Scrapbook compiled by Amy Aldis

The contents of the scrapbook, listed below, relate primarily to William Aldis’ academic career and are arranged in roughly chronological order. The scrapbook itself is a roll book used by Aldis while Professor of Mathematics at Auckland University College and contains class rolls and students marks recorded in 1892 and 1893.

Photographs of William Aldis.

Aldis' account with Mr. Mathison, tutor, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1858, and other items relating to his time at Cambridge University.

Aldis, Amy L. ‘A brief biography of William Steadman Aldis’, n.d. 16p. Typescript (carbon copy).

Lithograph print and plan of the Northern Baptist College, Rawden, near Bradford, England., n.d.

Petition to the Mayor of Cambridge, 13 December 1865. Signed by Aldis. Calls for a meeting to discuss Governor Eyre's Rebellion, which involved the savage repression of a native revolt in Jamaica, October 1865.

Kinder, John. Letter, 28 January 1895, Woolcroft, Remuera, to William Aldis. Holograph signed. Lists evidence of a comet over England at the time of the Norman Conquest.

Example of letterhead note paper used by Aldis after the publication of Froude's Oceana.n.d.

Grey, Sir George. Letter, 24 January 1888, Kawau, to William Aldis. Holograph signed, with envelope. Grey thanks Aldis for the loan of an algebra book.

Eirserand, F. Letter, 17 May 1890, Rueil, France, to William Aldis. Holograph signed, with envelope. Reply concerning an erratum Aldis found in a text by Eirserand.

Map of Auckland. Auckland, Adam Keir Murray, 1884.

Photographs of Oxford University and other locations in England

Form of service used at the funeral of William Aldis, at Zion, Tenterden, 13 March 1928.