NOTES ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 5, Issue 1, 1 May 1972, Page 32

NOTES ON MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

June Starke

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS JANUARY 1970 TO DECEMBER 1971 The following list continues the Note in the Record for March 1970. 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 BAGE, Dr Anna Frederica, 1883-ca 1968. Papers, 1875-1907. 3 ins. Donation: Mrs M. Budtz-Olsen, Women’s College, St. Lucia, Queensland. Dr Bage played a prominent role in education in Queensland. These papers comprise letters of her father, Edward Bage, describing travel in the South Island, 1875, and a diary of journey from Australia to Europe 1889 kept by her Mother in which visits to Dunedin and Christchurch are recorded.

BARRINGTON, Archibald Charles, 1906Papers, 1933-1949. ft. Donation: Mr A. C. Barrington. Upper Moutere, Motueka. Diaries and notebooks, letters to the press and other writings, primarily concerned with Christian Pacifist movement and conscientious objection in World War 11, including newspaper clippings 1933-1947. BEAMISH, Frederick Noel Hamilton, 1888-1969. Papers, ca 1919-59. 6 ins. Donation: Miss Kathleen Beamish, Havelock North.

Correspondence, documents, circulars and reports relating to activities in national farmers’ organisations and in Hawkes Bay. Includes Arbitration Court material and miscellaneous newspaper clippings. BID WILL, John Orbell, 1854-1923. Pihautea Station diaries, 1879-82, 1884-5, 1887, 1889, 1893. 9v. Donation: Mrs P. R. Woodhouse, Timaru. Brief daily records of farming activities at Pihautea, Wairarapa. Includes cheque books 1859-1862.

BROUGHTON, James. Letterbook, 1860-65. lv. Donation: Rev. A. R. Broughton, Raetihi. Draft correspondence as agent of the London and Liverpool Insurance Company, Wanganui providing early insurance records of the Wellington province. BUMBY, John Hewgill, 1808-1840.

Journals (9v.) and papers 1786-1857. ca 3 ins. On indefinite loan. Comprises journals covering voyage to New Zealand by Triton and activities as Wesleyan missionary 1828-40. Includes MS map of Aotea Mission Station and list of subscribers for erection of Wesleyan Chapel there, 1839. Also album of Mrs Gideon Smales.

DONALD, Robert. Letter book, 1878-1902. lv. Donation: Mr P. J. Howard, Auckland. Contracts and specifications for buildings constructed by Robert Donald, sawmiller and builder in Masterton district. He farmed at Bank farm, Blenheim, 1890-95, and in Canterbury at Chertsey, 1895-1898 and Woodside, Highbank, Rakaia, 1898-1902. Correspondence primarily concerned with farming activities.

EFFORD, Lincoln, 1908-1962. Papers, 1911-1962. ca 12 ft. Purchase. Manuscript and published material concerned with pacifist organisations, conscientious objectors’ activities, Howard League for Penal Reform. Access not yet available. GARIN, Antoine Marie, 1810-1889. Letters, 1841-1842. 1 inch. Letters in Maori to Father Garin. Photocopied material from Rev. A. K. Roach, Mount St. Mary’s, Taradale.

(Supplementary to correspondence on microfilm from archives of Padri Maristi, Rome.) GILLESPIE, Oliver Arthur, 1895-1960. Papers, 1945-1960. 2 ins. Donation: Mr A. E. Gillespie, Panmure, Auckland. Letters from Ward Price, Percy Crisp, Hector Bolitho, Edmund Blunden and Leonard O. H. Tripp re personal matters. GRANT, George. Diary, 1877. Donation: Mrs R. G. Grant, Makairo, R.D. 2, Pahiatua. Notes of voyage in the Zealandia from London to Wellington, describing his religious work among the passengers and sailors. Includes description of Rio de Janeiro; with supplementary photocopied family papers.

HETHERINGTON, Jessie Isobel, 1882Papers, 1882-1967. 4 ins. Donation: Mr S. N. Hetherington, Auckland. Draft MS and annotated typescript of autobiography Numbering my days. Recounts childhood in Thames district and Auckland, Girton College, Cambridge, teaching in Australia, Wellington Teachers Training College, 1915-23 and service as Inspector of Secondary Schools, 1926-42. Accounts of journeys to Europe including Coronation, 1937. HODGE, Horace Emerton, 1904-1958. Papers, ca 1932-1958. 5 ft. Purchase: Mrs Catherine Hodge, Wellington.

Typescript MS of unpublished autobiography, published and unpublished plays etc. Correspondence, scrap-books, photographs etc. re Hodge’s plays and British theatre and personalities in the thirties including Dame Marie Tempest, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Leigh Ashton, Sir John Gielgud. HOLCROFT, Montague Harry, 1902Papers, 1920-1970. 6 ft. Donation: Mr Holcroft. Manuscripts of work both published and unpublished; correspondence and other papers. Access subject to restriction.

