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LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Records, 1796-1934

Reels M1-116, M608-70

London Missionary Society

Livingstone House Carteret Street

London SW1

National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales

Filmed: 1955-56, 1966

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CONTENTS LIST

Pages Reels M1-116 4 Historical note 7 South Seas journals, 1796-1899 16 Papuan journals, 1871-1901 17 Australian journals, 1800-42 17 Papuan reports, 1883-1906 18 Histories of the South Seas Mission, 1827-78 18 South Seas reports, 1866-1905 20 South Seas letters, 1796-1906 37 Candidates’ references and applications, 1796-1880 38 Miscellaneous manuscripts 38 Australian letters, 1798-1907 43 Papuan letters, 1872-1907 46 Western out-going letters, 1823-1905 53 Contents lists, 1796-1901

Reels M608-70 54 Papuan letters, 1908-19 55 Papuan reports, 1906-19 56 Papua, personal 57 Papua, odds 58 Minutes of meetings of London Missionary Society directors, 1795-1918 61 Minutes of meetings of committees, 1835-1917 63 Southern out-going letters: South Seas, 1905-14 64 Home office letters, 1795-1876 66 Home Office, extras, 1796-1898 67 Candidates’ papers, 1814-95 68 Home Office, personal 68 Home Office, odds 69 Australian letters, 1907-19 70 South Seas letters, 1907-19 73 South Seas reports, 1907-19 75 South Seas, personal 78 South Seas, odds 82 Papers of James E. Newell, 1879-1910 86 Papers of John H. Holmes, 1893-1934 89 Papers of Edwin Pryce Jones, 1900-23 90 South Seas missionary portraits 90 Europe letters, 1799-1845 90 Memoirs and histories 91 South Seas pictures 91 Papuan pictures

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91 Ultra Ganges letters, 1805-87 93 Ultra Ganges out-going letters, 1822-54 94 Ultra Ganges journals, 1813-41 95 Register of missionaries, 1796-1923

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HISTORICAL NOTE

The Missionary Society was established in London in 1895 by a group of Evangelical Anglican and

Nonconformist laymen and ministers. They included George Burder of Coventry, David Bogue of

Gosport, John Eyre of London, Matthew Wilks of London, William Roby of Manchester, Thomas

Haweis of Northamptonshire, Samuel Greatheed of Newport Pagnell and John Love of Paisley. The

name of the society was changed to the London Missionary Society in 1818. It was originally a non-

denominational organisation but, following the formation of denominational societies such as the

Church Missionary Society and the Methodist Missionary Society, it gradually became closely

associated with the Congregational Church. In its first thirty years, the Society sent missionaries to

the Pacific, China, India and southern Africa and they remained its principal areas of operation until

well into the twentieth century. In 1977 the Society became part of the Council for World Mission.

Four days after it was formed, the Missionary Society, on the recommendation of Thomas Haweis,

accepted the offer of Captain James Wilson to transport a party of missionaries to Tahiti. The Duff

left England in 1796, with 30 missionaries (only four of whom were ordained ministers) and their

families. Most of the party landed in Tahiti in March 1797, while a few sailed on to the Friendly

Islands (Tonga) and the Marquesas Islands. In September 1798 the Duff left with a second party, but

the ship was captured by a French privateer. Another party, including John Davies and Charles

Wilson, arrived in Tahiti on the Royal Admiral in 1801. In the next few years nearly all the

missionaries left the Society Islands, either settling in New South Wales or returning to England. It

was only after 1810, as the chief Pomare II succeeded in overcoming his rivals, that the mission

began to make headway, first in Mo’orea (Eimeo) and then in Tahiti. The missionaries allied

themselves with district chiefs and consolidated their work as teachers, translators, advisors and

traders. By 1844 nearly 60 LMS missionaries had reached the South Seas via Tahiti. Their position,

however, was greatly weakened in the 1840s, when French naval officers imposed a protectorate on

Queen Pomare IV and imprisoned the British missionary and consul George Pritchard. By 1847 there

were only six LMS missionaries left in Tahiti and they were hampered by French regulations and

restrictions on Protestant activities. In 1866 the Society ceased work in the Leeward Islands,

transferring the mission to the Société des Missions Évangélique de Paris. The Windward Islands,

including Tahiti, Huahine and Mo’orea, were transferred in 1880.

John Williams, the most famous of the Pacific missionaries, visited the Hervey Islands (later named

the Cook Islands) in 1823 and a permanent mission was established at Raratonga in 1828. The

Takamoa Theological Institution was set up in 1839. Missionaries such as Aaron Buzacott, George

and Wyatt Gill and John J.K. Hutchin laboured in the Cook Islands for many years, but the number of

missionaries declined from five in 1895 to two in 1914.

It was in Samoa that the LMS missionaries achieved their greatest success. Williams first visited the

islands in 1830 and within a few years most of the chiefs and nearly all the population were

converted to Christianity. In 1834 Charles Baarf and Aaron Buzacott arrived with the first books

printed in Samoan and five years later a printery was set up. The Malua Theological College was

opened in 1844, training pastors to work in Samoan villages and eventually in other parts of the

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Pacific. Samoa remained the centre of the LMS activities in the Pacific until well into the twentieth

century. There were 15 missionaries working there in 1905, but the number fell to eight in 1935.

The first resident missionary on Savage Island (Niue) was William G. Lawes, who arrived in 1861. His

brother Frank Lawes followed him and was in charge of the mission from 1874 until 1910. In the

Loyalty Islands Samuel M. Creagh and James Hadfield served from 1856 until 1922. The islands were

annexed by France in 1866 and became part of the Territory of New Caledonia, but it was only in

1922 that control of the mission passed to the Paris Mission. The Gilbert Islands became part of the

Samoan Mission in 1870 and pastors trained at the Malua Institution served on the islands. The first

resident missionary was William Goward, who arrived in 1900 and remained until 1919. Ocean

Island and Nauru were brought within the control of the London Missionary Society during World

War I.

In 1871 two missionaries working in the Loyalty Islands, Samuel Macfarlane and Archibald Murray,

sailed to New Guinea. Based at Cape York and later Murray Island, they made numerous voyages to

Papua, visiting coastal villages and establishing missions. In 1874 William Lawes established a

mission at Port Moresby and in 1877 he was joined by James Chalmers. Together they laid the basis

of the Society’s work in Papua. In 1890, at a meeting convened by Sir William McGregor, the LMS

missionaries agreed to concentrate on Torres Strait and the southern districts of Papua, while the

Australian Board of Missions (Anglican) focussed on the northern coast of Papua. By 1895 there

were nine missionaries in Papua, based at Port Moresby, Delena, Jokea, Saguane, Vatorata,

Kerepunu, Isuleilei, Kwato and Darnley Island. In addition, more than 50 teachers from the Cook

Islands, Loyalty Islands and Samoa were working in Papua. In 1915 the Torres Strait was

relinquished to the new Anglican Diocese of Carpentaria.

The Society’s Ultra Ganges mission was started following the ban imposed in 1808 on Christian

missionaries operating in mainland China. Its principal purpose was to preach to and convert

expatriate Chinese. Stations were set up in Java and Amboyna (1814), Malacca (1815), Penang (1819)

and Singapore (1819). China was opened up to missionary work in 1843 and in the next few years

the Ultra Ganges stations came to an end.

The only LMS mission in Australia and New Zealand was short-lived. In 1824 the Society proposed

that an Aboriginal mission be established. Governor Brisbane approved, a site was found at Lake

Macquarie, north of Sydney, and Lancelot Threlkeld was appointed the missionary. He was blamed

for excessive expenditure and the Society withdrew its support in 1828, although the mission

continued under Threlkeld’s leadership until 1841. Sydney was an important base for the LMS

missionaries in the Pacific: they nearly all passed through Sydney on their way to the islands, many

spent their leave there, and some, such as Rowland Hassall, William P. Crook, James Hayward and

Aaron Buzacott, eventually settled there. From 1801 onwards the Anglican minister Samuel

Marsden acted as the LMS agent in Australia. Following his death in 1839, a series of Congregational

ministers were engaged as the LMS agents: Robert Ross, Aaron Buzacott, James Sunderland, Joseph

King and George Williams. Sydney was also the base of the Ship Committee, which fitted out and

planned the itineraries of the missionary ship John Williams. (There were seven vessels of that name

between 1844 and 1968.) The first LMS Auxiliary was set up in Sydney in 1838 and by 1894 there

were five auxiliaries in Australia and four in New Zealand. In addition to raising funds for missions,

auxiliaries and congregations supported a number of Australian and New Zealand men and women

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who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were selected to work in LMS missions in

China and India.

The London Missionary Society Archives

The archives of the London Missionary Society were deposited in the library of the School of Oriental

and African Studies, University of London, in 1973.

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LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Reel M1

South Seas journals, 1796-1899

Box 1

1 Thomas Haweis, on board the Duff, Blackwall to Portsmouth, 10 Aug.- 1 Oct. 1796

1A Thomas Godsell, on board the Duff, 21 July 1796-31 July 1798 (typescript)

2 Rowland Hassell, Tahiti, 4 Aug. 1797-31 March 1798

3 William Henry, early days on Tahiti, 1797 (poor condition)

4 J. Buchanan, Seth Kelso, James Wilkinson, Tonga, 1797-1800 (poor condition)

5 William Soddy, on board the Duff, 27 Nov.-9 Dec. 1798 (typescript)

5A J.L. Vardy, on board the Duff, 19 Dec. 1798-5 Feb. 1799 (typescript)

6 John Jefferson, Tahiti, 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1799

7 John Jefferson, Tahiti, 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1800

8 William Shelley, Parramatta,1800

9 James Elder, John Youl and others, Rio de Janeiro to Sydney, 26 Aug. 1800-12 March 1801

10 John Jefferson, Tahiti, 1 Jan.-30 July 1801

11 Missionaries on the Royal Admiral, Sydney to Tahiti, 13 March-28 July 1801

12 William Shelley, Tahiti to Sydney and return, 15 Aug.-19 Nov. 1801

13 John Jefferson and others, Tahiti, 1 Dec. 1802-11 April 1803

14 Charles Wilson and James Elder, Tahiti, 28 June-1 Aug. 1803

15 Charles Wilson and James Elder, Tahiti, 18 Aug.-17 Sept. 1803

16 John Jefferson and William Scott, Tahiti, 26 Oct.-19 Nov. 1803

17 Henry Bicknell and John Youl, Tahiti, 16 Nov.-19 Dec. 1803

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Box 2

18 James Elder and Charles Wilson, Tahiti, 24 Jan.-21 Feb. 1804

19 Henry Bicknell and John Youl, Tahiti, 23 March-5 April 1804

20 James Elder and Charles Wilson, Tahiti, 16-28 April 1804

21 James Elder and Charles Wilson, Tahiti, 24 June-2 July 1804

22 John Jefferson, Tahiti, 14 July-11 Dec. 1804

23 John Jefferson, Tahiti, 12 Dec. 1804-11 March 1805

24 Henry Bicknell and William Henry, Tahiti, 22 Jan.-11 Feb. 1805

25 James Hayward and Henry Nott, Tahiti, 11 June-18 Sept. 1805; James Elder and John Youl,

Tahiti, 11 Oct.-1 Nov. 1805; Henry Bicknell and Charles Wilson, Tahiti, 7 Nov. 1805-7 Jan.

1806

26 John Jefferson and others, Tahiti, 29 July 1805-8 March 1806.

27 John Davies, John Youl and others, Tahiti, 3 March-11 Aug. 1806

28 Henry Bicknell and Charles Wilson, Tahiti, 12 may-24 June 1806

29 John Youl, Henry Bicknell and others, Tahiti, 12 Aug.-28 Aug. 1806

30 James Elder, Tahiti, 17 Oct.-22 Dec. 1806

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31 John Davies, Tahiti, 21 Aug. 1807-22 Nov. 1808

32 Gregory Warner, Tahiti, 24 Nov. 1807-28 May 1808

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33 John Davies, Tahiti, Fiji, 1 May 1808-24 Feb. 1810

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34 James Hayward and others, Tahiti, 10 Nov. 1808-1 June 1809; James Elder and Charles

Wilson, Huahine, 25 April-1 May 1809

35 John Davies, Eimeo (Mo’orea), 25 Jan.-20 April 1809

36-37 John M. Orsmond, Cork en route to Ri de Janeiro, 14 June-25 Sept. 1816

38 John Davies, Tahiti, 24 Aug.-6 Sept. 1816

39 John M. Orsmond, Rio de Janeiro to Sydney, 26 Sept.-20 Oct. 1816

40 William P. Crook and others, Eimeo, 16 Oct. 1816-30 June 1817

41 John Davies, Tahiti, 21 Oct.-3 Dec. 1816

42 John M. Orsmond, Sydney and Parramatta, 21 Dec. 1816-20 Feb. 1817

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43 John M. Orsmond, Sydney to Eimeo on King George, 20 Feb.-26 April 1817

44-45 John Davies, William P. Crook and William Ellis, Eimeo, Papetoai to Afareaitu, 18 March-1

July 1817

46 William P. Crook, Afareaitu, Eimeo, 28 June-18 Aug. 1817

47 John M. Orsmond, Emeo, 6 July-12 Dec. 1817

48 John Davies, William P. Crook and William Ellis, Eimeo, 23 Sept.-15 Nov. 1817

49 William Ellis, Eimeo, 5-16 Dec. 1817 (incomplete)

50 John Davies, Moorea to Huahine, 5 Dec. 1817-16 Nov. 1818

51 John Gyles, Tahiti and Eimeo, 14 Aug.-8 Sept. 1819

52 Charles Barff, Tahiti, Sept. 1819-11 May 1820 (incomplete)

53 John M. Orsmond, Raiatea to Sydney, 10 Aug.-2 Nov. 1819

54 William P. Crook, Tahiti, 16 June 1820-6 June 1821

55 John M. Orsmond, Raiatea and Borobora, 9 July 1820-16 Feb. 1821

56 John Davies, Huahine to Papara, 21 Aug. 1820-13 May 1821

57 Capt. Grimes, Pt Jackson to Tahiti and England, March-Nov. 1821 (extracts)

58 William P. Crook, Papeete, 20 June-22 Dec. 1821

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59 John Williams, Raiatea: Papeiha’s narrative, 1821-23

60 William P. Crook, Papeete, 1 Jan.-3 Aug. 1822

61 Charles Barff, Huahine, 10-21 March 1822 (incomplete)

62 Auna (native teacher), voyage to Hawaii, 11 May-2 July 1822

63 William P. Crook, Papeete, 11 Sept. 1822-6 May 1823

64 John M. Orsmond, Borabora and visits to Tahaa and Huahine, 23 Sept. 1822-1 Jan. 1823

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65 William Ellis, Oahu, Sandwich Islands, 30 Jan.-26 May 1823

66 William P. Crook, Tahiti, 17 May-27 Aug. 1823

67 Robert Bourne and John Williams, voyage to Hervey Islands, 4 July-7 Aug. 1823

68-69 John M. Orsmond, Tahiti and Borabora, 4 Sept.-27 Oct. 1823

70 William P. Crook, Tahiti, Taiarapu, 22 Oct.-20 Dec. 1823

71 John M. Orsmond, Borabora, 28 Oct.-31 Dec. 1823

72 William Ellis, Sandwich Islands, 28 Nov. 1823-16 Jan. 1824

73 William P. Crook, Taiarapu, 20 Dec. 1823-17 April 1824

74-75 John M. Orsmond, Eimeo, 1 Jan.-28 Oct. 1824

76 William P. Crook, Taiarapu, 21 April-2 Dec. 1824

77-78 John M. Orsmond, Eimeo, 29 Oct. 1824-18 May 1825

79 John Davies, voyage to Raoa, Raivava and Tupuai, July 1825-5 March 1826

80 William P. Crook, Tahiti, 9 Jan.-14 Dec. 1826

81 John M. Orsmond, Eimeo, 1 Feb.-24 Oct. 1826

82 William P. Crook, Taiarapu, 1 Oct.-29 Dec. 1826

83-84 John M. Orsmond, Eimeo, 25 Oct. 1826-19 Jan. 1827

85 William P. Crook, Taiarapu, 1 Jan.-25 July 1827

86-89 John M. Orsmond, Eimeo, 20 Jan.-21 Sept. 1827

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90 William P. Crook, Taiarapu, 27 Aug. 1827-11 Feb. 1828

91-92 John M. Orsmond, Eimeo, 23 Sept. 1827-21 Nov. 1828

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93 Native teacher’s journal, Rimatara (Austral Islands), with report by George Platt, 1827

94-95 William P. Crook, Taiarapu, 2 June 1828-17 May 1829

96 George Pritchard and Alexander Simpson, visit to Austral and Marquesas Islands, 17 March-

22 May 1829

97 John M. Orsmond, Afareaitu, Emeo, May-21 Dec. 1829

98 George Platt, voyage from Borabora to Hervey Islands, 18 Dec. 1829-2 March 1830

98A John Williams and Charles Barff, voyage from Raiatea to Cook Islands, Tonga, Samoa and

Tahiti, 24 May-6 Sept. 1830 (typescript)

99 Charles Pitman, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 1830-32

99A John Williams, Society Islands, 4-16 June [1837]

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100 John M. Orsmond, Tahiti, 22 March 1832-7 Feb. 1833

101 John Williams, voyage from Rarotonga to Navigator Islands and Tongataboo, 1832-33

102 John M. Orsmond, Tahiti, 8 Feb.-8 April 1833

103 Charles Pitman, Raratonga, 3 Sept. 1833-21 May 1834

104 Aaron Buzacott and Charles Barff, voyage to Hervey Islands and Samoa, 30 April-6 Aug. 1834

Box 8

105 David Darling, voyage to Tahuata, Marquesas Islands, 10 Sept.-8 Dec. 1834

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106 David Darling, Marquesas, 8 Dec. 1834-Sept. 1835

107 Charles Pitman, Rarotonga, 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1835

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108 Charles Barff, Huahine to Raiatea, 3 March-25 Nov. 1835

109 George Pritchard, visit to Moorea, Tubuai, Marquesas, 2 July-9 Sept. 1835

110 George Platt, voyage from Raiatea to Hervey Islands and Samoa, 28 July 1835-22 Aug. 1836

111 John Rodgerson and George Stallworthy, Marquesas, 28 Aug. 1835-21 Feb. 1836

112 Charles Barff, visit to Samoa on Dunnottar Castle, 6 April-4 Sept. 1836

113 Aaron Buzacott, voyage from Raratonga to Navigators Islands, 30 May 1836-10 March 1837

114 George Platt, visit to Samoa, 6 Feb.-25 May 1837

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115 Charles Barff, visit to Raiatea, Borabora and Huahine, 10 May-4 June 1837

116 Charles Hardie, Samoa, 12 Sept.-4 Oct. 1837

117 George Stallworthy, Vaitahu, Marquesas, 21 Oct. 1837-24 June 1838

118 John M. Orsmond, Tahiti, 17 Nov. 1837-1839

119 John Rodgerson, Tahiti, 21 May-6 July 1838

120 George Stallworthy, Vaitahu, 15 July 1838-21 July 1839

121 John Rodgerson, Borabora, 26 March-9 Oct. 1839

122 Archibald W. Murray, Tutuila, Samoa, 2 Nov.-27 Dec. 1839

123 John Williams, Samoa to Erromanga, Nov. 1839

124 Archibald W. Murray, Pagopago, Samoa, 4 Jan.-30 June 1840

125 George Charter, Tahiti, April 1840

126 Thomas Heath, voyage to Rotumah, New Hebrides and New Caledonia, 23 April-21 May

1840

127-28 Archibald W. Murray, voyage from Pagopago to Savage Island, 24 June 1840-30 Aug. 1842

129 Thomas Heath, visit to Austral, Pitcairn and Marquesas Islands, 10 Aug.-3 Dec. 1840

130 Archibald W. Murray, voyage from Tutuila to New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Sydney, 25

Feb.-13 April 1841

131 Robert Thomson, account of the discovery and history of the Marquesas, Sept. 1841

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132 Alexander Simpson, voyage to Huahine and Borabora in the Camden, 27 Dec. 1841-26 Feb.

