Potts, Thomas Henry, 1824-1888

Date: Mar-May 1881

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-03/3

Description: Identified correspondents entered in Name field below; also includes coded telegram from Sir John Hall re Parihaka, interview with Te Whiti Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes printed map of Mikonui Water Race near the settlement of Ross [Totara District]

Date: Jan-Sep 1880

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-03/1

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name field. Includes a letter of 20 July 1880 by W Gibbs that records an interview with a girl, ‘E Page’, who was pregnant to her school master ‘Hume’. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Scope and name record updated 26 September 2023 following information from a researcher.

Date: 1888

By: Lyttelton Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AUCTION-1888-01

Description: Lists 277 books for sale at the auction, mainly non-fiction. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 11 pages, 218 x 134 mm.

Date: Oct-Dec 1880

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-03/2

Description: Identified correspondents entered in Name field below Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 31 Oct 1873-8 Feb 1876 (transcribed 2007)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Moore, Walter Montagu, 1851-1929

Reference: MS-Papers-8722

Description: Account of voyage to Canterbury on Crusader with his brothers Francis and Henry, 1873-1874, and return voyage to England a year later on the Merope. Describes his stay in Christchurch, trips to Governor's Bay and Akaroa, to Hokitika via Arthur's Pass, trip to visit numerous sheep stations in South Canterbury, social events, cricket matches, balls, Professor Bickerton's lectures, Transit of Venus Expedition (lead by Major Palmer, R.E., chief astronomer), Canterbury runholders and settlers including Lysaght family, Thomas Potts (Ohinetahi), etc. Trip to North Island via Wellington, thermal region, Tauranga, Auckland, and return to Christchurch before leaving for England on the Merope in Jan 1875. Includes brief account of Walter's return voyage to New Zealand, Oct 1875-8 Feb 1876 on the Crusader. Includes index of people, sheep stations and ships mentioned Accompanying material - Newspaper report of 1873-1874 voyage of Crusader, & 1874 voyage of the Merope (Transit of Venus expedition on board) (from Lyttelton Times); biographical notes & 1861 census for Moore family; biographical entry for Thomas Potts (NZ dictionary of biography / Scholefield) Quantity: 1 folder(s) 60 pp & 7 pp (index) & additional printed material. 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript and printed material (photocopies)

Date: 1869

From: Cockcroft, Thomas, 1900-1977:Papers

Reference: MSX-9385

Description: Bound volume containing several published works: Notes on the breeding habits of New Zealand birds, by T H Potts; the anniversary address by Sir George F Bowen and minutes for the New Zealand Institute (1870); minutes from the Wellington Philosophical Soceity (1870); addresses and minutes from the Otago Institute meeting (1870); minutes from the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury (1870); a corrected list of New Zealand ferns; articles by Walter Buller on the New Zealand rat, lizard, huia, weta, kiwi, and other birds. Also contains catalogues of native birds, birds introduced by European settlers, and a catalogue of marine mollusks by F W Hutton. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound volume

Date: Jul-Dec 1870

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-057

Description: Most correspondents identified; also includes letter from J or I Ford, Anama Station and peition of Heathcote electors, Prebbleton, calling for a political meeting Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1943]-1979

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: MSY-4798

Description: The scrapbook includes correspondence, clippings, cards, drawings and cartoons, reports, photographs, poems and letters from Innes Simonsen, illustration by ML, `Book worm rampant; the story of Silas Quarto', all related to book collecting, book collectors, stories about collectors, and some diary extracts. Includes `A Bookman's journal No IV, 14 8 1941' by T J Lawlor, Lawlor's first bookplate and one of Minnie Thomas's, and drawing by `My Margaret'. Letters from identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1861-1887

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0037-128

Description: Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1873-1875

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-02/1

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1859, 1872

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0083-361

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 letters). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of contents of this folder.

