Gladstone, William Ewart, 1809-1898

Date: 1815-1863

Reference: qMS-0382-0388

Description: The correspondence deals principally with the formation of the Canterbury Association, and the founding, and early years of Canterbury The correspondence to Godley includes letters from C C Bowen, I E Featherston, J E Fitzgerald, W Fox, W E Gladstone, J W Hamilton & H Sewell Letters from Arthur and William Wakefield are included in the volume of E G Wakefield's correspondence Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 7 volume(s). Physical Description: Typed transcripts (27 cm; ¼ maroon morocco)

Date: 1847-1893 (1940)

By: FitzGerald, James Edward (Hon), 1818-1896

Reference: MS-0840

Description: Material covers principally the foundation of Canterbury. Interesting individual letters from Ruskin and Fenton Quantity: 1 volume(s) (182 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ dark green morocco) Finding Aids: Indexed.

Date: 1847-1854

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2005

Description: Selected papers created while Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Foreign Secretary Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1870

By: Ossani, Alessandro, active 1860-1880

Reference: C-043-004

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Britain's Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone. It includes a reproduction of his signature below the image Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Collotype, 433 x 343 mm

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2676

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: May 1843-Sep 1854

By: Gladstone, William Ewart, 1809-1898; British Museum

Reference: Micro-MS-0427

Description: Correspondence between Gladstone and others concerning ecclesiastical affairs of British colonies, especially Australia, New Zealand and Meanesia Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 30 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2677

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1820 - 1893

From: [Collection of ephemera, handbills, fliers, collected by Kenneth Athol Webster. 1800-1920]

By: Buckerfield, N, active 1800s; Catnach, James, 1792-1841; Clowes, J, active 1800s; Jones, F, active 1800s; Paul, James, active 1800s; Smith, W, active 1800s; Wayte, T, active 1856

Reference: Eph-B-WEBSTER-Ballads-169/199

Description: Some sheets contain two or more ballads. Many are in fragile condition. Includes: 169. Labouring boy. Highland Jane 170. What a wonderful world this would be! Lady, do not heed her warning 171. The Zulu war! My mother's parting gift. F Jones, printer, 55 Lambert St, Sheffield 172. George Clark's great topical song, "My thoughts as I puffed my cigar". Latest version. Copyright. J Clowes, printer, "Illustrated review" office, 13 Broomhall Street, Sheffield. 173. Flora the lily of the west. The old English gentleman. Merchant's daughter and constant farmer's son. Blow the cancle [candle] in. All round my hat. 174. All in a row, sung by Charles Deane 175. A new hymn - Tis all for the best. A new hymn. W Smith, printer, Newcastle 176. Lord Bateman. printed and sold by J Catnach, 2 Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials. Just published a variety of beautiful battledores. Sold by Bennett, Edward-street, Brighton and J Peirce, Scarborough 177. An excellent ballad of a most dreadful combat fought between Moore of Moore-Hall and the Dragon of Wantley. Worcester, sold by J Butler, Garden M ... 178. The Court journal, Saturday January 2, 1830. The garland of beauty by Robin Goodfellow. No 36 179. Glorious Liberal meeting at Pomona Gardens, October 25th 1879. Welcome to John Bright & Lord Hartington, and long life to Mr Gladstone. new song in commemoration 180. Rights of man 181. Labor is the source of all wealth therefore all wealth belongs to the laborers. Song of the lower classes, by Ernest Jones. 182. A new song on the general taxation of our days 183. The Gracedieu miracle. N Buckerfield, printer 184. A new song called the gay old hag 185. The Irish Rake 186. The Irish tennant [sic] farmers lament from eviction from his native home 187. The peeler and the rabbit skins. James Paul, printer, Church Street, Whitechapel 188. Come and join the Good Templars' Band 189. Somebody waiting for me; or, Just down the lane. The Manchester Martyrs; or, The smashing of the Van (fragile) 190. Brave collier lad. Dawning of the day 191. Mark Addy, the Salford hero, by Isaac Edward Fletcher 192. A walk round Doncaster Cemetery. The rural sanctuary. The virgin and rose; or Nature's decay. By W Dimaline 193. Young Donald's return to Glencoe 194. The steam arm 195. Southey's description of Lodore Cataract. Printed by Mrs Bailey, bookseller, etc, Keswick 196. The chapter of Kings. Printed for William Brown Hextall, Ashby-de-la-Zouche. 197. Sunday, and Sunday bands, by a Manchester citizen. August 1856. 198. The colliers. Ashby-de-la-Zouche, T Wayte, printer and publisher 199. An elegy, composed by Claude Vincent. May 5th 1885. Copies of this elegy may be procured from the composer, at 148, The Grove, Stratford, E. Quantity: 31 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, sizes varying around 255 x 190 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth Athol Webster.

