Story by Michele Leggott It is November 2024. Harris descendant Heather Jones hand-delivers Emma Hill’s scrapbook, the real thing, to a kitchen bench in Devonport. The scrapbook and an envelope of family letters and photos has made its way from Judith Briant in Marton to Heather in Clevedon to its latest destination in Auckland. In Read More…
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Emily’s New Zealand Ferns in Hobart
It is late November 2018. We are in the Rare Room of the Morris Miller Library at the University of Tasmania, looking at Emily Harris’s New Zealand Flowers, New Zealand Berries and New Zealand Ferns. The University’s copies of Emily’s three books, published in Nelson by HD Jackson in 1890, are part of Special and Read More…