Inventory for John Logan Campbell Papers MS‐51 Auckland Museum Library Prepared by: Christina Troup, 1966/7; reconfigured by Mary Donald, 2005‐2013; amended and edited by Bruce Ralston, 2014‐ Date prepared: 26 May 2018. The collection currently known as the John Logan Campbell Papers (MS‐51) consists of five separate collections: 1. John Logan Campbell’s personal papers and his business enterprises ‐ these reflect both business and social history from the 1840s to 1910. There is also a section containing papers of wife Emma and daughter Winifred. 2. Cornwall Park Trust Board. Records. Cornwall Park management covering the period 1902 ‐ 1930s. 3. Winifred Humphreys (nee Campbell). Papers, 1910 ‐ 1930s. 4. Russell Stone. Photocopies of documents, a single original letter and donated from other sources. 5. Sir Colin Campbell. Includes JLC’s bible. Size 6.5 linear metres Date range 1806‐1975, primarily 1840s‐1930s Physical description Holograph Printed Plans Architectural drawings Photographs Provenance The Cornwall Park Trust Board deposited the first two collections in 1957. Winifred Humphrey’s papers were gifted from the Alexander Turnbull Library in the early 1960s. May 26, 2018 Professor Russell Stone and Sir Colin Campbell gifted the remainder in 1975. Earlier archival practice clumped like material; hence the collections are catalogued under the one manuscript number – MS‐51. One of the advantages of this ‘clumping’ was to facilitate use; it was easy to add to existing inventories. However, it is current archival practice to maintain the integrity of individual collections through provenance. Today collections are held in their own right and linked through catalogues, indices and finding aids. General description of each collection Title: John Logan Campbell and family (folder 1‐274, 319‐332) Contents: This should be considered a family archive. It contains Sir John Logan Campbell’s (JLC) personal papers (approximately 40%); his business papers (approximately 40%) and also an extensive collection of letters belonging to his wife Emma Campbell, daughter Winifred and other family members (approximately 20%). Acquisition: Placed on deposit, by the Cornwall Park Trustees in 1957. The collection remains the property of the Trust. Size: 5.55 linear metres Research Value: A rich source of business and entrepreneurial history of the greater Auckland area, genealogy and family history, and JLC as an Auckland benefactor. There is also a strong collection of women’s papers, exceedingly rich in social history – a rare resource. These present a unique collection of particular interest to women’s studies and social historians. Title: Cornwall Park Trust (folders 275‐318) Contents: Papers relating to the administration and development of Cornwall Park 1910 – 1952. Includes maps and plans and papers relating to lease of land, development of the park and the building on the obelisk. Acquisition: Deposited in 1967 by the Trust Board. Size: 45cm linear Research Value: Reflecting Sir John’s ongoing contribution to Auckland and the people of New Zealand, this collection is of particular interest to researchers of Cornwall Park, One Tree Hill and JLC. Title: Winifred Humphreys (folders 333‐346) Contents: Letters, personal and family papers belonging to Winifred Humphries, daughter of Emma and John Logan Campbell. It contains a number of letters from her parents and correspondence with her financial adviser after her parent’s death and family information, May 26, 2018 Acquisition: Gift by Alexander Turnbull Library. Date and details not yet determined (pre 1967). Size: 40cm Research Value: A strong collection of women’s papers, rich in social history, especially when coupled with the John Logan Campbell and Family collection. Title: Russell Cyril James Stone (folders 347, 349) Contents: A collection of papers (mainly photocopies) of documents either held by Sir Colin Campbell or located by Russell Stone, in the course of his research/study. Also Campbell’s bible gifted by Colin Campbell and associated letter. Acquisition: Gifted by Prof Russell Stone, 1975 Size: 4cm Title: Sir Colin Campbell, 8th Bt of Aberuchill and Kilbryde (folders 348, 350) Contents: Campbell’s Bible and associated letter, plus photocopy of holograph written by JLC in his last years. Acquisition: Gifted by Sir Colin Campbell, 1975 Size: 5cm Finding aids This inventory is descriptive primarily to a folder or volume level. Work continues on item level description that will be added in time. A collection level record is available in the Museum Library’s catalogue, along with a pdf copy of this inventory. Definitions ‘Board’ means the Cornwall Park Trust Board as trustees for the Sir John Logan Campbell Residuary Estate ‘Museum Library’ means the library of Auckland War Memorial Museum ‘Museum Librarian’ means the manager of the Museum Library ‘Open’ means the item’s condition has been assessed as suitable for