NOTES ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

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NOTES ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS JANUARY 1972 TO DECEMBER 1972 The following list continues the Note in the Record for May 1972. As before, it is in two main categories, firstly, original manuscripts which have been donated or purchased and secondly, material lent to the Library for photocopying. Because of the volume of photocopies involved it does not include material held in original form in other libraries or copied by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau or as part of the Australian Joint Copying Programme.

A. ORIGINAL MATERIAL ALEXANDRA. School Committee. Minute book, 1872-79. lv. Donation: R. Bell, Pirongia. Records of School Committee meetings for the first five years of school at Pirongia. W. G. Mair was Chairman for a time. BIDWILL, John Orbell, 1854-1923. Pihautea Station diaries, 1879-1893. 9v. Donation: Mrs P. R. Woodhouse, Timaru. Brief daily records of farming activities.

BOWEN, Sir George Ferguson, 1821-1899. Letters, 1869. 3 items. Purchase. To William Monsell, Under Secretary for Colonies. Comments on policies of colonial and British governments towards conduct of N.Z. war, comments on Maori race, and Maori-Pakeha relations and on proposed emigration scheme. BRUNNER MINE WORKERS’ UNION. Papers, 1947-1952. 1 inch. Donation: Mr F. W. Munden, Huntly. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers.

BURRELL, A. Notes on Maori dialect distribution, [ca 1970] 2v. Donation: Mr A. Burrell, Kimbolton Road, Cheltenham, Feilding. Notes on 1918-1920 discussions of theory of the presence of Western Polynesian dialects in the extreme north and south of New Zealand, pushed there by arrival of Eastern Polynesian dialect peoples. Some remarks on Maori legends and the place of Toi. CHILE (Ship) Account book, 1867-1880. Donation: Mr F. D. Harris, Homewood Avenue, Karori.

Disbursements for thirteen voyages between London and New Zealand ports. COOK ISLANDS. Papers, 1887-1963. 2 folders. Purchase. Official papers dealing with establishment of Protectorate over Cook Islands, 1887, annexation papers, 1900, correspondence on Cook Islands flags, 1893-1910. Includes letters from R. J. Seddon, Sir Peter Buck and others.

COTTON, Sir Charles Andrew, 1885-1970. Living on a planet. 58p. Donation: Geological Survey. Typescript draft with MS alterations of the work published by Whitcombe & Tombs, 1945. COUGHLAN, William Nixon, 1874-1938. Papers, 1906-1963. ca 15 items. Donation: Mr R. W. Coughlan, Auckland. Letters, newspaper clippings, papers, pamphlet and photographs related to service as Headmaster of Omaio Maori School and building of church at Waima.

CRAWFORD family. Papers 1811-1939. Indefinite loan from Brigadier H. N. Crawford, Naughton, Wormit, Fife. Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and papers of James Coutts Crawford, 1817-89, and correspondence with family. Papers cover his naval career, sojourn in Australia, farming and development of land purchased at Miramar, service as Provincial geologist and reflect his interest in natural history, agriculture, mining etc. Early material used in Recollections of travel in Australia and New Zealand published in 1880. Papers of sons deal with development of Miramar estate, sheep farming etc. Sketch books in Art Collection. Extensive use of papers only on authority of Chief Librarian.

DAWBER, Robert, 1820-1892. Diaries, 1868-1870. 3v. Donation: Mr A. R. Dawber. Voyage from England to New Zealand, brief visits to Wellington and Nelson, farm at German Bay, Banks Peninsula and return to England.

DAYS BAY RATEPAYERS’ ASSOCIATION. Correspondence and Minute Books, 1915-1959. 1 ft. Donation: Mrs D. R. Reeves, Days Bay. DE BEER, Dora H. Correspondence, 1924-1938. 1 inch. Donation: Miss Dora de Beer, London.

