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James Ernest Strachan papers
Typescript and manuscript papers of James Ernest Strachan chiefly on education, but also concerning science, astronomy, ham radio, civic and economic affairs and travel. Includes press cuttings, copies of Home-centred studies for girls (1945) and some other published papers.
Also included is a copy of the author's unpublished autobiography, I Remember. This includes a preface and introduction by Jack Shallcrass, who edited this work.
James Filer letters
Typed transcript of letters in diary form from James Filer written on board the S.S. Borda from the U.K. to Australia.
Copy has title: Letters home. Some of the letters are written by Alice, and there are two letters from Wales, written by James Filer's stepmother, Lucretia Filer.
James Gill letters
Manuscript letters from James Gill from 252 Worcester Street, Christchurch, to his friends Sidney and Connie Arnold in Huddersfield.
James Inglesby letters
Photocopied manuscript and typescript letters by James Inglesby from Kaikoura to his daughter Maria. Includes some genealogical and historical notes.
James K. Baxter papers
The papers of James K. Baxter includes newspaper and periodical cuttings, mainly obituaries of Baxter, but also articles about the commune Jerusalem, which he established on the banks of the Wanganui River.
James Kirkwood Worrall letters
Photocopied typescript of original letters written at Fort Jervois, Ripapa Island by James Kirkwood Worrall.
Four letters written to his family on 1 & 2 July 1913 while James Worrall was in solitary confinement at Fort Jervious, Ripapa Island for objecting to the pre-World War I compulsory military training law. He describes the horrible conditions at the Fort as well as the court trial he and several others were subjected to.
James Little shipboard diary
Two bound typescript copies of James Little's shipboard diary aboard the on the Zambesi in 1863, which was rewritten by him in 1910, and copied without alteration by Michael Stanley Thomas, his great-great grandson, in June 1972.
The diary includes passenger lists, photocopies of genealogical table of descendants of James Little and Jane Farrer and of press and other articles of historical and biographical interest.
James Martin shipboard diary
Manuscript diary of James Martin, passenger on Uterpe [i.e. Euterpe] to New Zealand.
James Stack letter
Photocopies of manuscript letter from James Stack to the Chief Surveyor, Dept. of Lands and Survey, Wellington dated 19 June(?) 1894, in reply to request from the Chief Surveyor dated 25 April 1894 for information regarding Māori place names in the Christchurch and Banks Peninsula area. Stack encloses a 2-page list of Māori names, with translations, and also a rough sketch of the Lake Forsyth area.