Date: 1831-1874

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1900

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1885-1889

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1631

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1860 - 1830 - 1880

From: [Collection of ephemera, handbills, fliers, collected by Kenneth Athol Webster. 1800-1920]

By: Disley, Henry, active 1860-1883

Reference: Eph-B-WEBSTER-Ballads-006/042

Description: Includes: 006. Old women's sayings 007. Strike of the journeymen tailors [1834?] 008. What shall we do for meat? 009. The funny divorce case [re Lady M and Charley] 010. Election of Dr Kenealy [Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, elected 1875] 011. The young woman's ABC 012. The great meeting in Hyde Park [1867] 013. Great meeting in Hyde Park on Monday, August 5th, 1867 014. Death of Louis Napoleon [at Chislehurst, 1873] 015. The dandy horse, or the wonderful velocipede [1860s] 016. Oxford and Cambridge boat race 017. The New Streets Act 018. The Litany for 1871 019. Holiday sprees 020. The new lights of America [Irishmen hoped to seek fortune in America, but are driven out] 021. Five and twenty shillings a week; we may be happy yet 022. The wedding of Louise and Johnny of Lorne [marriage of Lord Lorne to Princess Louise in 1871] 023. The opening of the Thames Embankment [July 1870] 024. The naughty wicked baker has got twelve months in quod 025. Farewell Moodie and Sankey [ca 1875] 026. John Bull's sentiments; or what I have been thinking [Captain Matthew Webb swims the English Channel; the 'Mistletoe' is wrecked. 1875] 027. The great Shah of Persia [1873?] 028. Have you seen the Shah? [1873?] 029. The fight for the championship; Wormald and victory! [Joe Wormald vs Andrew Marsden, 1866] 030. Arrival of the Duchess of Edinburgh [Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh marries Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, 23 January 1874] 031. Captain Jinks's dream; a conversation on the coming elections between Bill Gladstone and Ben Dizzy, written by John Embleton, author of "The political litany on the Irish Church question, &c" [William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, 1874] 032. Duke of Edinboro's marriage [Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh marries Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, 23 January 1874] 033. A political thanksgiving for the great and glorious victory gained by the Liberals and the complete deafeat of the Tories!! [1874] 034. Freedom and reform [pro Gladstone, Beales and Bright] 035. An interesting picture of drunkennness 036. Great fight between Sayers & Heenan for the championship [1860, John C Heenan and Thomas Sayers, boxers] 037. Unlucky Madame Rachael [?charlatan beautician, imprisoned 1869-1872?] 038. The lamentation of a naughty colonel 039. Terrible accident on the ice in Regent's Park, and loss of 40 lives [1867] 040. The naughty lord and the gay young lady. Damages 10,000 pounds [last line uses the expression Lord December and Lady May to describe age difference] 041. The working man's rights [pro Gladstone and Bright, late 1860s?] 042. The funny he-she ladies [transvestites in Regent Square, Paddington, Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, Wakefield Street, investigated by Detective Chamberlain] Quantity: 37 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, mainly stuck to sheets 255 x 190 mm. Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth Athol Webster.

Date: 1891

By: Edwards & Company; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-C-RETAIL-1891-01

Description: An advertising pamphlet in the form of a "will" of Gladstone, Prime Minister of England. It is in fact an advertising stunt for various Wellington businesses including Balloon Brand Baking Powder, W H Green, W C Fitzgerald, J B Innes, John Young (Cuba Street ironmonger), Henry Fielder, Fredk Routh, F Cohen, F J W Fear, Mackinnon & Tringham, Potter & Farquhar's boots, Red Funnel Tea, Godber's cakes, W Littlejohn & Son, F J Pinny, Messrs Wrigglesworth & Binns, Wellington Tinware Company, J Nicol (Buckle Street plumber), F Cohen's clothier, jeweller H J Freeman of Manners Street, Edwin Arnold of Willis Street (seller of prams). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet 570 x 445 mm, folded to 285 x 112 mm. Provenance: From the Kenneth Athol Webster purchase.