Correspondence, mainly with the Maori Ethnological Research Board, relating to the translation by the Misses de Beere of A. F. Kramer’s Die Samoa-Inseln. DERRY FAMILY. Letters, 1879-1937. 16 items. Donation: Miss N. Wood, Nottingham, England. Living conditions in Christchurch in the 1880’s and economic situation in 1930’s described.

GASCOIGNE, Joseph William, 1885-1972. Papers, 1850-1936. 3 inches. Donation: Estate of J. W. Gascoigne. Papers relating mainly to European War, 1914-18 and Trooper A. E. Gascoigne who was killed at Gallipoli, 1915. Includes letters from John Tapai Pirangi, Rarotonga, 1933-36; also history of Guinea Airways Ltd, 1934.

GREENWOOD family. Papers, ca 1750- ca 1900. ca 4 ft. Donation: Miss Priscilla Greenwood, Richmond. Correspondence, journals and letterbooks primarily those of Dr John Danforth Greenwood and his family who arrived in Nelson in 1841 including portraits of the family by Mrs Sarah Greenwood. Also Journal of Frances Greenwood, 1771 and other earlier material with English and American associations. Typescript transcripts of extracts. Access subject to sorting.

HENDERSON, Jane (Brown) Reminiscences. Donation: Mrs P. Meikle, Stoke, Nelson. Describes journey to New Zealand with her parents in the Talbot, 1864, and their life in Mercury Bay where her father worked in the sawmills. HILLIARD, George R. Lady Nugent journal, 1840-41. Purchase. Journal of Surgeon Superintendent on voyage of Lady Nugent from Gravesend to Wellington, October 1840-April 1841. Record of passengers’ physical condition, and of Hilliard’s response to aspects of life at sea. Sketches.

HODGSON family. Letters, 1846-1853. 18 items. Purchase. Letters of William Hodgson and his family to J. F. Lee, owner of Hyde Ironworks, Kinver, England. Describe voyage to Nelson by Himalaya 1843-44, state of New Zealand Company’s Nelson settlement, land problems and difficulties of establishing farm there.

HUGHES, Evelyn Madeleine (Steinmore). A short history of the Woolston Public Library to commemorate its centenary in 1971. Typescript. Donation: Mrs E. M. Hughes, 482 Linwood Avenue, Christchurch. Compiled from Minute Books detailing early struggles and financial problems.

JOHNSTON, F., 1841?Diaries, 1859, 1871, 1873, 1882, 1893. Donation: Mr D. K. Mulgan, Taungata Road, York Bay. Daily entries of domestic activities by wife of Church of England vicar, Rev. Walter Johnston in Ireland and Katikati, New Zealand.

KAWASE, Isamu, 1908Reminiscences, 1965. 1 inch. Donation: Professor I. D. Blair, Lincoln College, Canterbury. Unpublished MS recording family background from 1855 leading to studies at Lincoln College, 1931-1934, directed towards pastoral improvement in Japan. Account of pressure applied by the Japanese High Command during World War II to disclose information on New Zealand. Wartime conditions in Japan.

KELLER, Peter, 1880?-1961. Reminiscences, 1900-1915. lv. Donation: Miss C. Keller, Wellington. Early working life, work as P.W.D. engineer on Main Trunk construction at Taihape, Raurimu and Ohakune, 1903-08; later Westland and 1 aranaki; details of camp life and Central North Island journeys.

KOCH, Augustus Karl Friedrich, 1835-1901. Papers, 1859-80. 1 inch. Donation: Miss Brenda Koch. Autobiographical reminiscences covering early life in Germany, experiences as a seaman, as artist on Hochstetter’s staff during his explorations of Auckland, and as chief draughtsman in Hawke’s Bay. KOROKORO School. Records, 1904-1960. sv. Indefinite loan. School registers and logbooks.

LOYAL CITIZENS LEAGUE, Wellington. Papers, 1920. 9 items. Donation: Mr D. J. Griffin, Wellington. Minutes of three meetings held to draw up plans in the event of Bol-shevist-inspired industrial strife; papers setting out background to League’s formation, and details of proposed action. McWILLIAM family. Letters, 1862-1866. 9 items. Donation: Mr A. Aitken, Glasgow.