1842

133 Aaron Buzacott, voyage from Raratonga to Sydney, 31 March-20 July 1842

134 George Turner, Tanna, New Hebrides, 19 Dec. 1842-March 1843

135 Taunga (native teacher), New Caledonia, 1842

136 Charles Barff, Maiaoiti, Society Islands, 1842

137 Charles Barff, Huahine, 22 June-18 Aug. 1844

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138 Charles Barff, Huahine, 11 Aug. 1844-2 March 1845

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139 Charles Barff, Huahine, 23 Feb.-26 Aug. 1845

140 Archibald W. Murray and George Turner, voyage from Apia to New Hebrides and New

Caledonia, 1 April-7 June 1845

141 John Davies, Papara, Tahiti, 1 Nov. 1845-15 March 1846

142 John Davies, Papara, 1 Oct.-22 Nov. 1846

143 George Turner and Henry Nisbet, Upolu to New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Savage Island

(Niue), 3 July-28 Aug. 1848

144 Carl W.E. Schmidt, Savaii, Samoa, 3 Dec. 1848-19 May 1850

145 George Platt, voyage from Raiatea to Borabora, 28 March-3 Dec. 1850

146 Archibald W. Murray and J.P. Sunderland, deputation from Apia to New Hebrides in the John

Williams, 29 April-9 July 1852

147 Archibald W. Murray and James P. Sunderland, deputation from Apia to New Hebrides and

New Caledonia, 20 June 1853-7 Jan. 1854

148 Charles Hardie, voyage to New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Savage Island, 26 Sept.-24 Nov.

1854

149 William Harbutt and George Drummond, deputation from Apia to New Hebrides and Loyalty

Islands in the John Williams, 7 July-7 Aug. 1857

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150 George Stallworthy and George Gill, deputation in the John Williams to New Hebrides,

Loyalty Islands and Savage Island, 21 May-22 Aug. 1858

151 George Turner, voyage in the John Williams to New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, 27 Sept.-17

Dec. 1859

152 Archibald W. Murray, voyage in the John Williams from Apia to New Hebrides, 12 Aug.-28

Oct. 1861

153 W. Wyatt Gill and John Jones, voyage on the John Williams to west Polynesia, 17 Sept.-13

Nov. 1862

154 W. Wyatt Gill and P.G. Bird, Tokelau Island, 8 Jan.-4 Feb. 1863

155 W. Wyatt Gill, voyage from Samoa to Mangaia, 9 Feb.-23 march 1863

156 Alfred T. Saville, voyage of the John Williams from Sydney to Lifu, 9 Feb.-Dec. 1866 and

paper (8pp) on the blackbirder Capt. William ‘Bully’ Hayes

158 Thomas Powell, visit to Manu’a Islands, Samoa, 15 Aug. 1870-May 1871

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157 Archibald W. Murray, Ellice Islands, 19 Oct.-21 Dec. 1866

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159 James C. Vivian, voyage on the John Williams from Tahiti to Sydney, April 1871-6 Feb. 1872

160 Thomas Powell, voyage to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 19 Sept.-31 Dec. 1871

161 Thomas Powell, deputation to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 25 Oct. 1871-6 Feb. 1872

162 James Chalmers, Rarotonga, 4 July-13 Sept. 1872

163 George Pratt, visit to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 15 July-16 Aug. 1872

164 George A. Harris, Mangaia, Cook Islands, 24 June-25 July 1873

165 George A. Turner, visit to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 26 May-2 Aug. 1874

166 James Chalmers, Rarotonga, 4 June-16 July 1875

167 Henry Nisbet, visit to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 16 Aug.-23 Oct. 1875

168 George A. Turner, visit to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 9 May-21 July 1876

169 George A. Harris, Mangaia, June-July 1876

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170 James Chalmers, voyage from Rarotonga to Aitutaki and Penrhyn Island, 17 Sept.-1 Nov.

1876

171 James L. Green, voyage to Austral Islands, May-June 1877

172 W. Wyatt Gill, Rarotonga, 3 July-14 Aug. 1877

173 George A. Turner, visit to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 11 May-21 July 1878

174 James L. Green, visit to Austral Islands on the John Williams, 23 June-27 July 1879

175 Thomas Powell, Upolu, Samoa, 2 Oct.-18 Nov. 1879

176 Samuel H. Davies, visit to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert islands, 3 Sept.-6 Nov. 1880

177 W. Wyatt Gill, Rarotonga, 6 July-10 Aug. 1880

178 Charles Phillips, voyage from Apia to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 13 Sept-25 Nov.

1881

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179 Samuel H. Davies, voyage on the John Williams from Apia to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert

Islands, 26 Aug.-23 Oct. 1882

180 John Marriott, voyage on the John Williams from Apia to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands,

11 Aug.-23 Oct. 1883

181 Charles Phillips, visit from Apia to north-west outstations, 8 July-15 Sept. 1884

182 James E. Newell, voyage on the John Williams from Savai’i to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert

Islands, 7 Sept.-20 Nov. 1885

183 William H. Wilson, voyage from Tutuila, Samoa, to north-west outstations, 11 Aug.-25 Oct.

1886

184 William E. Richards, voyage from Raiatea to Austral Islands, 26 may-19 June 1887

185 John Marriott, voyage on the John Williams from Malua, Samoa, to Tokulau, Ellice and

Gilbert Islands, 1 Sept.-4 Nov. 1887

186 George A. Harris, Mangaia, 3 June-18 July 1889

187 John J.K. Hutchin, voyage from Rarotonga to outstations, 27 Nov.-6 Dec. 1890

188 James E. Newell, voyage from Malua to north-west outstations, 1894

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189 John Marriott, voyage on the John Williams from Apia to Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands, 4

June-18 July 1895

190 James E. Newell, voyage on the John Williams from Malua to outstations, June-July 1896

191 John J.K. Hutchin, voyage on the John Williams from Rarotonga to outstations, 4 Aug.-5 Sept.

1896

192 John Marriott, voyage on the John Williams from Apia to outstations, 17 June-28 July 1898

193 Annie E. Ffrench, voyage from Papauta, Samoa, on the John Williams to outstations, 10 June-

2 Aug. 1899

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Papua Journals, 1871-1901

Box 1

1-7 Archibald W. Murray, voyages from Loyalty Islands to Cape York and New Guinea coast and

Pt Moresby, Somerset to Pt Moresby, and first voyage in the Ellengowan, 1871-74

8-14 Samuel Macfarlane, voyages from Somerset to New Guinea and along the Fly River in the

Ellengowan, 1874-76

15 William G. Lawes, voyage to China Strait in the Ellengowan, 3-22 April 1876

16 Samuel Macfarlane, 16th voyage in the Ellengowan, 2 Aug.-14 Sept. 1876

17-18 William G. Lawes, visit to villages in the interior of Papua, 10 Nov.-10 Dec. 1876 and voyage

in the Mayri to Hood Point, 27 Dec. 1876-8 Feb. 1877

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19 James Chalmers, voyage from Rarotonga to Stacey Island, 21 May-21 Dec. 1877

20 Samuel Macfarlane, voyage on Bertha from Murray Island to the eastern end of New Guinea,

17 Oct.-15 Dec. 1877

21-24 James Chalmers, voyages to Stacey Island, Port Moresby, Elema and the Gulf of Papua, 1878-

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25-27 Samuel Macfarlane, voyages to the eastern branch of the Mission and the Fly and Katau

Rivers, 1883

28 James Chalmers, journey west of Port Moresby, April 1884

29 Samuel Macfarlane, cruise in and about the Fly River, Dec. 1884

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30-31 Frederick W. Walker, voyage from London to Thursday Island and Motumotu, 24 July1888-

31 March 1889 and a circular letter, 9 Sept.-4 Oct. 1889

32 Henry M. Dauncey, first days in New Guinea, 20 Sept.-6 Oct. 1888

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33-34 James Chalmers, journeys to Fly River and Motumotu, 1890-91

35-36 Robert Bruce, voyage in SS Miro to Douan Island, 5 March-12 April 1894 and voyage to

Sagonana, 18 April 1894

37 Albert Pearse, Papua, 3 Jan. 1895

38 Henry P. Schlenker, journey from Fife Bay to Mt Douglas, 24-29 June 1900

39 James Chalmers, diary kept at Daru in his last months, 1 Jan.-4 April 1901

Australian journals, 1800-42

Box 1

1 William Shelley and Robert Hassell, Sydney and Parramatta, 22, 30 April 1800

2 Lancelot E. Threlkeld, Lake Macquarie, 16 Oct. 1824-2 July 1825

3 Capt. R.C. Morgan, voyage of Camden, with an account of death of John Williams, 25 Oct.

1838-30 Nov. 1839

4-5 Capt. R.C. Morgan, voyages of Camden including a visit to Pitcairn Island, 1840-42

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Papua reports, 1883-1906

Box 1

Reports, 1883-98, of Charles W. Abel (Kwato, James Chalmers (Port Moresby, Toaripi, Jokea, Fly

River), Henry M. Dauncey (Port Moresby, Delena), J.H. Hohnen (Jokea), Archibald E. Hunt (Port

Moresby), William G. Lawes (Port Moresby, Sydney, Vatorata), Albert Pearse (Keapara, Sydney,

Kerepunu, Bristol), E.B. Savage (Murray Island), Henry P. Schlenker (Isuleilei) and Frederick W.

Walker (Port Moresby, Kwato).)

Box 2

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Reports, 1899-1906, of Benjamin Butcher (Fly River), James Chalmers, Henry M. Dauncey (Delena),

John H. Holmes (Orekolo, Sydney), Archibald E. Hunt (Port Moresby), Edwin Pryce Jones (Moru),

William G. Lawes (Vatorata), William N. Lawrence (Port Moresby), Albert Pearse (Kerepenu, Sydney),

William J.V. Saville (Kwato, Millport Harbour) and Robert Turner (Vatorata, Kapa Kapa).

Reel M13

John Davies. ‘The history of the Tahitian Mission’, manuscript, c.1827-31.

The work comprises 18 chapters and is unpaginated. It was revised and amended by Henry Nott.

There is a synopsis at the end of the volume. John Davies (1772-1855) was one of the earliest

missionaries in Tahiti, where he served from 1801 until his death.

The manuscript, edited by C.W. Newbury, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1962.

Reel M14

Joseph Mullens. ‘A brief history of the South Seas Mission’, manuscript, 1878.

The work comprises ten chapters and is unpaginated, apart from the introduction. It was written on

the versos of London Missionary Society committee agenda papers. Mullens was the Foreign

Secretary of the Society.

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South Seas reports, 1866-1905

Box 1, 1866-81

Reports of James Chalmers (Rarotonga), 1870, 1872, 1874, Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu, New Caledonia),

1874-75, 1880, Stephen H. Davies (Savaii, Samoa), 1868, 1870-72,1880, George Drummond (Upolu,

Samoa), 1869-70, Samuel Ella (Uvea), 1869, W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia, Raratonga), 1871, 1879, 1881,

James L. Green (Tahiti), 1872, 1874, 1876, George A. Harris (Mangaia, Cook Islands), 1873, 1875,

1878, 1880-81, John Jones (Maré, New Caledonia), 1872, Joseph King (Savaii), 1866, 1868, 1870,

Frank E. Lawes (Niue), 1872-75, 1877-78, William G. Lawes (Niue), 1870, Samuel Macfarlane (Lifu),

1867, John Marriott (Malua, Samoa), 1880, George Morris (Papeete, Tahiti), 1866-67, 1869,

Archibald W. Murray (Upolu), 1866-67, Henry Nisbet (Malua), 1866, 1871-72, Albert Pearse (Raiatea,

Society Islands), 1875-77, 1880, Charles Phillips (Tutuila, Samoa), 1880, Thomas Powell (Upolu), 1872,

1874, George Pratt (Savaii, Tutuila), 1866, 1875, Henry Royle (Aitutaki, Cook Islands), 1873, Alfred T.

Saville (Huahine), 1872, James Sleigh (Lifu), 1870-71, 1874, 1878, George Turner (Malua), 1866-69,

1875, 1877-79, James C. Vivian (Raiatea), 1870, 1873, W.J. Watson (Upolu), 1868, and Stephen J.

Whitmee (Upolu), 1866.

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Box 2, 1881-88

Reports of Arthur Claxton (Upolu), 1886, Ebenezer Cooper (Huahine), 1882, 1884-87), Stephen M.

Creagh (Lifu), 1883, Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), 1884, W.Wyatt Gill (Raratonga), 1883, James Hadfield

(Uvea), 1881, 1883-85), John J.K. Hutchin (Aitu, Raratonga),1884, 1886, John Jones (Maré, New

Caledonia), 1881, 1883, Frank E. Lawes (Niue), 1883-86, William N. Lawrence (Aitutaki, Cook Islands),

1885-87, John Marriott (Malua), 1886, James E. Newell (Savaii), 1886, Albert Pearse (Raiatea), 1879,

1882-84, 1887, Charles Phillips (Tutuila, Apia), 1881-82, 1885-86, Thomas Powell (Upolu), 1881,

1883, W.E. Richards (Raiatea), 1885, and James Sleigh (Lifu), 1885.

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Box 2 (contd.)

Reports of William E. Clarke (Savaii), 1888, Arthur Claxton (Upolu), 1888, Ebenezer Cooper (Huahine),

1888, James Hadfield (Lifu), 1886, 1888, George A. Harris (Mangaia, Cook Islands), 1887, John J.K.

Hutchin (Raratonga), 1888, Frank E. Lawes (Niue), 1887, William N. Lawrence (Aitutaki), 1888, John

Marriott (Malua), 1886-87, William E. Richards (Raiatea), 1888, and James Sleigh (Lifu), 1887.

Box 3, 1888-92

Reports of James Chalmers (Rarotonga), 1890, William E. Clarke (Apia, Savaii), 1889-90, 1892, Arthur

Claxton (Leulumoega, Apia), 1889-90, Ebenezer V. Cooper (Huahine), 1888, James H. Cullen (Niue),

1892, Samuel H. Davies (Savaii), 1892, William E. Goward (Falealili, Samoa), 1891, 1893, James L.

Green (Demerara), 1890, James Hadfield (Lifu), 1888-89, 1892, George A. Harris (Mangaia), 1888-89,

1891-92, James W. Hills (Leulumoega, Apia), 1889-90, 1892-93, Archibald E. Hunt (Matautu, Samoa),

1892-93, John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), 1889-91, Agnes Large (Apia), 1893, Frank E. Lawes (Sydney,

Niue), 1888-89, 1892, William N. Lawrence (Aitutaki, Rarotonga), 1889-90, 1893, John Marriott

(Malua), 1888, 1891-93, Elizabeth Moore (Upolu), 1893, James E. Newell (Malua), 1889-90, Albert

Pearse (Kerepunu, New Guinea), 1888, Valesca Schultze (Apia, Malua), 1890, 1892, and Stephen J.

Whitmee (Apia), 1892.

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Box 4, 1893-99

Reports of Emogene Ardill (Rarotonga), 1894, 1896, Sidney A. Beveridge (Matautu), 1896-98, William

E. Clarke (Apia), 1893, 1895, Ebenezer V. Cooper (Tutuila), 1894, 1896, 1898, James H. Cullen (Niue,

Mangaia), 1893-94, 1897, 1899, Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), 1894, William E. Goward (Falealili), 1894,

1897-98, James Hadfield (Lifu), 1893-97, James W. Hills (Leulumoega), 1894, 1896-97, Archibald E.

Hunt (Matautu), 1894-95, Walter Huckett (Apia), 1898, John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), 1896-97, 1899,

Agnes Large (Rarotonga), 1898, Frank E. Lawes (Niue), 1895-98, William N. Lawrence (Rarotonga),

1894, 1897-98, John Marriott (Malua), 1895, Elizabeth Moore (Upolu), 1894, 1897, John H. Morley

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(Apia, Falealili), 1896-99, James E. Newell (Malua), 1896-98, Valesca Schultze (Papauta, Samoa),

1896, 1898, Stephen J. Whitmee (Samoa), 1894, and J. Wilberforce Sibree (Savaii), 1899.

Box 5, 1899-1905

Reports of Stephen A. Beveridge (Matautu), 1899, 1901, Ebenezer V. Cooper (Tutuila), 1899, James H.

Cullen (Mangaia), 1902, Stephen H. Davies (Niue), 1904, Annie French (Tutuila), 1902-3, William E.

Goward (Beru, Gilbert Islands), 1902-3, James Hadfield (Lifu), 1901-4, Percy Hall, 1904, Ebenezer

Hawker (Tutuila), 1902-4, James W. Hills (Leulumoega), 1900-4, Walter Huckett (Apia), 1900-2, John

J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), 1900, 1904-5, Sarah Joliffe ((Papauta), 1900, 1902, Frank E. Lawes (Niue),

1899, 1901-2, William N. Lawrence (Rarotonga), 1900, 1903, John Marriott (Malua), 1902-3, John H.

Morley (Upolu), 1900, 1902, Valesca Schultze )Papauta), 1902, 1904, and J. Wilberforce Sibree

(Matautu, Apia), 1900, 1902-3, 1905)

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South Seas letters, 1796-1906

Box 1

Letters from the Tahitian Mission and from missionaries leaving or returning to England, 1796-1810.

The correspondents include Henry Bicknell (Tahiti), J. Buchanan (Tongataboo), William P. Crook

(Marquesas), John Davies (Tahiti), James Elder (Tahiti), John Eyre (Tahiti), John Harris (Tahiti), James

Hayward (Huahine), William Henry (Sydney, Tahiti), John Jefferson (Tahiti), Richard Johnson (Sydney),

Henry Nott (Moorea), Charles Wilson (Tahiti) and John Youl (Tahiti).

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Box 2

Letters mainly from missionaries in Tahiti, or sailing to and from Tahiti, 1812-18. The

correspondents include Charles Barff (Rio de Janeiro, Sydney), Henry Bicknell (Eimeo), William P.

Crook (Afareaitu), David Darling (Rio de Janeiro, Tahiti), John Davies (Eimeo, Huahine), William Ellis

(Sydney, Eimeo), John Gyles (Eimeo), James Hayward (Eimeo), William Henry (Eimeo), William Lewis

(Sydney), Governor Lachlan Macquarie (Sydney), Henry Nott (Moorea), John M. Orsmond (Sydney,

Eimeo), George Platt (Eimeo), King Pomare II (Moorea), Lancelot E. Threlkeld (Rio de Janeiro, Sydney,

Eimeo, Raiatea), Charles Wilson (Eimeo) and the Tahitian Committee (Sydney).

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Box 3

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Letters from missionaries in Tahiti and also in the Sandwicjh Islands, 1819-22. The correspondents

include Charles Barff (Raiatea, Huahine), George Bennet (Huahine, Woahoo), Henry Bicknell (Papara),

Hiram Bingham (Sandwich Islands), Robert Bourne (Tahiti), William P. Crook (Wilk’s Harbour), David

Darling (Eimeo), John Davies (Huahine, Papara), William Ellis (Huahine, Oahu), Thomas Haweis (Bath),

James Hayward (London, Sydney, Matavai), William Henry (Eimeo), T. Jones (Matavai), Samuel

Marsden (Sydney), Henry Nott (Matavai), John M. Orsmond (Raiatea), George Platt (Eimeo), King

Pomare II (Tahiti), Lancelot E. Threlkeld (Eimeo), Daniel Tyerman (Huahine, Woahoo), John Williams

(Raiatea, Sydney) and Charles Wilson (Sydney).

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Box 4

Letters from missionaries in Tahiti and also in the Sandwich Islands, 1823-24. The correspondents

include Elijah Armitage (Eimeo), Charles Barff (Huahine), Higham Bingham (Oahu), Thomas Blossom

(Eimeo), Robert Bourne (Tahaa), R. Charlton (Huahine, Raiatea), William P. Crook (Tahiti), William

Ellis (Oahu, Huahine), William Henry (Eimeo), J. Jones (Oahu), Thomas Jones (Haweis Town), Henry

Nott (Matavai), John M. Orsmond (Griffin Town), George Platt (Eimeo, Borabora), Lancelot Threlkeld

(Raiatea), John Williams (Raiatea) and Charles Wilson (Matavai).

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Box 5

Letters from missionaries in Tahiti and also in the Sandwich and Marquesas Islands, 1825-26. The

correspondents include Elijah Armitage (Eimeo), Charles Barff (Huahine), Higham Bingham (Oahu),

Thomas Blossom (Moorea), William P. Crook (Marquesas), David Darling (Burder’s Point), John

Davies (Haweis Town), Willam Ellis (Boston), William Henry (Roby’s Place), Thomas Jones (Haweis

Town), Henry Nott (Sydney), John M. Orsmond (Griffin Town), Charles Pitman (Sydney, Eimeo),

George Platt (Borabora), King Pomare III (Matavai), George Pritchard (Aforeaiti), John Williams

(Raiatea) and Charles Wilson (Matavai).

