Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Date: 1797-1824

By: Robarts, Edward, 1771-

Reference: Micro-MS-0757

Description: Robarts, on a whaling trip from England, deserted at the Marquesas Islands where he lived for 9 years, married and piloted and provisioned visiting ships. In 1806 tribal wars led him to quit the islands. He stopped at Tahiti until Captain Dalrymple of the General Wellesley took him and his family on board. Visited the Bay of Islands where he met George Bruce who supplied the ship with spars and came with the ship when it left. At Calcutta, Robarts left the ship and lived in India from 1810, visiting Van Diemen's Land and Sydney. Description of the Marquesas (30 pages) and vocabulary of the Marquesan language (16 pages) complete the narrative. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 190 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm (Sepia type film)

Date: 1776-1817

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: Micro-MS-0533

Description: Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-0227 and MS-Copy-Micro-0538 (copy of MS-0336 and MS-0337) Bruce was possibly the first European resident of New Zealand in 1806 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 150 pages).

Date: 1776-1817

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: Micro-MS-0227

Description: Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-0533 and MS-Copy-Micro-0538 (microfilm of MS-0336 and MS-0337) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (c200p).

Date: 1806-1817, 1898

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: MS-0336

Description: Title continues:`...being the memoirs of George Bruce, native of London and first European resident in New Zealand, upon whom on his adoption into the native race the rank of chief was conferred in 1806.' Includes lists of names of places, ships and persons incidental to the Bruce mss; plan of New South Wales, illustrations from books of aspects of Bruce's life, for example, drawing of Tippahee (Te Pahi), the `Lady Nelson' at Hunters River, buildings at Shadwell, Greenwich Hospital, and plan of buildings at Sydney. Whitley gives a commentary on the transcript at MS-0337 and includes notes on `Memoir of Duaterra, a late chief of New Zealand' by Samuel Marsden; letter from Mitchell to Bruce re the manuscripts (1898); copies of letter with enclosures from the Admiralty to Whitley; and notes by Whitley on aspects of the manuscript Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Cover title: New Zealand, George Bruce, 1806 Relationship complexity - See also MS-0337 for copy of the original manuscript which is in the Mitchell Library, New South Wales; and Micro-MS-0227 for further version in Mitchell Library, and Micro-MS-0533 for copy of version in the National Library of Australia Written at Greenwich Hospital in 1817; this version compiled and abridged from the original manuscript in 1898 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 80 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (maps, illustrations) (26 cm; ½ brown calf, dark brown marbled boards) Provenance: Compiled and abridged from original in 1898 by Whitley, then owner of the original

Date: 1806-1817, 1907

By: Bruce, George, 1778?-1819

Reference: MS-0337

Description: Bruce describes his experiences in the Bay of Islands, where, as possibly the first white resident he was tattooed and married the daughter of the chief, Te Pahi; he describes Maori customs, lists ships visiting New Zealand Includes extract in A H Turnbull's hand of letter from Macquarie to the Under-Secretary of State concerning Bruce (1814) from `Historical records of New Zealand' vol 1 (1908); and part of letter from the Mitchell Library concerning the various Bruce manuscripts Source of title - Transcribed title Other Titles - Cover title: New Zealand, George Bruce, 1806 Relationship complexity - See also MS-0336 another copy of Bruce's reminiscences, compiled and abridged by Thomas Whitley; also available, Micro-MS-0227 of original in Mitchell Library and Micro-MS-0533 of original in National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 volume(s) (113 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (25 cm; ½ brown calf, light brown marbled boards) Provenance: This copy, made by Thomas Whitley in 1907, is a transcript of original manuscript, dictated by Bruce

Date: [ca 1809-1892]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster collection and papers / of Kenneth Athol Webster

Reference: MS-Papers-9615-25

Description: Miscellaneous articles, some reprints and others cut and pasted onto backing paper relating to: Trees; Sir Julius Von Haast; E D Enys; H O Forbes; Chatham Islands; Place-names of NZ; Governor at Kaiapoi; History of the moas; Albinism in NZ birds; NZ salmonidae; Late Rev B Y Ashwell (with handwritten chronology); The Maori King question; `Airedale'; New Zealand wars; articles from `Southern Cross', 1860s. Article entitled `Curious adventure', Calcutta, May 10 1809 re princess of New Zealand, daughter of Tippahee [Te Pahi] and her husband, George Bruce, an Englishman Article re Rev Mr Marsden (undated) from `The Patriot or Carlisle & Cumberland Advertiser' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter