Guide to the Letters of Edward Arnold (as filmed by the AJCP)
M411
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
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Arnold (Exeter) to his parents (Windsor), [12 Dec.?] 1841 (File 1)
Railway journey from Slough to Exeter.
Arnold (Exeter) to his parents, 13 December 1841 (File 2)
Description of Clarence Hotel; Arnold treated like an English gentleman; meeting with Bishop G. A. Selwyn; Exeter Cathedral.
Arnold (Sydney) to his parents, 4 June 1842 (File 5)
Damage to Tomatin on entering Sydney Harbour; enforced stay at Mosman Bay for nearly a month; departure of Bishop Selwyn and W. Cotton for New Zealand; would not encourage anyone to emigrate to NSW; difficulty of finding employment; impressions of Sydney; convicts; town of Windsor; capture of bushrangers.
Arnold (St John's College, Waimate) to his parents, 14 January 1843 (File 6)
Memories of home; possibility of teaching either at school for sons of missionaries or a native school; Arnold's knowledge of Maori language; his assistance to Sarah Selwyn as an interpreter; travels of Bishop Selwyn in South Island; disputes with Maoris; arrival in Auckland of juvenile convicts from England; need for a native hospital; Maori pas; discussion with Bishop Selwyn about Arnold's future; St John's College.
Arnold (Waimate) to parents, [20 April] 1843 (File 7)
Plans to return to England; offer of work as a sawyer in Fiji; friends and relatives in England. (incomplete)
Arnold (Sydney) to his parents, 19 June 1843 (File 8)
Departure from New Zealand; Bishop Selwyn; Arnold's low wage; food prices in Sydney; plans to stay in Sydney until he can get a steward's berth; Sarah Broughton; voyage from New Zealand; purchase of clothes.
Arnold (Sydney) to his parents, 29 July 1843 (File 9)
Pecuniary difficulties; his grievances concerning Bishop Selwyn; conflict between Maoris and settlers; request of J. Busby for a warship to be sent to New Zealand; possibility of Arnold joining it as a purser's steward.
Arnold (Sydney) to his parents, 14 September 1843 (File 10)
Engaged as second steward and valet on the Rajah sailing from Port Phillip; expects to be valet to Sir John Franklin returning to England; conflict with Maoris in New Zealand.
Isabelle McCullum (Sydney) to Arnold, 12 November 1843 (File 11)
Bishop W.G. Broughton's good opinion of Arnold; family news.