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Correspondence - Alexander Shand, R A A Sherrin, Harry M Skeet, W H Skinner, H Guthrie ...

Date: 1887-1919

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-274

Description: Comprises letters from Alexander Shand (2) 1895-1896; R A A Sherrin (7) 1887-1888; letters to and from Harry M Skeet (2) 1907; letters to W H Skinner (10) 1893-1912; and letters to and from Guthrie H Smith (6) 1919 and undated.

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The Guthrie-Smith family and station farming in New Zealand

Date: 1905-1911

From: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 :Photographs of Tutira and district, Hawke's Bay

By: Guthrie-Smith, Henry Wallis, 1868-1932; Guthrie-Smith, Archibald Guthrie, 1874-1949

Reference: PA1-o-1642

Description: Includes a large section relating to Mangapapa Station, Mangatu, that seems to be particularly associated with Archibald and D Guthrie-Smith. Many of the photographs are taken by Archibald and Harry Guthrie Smith. Includes - Views of Mangapapa homestead in recently burnt over hill country. Horses and dray crossing ford at Campbell's Crossing on the Mangamaia Road. Whatatutu School. Whatatutu Hotel. Stockyards, Mangapapa Station, 1908. Horses crossing the Mangatu River. Sheep at Mangapapa Station, 1908. Mangatu Bridge. Horses packing posts for boundary fences, 1908. Forest cut through ready for burning, 1907. Bush camps. Horses packing sacks of grass seed for burnt over hill country, 1908. Flood at Mangapapa Station that washed away stock yards. Ox team pulling a mill engine out of the mud, 1910. Sawpit in timber mill opposite homestead, 1910. Archibald and D Guthrie Smith with their horses and sheep dogs, 1907. Horse "Roany" with Old Tom, 1907. Horses and men outside "Primrose & Leslie Bros. Saddlers" Whatatutu. Settlers whare, Mangatu. Maori group, Whatatutu. Farmhouse of Messrs Manders and Dods, 1907. Crop of turnips. Mrs Martin's house up the Mangatu River. W Barron's homestead, Mangahaumia, 1905. Hegarty's woolshed up the Mangahaumia River. Bush fellers at their camp. Men with horses fencing hill country. Bailed wool ready for loading, Aotearoa Station, Mangatu. "Bricky" driving cart drawn by four horses through river with the mail. Puha Railway Station. Maori children. William Herbert Guthrie-Smith's daughter, Barbara, August 1903, 1906, and 1910. Guthrie-Smith, his wife, daughter, and brothers Archibald and Harry, 1911. Children's birthday party, 1906. House and garden at Tutira Station. Views of Lake Tutira. Staff, work animals, and head shepherd's house, Tutira Station. Native pigeon and pukeko's nest, Tutira. Large Christmas group, Turira Station, 1906. Shearers and shed hands, Tutira Station, 1905. Freshly harvested and processed flax, Tutira Station. Mrs F Moore, manager, Mangapapa Station. Bert Russell with horse "Bluey." Sheep yards, Aotearoa Station, Mangatu. Bert Russell and station cook Tom Marchant with horses. First grass on burnt off land, and cattle yards, Mangapapa Station. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2010

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Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert 1862-1940 : Tottie, a New Zealand episode

Date: 1892, 1950

By: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940

Reference: qMS-0892

Description: Guthrie-Smith's meeting with Mary Macpherson, daughter of Donald Macpherson, during sheepfarming activities; she died shortly afterwards, aged 13 years. Includes letter from the British Museum to the US Educational Foundation in NZ re `Tottie' and other published works. Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Good words (periodical) (London) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm, blue linen)

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Photographs taken by Charles Fleming during trips in New Zealand

Date: 1933-1937

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests

Reference: PA1-o-1321

Description: Trip to Lake Waikaremoana and the Ureweras, March 1935. The sequence includes views of the lake, native forest, the meeting house at Te Whaiti, and huts associated with Elsdon Best. Visit to W H Guthrie Smith at Tutira, March 1937. This includes a photograph of Guthrie-Smith and another of the Tutira homestead with Guthrie-Smith and E G Turbot walking in the garden. Trip to Tokomaru Bay, February 1935. Photographs include Fishermen, Mount Hikurangi, Kiritahi Homestead, the Raukumaru Range, the Kopuapounamu River, the Maungakariki Stream, and other geological features. Photographs taken during a Geology II camp at Kawhia, Easter 1935. Shows student groups on a beach, Tainui Rock, and Albatross Point. A view of the coast and the old copper mine building, Kawau Island. Auckland University College Field Club's trip to to the Noises Islands, 1935. Depicts students collecting snail shells and grouped on a beach, and a view of a rocky islet from a cliff top. The locations depicted are Otata Island, Maria Island, and David Rocks. Auckland University Science Society picnic, and the Auckland Conchological Club's trip to Rangitoto Island, 1935. Auckland Univerity College Field Club's camp in the Huia Valley, May 1935. Views of Rangitoto Island and the Hauraki Gulf. This sequence includes photographs of Black-Backed and Red Billed gulls, their nests, eggs and chicks. Charles Fleming and a group of friends climbing on ice. Poor Knights Islands showing landscape, vegetation including Xeronema in flower, and a small penguin. Views of Waiheke Island which include Squadron Bay, a fossil bed at Oneroa, and Matiata. Gulls photographed on Motutapu Island, November 1933. A trip to Great Barrier Island. This sequence includes views of Port Fitzroy, a warship, Grave islet, Mount Camel, rocks and islets called "the Grey group," Wellington Head, Nelson Island and other islands at the entrance to Fitzroy Harbour, Whanagaparapara Harbour, Mount Hobson, Arid Island, Mohuki Island, and a gannet colony. Other photographs of bird life include shags perching in trees, gulls and pigeon and kaka in bush on Hen Island, a fantail and nest, shearwater and petrel burrows, and flocks of seabirds on a rocky coast. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Members of the Guthrie-Smith family in New Zealand, Switzerland, The Tyrol and Scotland

