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Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten thirteen page letter from Grace to his Sister, Fannie, written from
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Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten thirteen page letter from Grace to his Sister, Fannie, written from Dunedin, New Zealand ‘on board to Canterbury’, undated but probably around the 4th February 1864. Excellent and extensive letter to his Sister, Grace talks of leaving Melbourne on the Alhambra ‘..we were not very well situated, we were four to a cabin, no room to move or wash or in fact to do anything except sleep, which of course we couldn’t do all the while... in the afternoon I began to feel bad and was sick. Tuesday. Still sick and feeling very queer indeed.’ Wednesday. Better. Thursday. Nearly well. Friday. Pretty dull, it was rather rough or at least we rolled about tremendously, it blew a great deal, but right behind us until Saturday when it changed round and blew right in our teeth, very hard indeed. We got inside the heads at Dunedin...and anchored till the morning. But when 10 miles off the heads we are only 2 miles off the town so we fired the cannon passing and rockets and blue lights for the people at the town to know that we had arrived safely. At six o’clock we started down the bay, 7 miles to Port Chalmers, such romantic scenery all the way, mountains covered with trees’.... ‘They did not want us to go up to the town... till Monday morning when the Reception was to be’, the Eleven visited a Maori settlement instead, due to lack of wind, a tug towed them to the settlement. ‘We went on shore and all the Maoris cheered and welcomed us to New Zealand. we had not been there long before William Rees [a cousin of Grace] came, he looks much the same as usual. But before that Mr Jones [Shadrach, the man who paid for the team to go out to play in New Zealand] that is the man that has us down, asked me to drive back with him to Dunedin’. Grace adds that he has agreed to come back to New Zealand at the end of the tour for a month ‘so you must not expect me home until the end of September’.... ‘So I went back with William to Port Chalmers in a small boat and then rode one of his horses with him up to Dunedin, this all up and down hill, across and round the mountain’... we went on see... the Secretary of the cricket club, his wife is pretty and such a nice woman about 23 or 4’... ‘Monday morning we rode down to Port Chalmers to come up in the procession. But when about half way down a large tree was right across the road so we had to get saws and hatchets to cut it up out of the way. But there was another large tree blew down right on top of a house and levelled it down to the ground just like building up a pack of cards and then all tumbling down. The papers give a full account of the march up, so I need not describe it except to say I rode up on horseback instead of coming up in the coach. Dunedin is a very pretty place but very hilly, it was blowing most awfully you could hardly keep on the horse or on ones feet, such clouds of more than dust, small pebbles in fact they were. The Ground has been only laid down three months, it is as level, but all loose so two out of every three balls bumped right over head or sometimes not so high so we decided that there could be not good cricket shown on the ensuing day. Commenced play at 12 o’clock by sending the 22 in. The ground is very bad but in time will I think grow into a good one... there were not so many looking on as I expected to see and the ground was not more than a quarter full. I went in the evening and made 24 runs when William Rees caught me out, a splendid catch close to the ground at mid wicket’. Grace talks of Charles Worthington playing for the twenty two, his brother George plays at Cardiff, sea sickness, a house fire in Dunedin (no water available!) spreading to a large store, ‘immense heat of spirits, porter and beer burning down the street. Thousands of gallons.... they had to get immense brushes to sweep the spirit back and put it out....smouldering all week... not quite out now’. ‘Thursday, we had to go in for the runs where I carried my bat out, then we put the combined twenty two in and had them out and had to go in again when time was called I was not out 27 and Jones (Shadrach) wanted us to appear on the stage and receive a bat for the highest scorers... Jones is going to have a silver plate on the bat for me by Friday’. Grace then talks of boarding a paddle steamer ‘City of Dunedin’ to go onto Christchurch ‘I felt queer but was not sick, only I felt about 10 times worse than I have ever felt before’. He then mentions that the eleven stopped of in Lyttelton, about nine miles from Canterbury, stayed overnight, to take part in a precession in the morning ‘I and all of the eleven of quite tired of the parades and shows, I myself am quite tired of not being my own master, though Jones lets me do just as I like, but then the rest of the Eleven get so awfully jealous that it creates quite an unpleasant feeling amongst them and they do not like my having a single bedroom while they are obliged to have double bedded rooms’. Grace talks of New Zealand, its mountains and people, walking through the mountains ‘It certainly is a wonderful way of seeing the world, this one of going round it to play cricket’, travelling to Christchurch for the match against Canterbury ‘We had lunch and then commenced to play. I got bowled the first ball by a shooter in the evening’. He talks of meeting several people in Christchurch and describes in length their personality, trade and appearance. Grace concludes the letter ‘The haste as the mail is just going from Christchurch and I send this but I shall write again from Dunedin, Your affectionate Brother, Edward Mills Grace’. An excellent and extensive letter from Grace to his sister with good cricket content giving private insights into the spirits of ‘The Eleven’, observations of New Zealand etc. Minor wear and nicks to page edges, light folds otherwise in very good condition. - cricket In the match against Otago in Dunedin, the 22 of Otago were bowled out for 71, Parr’s XI making 99, Otago in their second innings making 83, Grace and Tarrant then won the match with the loss of the wicket of Jackson. Tom Hayward taking twenty four wickets in the match....!. In the match against Canterbury, the twenty two were bowled out for 30, in reply Parr’s XI scored 137. In their second innings Canterbury fought back and made 105 all out, but lost by an innings and two runs. Tinley of Nottinghamshire taking twenty five wickets in the match.
