Whitley, Thomas, active 1898-1907

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