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A great coloniser : the Rev. Dr. Thomas Burns, pioneer minister of Otago and nephew of the poet
Bibliography
Bibliography.
I.—History of Colonisation, with Special Reference to New Zealand.
"The Constitutional History and Law of New Zealand." Hight and Bamford.
"State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand." W. Pember Reeves, London (1902).
"The Long White Cloud" (1924 edition). W. Pember Reeves.
"A Letter from Sydney" (1829). Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
"England and America" (1833). Edward Gibbon Wakefteld.
"A View of the Art of Colonisation" (1849). Edward Gibbon Wakefleld.
"The Expansion of England." Sir John Seeley.
"England and New Zealand." A. J. Harrop (1926).
"The Colonisation of New Zealand." J. S. Marais (1927).
"The Colonial Gazette," London.
"The New Zealand Journal," London. 1842-53.
"Edward Gibbon Wakefield." Richard Garnett.
"The Amazing Career of Edward Gibbon Wakefleld." A. J. Harrop.
"History of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand." John Dickson. Dunedin (1899).
"The Story of New Zealand," Book II: "The Pioneers." Whitcombe and Tombs, New Zealand.
"A Short History of New Zealand." J. B. Condliffe. Christchurch (1929).
"Sir George Grey." A. C. Henderson. London (1907).
"The Six Colonies of New Zealand." W. Fox. London (1851).
II.—History of Otago.
"Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand (Otago)." Thomas Morland Hocken. London (1898).
"Fifty Years Syne." James Chisholm. Dunedin (1898).
"Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of Dunedin and South Otago." John Wilson (Dunedin).
"The Story of the Otago Church and Settlement." C. Stuart Ross. Dunedin (1887).
"The Old Identities; Being Sketches and Reminiscences During the First Decade of the Province of Otago, New Zealand, by an Old Identity." (Thomas James Barr.) Dunedin (1879).
"Medical Practice in the Early Days." Robert Valpy Fulton. Dunedin (1922).
"A History of the University of Otago (1869-1919)." G. E. Thompson. Dunedin.
"The Presbyterian Church Trust." William Gillies. Dunedin (1876).
"The Province of Otago in New Zealand." By authority of the Provincial Government, Dunedin (1868).
"Twenty-five Years of Emigrant Life in the South of New Zealand." James Adam. Edinburgh (1876).
"Encyclopædia of New Zealand," Volume 4, Otago and Southland. "The Otago Seventieth Anniversary, 1848-1918." Alexander Whyte. Dunedin (1918).
The Otago Daily Times and Witness Jubilee Numbers, March, 1898.
The Evening Star, Otago Jubilee Edition, March, 1898.
"These Sixty-one Tears: The History of Warepa Presbyterian Church." A. Watson. Clutha Leader Print, Balclutha.
"Records of Early Days, Some Beginnings in Dunedin and Otago." Alfred Eccles. Dunedin (1929).
"Historical Papers." Collected by Dr Hocken, J. M. McIndoe, and James Barr (Hocken Library).
Numerous Pamphlets issued by The Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland in connection with the Otago Scheme of Colonisation, including various editions of the "Terms of Purchase" from 1845.
Numerous Pamphlets and Brochures containing Histories of Congregations in Otago and Southland.
"Otago." Volumes of bound Manuscripts in Hocken Library.
"Variæ." Bound Manuscripts in Hocken Library.
"Flotsam and Jetsam." (Hocken Library).
"The Otago Journal, 1-8" (1848-53, complete). Otago Early Settlers' Library.
Legal Documents and Manuscripts in John McGlashan Collection,John McGlashan College, Dunedin.
"Proceedings of the Provincial Council of Otago."
III.—Biographical.
1. —Manuscript Sources (from pen of Dr Burns).
The letters (141) from the Rev. Thomas Burns to Captain William Cargill, bound, in Hocken Library.
Sundry other letters (few in number) in Hocken Library.
Sundry letters in Otago Early Settlers' Library.
Diary of Rev. Thomas Burns, 1848-51, with a few later jottings. Early Settlers' Library.
Visiting Book kept by Rev. Thomas Burns, 1848-58. Early Settlers' Library.
Meteorological records kept at back of Diary and in separate volume. Early Settlers' Library.
Sermons. Early Settlers' Library.
Letters and Notes (very few in number) in John McGlashan Collection, John McGlashan College, Balmacewen, Dunedin.
First Church Session Minutes, written by Rev. T. Burns for many years.
2.—Records (Manuscript).
Minutes of the Synod of Otago and Southland.
Minutes of Deacons' Court, First Church.
3.—Printed Sources.
"Early Otago and Genesis of Dunedin; Letters of Rev. Thomas Burns, D.D., 1848-65." Reprinted from Dunedin Evening Star. J. W. H. Bannerman(1916).
"The Otago Journal," 1848-53, containing many extracts from Burns's Dunedin letters.
"Minutes of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland," 1843-52, two volumes. Edinburgh.
"A Little Scottish World." Kirkwood Hewat, Kilmarnock, Scotland.
"Half-hours at the Manse." Kirkwood Hewat, Paisley.
"Annual Burns Chronicle," No. V, January, 1896. By kindness of Mr W. B. McEwan, City Librarian, Dunedin.
"The Annals of the Disruption, 1843." Thomas Brown.
"Life of Edward Irving." Mrs Oliphant.
"The Book of Robert Burns." Issued by the Grampians Club, Edinburgh. Vol. III.
"Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ," Revised Edition, Edinburgh. Vol. III (1920).
"The Evangelist,"Dunedin, Otago. Vol. III, No. 3 (March 1, 1871). Press sources, also works on Otago given above.
"Proceedings of the Presbytery of Otago, 1854-1865." Compiled from the Original Records by A. M. Finlayson. Published by authority of the Synod of Otago and Southland, Dunedin (1926).
"In the New Hebrides." John Inglis.
"Dictionary of Australasian Biography.
A Discourse delivered in the Church of Otago on Friday, the 23rd of March, 1849, being a day of Public Thanksgiving, Humiliation, and Prayer, and the Anniversary of the Arrival of the First Party of Settlers; by the Rev. Thomas Burns, Minister of the Church of Otago. Published by request. Dunedin. Printed at the Otago News Office, Rattray Street, 1849.
"Early Otago." Farewell address delivered by the late Rev. Dr Burns at the original First Church on December 25, 1864. Te Pono Press, Waimate, 1909.
"A Brief Account of the Origin and History and also the Income and Expenditure of the Presbyterian Church of Otago, etc." By Rev. Dr Burns, Dunedin, 1865.
Diary of Rev. T. D. Nicholson. Otago Early Settlers' Library.