Notes on Manuscript Accessions

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1 October 1978, Page 122

Notes on Manuscript Accessions

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JULY TO DECEMBER 1977

Acquisitions of manuscripts are listed selectively in the Turnbull Library Record to alert scholars to newly acquired materials judged to be of research value. For items marked ‘Access subject to sorting’ or ‘Restricted access’ the Library would welcome notification that access will be sought, preferably with an indication ol a likely date. This will assist staff in establishing priorities for sorting collections. The following list updates the Notes in the Record for May 1978. It is in two parts. The first comprises original manuscripts which have been donated to or purchased by the Library. The second is made up of copied material lent by individuals or purchased, including important collections on microfilm. Material produced by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and the Australian Joint Copying Project is not listed. Collections transferred from General Assembly Library which have been processed are included in this list. The papers of Sir Julius Vogel, Hon. W. Rolleston, Hon. M. Moohan and Mr J. J. Maher together with Richmond— Atkinson family papers are not yet available to researchers. Further material is to be transferred.

A. ORIGINAL MATERIAL APPENDIX DEL DIAGO ENTRE CHRISTO N.SR. . . . 1743. 1 v. DONATION: Mr A. C. Brassington, Christchurch. Instructions to novices, Monastery of La Cartuja, Seville. Continuation ofseries of didactic works, anecdotes, etc.; index to morals exemplified. ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND ART SOCIETIES. Records, 1954-1976. 1 m. DONATION. Executive minutes, 1954-1974, and meetings of representatives, general correspondence, 1965-1976, New Zealand area files, correspondence relating to exhibitions and tours by visiting artists, 1970-1974; subject files —grants, Acts of Parliament, National Commission for UNESCO; circulars, newsletters, annual reports from member societies, Association newsletters. Access subject to sorting.

BEADLE, PAUL JOHN, b. 1917. Papers, 1968-19 77. ca. 30 items. DONATION. Primarily programmes, exhibition catalogues and photographs of sculpture but including Outline of Progress of Commissions . . . and personal notes. BLACKETT, JOHN, 1819-1893. Papers, 1851-1892. 30 cm. Transferred from General Assembly Library, Wellington. Private journals detailing voyage to New Zealand on Simlah, 1851, inventory of items brought with them; time books, 1853-1859, kept while farming in New Plymouth, journals, 1859-1870, as Provincial engineer, Nelson, and papers, 1856-1892, mainly relating to official appointments. BLAND, PETER GORDON, b. 1934. Papers, 1962-1976. 52 items. PURCHASE. Emended drafts of poems, and plays A Forgotten Man, The Massage Table, The Guest and correspondence relating to his writing, 1974-1977.

BROWN, CHARLES LA FAYETTE. Autobiography, 1879. 149 1. PURCHASE. Reminiscences of life on American whaling vessels, 1844-1860. Describes visits to New Zealand in 1846 and 1856 as well as Australia and South Pacific. Typescript. BUTCHER, ROY M. G. Notebook, 1947. 1 v. DONATION: Mrs K. M. Gifford, Wellingcon. Notes made by Chief Inspector of Fire Brigades, concerning the fire at J. Ballantyne and Co, Christchurch; details of role of brigadesmen, the situation as it deteriorated, rescue attempts, final holocaust. Letter concerning Fire Services Bill.

CARLETON, HUGH FRANCIS, 1810-1890. Papers, 1855-1873. 47 items. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Chiefly printed minutes and papers with some letters to Carleton and his notes. Mainly concern University of New Zealand; also Maori land and Native Land Court. CARRINGTON, CHARLES EDMUND, b. 1897 . Papers, 1925-1977. 15 cm. DONATION. Research notes on New Zealand history from 1925, further material towards biography of J. R. Godley, unpublished essay ‘Colonial reform and party politics, 1842-1852’, 1951; letters from Godley family, historians including P. Knaplund, publishers and others, 1949-1977; printed material re Canterbury Centennial.