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Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten thirteen page letter from Grace to his Sister, Fannie, written from Dunedin, New Zealand ‘on board to Canterbury’, undated but probably around the 4th February 1864. Excellent and extensive letter to his Sister, Grace talks of leaving Melbourne on the Alhambra ‘..we were not very well situated, we were four to a cabin, no room to move or wash or in fact to do anything except sleep, which of course we couldn’t do all the while... in the afternoon I began to feel bad and was sick. Tuesday. Still sick and feeling very queer indeed.’ Wednesday. Better. Thursday. Nearly well. Friday. Pretty dull, it was rather rough or at least we rolled about tremendously, it blew a great deal, but right behind us until Saturday when it changed round and blew right in our teeth, very hard indeed. We got inside the heads at Dunedin...and anchored till the morning. But when 10 miles off the heads we are only 2 miles off the town so we fired the cannon passing and rockets and blue lights for the people at the town to know that we had arrived safely. At six o’clock we started down the bay, 7 miles to Port Chalmers, such romantic scenery all the way, mountains covered with trees’.... ‘They did not want us to go up to the town... till Monday morning when the Reception was to be’, the Eleven visited a Maori settlement instead, due to lack of wind, a tug towed them to the settlement. ‘We went on shore and all the Maoris cheered and welcomed us to New Zealand. we had not been there long before William Rees [a cousin of Grace] came, he looks much the same as usual. But before that Mr Jones [Shadrach, the man who paid for the team to go out to play in New Zealand] that is the man that has us down, asked me to drive back with him to Dunedin’. Grace adds that he has agreed to come back to New Zealand at the end of the tour for a month ‘so you must not expect me home until the end of September’.... ‘So I went back with William to Port Chalmers in a small boat and then rode one of his horses with him up to Dunedin, this all up and down hill, across and round the mountain’... we went on see... the Secretary of the cricket club, his wife is pretty and such a nice woman about 23 or 4’... ‘Monday morning we rode down to Port Chalmers to come up in the procession. But when about half way down a large tree was right across the road so we had to get saws and hatchets to cut it up out of the way. But there was another large tree blew down right on top of a house and levelled it down to the ground just like building up a pack of cards and then all tumbling down. The papers give a full account of the march up, so I need not describe it except to say I rode up on horseback instead of coming up in the coach. Dunedin is a very pretty place but very hilly, it was blowing most awfully you could hardly keep on the horse or on ones feet, such clouds of more than dust, small pebbles in fact they were. The Ground has been only laid down three months, it is as level, but all loose so two out of every three balls bumped right over head or sometimes not so high so we decided that there could be not good cricket shown on the ensuing day. Commenced play at 12 o’clock by sending the 22 in. The ground is very bad but in time will I think grow into a good one... there were not so many looking on as I expected to see and the ground was not more than a quarter full. I went in the evening and made 24 runs when William Rees caught me out, a splendid catch close to the ground at mid wicket’. Grace talks of Charles Worthington playing for the twenty two, his brother George plays at Cardiff, sea sickness, a house fire in Dunedin (no water available!) spreading to a large store, ‘immense heat of spirits, porter and beer burning down the street. Thousands of gallons.... they had to get immense brushes to sweep the spirit back and put it out....smouldering all week... not quite out now’. ‘Thursday, we had to go in for the runs where I carried my bat out, then we put the combined twenty two in and had them out and had to go in again when time was called I was not out 27 and Jones (Shadrach) wanted us to appear on the stage and receive a bat for the highest scorers... Jones is going to have a silver plate on the bat for me by Friday’. Grace then talks of boarding a paddle steamer ‘City of Dunedin’ to go onto Christchurch ‘I felt queer but was not sick, only I felt about 10 times worse than I have ever felt before’. He then mentions that the eleven stopped of in Lyttelton, about nine miles from Canterbury, stayed overnight, to take part in a precession in the morning ‘I and all of the eleven of quite tired of the parades and shows, I myself am quite tired of not being my own master, though Jones lets me do just as I like, but then the rest of the Eleven get so awfully jealous that it creates quite an unpleasant feeling amongst them and they do not like my having a single bedroom while they are obliged to have double bedded rooms’. Grace talks of New Zealand, its mountains and people, walking through the mountains ‘It certainly is a wonderful way of seeing the world, this one of going round it to play cricket’, travelling to Christchurch for the match against Canterbury ‘We had lunch and then commenced to play. I got bowled the first ball by a shooter in the evening’. He talks of meeting several people in Christchurch and describes in length their personality, trade and appearance. Grace concludes the letter ‘The haste as the mail is just going from Christchurch and I send this but I shall write again from Dunedin, Your affectionate Brother, Edward Mills Grace’. An excellent and extensive letter from Grace to his sister with good cricket content giving private insights into the spirits of ‘The Eleven’, observations of New Zealand etc. Minor wear and nicks to page edges, light folds otherwise in very good condition. - cricket In the match against Otago in Dunedin, the 22 of Otago were bowled out for 71, Parr’s XI making 99, Otago in their second innings making 83, Grace and Tarrant then won the match with the loss of the wicket of Jackson. Tom Hayward taking twenty four wickets in the match....!. In the match against Canterbury, the twenty two were bowled out for 30, in reply Parr’s XI scored 137. In their second innings Canterbury fought back and made 105 all out, but lost by an innings and two runs. Tinley of Nottinghamshire taking twenty five wickets in the match.
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