Thomas McWilliam and his family farming at Matarawa (Wanganui) provide account of life there and effects of Maori Wars. MANSFIELD, Katherine, 1888-1923. Letters to Katherine Mansfield from a variety of people including Frieda and D. H. Lawrence, William Gerhardie, S. S. Koteliansky, Hugh Walpole, Edmund Blunden. 18 items. Purchase.

MARINE Underwriter record book, 1814-1853. Donation: Estate of J. W. Gascoigne. Contains variety of records concerning vessels trading with the East Indies, including insurance principles, examples of methods of insurance computation, details of ships, voyages, provisioning. Mostly East India Company ships involved.

E. W. MILLS and Co. Ltd. Minute books, 1883-1900, 1919-1965. 4v. Donation: Mr J. S. Stacey, Karori. Directors Minute Books of Wellington Hardware Merchants founded 1854. MURRY, John Middleton, 1889-1957. Letters to Katherine Mansfield, 1912-1923. Circa 400 letters. This acquisition brings together in the Library both sides of a unique literary correspondence. Purchase. Closed during Mrs Murry’s lifetime.

N.Z. ARMY. ROYAL NEW ZEALAND ARTILLERY. Pay ledgers, defaulters’ books, etc., 1879-1919. 12v. Donation: Estate of Captain G. T. Stagg. Minor offences and transfers to different stations, pay ledgers and records of sick leave and furloughs. N.Z. ARMY. WANGANUI MILITIA DISTRICT. Letterbooks, minute books, attendance records etc., 1860-1900. 18v. Donation: Estate of Mr C. L. Lovegrove, Wanganui. Letterbooks of Militia and Volunteer Office, Wanganui and Military Settlers Office, New Plymouth and records of the Wanganui Rifle Volunteers.

NEW ZEALAND CLUB. Papers, 1913-1949. 17 items. Donation: New Zealand Club, Wellington. Deposit book, 1924-41; file of applications for membership, 1923-1936; printed list of members, 1913; annual reports and other printed material, 1934-49; correspondence.

PEACOCK, John. Letters, 1864-1873. 4 items. Donation: Mrs I. Willett-Bakke, York, England. Letters of a seaman to his family including examples of food prices and wages in Wellington, 1873.

PHILLIPPS, Richard Biddulph, 18847Open Air School papers, 1924-40. 18 inches. Donation: Lt. Col. R. D. Phillipps, Cambridge. Correspondence, papers and newspaper cuttings concerned with Open Air Schools.

RICHARDS, Rhys Morgan, 1939Correspondence re records of Canadian and German whalers in New Zealand waters, 1970-72. 10 items. Donation: Mr R. Richards, Paremata. Includes photocopies of published articles and of whalers’ manuscript reminiscences. ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930. Letters, ca 1924-1930. ca 30 items. Donation: Mr E. L. Adams, Tauranga. Letters to Mr J. C. Adams on Maori customs especially tattooing.

SCHOLEFIELD, Guy Hardy, 1877-1963. Unpublished manuscripts and diary, 1941-1942. 3v. Donation: Mr G. L. M. Scholefield, Lower Hutt. Dr Scholefield’s Autobiography, a novel Settlers f Arms and diary kept during War years. SHAW, George Bernard, 1856-1950. Letter to G. M. Henderson, 1934. Ip. Donation: Mrs Millen, Lower Hutt. Discusses Maori music.

SMART, Maxwell James Grant, 1896-1972. Papers, ca 4 ft. Donation: Estate of Mr M. J. G. Smart, Wanganui. Notes, correspondence and files relating to the history of Wanganui both prior to European settlement and later much of which published in The Wanganui story. SMITH, Elsie, 1881-1963. Koroniti Mission papers, 1930-1963. 1 inch. Donation: Mrs H. W. Baines, 28 Eccleston Hill, Wellington. Letters describing work as Nurse Missionary at Maori Mission, Koroniti, 1930-1955; brief journal notes, 1957-1963; biographical notes, clippings and photograph of Koroniti Mission.

