NOTES ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 4, Issue 1, 1 May 1971, Page 44

NOTES ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

P. B. L. Crisp

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS DECEMBER 1 969 TO DECEMBER 1970 The following list continues the Notes in the Record for March 1970. As before entries are arranged in two categories, firstly original manuscripts which have been donated or purchased, and secondly, material lent to the Library for photocopying. Again the volume of photocopies involved compels the omission of copies of manuscripts held in other libraries or copied either by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau or as part of the Australian Joint Copying Programme. A. ORIGINAL MATERIAL

AUTOMOBILE Association of Wellington Inc. Correspondence and notes on A A maps, 1943-48. 3 ins. Donation: The Automobile Association. Files (3) of correspondence, notes; also 13 loose letters, 1941, i94B[?], 1956. BLACKBALL District Coal Miners’ Union. Minute books, 1945-61. 2v. Donation: Mr J. P. Davey, Kilgour Road, Blackball. Includes (loose at back) Roa Miners’ Union Statement of Receipts and Expenditure, 1961.

Access subject to restriction. BURT, W. R. Chatham Islands collection, 1842-1966. 4 ft. Donation: Mr W. R. Burt. Correspondence, official and unofficial; MS reports, and records; newspaper cuttings; scrapbooks; printed articles and reports. BURTON, Ormond Edward, 1893Papers, cai ß96-1965. 3 ft. Donation: Mr O. E. Burton. Main group contains correspondence during Ormond Burton’s imprisonment, 1940-44. Also includes his unpublished autobiography, articles, talks, and other material mainly relating to his work in the Methodist Church.

COLLINSON, T. B. Seven years’ service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean 1843-1850 .. . vol 1 1892-4 [autobiography]. Purchase Sotheby’s, November 1970. ca 150 pages. 80 sketches and maps, etc. Outlines Captain Collinson’s voyage to Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand with details of his New Zealand experiences and military service 1846-50. DENNISTON Coal Miners’ Industrial Union of Workers. Papers, 1937-69. 9 items. Donation: The Denniston Coal Miners’ Industrial Union of Workers. Includes letterbook, 1967-68; letter from Angus McLagan re Preference

Clauses; plan for mine accident scene, 1968, and Union agreements. Access subject to restriction. FEDERATED Seamen’s Union of New Zealand. Papers, 1893-1935. 25 ft. Donation: The Union. 1 Executive Council, (a) Correspondence, 1896-1935. Includes correspondence with USS Co, Government departments, shipowners, and local branches of the Union. Also, with NZ Alliance of Labour, 1919-26. (b) Minutes, 1906-26. 2 Wellington Local Branch of the Seamen’s Union. Correspondence, 1893-1928. (Outwards correspondence only, 1893-1918). Similar content as for 1. 3 General material: newspaper cuttings, reports on meetings, 1907-26, assorted notes on history, definition, etc, of the Union, 1919-24; rules . . . etc.

Access subject to restriction. GROVE family. Accounts, 1764-93. 29V. 16-26 cm. Various bindings. Financial records of Edward and Mary Grove (and others) at Shenstone Park, Staffordshire. In photocopy only: ‘State of my affairs’, 1770,1772, 1773 (3 v.) Donated by Mrs M. A. Dalgety, Palmerston North who holds the 3 volumes of originals of photocopy material. M/E only in MS cat. HAWKINS, William Webster Diary, 1864-66. Illustrations of New Zealand, 1866-67. 2v. Purchase: Christie’s, Sydney. The diary gives an account of Hawkins’ voyage to New Zealand, and subsequent life on Kekerengu Station, Marlborough, with journeys to Flaxbourne and Christchurch. Numerous pen sketches accompany the entries. Illustrations of New Zealand gives an account in annotated sketches of a trip from Blenheim through Picton, to Wellington, and up the Wairarapa to the Whareama River - with the return trip. HERITAGE (Wellington) Inc. Papers, 011942-68. 4 ft. Donation: Heritage (Wellington) Inc. Files of correspondence, alphabetically under beneficiary, on the dependants of deceased ex-Servicemen aided by Heritage. Access subject to restriction. INANGAHUA Gold and Coal Miners’ Industrial Union of Workers Papers, 1897-1960. 35 ft. Donation: The Union.