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Box 6

Letters from missionaries in Tahiti and the Hervey Islands (Cook Islands), 1827-28. The

correspondents include Elijah Armitage (Eimeo), Charles Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo),

Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), George Canning (London), William P. Crook (Taiarapu), David Darling

(Burder’s Point), John Davies (Haweis Town), William Henry (Eimeo), Henry Nott (Matavai), John M.

Orsmond (Eimeo), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Borabora), George Pritchard (Tahiti),

John Williams (Rarotonga) and Charles Wilson (Matavai).

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Box 7

Letters from missionaries in Tahiti and the Hervey and Sandwich Islands, 1829-30. The

correspondents include Elijah Armitage (Eimeo), Charles Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo),

Higham Bingham (Oahu), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), William P. Crook (Tahiti), David Darling

(Tahiti), John Davies (Tahiti), Peter Dillon (Paris), William Henry (Tahiti), George Nobbs (Pitcairn

Island), Henry Nott (Tahiti), John M. Orsmond (Moorea), Paofai (Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga),

George Platt (Borabora), George Pritchard (Tahiti), Alexander Simpson (Eimeo), Nathaniel Turner

(Tongataboo), John Williams (Rarataia) and Charles Wilson (Tahiti).

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Box 8

Letters from missionaries in Tahiti and the Hervey Islands, 1831-32. The correspondents include

Elijah Armitage (Eimeo), Charles Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo), Aaron Buzacott (Tahiti,

Rarotonga), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), William Henry (Eimeo), Henry Nott (Tahiti),

John M. Orsmond (Eimeo), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Borabora), George Pritchard

(Tahiti), Alexander Simpson (Moorea), J. Smith (Huahine), Jphn Williams (Raiatea, Rarotonga) and

Charles Wilson (Tahiti).

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Box9

Letters from missionaries in the Society and Hervey Islands and also the Marquesas and Sandwich

Islands, 1833-34. The correspondents include Elijah Armitage (Eimeo, Rarotonga), Charles Barff

(Huahine), Higham Bingham (Maui), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), L.

Chamberlain (Honolulu), David Darling (Tahiti, Marquesas), John Davies (Papara), Samuel Marsden

(Sydney), Henry Nott (Tahiti), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti), George Platt (Eimeo), George Pritchard

(Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), John Rodgerson (Marquesas), Alexander Simpson (Eimeo), J.

Smith (Huahine, Sydney), George Stallworthy (Marquesas), John Williams (Rarotonga) and Charles

Wilson (Tahiti).

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Box 10

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Letters from missionaries in the Society and Hervey Islands and also the Marquesas, Samoan and

Sandwich Islands, 1835-36. The correspondents include Elijah Armitage (Eimeo), P. Baldwin

(Sandwich Islands), Charles Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom (Moorea), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga,

Upolu, Samoa), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), Capt. Robert Fitzroy (Tahiti), Thomas

Heath (Tahiti), King Kahmehameha III (Sandwich Islands), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila, Samoa),

Henry Nott (Tahiti), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Borabora),

George Pritchard (Tahiti), John Rodgerson (Marquesas), Alexander Simpson (Eimeo), George

Stallworthy (Marquesas) and Charles. Wilson (Tahiti).

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Box 11

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey and Samoan Islands and also the Marquesas

and Sandwich Islands, 1837-38. The correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine, Raiatea), Hiram

Bingham (Honolulu), George Barnden (Tutuila), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo), Aaron Buzacott

(Rarotonga, Upolu), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), Charles Hardie (Savaii, Samoa),

Thomas Hassall (Sydney), Thomas Heath (Samoa), William Henry (Tahiti), Alexander Macdonald

(Savaii, Upolu), William Mills (Upolu), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti),

Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea, Upolu), George Pritchard (Tahiti), John

Rodgerson (Tahiti, Marquesas), Alexander Simpson (Moorea), George Stallworthy (Marquesas), John

Williams (Sydney) and Charles Wilson (Tahiti).

Box 12


Islands, 1839 (folders 1-4). The correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom

(Eimeo), E. Buchanan (Upolu), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), George Charter (Huahine), David Darling

(Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), William Day (Upolu), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), Charles Hardie (Savaii),

Thomas Heath (Manono, Samoa), William Henry (Tahiti), William Howe (Tahiti), Joseph Johnston

(Tahiti), Thomas Joseph (Tahiti), Alexander Macdonald (Savaii), William Mills (Upolu), Archibald W.

Murray (Tutuila), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti), George Platt (Raiatea), George Pritchard (Tahiti), John

Rodgerson (Tahiti), Alexander Simpson (Eimeo), J.B. Stair (Upolu), George Stallworthy (Marquesas),

C.G. Stevens (Tahiti), Robert Thomson (Tahiti), John Williams (Tahiti, Rotuma) and Charles Wilson

(Tahiti).

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Box 12

Continued from reel M28 (folders 5-7)

Box 13

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Islands, 1840. The correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo), Aaron

Buzacott (Rarotonga), George Charter (Raiatea), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), George

Drummond (Tahiti), William Ellis (France), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), William Harbutt (Upolu),

Charles Hardie (Savaii), Thomas Heath (Tahiti, Upolu), William Howe (Eimeo), Thomas Joseph (Tahiti),

Alexander Macdonald (Savaii), William Mills (Upolu), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila), Henry Nott

(Tahiti), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea, Savaii),

George Pritchard (Tahiti), John Rodgerson (Sydney), Henry Royle (Aitutaki, Hervey Islands),

Alexander Simpson (Moorea), George Stallworthy (Marquesas), C.G. Stevens (Tahiti), Robert

Thomson (Marquesas) and Charles Wilson (Tahiti).

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Box 14

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey and Samoan Islands and also the Sandwich

and Marquesas Islands, 1841. The correspondents include P. Baldwin (Sandwich Islands), Charles

Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo), E. Buchanan (Samoa), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), John

Davies (Papara), William Day (Manono), George Drummond (Samoa), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga),

William Harbutt (Upolu), Charles Hardie (Savaii), Thomas Heath (Manono), William Howe (Eimeo),

Thomas Joseph (Tahiti), William Mills (Upolu), Archibald W. Murray (Sydney, Upolu), John M.

Orsmond (Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Tahiti, Savaii), George Pritchard

(Boston), John Rodgerson (Borabora), Alexander Simpson (Moorea), John B. Stair (Upolu), Robert

Thomson (Marquesas) and Charles Wilson (Tahiti).

Box 15

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey and Samoan Islands and also the New

Hebrides, 1842. The correspondents include Thomas Blossom (Eimeo), E. Buchanan (Tahiti), Aaron

Buzacott (Sydney), George Charter (Raiatea), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), William

Day (Upolu), George Drummond (Savaii), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), William Harbutt (Upolu), Charles

Hardie (Savaii), Thomas Heath (Manono), William Henry (Tahiti), William Howe (Eimeo), John Jesson

(Tahiti), Joseph Johnston (Raiatea), Thomas Joseph (Tahiti), Alexander Macdonald (Savaii), William

Mills (Upolu), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila), Henry Nisbet (Tanna, New Hebrides), Henry Nott

(Tahiti), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea), John

Rodgerson (Borabora), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alexander Simpson (Papetoai), Thomas Slatyer

(Tutuila), John B. Stair (Upolu), George Stallworthy (Huahine), George Turner (Upolu, Tanna) and

Charles Wilson (Tahiti).

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Box 16

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Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey and Samoan Islands, 1843. The

correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), Thomas Blossom (Eimeo), E. Buchanan (Tahiti),

Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), George Charter (Raiatea), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara),

William Day (Upolu), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), William Harbutt (Samoa), Charles Hardie (Savaii),

Thomas Heath (Rarotonga), William Howe (Eimeo), John Jesson (Tautira), Joseph Johnston (Tahiti),

Thomas Joseph (Tahiti), Ernst R. W. Krause (Tahiti), Alexander Macdonald (Savaii), T. McKean (Tahiti),

William Mills (Upolu), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila), Henry Nisbet (Upolu), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti),

Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea), John Rodgerson (Borabora), Henry Royle

(Aitutaki), Alexander Simpson (Eimeo), John B. Stair (Upolu), Thomas Slatyer (Upolu), George

Stallworthy (Tahiti), George Turner (Upolu) and Charles Wilson (Tahiti).

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Box 17


correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), John Barff (Tautira), E. Buchanan (Tahiti, Upolu),

Thomas Bullen (Tutuila), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), George Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm

(Savaii), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), William Day (Upolu), George Drummond

(Savaii), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), William Harbutt (Upolu), Charles Hardie (Savaii), Thomas Heath

(Huahine), William Henry (Eimeo), William Howe (Eimeo), John Jesson (Tahiti), Joseph Johnston

(Tahiti), Thomas Joseph (Tahiti), Ernst R.W. Krause (Taha’a), William Mills (Upolu), J. Moore (Tahiti),

Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila), Henry Nisbet (Upolu), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt

(Raiatea), George Pratt (Matauta, Samoa),Queen Pomare (Raiatea), John Rodgerson (Borabora),

Alexander Simpson (Moorea), Thomas Slatyer (Upolu), John B. Stair (Upolu), George Stallworthy

(Upolu), Robert Thomson (Tahiti), George Turner (Upolu), and Charles Wilson (Upolu).

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Box 18


correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), John Barff (Papeete), E. Buchanan (Upolu), Thomas

Bullen (Upolu), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), George Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm (Savaii),

David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), William Day (Upolu), Charles Hardie (Upolu), William

Harbutt (Upolu), Thomas Heath (Apia), William Henry (Eimeo), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), Joseph

Johnston (Papara), Ernst R.W. Krause (Taha’a), William Mills (Upolu), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila),

Henry Nisbet (Upolu), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea),

Thomas Powell (Upolu), John Rodgerson (Borabora), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alexander Simpson

(Moorea), Thomas Slatyer (Upolu), John B. Stair (Upolu), Robert Thomson (Papeete) and George

Turner ((Upolu).

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Box 19


correspondents include Charles Barff (Papeete), E. Buchanan (Upolu), Thomas Bullen (Leone, Samoa),

Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), George Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm (Savaii), John Davies

(Papara), William Day (Van Diemen’s Land), George Drummond (Opolu), George Gill (Mangaia), W.

Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), William Harbutt (Upolu), Charles Hardie (Upolu, Malua), Thomas Heath

(Tahiti, Upolu), William Howe (London), Joseph Johnston (Tahiti), Ernst R.W. Krause (Taha’a), William

Mills (Malua), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila), Henry Nisbet (Upolu), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti),

Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea), Queen Pomare, Thomas Powell (Savaii), John

Rodgerson (Borabora), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alexander Simpson (Moorea), A. Smee (Moorea),

George Stallworthy (Huahine, Upolu), James P. Sunderland (Leulumoega, Upolu), Robert Thomson

(Tahiti), George Turner (Upolu) and Charles Wilson (Upolu).

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Box 20


correspondents include Charles Barff (Tautira, Tahiti), John Barff (Papeete), E. Buchanan (Upolu),

Thomas Bullen (Leone), George Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm (Tahiti), David Darling (Tahiti),

John Davies (Papara), George Drummond (Upolu), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), William Harbutt

(Upolu), Charles Hardie (Upolu), Thomas Heath (Upolu), William Howe (Sydney), Joseph Johnston

(Tahiti), Ernst R.W. Krause (Taha’a), Archibald W. Murray (Tutuila), Henry Nisbet (Upolu), Charles

Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea), Thomas Powell (Savaii), George Pratt (Matautu, Savaii),

John Rodgerson (Borabora), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alexander Simpson (Moorea), George

Stallworthy (Upolu), Robert Thomson (Papeete) and George Turner (Upolu).

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Box 21


correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), John Barff (Tautira), E. Buchanan (Apia), George

Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm (Tahiti), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), George

Drummond (Upolu), Samuel Ella (Tahiti, Upolu),W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga),William Harbutt (Upolu),

Charles Hardie (Malua, Samoa),Thomas Heath (Samoa), William Howe (Papeete), Joseph Johnston

(Tahiti), Ernst R.W. Krause (Taha’a), Alexander Macdonald (Savaii), William Mills (Upolu), Archibald

W. Murray (Tutuila), Henry Nisbet (Upolu), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea),

Thomas Powell (Savaii), George Pratt (Matautu), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alexander Simpson

(Moorea), George Stallworthy (Upolu), James P. Sunderland (Leulumoega), Robert Thomson

(Papeete), George Turner (Upolu), John C. Williams (Upolu) and Charles Wilson (Upolu).

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Box 22


Hebrides, 1849. The correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), E. Buchanan (Upolu), George

Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm (Papara), John Davies (Papara), George Drummond (Upolu),

Samuel Ella (Upolu), John Geddie (Aneiteum, New Hebrides), George Gill (Mangaia, Hervey Islands),

W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), Charles Hardie (Malua), William Harbutt (Upolu), Ernst R.W. Krause

(Taha’a), Alexander Macdonald (Savaii), William Mills (Upolu, Apia), Archibald W. Murray (Malua),

Henry Nisbet (Upolu), John M. Orsmond (Tahiti), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea),

Thomas Powell (Aneiteum), George Pratt (Matautu), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Carl W. Schmidt (Savaii),

Alexander Simpson (Moorea), George Stallworthy (Upolu), Robert Thomson (Papeete), George

Turner (Upolu) and Charles Wilson (Upolu).

Box 23


Hebrides, 1850. The correspondents includ Charles Barff (Huahine), John Barff (Tautira ), George

Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm (Papeete), John Davies (Papara), George Drummond (Upolu),

Samuel Ella (Upolu), John Geddie (Aneiteum), George Gill (Mangaia), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga),

William Howe (Papeete), Ernst R.W. Krause (Taha’a), William Mills (Upolu), Archibald W. Murray

(Tutuila, Leone), Henry Nisbet (Savaii), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt (Raiatea), Thomas

Powell (Tutuila), George Pratt (Matautu), Carl W. Schmidt (Savaii), Alexander Simpson (Moorea),

George Stallworthy (Upolu), James P. Sunderland (Leulumoega), Robert Thomson (Papeete) and

George Turner (Upolu).

Reel M38

Box 24


Hebrides, 1851-52. The correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), John Barff (Tautira,

Papeete), Aaron Buzacott (Sydney, Rarotonga), George Charter (Raiatea), Alexander Chisholm

(Papara),David Darling (Sydney), John Davies (Papara), George Drummond (Upolu), John Geddie

(Aneiteum), George Gill (Mangaia), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), Charles Hardie (Uplou), William Howe

(Papeete), Ernst R.W. Krause (Taha’a), William Law (Upolu), W. Lind (Tahiti), William Mills (Upolu),

Archibald W. Murray (Leone), Henry Nisbet (Upolu), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga), George Platt

(Raiatea), George Pratt (Savaii), Alexander Simpson (Moorea), G. Spencer (Tautira, Papeete), George

Stallworthy (Upolu), James P. Sunderland (Leulumoega, Tutuila), George Turner (Upolu) and Charles

Wilson (Upolu).

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Reel M39

Box 25


Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, 1853-54. The correspondents include Charles Barff (Upolu), John Barff

(Huahine), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), Alexander Chisholm (Raiatea), Stephen M. Creagh (Maré,

Loyalty Islands), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), George Drummond (Upolu), Samuel Ella

(Upolu), John Geddie (Aneiteum), George Gill (Mangaia), W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia), William Harbutt

(Upolu), Charles Hardie (Upolu), William Howe (Papeete), John Inglis (Aneiteum), John Jones (Maré),

Ernst R.W. Krause (Borabora),William Law (Upolu), W. Lind (Rurutu, Austral Islands), William Mills

(Upolu), Archibald W. Murray (Upolu, Apia), Henry Nisbet (Savaii), Charles Pitman (Rarotonga),

George Platt (Raiatea), Thomas Powell (Tutuila, Manu’a), George Pratt (Savaii), Henry Royle

(Aitutaki), Carl Schmidt (Savaii), G. Spencer (Papeete), George Stallworthy (Upolu), James P.

Sunderland (Tutuila) and George Turner (Upolu).

Reel M40

Box 26


Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, 1855-56. The correspondents include Charles Barff (Huahine), John

Barff (Huahine), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), Alexander Chisholm (Raiatea), Stephen M. Creagh

(Maré), David Darling (Tahiti), John Davies (Papara), George Drummond (Upolu), Samuel Ella (Upolu),

John Geddie (Aneiteum), George Gill (Mangaia), W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia), William Harbutt (Upolu),

William Howe (Papeete), John Inglis (Aneiteum), John Jones (Maré), Ernst R.W. Krause (Borabora,

New York), W. Lind (Rurutu), Archibald W. Murray (Malua, Apia), Henry Nisbet (Savaii), John M.

Orsmond, Charles Pitman (Sydney), Thomas Powell (Tutuila), George Pratt (Savaii), Henry Royle

(Aitutaki), Carl Schmidt (Malua), George Stallworthy (Upolu), James P. Sunderland (Sydney, Maré)

and George Turner (Upolu).

Reel M41

Box 27


Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, 1857-59. The correspondents include William Baker (Lifu, Loyalty

Islands), Charles Barff (Huahine), John Barff (Taha’a), Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga), Alexander

Chisholm (Papeete), Stephen M. Creagh (Upolu, Maré), David Darling (Tahiti), George Drummond

(Upolu), Samuel Ella (Upolu), John Geddie (Aneiteum), George Gill (Mangaia), W. Wyatt Gill

(Mangaia), G. Gordon (Eromanga, New Hebrides), William Harbutt (Upolu), William Howe (Papeete),

John Inglis (Aneitum), John Jones (Maré), Ernst R.W. Krause (Rarotonga), Samuel Macfarlane (Savaii,

Lifu), Archibald W. Murray (Apia), Henry Nisbet (Savaii), Thomas Powell (Tutuila), George Pratt

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(Matautu), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Carl Schmidt (Apia), George Stallworthy (Upolu) and George

Turner (Upolu).

Reel M42

Box 28

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey and Samoan Islands and also the Loyalty

Islands and Savage Island (Niue), 1860-61. The correspondents include William Baker (Lifu), Charles

Barff (Taha’a), Alexander Chisholm (Raiatea), Stephen M. Creagh (Maré), Samuel Ella (Malua), Henry

Gee (Savaii), George Gill (Rarotonga), W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia), William Howe (Papeete), John Jones

(Maré), Ernst R.W. Krause (Rarotonga), Samuel Macfarlane (Lifu), George Morris (Raiatea), Archibald

W. Murray (Upolu), Henry Nisbet (Malua), George Platt (Raiatea), Thomas Powell (Tutuila),George

Pratt (Savage Island, Apia), Henry Royle (Aitutaki) and John C. Williams (Apia).

Reel M43

Box 29


Hebrides, Loyalty Islands and Savage Island (Niue), 1862-63. The correspondents include Charles

Barff (Huahine), P.G. Bird (Savaii, Apia), Stephen M. Creagh (Uea, Lifu), George Drummond (Upolu),

Samuel Ella (Aneiteum), John Geddie (Aneiteum), Henry Gee (Apia), W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia), James

L. Green (Taha’a), William Howe (Papeete), John Jones (Maré), Ernst R.W. Krause (Rarotonga),

William G. Lawes (Savage Island), Samuel Macfarlane (Lifu), George Morris (Raiatea), Archibald W.

Murray (Malua), Henry Nisbet (Malua), George Platt (Raiatea), Thomas Powell (Tutuila), George Pratt

(Matautu, Savage Island),Carl Schmidt (Apia), James Sleigh (Lifu) and George Turner (Sydney).

Reel M44

Box 30


Hebrides, Loyalty Islands and Savage Island (Niue), 1864-65. The correspondents include Charles

Barff (Raiatea), P.G. Bird (Savage Island), J. Copeland (Aneiteum), Samuel M. Creagh (Maré), George

Drummond (Upolu), Samuel Ella (Aneiteum), Henry Gee (Apia), W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia), James L.

