MANUSCRIPT
Further assortment of manuscripts and papers
- Date
- [1855-1951]
- By
- Houston, John, 1891-1962; Balneavis, Henare Te Raumoa Huatahi, 1880-1940; Musgrave, Thomas (Capt), 1832-1891; Mackay, Alexander, 1833-1909; Churches, Joseph, active 1855; McNab, Robert, 1864-1917; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920; Wilson, James Gordon, 1882-1967; Noble, William, active 1873; New Zealand. Army. Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps; New Zealand Labour Party; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931
- Reference
- MS-Papers-6058
- Description
Comprises papers removed from `NZ Trades and Labour Conference Reports' (1895-1911) including notes by A G Bagnall, notes on 1904 conference, clippings, copy of letter sent to MPs after Auckland conference by W S Moxsom (1909), memorandum for W B Sutch re merging of Social Democratic Party with NZ Labour Party (1940), and circular letter for St Mary's Church, Karori (1951); words for song to the tune of the `Volga boatmen' of the NZASC (1942); correspondence between Turnbull and Robert McNab removed from McNab's `Murihiku' (1904, 1908); bill of exchange, Navy & Foreign, William Noble, paymaster (1873) removed from `Journal' of Commodore Goodenough (1876); errata to J G Wilson's `A History of Hawke's Bay' and clipping (removed from same); transcription of plate in Russell church for Augustus Hamilton in English and Maori; list of subscribers for Gudgeon's `Defenders of NZ' (1886); clipping removed from Elder's `Letters and journals of Samuel Marsden' (1934); typescripts of letter, Joseph Churches to his family, from `Letters from settlers and labouring immigrants...NZ Co's settlements...' (1843); note probably by Alexander MacKay from New Zealand Land Court `Important judgements...' (1879); notes re notes in T Musgrave's `Castaway on the Auckland Isles' (1865); letter H R H Balneavis to John Houston (1930)
Also photocopies of notes by John Houston on sheets from the `The lore of the whare wananga' by Elsdon Best from Reserve Coll; notes from copy of Hooker's `Handbook of NZ flora' signed by Walter Mantell, copy going to reserve collection; notes from Reeves' `The Long white cloud' (copy owned by John Houston); notes on Napier Post Office (1969)
Other Titles - History of Hawke's Bay by J G Wilson
Other Titles - Murihiku by Robert McNab
Other Titles - Defenders of New Zealand by T W Gudgeon
Other Titles - Letters and journals of Samuel Marsden, ed by J R Elder
Other Titles - Castaway on the Auckland Isles...Capt Thos Musgrave
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Transfers: From Book Collections - - From Serials Collection -.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Alexander Turnbull Library : Miscellaneous items transferred from Printed Collections
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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