Contents: Correspondence, 1929-68. Daybooks, 1897-1949 (with Big River Daybook, 1911-27). Minute books, 1937-60 (part of period for Waiuta branch only). Accounts. Grey Miners’ Central Committee, cyclostyled material. United Mine Workers of New Zealand, Minute books, 1924-50, and Charming Creek Miners’ Union Minutebook,

1946-57-Access subject to restriction. KING, Sir Frederic Truby, 1858-1938. Papers 1854-1938. 31 items. Donation: Mrs Mary White, Australia. Letters and telegrams of condolence on the death of Sir Truby King, 1938. Letter, 1881, from Truby King to his father from Edinburgh, and several photos. Letters, 1854-61, from Truby King’s father, Thomas King, to the latter’s wife. JOHNSON, George Randall, 1833-1919. Papers, 1858-1906. 92 items. Donation: Mrs C. Hall, England. Mainly letters from Lucy Johnson (Russell) to her sister, about Wellington life and society in the 1870 s. Also: documents relating to Johnson’s appointment to the Legislative Council: letters to his wife, 1900, with observations on the state of the country and the Seddon government. JOUAN, Henri, 1821-1907. Journal tenu a bord de la goelette Kamehameha et a Taio-hae (lie Nukuhiva, Marquises) d’avril 1855 anovembre 1856: suivi dujournal: De Tahiti a Valparaiso, passages sur le brig-goelette du Protectorat Caroline Hort du 27 Novembre 1858 au 21 Janvier 1859; du Sejour a Valparaiso; du journal de Valparaiso au Havre, passages sur le troismats francais Chuquuisaca 6 Mars - 6 Juin 1859, lo3p. Purchase Ropiteau-O’Reilly sale, Paris June 1969. KELLEHER, John Arnold. Upper Hutt; a history, 1840-59. 332 1. Donation: Miss S. E. Fraser, Upper Hutt. Unpublished account of early settling, development of transport, churches, industries, education, and the surrounding districts. LAWRENCE, Warwick Ritchie Crawford, 1915Huzza for New Zealand! The life and work of Captain William Mein Smith, Royal Artillery, 1799-1869, first Surveyor-General to the New Zealand Company. 1968. 425 1. Donation: the author.

LONDON Missionary Society. Papers, 1801-1808. 8 items. Letters from missionaries on Tahiti, including 4 from Davies, and others from Youl, Eyre, Tessier, Jefferson. Purchased Ropiteau-O’Reilly sale, Paris, June, 1969. McLEAN, Donald, 1820-1877, and Robert Donald Douglas, 18521929. Additional papers, 1850-. 8 ft. Purchase: Sotheby’s, London. Inwards correspondence, of which about two-thirds is R. D. D. McLean’s. Also a considerable section of McLean and Hart family correspondence. Letters to Donald McLean include Domett, Colenso, Grey, Heaphy, Maning, Richard Taylor, and others.

This acquisition complements what is in the existing McLean papers held by the Library. MIEVILLE, Frederick Louis, b 1830. Journal, 1851-58. SV. Donation: New Zealand High Commission, London. Reminiscences written in 1911 of Mieville’s life in New Zealand especially in the Mataura Valley, Southland, on Glenham Station. Mieville came to New Zealand in 1851, and later returned to England. MILLERTON State Colliery Medical and Accident Association. Papers, 1913-69. 1 ft. Donation: Millerton State Colliery Medical and Accident Association. Letterbooks, minute books, medical attention day-books, cashbooks. Access subject to restriction. MOORE, Dallas James, 1943Notes on Old Saint Paul’s, 1859-1965. 2v. Donation: Mr R. I. M. Burnett, New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Detailed notes on the history, architecture, restoration, and daily operation of Old Saint Paul’s, Wellington. Compiled for the publication Old Saint Paul’s, the first hundred years. Pub. no 6, New Zealand Historic Places Trust, 1970.

NGATA, Sir Apirana Turupa, 1874-1950. The Treaty of Waitangi; an explanation. ißp. Donation: Mr lan Wards, Department of Internal Affairs. Photocopy of a typescript of an early draft. NORTH, Thomas. Ledger, 1883-84. 72 1. Donation: The estate of Miss E. M. North. North was a solicitor in Reefton; volume gives brief debit and credit entries under the names of numerous clients in Nelson and Westland.