HUTTON, George T. F. Ledger, 1902. Donation: Mr Maia T. Hutton, Martinborough, 1970. Financial records of Hutton’s activities as Licensed Interpreter, Featherston and Greytown. Includes accounts of Charles Elgar, Ihaka Kuaha and others with Hutton and rents for Wharaurangi. JACK family. Papers, 1883-1920. 6 ins. Donation: Mrs L. J. R. Starke, Lower Hutt. Correspondence etc. primarily concerning life in Wellington —Presbyterian Church, Caledonian Society, musical activities and business papers. Includes journal of voyage from Edinburgh to New Zealand by Invercargill, 27 October 1883-21 February 1884.

LAISHLEY, Richard, 1816-1897. Notes of a voyage to New Zealand, 1860-1861. lv. Purchase. Voyage of Caduceus from Gravesend to Auckland. Observations on marine life with accounts of expeditions to Lord Auckland and St. Paul Island. Descriptions of Auckland and environs. LYSAGHT family. Papers, 1789-1931. 1 ft. Donation: Mrs Frances Poole, Tauranga. Correspondence and papers of the family of James Richard Lysaght who arrived in New Zealand in 1874, relating to life in Mokoia, Taranaki. Also genealogical material, family financial papers and household inventories.

McARTNEY family. Papers, 1848-1860, 1900. 1 inch. Purchase: Wellington. Letters to John McArtney, tinsmith, during his sojourn in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne; from his family and friends in Nelson and elsewhere. Family and business affairs, gossip and social events in Nelson. MANAWATU FLAXMILLS EMPLOYEES’ UNION. Records, 1906-1931. ins. Donation: Mr A. Millar, Palmerston North. Register of members, 1906-1915, minute books, 1912-13, balance sheets and reports of executive 1920-31. MARSH, Dame Ngaio, 1899Production notes. 21v. Donation: Dame Ngaio Marsh, Christchurch.

Texts of plays with accompanying manuscript notes and sketches for production, ca 1920-1949. MILLER, George Richard Henry, 1806-1854. Tongan diary, 1843-1849. 2v. Donation: Mr S. N. Hetherington, Auckland. Daily account of his work as a doctor and Assistant Missionary with the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Tonga.

MOTHERS’ UNION. Papers, 1925-67. ca 1 ft. On indefinite loan from The Association of Anglican Women. Records, minute books, 1925-67 and other material including National Council of Women Reports, 1955-56 and Mothers’ Union Maori correspondence and reports. MUNNINGS, Joseph, 1841-1923. Journal, 1860. Donation: Mrs J. Jackson, Havelock North. Account of voyage to Lyttelton by Zealandia, 25 July-13 November 1859; concludes with description of life in Christchurch district. NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO. LTD. Records, 1866-1930. 38v. Donated by Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd.

Minute books of Board of Directors, 1866-71, local minute books, 18741930, reports etc. Access restricted for post-1920 material. NICHOLL, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908. Journal, 1863-64. lv. Purchased: Sotheby’s London, May 1971. Ensign Nicholl saw service with 43rd Light Infantry in engagement at Gate Pa, 29 April 1864. Describes military camp life in Auckland and Tauranga district and at Tataraimaka, Taranaki, with comment on Maori life and customs and social life in Auckland.

PEARCE, Edward, 1832-1922. Papers, 1863-1878. 4 ins. Donation: Mr H. Pearce, Waikanae, with additional photocopied material lent by Miss M. H. Harding, Dargaville. Inwards correspondence concerning Kopuru Sawmilling Coy. Ltd., Kaipara, 1875-78; business papers, Wellington and Wairarapa land transactions and some personal and political papers. P.E.N. International. New Zealand centre. Papers, ca 1950- 6 ins. Donation: Mr R. F. Grover. Comprises correspondence, minutes, lists of members etc. Not yet available.

ROLLESTON family. Papers, 1848-ca 1940. ft. Donation: Mrs Ormond Wilson, Sanson. Letters written mainly by and to William and Mary Rolleston and their

son Frank, but with some correspondence among other family members. The letters include some of William Rolleston’s political correspondence and Frank Rolleston’s legal correspondence. Photographs and newspaper clippings. SAUNDERS, Alfred, 1820-1905. Family records, 1779-1918. lv. Donation: Mrs N. Page, Christchurch. Autobiography covering the author’s antecedents, and his experiences after arrival by Fifeshire in Nelson, 1841. The full text of his Tales of a pioneer.

