| Description | Letters to Captain Fitzroy [Governor of New Zealand, 1843-1845], 1843-1844: including 'I infer ... that the settlers have discovered by this time that New Zealand is not the El Dorado which they had expected...'
Also:
pages 7-10: letter to Lord Glenelg concerning the military force used in an expedition to rescue the [shipwrecked British] crew of the 'Harriett' who had been held captive by Indigenous islanders: 'The destruction ... of human life must, in the whole of the attacks on the Natives, have been of fearful amount', 12 May 1835;
pages 486-[488]: correspondence between Henry Venn and G. C. Trimnell, July 1847: Trimnell has no reason to support charges against Mr Taylor 'for spending much time in shooting and fishing' or against Mr Greenwood for horse dealing in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. |