TERRACE Congregational Church, Wellington. Records, 1842-1969. 43v. Donation: St Anselm’s Union Church, Karori. Includes minute books of Church Meetings, Management Committee Meetings, Deacons Meetings, Teachers Meetings, Women’s Guild Meetings; also various registers.

TERRY, Lionel, 1874?-1952. Papers, ca 1906-1953. 361. Donation: Mrs G. E. Skinner, Timaru and Mr Warwick Brunton. Poems and letters written while inmate of Seacliff Mental Hospital, 1905-; also MS play The making of a madman.

TOOMATH family. Papers, 1837-1900. 15 items. Donation: Mr E. Toomath, Lower Hutt. Papers of Edward Toomath, 1837-1885, and his relations. Include letters, accounts, licence as Lay Reader, 1878 and photographs; also testimonial to A. Whiteford, Superintendent, Wellington Municipal Fire Brigade, 1886.

VALPY, Francis H. In New Zealand, 1869. 39, 15p. Purchase. Reminiscences of employment on a back country sheep station in Otago and as a gold buyer in Tuapeka district in 1860’s. Submitted to Cornhill Magazine, 1869. Completed with photocopy of earlier chapters held by Mitchell Library, Sydney. WARREN, John Byrne Leicester, 3rd Baron de Tabley, 1835-1895. Letters to John Lane, 1892-1895. 75 items. Purchase. Letters to John Lane and Elkin Mathews, publishers, concerning the publication of de Tabley’s Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (1893) and Second Series (1895) and problems arising from illustrations by C. S. Ricketts for the first volume.

WELLINGTON REPERTORY THEATRE. Records, 1926-1959. 9v. Donations: Executive of The Wellington Repertory Theatre. Minute books, Programmes, scrapbooks of press cuttings. WILLIAMS, Charles Morgan, 1878?-1970. Papers, 1947-1963. 2 inches. Donations: Mr G. H. Ormond Wilson, 6 Mariri Road, Kelburn, Wellington 5. Reminiscences about prominent Labour Party leaders and their policies, as well as his part in the development of the Labour Party. Letters to Ormond Wilson, 1962-63, about memoirs he is writing. Some printed material. Restricted access.

WILSON, Geoffrey Burns, 1904Papers, 1915-1968. 2 ft. Donation: Mr G. B. Wilson, York Bay. Correspondence concerning history and exploration of the Tararua ranges and with various tramping clubs in the area, files on huts and wildlife in the Tararuas. Newspaper clippings.

B. COPIED MATERIAL ATIAWA PEACE TREATY. Documents, 1855-1858. 231. Lent for copying by Mr C. Winstone, Auckland. Treaty of Peace ca 1856 prepared for acceptance by the factions of Ihaia and Katatore regarding land claims at Waitara. Includes extracts from official sources. Photocopy.

BULLOCK-WEBSTER, Harold, 1855-1942. Notebooks, 1882-1886. Microfilm (ca 80 ft.) Lent for copying by Waikato Museum, July 1972. Daily account of work on Waikato farms belonging mainly to Thomas Russell and the Auckland Agricultural Company. Description of farms, land and bush in the Waikato, at Maketu and in the Taihape district. Details of horses, horse auctions, races and hunts. Trip from England to New Zealand, 1886. Copiously illustrated with sketches.

CHAMBERS, Joseph Bernard, 1859-1931. Journal, 1874-1883. Photocopy. Lent for copying by Mr J. L. Chambers, Havelock North. Account of farming at Te Mata, Havelock North and includes social and domestic life and conditions in Napier, Hastings and surrounding districts.

