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Smith, Stephenson Percy 1840-1922 : Notebooks on the Chatham and Kermadec islands, and Niue
- Date
- 1868 1887 1901
- By
- Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922
- Reference
- MS-2024-2027
- Description
V1 is Chatham Island notes (1868) with sketches, plans and maps [MS-2024]; v2 has notes on Niue (1901) [MS-2026]; v3 is an account of Smith's visit to the Kermadec Islands on the ss `Stella', 1887 [MS-2025], with numerous sketches [MS-2025]; and v4 lists his geological specimens from the Chatham Islands (nd) [MS-2027]
Source of title - Supplied
Quantity: 4 volume(s) (In tie case). 0.05 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holograph (4 notebooks with various bindings, 22cm, in ¼ red morocco, red linen tie case)
- Additional description
MS-2024-2027 are boxed together.
Microfilm copies available in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Use MS-Copy-Micro-0594.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 4 volume(s) (In tie case), 0.05 Linear Metres, Notebooks, Diaries, Manuscripts, Holograph (4 notebooks with various bindings, 22cm, in ¼ red morocco, red linen tie case)
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Notes - Kermadec Islands
Date: 1887
From: Smith, Stephenson Percy 1840-1922 : Notebooks on the Chatham and Kermadec islands, and Niue
Reference: MS-2025
Description: Diary of expedition to the Kermadec Islands, with list of geological specimens, map of islands in relation to Kermadecs, calculations, many drawings of the islands and parts of New Zealand the ship passed, such as Three Kings Island, Cape Reinga, Sunday Island, Curtis Island and list of indigenous and introduced vegetation on Sunday Island Source of title - Supplied title Arrangement: MS-2024-2027 are boxed together Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (14x20cm, black roan) Includes geological profiles and cross-sections and many drawings of promontories, landforms, with some mapping. Particularly good drawings of the crater of Sunday Island and Curtis Island
Notes - Chatham Islands
Date: [ca 1868-1900]
From: Smith, Stephenson Percy 1840-1922 : Notebooks on the Chatham and Kermadec islands, and Niue
Reference: MS-2027
Description: List of specimens from the Chatham Islands (102) with one small geological cross-section of Ngakuha and shore profile Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: MS-2024-2027 are boxed together Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (11cm, blue buckram) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Presented by Mr G B Shaw, 1955
Notes - Chatham Islands
Date: 1868
From: Smith, Stephenson Percy 1840-1922 : Notebooks on the Chatham and Kermadec islands, and Niue
Reference: MS-2024
Description: Largely deals with Chatham islands surveying, botany, geology but also has notes relating to New Zealand, drafts of letters etc Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: MS-2024-2027 are boxed together Note in front in donor's hand, `This is the notebook used by my Father, S Percy Smith, at Chatham islands in 1868 with some of his sketches therein. M C Smith' Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph with annotation re provenance Drawings, profiles, cross-sections, geometric illustrations and rudiemntary maps
Notes - Niue Island
Date: 1901
From: Smith, Stephenson Percy 1840-1922 : Notebooks on the Chatham and Kermadec islands, and Niue
Reference: MS-2026
Description: Notes on Niue, including language and anthropology, with some drawings Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: MS-2024-2027 are boxed together Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (12x19cm, black roan) Some drawings, including a map