SEALY, Henry John, 1838-1922. Diary, 1858-1861. Donation: Mrs M. Williams, Yokine, Western Australia. This diary completes the series of seven donated by the descendants of H. J. Sealy and records voyage to New Zealand by Clontarf. Impressions of Canterbury and Wellington and farming in Hawkes Bay. Biographical notes have been compiled by Mrs Williams and H. V. Fitzhardinge.

SEDDON, Richard John, 1845-1906. Papers, 1879-1934. 3 ft. Purchase: Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, Wellington. Official correspondence and papers, addresses, documents, newspaper clippings, photographs etc. with some family papers and correspondence. Access subject to restriction and completion of sorting. SHAW, Charles Reginald, 1829-ca 1905. Diaries, 1891-93, 1904-05. 4v. Donation: Mr K. J. Kay, Upper Hutt. A surveyor in Timaru prior to taking up land at Sterndale, Totara Valley, Canterbury.

SOTHAM, Frederick John, -ca 1897. Journals, 1868-77. sv. Donation: Mr Walter Sotham, c/- Selwyn Village, Point Chevalier, Auckland. Records kept by Captain Sotham of voyages by Middlesex, Wait angi and Otaki to and from London and India, Australia and New Zealand. STAR BOATING CLUB, WELLINGTON. Papers, 1881-1972. ft. Donation: Star Boating Club, Wellington. Records, correspondence, minute books, annual reports, registers of members and boats etc.

SWAINSON, William, 1809-1884. Letters, 1862-75. 15 items. Purchase: Sotheby & Co. Letters from William Swainson, Attorney-General, to Mrs LLoyd, wife of Rev. J. F. LLoyd. Mainly about social life in Auckland. TAINE family. Papers, 1827-1932. 4 ins. Donation: Mrs S. G. Longuet, Wellington. James John Taine (1817-1914) came to Wellington on the Adelaide in

1840 where he married Liocadia d’Oliveira ward of E. G. Wakefield. Papers comprise family and business correspondence. TAYLOR, Richard, 1805-1873. Papers, 1826-ca 1915. ca 4 ft. Purchase: Laura Harper estate, 1970-71. Sketchbook, journals, 1826, 1830, draft sermons, correspondence, MS maps, plans etc., material related to Te Ika a Maui and family records. Includes material relating to Harper family. Also MEDLEY, Mrs Spencer (Mary Catherine Taylor) Accounts of journeys to Wellington and Auckland 1853-54. WARRE, Sir Henry James, 1819-1898.

Records, 1861-1866. 4v. Purchase: Mr Michael Warre, London. Narrative of the War in Taranaki, 1861-66 provides resume of state of colony and views on colonial government together with Warre’s account of activities as officer commanding troops in Taranaki, with impressions of social and economic conditions there. Confidential letterbooks 1863-64 (2v.) comprise official reports to Governor and General Cameron as Commanding Officer in Taranaki. WARRE, Sir Henry James, 1819-98. Diaries, 1853-92. 35v. Purchase: Sotheby’s, London, 1971.

Cover military career in detail including service in Corfu, the Crimea, Malta, India and in New Zealand 1861-66. The diary for 1861 when he arrived in New Zealand is among half a dozen missing from the series but those for 1862-66 give a full account of service with 57th Regiment and engagements in Taranaki as well as observations on the state of the colony. Collection includes autobiographical Epitome of the services of General H. J. Warre, 1884 and documents.

WELLINGTON CO-OPERATIVE BOOK SOCIETY LTD. Papers, 1941-1969. ca 3 ft. Donation. Business and legal correspondence, balance sheets and financial reports. Correspondence with Progressive Publishing Society. Management Committee documents and minute books.

B. COPIED MATERIAL BROWN, Alfred Nesbitt, 1803-1884. Papers, calß2B-1887. Microfilm (neg. 12 reels). Copied from the originals in the possession of Mr D. H. Maxwell, The Elms, Tauranga. Inwards and outwards correspondence, journals, mission records, financial papers. The collection covers A. N. Brown’s activities as a missionary in the Bay of Plenty, and includes much useful material on C.M.S. operations in the northern North Island. BUDDLE, Thomas, 1812-1883. Letterbooks, 1846-1883. Microfilm (neg. ca 170 ft.). Lent for copying: Trinity College, Auckland.

Comprehensive letters concerning Buddie’s work as a Methodist missionary in Auckland, financial secretary of the Wesleyan Mission in the South Seas, a minister in various N.Z. circuits including Wellington and Christchurch, and a teacher of native and European candidates for the ministry. Also include many references to other Methodist ministers, and reports on the Maori attitude during the 1860 troubles. CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley George Benet, 1886-1959. Diary of British Antarctic Expedition, Nov. 1910-Jan. 1913: Microfilm (neg. 90 ft.). Donated: Mr L. B. Quartermain, Wellington. (Original at Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.) Daily entries on board Terra Nova and in Antarctica.