DOORLY, James Gerald Stokely, 1880-1956. Selections from scrapbook, 1897-1940. 88 leaves. Lent for copying by Mrs Dorothy Freed, Wellington. Clippings, correspondence and reports relating to his career in the merchant marine, mainly in Australasia. Includes material on shipping disasters and seamen’s strikes. Photocopy. HALL, G. A. H., 1863-1945. Echoes of the past, 1941-1944. 541. Lent for copying by Mr L. Hall, Lower Hutt. Reminiscences of early days in Lower Hutt, 1847-1890, with particular reference to Maoris, floods, flora and fauna; of visits to Wellington in the 1870’s and to Wairarapa stations in the 1880’s. Photocopy.

HARDING, John, 1820-1899. Mount Vernon papers, 1855-1900. 2 inches. Lent for copying by Mr P. R. Harding, Mount Vernon. Letters and accounts addressed to John Harding, owner of the Mount Vernon station, Waipukurau. Photocopy.

HA WREN, Oswald James, 1871?-1957. Papers, ca 1841-85. 491. Lent for copying by Mr and Mrs O. B. Hawken, Riverbank Road, Wanganui. Notes on Hawken family, ca 1841-85, compiled from family reminiscences of O. J. Hawken in 1956. Describe arrival of Hawken brothers and Bayly family in New Zealand and eventual move of Hawkens to Kakaramea. Includes account of Maori wars, 1860-68. Photocopy.

LOWE, John Henry, 1841-1928. Letters and diary, 1863-1873. Lent for copying by Mr C. K. Lowe, Rotorua. Letters describe arrival at Nelson, 1864, surveying on Buller River as District Surveyor of Goldfields at Westport and later as District Engineer at Wellington. Diary of trips. Sketchbook in Art Collection. Photocopy. PLAYER, Edward, 1818-1904. Journal, 1858-1859. Photocopy. Lent by Mrs McGrath, Karori. Voyage to New Zealand on Alfred the Great from London to Wellington. With references to Hon. A. G. Tollemache, a passenger. Records first few weeks in Wellington.

RAVEN family. Papers, 1862-1895. Microfilm (2 reels). Copied from originals in the possession of Rev. G. E. Raven, The Hermitage, Lyddington, Rutland. Correspondence between Rev. John Raven and his agents in Christchurch concerning the management and disposal of his property in Canterbury; diary of Mrs Sara Raven kept at Ravenswood, 1862, and a Raven family history, 1730-1970.

ROB ARTS, Edward, 1771Narrative of a voyage to the South Seas, 1797-1824. Positive microfilm, ca 9 ft. Purchased from National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Robarts, on a whaling trip from England, deserted at the Marquesas Islands, married there and piloted and provisioned visiting ships until 1806. Thence to Tahiti and taken by Captain Dalrymple of The General Wellesley to Bay of Islands where he met George Bruce and took on a cargo of spars. Robarts left the ship at Calcutta and lived in India visiting Van Diemen’s Land and Sydney. Includes description of Marquesas Islands and Marquesan vocabulary.

WELLINGTON. St John’s Presbyterian Church. Records, 1854-1911. Negative microfilm ca 60 ft. Lent for copying by Mr Bruce Fowler, 48 Homewood Avenue, Karori. Letterbook, 1884-99, Session Minute Book, 1854-1911, both concerned with Church activities and membership; Diary of Rev. J. Paterson recording journey to Wellington on Ballarat, 1868; call to Rev. Paterson, 1868.

WILLIAMS, Sarah N. (Buchanan), 1848Reminiscences, ca 1928. 231. Lent for copying by Mr J. F. Sunderland, Hastings. Three talks by Mrs Williams about her early life particularly in Hawke’s Bay. Photocopy.

WOOD, Henry A., 1873-1956. The life of a pioneer farmer, 1953. Iv. Lent for copying by Mrs P. E. Every. Boyhood reminiscences of life on farm near New Plymouth, Stratford fire, 1885, settlement in the Ngaere swamps, waterfront strikes, 1913. Appendix comprises account of voyage of William Boyd to Taranaki in 1841.