Date: 1897-1919

From: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 :Photographs of Tutira and district, Hawke's Bay

By: Guthrie-Smith, Annie Lindsay, 1866-1933; Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940; Guthrie-Smith, Elma Katherine, 1878-1949

Reference: PA1-o-1641

Description: Photographs taken by members of the Guthrie smith family in New Zealand, Switzerland, Tirol, and Scotland. Included are Strathblane sheep station south west of Gisborne where William Herbert Guthrie-Smith and his siblings Harry, Archibald, Annie, Elma, and a D Guthrie-Smith that may have been James Robert Dennistoun Guthrie Smith, spent the Christmas of 1900. The main photographers were Annie, Elma, William and Harry. Included are - Views of the Hangaroa River. Members of the family, especially as a group, Christmas 1900. Cats, and dogs. Farm activities such as sheep dipping. Native bush in Peel Forest. Men and women on horseback at Strathblane. Snapshots from Scotland of the children of Guthrie-Smith's sister Jean who married James Clarke. The Guthrie-Smith family members at Tutira Station, 1900. Native forest and newly cleared land littered with the trunks of trees. Mangapapa Station being developed, 1900-1901. Groups, especially women, at the winter resort, Chateau d'Oeux, Switzerland, 1903-1904. Women on holiday, Tirol, 1907. Horses ridden by guests to a party given by Guthrie-Smith at Strathblane Station, 1900. Archibald Guthrie-Smith's farm and house, Glenreasdell, Scotland. Fancy dress dinner party, Scotland, 1912. A house called Pitfar, Scotland, that also seems associated with Archibald Guthrie-Smith. Archibald Guthrie-Smith in a traditional Austrian costume, 1912. Climbing party in the Campsie Hills, Scotland, 1912. Winter landscapes, Dumngoyne, Scotland, 1902. Guthrie-Smith women and their motorcar and chauffeur, 1912. Annie Guthrie-Smith with her goats, 1919. Portraits of William Herbert Guthrie-Smith, 1896 and 1902. Sir Malcolm McGregor of McGregor in naval uniform, 1905. Saddel castle, Scotland. View of Little Mount Peel, New Zealand. George and Emily Dennistoun of Peel Forest station, 1907. Picnic party, Mount Peel, 1897. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2010

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Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 :Guthrie-Smith family photographs relating to...

Date: 1895-[ca 1931]

By: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940

Reference: PA-Group-00718

Description: Guthrie-Smith family photograph albums and loose photographs relating to the farm, homestead and surrounding area at Tutira Station, Hawke's Bay, established by William Herbert Guthrie Smith. Photographs taken between 1895-circa 1931, many probably by W H Guthrie-Smith who was a farmer, naturalist, writer, bird-watcher and also an accomplished outdoor photographer. Albums possibly compiled by him. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). 13 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph albums, photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Sue Upton, Wellington, 2011

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Papers relating to the New Zealand Land Company (a)

Date: [1905-1911]

From: Dominion Museum : Historical material

Reference: fMS-Papers-6073-1

Description: Comprises papers relating to the records of the NZ Land Company and the Colonial Office that the latter was prepared to photocopy for New Zealand; correspondents indexed. Includes notes on ascent of Mt Holdsworth by BCA, subscription form for track over the Tararua mountains (1912) Language - Small amount of material in Maori (part of inward letters) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Covering note: A G Bagnall to Julia Traue, `National Archives do not appear able to locate these papers so I suggest we xerox file with second copy of Report (flagged) and AHT's letter `flagged', [?] 1966.

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AFCM album 6

Date: Early 1900s to 1940s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-127

Description: Album of newspaper & magazine cuttings, black & white photographs, coloured illustrations, and written information about New Zealand fauna. Mostly on various birds of New Zealand including different varieties of birds of prey, perching birds (e.g. stitch-bird or hihi, tui, kingfisher or kotare, bell-bird or korimako), kakapo, kaka, kiwi, kuku (or wood-pigeon); penguins, shags, gannets etc. Other sections include illustrations and written information about the tuatara, whitebait (or inanga), New Zealand fish, New Zealand insects and butterflies, and 7 pages of musical notes (p 45-51) indicating the different sounds made by various types of cicada. There are several articles about William Herbert Guthrie-Smith, written after his death in 1940.