Green (Taha’a, Huahine), John Inglis (Aneiteum), John Jones (Maré), Joseph King (Savaii), Ernst R.W.

Krause (Rarotonga), William G. Lawes (Savage Island), Samuel Macfarlane (Lifu), George Morris

(Tahiti), Archibald W. Murray (Upolu, Apia), Henry Nisbet (Malua), George Platt (Raiatea), Thomas

Powell (Tutuila), George Pratt (Matautu), Henry Royle (Sydney, Aitutaki), G.F. Scott (Leone), James

Sleigh (Lifu), George Turner (Malua) and James C. Vivian (Raiatea).

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Reel M45

Box 31


Hebrides, Loyalty Islands and Savage Island (Niue), 1866-68. The correspondents include J. Brander

(Tahiti), James Chalmers (Rarotonga), Stephen M. Creagh (Maré), Stephen H. Davies (Savage Island),

George Drummond (Upolu), Samuel Ella (Uea), John Geddie (Aneiteum), W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia),

James L. Green (Huahine), John Jones (Maré), Joseph King (Savaii), Ernst R.W. Krause (Rarotonga),

William G. Lawes (Savage Island), Samuel Macfarlane (Lifu, Upolu), George Morris (Tahiti), Archibald

W. Murray (Apia), Henry Nisbet (Malua), George Pratt (Savaii), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alfred T.

Saville (Huahine), G.F. Scott (Tutuila), James Sleigh (Maré), George Turner (upolu), James C. Vivian

(Huahine), Samuel J. Whitmee (Upolu) and John C. Williams (Upolu).

Reel M46

Box 31


Box 32

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey and Samoan Islands and also the Loyalty

Islands and Savage Island (Niue), 1869-70. The correspondents include John Brander (Tahiti), James

Chalmers (Rarotonga), Stephen M. Creagh (Maré), Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), George Drummond

(Upolu), Samuel Ella (Uea), W. Wyatt Gill (Mangaia), James L. Green (Sydney, Tahiti), John Jones

(Maré), Joseph King (Savaii), William G. Lawes (Savage Island), Samuel Macfarlane (Lifu), George

Morris (Tahiti), Archibald W. Murray (Upolu), Thomas Powell (Tahiti, Tutuila), George Pratt (Savaii),

Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alfred T. Saville (Huahine), G.F. Scott (Tutuila), G.A. Shaw (Upolu), J. Sleigh

(Lifu), George Turner (Upolu), James C. Vivian (Raiatea) and Samuel J. Whitmee (Upolu).

Reel M47

Box 32


Reel M48

Box 33

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey, Samoan and Loyalty Islands and also the

New Hebrides and Savage Island (Niue), 1871-72. The correspondents include J.V. Arundel (Starbuck

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Island), John Brander (Tahiti), James Chalmers (Rarotonga), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), Stephen H.

Davies (Savaii), George Drummond (Upolu), Samuel Ella (Uea), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), M.

Goodman (Rarotonga), James L. Green (Tahiti), George A. Harris (Mangaia), John Inglis (Aneiteum),

John Jones (Maré), Joseph King (Savaii), William G. Lawes (Savage Island), Samuel Macfarlane (Lifu),

George Morris (Mangaia), Archibald W. Murray (Upolu), Henry Nisbet (Upolu), Albert Pearse

(Borabora), Thomas Powell (Tutuila), George Pratt (Savaii), Henry Royle (Aitutaki), Alfred T. Saville

(Huahine), George F. Scott (Tutuila), James Sleigh (Lifu), George Turner (Upolu), James C. Vivian

(Raiatea) and Samuel J. Whitmee (Upolu).

Reel M49

Box 34

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Society, Hervey, Samoan and Loyalty Islands and also Savage

Island (Niue), 1873-75 (folders 1-4). The correspondents include James Chalmers (Rarotonga),

Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), James L. Green (Tahiti), George A. Harris

(Mangaia), John Jones (Maré), Frank E. Lawes (Alofi, Savage Island), Henry Nisbet (Upolu, Malua),

Albert Pearse (Raiatea, Borabora), Thomas Powell (Upolu, Apia), George Pratt (Savaii), Henry Royle

(Aitutaki), Alfred T. Saville (Huahine), James Sleigh (Uea, Lifu), George Turner (Upolu, Apia), James C.

Vivian (Raiatea) and Samuel J. Whitmee (Apia).

Reel M50

Box 34


Box 35


Island (Niue), 1876-79 (folders 1-2). The correspondents include James Chalmers (Rarotonga),

Stephen H. Davies (Samoa), Samuel Ella (Sydney), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), James L. Green

(Papeete), James Hadfield (Lifu), George A. Harris (Mangaia), John Jones (Maré), Frank E. Lawes

(Savage Island), Albert Pearse (Raiatea), Charles Phillips (Tutuila), Thomas Powell (Upolu), George

Pratt (Matautu), J. Sleigh (Lifu), George Turner (Apia) and Samuel J. Whitmee (Savaii).

Reel M51

Box 35


Box 36

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Island (Niue), 1880-81 (folders 1-2). The correspondents include Ebenezer V. Cooper (Huahine),

Samuel H. Davies (Savaii), Samuel Ella (Sydney), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), James L. Green (Papeete),

James Hadfield (Lifu), George A. Harris (Mangaia), John Jones (Maré), Frank E. Lawes (Savage Island),

Albert Pearse (Raiatea), Charles Phillips (Tutuila), Thomas Powell (Upolu), George Pratt (Matautu),

James Sleigh (Lifu), George Turner (Apia) and Stephen J. Whitmee (Savaii).

Reel M51A

Box 36


Reel M52

Box 37


Island (Niue), 1882-83. The correspondents include William E. Clarke (Apia), Ebenezer V. Cooper

(Huahine), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), Samuel H. Davies (Savaii), W. Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), James L.

Green (Tahiti), James Hadfield (Uvea), George A. Harris (Mangaia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga),

John Jones (Maré), Frank E. Lawes (Alofi), John Marriott (Malua), James E. Newell (Savaii), Albert

Pearse (Raiatea), Charles Phillips (Tutuila, Sydney), Thomas Powell (Malua), James Sleigh (Lifu) and

George Turner (Malua).

Reel M53

Box 38


Island (Niue), 1884-85 (folders 1-4). The correspondents include J. Bell (Apia), William E. Clarke

(Savaii), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Huahine), Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), W.

Wyatt Gill (Rarotonga), James L. Green (Tahiti), James Hadfield (Uvea), R.N. Head (Savage Island),

John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), John Jones (Maré), Frank E. Lawes (Alofi), William Lawrence (Mangaia),

John Marriott (Upolu), James E. Newell (Sydney, Matautu), Albert Pearse (Raiatea), Charles Phillips

(Apia), Thomas Powell (Malua), William E. Richards (Raiatea), James Sleigh (Lifu), Frédéric Vernier

(Tahiti) and W.H. Wilson (Malua, Tutuila).

Reel M53A

Box 38

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Reel M54

Box 39


Island (Niue), 1886-87 (folders 1-4). The correspondents include M.A. Cape (Tahiti), W.E. Clarke

(Savaii), Arthur E. Claxton (Samoa), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Huahine), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), James L.

Green (Tahiti), James Hadfield (Uvea), George A. Harris (Mangaia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga),

John Jones (Maré), Frank E. Lawes (Alofi), William Lawrence (Aitutaki), John Marriott (Malua), J. Neil

(Apia), James E. Newell (Malua), Albert Pearse (Raiatea), Charles Phillips (Apia), William E. Richards

(Raiatea), James Sleigh (Lifu) and W.H. Wilson (Tahiti).

Reel M55

Box 39


Box 40


Island (Niue), 1888-89 (folders 1-3). The correspondents include W.E. Clarke (Savaii), Arthur E.

Claxton (Upolu), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Huahine), William E. Goward (Apia), James Hadfield (Lifu),

George A. Harris (Mangaia), James W. Hills (Apia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Frank E. Lawes

(Alofi), William E. Lawrence (Aitutaki), John Marriott (Malua), James E. Newell (Malua), William E.

Richards (Raiatea) and W.H. Wilson (Alofi).

Reel M56

Box 40


Reel M57

Box 41

Letters mainly from missionaries in the Hervey, Samoan and Loyalty Islands and also Savage Island

(Niue), 1890-91 (folders 4-5). The correspondents include William E. Clarke (Apia), Arthur E. Claxton

(Apia), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Sydney), Stephen M. Creagh (Noumea, Lifu), James H. Cullen (Savage

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Island), T.B. Cusack Smith (Apia), Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), William E. Goward (Melbourne, Apia),

James Hadfield (Lifu), George A. Harris (Mangaia), James Hadfield (Lifu), James W. Hills (Upolu),

Archibald E. Hunt (Matautu), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Frank E. Lawes (Savage Island), William N.

Lawrence (Aitutaki, Rarotonga), King Malietoa Laupepa (Samoa), John Marriott (Malua), Elizabeth

Moore (Malua), James E. Newell (Malua), Valesca Schultze (Upolu), Robert Louis Stevenson (Vailima,

Samoa) and Stephen J. Whitmee (New York, Apia).

Note: folders 1-3 were destroyed in bombing during World War II.

Reel M58

Box 42


(Niue) and Tahiti, 1892-93 (folders 1-3). The correspondents include Emogene Ardill (Arorangi,

Hervey Islands), William E. Clarke (Apia), Arthur E. Claxton (Apia), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Tutuila),

James H. Cullen (Alofi), T.B. Cusack Smith (Apia), Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), William E. Goward

(Upolu), James Hadfield (Lifu), George A. Harris (Mangaia), James W. Hills (Upolu), Archibald E. Hunt

(Matautu), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Agnes E. Large (Apia), William N. Lawrence (Rarotonga,

Auckland), John Marriott (Malua), James E. Newell (Malua), Robert Louis Stevenson (Vailima),

Frédéric Vernier (Tahiti) and Stephen J. Whitmee (Apia).

Reel M59

Box 42


Reel M60

Box 43


(Niue) and Tahiti, 1894-95 (folders 1-5). The correspondents include Sidney A. Beveridge (Malua),

William E. Clarke (Apia), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Tutuila, Apia), James H. Cullen (Alofi, Mangaia),

Stephen H. Davies (Savaii), William E. Goward (Upolu, Apia), James Hadfield (Lifu), James W. Hills

(Upolu), Archibald E. Hunt (Matautu), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Agnes E. Large (Apia, Mangaia),

Frank E. Lawes (Alofi), John Marriott (Malua), Elizabeth Moore (Upolu), James E. Newell (Malua),

Valesca Schultze (Papauta) and Frédéric Vernier (Tahiti).

Reel M61

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Box 43


Box 44


(Niue) and Tahiti, 1896-98 (folders 1-3). The correspondents include Sidney A. Beveridge (Apia,

Savaii), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Tutuila), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), James H. Cullen (Mangaia), Annie

Ffrench (Papauta), William E. Goward ((Apia), James Hadfield (Lifu), James W. Hills (Upolu), Walter

Huckett (Apia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Sarah Jolliffe (Papauta), Agnes E. Large (Rarotonga),

Frank E. Lawes (Savage Island), William N. Lawrence (Aitutaki), John Marriott (Malua), John H.

Morley (Apia), James E. Newell (Malua), Valesca Schultze (Papauta), Frédéric Vernier (Tahiti) and B.

Wookey (Apia).

Reel M62

Box 44


Reel M63

Box 45


(Niue) and Tahiti, 1899. The correspondents include Sidney A. Beveridge (Matautu), Ebenezer V.

Cooper (Tutuila), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), James H. Cullen (Mangaia), Annie Ffrench (Malua),

William E. Goward (Adelaide), James W. Hills (Upolu), Walter Huckett (Apia), John J.K. Hutchin

(Rarotonga), Sarah Jolliffe (Apia), Agnes E. Large (Rarotonga), Frank E. Lawes (Savage Island), William

N. Lawrence (Aitutaki), John M. Morley (Apia), James E. Newell (Malua), J. Wilberforce Sibree (Malua)

and Frédéric Vernier (Tahiti).

Reel M64

Box 46


(Niue) and Tahiti, 1900. The correspondents include Victor A. Barradale (Malua), Sidney A.

Beveridge (Sydney), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Tutuila, Leone), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu), James H. Cullen

(Mangaia), Annie Ffrench (Papauta), William E. Goward (Sydney), James W. Hills (Upolu), Walter

Huckett (Apia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Sarah Jolliffe (Papauta), Frank E. Lawes (Savage Island),

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William N. Lawrence (Aitutaki), James E. Newell (Sydney, Malua), Valesca Schultze (Malua, Papauta),

J. Wilberforce Sibree (Tutuila) and Frédéric Vernier (Papeete).

Reel M65

Box 47


(Niue), Tahiti and the Gilbert Islands, 1901-2. The correspondents include Victor A. Barradale

(Malua), Sidney A. Beveridge (Matautu), Ebenezer V. Cooper (Tutuila), Stephen M. Creagh (Lifu),

James H. Cullen (Auckland), Annie Ffrench (Tutuila), William E. Goward (Beru, Gilbert Islands), James

Hadfield (Lifu), Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga), Ebenezer Hawker (Tutuila), James W. Hills (Upolu), Walter

Huckett (Apia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Sarah Jolliffe (Papauta), John Jones (Aitutaki), Frank E.

Lawes (Savage Island), William N. Lawrence (Aitutaki), John Marriott (Malua), John H. Morley (Upolu),

Harriet Royle (Aitutaki), Valesca Schultze (Papauta), J. Wilberforce Sibree (Matautu, Apia) and

Frédéric Vernier (Papeete).

Reel M66

Box 48


(Niue), Tahiti and the Gilbert Islands, 1903-4. The correspondents include Stephen H. Davies (Savage

Island), Annie Ffrench (Tutuila), William E. Goward (Beru), James Hadfield (Lifu), Percy H. Hall

(Rarotonga), Ebenezer Hawker (Tutuila), James W. Hills (Upolu), Walter Huckett (Apia), John J.K.

Hutchin (Rarotonga), H. Bond James (Mangaia), Sarah Jolliffe (Papauta), John Jones (Aitutaki), Frank

E. Lawes (Savage Island), William N. Lawrence (Rarotonga), John Marriott (Upolu), Elizabeth Moore

(Tutuila), James E. Newell (Malua), Harriet Royle (Aitutaki), Valesca Schultze (Papauta), J. Wilberforce

Sibree (Tuasivi, Apia) and Frédéric Vernier (Papeete).

Reel M67

Box 48

Continued from reel M66 (Feb. 1904-Dec. 1904).

Box 49


(Niue), Tahiti and the Gilbert Islands, 1905-6. The correspondents include Stephen H. Davies (Savage

Island), William E. Goward (Sydney, Beru, Apia), Harry S. Griffin (Malua), James Hadfield (Lifu),

Ebenezer Hawker (Christchurch), James W. Hills (Malua), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), H. Bond

James (Rarotonga), John Jones (Aitutaki), Frank E. Lawes (Savage Island, Sydney), Elizabeth Moore

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(Tutuila), John H. Morley (Matautu), James E. Newell (Malua), Valesca Schultze (Papauta), J.

Wilberforce Sibree (Apia) and Frédéric Vernier (Papeete).

Reel M68

Box 49

Continued from reel M67 (Oct. 1905-Dec. 1906)

The correspondents include, in addition to those listed on reel M67, W.T. Campbell (Tarawa, Gilbert

Islands), Marguerite Du Common (Atauloma, Tutuila), E. Heider (Malua), Alec Hough (Apia) and

Harriet Royle (Aitutaki).

Reel M69

Candidates’ references and applications, 1796-1880

The papers comprise correspondence relating to the appointment of some of the missionaries who

served in the South Seas Mission, particularly in the period 1830-60. In addition to the letters from

the candidates themselves, there are letters from referees and, in a small number of cases,

completed examination papers. More examination papers can be found on reel M70.

The files are arranged alphabetically. The following missionaries are represented: William Baker

(1859), Charles Barff (1816), Thomas Blossom (1821), Robert Bourne (1816), J. Buchanan (1796),

Thomas Bullen (1840), Aaron Buzacott (1827), George Charter (1838), Alexander Chisholm (1842),

Stephen M. Creagh (1853), David Darling (1816), George Drummond (1839), Samuel Ella (1847),

William Ellis (1816), Henry Gee (1859), George Gill (1844), W. Wyatt Gill (1851), William Harbutt

(1839), Charles Hardie (1835), James Hayward (1798), William Howe (1838), John I. Jesson (1841),

Joseph Johnston (1838), John Jones (1853), Thomas Joseph (1838), William Law (1851), W.A. Lind

(1851), Alexander Macdonald (1835), Samuel Macfarlane (1859), William Mills (1835), J. Moore

(1842), Archibald W. Murray (1835), James E. Newell (1880), Henry Nisbet (1840), John M. Orsmond

(1816), Charles Pitman (1824), George Platt (1816), Thomas Powell (1844), George Pratt (1838),

George Pritchard (1824), J. Puckey (1796), John Rodgerson (1833), Thomas Slatyer (1839) and A.

Smee (1840).

Reel M70

Candidates’ references and applications, 1796-1880 (contd.)

The missionaries represented are J. Smith (1830), G. Spencer (1851), John B. Stair (1838), George

Stallworthy (1833), C.G. Stevens (1838), James P. Sunderland (1844), Robert Thomson (1838),

Lancelot E. Threlkeld (1816), George Turner (1840), John Williams (1816) and Charles Wilson (1798).

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Examination papers completed by applicants for appointment as missionaries, 1836-50.

Five letters on the establishment of the London Missionary Society written by Robert Little (1796),

Herbert Mends (1796), Matthew Wilks (1796), David Bogue (1796) and J. Marshman (1810) and a

circular concerning the Tahitian Mission (2 July 1796).

Reel M71

Autobiography of Mrs Alexander Chisholm, written for her children, concerning her life in Samoa and

Tahiti, (typescript, 56pp). Elizabeth Davies (b. 1822) married the missionary Alexander Chisholm

(1814-1862) who worked in Samoa, Tahiti and Raiatea from 1843 to 1860.

Rev. William Roby. Lectures on theology, transcribed by Robert Moffat, 1817, (459pp). William

Roby (1766-1830) was a leading Congregational preacher and minister in Manchester.

Missionary lectures by David Bogue, tutor at the Missionary Seminary, Gosport, transcribed by

Robert Moffat, 1817, (126pp). David Bogue (1750-1825) was the Congregational minister at Gosport,

Hampshire, and trained many of the early missionaries of the London Missionary Society.

Reel M72

Australian letters, 1798-1907

Box 1

Letters written in Sydney and Parramatta by Anglican and Congregational clergy, missionaries of the

Tahitian Mission, governors, and others, 1798-1818. The correspondents include William P. Crook,

John Davies, John Eyre, John Harris, Rowland Hassall, William Henry, John Hunter, Richard Johnson,

Philip Gidley King, Samuel Marsden, William Shelley and John Youl.

Reel M73

Box 2

Letters written by clergy, missionaries, officials and others, relating in particular to the Aboriginal

mission at Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, 1818-31. The correspondents include Robert

Bourne (Sydney), Robert Campbell (Sydney), William P. Crook (Sydney), Sir Ralph Darling (Sydney),

Rowland Hassall (Sydney), James Hayward (Sydney), John D. Lang (Sydney), Archibald Macarthur

(Hobart), Samuel Marsden (Parramatta) and Lancelot E. Threlkeld (Sydney, Newcastle).

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Box 3

Letters from clergy, missionaries, agents, officials and others, 1832-44. The principal correspondent

was Robert Ross, who arrived in Sydney in 1840 and was the minister of the Pitt Street

Congregational Church and the agent of the London Missionary Society. Other correspondents

include James Backhouse (Sydney), Campbell & Co. (Sydney), William P. Crook (Sydney), George

Drummond (Sydney), Sir George Gipps (Sydney), L. Guistiniani (Swan River), Thomas Hassall

(Cobbity), William Henry (Sydney), William Howe (Sydney), Capt. J.L. Innes (Sydney), Samuel

Marsden (Parramatta), Frederick Miller (Hobart), Capt. R.C. Morgan (Sydney), Henry Nott (Sydney), J.

Saunders (Sydney) and Lancelot E. Threlkeld (Lake Macquarie).

Reel M75

Box 4

Letters principally from Robert Ross (Sydney), as well as other clergy, missionaries and supporters of

the Society, 1845-55. The correspondents include R. Baker (Adelaide), J. Beazley (Sydney), Aaron

Buzacott (Sydney), William Day (Hobart), Richard Fletcher (Melbourne), W. Gibson (Sydney), William

Henry (Sydney), Henry Hopkins (Melbourne, Hobart), B.H. Kay (Sydney), William Law (Launceston),

Alexander Macdonald (Auckland), Frederick Miller (Hobart), Capt. R.C. Morgan (John Williams),

Alexander Morison (Melbourne), John Nisbet (Hobart), J.S. Poore (Melbourne), J. Rout (Auckland),

James Story (Melbourne), Louisa Thomson (Sydney), Lancelot E. Threlkeld (Sydney), J. Waddell

(Picton) and W. Young (Sydney).

Reel M76

Box 5

Letters from agents, clergy, missionaries, secretaries of auxiliaries and supporters, 1856-68. The

correspondents include Alfred Allen (Sydney), Aaron Buzacott (Sydney, Adelaide), W. Cuthbertson

(Sydney), William Day (Hobart), Samuel Ella (Sydney), Thomas Embling (Melbourne), Richard Fletcher

(Melbourne), John Graham (Sydney), Edward Griffith (Brisbane), William Henry (Sydney), James

Jefferis (Adelaide), Joseph Johnston (Fremantle), William Law (Launceston), Alexander Macdonald

(Auckland), Alexander Michie (Melbourne), Frederick Miller (Hobart), William Miller (Sydney), J.

Mullens (Sydney), Archibald W. Murray (Sydney),William Nicolson (Hobart), Charles Pitman (Sydney),

William Rout (Hobart), John Sharpe (Launceston), John W. Simmons (Hobart), Robert Smith

(Melbourne), Robert Steel (Sydney), James P. Sunderland (Sydney, Melbourne), Capt. W.H. Williams

(Sydney) and William Young (Castlemaine).

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Box 5

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Continued from reel M76 (1865-68).

Reel M78

Box 6

Letters from agents, clergy, missionaries and supporters of the Society, 1856-64. The

correspondents include Aaron Buzacott (Sydney, Melbourne), W. Cuthbertson (Sydney), David

Darling (Sydney), N.H. Eagar (Sydney), Samuel Ella (Sydney), Thomas Embling (Melbourne), Richard

Fletcher (Melbourne), John Garratt (Geelong), Robert Garrett (Sydney), Caroline Gibbs (Melbourne),

Ann Henry (Sydney), Daniel Henry (Sydney), Henry Hopkins (Hobart), James Jefferis (Adelaide),

William Law (Launceston), William A. Lind (Ballarat), Alexander Macdonald (Auckland), Frederick

Miller (Hobart), William Mills (Sydney), Alexander Morison (Melbourne), J.L. Poore (Melbourne),

Robert Ross (Sydney), William Rout (Hobart), Robert Smith (Melbourne), James P. Sunderland

(Melbourne), Louisa Thomson (Sydney), Capt. W.H. Williams (Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney) and

William Young (Melbourne).

Reel M79

Box 7

Letters principally from James P. Sunderland (Melbourne, Sydney), the Society’s agent in Australia

from 1867 to 1889, as well as other clergy, missionaries, secretaries of auxiliaries and supporters,

1864-69. The correspondents include Aaron Buzacott (Sydney), Capt. James Fowler (Sydney, Apia), J.

Graham (Sydney, Melbourne), Edward Griffith (Brisbane), Henry Hopkins (Hobart), Mrs E. Howe

(Sydney), James Jefferis (Adelaide), William Law (Launceston), William G. Lawes (Savage Island),

Alexander Morison (Melbourne), J.H. Roberts (Melbourne) and Robert Smith (Melbourne).

Reel M80

Box 8

Letters principally from James P. Sunderland (Sydney), as well as other clergy, missionaries,

secretaries of auxiliaries and supporters, 1870-75. The correspondents include B. Backhouse

(Melbourne), David Beath (Melbourne), F.W. Cox (Adelaide), Capt. James Fowler (Sydney), Edward

Griffith (Brisbane), James Jefferis (Adelaide), Archibald W. Murray (Cape York), Capt. R.F. Pockley

(Sydney), J.A. Salier (Hobart), Robert Smith (Melbourne), and George Taplin (Point Macleay, SA).

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Box 9

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secretaries of auxiliaries and supporters, 1875-80. The correspondents include David Beath

(Melbourne), Samuel Ella (Sydney), Thomas Hope (Adelaide), James Jefferis (Adelaide), Thomas

Johnson (Sydney), J. Mullens (Sydney), Archibald W. Murray (Sydney), George Pratt (Sydney), D.

Robin (Adelaide), Harriet Royle (Sydney), Mary Stonier (Sydney) and Capt. Roger Turpie (Sydney).

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Box 10


secretaries of auxiliaries and supporters, 1881-86. The correspondents include T. Beswick (Sydney),

W.E. Clarke (Sydney, Melbourne), Samuel Ella (Sydney), W. Wyatt Gill (Sydney), Thomas Hope

(Adelaide), Walter Hutley (Point Macleay, SA), Joseph King (Melbourne), Archibald W. Murray

(Sydney), C. Nicholls (Melbourne), George Pratt (Sydney), W.E. Richards (Sydney), T. Ridgley

(Townsville),) D. Robin (Adelaide) and William C. Robinson (Sydney.

Reel M83

Box 11

Letters principally from James P. Sunderland (Sydney) and W.C. Robinson (Sydney), as well as other

clergy, missionaries, secretaries of auxiliaries and supporters, 1887-89. The correspondents include

John H. Angas (Angaston, SA), Mary Binney (Sydney), F.W. Cox (Adelaide), Stephen M. Creagh

(Sydney), W. Roby Fletcher (Adelaide), W. Wyatt Gill (Sydney), James Jefferis (Adelaide), John Jones

(Sydney), Joseph King (Melbourne), William G. Lawes (Port Moresby), Miles Moorhouse (Adelaide),

Archibald W. Murray (Sydney), George Pratt (Sydney), Thomas Pratt (Sydney), William C. Robinson

(Sydney), G.W. Sharp (Hobart) and Albert Spicer (Sydney).

Reel M84

Box 12

Letters principally from Thomas Pratt (Sydney), the Society’s financial agent in Australia, as well as

clergy, missionaries, secretaries of auxiliaries and supporters, 1890-92. The correspondents include

Stephen M. Creagh (Sydney), W. Roby Fletcher (Madras, Adelaide), Sir William Fox (Auckland), W.

Wyatt Gill (Sydney), Alfred J. Griffith (Sydney), Anne Hardie (Sydney), James Jefferis (Sydney), John

Jones (Sydney), Joseph King (Melbourne), William Law (Launceston), S. Lenton (Adelaide), William C.

Robinson (Sydney), Edward Taylor (Melbourne) and Capt. Roger Turpie (Sydney, Port Moresby).

Reel M85

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Box 13

Letters principally from Joseph King (Melbourne) and Thomas Pratt (Sydney), the Society’s agents in

Australia, 1893-95. Other correspondents include Samuel Bryant (Fremantle), Stephen M. Creagh

(Sydney), W. Roby Fletcher (Adelaide), W. Wyatt Gill (Sydney), Alfred J. Griffith (Sydney), Capt.

Edward C. Hore (Sydney, Dunedin, Cooktown), John Jones (Sydney), W.H. Lyon (Auckland) and Capt.

Roger Turpie (Fremantle, Hobart, Sydney).

Reel M86

Box 14

Letters principally from Joseph King (Melbourne) and Thomas Pratt (Sydney), 1896-97. Other

correspondents include Stephen M. Creagh (Sydney), Samuel Ella (Sydney), W. Wyatt Gill (Sydney),

Capt. Edward C. Hore (Sydney, Apia), John Jones (Sydney), Lamberto Loria (Sydney), John B. Stair (St

Arnaud, Victoria),and Capt. Roger Turpie (Sydney). There are also some letters from Ralph Wardlaw

Thompson, the LMS Foreign Secretary, written to his deputy George Cousins while travelling in

Australia and the Pacific.

Reel M87

Box 15


correspondents include Elizabeth Ardill (Sydney), George Bunting (Sydney), Samuel Ella (Sydney),

Capt Edward Hore (Fiji), Walter Hutley (Adelaide), John Jones (Sydney, Rarotonga), John B. Stair (St

Arnaud, Victoria), Edward J. Stuckey (Adelaide) and Capt. Arthur J. Wyvill (Sydney).

Reel M88

Box 16


correspondents include John H. Angas (Angaston, SA), Stephen M. Creagh (Sydney), Matthew Goode

(Adelaide), Capt. Edward C. Hore (Sydney), John Jones (Malua, Papauta, Sydney), Gertrude Jowitt

(Auckland), T.W. Moss (Brisbane), William Sowter (Sydney) and Capt. Arthur J. Wyvill (Lymington

South, Tasmania).

Reel M89

Box 17

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Letters principally from Joseph King (Melbourne, Auckland, Sydney) and Thomas Pratt (Sydney),

1902-4. Other correspondents include Stephen M. Creagh (Sydney), A.J. Griffith (Brisbane), Capt.

Edward C. Hore (Lymington South, Tasmania), Archibald E. Hunt (Adelaide), Gertrude Jowitt (Naseby,

NZ), W.H. Lyon (Auckland), Bishop Samuel Nevill (Dunedin), W.T. Sowter (Sydney) and Capt. Arthur J.

Wyvill (Sydney).

Reel M90

Box 18

Letters principally from Joseph King (Melbourne, Sydney) and Thomas Pratt (Sydney), 1905-7. Other

correspondents include J.R. Glasson (Wellington), Archibald E. Hunt (Timaru), Arthur N. Johnson

(Sydney, Adelaide), John Jones (Sydney), John Kirk (Dunedin), William G. Lawes (Sydney), Albert

Pearse (Sydney) and H.E. Wooton (Melbourne).

Reel M91

Papuan letters, 1872-1907

Box 1

Letters from the first missionaries to serve in Papua and other clergy, 1872-76. The correspondents

include Samuel Ella (Sydney, Somerset, Qld.), William G. Lawes (Sydney, Somerset, Port Moresby),

Samuel Macfarlane (Somerset), Archibald W. Murray (Cape York), James Runcie (Somerset) and W.Y.

Turner (Somerset, Port Moresby).

Reel M92

Box 2

Letters from missionaries in Papua and the Torres Strait, 1877-81. The correspondents include T.

Beswick (Thursday Island, Cooktown, Sydney), James Chalmers (Murray Island, Thursday Island,

Cooktown, Port Moresby, South Cape), Samuel Ella (Sydney), William G. Lawes (Somerset, Port

Moresby, Murray Island, Thursday Island), Samuel Macfarlane (Somerset, Murray Island, Thursday

Island, Sydney, Adelaide), J. Tait Scott (Murray Island, Cooktown) and W.Y. Turner (Sydney).

Reel M93

Box 3

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Letters from missionaries in Papua and the Torres Strait, 1882-85. The correspondents include

James Chalmers (Port Moresby, Cooktown), William G. Lawes (Port Moresby, Cooktown), Stuart

Macfarlane (Thursday Island, Murray Island, Yule Island), Thomas Ridgley (Darnley Island, Thursday

Island), E.B. Savage (Murray Island), Harry Scott (Murray Island), Watson Sharpe (Port Moresby) and

J. Tait Scott (Darnley Island).

Reel M94

Box 4

Letters from missionaries and others in Papua and the Torres Strait, 1886-89. The correspondents

include James Chalmers (Port Moresby, Cooktown, Motumotu), Henry M. Dauncey (Port Moresby),

Alfred C. Haddon (Murray Island), Archibald E. Hunt (Murray Island), William G. Lawes (Port Moresby,

Sydney, Cooktown), Sir William MacGregor (Brisbane, Sydney), Albert Pearse (Port Moresby,

Kerepuna), George Pratt (Port Moresby), E.B. Savage (Murray Island, Cooktown, Kiwai), Harry Scott

(Murray Island, Auckland), Watson Sharpe (Port Moresby) and Frederick W. Walker (Port Moresby).

Reel M95

Box 5


Charles W. Abel (Port Moresby, South Cape, Kwato, Sydney), Robert Bruce (Murray Island), James

Chalmers (Motumotu, Port Moresby, Cooktown, Saibai, Fly River, Toaripi, Murray Island), Henry M.

Dauncey (Port Moresby), John D. Godet (Minto Minto, Vralla River), Archibald E. Hunt (Murray Island,

Sydney), William G. Lawes (Port Moresby, Sydney), Albert Pearse (Kerepunu, Cooktown, Sydney), E.B.

Savage (Murray Island, Motumotu, Thursday Island) and Frederick W. Walker (South Cape, Port

Moresby, Kwato.)

Reel M96

Box 6


Charles W. Abel (Kwato, Cooktown), Robert Bruce (Dauan, Murray Island), James Chalmers

(Thursday Island, Kwato, Jokea, Fly River, Dauan), Henry M. Dauncey (Port Moresby, Cooktown,

Delana, Thursday Island), J.D. Godet (Thursday Island), John H. Holmes (Thursday Island, Port

Moresby, Jokea), Archibald E. Hunt (Matautu), T.W. Ingram (Port Moresby), William G. Lawes

(Sydney, Cooktown, Kwato, Port Moresby, Vatorata), Albert Pearse (Kerepunu, Thurdsay Island) and

Frederick W. Walker (Kwato, Cooktown, Thursday Island).

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Reel M97

Box 7

Letters from missionaries and others in Papua and the Torres Strait, 1895-96. The correspondents

include Charles W. Abel (Cooktown, Kwato, Kerepunu), James Chalmers (Thursday Island, Fly River,

Murray Island), Henry M. Dauncey (Delana), John H. Holmes (Thursday Island, Jokea), Archibald E.

Hunt (Matautu, Port Moresby), T.W. Ingram (Sydney), William G. Lawes (Vatorata, Sydney), Sir

William MacGregor (Port Moresby), Albert Pearse (Kerepunu), Henry P. Schlencker (Kwato) and

Frederick W. Walker (Thursday Island, Fly River, Kwato).

Reel M98

Box 8


Charles W. Abel (Kwato, Sydney), James Chalmers (Saguane, Thursday Island, Saibai, Fly River, Daru),

Henry M. Dauncey (Delena, Port Moresby), John H. Holmes (Jokea, Port Moresby, Orokele),

Archibald E. Hunt (Thursday Island, Port Moresby, Sydney), William G. Lawes (Vatorata, Sydney),

Albert Pearse (Port Moresby, Sydney, Kerepunu),Edwin Pryce Jones (Port Moresby, Vatorata, Jokea),

Charles F. Rich (Port Moresby, Kwato, Samarai), William J.V. Saville (Vatorata, Isuleilei), Henry P.

Schlencker (Isuleilei ,Vatorata, Fife Bay), O.F. Tomkins (Thursday Island) and Frederick W. Walker

(Kwato).

Reel M99

Box 9


Charles W. Abel (Kwato), James Chalmers (Daru), James H. Cullen (Port Moresby), Henry M. Dauncey

(Port Moresby, Thursday Island, Darnley Island, Daru, Delena), John H. Holes (Thursday Island),

Archibald E. Hunt (Sydney, Port Moresby), William G. Lawes (Sydney, Colombo, Vatorata), Albert

Pearse (Vatorata), Edwin Pryce Jones (Jokea, Port Moresby), Charles F. Rich (Fife Bay, Isuleilei),

Edward B. Riley (Vatorata, Kwato, Daru), William J.V. Saville (Emeliabi, Millport Harbour, Fife Bay),

Henry P. Schlencker (Port Moresby, Kalaigolu), Robert L. Turner (Vatorata) and Frederick W. Walker

(Kwato, Sydney).

Reel M100

Box 10


Charles W. Abel (Kwato, Sydney), James H. Cullen (Port Moresby, Cooktown), Henry M. Dauncey

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(Delena, Sydney), John H. Holmes (Kerema, Urika, Orokolo), Archibald E. Hunt (Timaru), William G.

Lawes (Vatorata, Cooktown, Port Moresby, Sydney), Albert Pearse (Sydney, Kerepunu), Edwin Pryce

Jones (Jokea, Moru), Charles F. Rich (Sydney, Kwato, Isuleilei, Fife Bay), Edward B. Riley (Thursday

Island, Daru, Fly River, Sydney), William J.V. Saville (Sydney, Fife Bay, Millport Harbour), Henry P.

Schlencker (Kalaigolu) and Robert L. Turner (Kerema, Urika, Orokolo).

Reel M101

Box 11


Charles W. Abel (Kwato), Reginald Bartlett (Orokolo), Caleb Beharell (Kerepunu), Benjamin T.

Butcher (Mabuiag, Dar, Darnley Island, Sydney), James B. Clark (Duabo), Henry M. Dauncey (Delena),

John H. Homes (Orokolo, Urika), William G. Lawes (Vatorata, Sydney), William N. Lawrence (Port

Moresby), Albert Pearse (Sydeny, Kerepunu), Charles F. Rich (Isuleilei, Samarai, Fife Bay), Edward B.

Riley (Daru), William J.V. Saville (Millport Harbour, Sydney), Henry P. Schlencker (Kalaigolo, Port

Moresby), Robert L. Turner (Port Moresby, Vatorata) and Frederick W. Walker (Sydney).

Reel M102

Western outgoing letters: South Seas and West Indies, 1823-35

Box 1

Letters from LMS officers in London, William A. Hankey, George Burder, George Hodson, William

Orme and George Clayton to missionaries and others in the South Seas (including Australia) and

West Indies, 1823-30. The recipients include Elijah Armitage, Charles Barff, Thomas Blossom, Robert

Bourne, Aaron Buzacott, William P. Crook, David Darling, Ralph Darling, John Davies, William Ellis,

James Hayward, William Henry, John D. Lang, Samuel Marsden, Henry Nott, John M. Orsmond,

Paofai, Charles Pitman, George Platt, George Pritchard, Alexander Simpson, Lancelot E. Threlkeld,

John Williams and Charles Wilson.

Many of the letters in this box are in very poor condition and are partly or wholly illegible.

Reel M103

Box 2

Letters from William A. Hankey, George Clayton and William Ellis to missionaries in the South Seas

and West Indies, January 1831-January 1833. The recipients include Charles Barff, Henry Bicknell,

Thomas Blossom, Aaron Buzacott, David Darling, Ralph Darling, John Davies, William Henry, John D.

Lang, Samuel Marsden, John M. Orsmond, Paofai, Charles Pitman, George Platt, George Pritchard,

Alexander Simpson, John Williams and Charles Wilson.

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Box 3

Letters from William Ellis, the LMS Foreign Secretary, to missionaries and others in the South Seas

and West Indies, January 1833-June 1834. The recipients include Charles Barff, Aaron Buzacott,

William P. Crook, David Darling, John Davies, James Hayward, William Henry, John D. Lang, Samuel

Marsden, Henry Nott, John M. Orsmond, George Platt, Charles Pitman, George Pritchard, John

Rodgerson, Alexander Simpson, George Stallworthy, John Williams and Charles Wilson.

Box 4


and West Indies, June 1834-October 1835. The recipients include Charles Barff, Thomas Blossom,

Samuel Marsden, Henry Nott, Queen Pomare, George Pritchard and Alexander Simpson. Most of

the letters in this box are to missionaries in the West Indies.

Reel M104

Western outgoing letters: South Seas, 1835-1905

Box 1


and Australia, October 1835-October 1839. The recipients include Elijah Armitage, George Barenden,

Charles Barff, Thomas Blossom, Aaron Buzacott, George Charter, William P. Crook, David Darling,

John Davies, Charles Hardie, Thomas Hassall, Thomas Heath, William Henry, Samuel Marsden,

William Mills, Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nott, John M. Orsmond, Charles Pitman, George Pratt,

George Pritchard, John Rodgerson, Alexander Simpson, George Stallworthy, Lancelot E. Threlkeld,

John Williams and Charles Wilson.

Box 2

Letters from William Ellis, Arthur Tidman and Joseph Freeman, the LMS Foreign Secretaries, to

missionaries and others in the South Seas and Australia, October 1839-September 1843. The

recipients include Charles Barff, John Barff, Thomas Blossom, E. Buchanan, Thomas Bullen, Aaron

Buzacott, George Charter, William P. Crook, David Darling, John Davies, William Day, George

Drummond, W. Wyatt Gill, Sir George Gipps, William Harrbutt, Charles Hardie, T. Heath, William

Howe, Joseph Johnston, Thomas Joseph, Alexander Madonald, William Mills, Capt. R.C. Morgan,

Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, Henry Nott, John M. Orsmond, Charles Pitman, George Platt,

George Pratt, George Pritchard, John Rodgerson, Robert Ross, Henry Royle, Alexander Simpson, John

B. Stair, George Stallworthy, C.G. Stevens, Robert Thomson, John Williams and Charles Wilson.

Reel M105

Box 3

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Letters from Arthur Tidman and Joseph Freeman, the LMS Foreign Secretaries, to missionaries and

others in the South Seas and Australia, August 1843-June 1846. The recipients include Charles Barff,

John Barff, E. Buchanan, Thomas Bullen, Aaron Buzacott, George Charter, Alexander Chisholm, David

Darling, John Davies, William Day, George Drummond, George Gill, W. Wyatt Gill, William Harbutt,

Charles Hardie, T. Heath, William Henry, William Howe, John Jesson, Joseph Johnston, Thomas

Joseph, Ernst R.W. Krause, Alexander Macdonald, Capt. R.C. Morgan, Archibald W. Murray, Henry

Nisbet, John M. Orsmond, Paofai, Charles Pitman, George Platt, Queen Pomare, Thomas Powell,

George Pratt, George Pritchard, John Rodgerson, Robert Ross, Henry Royle, T. Slatyer, A. Smee, John

B. Stair, George Stallworthy, James P. Sunderland, Robert Thomson and George Turner.

Box 4

Letters from Arthur Tidman, the LMS Foreign Secretary, to missionaries and others in the South Seas

and Australia, August 1846-August 1852. The recipients include Charles Barff, John Barff, E.

Buchanan, Thomas Bullen, Aaron Buzacott, George Charter, Alexander Chisholm, David Darling, John

Davies, William Day, George Drummond, Samuel Ella, John Geddie, George Gill, W. Wyatt Gill,

William Harbutt, Charles Hardie, William Henry, William Howe, Joseph Johnston, Ernst R.W. Krause,

Alexander Macdonald, William Mills, Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, Charles Pitman, George

Platt, Thomas Powell, George Pratt, John Rodgerson, Robert Ross, Henry Royle, Carl W.E. Schmidt,

Alexander Simpson, George Stallworthy, James P. Sunderland, Robert Thomson, George Turner and

John C. Williams.

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Box 5


and Australia, August 1852-August 1857. The recipients include Charles Barff, John Barff, Aaron

Buzacott, Stephen M. Creagh, George Charter, Alexander Chisholm, David Darling, John Davies,

William Day, Samuel Ella, John Geddie, George Gill, W. Wyatt Gill, William Harbutt, Charles Hardie, T.

Hassall, William Henry, Henry Hopkins, John Jones, Ernst R.W. Krause, William Law, William A. Lind,

Frederick Miller, Capt. R.C. Morgan, Alexander Morison, Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, Charles

Pitman, George Platt, J.L. Poore, Thomas Powell, George Pratt, William Rout, Henry Royle, Carl W.E.

Schmidt, George Stallworthy, James P. Sunderland, George Turner and William Young.

Box 6


and Australia, July 1857-March 1861. The recipients include William Baker, Charles Barff, John Barff,

Aaron Buzacott, Alexander Chisholm, Stephen M. Creagh, W. Cutherbertson, David Darling, George

Drummond, George Gill, W. Wyatt Gill, Henry Hopkins, William Howe, John Jones, Ernst R.W. Krause,

William Law, William A. Lind, Alexander Macdonald, Samuel Macfarlane, Frederick Miller, William

Mills, Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, George Platt, Thomas Powell, George Pratt, Robert Ross,

Henry Royle, Carl W.E. Schmidt, Robert Smith, George Stallworthy, George Turner, Capt. W.H.

Williams and William Young.

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Box 7


and Australia, April 1861-June 1866. The recipients include Charles Barff, Aaron Buzacott, Stephen

M. Creagh, W. Cuthbertson, David Darling, George Drummond, Samuel Ella, Robert Garrett, Henry

Gee, W. Wyatt Gill, John Graham, Edward Griffith, Henry Hopkins, William Howe, James Jefferis,

John Jones, Ernst R.W. Krause, Joseph King, William G. Lawes, Samuel Macfarlane, William Mills,

Alexander Morison, Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, George Platt, Thomas Powell, George Pratt,

William Rout, Henry Royle, James Sleigh, Robert Smith, James P. Sunderland, James C. Vivian,

Samuel J. Whitmee and Capt. W.H. Williams.

Box 8

Letters from Arthur Tidman and Joseph Mullens, the LMS Foreign Secretaries, to missionaries and

others in the South Seas and Australia, July 1866-December 1869. The correspondents include

James Chalmers, Stephen M. Creagh, Samuel H. Davies, George Drummond, Samuel Ella, Capt. J.

Fowler, W. Wyatt Gill, John Graham, James L. Green, Henry Hopkins, James Jefferis, Joseph King,

Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, Samuel Macfarlane, George Morris, Archibald W. Murray, Thomas

Powell, George Pratt, William Rout, Henry Royle, Alfred T. Saville, G.F. Scott, G.A. Shaw, James Sleigh,

James P. Sunderland, George Turner, Capt. Roger Turpie, Samuel J. Whitmee and J.C. Williams.

Reel M108

Box 9

Letters from Joseph Mullens, the LMS Foreign Secretary, to missionaries and others in the South

Seas, Australia and Papua, April 1870-December 1873. The recipients include James Chalmers,

Stephen M. Creagh, Samuel H. Davies, W. Wyatt Gill, James L. Green, Edward Griffith, George A.

Harris, John Inglis, John Jones, Joseph King, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, George Morris,

Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, Albert Pearse, Thomas Powell, George Pratt, Henry Royle, Alfred

T. Saville, G.F. Scott, G.A. Shaw, James Sleigh, Robert Smith, James P. Sunderland, George A. Turner,

James C. Vivian and Samuel J. Whitmee.

Box 10


Seas, Australia and Papua, January 1874-October 1875. The recipients include J.T. Arundel, B.

Backhouse, James Chalmers, F.W. Cox, Stephen M. Creagh, Samuel H. Davies, Samuel Ella, James L.

Green, George A. Harris, John Jones, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, Samuel Macfarlane, Archibald

W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, Albert Pearse, Thomas Powell, George Pratt, Henry Royle, Alfred T. Saville,

G.F. Scott, James Sleigh, James P. Sunderland, George Taplin, George A. Turner, Capt. Roger Turpie,

James C. Vivian and Samuel J. Whitmee.

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Reel M109

Box 11


Seas, Australia and Papua, November 1875-September 1878. The recipients include James Chalmers,

Stephen M. Creagh, Samuel H. Davies, Samuel Ella, W. Wyatt Gill, James L. Green, John Jones, Frank

E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, Samuel Macfarlane, Archibald W. Murray, Henry Nisbet, Alfred Pearse,

Thomas Powell, George Pratt, Henry Royle, James Sleigh, James P. Sunderland, George A. Turner,

W.Y. Turner and Samuel J. Whitmee.

Box 12

Letters from Joseph Mullens and John O. Whitehouse, the LMS Foreign Secretaries, to missionaries

and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, November 1878-January 1881. The recipients

include T. Beswick, James Chalmers, Ebenezer V. Cooper, Stephen M. Creagh, Samuel H. Davies,

Samuel Ella, W. Wyatt Gill, James L. Green, James Hadfield, George A. Harris, John Jones, Frank E.

Lawes, William G. Lawes, Samuel Macfarlane, John Marriott, Archibald W. Murray, Albert Pearse,

Charles Phillips, Thomas Powell, George Pratt, J.Tait Scott, James Sleigh, James P. Sunderland and

George A. Turner.

Reel M110

Box 13

Letters from Ralph Wardlaw Thompson, the LMS Foreign Secretary, to missionaries and others in the

South Seas, Australia and Papua, February 1881-August 1884. The recipients include T. Beswick,

James Chalmers, William E. Clarke, Ebenezer V. Cooper, Stephen M. Creagh, Samuel H. Davies, W.

Wyatt Gill, James L. Green, James Hadfield, George A. Harris, R.H. Head, John J.K. Hutchin, John

Jones, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, Samuel Macfarlane, John Marriott,

Archibald W. Murray, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Charles Phillips, Thomas Powell, George Pratt,

T. Ridgley, J. Tait Scott, James Sleigh, James P. Sunderland and George A. Turner.

Box 14


South Seas, Australia and Papua, January 1885-January 1886. The recipients include John T. Arundel,

James Chalmers, William E. Clarke, Arthur E. Claxton, Ebenezer V. Cooper, Samuel H. Davies, W.

Wyatt Gill, James L. Green, James Hadfield, George A. Harris, John J.K. Hutchin, John Jones, Frank E.

Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, Samuel Macfarlane, John Marriott, Archibald W.

Murray, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Charles Phillips, Thomas Powell, George Pratt, W.E. Richards,

E.B. Savage, Harry Scott, Watson Sharpe, James Sleigh and James P. Sunderland.

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Reel M111

Box 15


South Seas, Australia and Papua, February 1887-November 1888. The recipients include John H.

Angas, James Chalmers, William E. Clarke, Arthur E. Claxton, Ebenezer V. Cooper, T. Embling, James

Hadfield, George A. Harris, James W. Hills, Archibald E. Hunt, John J.K. Hutchin, John Jones, Frank E.

Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, John Marriott, Archibald W. Murray, James E. Newell,

Albert Pearse, George Pratt, W.E. Richards, E.B. Savage, G.W. Sharp, A. Spice, James P. Sunderland

and W.H. Wilson.

Box 16


South Seas, Australia and Papua, November 1888-July 1890. The recipients include James Chalmers,

William E. Clarke, Arthur E. Claxton, Ebenezer V. Cooper, F.W. Cox, Henry M. Dauncey, W.Roby

Fletcher, William E. Goward, James Hadfield, George A. Harris, James W. Hills, Archibald E. Hunt,

John J.K. Hutchin, John Jones, Joseph King, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence,

Sir William MacGregor, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, William C. Robinson, E.B.

Savage, James P. Sunderland and E. Taylor.

Reel M112

Box 17


South Seas, Australia and Papua, July 1890-May 1892. The recipients include Charles W. Abel, John

H. Angas, James Chalmers, William E. Clarke, Arthur E. Claxton, Ebenezer V. Cooper, Stephen M.

Creagh, James H. Cullen, Henry M. Dauncey, W. Roby Fletcher, Sir William Fox, William E. Goward,

George A. Harris, James W. Hills, Archibald E. Hunt, John J.K. Hutchin, John Jones, Joseph King, Frank

E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, John Marriott, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt,

William C. Robinson, E.B. Savage, Valesca Schultze, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frédéric Vernier,

Frederick W. Walker and Stephen J. Whitmee.

Box 18

Letters from Ralph Wardlaw Thompson, the LMS Foreign Secretary, and his assistant, George

Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, July 1892-August 1894.

The recipients include Charles W. Abel, Emogene Ardill, Robert Bruce, James Chalmers, William E.

Clarke, Arthur E. Claxton, Ebenezer V. Cooper, F.W. Cox, Stephen M. Creagh, James H. Cullen, Samuel

H. Davies, Henry M. Dauncey, W. Roby Fletcher, Lord Glasgow, William E. Goward, Alfred J. Griffith,

James Hadfield, George A. Harris, T. Henry, James W. Hills, Archibald E. Hunt, John J.K. Hutchin, John

Jones, Joseph King, Agnes E. Large, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, John

Marriott, Elizabeth Moore, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, J.W. Roberts, Valesca

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Schultze, Robert Louis Stevenson, Capt. Roger Turpie, Frédéric Vernier, Frederick W. Walker and

Stephen J. Whitmee.

Reel M113

Box 19


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, September 1894-October

1896. The recipients include Charles W. Abel, Emogene Ardill, Sidney A. Beveridge, James Chalmers,

William E. Clarke, Ebenezer V. Cooper, James H. Cullen, Henry M. Dauncey, W. Wyatt Gill, William E.

Goward, James Hadfield, James W. Hills, John H. Holmes, Capt. Edward C. Hore, Archibald E. Hunt,

John J.K. Hutchin, Joseph King, Agnes Large, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, John Marriott, James

E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, Valesca Schultze, Capt. Roger Turpie, Frédéric Vernier and

Frederick W. Walker.

Box 20


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, October 1896-March

1899. The correspondents include Charles W. Abel, Emogene Ardill, Sidney A. Beveridge, James

Chalmers, Ebenezer V. Cooper, Stephen M. Creagh, Charles J. Cribb, James H. Cullen, Henry M.

Dauncey, W. Wyatt Gill, William E. Goward, James Hadfield, John H. Holmes, Capt. Edward C. Hore,

Walter Huckett, Archibald E. Hunt, John J.K. Hutchin, John Jones, Joseph King, Agnes Large, Frank E.

Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, Sir William MacGregor, John Marriott, Elizabeth

Moore, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, Henry P. Schlencker, Valesca Schultze,

Frédéric Vernier, Frederick W. Walker and Capt. Arthur J. Wyvill.

Reel M114

Box 21


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and the Pacific, March 1899-

November 1900. The recipients include Charles W. Abel, Sidney A. Beveridge, James Chalmers,

Stephen M. Creagh, Charles J. Cribb, James H. Cullen, Annie Ffrench, William E. Goward, James W.

Hills, John W. Holmes, Capt. Edward C. Hore, Walter Huckett, John J.K. Hutchin, Joseph King, Agnes

Large, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, Elizabeth Moore, John H. Morley,

James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, Edwin Pryce Jones, Henry P. Schlencker, J. Wilberforce

Sibree, Frédéric Vernier, Frederick W. Walker and Capt. Arthur J. Wyvill.

Box 22


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, November 1900-March

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1902. The recipients include Charles W. Abel, Victor A. Barradale, Sidney A. Beveridge, James

Chalmers, Stephen M. Creagh, Henry M. Dauncey, Annie Ffrench, William E. Goward, James Hadfield,

James W. Hills, John H. Holmes, Walter Huckett, Archibald E. Hunt, John J.K. Hutchin, Sarah Joliffe,

John Jones, Joseph King, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, John Marriott,

Elizabeth Moore, John H. Morley, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, Edwin Pryce Jones,

Charles F. Rich, Harriet Royle, William J.V. Saville, Henry P. Schlencker, Valesca Schultze, J.

Wilberforce Sibree, Frédéric Vernier, Frederick W. Walker and Capt. Arthur J. Wyvill.

Reel M115

Box 23


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, March 1902-July 1903.

The correspondents include Charles W. Abel, Victor A. Barradale, Sidney A. Beveridge, James H.

Cullen, Henry M. Dauncey, Annie Ffrench, William E. Goward, James Hadfield, Percy H. Hall,

Ebenezer Hawker, James W. Hills, John H. Holmes, Capt. Edward C. Hore, Archibald E. Hunt, Walter

Huckett, Sarah Joliffe, John Jones, Gertrude Jowitt, Joseph King, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes,

William N. Lawrence, John Marriott, Elizabeth Moore, John H. Morley, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt,

Edwin Pryce Jones, Charles F. Rich, Harriet Royle, William J.V. Saville, Henry P. Schlencker, Valesca

Schultze, J. Wilberforce Sibree, Robert L. Turner, Frédéric Vernier and Frederick W. Walker.

Box 24


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, July 1903-April 1905.

The correspondents include Charles W. Abel, Henry M. Dauncey, Samuel H. Davies, Annie Ffrench,

William E. Goward, A.J. Griffith, James Hadfield, Ebenezer Hawker, James W. Hills, John H. Holmes,

Walter Huckett, John J.K. Hutchin, Sarah Joliffe, John Jones, Joseph King, William G. Lawes, John

Marriott, Elizabeth Moore, John H. Morley, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, Charles F.

Rich, Edward B. Riley, Harriet Royle, William J.V. Saville, Henry P. Schlencker, Valesca Schultze, J.

Wilberforce Sibree, W.J. Sowter and R.L. Turner.

Reel M116

Contents lists, 1796-1901

South Seas journals 1796-1899 Boxes 1-12 Australian journals 1800-42 Box 1 South China journals 1807-42 Box 1 Papuan journals 1871-1901 Boxes 1-3 Deputations 1930-49 Box 1 Australian letters 1798-1868 Boxes 1-5 South Seas letters 1796-1899 Boxes 1-45

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Papuan letters 1872-1900 Boxes 1-8

Reel M608

Papuan letters, 1908-19

Box 11

Papua letters, 1905-7. See reel M101 for description.

Box 12


Charles W. Abel (Kwato, Sydney), Reginald Bartlett (Orokolo), Caleb Beharell (Kerepunu, Hula),

Benjamin Butcher (Darnley Island, Torres Strait), James B. Clark (Duaba, Isuleilei), Edwin Pryce Jones

(Moru), Sir William MacGregor (St John’s, Newfoundland), Charles F. Rich (Isuleilei), Edward B. Riley

(Daru), Henry P. Schlencker (Boku, Sandgate, Qld.) and Robert L. Turner (Vatorata).

Reel M609

Box 12 (contd.)

Letters from missionaries in Papua and the Torres Strait, 1909-10. Additional correspondents

include Henry M. Dauncey (Delana) and F.C. Hodel (Thursday Island).

Box 13

Letters from missionaries in Papua and the Torres Strait, 1911-April 13. The correspondents include

Charles W. Abel (Kwato, Duaba, Sydney), Reginald Bartlett (Sydney, Orokolo), Caleb Beharell (Sydney,

Hula), Benjamin T. Butcher (Sydney, Torres Strait, Daru, Aird Hill), James B. Clark (Sydney, Kalaigolo),

Boku), Henry M. Dauncey (Delena, Melbourne), Thomas O. Harries (Sydney, Darnley Island), F.C.

Hodel (Badu), John H. Holmes (Urika, Launceston), Edwin Pryce Jones (Sydney, Moru), William N.

Lawrence (Port Moresby), Charles F. Rich (Sydney, Isuleilei, Duaba), William J.V. Saville (Mailu),

Henry P. Schlencker (Orokolo) and Robert L. Turner (Vatorata, Port Moresby).

Reel M610

Box 14

Letters from missionaries in Papua and the Torres Strait, March 1913-15. The correspondents

include Charles W. Abel (Kwato, Duaba, Sydney), Caleb Beharell (Hula), Sydney Burrows (Port

Moresby), Benjamin T. Butcher (Aird Hill), James B. Clark (Boku), Henry M. Dauncey (Delena),

Thomas O. Harries (Kwato, Darley Island, Mabuiag Island), John H. Holmes (Urika), William N.

Lawrence (Port Moresby), Frank Lenwood (Port Moresby, Daru),Charles F. Rich (Isuleilei, Sydney),

Edward B. Riley (Daru), William J.V. Saville (Mailu), Henry P. Schlencker (Orokolo), Robert L. Turner

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(Vatorata, Sydney) and Bishop Gilbert White (Thursday Island). The letters of Lenwood, the LMS

Foreign Secretary, were written to his colleague Francis Hawkins during Lenwood’s tour of Pacific

missions.

Box 15


Charles W. Abel (Samarai, Kwato, Duaba, Sydney), Caleb Beharell (Hula), James B. Clark (Boku,

Isuleilei, Port Moresby), Henry M. Dauncey (Delena, San Francisco), John H. Holmes (Urika, Port

Moresby, Sydney), Edwin Pryce Jones (Port Moresby, Moru), William N. Lawrence (Port Moresby),

Frank Lenwood (Port Moresby, Vatorata, Melbourne), Charles F. Rich (Fife Bay, Sydney), Edward B.

Riley (Daru, Sydney), Jessie Riley (Daru), William J.V. Saville (Mailu Island, Sydney), Henry P.

Schlencker (Port Moresby, Orokolo), Edith Turner (Vatorata) and Robert L. Turner (Vatorata, Port

Moresby).

Reel M611

Box 16

Letters from missionaries in Papua, November 1918-September 1919. The correspondents include

Charles W. Abel (Kwato), Caleb Beharell (Port Moresby), James B. Clark (Port Moresby), Henry M.

