Spragg, Wesley
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1848 - 1930
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Sir George Fowlds papers.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-17
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the papers consist of the office records of a Cabinet minister, his earlier and later life being less fully documented. The correspondence covers family, business, political and social matters with a wide array of people in N.Z. and overseas, particularly the United Kingdom, U.S.A., and South Africa. His regular letters to his London friend T.W. Orr provide a commentary on George Fowlds's affairs and the N.Z. scene 1906-1918. There are some 40,000 letters, together with files of...
Dates:
1872 - 1934
Spragg family papers.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-264
Scope and Contents
Letters, photographs, ephemera and newspaper cuttings regarding the lives of three members of the Spragg family of Auckland: Wesley Spragg, Auckland merchant who founded the New Zealand Dairy Association (later the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company Limited) - letters to his family and others while on an overseas tour in 1908; Charles Robert Spragg (nephew of Wesley), Auckland meat export executive, Jersey breeder and Territorial Officer - letters to his family from South Africa during...
Dates:
1900 - 1977
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- New Zealand -- History -- 1876-1918 1
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- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Personal narratives, New Zealand 1
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- Victoria Arcade (Auckland, N.Z.) 1
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- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, New Zealand 1
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