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2592

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1841-1865

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1577

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1881-1912

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1637

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1865-1874

From: O'Shea, Phillip Patrick, 1947- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5059-16

Description: Letters to and from J C Firth, mainly concerning land purchases; many in Maori. Includes early printed copy of the Treaty of Waitangi Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 items). Physical Description: Holograph, Mss Provenance: Collected by Mona Gordon for her biography of J C Firth

Date: 1769-1936

By: Fildes, Horace Edward Manners, 1875-1937

Reference: MS-Papers-1503

Description: Collection of letters from prominent people with New Zealand associations; diary fragments kept in Wellington by David Lewis 1844; correspondence with T E Donne re works of G F Angas; papers and letters concerning General Robley Quantity: 3 folder(s) (44 items). Physical Description: Photocopies Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1830-1894

By: Reed, Alfred Hamish (Sir), 1875-1975

Reference: MSY-8202

Description: Volume comprises autograph letters collected by Sir Alfred Hamish Reed mounted on album pages together with portraits and calligraphic descriptive text. The text provides contextual and biographical information relating to the letter writers to accompany the manuscripts. Also includes portraits of many of the writers. Reed's calligraphic penmanship is ornamental, featuring illustrated illuminated-style decorative initials executed in a range of coloured inks. The autograph letters and other fragments of holograph manuscript material are by a range of notable individuals, many with a connection to New Zealand. Volume features examples of holograph manuscript material, including letters by the following individuals: - John Tyndall 1820-1893 - letter dated 10 July [no year]. - Charles Dickens 1812-1870 - fragment of letter from 1868 and undated note. - Sir George Grey 1812-1898 - letter dated 13 August 1894. - Robert Browning 1812-1889 - autograph dated 4 February 1880. - William Ewart Gladstone 1809-1898 - letter dated November 1859. - John Ruskin 1819-1900 - letter dated Good Friday 1879. - John Bright 1811-1889 - letter dated 10 April 1883. - Captain Robert FitzRoy 1805-1865 - letter dated 10 December 1860. - Samuel Marsden 1764-1838 - undated page from a sermon. - Mary Russell Mitford 1787-1855 - letter dated 7 January 1830. - James Chalmers 1841-1901 - note dated 25 August 1864. - George Augustus Selwyn 1809-1878 - letter dated 12 November 1854. - Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 - note written in October 1865. - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852 - letter dated 9 March 1850. Also features bookplate of a Henry Wagner. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, holograph, typescript and printed matter. Album in a double binding, internal binder in blind-stamped cloth and outer album cover in full leather binding with ornamental ruling in gilt, applied label on front board with gilt lettering, and circular armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Contains 28 album leaves with mounted holograph letters and fragments of other holograph manuscript material, engraved and photographic portraits, and calligraphic ornamented text in coloured ink on paper, 39 x 29 cm. Provenance: Volume was originally gifted to the Whangarei Public Library (Accession No. 195043, Class No 920) by The Alfred and Isabel and Marian Reed Trust Fund (date unknown). Portraits of contributors

Date: 1848-1893

From: FitzGerald, James Edward, 1818-1896 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0064-03

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (27 letters). Finding Aids: See inventory for a fuller description of the contents of this folder.

Date: 1894 - 1902

By: Graphic (London, England); Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921; Hemy, Charles Napier, 1841-1917; Castaigne, A, active 1900; Lucas, John Seymour, 1849-1923; Huthsteiner, Rudolf, 1855-; Hofmann, H, active 1800s; Ludlow, Henry Stephen, 1861?-; Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912; Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (Sir), 1836-1912; Dicksee, Margaret Isobel, active 1880-1890s; Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918; Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1881; Draper, Herbert James, 1864-1920; Leighton, Edmund Blair, 1853-1922; Craig, Frank, 1874-1918; Herkomer, Hubert von (Sir), 1849-1914; Lavrut, Louise, 1874-; Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920; Laugee, Desire Francois, 1823-1896; Wilson, Thomas Walter, 1851-; Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Christchurch Press Company Ltd; Reynolds, Joshua (Sir), 1723-1792; Jordaens, Jacob, 1593-1678; Cooke, Arthur Claude, 1867-; Johnston, Harry Hamilton (Sir), 1858-1927; Manly, Eleanor E, active 1890s?; Pollard, James, 1792-1867; Helleu, Paul Cesar, 1859-1927; Haenen, F de, active 1890s; Giles, Geoffrey Douglas, 1857-; Thiele, Reinhold, active 1890s; Townsend, Frederick Henry, 1868-1920; Bundy, Edgar, 1862-1922; Waud, C Leighton, active 1890s; Morland, George, 1763-1804; Shepperson, Claude Alin, 1867-1921; Brangwyn, Frank, 1867-1956; Sauber, Robert, 1868-; Boyd, Alexander Stuart, 1854-1930; Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925?; Landseer, Edwin Henry (Sir), 1802-1873; Velasquez, Diego, 1599-1660; Cleaver, Reginald, active 1890-1930; Hatherell, William, active 1870-1890; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department. Wellington Social and Literary Club

