Give your thoughts life : William Colenso's letters to the editor / compiled by Ian St George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colenso, W. (William), 1811-1899.

Contributor:

St. George, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colenso, W. (William), 1811-1899--Correspondence.

Colenso, W.

Colenso, W. (William), 1811-1899.

Letters to the editor--New Zealand.

Letters to the editor.

Letters to the editor--New Zealand--Hawke's Bay.

New Zealand letters--19th century.

New Zealand letters.

Politics and government.

New Zealand--Politics and government--19th century.

New Zealand.

New Zealand--Hawke's Bay.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

497 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011.

Summary:

St. George, a general practitioner who edits the newsletter of the Colenso Society, compiles letters to editors written by printer, missionary, traveler, naturalist, and politician William Colenso (1811-1899) mostly for newspapers in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The letters are to papers such as the Hawke's Bay Herald and national papers like Auckland's Herald and New Zealander, Wellington's Independent and New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, and Dannevirke's Bush Advocate and the Waipawa Mail, with added excerpts from newspapers if they had information about the subjects of some of the more obscure letters. The letters illustrate his ideas and beliefs, his liberal political and humanitarian views, and his responses to the views of bigots writing for editors wanting exciting copy. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781877578144

1877578142

OCLC:

767531962