COATES, RT. HON. JOSEPH GORDON, 1878-1943. Papers, ca 1925-1945. ca 7.5 m. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Correspondence, 1934-1943, mainly political, selected subject files, speech notes and clippings; file of correspondence re proposed biography, 1943-1945. COLLIER, EDITH MARION, d. 1964. Papers 1914-1918. 14 items. DONATION: Miss D. Collier, Wanganui. Fragmentary letters to family concerning career as artist, personalities in her immediate artistic circle, travel in United Kingdom. Clippings re exhibitions and other related material.

COUNCIL OF WELLINGTON CHURCHES. Records, 1943-1965. 4 items. DONATION. Includes records of the Women’s Committee of the Wellington Branch of the National Council of Churches, minutes, 1947-1965, and annual reports, 1948-1967. Also minutes of the Wellington Women’s Regional Committee of the Campaign for Christian Order, 1943-1946. CROSADO, DOUGLAS A. Oral interviews, 1974-1976. 22 cassette tapes, typed transcripts. DONATION. Taped interviews with Auckland labour leaders particularly members of the Railway Tradesmen’s Association and Socialist Unity Party. Topics range through Auckland riots, 1932 and other industrial action, the Communist Party and the Seamen’s Union, 1930-1970, Labour Party Conference, 1935. Includes reminiscences re union history, work and union life of those interviewed. Restricted access.

DOUGLAS, HON. ROGER OWEN, b. 1937. Papers, 1971-1975. 7 m. DONATION. Papers of Member of House of Representatives for Manakau, including material on the Ministries of Housing, Broadcasting and Customs. Access subject to sorting and restriction. ECONOMIC SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, WELLINGTON BRANCH. Minute books, 1933-1970. 4 v. DONATION: Mr D. J. Underwood, Secretary. Includes memorial lecture to Dr G. A. Lau by Sir Alan Low, 1978.

FEATHERSTON family. Papers, 1693, 1194, 1830, 1848-1876. 54 items. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Chiefly personal and family papers of Dr I. A. Featherston including letters from wife to her family in Scotland, and Featherston to his daughter; documents relating to official appointments, obituaries and miscellaneous papers. FEILDING, CHARLOTTE, d. 1928. Memoir and letters of General Feilding, 1896. 118 p . DONATION: Professor C. Feilding, Toronto, Canada. Compiled by wife; chiefly extracts from letters and journals covering military career in Crimea, Ireland and Franco-Prussian war. Visited Australia and New Zealand, 1871, as chairman of Emigrants’ and Colonists’ Aid Corporations, re surveying of Manchester Block, Feilding.

FITZHERBERT, SIR WILLIAM, 1810-1891. Papers, 1810, 1821-1841, 1921. 15 cm. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Chiefly correspondence with family from school, Cambridge and during medical training in France and London. Later correspondence covers medical practice, interests and investments. Letters re family of W. L. Fitzherbert, his grandson. GRESSON, HENRY BARNES, 1809-1901. Correspondence, 1853. 4p. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Contemporary transcript of testimony from colleagues and friends in Ireland prior to Gresson’s departure for Canterbury.

HALL, SIR JOHN, 1824-1907. Papers, 1836-1907. 7.5 m. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Correspondence files, 1836-1907, covering family, church, business, local affairs in Canterbury as well as political matters; 49 volumes of letterbooks with inward letters interfiled; odd diaries; speech notes; clippings and printed material. HOBSON, WILLIAM 1793-1842. Correspondence, 1840. 4 items. PURCHASE. Letters between Lt. Governor and Panakareao Nopera regarding latter’s land at Mongonui and his loyalty to Hobson, May 1840; W. Shortland’s undated letter to Te Tiraurau, the Chief of Kaipara, regarding Hobson’s illness and proposing a meeting at Clendon’s house, Okiata, re signing the Treaty of Waitangi.

