GROUP
1 Personal correspondence
- Date
- 1906-1917
- Reference
- Series-1209
- Description
Includes correspondence relating to `The Old whaling days' and McNab's historical research
Quantity: 5 folder(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
- Format
- 5 folder(s), Personal correspondence
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Correspondence re historical work
Date: 1906-1917, n d
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-04
Description: Much of the correspondence revolves around `Muruhiku', and McNab's proposal to visit various research institutions in the UK and US; includes account, `The last of the Ngai-tahus', the great Omihi massacre as related to the writer by one of the survivors, by Francis Auchinleck, and correspondence re the introduction of cattle to New Zealand Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Official and personal correspondence
Date: 1906-1914
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-02
Description: Also includes copy of letter from McNab to Acton (1914); clipping with Macpherson's letter re penguin eggs; addresses for Mrs G Halsey and J Martin in England; note re marriage of Jack in a hotel at Aberdeen and subsequent breakup three weeks later; letter from a Dalrymple at Clachbeac, Otama; telegrams; annotated page, R McNab Esq MHR's Hansard addresses; and other papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Official and personal letters
Date: Feb-May 1906
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-01
Description: Includes telegrams. Identified persons entered under Name. Letter from J N Williams concerns forestry and afforestation, mostly in the Rotorua area, and the tourism potential of native bush, especially near Rotorua. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Official and personal correspondence
Date: 1912-1914, 1916
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-03
Description: Includes letter written from Killara from William [?] Dixon; group of letters and clippings relating to controversy surrounding grant to McNab for historical research which includes letters from the Government Printing and Stationery Office, the Office of Minister of Customs and Marine, E W Russell from the General Assembly Library, A K Newman and A H Turnbull (1912) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence re Old whaling days
Date: 1913
From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0047-05
Description: Two letters, one from S P Smith, the other from [?] McArthur, Hobart (1915), a Lloyd's surveyor for the Hobart Marine Board and an ex-whaler Quantity: 1 folder(s).