Reference: C-124-003/056

Description: Includes: G D Leslie "A type of female beauty"; C Napier Hemy "The home moorings"; A Castaigne "Seen through Parisian spectacles - the English as they are portrayed on the music-hall stage"; Seymour Lucas "The Right Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton M. P., Secretary of State for India"; R Huthsteiner "The late Right Hon. John Bright M.P."; H Hofmann "The sermon on the Mount"; Hal Ludlow "The fencing girl"; F D Millet "A love letter"; L Alma-Tadema "An earthly paradise"; Margaret Isobel Dicksee "Sheridan at the Lindleys"; W F Yeames "Cordelia"; Riddle & Couchman, lith "Lord Salisbury, the new Prime Minister"; Sydney P Hall "Mr Gladstone reading the lessons in Hawarden Parish Church"; Herbert J Draper "The lament for Icarus"; E Blair-Leighton "Elaine"; Frank Craig "Royal Henley - the scene on the river between the races"; Professor Herkomer "HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G."; Louise Lavrut "Gitaine"; ["Fighting the Germans on ruined walls"]; Hugh Thomson "An Irish horse fair"; D Laugee "Victor Hugo"; L Alma-Tadema "Celebrities of the day - L Alma-Tadema - drawn from life"; T Blake Wirzman "Celebrities of the day - Sir Julius Benedict - drawn from life"; T Walter Wilson "Celebrities of the day - Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps, G.C.S.I. - drawn from life"; Philip R Presants "HRH The Duke of Cornwall and York" / Christchurch Press Company 1901; Sir Joshua Reynolds "Lady Elizabeth Foster, afterwards Duchess of Devonshire"; Jordaens "Portrait of a family in a garden"; [M McClinkiche?] "The late Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S."; Roberts "Celebrities of the day - Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate"; Arthur C Cooke "The fortune teller"; Sir Harry Johnston "The Okapi (Ocapia Johnstoni) - the new animal discovered in Central Africa"; Eleanor E Manly "Will you dance with me?"; James Pollard "The Mail coach in a flood"; P Helleu "Studies of girl life"; F de Haene "For Queen and country - the soldiers of the great city" (2 different scenes); G D Giles "The ambuscade at Koorn Spruit - a critical moment"; Reinhold Thiele "Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., Commander-in-Chief of the British Army"; F de Haenen "South Africa - Christmas 1899"; F H Townsend "The crowning of Queen Alexandra by the Archbishop of York, at Westminster Abbey, August 9th, 1902"; Edgar Bundy "The sponging house"; C Leighton Waud "The poor girl didn't know, you know"; C A Shepperson "Love me, love my dog"; George Morland "Shooting pieces; facsimiles of old prints"; Phil May "Notes by a globe-trotter in Picardy"; John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney "Home for the holidays"; Frank Brangwyn "The last of her"; R Sauber "Fair sport"; A S Boyd "The annual ball at Auchtertaverty - a love story with a sequel"; Captain P H Fawcett "The story of a conger - a tale without words"; Sir Edwin Landseer "Highland dogs"; Velasquez "Portrait of Don Antonio Pimentel, Count of Benavente"; Mono "Mary, Queen of England"; Reginald Cleaver "Sketches at the carnival at Nice"; W Hatherell "Their gracious Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra". Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Stamp of Wellington Social and Literary Club, Post and Telegraph] Quantity: 54 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (some coloured). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1998. Previously owned by the Wellington Social and Literary Club of New Zealand Post and Telegraph. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection -.