NOTE ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

Turnbull Library Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 1 November 1968, Page 54

NOTE ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

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Significant manuscript accessions since the last Note a year ago fall into two main groups: donations and purchases on the one hand, and material lent to the Library for photocopying on the other. The following selection is divided under those headings. We regret that it is not possible to record the many smaller items we have acquired in this period.

Donations and Purchases ALLINGHAM William, 1824-1889 Manuscript notebook, 1854. 93 pages. 19cm. Purchase. Extracts from the poems of William Blake. (See Turnbull Library Record Vol 1, (n.s.) No 3, March 1968). ANDERSON John G. Diary kept on the Vivid during voyage to Melbourne 1853. iv. Donation: Miss M. Digges Smith. ANDERSON Robert Shortried, 1833-1874 Autobiography, 1851-1859. 2v. Donation: Miss M. Digges Smith. (See pp 4-18)

BROWNE Sir Thomas Gore, 1807-1887 Letterbook, 1855-1861. ca. 500 pages. Purchase. Private correspondence (chiefly outwards letters) from his period as Governor of New Zealand. [Transferred to National Archives] CORNFORD Frances Crofts Darwin, 1886-1960 Papers, 1923-1959. 28 items. Donation: Miss Irene Wilson. Letters from Frances Cornford, English poet, to Miss Irene Wilson. The COROMANDEL Observer Manuscript weekly newspaper, 1867. Vol. 1, 2-7. 56 pages, illus. 27cm. Purchase. Describes and comments on local events and situations.

FOX Sir William, 1812-1893 Record of an attempt to aid the New Zealanders in their efforts to organize themselves socially or politically. 1861. 114 pages 34cm. Donation: Dr G. C. Petersen. GRANT John, b 1741 Reminiscences of a childhood in Scotland and experiences in British North America and West Indies during the Seven Years War. ca. 100 pages. Donation: Mr F.W. G. Johnson. MANSFIELD Katherine, 1888-1923 Scrapbook, 1923-1968. 158 pages 45cm. Donation: Mrs V. Bell.

Material relating to Katherine Mansfield and her work, collected by her sister Mrs Vera Bell. MANSFIELD Katherine, 1888-1923 Letters, 1908-1922. 4 items. Donation: Mrs Jeanne Renshaw. Four letters from Katherine Mansfield. NEW ZEALAND LABOUR PARTY Papers, 1922-1945. Donation: New Zealand Labour Party. Papers and documents arising out of the activities of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1922-1945.

SCHRODER John Henry Erie, 1895Papers, 1927-1968. loins. Purchase. Includes letters from Ursula Bethell, Robin Hyde, and D’Arcy Cresswell. SMITH John Sidney, 1803-1880 Account book, 1864-1909. 306 1. 33cm. Donation: Mr Frank Smith. Accounts of‘Old Smith’ whose store on the corner of Molesworth and Hill Streets was patronised by such as Sir Julius Vogel, Bishop Hadfield, Walter Mantell, Alfred Domett, Sir Edward Stafford, Sir Francis Dillon Bell. Itemised records of purchases. >

TATE Robert Ward, 1864-1933 Papers, 1919-1932. 4ft. Donation: MrsJ.W. Tate. Material concerned with Colonel Tate’s period as Administrator of Western Samoa, 1919-1923. THATCHER Frederick, 1814-1890 Papers, 1840-1966. sms. Donation: Mrs Margaret Alington. Papers assembled by Mrs Alington while doing research on the Reverend F. Thatcher and his buildings.

TUHI and TITORE Correspondence from and concerning Tuhi and Titore, the two Ngapuhi Maoris who were taken to England in 1818. 18 pages 33 cm. Donation: Dr G. C. Petersen. TYE William, b 1816 Diary, 1838-1848. 68 pages 18cm. Donation: Mrs Kominik. Shipping, gardening, personal affairs, small land and livestock transactions in Auckland.

WAKEFIELD Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879 Diary, 1845-1846. 88 pages 25 cm. Purchase. Jerningham Wakefield’s diary kept in London, May 1845 - September 1846, after his return from New Zealand. WAWN William Amongst the Pacific islands. 158 pages, illus. 32cm. Purchase.

Description of life and customs in various Pacific islands, with many pen drawings, 1870-1874. \hV t V •? ftj Material lent to the Library for photocopying FAIRHEAD William John Paul, 1841-1922 Diary of a voyage from London to New Zealand, 1874-5. Lent by Mr A. D. Fairhead. • Vjiii'i Jii l . \W3 noiUiS . ' . : ; FELL Charles, 1844-1918 Letters, 1868-1883. 6ins. Lent by Mrs I. Mildon. Letters from Fell to family in England chiefly on Nelson and Marlborough, land investments, legal practice and Nelson commentary.

INGLIS St Clair Diary and sketch books (ca. 1852). Lent by Mr R. Inglis. MANSFIELD Katherine, 1888-1923 Two letters, 1920, 1922. Lent by Mr P. A. Lawlor. MANSFIELD Katherine, 1888-1923 One letter, two postcards, 1903-6. Lent by Mrs A. Mclntosh. MILL John Stuart, 1806-1873 Letters to H. S. Chapman, 1845-70. Lent by MrW. Rosenberg. STUDHOLMEJohn Papers dealing with the leasing and running of Owhaoko station, Upper Rangitikei, ca. 1880-1900. Lent by Mr and Mrs Derek Studholme. WOHLERS Johann Friedrich Heinrich, 1811-1885 Register books, 1850-1885. 6v. Originals in custody of Reverend N. F. Sanson. Registers of marriages, deaths, baptisms, and the local European population, kept by J. F. H. Wohlers, missionary on the island of Ruapuke in Foveaux Straits.