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Non fiction drafts and notes

Date: [196-]

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5598-17

Description: Includes: `Recollections of H Guthrie-Smith', notes on the 1940 Centennial and notes for the `Inland eye' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs and typescript

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Correspondence - W H Guthrie-Smith

Date: 25 May 1953-7 Jun 1954

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-094

Description: Contents relate to A D Heenan. Correspondence re Mrs A Woodhouse's biography of W H G-S and information supplied by J W H; J D Pascoe Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Correspondence (Sm)

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

By: Tustin, Mabel, 1884-1967

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-076

Description: Names of correspondents not entered under the Name Field include: Thomas G Thrum (Honolulu); Hilda E A Small; file re Turnbull Library staff members Maisie D Gray and Mr A Bisset Smith, 1921-1922; C W Smith; Cecil A Smith; Anne Crompton-Smith; Maurice Crompton-Smith; MrB Crompton-Smith (Havelock North); F E Smith (Hastings); F W O Smith (Nelson); J Gibson Smith; Rev J Gibson Smith; Isabel G Smith; C Wallace Smith; W Lovell-Smith; Miss E C Percy Smith; William Smith (Commercial printer, Invercargill); William McGlashan Smith; Joseph M Smyth; J H Smyth Ltd (Sydney). `Rules of the Turnbull Library', 1920 (with portrait of unidentified young woman taken by Mabel Tustin inserted inside - on recto "Left in a volume by A B Smith") Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Papers relating to Cape Catley books (7)

Date: 1985, 1990-2009

From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11651-293

Description: Includes correspondence (letters and printed emails), issue of the `Picton gazette' (26 Sep 1997) and clippings. Only author names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

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Correspondence - W H Guthrie-Smith

Date: May-Oct 1936

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-093

Description: Contents relate to articles on Tutira - newspaper clippings with ALS Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert 1862-1940 : Literary papers

Date: 1921, 1936

By: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940

Reference: MS-Papers-1975

Description: Draft for parts of Tutira; the story of a New Zealand sheep station, published 1921, and for Sorrows and joys of a New Zealand naturalist, published 1936 Other Titles - Tutira; the story of a New Zealand sheep station Other Titles - Sorrows and joys of a New Zealand naturalist Quantity: 3 folder(s) (124 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

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Lawlor, Patrick Anthony 1893-1979 : Papers

Date: [ca 1925-1959]

By: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979

Reference: MS-Papers-4363

Description: Consists of papers relating to F W Reed's collection and bibliography of Alexandre Dumas material, correspondence, two short stories by Cecil H Winter, a talk by J W Heenan about `Tutira' and one by H Guthrie-Smith about `New Zealand's greatest book' and other related material. Lawlor was a journalist and author. Quantity: 3 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

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Correspondence (Gr-Gy)

Date: 1920-1932

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-039

Description: Names of selected correspondents entered in Name Field. Others are: Arnold John Graham, 1925; Edith Graham, 1922; John Grant, Edinburgh, 1921; Evelyn Grey, 1930; Miss E M Green, 1924; Miss E T Greenwood, Eastbourne, 1928; Greymouth Harbour Board, 1920; Miss Greirson, 1923; J R Griffin, 1926; F J T Grigg, 1923; L H Grundy, London, 1924; Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1926; Mrs O H Gulick, Honolulu, 1922; H V Gully, 1923; K J Gunn, 1931; Cecily M Gunter, 1931; Gyldendal Publishing Co, London, 1922. Conditions of the Mary Izard Memorial Prize Competition, Wellington Girls' College and correspondence with the school principal, Miss V M Greig, 1931. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Correspondence - H Guthrie-Smith

Date: 4 Oct [19--]

From: Alexander Turnbull Library (Wellington) : Correspondence files

Reference: MS-Papers-0181-135

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Correspondence - W H Guthrie-Smith

Date: 24 Feb 1936-9 Jul 1937

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-090

Description: Contents relate to `Tutira and Author's week', 1936; J W H's `New Zealand's greatest book', letters - O Duff, A B Chappell; E F Stead, H H Cornish, C S Perry; clippings and pamphlet. See also folder 375 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

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Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940 :Photographs of Tutira and district, Hawke's Bay

Date: 1900-1919

By: Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 1862-1940

Reference: PA-Group-00607

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of Tutira and surrounding district, Hawke's Bay, taken 1900-1919 by members of the Guthrie Smith family, including William Herbert Guthrie Smith (1862-1940). Includes views of Tutira, Hangaroa, Mangapapa and Whatatutu, and scenes in Scotland and Tyrol. Photographic copy of portrait painting of John Guthrie (1768-1834). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2010 Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - Smith family history, by David Burrard Smith. Photocopy of service record for A Guthrie-smith. Letters from William Arch Smith. Printouts from Helensburgh Heroes website..