MANUSCRIPT
Thierry family : Papers
- Date
- 1820-1879
- By
- Thierry familyThierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de (Baron), 1793-1864; Thierry, Charles Thomas Frederick Theophilitis de (Baron), 1821-1897; Thierry, Francois de, active 1839
- Reference
- MS-Group-1609
- Description
Comprises inward and outward correspondence relating to Baron de Thierry, his sons and wife. Includes petitions, receipts, notes and other papers relating to Thierry's land claims, business activity in Britain, France, Hawaii, California and New Zealand, and to his family. Includes correspondence with the New Zealand Government, including governors Hobson and Gore Browne.
Source of title - Supplied by Library
Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss
Provenance: Bought from Mr Paul Aubin of Dunedin, whose family had held the papers for several generations.
Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2007
Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. transfers to other sections made from here - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Several sketches.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 11 folder(s), 0.20 Linear Metres, Personal correspondence, Marriage certificates, Manuscripts, Mss
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Early and family papers
Date: [ca 1793-1825], 1851
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-01
Description: Memoranda, family notes and other papers relating to Thierry's life in England, his marriage to Emily Rudge (1819), his enrolment at Magdalen College, Oxford (1821), and on the Rudge family. Also includes certificate of further marriage, contracted in Honolulu to Mary Nye (1851). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence
Date: 1840
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-03
Description: Translations of Captain d'Urville's letter on subject of Thierry's land claims (4 May 1840); and of Captain Lavaud's letter replying to his request for assistance (Jul 22 1840); four letters from Hobson 31 Aug, Dec and 2 Apr 1840) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Hawaiian passport
Date: 1851
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-09
Description: Passport issued by the Kingdom of Hawaii to Baron de Thierry. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Letters to his sons
Date: 1850-1864
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-06
Description: Letters to his sons, Charles Thomas Frederick and William. Charles is the addressee on most of the letters. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence
Date: 1841
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-04
Description: Lengthy letter to Hobson from Thierry (24 Nov 1841); declaration concerning his land leases in the Hokianga (19 Jan 1841) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Loose early papers
Date: 1826-1837, n d
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-02
Description: Letter to Emily de Thierry from her father, Frederick Rudge (24 Oct 1820?); Letter from Thierry's solicitor, Cecil Becke, London, re possible fraudulent use of Emily de Thierry's inheritance (1827); proposal by Thierry re canal at Panama (ca 1834); creditors' notes, mainly for gas lighting, for Thierry's company's bazaar in Paris (1826); draft poem (n d); letter of appreciation from J Montgomery to Thierry re his conduct of business while in charge of the French Consulate at Honolulu in 1832 (1833); description of location of Thierry's Waima land near Bay of Islands, given by `the chief Piro' 1837; note from Captain Crozier of HMS Victor ( n d); receipt for transport of the Thierry family from Tahiti to Sydney (1837) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence
Date: 1842-1856
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-05
Description: Letter to his son (also called Charles), sent c/- William White re his property in Hokianga (3 Sep 1845); from Colonial Secretary to Thierry (21 May 1844); copy of Thierry's claim to land in Hokianga as claimed in 1822; to his sons, giving family news re his daughter Isabella, and shipping news from Auckland (20 Oct 1849); partial letter from unknown correspondent in London (18 Feb 1849); to Thierry, then in California, from Jessie Brown, relating death of Isabella (21 Mar 1850); funeral expenses for his wife, Emily, (10 Apr 1856) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Newspaper cuttings
Date: 1865-1875
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-11
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Government
Date: 1861-1875
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-07
Description: Letters and petitions to the Colonial Secretary, Lands Purchase Commissioner and Parliament. Also petition by Arana Karapa (in Maori with translation) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence - Family
Date: 1850-1869
From: Thierry family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-8832-08
Description: Letters and other papers relating to Thierry family. Includes certificate of death of Mary de Thierry; also letter to Emily de Thierry, and matter relating to the Rudge family Quantity: 1 folder(s).