The Rev. Dr Henry Burgess was a Victorian curate who followed John Laurence's advice to obtain exercise cultivating his garden. When not editing The Journal of Sacred Literature, he was penning practical advice for the Gardener's Chronicle (1846-9).…
"Mrs Chang: My lord, the matter is settled. since I have accepted your gifts, my daughter is yours. You may take her away at once. And you my child, you know that it is not I who send you forth from the shelter of my arms. For now you have been…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: John Buchanan; l.r. in ink: Otago Harbour, Portobello [sic] bay; verso: Inside the Heads, Otago Harbour, from Capt. Ridley’s, Portobella [sic] bay. April 1859 J.B.
Bruce's story remains one of the quintessential African adventure stories, and was eagerly expected by contemporary readers. Bruce took sixteen years to publish his account, by which time Mungo Park and others had brought back further information and…
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: How Otago is being settled; through image in pencil: Ye diggers cutting away, Ye bullocks charging them, Ye squatters flourishing stock whip; margin left in pencil: 12; margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: A…
Through image in pencil: Isaa…, M. Levy, 21; margin below in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr (afterwards Sir Julius) Vogel’s address to the electors. An excellent likeness. 1863. T.M.H.; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Vogel’s address to…
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: J. Brown; margin below in pencil: You cannot be admitted, you are only a retailer; through image in pencil: Öe AlbÖ, Pleasure trip for those who are A1 at Greers; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Class distinctions…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J. Brown; l.c. in pencil: St. Andrew: “It’s no use getting your monkey up, I am very Ca-u-tious”; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Macandrew, whose spare hat was most useful in the case of inconvenient and…
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Recreation on the Town Belt; through image in ink: 1. 2. 4; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: The manner of man in the early days. 1. Mr John McGlashan; 2. Mr W.H.Cutten; 3. Dr Purdie, Circa 1858, T.M.H.;label in ink:…
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Almost the only way in the early days of reaching the Legislative Council at Auckland. Captain Cargill takes it. Circa 1854. T.M.H.; on label in ink: The only way in the early days of reaching the…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Diogenes -Rant, viewing with contempt, the follies of the age; through image in pencil: Let Otago flourish, High School, Advance Dunedin, Dunedin Saturday Review, Wormwood, Gall, Hope, the balm of life, Beggars Petition;…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: JB; through image in pencil: The fate of ingratitude; margin below image in pencil: Wounds may be bound up, and words forgiven, but he who betrays his friends, loses all credit. Feb 23 1861; margin below image in ink in…