An album containing early sketches of New Zealand, poetry and scraps, leather bound octavo size. Includes ink sketches by John Johnson (1794-1848), colonial surgeon, and his son John Grant Johnson, land purchaser and Government interpreter engaged in land negotiations (1850s) and others. Some overseas images Corfu(?) dated 1856; Hurricane in the Bay of Biscay dated 1838, other local images including 'Frenchman's Bay, Akaroa...'; 'North Head & Rangitoto...' (loose); 'Taurarua (Judges) Bay 1855'; 'From Mount St John'; 'The Auckland S.N.C Ship Wm. Denny'; 'Mount Cecilia head of Wairau valley. Province of Nelson'; Untitled (view across Hobson Bay to Rangitoto and Great barrier Is); and a watercolour portrait (in the manner of G.F.Angas) of a Maori woman wearing European and Maori dress (laid in): 'Hatareka (Hadrach)*, a Christian native who in the Wars at the Bay of Islands ... assisted in carrying our wounded soldiers from the field in the midst of a heavy fire' . Along with manuscript transcriptions of poems and various epithets is a manuscript page: 'A Maori Tangi,or Lament. For the Chief Epiha Putini (Te Rangitahua Ngamuka baptised Epiha Putini [Jabez Bunting] after a London Missionary Secretary), composed by his widow Te Paea'. * Possibly a name taken from the Old Testament, Book of Zechariah.