COLLINSON, T. 8., 1822-1902. Seven Years Service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-50 . . . Vol. II 1892-94 [autobiography]: Microfilm (neg. ca 20 ft.). Purchase: John Howell Books, San Francisco, by courtesy of the purchaser of the MS. Supplements Vol. I purchased in 1970. Covers voyage from Tasmania home to England, May-Nov. 1850, via Tahiti, Sandwich Islands, California, and Panama, with descriptions of the life and peoples at each place. Includes 35 sketches. CONDLIFFE, John Bell, 1891Autobiography, 1891-1969. 2v.

Life and career in New Zealand leading to professorship of Economics at Canterbury College, followed by activities with Institute of Pacific Relations, League of Nations Secretariat, National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, Stanford Research Institute as well as professorship of Economics at University of California. Photocopied from manuscript in the Bancroft Library, University of California. Access subject to restriction. DALGETY NEW ZEALAND LTD., A history of Dalgety & Co., 1884-1945. Microfilm (neg. ca 40 ft.). Lent for copying: G. Hugh Sumpter and Associates, Wellington.

Short biography of Frederick Connerman Dalgety, followed by a history of the company in New Zealand, Australia, and London, with copies of some letters relating to the company, business reports from various branch offices, and tables of assets and debits, sales, personnel. FIELD, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912. Letters and Minute Book, 1849-96. Microfilm (neg. ca 18 ft.). Lent for copying: Mrs J. Sewell, Wanganui. Various personal, legal and business papers, plan of ship on which he sailed from England, newspaper cuttings, and Minute book of Directors and Shareholders of the Wanganui Meat Preserving Company Ltd.

McGREGOR, Reginald Arthur, 1889Notebooks, 1910-60. Microfilm (neg. 23 ft.). Lent for copying: Mrs R. A. McGregor, Christchurch. Accounts kept in Christchurch, 1942-60, with some diary entries; lists of Chatham Islanders for period 1910-50; notes on Chatham Islands history and a tale told by Tapu about Moriori origins. Explanatory notes by Rhys Richards.

MAGAREY, Thomas, 1825-1902. Journals and memoirs, 1841-1888. Thomas Magarey, miller and pastoralist came to Nelson by Fifeshire in 1841, settled in South Australia 1845. Involved in politics and affairs of Church of Christ. Journal contains family records, description of Nelson and environs 1841-1844, life in South Australia, 1845-1855. Typed transcript includes diary of voyage to New Zealand. Memoirs written in 1888. Photocopied material lent by Dr P. W. Verco, Adelaide.

MAUNSELL family. Riversdale and Ruru Stations Ledger and Stockbook, 1898-1947. Microfilm (neg. 23 ft.). Lent for copying: Mr E. R. Maunsell, Riversdale, Grey town. Station accounts, description of stations, financial interests of family members, important family dates and events, accounts of various companies, and returns to Stock department.

MITCHELL LIBRARY, Sydney. Catalogue of manuscripts to 1945. Microfilm (pos. 33 reels, 18 mm.). Purchased from Mitchell Library, Sydney, N.S.W. Alphabetical sequence of index cards, discontinued after 1945. PLUMLEY, Frank, 1875Diary, 1901-03. Microfilm (neg. 10 ft.). Lent for copying: Mr L. B. Quartermain, Wellington. Diary kept on board the S.S. Discovery during its Antarctic Expedition of 1901-03. SCOTT, Robert T. C., 1812Papers 1838-1861. 4 ins. Photocopied material lent by Mrs W. B. Fink, Ngaio.

Journal 1833-35 recounting service as naval surgeon including visit to Canada, correspondence and other material while serving on H.M.S. Vanguard, Malta. Correspondence and genealogical papers of Scott family, Melby, Shetland. TURNBULL, David Clarkson, 1868-1951. Business papers, 1900-11. Microfilm (neg. 75 ft.). Lent for copying: Mr Jack Churchouse, York Bay. 2 letterbooks concerned with the movements of the barquentine La Bella, a trading ship owned by D. C. Turnbull & Co., and Extended

Protest registered by the Captain and crew of La Bella, and Minutes of meetings of the Colonial Sailing Ship Company. WILLIAMS, Henry Jr., 1823-1907. Diaries, July-Dee. 1873, and 1880-1901: Microfilm (neg. 331 ft.). Lent for copying: Mr J. Nelson, Havelock North. Daily record of life as a farmer at Pakaraka, as Chairman of the Bay of Islands County Council, 1876-1899, and as a member of the Legislative Council, 1882-1905.