HOGG, JAMES, 1770-1835. Correspondence, 1821-1835. ca. 20 items, donation: Mrs E. Parr, Wellington. Primarily the Ettrick Shepherd’s correspondence with his wife. Also James Hogg at Home, Being the Domestic Life and Letters of James Hogg, Mrs Parr’s biographical sketch of her forebear based on the letters (photocopy). LAWSON, WILL, 1876-1957. Papers, 1903-04, 1911-13, 1948-51. 15 cm. PURCHASE. Draft poems, drafts of two novels: Mary Smith's Hotel and Ships of Sarah’s Bosom (unpublished) about whaling in Auckland Islands; typescript autobiography, The Golden Horseman; correspondence with P. Lawlor, 1948-1951, on literary matters. MCINTOSH, SIR ALISTER DONALD, b. 1906. Report, 1933. 37 1. DONATION. Report details need for improvement in library reference services and for the establishment of a National Library system which would include such services. MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM, 1807-1880. Papers, 1851. 1 items. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Two letters to H. S. Chapman discussing court procedure and working notes on legal definitions.

MARY MAGDALENE, SISTER, 0.5.0., 1884-1978. Papers 1918-1923. 48 items. DONATION: Mrs D. B. Withers, Elgin, Illinois, U.S.A. Letters to family from American member of Anglican order sent to establish St. Anne’s Home for Girls at Papanui, Christchurch; monthly diary, Bulletins of the Antipodes 1920-1923; Collection provides details of religious and daily life. MILLER, HAROLD GLADSTONE, b. 1898. ‘The idea of progress’, 1920 . 46 1. PURCHASE. Unpublished thesis successfully submitted for a Jacob Joseph Scholarship, 1920. Greek and Hebrew accounts, the place of progress in modern science and James Ward’s philosophy on the matter —“an attempt to provide a secure basis for a hopeful theory of progress.”

MORETON, SAMUEL HORATIO, 1844-1921. Diary, 1912-1914. 70 p. DONATION: National Archives. Details of artist’s correspondence, purchases of paintings, work schedules, names of pupils. MOSS, FREDERICK JOSEPH, 1829-1904. Papers, 1887-1915. 6 items. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Correspondence with R. J. Seddon on amalgamation of Liberal and Labour parties. MS by M. J. Savage The Cost of Living and the Minimum Wage, 1915. MOWAT, ALEXANDER GARD. Diaries, 1905-1975. 63 v. DONATION: Mrs J. Hocking, Palmerston North. Kept while farming near Blenheim and at Bulls.

NEW THEATRE, WELLINGTON. Records ca. 1968-1970. 3.5 m. DONATION. Files relating to the Theatre’s activities, working scripts, finances, New Theatre School of Drama papers, scrapbooks, tutor’s files etc.; material re New Zealand Players. Also Nola Millar’s diaries 1955-1971, personal papers, notes on New Zealand theatre, New Zealand Theatre Federation and New Theatre’s activities. Access subject to sorting. NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE. Records, 1880-1968 5.4 m. DONATION. Executive and Annual General Meeting Minutes, 1880-1959, Area Council and International correspondence, 1929-1968, evidence and submissions to Licensing Committees, petitions, accounts, clippings, photographs, ephemera, scrapbooks, published material relating to liquor issues. Access subject to sorting.

NEW ZEALAND CITIZENS’ ALL BLACK TOUR ASSOCIATION. Papers, ca. 1959-1970. 30 cm. DONATION: Mr P. Gordon, Wellington. Minutes of meetings, notes, newspaper clippings re South African tours. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. Subscription contract, 1841. 28 p. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Agreement for purchase of shares in New Zealand Company, with list of shareholders and number of shares bought. NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY FOR CLOSER RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.S.R. Papers, 1945-1946. 2 cm. DONATION: Mr W. Greenwood, Timaru. Constitution, Conference material, 1945, miscellaneous printed items but primarily files of Lower Hutt Branch including correspondence with Sir Walter Nash, Sir Sidney Holland, Christian Order Campaign. OLD ST. PAUL’S, WELLINGTON. Dedication sendee, 26 August 1917. Cassette tape. Dedication of new organ.

ORMISTON, WILLIAM, 1824-1874. Diary, 1859, 1861. 23 1. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Arrival in Auckland, journey to Whangarei with a view to settling there; Maori way of life. OWEN, ALWYN PRICE IRELAND. ‘Arawata Bill’, 1971-1972 . 21 items. DONATION. Interviews and background material re William O’Leary 1865-1947, miner and prospector, broadcast as Radio N.Z. Spectrum documentary; 20 tapes and contents list. PLAYFORD, L. M. Time’s Lessening Stream. 106 1. DONATION: Mrs L. M. Playford, Palmerston North. Unpublished autobiography describing childhood in the Wairarapa, service in England and France with Q.M.A.A.C. during World War I, return to New Zealand, travel and life in Canada in the twenties, England and marriage in the thirties and service with W.V.S. in World War 11, ownership of craft shop in Cheltenham post war prior to return to New Zealand. Typescript. REID,JOHN STANHOPE, b. 1901. Papers, 1956-1964. 1 m. DONATION: MrJ. S. Reid, Wellington. Personal files kept as Ambassador to Japan, 1956-61, and as High Commissioner to Canada, 1962-1964. Restricted access.

RICHARDSON FAMILY. Papers, 1842-1857, 1873 . 32 items. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Letters to Richardson family in England from George Moore, Wellington, covering whaling in Cloudy Bay, farming in Wairarapa, Wellington earthquake, 1855; further material relating to life in Australia. RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, 1838-1913. Correspondence, 1866-1915. 1 m. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Chiefly between Russell and family, covering political activities, Flaxmere Station, financial and family matters. Letterbooks, 1870-1909, chiefly relate to political and business activities.

SEDDON FAMILY. Papers, 1850-1971. 8.2 cm. DONATION AND PURCHASE. Correspondence and papers of R. J. Seddon while Prime Minister, 1893-1906, re trade, South African War, Pacific and international affairs, Maori and other national issues, speech notes, commemorative material, personal and estate papers. Papers of other family members especially T. E. Y. Seddon: diaries, correspondence, papers covering childhood in Kumara, law studies, political and diplomatic career, war service; drafts of The Seddons, reminiscences and other writings. Collection integrates and reorganises all holdings of Seddon family papers. Restricted access.

SINCLAIR, ANDREW, 1796-1861. Papers 1814-1860. 4 v. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Chiefly correspondence reflecting personal, political and scientific interests from period as Colonial Secretary, 1844-1856, with G. S. Cooper, R. Fitzroy, T. Gore Browne, Sir George Grey, W. Gisborne and others. Journals of journeys throughout New Zealand. SKINNER, THOMAS. Journal, 1849-1856. 123 p. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Wesleyan missionary at Rotoaira and New Plymouth, describes Sunday school teaching and managing industrial department of Grey Institution, New Plymouth. Several letters to J. Whiteley.

SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN. Records. 90 cm. DONATION. Questionnaires and computer printouts on a survey of women in politics conducted in conjunction with the Women’s Electoral Lobby, 1975. Access subject to sorting. TARARUA TRAMPING CLUB. Records, 1919-1964. 2.5 m. DONATION. Minutes of meetings, 1921-1963, financial records, correspondence, 1919-1964, topic files, hut log books, maps, photographs and minutes of Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand. Access subject to sorting and restriction.

TAYLOR FAMILY. Papers, ca. 1850-1975. 2 m. DONATION: Estate of Cranleigh Barton, Christchurch. Rev. R. Taylor’s miscellaneous papers; diaries, notebooks and sketchbooks of his daughter, Mary C. Medley, ca. 1850-1912; Cranleigh Barton diaries and miscellaneous papers, 1908-1936. Access subject to sorting and restriction.

THORNTON FAMILY. Letters, 1807-1812, 1851 . 7 items. DONATION: Mrs L. Craig, Upper Hutt. Includes letter ofjabez Thornton, carpenter, describing voyage to Canterbury on Charlotte Jane, 1851, impression of early days of settlement, his house, partnerships, journeys to Christchurch; comment on newspapers, Maoris and religion. 3zm radio SERVICE, CHRISTCHURCH. Records, 1924-1937. 7 cm. donation: MrJ. Younger, Christchurch. Correspondence, records, accounts of private broadcasting station, established 1932; some records of N.Z. Federation of B Station Owners, covering royalty problems, sources of revenue, political lobbying especially at 1935 election.

