item details
NameColonial Museum Outward Letter Books
ProductionColonial Museum and Geological Survey of New Zealand; creating agency; 1865-1905
Classificationletter books, letterpress copies, correspondence
Materialspaper, ink, ink
Materials SummaryChronological. Pressed tissue pages with acidic ink.
Techniqueshandwriting
Registration NumberMU000013
Overview
Copies of Sir James Hector's letters sent from the Colonial Museum.
Apart from Museum business these letters also contain significant information in relation to the administration of Geological Survey and other functions administered by Hector.