Wakefield Papers (75ff.)

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Copies of letters, transcribed by A.J. Allom, secretary of E.G. Wakefield, from Edward Gibbon Wakefield, William Wakefield and Arthur Wakefield to their sister Catherine and other members of their family, 1815-53.

The subjects of the letters include the foundation of South Australia (ff. 5-6), the formation of the New Zealand Association in 1837 (ff. 9-10), the publication of The British colonization of New Zealand (ff. 11-12), the arrival of William wakefield and his party in New Zealand in 1840 (ff.13/14), the arrival of E.G. Wakefield in 1853 and his impressions of Canterbury and Wellington (ff. 18-55), relations between the Church and the New Zealand Company in 1841 (f. 59), the progress of Nelson (f. 62), the murder of Arthur Wakefield by Maoris in 1843 (ff. 64-65), the dispute with Lord Stanley (ff. 69-71), Governor G. Grey (f. 72), the proposal in 1847 for a new colony in New Zealand (ff. 74-75).

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