Dauncey (Delena), John H. Holmes (Sydney), Edwin Pryce Jones (Orokolo, Moru), W.H. Macfarlane

(Darnley Island), Charles F. Rich (Isuleilei, Fife Bay), Edward B. Riley (Port Moresby, Sydney), William

J.V. Saville (Mailu Island) and Robert L. Turner (Vatorata).

Papua reports, 1906-19

Reports (1 box) of mission stations at:

Aird Hill, 1913-15, 1917-18 (Benjamin T. Butcher, Henry P. Schlencker)

Angas Island, 1911, 1916 (James B. Clark)

Boku, 1909, 1912-14 (Henry P. Schlencker, James B. Clark)

Daru, 1912 (Benjamin T. Butcher)

Delena, 1906-7, 1910-11, 1915-19 (Henry M. Dauncey, Edwin Pryce Jones)

Duaba, 1907-10, 1913 (James B. Clark, Charles W. Abel)

Fife Bay, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1916-19 (Charles F. Rich)

Fly River, 1906-13, 1916-17 (Edward B. Riley, Benjamin T. Butcher, Edith Turner),

Hula, 1911-12, 1914-19 (Caleb Beharell, Margaret Beharell, Henry P. Schlencker)

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Isuleilei, 1907 (Charles F. Rich)

Kapakapa, 1906-7, 1911-12, 1914-16 (Robert L. Turner)

Kerepunu, 1908-10 (Caleb Beharell)

Kwato, 1911-13, 1917, 1919 (Charles W. Abel)

Mailu, 1909, 1915-19 (William J.V. Saville), Millport Harbour, 1907 (William J.V. Saville)

Moru, 1906-7, 1909-14, 1916-17, 1919 (Henry M. Dauncey, Edwin Pryce Jones)

Namau, 1909-11, 1914-17 (William J.V. Saville, Charles F. Rich)

Orokolo, 1907-9, 1910, 1915, 1917-19 (Reginald Bartlett, Henry P. Schlencker, Edwin Pryce Jones)

Port Moresby (1907-11, 1913-15, 1917-19 (William N. Lawrence, Henry P. Schlencker, Sydney

Burrows, James B. Clark)

Torres Strait, 1906, 1908, 1913 (Benjamin T. Butcher, Thomas O. Harries)

Urika, 1917-18 (Henry P. Schlencker)

Vatorata, 1917-18 (Robert L. Turner, Edith Turner)

Papua, personal

James Chalmers. ‘Notes for Lizzie’, n.d. (55pp)

Autobiographical notes on the early life of James Chalmers (1841-1901), including his childhood in

Scotland, his acceptance as a missionary by the London Missionary Society, his voyage to Australia

on the John Williams in 1866, and his voyages to the Loyalty Islands, Niue and Samoa.

Reel M612

James Chalmers. ‘Notes for Lizzie’, contd. (c. 60pp) The manuscript ends in about 1878.

Letters of James Chalmers (sometimes using his Rarotongan name ‘Tamate’) to various

correspondents, including his sister, 1878-1900.

Letters of Jane Chalmers, 1870-74, and Eliza Chalmers, 1890-98, to Miss Hill.

Letters of William G. Lawes and Fanny Lawes to various correspondents, 1877-1902.

Extracts from letters of Henry M. Dauncey, 1889-97. (typescript copies)

Sir Hubert Murray. Preface to Cecil Northcott. Guinea gold: the London Missionary Society at work in

the Territory of Papua, 29 June 1936. (typescript)

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Letters to John J.K. Hutchin from James Chalmers, 1883-1900, John H. Holmes, 1895-1905, William N.

Lawrence, 1904-6 and Sir George Grey, 1890.

Papua, odds

Letters from John H. Holmes (Orokolo) to A.W. Whitley (Halifax), 1904-5

Edward B. Riley. ‘A visit to an inland village off the Fly River’, n.d. (typescript, 4pp)

Robert L. Turner. ‘The mission in Papua 1895-1940’. (ms, 24pp)

Papers of Robert L. Turner on the indenture system in Papua, n.d.

Rev. André Dupreyat. ‘Papua: the history of the Catholic (Roman) Mission 1885-1935’, chapters 11-

12. (translation, typescript, 31pp)

Cuttings on the death of James Chalmers, 1901.

J.E. Newell. The London Missionary Society and its work: New Guinea past and present, 1900 (20pp)

W.G. Lawes. ‘New Guinea twenty two years ago and now’, Chronicle of the London Missionary

Society, May 1897.

Sir William MacGregor and New Guinea, Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, Oct. 1898.

‘The life of Rev. James Chalmers’, Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, April 1901.

Caleb Beharell. ‘Psalms in Keapara’. (typescript)

Prospectus and other papers of Papuan Industries Ltd., 1904-26.

Frederick W. Walker. ‘Christian industrial proposal for New Guinea’, 1902.

Translation of St Mark’s Gospel into Tauara language by Kago, a native teacher, c. 1891. (manuscript,

106pp)

Translations of Psalms, nos. 127-50, 29-41, 42-104

Translations of proverbs, chapters 1-3.

Caleb Beharell. Psalms in the language of Kerepunu district, nos. 110-27.

Reel M613

W. Wyatt Gill. ‘Port Moresby, New Guinea’, 1875 ( typescript, 3pp), with covering letter from W.J.V.

Saville, 1939.

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Minutes of meetings of directors and annual general meetings of the London

Missionary Society, 1795-1918

All the volumes contain indexes.

Volume 1 Sept. 1795, May 1798 - Sept. 1801

Volume 2 Feb. 1795 – May 1798

Volume 3 Plan of Missionary Society, index to minute books (vols. 1-2), standing orders,

standing committees, list of foreign societies and correspondents, financial

transactions, 1795-1817

Volume 4 Sept. 1801 – May 1805

Volume 5 May 1805 – May 1813

Reel M614

Volume 6 Jan. 1814 – March 1815

Volume 7 April 1815 – April 1816

Volume 8 April – December 1816

Volume 9 Jan. – Sept. 1817

Volume 10 Oct. 1817 – July 1818

Volume 11 Aug. 1818 – Aug. 1819

Volume 12 May 1819 – Feb. 1820

Reel M615

Volume 12 Feb. – May 1820

Volume 13 May 1820 – April 1821

Volume 14 April 1821 – Feb. 1822

Volume 15 Feb. – Dec. 1822

Volume 16 Jan. – Dec. 1823


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Reel M616


Volume 19 Jan. 1826 – Feb. 1827

Volume 20 March 1827 - May 1830

Reel M617

Volume 21 May 1830 – Aug. 1831

Volume 22 Sept. 1831 – Dec. 1832

Volume 23 Feb. 1833 – Dec. 1834 (very poor condition)

Reel M618

Volume 24 Jan. 1835 – Dec. 1836 (poor condition)

Volume 25 Jan. 1837 – June 1838 (poor condition)

Reel M619

Volume 26 June 1838 – May 1840



Reel M620

Volume 28 May 1843 – April 1844


Volume 30 May 1846 – Sept. 1848

Reel M621

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Volume 31 Oct. 1848 – July 1851

Volume 32 July 1851 – July 1854

Volume 33 July 1854 – July 1857

Reel M622

Volume 33 July 1857 – May 1858

Volume 34 May 1858 – Dec. 1861

Volume 35 Jan. 1862 – July 1865

Volume 36 Aug. 1865 – Feb. 1866

Reel M623

Volume 36 Feb. 1866 – May 1868

Volume 37 May 1868 – July 1871

Volume 38 July 1871 – Sept. 1874

Reel M624

Volume 39 Oct. 1874 – Dec. 1877

Volume 40 Dec. 1877 – July 1880

Volume 41 Sept. 1880 – Jan. 1882

Reel M625

Volume 41 Jan. – Nov. 1882

Volume 42 Dec. 1882 – Dec. 1884

Volume 43 Jan. 1885 – Oct. 1887

Volume 44 Nov. 1887 – July 1888

Reel M626

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Volume 44 Sept. 1888 – July 1890

Volume 45 July 1890 – Dec. 1892

Volume 46 Jan. 1893 – April 1895

Reel M627

Volume 47 May 1895 – June 1897

Volume 48 June 1897 – July 1899


Reel M628

Volume 49 Dec. 1900 – Nov. 1901

Volume 50 Dec. 1901 – Nov. 1904

Volume 51 Dec. 1904 – July 1907


Reel M629

Volume 53 Jan. 1910 – Dec. 1913

Volume 54 April 1914 – Dec. 1918

Reel M630

Minutes of meetings of committees, 1835-1917

Minutes of the Western Committee (South Seas and West Indies), Jan. 1835 – March 1836

Minutes of the Western Committee (South Seas Department)

All the volumes contain indexes.

Volume 3 Feb. 1845 – March 1852

Volume 4 July 1852 – Feb. 1868

Volume 5 June 1868 – July 1880

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Volume 6 Sept. 1880 – June 1887

Reel M631

Volume 6 July 1887 – Oct. 1889

Volume 7 Nov. 1889 – Nov. 1899

Volume 8 Jan. 1900 – Oct. 1909

Volume 9 Nov. 1909 – Sept. 1917

Occasional committees

Box 1

Indian, Western, Southern and Special Committee, Feb. 1840 – Sept. 1845

Jamaica churches, Madagascar, West Indian Churches, Coloured Agents, Special, Passages, Income

and Expenditure and other committees, sub-committees and ad hoc committees, July 1882 – April

1904.

Box 2

Occasional committees, including Committee to review Society’s mission fields, July 1904 – Jan. 1909.

Reel M632

Box 2

Occasional committees, Jan. 1909 – June 1918, including the Sub-committee on industrial work in

Papua (1909-17), Special Committee on the Deputation to New Guinea (1914) and the Sub-

committee on relations with German missionaries of the Society in Samoa (1916).

Minutes of the Ship Committee, Oct. 1864 – Jan. 1917. (1 vol.)

Minutes of the Arthington Trust Committee, Sept. 1905 – March 1917. (1 vol.)

Minutes of the Arthington Finance Sub-Committee, Nov. 1906 – Feb. 1917. (1 vol.)

[Robert Arthington (d. 1900) left a legacy of £373,000 to the London Missionary Society.]

Home Occasional minutes, 1841-86

Book 1

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Selected entries concerning John Williams and affairs in Tahiti, 1841-52.

Book 2

Selected entries concerning the John Williams mission ship and the Ship Committee, 1852-72.

Book 3

Selected entries concerning the Kanaka labour traffic, the Australian agency, and the New Guinea

steamer committee, 1872-86.

Committee minutes, special (selective)

Book 2

Australian Ship Committee (Sydney), 1908-21

Box 4

Report of the sub-committee on the work of Rev. Joseph King, the organising agent for Australia, n.d.

Southern outgoing letters: South Seas, 1905-14

Box 25


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, April 1905-April 1906.

The recipients include Charles W. Abel, Reginald Bartlett, Benjamin T. Butcher, Henry M. Dauncey,

William E. Goward, James Hadfield, Ebenezer Hawker, John W. Hills, John H. Holmes, John J.K.

Hutchin, John Jones, Joseph King, Frank E. Lawes, William G. Lawes, William N. Lawrence, John R.

Morley, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, Charles F. Rich, Edward B. Riley, Harriet Royle,

William J.V. Saville, J. Wilberforce Sibree, Robert L. Turner and Frederic Vernier.

Reel M633

Box 25 (contd.)

Letters to missionaries and others, April 1906 – February 1907

Box 26

Letters from Ralph Wardlaw Thompson, the LMS Foreign Secretary, and his assistant George Cousins,

to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, March 1907-May 1909. The

recipients include Charles W. Abel, Reginald Bartlett, Caleb Beharell, Benjamin T. Buthcher, James B.

Clark, Henry M. Dauncey, William E. Goward, James Hadfield, Percy H. Hall, John H. Holmes,

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Alexander Hough, John J.K. Hutchin, Henry B James, Sarah Jolliffe, Joseph King, Frank E. Lawes,

William N. Lawrence,Elizabeth Moore, John H. Morley, James E. Newell, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt,

Charles F. Rich, Edward B. Riley, William J.V. Saville, Henry P. Schlencker, J. Wilberforce Sibree,

Robert L. Turner and George J. Williams.

Box 27


Cousins, to missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, May 1909-September

1911. The recipients include Charles W. Abel, Reginald Bartlett, Caleb Beharell, Benjamin T. Butcher,

James B. Clark, Henry M. Dauncey, William E. Goward, James Hadfield, Percy H. Hall, John W. Hills,

Alexander Hough, John J.K. Hutchin, Henry B. James, Edwin Pryce Jones, Sarah Jolliffe, Joseph King,

William N. Lawrence, John H. Morley, Basil Parkinson, Albert Pearse, Thomas Pratt, Edward B. Riley,

Henry P. Schlencker, Valesca Schultze, Gavin Smith, Robert L. Turner and George J. Williams.

Box 28

Letters from Ralph Wardlaw Thompson and George C. Martin, the LMS Foreign Secretaries, to

missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, September 1911-June 1912. The

recipients include Charles W. Abel, Reginald Bartlett, Caleb Beharell, Benjamin T. Butcher, James B.

Clark, Henry M. Dauncey, William E. Goward, James Hadfield, Percy H. Hall, Thomas O. Harries,

Ebenezer Hawker, John W. Hills, John H. Holmes, Alexander Hough, John J.K. Hutchin, Edwin Pryce

Jones, Joseph King, Basil Parkinson, Thomas Pratt, Charles F. Rich, Edward B. Riley, Henry P.

Schlencker, Valesca Schultze, J. Wilberforce Sibree, Gavin Smith and George J. Williams.

Reel M634

Box 28 (contd.)

Letters to missionaries and others, June 1912-July 1913

Box 29

Letters from Frank Wardlaw Thompson and Frank Lenwood, the LMS Foreign Secretaries, to

missionaries and others in the South Seas, Australia and Papua, July 1913-December 1914. The

recipients include Charles W. Abel, Benjamin T. Butcher, James B. Clark, Henry M. Dauncey, George

H. Eastman, William E. Goward, Harry S. Griffin, James Hadfield, Percy H. Hall, Thomas O. Harries,

John W. Hills, John H. Holmes, Alexander Hough, Sarah Jolliffe, Joseph King, Thomas Pratt, Charles F.

Rich, Edward B. Riley, William J.V. Saville, Robert L. Turner and George H. Williams.

Home Office letters, 1795-1876

The 12 boxes of letters received by the Home Office were filmed selectively. Most of the letters

filmed were written by Pacific missionaries who had returned to Britain or who were on leave in

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Britain. There are also letters from British officials and directors and supporters of the London

Missionary Society concerning the missions in the Pacific.

Particular subjects of correspondence were the voyage of the Duff (1796-97), candidates for the

South Seas, the Tahitian Mission, a proposed mission for Pitcairn Island (1817), the work of William

Ellis in the Sandwich Islands, the education of Marquesan youths in England (1835), translations of

the Bible and other works into Pacific languages, the death of John Williams (1839), relations with

the French in Tahiti, a proposed deputation to the King of France (1844), criticisms of the LMS in

Tahiti, a meeting with Lord Palmerston (1847), action concerning Dr Reed (1847) and voyages of the

John Williams.

Box 1, 1795-1900

The correspondents include David Bogue, George Burder (Gosport, Coventry), Joseph Hardcastle,

Thomas Haweis, Herbert Mends (Plymouth), Evan Nepean (Admiralty), William Roby (Manchester),

Alexander Waugh (Whitby) and Matthew Wilks.

Box 2, 1801-12

The correspondents include J. Chapman, Joseph Hardcastle (London), Thomas Haweis and Matthew

Wilks.

Box 3, 1813-21

The correspondents include Thomas Haweis, Josiah Pratt and Matthew Wilks.

Box 4, 1822-26

The correspondents include F. Byng, Henry Nott and Charles Pitman (Gosport).

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Box 5, 1827-33

The correspondents include William Ellis and William Wilberforce.

Box 6, 1834-36

The correspondents include William Ellis (Hastings), Thomas Heath (London), John D. Lang (London)

and John Williams.

Box 7, 1837-41

The correspondents include Joseph Day (Manchester), William Jowett, Henry Nott (London), George

Pritchard (Coventry), R. Wardlaw and John Williams.

Box 8, 1842-44

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The correspondents include H.M. Addington (Foreign Office), John Alexander (Norwich), Danson

Coates (Church Missionary Society), George Gill, Thomas Heath (London), William Jones (Religious

Tract Society), Capt. R.C. Morgan and Thomas Powell. There is also a report of the LMS deputation

to Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aberdeen concerning affairs in Tahiti (1843) and the resolutions of the

Board of Directors on the return of missionaries from Tahiti, 17 Feb. 1845.

Box 9, 1845-49

The correspondents include H.M. Addington (Foreign Office), Aaron Buzacott (London), J.V. Hall

(Maidstone), Thomas Joseph (London), William Mills (Glasgow), Capt. R.C. Morgan, Thomas Powell,

Sir Culling Smith and John B. Stair (Gravesend).

Box 10, 1850-52

The correspondents include Aaron Buzacott (Woodbridge), A.J. Darling (Brest), David Darling

(Birmingham), Joseph Johnston (Hull) and William Turner (Glasgow).

Box 11, 1853-63

The correspondents include John Barff (Margate), Capt. R.C. Morgan, George Platt (Tintwistle) and

George Turner (Glasgow).

Box 12, 1864-76

The correspondents include James P. Sunderland (Sydney).

Home Office extras, 1796-1898

Box 1, 1796-1817

The documents selected for filming mostly relate to the first two missionary voyages to Tahiti. They

include the registration of the Duff (5 Aug. 1796), the letter of instructions to Capt. James Wilson (5

Aug. 1796), letters of Joseph Hardcastle, Thomas Haweis and James Wilson, extracts from letters of

missionaries and observations on the propriety of a second mission to the South Seas (Aug. 1798),

the report of a committee on the memorial of Thomas Haweis on sending a second party of

missionaries to the South Seas (1 May 1899), instructions to the missionaries appointed to proceed

on the Royal Admiral to the Pacific (draft), instructions to Capt. Wilson, an indenture between the

owners and master of the Duff and the East India Company (1799), the assignment of copyright in

The voyage of the Duff to Thomas Chapman (21 March 1799) and drafts of letters to Samuel

Marsden (31 Aug. 1804), Thomas Hassall (Sept. 1804) and Philip G. King (13 Oct. 1804) about the

Tahitian Mission. There are also later letters to Marsden.

Box 2, 1829-56

The selected documents include letters of Aaron Buzacott (Fakenham), W. Wyatt Gill (London) and

William Harbutt.

Box 3, 1881-98

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The selected documents include letters of Robert Arthington (Leeds), S.E. Chalmers (Retford), R.H.

Codrington (Bath), Edward Hore (London), William Law (Launceston), James E. Newell (Manchester)

and Capt. Roger Turpie.

Candidates’ papers, 1814-95

The papers comprise correspondence from applicants wishing to join the London Missionary Society,

letters from referees, completed responses to the LMS questionnaire, answers to ordination

questions, reports from Cheshunt College, the Congregational theological college at Cambridge, and

other educational institutions and medical reports.

Boxes 1-14

Papers concerning the applications and training of Charles W. Abel (1889-90), Emogene (Emma)

Ardill (1891-92), Thomas Beswick (1876-77), Samuel A. Beveridge (1891-94), Peter G. Bird (1858-60),

James Chalmers (1862-65), William G. Clarke (1876-81), Arthur E. Claxton (1879-84), Charles J. Cribb

(1892-95), James H. Cullen (1889-90), Henry M. Dauncey (1886-88), Samuel H. Davies (1862), William

Day (1837), William Ellis (1814), William E. Goward (1885-87), James L. Green (1859), James Hadfield

(1874-77), George A. Harris (1865-67), John W. Hills (1885-87), John H. Holmes (1890-93), Archibald

E. Hunt (1886), John J.K. Hutchin (1877-81), Thomas W. Ingram (1892-93), Joseph Johnston (1837),

Joseph King (1860), Agnes Large (1890-91), Frank E. Lawes (1862), William G. Lawes (1858), William

N. Lawrence (1876-77), John Marriott (1871-77), John Mills (1860-61), Elizabeth Moore (1888-90),

George Morris (1859), Albert Pearse (1866-67), Charles Pitman (1819-20), William E. Richards (1877-

82), Thomas Ridgley (1876-81), E.B. Savage (1883-84), Alfred T. Saville (1862-66), Henry P.

