Mike Dottridge (January 2015)

Date2015DescriptionPhoto by Lee Switzer of Stephanie Smith, specialist librarian, taking receipt of letter below. In January 2015 Mike Dottridge, a descendant of Henry Harpur Greer (18211886), donated Greer's original notes to his wife Agnes to Tauranga City Libraries. The notes were written in 1864 from the Te Ranga battlefield. Transcribed by Stephanie Smith (2015). Before the battle at Te Ranga on 21 June 1864, Colonel Henry Harpur Greer took the time to scrawl a quick note to his wife Agnes. On a “cash account” page torn out of a small diary, he wrote; hastily and in pencil; “Dear Agnes we have / got a lot of Maoris / out here in pah & Im [sic] / hammering away / at them, I hope we / shall get them out / before night, I have / sent in for[?] more / guns. don”t be the / least alarmed. / yrs HHGreer / God bless us.” Please note: Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Battles of Gate Pa and Te Ranga 1864 basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Debbie McCauley), on August 31, 2015. Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/battles_of_gate_pa_and_te_ranga_1864/images/show/10744 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International. Sometimes images contributed to Tauranga Memories by the community were uploaded by a library staff member. If this has resulted in your photographs being mis-attributed to a staff member, please let us know so we can correct this.The original Tauranga Memories site also sometimes collected the following (blank where empty): First name: Mike Surname: Dottridge Place of birth: Date of birth: City: Tauranga Year: 2015 Photographer/CreatorSwitzer, Lee

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