Letters from Early New Zealand by Charlotte Godley 1850 - 1853 by John Godley (Editor).

Letters from Early New Zealand by Charlotte Godley 1850 - 1853 by John Godley (Editor).

Publisher: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., Christchurch, 1951. Canterbury Centennial Edition.

Very good hardback with poor dust jacket. A little compression and fading to spine ends. Neat gift inscription to ffep, a little foxing and creasing to page edges. Jacket is worn, chipped, foxed and marked with some loss, some white stickers used as repair on reverse of jacket. Spine is dulled down. 387 pages, illustrated.

Charlotte Godley left England for New Zealand late in 1849, with her husband John Robert Godley, a prominant member of the Canterbury Association, which arranged for settlers to come Canterbury in the South Island. These detailed letters to her mother in England, from 1850 to 1853, provide an important historical record of what the earliest settlers found, how they coped with problems. adversity, primative conditions and some hardship as they created the foundations of what was to become a major city, an economic and agricultural powerhouse of early NZ. Her letters were first printed for private circulation in 1936 and reprinted, edited by John R Godley, with his notes, for public release to mark the Canterbury Centennial year in 1951.

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