SummaryBefore Pae Korokī and Papers Past, the New Zealand Room librarians would note topics of interest in an alphabetised card catalogue, this is their selection of stories about Rev Seymour Mills Spencer from the Bay of Plenty Times and other sources in the late 1800s.Main Body
See also archive collections of notes collated by Alister Matheson: Ams 209, Ams 221, and Ams 249
Donated to Patriotic Fund (Crimean War), c. 1850s.
Parental approval for marriage of Lucy Harris Spencer and Edward Purvis. 29 September 1862, Brown papers, 109f.
Correspondence with Rev A.N. Brown. 8 March 1865, Brown correspondence, folder 2. Also folder 41 (1843-1881).
Passenger to Tauranga on the Southern Cross. 16 October 1872.
Death of, aged 86, live at Maketū. Bay of Plenty Times, 9 May 1898.
Obituary. Auckland Weekly News, 21 May 1898, p. 21.
Descendants of early missionaries attended church centenary (Seymour Mills Spencer). No date, [Ams 487/10, Scrapbook 3, p. 11].
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