Description: Includes: 'Reminiscences of a pioneer surveyor from 1840 to 1916' by S. Percy Smith 1916; Journal at Okoare, 1850. [-1851], Account of day-to-day activities of a settler at New Plymouth, farming planting - refers to other settlers - Standish, Carrington, Hursthouse, Weston, Woon; Journal, 1854-1867; Journal kept during a visit to England 1913-1914; Six months in the Pacific: The search for Hawaiki. Letters from S Percy Smith to his wife, Mary Anne Smith, describing his visit to Rarotonga, Tahiti, Moorea, Raiatea, Aitutaki, Samoa, Hawaii and Tonga, 1897; Notes of three and a half months residence in Niue Islands, 1901; [Notebook. Notes made on surveying trips etc.. 1869-1888], includes notes for construction of the bridge over the Tuupae River, Hurford Road, Taranaki. - Atkinson's cupola furnace - Notes of trees and shrubs planted in the garden at Judges Bay [Auckland] from 1876; Notes of a journey from Taranaki to Mokau Taupo, Rotomahana, Tarawera and Rangitikei. New Plymouth, 1858; List of papers, scientific and others, lectures, books, etc., by S. Percy Smith; genealogies of the Smith, Hursthouse, Atkinson, Richardson, Solly, Compton and George Curtis families.
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Includes: 'Reminiscences of a pioneer surveyor from 1840 to 1916' by S. Percy Smith 1916; Journal at Okoare, 1850. [-1851], Account of day-to-day activities of a settler at…