Wakefield, Edward Gibbon

Scope and Contents The collection of thirty-eight letters, mostly from Wakefield to Lord Lyttelton, concerns the colonisation of New Zealand and the activities of the Canterbury Association, of which Lord Lyttelton was chairman. The letters were transcribed in 1945 from copies of the originals which had been made some years earlier by Mr. A.H. Johnstone. The location of the originals at the time of copying was unknown, but they are in all probability the letters purchased from Mr. K.A. Webster by...