WELLINGTON AMALGAMATED WATERSIDE INDUSTRIAL UNION OF WORKERS. Records, 1910-1959. ca. 2.5 m. DONATION. Includes minutes, financial records and disputes. Access subject to sorting and restriction. WELLINGTON CITY CORPORATION. Records, 1888-1895. 3 V. PURCHASE. Records kept by Richard Liron Mestayer, 1844-1921, while serving as Resident Drainage Engineer, comprising Letterbook, 1893-1895, Report to Town Clerk, 1894 and Register of Building Permits issued in Wellington, 1888-1895.

WHITE, ANNA LOIS. Papers, 1939-1970. 25 items. DONATION. Papers of lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts, 1934-1963. Journals of Sabbatical leave in Europe, 1962 with details of works, galleries and exhibitions viewed in London, St Ives and Scotland. Correspondence, c. 1939-1970, concerned with purchase or criticism of her work, clippings relating to her exhibitions, photographs of works, autobiographical details. WHITMORE, SIR GEORGE STODDART, 1830-1903. Papers, 1861-1870. 74 items. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Mainly letters to J. C. McNeill re property at Rissington, Hawkes Bay, and to T. M. Haultain describing fighting against Hauhaus on East Coast and at Titokowaru, Wanganui. J. A. Wilson’s memo 1870 criticising Government’s handling of Maori wars.

B. COPIED MA TERIAL BARRETT, RICHARD, 1807-1847. Journal, 1827-1847. 17 1. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Covers early trading ventures in Cook Strait and New Plymouth, inter-tribal Maori wars, 1832. Describes way of life in Port Nicholson from 1836, New Zealand Company activities, disagreements over land policy. Typescripts. BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Records relating to Australia and New Zealand, 1842-1914. 3 reels. PURCHASE. New Zealand material includes plans of Nelson settlement 1842; Minutes of the Society for the Reform of Colonial Governments, 1850-1851; also diaries of Helen Caddick, Unitarian and Governor of Birmingham University describing visits to Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, 1895-1896, 1905 and 1912-1913, photographs; Stone collection of photographs Australia and New Zealand, 1878-1887, 1901, and the Pacific, 1870-79. Microfilm.

BUCK, SIR PETER HENRY, 1880-1951. Diary, 1934. 59 1. Transferred from General Assembly Library. In form of letter to his wife describes trip from Tahiti through Tuamoto Islands and at Mangareva, Gambier Islands. Covers archaelogical digs and ethnology. Typescript. BUTTERWORTH, GRAHAM. Interviews, 1973. 4 items. Lent for copying. Interviews with Sir David Smith, Sir Turi Carroll and others. 4 tapes. Restricted access.

GREAT BRITAIN. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. Unpublished state papers of the English Civil War and Interregnum, 1643-1660. 114 reels. PURCHASE. Documents illustrate rise of Parliamentary Committees, their role in raising and paying armies, reforming Church etc, as the first real break with medieval administrative methods in England. HAMILTON, GEORGE DOUGLAS, 1835-1911. Reminiscences, 1909. 1 cm. Lent for copying by Mr C. D. J. Scully, Wellington. Arrival in Wellington, 1857, farmer manager at Dr Featherston’s station Akitio, and on his property at Mangatoro, Hawkes Bay; describes sheep husbandry, living conditions, life with local Maoris, photograph, biographical material. Photocopy. HEINE, AUGUSTUS, 1859-1944. Genealogies, 1843-1869. 1 v. Lent for copying by Nelson Provincial Museum, Stoke. Genealogies and short notes relevant to German emigrants to Nelson and surrounding areas. Photocopy.

HODGKINS, FRANCES MARY, 1869-1947. Papers, 1935-1947. 7 items. Lent for copying by Mr M. H. Allan, Auckland. Letters to David Bryndley, 1935-1947, photographs and a memoir by D. Bryndley. Photocopy. MONRO, SIR DAVID, 1813-1877. Diary, 1854-1855. 321. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Farming activities in Nelson district; journeys to Auckland, Christchurch and Timaru. Typescript. PAIN, GEORGE, 1846-1945? 17 1. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Childhood in Wellington, shepherd and travelling salesman in Wairarapa until long-term involvement in land speculation in Martinborough area and elsewhere. Typescript.

