Guide to the Papers of the Boyle Family (as filmed by AJCP)
M2634-M2635
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Boyle Family
- Title
- Papers of the Boyle Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1892 - 1901
- Collection Number
- M2634-M2635
- Extent
- 12 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
1. Papers 1892-1901 covering the 7th Earl of Glasgow's term as Governor of New Zealand, including correspondence, addresses, cuttings, photographs and scrapbooks. Correspondents include Lord Glasgow, Richard Seddon and Lord Ranfurly.
2. Papers of Robert Elphinstone Boyle, including letters from his brother Lord Glasgow and nephew Lord Kelburn in New Zealand and Samoa.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project. Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
For example:- M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-987654321)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the private residence of Rt Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, Scotland, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1991 (AJCP Reels: M2634-M2635). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Private Residence: Rt Hon. the Earl of Glasgow; Ayrshire, Scotland.
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1067320] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Advisory Statement
Maori and Pacific Islander people are advised that this Finding Aid contains material and descriptive information which may be considered culturally sensitive and may cause distress, including names and images of people now deceased. This Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Subjects
Boyle Family; Boyle, Patrick J., 8th Earl Glasgow; Boyle, Robert E.; Boyle, Sir David, 7th Earl Glasgow; Governors and Governors General: New Zealand; Knox, Uchter J., 5th Earl of Ranfurly; New Zealand: politics and government; New Zealand: Photographs; Photographs; Samoa; Seddon, Richard
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying project handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 49, p. 17.
Biographical / Historical
David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow (1833-1915), was Governor of New Zealand 1892-1897.
Item Descriptions
Series Box D7. Papers relating to New Zealand of 7th Earl of Glasgow, 1892 - 1965
10 itemsRelated Materials
See also Memoirs of the life of the Right Hon. David, 7th Earl of Glasgow, 1833-1915 compiled by Francis M. Norman. Edinburgh, Constable, 1918.
Letters from Lord Glasgow (Government House, Wellington) to his brother Robert (Berto), 14 June 1892 - 29 September 1892 (File Bundle 1/1-10)
Subjects and correspondents includes: Morgan Grace (Wellington) commodiousness of Government House; description of the country; New Zealand 1892, Legislative Council Appointments; his opinion of his ministers; Lord Ripon's advice. (48p.)
Correspondence regarding items of furniture missing from Government House and despatches relating to Lord Glasgow's leave of absence, 1897 - 1898 (File Bundle 2/1-21)
Correspondents include: Lord Glasgow (Fairlie); H Blow (Public Works Dept., Wellington); L. H. D. Wilson (Wellington). (109pp.)
Subjects include: List of items bought by Lord Glasgow from Maples & Co., London; Lord Glasgow (Fairlie) to Lord Ranfurly (New Zealand) on report in newspapers re his conduct with regard to non transmission of certain despatches to the Colonial Office; Inventory of furniture etc. in Government House Auckland; Lewis Wilson (Wellington) to Lord Glasgow re resignation of Sir Robert Stout
Official letters re Governorship (22p), 1892 - 1897 (File Bundle 3/1-11)
Subjects include: Commission appointing Earl of Glasgow Governor of New Zealand; Lord Knutsford (Colonial Office) to Lord Glasgow re appointment; Warrant of appointment to order of St. Michael and St. George; Instructions to the Governor and Commander in Chief of New Zealand; Appointment to Honorary Colonelship of Mounted Rifle Volunteers; Colonial Office to Lord Glasgow re passage allowance on expiration of his service as Governor.
Press cuttings, c. 1892-1895 (File Bundle 4)
Cuttings from New Zealand newspapers regarding Lord Glasgow's governorship (tours, Legislative Council appointments etc.) (c. 30 cuttings).
Correspondence between Lord Glasgow and R. D. Seddon (c.74p), 1894 - 1895 (File Bundle 6/1-8)
Subjects include: appointment of Under Sec. of Defence and Commander of the forces; annexation of Samoa by New Zealand; opinion on this in Australia; position of all Western Pacific Islands. Seddon believes they should form part of New Zealand; Germnan interests; native land courts; the relationship between the Governor and his advisors; Neckar Island; defence costs; tension between Great Britain and France; Japanese aggression; New Zealand defence capabilities; protectorate of Cook Islands. Failure of Sunday Island settlement; economic potential of Raratonga; his position as Chief postmaster; degradation of the 'natives'; position of Mr Moss as British Resident;
Photographs (File Bundle 7)
Includes some of Earl and Countess of Glasgow and their children taken in Government House.
Archival History
Although listed, this material was not filmed by the AJCP.
Miscellaneous letters, 1895 (File Bundle 8/1-8)
3 itemsArchival History
Filmed selectively.
Lord Glasgow (n. pl.) to his wife, 6 August 1895 (Item)
Family news; 'Seddon made a most extraordinary exhibition of himself'; Bank of New Zealand business; defence (4p.).
Other material, June 1892 - 1965 (File)
6 items
Welcome address to Lord and Lady Glasgow on visit to Palmerston North (1p.), 17 October 1892 (Item Vol.1)
Farewell address presented to Lord Glasgow by chiefs of hapus of the Maori people., 14 September 1896 (Item Vol.2)
In Maori and English. (4.)
Address of congratulation on being appointed Governor by various Friendly Societies in Wellington (2p.), June 1892 (Item Vol.3)
These are representative of c. 30 addresses presented to Lord Glasgow and which are hung in various places in the castle.
Colonial customers and customs by J. Stuart Allen, June 1895 (Item Vol.4)
Presented to Lord Glasgow by R. C. Campbell Preston; contains sketches and cartoons of New Zealand life. (59p.)
Photograph albums, 1892 - 1897 (File)
3 itemsArchival History
Filmed selectively.
[New Zealand and Fiji album], 1892 - 1897 (Item 1)
Includes photographs from Raratonga of natives, houses, scenery, mission station, Makea's Palace; from Wangaria of scenery; from Bay of Islands of scenery; of Government House, Auckland; of Samoa; of Honolulu; from Fiji of natives making kava, native houses, native troops; of Mr Traver's garden, Wellington. (48p.)
New Zealand album [black], 1895 (Item 2)
Includes photographs of Moawhango, logging camp; Ruapehu sheep station, Feb 1895; Lake Taupo; Black boiling pools, Tikitere; Maoris; Lake Wakatipu. (46p.)
New Zealand album [red], 1892 - 1894 (Item 3)
Includes photographs of Lady Glasgow's sitting room, Wellington; Government House, Auckland; Lord Glasgow in his office; swearing in the Governor, 8 June 1892; street scenes in Wellington, 8 June 1892; Maoris; Dunedin; Bligh Sound; Bowen Falls; railway at Westport Ingline; Napier Cathedral; family, friends and staff at Government House; Government House, Hobart, Tas.; Lyttleton regatta, Jan 1894; gold mining, Kumara. (58p.)
Series Box REB. Papers of Robert Elphinstone Boyle, 1892 - 1895
2 itemsBiographical / Historical
Robert Elphinstone Boyle was the brother of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow.
Correspondence from his brother, 7th Earl of Glasgow, 13 December 1894 - 5 March 1895 (File Bundle 8/6)
3 itemsArchival History
Filmed selectively.