Page image
Page image
Page image
Page image
Page image
Page image
English
August 23, 1847 Auckland. Sir this is the Sakent Letter i have sent to you and naver Got ansur from you yet i am Glade to hare that you ar Geting on so well i am stoping at Mr.Roony this last to yars working at my trade and brother Thomas and Ross is allways in the old plase about tenn months ago wee bought a 1000 Akers of Land from Mr.Stuart up the Auckland river wich cost a dale of mony we bought it from the Natives and now the Governor has don os out of it by puting fiv shillians a Naker on it and this day i had a letter from brother Thomas leting mee know that his to children is bad in the faver and hee thinks the will not live i hop to Good that he will not each it himself and the first Letter i sent to you Mr.K. (?) roght it for mee stating iff you wood be so kind as to send mee the differns of your Account and min hee sene the both yours Dec. 30 -1842 hee seen the both making the balans to mee £4.7.10 this is Gust I shood have roght to you befor this only for Thomas hee told mee to wate til hee wood se you himself as hee intinded to go and spend a week with you but now in his Leter this Day to mee hee tell mee to right to you for it as wee ar hard up at present it is Long time Du hoping that you will not neglect sending it as sune as posable As you are Rich and os poor it is a smal sum but it will b of Greate yous to sos i hare you will sune be getting the wife i hope she will be a good won plase excuse this tribl no more at present yours truly William Gordon. To:-- Donald McLean Esq Taranaki, New Plymouth
This article text was automatically generated and may include errors. View the full page to see article in its original form.
Permanent link to this item

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/manuscripts/MCLEAN-1022416.2.1

Bibliographic details

3 pages written 23 Aug 1847 by William Gordon in Auckland Region to Sir Donald McLean in New Plymouth District, Inward letters - Surnames, Goo - Gor

Additional information
Key Value
Document date 23 August 1847
Document MCLEAN-1022416
Document title 3 pages written 23 Aug 1847 by William Gordon in Auckland Region to Sir Donald McLean in New Plymouth District
Document type MANUSCRIPT
Attribution ATL
Author 44126/Gordon, William, fl 1847-1875
Collection McLean Papers
Date 1847-08-23
Decade 1840s
Destination 35923/New Plymouth District
Englishorigin ATL
Entityid 21
Format Full Text
Generictitle 3 pages written 23 Aug 1847 by William Gordon in Auckland Region to Sir Donald McLean in New Plymouth District
Iwihapu Unknown
Language English
Name 44126/Gordon, William, fl 1847-1875
Origin 66181/Auckland Region
Place 35923/New Plymouth District
Recipient 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Section Manuscripts
Series Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Sortorder 0422-0061
Subarea Manuscripts and Archives Collection
Tapuhigroupref MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemcount 22
Tapuhiitemcount 2 14501
Tapuhiitemcount 3 30238
Tapuhiitemdescription Correspondents:Thomas Good, Taranaki, 1861-1862 (2 letters); one letter to Rev Donald McColl, Glenorchy from Samuel Goodridge of New York in 1855 re Archibald J McLean (Donald McLean's brother); Sir Arthur Gordon, Sydney, 1875 (1 letter); James Gordon, Clifton, 1864-1871 & undated (6 letters); John Gordon, Wellington & Auckland, 1854-1869 (4 letters, including typed transcripts); M Gordon, Greenmeadows, 1874 (1 letter); Sarah Gordon, Grahamstown, 1874, 1876 (5 letters); William Gordon, Auckland & Grahamstown, 1847 & 1875 (2 letters).
Tapuhiitemgenre 3 230058/Personal records Reports
Tapuhiitemname 10495/Stanmore, Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, Baron, 1829-1912
Tapuhiitemname 3 4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Tapuhiitemref MS-Papers-0032-0295
Tapuhiitemref 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemref 3 MS-Group-1551
Tapuhiitemsubjects 3 1446/New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872
Tapuhiitemtitle Inward letters - Surnames, Goo - Gor
Tapuhiitemtitle 2 Series 1 Inward letters (English)
Tapuhiitemtitle 3 McLean Papers
Tapuhireelref MS-COPY-MICRO-0535-055
Teiref ms-1310-042
Year 1847

3 pages written 23 Aug 1847 by William Gordon in Auckland Region to Sir Donald McLean in New Plymouth District Inward letters - Surnames, Goo - Gor

3 pages written 23 Aug 1847 by William Gordon in Auckland Region to Sir Donald McLean in New Plymouth District Inward letters - Surnames, Goo - Gor

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert