Diary, William Colenso

Maker
Colenso, William
Production date
1893
Current rights
Public Domain

Object detail

Brief Description
A diary written by William Colenso between Sunday 1 January - Sunday 31 December 1893. In the diary William Colenso writes about his daily activities, his ill health, visitors who spent time with him, letters he wrote and the people he wrote them to, his trips to retrieve botanical samples, his work with the Anglican church, financial matters, his travels mainly to Dannevirke and Woodville, and the weather.

The diary is a Letts's Australasian Rough Diary.
Production date
1893
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Hard cover, red linen spine, handwritten and printed on paper with black ink.
Measurements
Height x Width: 255 x 205mm
Signature/Inscription
Sat Dec 9th 1843 Wm Colenso first trod the shores of Hawkes Bay, Inscription, Handwritten
Subject period
Subject date
1893
Credit line
gifted by the Hawke's Bay Trust Foundation
Other number(s)
2012/17/4, 74944
Accession number
2012/17/4

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