Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.l. - l.r. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Spain investigating the land claims at New Plymouth, Mt Eliot, June 1844 from the original pencil sketch by Mr Lewis, one of the NZ Company’s surveyors in the…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Camp Te Papa, Tauranga 23 April 64 5; verso in ink: My tent has a black patch. The general’s quarters in the left hand house I have nothing to colour with and have done what I could with a steel & quill pen. I hope…
Left - right in pencil: Fort Robert 28 June 1864. Coast of New Zealand. Taranaki; a. verso: [unfinished pencil sketch] b. verso: [watercolour titled:] Oakura 28 June.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Hd. Qur. Camp. N.Z. 14/4/64; verso [two pencil sketches]; in pencil: The Brute, copy; in ink: 75; [pencil & wash drawing] 75
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Hd Qu.rs Camp. Te Awamutu 19 March 64. On the Munga Piko River, the Artillery on the right and our Mess is in the Shanty behind the 3 gun; verso: [letter dated Sunday 20 March]
Upper left (u.l.) - lower right (l.r.) in ink: March 19th 1864, My dear little Janet, I wish you many happy returns of the day and hope you will be a good little girl and sometimes think of your Papa, who often wishes to see you all again - as I am…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: interior of our mess Whare Te Awamutu. N. Z. 19 March 1864; on boxes below figures in pencil: Medical Comforts No 1, carcase 4 2/5 How.z Amm.n, 750 Enf.d Rifle; in pencil: Dr. Temple, Lt. Col. Williams, Lt. Col. Barstow,…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: M.t Egmont and the Waitara Plain; verso: 29; on mount: Visited some natives with Col. Warre in … 1864 June. This gives a very fair idea of Mount Egmont from the Waitara Plains. The sea is behind Spectator. The scene of…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: M.t Egmont from Oakura 28 June 1864; on original mount: Oakura stream on the Coast near Taranaki. Capt. Trajet & Surgeon Hope 57 Reg.t were shot here in an ambush early in 1863. This began the war -
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: 2; l.l. - l.r. in ink: One of our Brasier's non fighting days, so we air our kits, and old Timefuze gets his horses shod. Waitotara 14 Feb 65; through image (on tent) in ink: 4 B 7/A; through image (on a box) in opaque…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Patea EW [monogram]; verso in pencil: The gun park of the H.D Qu.r Column on the Patea 20 Feb.y 65; verso with brush: Patea; On original sketchbook mount: Our Seige Train & flying Artillery
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: The Picket, Nukamaru 30 Jan.y 65 near Wanganui; on original sketchbook mount: J. Johnson of 40th Reg.t killed here. The Scene of a brisk skirmish with the Maories - on 29 January 1865
Lower left (l.l.) - right (r.) in ink: Portrait of a Captain of Infantry on the march New Zealand 1865. O Tempora O Mores!!!; l.l. - r. in pencil: EW [monogram] Sir R. Douglas B.t Cap.t 57th Reg.t; verso in pencil: 94, 94
On original sketchbook mount: Pukerimu, Landing Place April 1864; verso in ink: Looking down the Waikato from the landing place, commissariat stores - the steamer coming up with flats in tow…[letter continues]…I read your letters looking on the…