Label in ink: Mr Bellairs, a gentleman settler at Brockville, Half Way Bush, prepares to leave New Zealand. circa 1858; second label in ink: Mr Brock-Holinshead of the Half Way Bush prepares to leave New Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Mr Bounce in a dog skin cloak. W.F. Massacre Bay 1847; on sketchbook mount: Native haranguing. Massacre Bay. 1847; in pencil: Now Golden Bay; verso u.r.: 49 56 [pencil sketch]; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Brown; u.r. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Mr George Lloyd of Green Island proposes to enrol some noble volunteers in 1859 during the Maori outbreak in the North Island. T.M.H.; label in ink: Mr Lloyd of Green Island enrols…
Through image in pencil: Lambert Printer etc, remedy for the Gout, L.L. Smith Pills; margin below in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Lambert, editor of the “Colonist” ill-used by one (… who considered himself ill-used in the columns of the paper.…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: J. Brown 1854; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Mr Mantell secures the votes of the Maoris for his friend Dr Williams by bribing them with toys. 1. Carnegie; 2. Mantell, Circa 1853, T.M.H.; label in ink in Dr Hockenís…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.l. - l.r. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Spain investigating the land claims at New Plymouth, Mt Eliot, June 1844 from the original pencil sketch by Mr Lewis, one of the NZ Company’s surveyors in the…
Lower centre (l.c.) - l.r. in pencil: Mr Tucketts house Nelson Nov 9 1843; u.r. in pencil: 7; l.c. - l.r. in umber ink: Mr Tucketts house Nelson Nov 9 1843; verso in pencil: [unfinished sketch of tree]
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: 3; l.c. in pencil: 7; c.l. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr W.B.D. Mantell. An amplification of his well known discovery of Moa remains! T.M.H.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Wohler’s [sic] church & school house, Ruapuke Island (March 1896); watermark: J What…; on mount in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note: In 1843, the NZ…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Wohlers’ grave, Ringaringa Point, Stewart’s Island (Taken March 1896; on mount in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note: In 1843, the NZ Company brought out…
On sketchbook mount: Mrs Sinclair’s Pigeon Bay. 1858; on back of mount: Pigeon Bay; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a frequent…