PATERSON, A. S. & Co. Ltd. Papers, 1900-25. c 20 ft. Donation: A. S. Paterson & Co. Business records of a wholesale grocery and general merchant firm. Includes letterbooks, ledger balances, aggregate returns, cashbooks, directors’ letters. Also correspondence of Stronach Paterson in America, England, concerning business activities in these countries. PAUATAHANUI. School. School register, 1873-1913. 32p. Donation: Mr Walter Brown, Wellington. First few pages missing. Contains roll of students, age, date of admission, withdrawal, occupation of parents, and progress at school. RAMSDEN, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962. Further papers, a 906-10. Bv. Donation: Mr Frank Lewis, Australia, (a) Eric Ramsden: Notebooks (2v) on Rangiatea Royal Commission, 1905, and on Te Puea, Southern Cross, Fenton, (b) Sir Peter Buck: Notebooks (sv) on medical and Maori ethnological pursuits, (c) Note-

book (iv) also on medical activities, possibly kept by Buck’s wife. RHODES, Harold Winston, 1905Papers. 1 ft. Purchase: Professor H. W. Rhodes. Correspondence with New Zealand literary figures (19605). Access subject to restriction. ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930. A history of the Maori tiki, by Te Ropere. I2p. Donation. A brief, illustrated account in Robley’s hand. ROE family. Papers, 1888-1944. 6 ins. Donation: Miss P. A. Roe, Levin. Records, mainly of F. G. Roe, relating to Levin Post Office, Borough Council, District High School, and land dealings. Includes a section of newspaper cuttings from the Levin Daily Chronicle. Photocopies also held by Levin Public Library. SARGESON, Frank, 1903Papers, 1927-70. 8 ft. Purchase: Frank Sargeson. Correspondence, personal and general; MSS of work, both published and unpublished; photographs, cuttings. Not yet available. SEALY, Henry John. Diaries, 1863-77. SV. Donation: Mr G. H. V. Hewitt, Alice Springs, Australia.

Record of surveying activities in South Canterbury, with much detail on personalities, and farming and social activities. These volumes follow on from the one already held by the Library (1861-63, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington provinces, and the Otago goldfields). A further volume is expected to complete the series. SIMPSON, William, 1834-1873. Papers, 1850-73. 34 items. Donation: Miss E. Morton, Auckland. Testimonials, certificates and official correspondence connected with Captain Simpson’s posts, mainly as conveyor of Judge Rogan, of the Native Lands Court, to the Chatham Islands; also as temporary customs officer, and as pilot at Hokianga Harbour. STARTUP, Robin McGill, 1933Correspondence file relating to New Zealand military postal history during the Maori Wars, 1860-66. 1958-64. 2 ins. Donation: Mr R. Startup, Masterton.

Inwards and outwards correspondence with libraries, institutions, individuals, concerning many aspects of the Maori Wars, particularly the British troop movements and postal system. STRANGE-MURE, William. Letterbooks (private and business), 1874-97. Bv. Donation: Mr W. T. H. Strange-Mure, Wellington. Private outwards correspondence from Sydney, 1874-81 (3V), from

Wellington, 1884-97 (3 V); and correspondence of Central Agency Office, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1884-85 (2v). Strange-Mure worked as a clerk-accountant, including five years for the NZ Government Life Insurance Office, until his appointment in November 1884 as manager of the Central Agency. Correspondence 1894-97 details the difficulties of a jobless family man in the slump. Most private correspondence is addressed to his family in England. TAYLOR, William, and Charles John, d 1897. Papers, 1848-90. 56 items. Purchase: Mr R. C. B. Oliver, England. Inwards correspondence (1849-73) includes 2 letters from Alfred Domett (whose daughter Elizabeth married C. J. Taylor). One (1873) discusses his afterthoughts on Ranolf and Amohia, and in some detail its reception by readers and critics. Also: papers of appointment. TINLINE, John, 1821-1907. Letters (inwards), 1849-92. 9 items. Donation: Miss Murray, Adelaide. Mostly 1880 s. These concern Tinline’s sheepfarming and surveying activities, a unique photo of the solar eclipse, 1885, and personal matters. Also includes photographs. TULLY, John, b 1825.

Diary, 1843-46. 93p. Donation: Miss Dorothy Tully, Greytown. Brief-entry record of activities of young surveyor’s assistant engaged by the New Zealand Company. Concerns surveying at Wainuiomata and the Taieri Valley, Otago; drawing up plans and writing correspondence at the office at Wellington; social activities and shipping in Wellington. WALPOLE, Sir Hugh Seymour, 1884-1941. Letters to A. J. A. Symons, 1936-41. 13 items. Purchase: Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London. These concern literary and social matters, and include comment on Lord Alfred Douglas, Richard Le Gallienne, William Watson, and Queen Mary. They show the author’s tastes in books and people.