handling by researchers in the normal manner ‘Restricted’ means the item’s condition has been assessed as not suitable for general handling, and may be accessed after review by the Museum Librarian who will consider the purpose of and importance to the research. ‘Closed’ means the item’s condition has been assessed as not robust enough for any handling other than what is involved to digitise it. No access by staff or researchers. Access May 26, 2018 Each folder / item of the collection has been assessed for condition. Condition essentially determines what can be used. Each folder / item has been classified as ‘Open’, ‘Restricted’ or ‘Closed’. The Cornwall Park Trust Board places the responsibility for access to the collection with the Museum Librarian. The Board continues its role to make the collection more accessible, especially by providing alternative formats for public access to items in poor condition. The Museum Librarian uses his/her professional knowledge and experience to assess applications for access. In general, access will be approved to ‘Open’ material. This inventory indicates on an item‐by‐item case what is available for public access and how it can be accessed. Many restricted and closed items have been digitised and can be viewed on a computer in the Museum Library Reading Room, or by contacting Library staff. Open Access to ‘Open’ material, or items accessible in a digital format, will be provided according to Museum Library practice and Rules. Restricted Researchers make application to the Museum Librarian for access to items in the collection that are ‘Restricted’. Library staff will assess the physical condition of individual items for handling. Items may then be provided for use by researchers under direction of staff. Closed In some instances there is already a digital alternative available. Requested items may be proposed to the Board for digital imaging. A record is maintained of items accessed by researchers. This forms the basis of an annual report to the Board from Library staff. May 26, 2018 Biographical R. C. J. Stone. 'Campbell, John Logan', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 6-Jun-2013 John Logan Campbell is said to have been born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 3 November 1817, the only son of John Campbell and his wife, Catherine Logan, of Ayrshire. His father, as a younger son of Sir James Campbell, fourth baronet of Aberuchill and Kilbryde, had been obliged to make his own way. So did John Logan, or Logan as he was more generally known, and he like his father studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Just before graduating MD he decided not to practise in his homeland, but to go to the antipodes backed by £1,000 (which his father had provided) and try his hand at sheepfarming. He left Greenock for Australia on 3 July 1839 as surgeon on an emigrant ship, the Palmyra. After that voyage he never again formally practised medicine. But neither did he take up sheepfarming. Of that ambition he was soon cured when he made an inland tour of New South Wales during a drought stricken summer. Instead, in March 1840, he left on the Lady Lilford for New Zealand. On 13 April 1840 Campbell joined forces at Herekino on the Coromandel Peninsula with William Brown, a Scottish lawyer whom he had befriended on the Palmyra. After some three months together as guests of Ngati Tama-Te- Ra on the Coromandel coast, they sailed to Motukorea, an island at the mouth of the Waitemata Harbour. On this island, which they bought from Maori owners for a few goods, they waited, confident that the capital of the colony would be established on the nearby Tamaki isthmus. In Poenamo Campbell recalled that the partners had 'one fixed determination, and that was to become purchasers of town lots in the new capital and settle down there, acting as very small landsharks.' While on the island their ambitions widened. They decided to abandon 'quill-driving and pill-making' and become traders in the new capital, Auckland. On 21 December 1840 they began operations as Auckland's first merchant firm, Brown and Campbell, when Campbell pitched his tent on the edge of the small bay, at the foot of present day Queen Street. At the first Crown land auction held in the capital, on 19 April 1841, the partners bought an allotment beside Shortland Crescent, then the main thoroughfare. To the rear of this allotment they built for Brown and his wife a cottage of pit sawn kauri. (This dwelling, Acacia Cottage, survives as Auckland's oldest house, in Cornwall Park to which it was shifted in 1920.) On their street frontage the partners put up a two-storeyed warehouse, from which they conducted their business as general merchants (with Maori trade particularly profitable), auctioneers, shipping and commission agents, and land speculators. During the 1840s Auckland grew from a handful of tents and huts to a township of over 8,000 people.