Scrapbook, Chatham Island Notes: Major Gascoigne, 1892
Maker
Hill Esq, Henry
Current rights
Public Domain
Object detail
Brief Description
A scrapbook labelled: Chatham Island Notes "Major Gascoigne" 1892 [Frederick Gascoyne - Resident Magistrate and Government officer, Chatham Island] compiled by Henry Hill and containing letters, newspaper cuttings, ephemera, magazine pages, loose photographs, including three referencing Kaitaia, and a possible copy print of Te Whariki, Chatham Islands showing a house and felled trees; a photographic postcard, and a handwritten extract: Trade with the Chathams.
Adhered into the scrapbook are: a handwritten poem entitled: Myself and Me; letters to Henry Hill from Gilbert Mair, dated October 13th, 1923 from Tauranga; letter signed surname Heslop [possibly William Heslop] dated April 25th, 1926 and May 1st, 1927; testimonial regarding William Heslop signed F J W Gascoyne dated 8th February 1911; loose handwritten page headed: Catching Sooty Albatross at Pitt Island (Chathams); a page headed: to My Neice Miss Ruby Wellwood on her engagement [signature illegible]; six pressed ferns; a letter addressed to Miss Caroline Gascoyne, Chatham Islands regarding the Auckland Weekly News; and a booklet: [Transactions of the New Zealand Institute], Vol. XXVI.] Art. LXX - Te Kuri maori (the Dog of New Zealand). A Reply to the Rev. W. Colenso by Taylor White. [Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 11th September, 1893].
Adhered into the scrapbook are: a handwritten poem entitled: Myself and Me; letters to Henry Hill from Gilbert Mair, dated October 13th, 1923 from Tauranga; letter signed surname Heslop [possibly William Heslop] dated April 25th, 1926 and May 1st, 1927; testimonial regarding William Heslop signed F J W Gascoyne dated 8th February 1911; loose handwritten page headed: Catching Sooty Albatross at Pitt Island (Chathams); a page headed: to My Neice Miss Ruby Wellwood on her engagement [signature illegible]; six pressed ferns; a letter addressed to Miss Caroline Gascoyne, Chatham Islands regarding the Auckland Weekly News; and a booklet: [Transactions of the New Zealand Institute], Vol. XXVI.] Art. LXX - Te Kuri maori (the Dog of New Zealand). A Reply to the Rev. W. Colenso by Taylor White. [Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 11th September, 1893].
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Media/Materials description
Marbled paper on cardboard cover, paper, ink
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Measurements
Height x Width x Depth/Length: 320 x 210 x 25mm
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Subject person
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Current rights
Public Domain
Credit line
gifted by Napier City Council
Other number(s)
m82/34, 65926
Public comments
the Miss Gascoyne referred to is Caroline who was Major & Mrs Marion (nee Carr) Gascoynes niece. They had no children of their own so they unofficially adopted her. she lived with the Gascoynes in the Chatham Islands for 3 years from 1891 when she was 17. She was my grandmother. she witnessed the ship wreck of the Jesse Redman in January 1894.
- Cathy McGregor posted 3 years ago.