PERE, TA UPU. Family genealogies, 1822-1967, 1977. 53 1. Lent for copying by Rev. Ta Upu Pere, Wellington. Family of compiler, originally from Aitutaki Atoll, Cook Islands, Society Islands and New Zealand. Photocopy. Restricted access. POMARE, SIR MAUI piti NAERA, 1876-1930. Correspondence, 1889-1912. 12 items. DONATION: Canterbury Public Library, Christchurch. Letters to T. W. Ritchie, sheepfarmer, Chatham Islands, from Te Aute College, 1889-1893, and Battle Creek College, Michigan, 1893-1895, describing studies, thoughts and aspirations regarding Maori people and family estate matters; Ritchie’s congratulations on Cabinet appointment, 1912. Inventory to T. W. Ritchie papers in Canterbury Public Library. Photocopy.

potter, BASIL WATSON, b. 1915. The New Zealand Y.M.C.A. with 2 N.Z.E.F. in Middle East and Italy, 1940-1945. 1 v. Lent for copying by Mrs D. F. Stcptoe, Wellington. Unpublished MS —detailed account of service in World War II to be ‘useful to those who write the official New Zealand history of the war.’ Photocopy of cyclostyled material. STEWART, JOHN TIFFIN. Diaries and notebooks, 1846-1868. 1 reel. Lent for copying by Ministry of Works Library, Wellington. Notes taken while studying civil engineering at University of Glasgow, 1846-1848. Diaries describing activities as superintendent of works for Wellington and Manawatu districts, 1865, 1868. Microfilm.

THOMPSON, ERIC HARDISTY, translator. Papers, 1976-77. 4 cm. DONATION: Mr E. H. Thompson, Auckland. Translations of published works. The Path from Guadalcanal by Michaharu Shinya, Japanese naval officer’s account of service, capture and eventual transportation to prisoner of war camp at Featherston. Describes conditions there including riot, February 1943, philosophical and emotional reaction to Japanese Army doctrine of death rather than captur e. Japan’s Most Distant Dead, a collection of accounts of incidents at Featherston and Cowra, Australia (Aug. 1944) published in Japanese magazine. Translator’s comments on the material. Photocopy. WALKER, J. R. Our Native Birds. 1 v. Lent for copying by Sir Charles Fleming, Wellington. Alphabetical list of Maori and scientific nomenclature of New Zealand birds, according to tribal dialects. Bird named by tribes according to plumage, habit or its cry. Typescript.

WARD, CHARLES, d. 1887. Papers, 1842-1866. 1 reel. Lent for copying by Mr R. G. Ward, Lower Hutt. Service as locker with H.M. Customs, Wellington, 1845-1856; conditions, personalities, patronage, election to House of Representatives, 1855. Fragment of journal kept by James Kearsley on George Fyfe en route to New Zealand, 1842. Microfilm. WASTNEY, WILLIAM, 1831-1911. Diary, 1863-1875. 1 reel. Lent for copying by Mr G. Wastney, Wakapuaka, Nelson. Describes farming at Wakapuaka including clearing of land, sheep-mustering, cheese and butter-making. Microfilm.

WHISKER, ALEXANDER, b. 1819. Memorandum book, 1844-1850. 83 1. Transferred from General Assembly Library. Voyage to New Zealand on Sir George Seymour with 58th regiment, action against Hone Heke, 1845-46. Typescript.

WHITE, JOHN. Correspondence, 1835-1865. 4 items. Lent for copying by Mrs P. I. Dolan, Wellington. Includes J. H. White’s letter from Otahuhu, 1865, re depressed state of New Zealand, land conditions, climate, game etc. Photocopy. WRIGHT, ALFRED. Letters, 1884-1885. 1.5 cm. DONATION: Mr R. and Mrs j l . Wright, Macclesfield, England. Voyage to Auckland on Lady Jocelyn with details of marine life encountered; carpenter’s way of life and employment there with comment on social and economic conditions in New Zealand at the time. Photocopy. YOUNGMAN, JAMES. Letters, 5 Nov, 1858. 3 1. Lent for copying by Mrs M. Younger, Palmerston North. Voyage to Lyttelton by Zealandia, first impressions of Canterbury including landscape, flora and fauna, Maoris; establishment of sawmill at Kaiapoi with comment on price, employment prospects Photocopy of typescript.