The first person to transcribe Emily Harris’s 1860-61 letters at the Taranaki Museum in January 1999 was Sue Needham. For a long time we assumed that Sue was a staff member or a summer intern because part of her typed transcript is on museum letterhead. Later we learned from correspondence held by Roseanne Cranstone that Read More…
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Meeting the Descendants
Two years ago today great great grand-daughters of Edwin and Sarah Harris came to Special Collections at the University of Auckland to meet researchers working on Emilys story. They brought with them a shopping bag full of family papers, a photo album and two war medals. Annabel Galpin, Roseanne Cranstone and their cousin Heather Jones Read More…