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: PAColl-5381

Description: The negatives are of a stained glass memorial window and the grave of Sir Julius and his family. Arrangement: Four prints are housed at PAColl-5381. Other images are represented by file prints in the Pictorial Reference Service public file. Negatives of prints not yet in the collection at 1/2-002676, 002678 to 002681 and 002688. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1867

From: Mundy album 1

Reference: PA1-f-039-35

Description: Cabbage trees and Thomas Henry Potts' house Ohinetahi at Governors Bay, taken 1867 by Daniel Louis Mundy. This house is currently (17/3/99) lived in by architect Miles Warren. Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - Potts' Home [N Z naturalist lived here c.1870s]; Album page - beneath image - 136 Lyttleton-Governor's Bay, Study of Palm Trees, Canterbury. East Coast South Island; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mundy Dec 31. 67; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - No 12 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1863-1875

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0511

Description: Correspondents: W F Porter, Waiapera, 1863 (1 letter); Auckland Postmaster, 1858 (1 letter); P C Pottier, 1875 (1 letter); Thomas H Potts, Governor's Bay, 1874 (1 letter); Thomas Powdrell, Meeanee, 1867 (1 letter); S D Powdrell, Napier, 1870 (1 letter). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-029

Description: Shows a panorama of mountains with moraine faces shown in blue watercolour. The heights of some peaks are given On four sheets of paper, three joined, one separate. Source of title (MPS and glacial moraine) from shelf-list, probably from a label now discarded. There is no title inscription on the drawing. The suggestion that MPS stands for Mr Potts' Station is speculative, based on two other drawings showing T. H. Potts' station (C-097-004 and C-097-005) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, on paper, 127 x 1015 mm.

Date: 31 Oct 1873-8 Feb 1876 (transcribed 2007)

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Moore, Walter Montagu, 1851-1929

Reference: MSDL-1260

Description: Account of voyage to Canterbury on Crusader with his brothers Francis and Henry, 1873-1874, and return voyage to England a year later on the Merope. Describes his stay in Christchurch, trips to Governor's Bay and Akaroa, to Hokitika via Arthur's Pass, trip to visit numerous sheep stations in South Canterbury, social events, cricket matches, balls, Professor Bickerton's lectures, Transit of Venus Expedition (lead by Major Palmer, R.E., chief astronomer), Canterbury runholders and settlers including Lysaght family, Thomas Potts (Ohinetahi), etc. Trip to North Island via Wellington, thermal region, Tauranga, Auckland, and return to Christchurch before leaving for England on the Merope in Jan 1875. Includes brief account of Walter's return voyage to New Zealand, Oct 1875-8 Feb 1876 on the Crusader. Includes index of people, sheep stations and ships mentioned Accompanying material - Newspaper report of 1873-1874 voyage of Crusader, & 1874 voyage of the Merope (Transit of Venus expedition on board) (from Lyttelton Times); biographical notes & 1861 census for Moore family; biographical entry for Thomas Potts (NZ dictionary of biography / Scholefield) Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)

Date: [ca 1862-1866?]

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-005

Description: A sketch showing the view from the Rangitata side, northeast of the Two Thumb Range, with the Rangitata valley and named peaks in the background. Title transcribed as composite of labels on item. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper, 250 x 450 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Potts, Thomas Henry, 1824-1888

Reference: PA2-2167

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

Date: [ca 1875]

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-005225-F

Description: A portrait of Thomas Henry Potts. He sits alongide a stuffed kiwi. Photograph taken circa 1875 by an unidentified photographer. This is a copy negative made by Steffano Webb. Photographer of original image unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: Between 1860 and 1870

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-039

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, both North and South Islands, taken by Daniel Mundy between 1860 and 1870. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p. 51). The views include a number in the Thames goldfields, with scenes of gold batteries, miners' huts, and a tramway. Mundy includes two rivers which are now differently named, the Tekihe River [i.e. Taheke River], and Tiremakau River [i.e. Taramakau River]. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; spine title "New Zealand scenery, 1860-80. Mundy. 4638-4685"