WELLINGTON Harmonic Society. Papers, 1962-69. 10 ins. Donation: the Society. General correspondence, balance sheets, programmes, news clippings, and photographs. WILLIAMS, Harold Whitmore, 1876-1928. Miscellaneous papers, 1905-29. 35 items. Donation: Mrs O. W. Williams, Taradale. Letters (18) from Harold Williams, 1905-28, mainly to his father in New Zealand and relating personal and political news. Typescript play Harold Williams, by O. A. Gillespie. Inwards correspondence to H. Williams, and other family correspondence, 1905-54. WOOD, H. W.

The Wood family and Wainuiomata; story compiled by H. W. Wood,

son of John and Eliza Wood, Bunnythorpe. 1970. 13 1. Donation: Mr H. W. Wood. Typescript accounts, with MS annotations, tracing the course of the Wood family in New Zealand. Much of the detail is genealogical.

B. COPIED MATERIAL ALLEN, Charles E. Eighty years in New Zealand. 78 1. Photocopy of original lent by Mrs R. H. Allen, Palmerston North. Reminiscences of the life of the author’s father, the surveyor George Frederic Allen, who surveyed in the Mangamahu and inland high country, North Island. BLACK’S Point Museum. Material relating to the Inangahua County, 1872-87, 1967-70. 45 1. Photocopies of originals lent by the Black’s Point Museum. Contains mainly material relating to mining, but also concerns the Inangahua Herald . CHATHAM Islands. Miscellaneous papers, 1873-1952. 192 1. Photocopies of originals lent through Mr Rhys Richards, Wellington. Various legal papers; inquiry into wrecks; wills, Land Court papers, correspondence, general surveys and information, 1944-48, 1951-52. Also Report on Farming, 1938, and newspaper cuttings, 1946 and 1952. - GUDGEON, Walter Edward, 1842-1920. Autobiography; with related documents. Microfilm (neg.) of original lent by Mr Elsdon Craig, Auckland. Typescript autobiography covers Gudgeon’s career at first as Resident Magistrate, East Coast, with other New Zealand offices, then in the Cook Islands, ultimately as the British Resident and Judge of the Native Land Court. Large section deals with the annexation of the Cook Islands. Following the typescript are various items of official correspondence, notices, minutes, etc, connected mainly with Gudgeon’s administration in the Cook Islands. At front are several Maori tribes’ genealogies. Access subject to restriction. HASTWELL, W. R. Account books, 1861-67, 1875-94. 323 1. Photocopies from originals lent by Mrs T. H. Tully, Masterton. Financial record of an accountant in the Greymouth district. Includes land-leasing, purchasing, and involves numerous clients. SWAINSON family. Papers mainly relating to their travels, 1810-55, 1879. 4v. Photocopies of originals lent by Mr G. M. Swainson, Palmerston North.

Mainly accounts of tours by Mary and William Swainson: Serra of San Joze, Serra Branca, nd; France, 1828; Lakes and Scotland, 1818; the Brazils, 1816-18; Italy, Greece, Sicily, 1810-15. One volume contains ‘Memoranda and accounts of the Strickland and Swainson families’.

TE PUIA Cemetery. Register of burials, 1907-15. 16 1. Photocopy of original lent by Mr Walter McCracken, Gisborne. Gives name and birthplace of each person buried at the cemetery, with date and place of death. Some committee proposals and decisions at front. THIERRY, Charles Philip Hippolytus, baron de, 1793-1864. Records concerning Baron de Thierry, 1851-53. Microfilm (neg.) of originals in the Foreign Office and Executive files of the Hawaii State Archives, Honolulu.

WARBURTON-GROVE family. Papers, 1838-99. Microfilm (neg., ca no ft.) of originals lent by Mrs M. A. Dalgety, Palmerston North. Contents: (a) Eliot Warburton papers (Bartholomew Eliot George Warburton). Literary correspondence, including letters from Robert Browning (3), T. B. Macaulay (3), Aubrey de Vere, Monckton Milnes, J. G. Lockhart, Charles J. Lever. Large group of correspondence relating to Eliot Warburton’s historical work Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, and the romance Reginald Hastings. Also letters from Eliot Warburton to his parents relating in some detail his travels in the Middle East, (b) Warburton family in New Zealand. Correspondence involving mainly G. H. E. Warburton, Wellington and Palmerston North, (c) Grove family. A small group, England.