Treasures from the Turnbull collection with Fiona Oliver
The Bible saved from the wreck of the Sophia Pate in 1841.
Rev. James Buller's inscription on the flyleaf of the bible belonging to John Wilkinson, the little boy who survived the wreck of the Sophia Pate in 1841.
Rev. James Buller, from the frontispiece to his memoir, Forty Years in New Zealand (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1878).
'Dinner on board the first emigrant ship for New Zealand' (Auckland: Star Lithographic Words, 1890). The Aurora was the first immigrant ship to New Zealand; however, this wood engraving was an adaptation of the scene on another ship, published in the Illustrated London News in 1844. Conditions were likely to have been very similar. ATL ref: A-109-054
A handy guide, prepared by the Religious Tract Society in London, for young female emigrants to the colonies, published about 1852.
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