Schlencker (1892-95), Valesca Schultze (1888-89), George T. Scott (1864-67) and J. Tait Scott (1873-

80).

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Papers concerning the applications and training of Watson Sharpe (1884-85), G.A. Shaw (1868),

George A. Turner (1862-68), W.Y. Turner (1870-95), James C. Vivian (1858-62), Frederick W. Walker

(1886-88), Stephen J. Whitmee (1859-62), John Williams (1816) and W.H. Wilson (1882).

Candidates’ answers to printed questionnaire, 1837-82

Completed questionnaires of LMS candidates including Joseph Johnston (1837), William G. Lawes

(1858), Peter G. Bird (1858), James C. Vivian (1858), John L. Green (1859), George Morris (1859),

Stephen J. Whitmee (1860), John Mills (1861), Stephen H. Davies (1862), Frank E. Lawes (1862),

George A. Turner (1862), Alfred T. Saville (1862), Albert Pearse (1866), William E. Clarke (1876),

William N. Lawrence (1876), Thomas Ridgely (1876), John J.K. Hutchin (1877), Arthur E. Claxton

(1880), Watson Sharpe (1882) and W.H. Wilson (1882).

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Home Office, personal

Box 3

Notebook and diary of Ralph Wardlaw Thompson, the LMS Foreign Secretary, kept on his visit to

Australia, Papua and the South Seas, 1897.

Box 5

Letters from William Ellis, the LMS Foreign Secretary, to John M. Orsmond and George Pritchard (5

Nov. 1835), Charles Barff and George Platt (6 Nov. 1835) and R. Miller (30 June 1836).

Home office, odds

Box 10

Papers relating to the deputation of Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet to the South Seas, Java,

India and Madagascar, 1821-29.

Correspondence and reports (1820-25) concerning the organisation of the deputation, the voyage to

the Pacific, meetings with missionaries, visits to Huahine, Raiatea, Borabora, Papeete, Papara, Eimeo,

Tahaa, Motupiti, Matavai, Wilks Harbour, Burders Point, Haweis Town, Moorea and Sydney. In

addition, there is correspondence with missionaries including John M. Orsmond, William Henry,

George Platt, Charles Wilson, David Darling, Robert Bourne, William P. Crook, Charles Barff and

Lancelot E. Threlkeld (1823-25).

Box 11

Reports of Tyerman and Bennet in New South Wales, including the Aboriginal mission established by

L.E. Threlkeld, a printed letter from Tyerman and Bennet to Threlkeld (24 Feb. 1825), and letters

from James Hayward to the deputation (1823-25). There is also a series of letters from Tyerman and

Bennet to LMS officials in London, written in Singapore (1825), Batavia (1825), Canton (1825),

Calcutta (1826), Malacca (1826) and Penang (1826-27).

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Box 12

Papers relating to the deputation, including copies of correspondence of Tyerman and Bennet with

Sir Thomas Brisbane in Sydney (1824), a letter from Bennet in Sydney (9 Nov. 1824) and

correspondence concerning the publication of the journal of the deputation (1829). The

correspondents include George Bennet, William A. Hankey (London), Thomas Beighton (Penang),

Abigail Beighton (Penang), D. Collie (Malacca), John Edmonds and J. Montgomery.

Box 13

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Report by Edward Smith and Rev. Arthur N. Johnson of their deputation to Australia, Sept. 1907 –

Feb. 1908. (printed, 50pp)

Australian letters, 1907-19

Box 18

Letters principally from Joseph King (Melbourne) and Thomas Pratt (Sydney) to the LMS Foreign

Secretary, 1907. Other correspondents include John Jones (Sydney), William G. Lawes (Sydney),

Albert Pearse (Sydney) and H.E. Wootton (Melbourne). There are also letters from Arthur N.

Johnson concerning his deputation to Australia, written from Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Auckland.

Box 19


correspondents include Anne Buzacott (Sydney), A.J. Griffith (Brisbane), Edward C. Hore (Hobart),

John Jones, Fanny Lawes (Sydney), William H. Morley (Sydney), Albert Pearse (Sydney), Sir Albert

Spicer (Melbourne), George J. Williams, H.E. Wooton (Melbourne) and Capt. Arthur Wyrill (SS John

Williams). There are also letters from Arthur N. Johnson written from Wellington, Hobart,

Melbourne and Sydney.

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Box 20

Letters mainly from Joseph King (Melbourne) and Thomas Pratt (Sydney), 1910-13 (1911 missing).

Other correspondents include T.C. Slater (Sydney) and George J. Williams (Rockhampton).

Box 21

Letters mainly from Joseph King (Melbourne), Thomas Pratt (Sydney) and George J. Williams

(Melbourne, Sydney). Other correspondents include H. Freeman (Perth), Margaret Halley

(Melbourne), Annie Hore (Hobart), F.P. Joseland (Melbourne, Adelaide), Henry Pratt (Sydney), A.H.

Teece (Adelaide), H.E. Wooton (Melbourne) and J.W.B. Wright (Sydney).

Box 22

Letters mainly from Thomas Pratt (Sydney) and George J. Williams (Melbourne, Auckland,

Christchurch, Sydney), 1916. Other correspondents include Frank P. Joseland (Melbourne), Joseph

King (Melbourne) and J.B. Nicholson (Sydney).

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Box 22 (contd.)

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Letters mainly from Thomas Pratt (Sydney) and George J. Williams (Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney),

1917-19. Other correspondents include W.J.L. Closs (Melbourne), William E. Goward (Sydney), Amy

Harband (Christchurch), Archibald E. Hunt (Wellington), Frank P. Joseland (Melbourne) and Capt.

Kettle (Sydney).

South Seas letters, 1907-1919

Box 50

Letters from missionaries and others in Samoa, the Cook Islands, the Loyalty Islands, Niue and the

Gilbert Islands to the LMS Foreign Secretary, 1907-8. (The 1908 letters precede the 1907 letters.)

The correspondents include Margaret Ducommin (Malua), Laura Forth (Beru), William E. Goward

(Beru), James Hadfield (Lifou), Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga), Ebenezer Hawker (Tutuila), Alexander

Hough (Apia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), H. Bond James (Mangaia, Rarotonga), Sarah Jolliffe

(Papauta), Frank E. Lawes (Niue), Elizabeth Moore (Malua), John H. Morley (Matautu), James E.

Newell (Malua, Apia, Suva) and J. Wilberforce Sibree (Sydney).

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Box 50 (contd.)

Letters from missionaries and others, 1907.

Box 51

Letters from missionaries and others in Samoa, the Cook Islands, the Loyalty Islands, Niue, the

Gilbert Islands and Tahiti, 1909-10. The correspondents include William E. Goward (Sydney, Beru),

Harry S. Griffin (Malua), James Hadfield (Lifou), Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga), Ebenezer Hawker (Tutuila),

Ernst Heider (Malua), John W. Hills (Leulumoega), Alexander Hough (Apia), John J.K. Hutchin

(Rarotonga), H. Bond James (Mangaia), Sarah Jolliffe (Papauta), Frank E. Lawes (Niue), Elizabeth

Moore (Tutuila), John H. Morley (Matautu, Apia), James E. Newell (Malua), S. de Pomaret (Papeete),

J. Wilberforce Sibree ((Tuasivi) and Gavin Smith (Niue).

Box 52


Gilbert Islands and Tahiti, 1911-12. The correspondents include Jean Begg (Tutuila), Paul Cane (Apia),

William E. Goward (Beru), James Hadfield (Lifou), Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga), Ebenezer Hawker (Apia),

Ernst Heider (Malua), John W. Hills (Leulumoega), Alexander Hough (Apia), H. Bond James

(Rarotonga), Conrad Kinnersley (Apia), M. Elizabeth Macey (Papauta), Elizabeth Moore (Atauloma),

John H. Morley (Falealili), S. de Pomaret (Papeete), Valesca Schultze (Papauta), J. Wilberforce Sibree

(Apia), Beatrice Simmons (Beru) and Gavin Smith (Niue).

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Box 52 (contd.)

Letters from missionaries and others, 1912.

Box 53


Gilbert Islands and Funafuti, 1913. The correspondents include Makia Ariki (Rarotonga), Paul Cane

(Apia, Matautu), George H. Eastman (Rarotonga), William E. Goward (Beru), James Hadfield (Lifou),

Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga), Ebenezer Hawker (Leulumoega), Ernst Heider (Malua), John W. Hills

(Malua), Alexander Hough (Leone), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), H. Bond James (Apia), Sarah

Jolliffe (Apia, Funafuti), Conrad Kinnersley (Apia), Elizabeth Moore (Tutuila), John H. Morley (Falealili)

and Gavin Smith (Niue).

Box 54


Gilbert Islands and Funafuti, 1914. The correspondents include Hubert A. Arnold (Beru), Jean Begg

(Atauloma), James H. Cullen (Niue), George H. Eastman (Rarotonga, Apia), William E. Goward (Beru),

Harry S. Griffin (Malua), James Hadfield (Lifou), Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga), Ebenezer Hawker

(Leulumoega), Ernst Heider (Malua), John W. Hills (Malua), Alexander Hough (Tutuila), H. Bond

James (Vaitupu), Sarah Jolliffe (Funafuti), Conrad Kinnersley (Apia), M. Elizabeth Macey (Papauta),

John H. Morley (Falealili), Carl Muller (Apia), Beatrice Simmons (Beru), J. Wilberforce Sibree (Apia)

and Gavin Smith (Sydney).

Box 55


Gilbert Islands, 1915. The correspondents include Hubert A. Arnold (Beru), Jean Begg (Atauloma),

Paul Cane (Matautu), James H. Cullen (Niue), William E. Goward (Beru), Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga),

John W. Hills (Malua), Alexander Hough (Tutuila), H. Bond James (Vaitupu), Sarah Jolliffe (Papauta),

Conrad Kinnerslery (Apia), Frank Lenwood (Samoa), John H. Morley (Falealili), Carl Muller (Tuasivi),

Valesca Schultze (Papauta) and J. Wilberforce Sibree (Leulumoega).

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Box 55 (contd.)

The correspondents include George H. Eastman (Rarotonga), William E. Goward (Beru), James

Hadfield (Lifou), Percy H. Hall (Rarotonga), Frank Lenwood (Rarotonga, Beru), Carl Muller (Apia),

Valesca Schultze (Papauta) and J. Wilberforce Sibree (Leulumoega).

Box 56

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Gilbert Islands and Funafuti, 1916. The correspondents include Hubert A. Arnold (Sydney, Beru), G.P.

Baldwin (Rarotonga), Jean Begg (Atauloma), Paul Cane (Matautu), James H. Cullen (Niue), George H.

Eastman (Rarotonga), William E. Goward (Beru), James Hadfield (Hamilton, Lifou), Percy H. Hall

(Rarotonga), Ernst Heider (Motuiki), John W. Hills (Geelong, Malua), H. Bond James (Sydney,

Funafuti), Sarah Jolliffe (Funafuti), Conrad Kinnersley (Apia), John H. Morley, Carl Muller (Tuasivi) and

F.W. Platts (Rarotonga).

Box 57


Gilbert Islands, 1917. The correspondents include Hubert A. Arnold (Sydney, Beru), Jean Begg

(Atauloma), Paul Cane (Matautu), William E. Clarke (Apia), James H. Cullen (Niue), George H.

Eastman (Rarotonga), William E. Goward (Beru, Sydney), John W. Hills (Malua), H. Bond James

(Sydney, Pagopago), M. Elizabeth Macey (Papauta), Elizabeth Moore (Apia), John H. Morley (Falealili),

Carl Muller (Leulumoega), F.W. Platts (Rarotonga) and Beatrice Simmons (Beru).

Box 58


Gilbert Islands and Ocean Island, 1918. The correspondents include Hubert A. Arnold (Sydney,

Ocean Island), Paul Cane (Matautu), George H. Eastman (Beru), E.C. Eliot (Ocean Island), William E.

Goward (Sydney), Alexander Hough (Malua), Sarah Jolliffe (Papauta) and Carl Muller (Leulumoega).

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Box 58 (contd.)

The correspondents include Hubert A. Arnold (Ocean Island), Jean Begg (Atauloma), James H. Cullen

(Niue), George H. Eastman (Sydney, Auckland, Rarotonga), William E. Goward (Beru), James Hadfield

(Lifou), Percy H. Hall (Wellington), John W. Hills (Malua), Alexander Hough (Apia, Malua), H. Bond

James (Rarotonga), Sarah Jolliffe (Funafuti), Conrad Kinnersley (Leone), Elizabeth Moore (Papauta),

John H. Morley (Auckland), J. Wilberforce Sibree (Melbourne, Leulumoega) and Hilda Small

(Papauta).

Box 59


Gilbert Islands, Funafuti and Ocean Island, 1919. The correspondents include Hubert A. Arnold (Beru,

Ocean Island), Victor A. Barradale (Malua), Paul Cane (Matautu), William E. Clarke (Apia), James H.

Cullen (Niue), George H. Eastman (Apia, Sydney, Rarotonga), E.C. Eliot (Ocean Island), William E.

Goward (Sydney, Beru), James Hadfield (Lifou), Alexander Hough (Malua), H. Bond James

(Rarotonga), Sarah Jolliffe (Beru, Funafuti), Frank P. Joseland (Apia, Melbourne), Conrad Kinnersley

(Leone), Carl Muller (Papauta) and Beatrice Simmons (Beru).

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South Seas reports, 1907-19

Box 6

Reports of mission stations, schools and training institutions:

Aana district, 1907-9 (Ernst Heider, John W. Hills)

Apia district, 1908-9 (Alexander Hough)

Atauloma Girls’ School, 1907, 1909 (Marguerite Ducommun, Elizabeth Moore)

Faasaleaga district, 1907 (J. Wilberforce Sibree)

Falealili district, 1908 (Alexander Hough)

Gilbert Islands, 1907-9 (William E. Goward)

Jana, 1907 (Ernst Heider)

Leulumoega Boys’ High School, 1908-9 (Ernst Heider, John W. Hills)

Lifou, 1907 (James Hadfield)

Malua district, 1907 (James E. Newell)

Malua Institution, 1908-9 (James E. Newell)

Mangaia, 1907-9 (H. Bond James)

Matautu, 1908 (John H. Morley)

Niue, 1908 (Frank E. Lawes)

Papauta Girls’ School, 1908-9 (Sarah Jolliffe, Valesca Schultze)

Printing and Publishing Department, Malua, 1909 (Harry S. Griffin)

Rarotonga, 1907-9 (John J.K. Hutchin)

Savaii, 1909 (John H. Morley)

Tereora, Rarotonga, 1908-9 (Percy H. Hall)

Tutuila and Manua, 1908-9 (Ebenezer Hawker, Elizabeth Moore)

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Mangaia, 1909 (H. Bond James)

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Tereora, 1909 (Percy H. Hall)

Women’s work in German Samoa, 1900-10 (Valesca Schultze)

Box 7

Reports of mission stations, schools and training institutions:

Aana district, 1910-13 (John W. Hills, Ebenezer Hawker)

Aird Delta, Papua, 1912 (Benjamin T. Butcher)

Apia district, 1910-15 (Alexander Hough, Conrad Kinnesley)

Atauloma Girls’ School, 1910-14 (Elizabeth Moore, Ernst Heider, Jean Begg)

Beru, 1912 (Beatrice Simmons)

Cook Islands, 1910-11, 1914-15, (Percy H. Hall, H. Bond James, John J.K. Hutchin, George H. Eastman)

Ellice Oslands, 1914-15 (H. Bond James, J. Wilberforce Sibree)

Faasaleaga district, 1911-12, 1914 (J. Wilberforce Sibree)

Falealili district, 1911-15 (John H. Morley)

Gilbert Islands, 1911, 1913 (William E. Goward)

Leulumoega Girls’ School, 1910 (John W. Hills)

Lifou, 1910-13 (James Hadfield)

London Missionary Society Press, Malua, 1911-13 (Harry S. Griffin)

Loyalty Islands, 1910, 1914-15 (James Hadfield)

Malua district, 1911, 1914 (Elizabeth Hills, John W. Hills)

Malua Institution, 19101-15 (Ernst Heider, John W. Hills)

Matautu, 1913-15 (Paul Cane)

Niue, 1910-15 (Frank E. Lawes, Gavin Smith, James H. Cullen)

Papauta Girls’ School, 1910-15 (Valesca Schultze, M. Elizabeth Macey)

Papaelise Girls‘ School, 1914

Rarotonga, 1914 (Percy H. Hall)

Savaii, 1910 (J. Wilberforce Sibree)

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Tutuila and Manua, 1912, 1914-15 (Alexander Hough)

Voyage to Tokelau and Ellice Islands, 1910 (John W. Hills)

Box 8

Aana district, 1916-18 (J. Wilberforce Sibree, Carl Muller)

Apia district, 1916-18 (Conrad Kinnesley, William C. Clarke)

Atauloma Girls’ School, 1916 (Edythe James)

Cook Islands, 1916-19 (George H. Eastman, H. Bond James)

Ellice Islands, 1916 (H. Bond James)

Faasaleleaga district, 1916, 1919 (Carl Muller)

Fagalele, 1918-19 (Conrad Kinnesley)

Falealili district, 1917 (John H. Morley)

Gilbert Islands, 1916, 1918-19 (Beatrice Simmons, George H. Eastman, Hubert A. Arnold)

Lifou, 1919 (James Hadfield)

Loyalty Islands, 1916-19 (James Hadfield, Jean Begg)

Malua district, 1916-18 (John W. Hills, Alexander Hough)

Malua Institution, 1916-18 (John W. Hills, Alexander Hough)

Matautu, 1916-18 (Paul Cane)

Niue, 1917-18 (James H. Cullen)

Papauta Girls’ School, 1916-19 (Elizabeth Moore, M. Elizabeth Macey, Hilda Small)

Rarotonga, 1917 (H. Bond James)

South Seas personal

Box 1

Notebook of William Wyatt Gill (1828-1896), who was a missionary at Mangaia in the Cook Islands

from 1852 to 1872. The volume dates from about 1869-75 and is a kind of commonplace book,

containing extracts from his reading, translations, Rarotongan stories, records of conversations,

financial records, a list of preachers expelled by the French from the Loyalty Islands and historical

notes.

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Diary of George Turner (1818-1891), who was ordained in 1840 and sailed with his wife Mary to

Melanesia and later Samoa. The first part of the diary, 2 January 1837 – 13 January 1839, gives an

account of his early life, his decision to join the London Missionary Society and his training at

Cheshunt College, Cambridge.

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Box 1 (contd.)

Diary of George Turner, 13 January 1839 – 1 June 1840.

George Turner. ‘Fifty five years mission work in Samoa’, n.d. (ms, 23pp)

Charles Barff (Huahine) to his sister, 7 June 1837.

George Gill (John Williams) to John Fisher (London) and George Taylor, Sept. 1844.

Arthur Tidman and J. Freeman to Henry Nisbet, 19 Aug. 1840. (typescript copy)

Samuel J. Whitmee to Frank Lenwood, 1 Aug. 1921.

Arifaaite (Papeete) to Charles Barff, 18 July 1864. (original and translation)

Aaron Buzacott (Rarotonga) to R. Fletcher, 1 Oct. 1839.

Mary Walker. ‘Dr Hiram and Mrs Clara Bingham’, n.d. (typescript, 2pp)

William G. Lawes (Niue) to Arthur T. Saville, 19 Oct. 1868. (typescript copy)

James E. Newell (Malua) to T. Wilson, 18 April 1900.

James W. Cullen (Mangaia) to T. Wilson, 26 Feb. 1901.

Queen Pomare (Tahiti) to Miss Barber, 7 Nov. 1836.

Alfred T. Saville to his parents, 12 April 1867.

Account by Charles Barff of the labours of Aaron Buzacott, n.d.

Charles Barff on Aaron Buzacott, n.d. (original and 19pp tyoescript)

Valedictory service at St Andrew’s Chapel, North Shields, on the return of Rev. William Harbutt to

Samoa, 4 Aug. 1852. (printed, 50pp)

Extracts from the correspondence of Rev. William Harbutt, missionary in the South Seas. (Bradford,

n.d., 22pp)

William Harbutt. ‘Western Polynesia’, n.d. (ms, 30pp)

George Turner (Malua) to William Harbutt, 13 Feb. 1866.

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Alfred T. Saville. Diary kept during his mission at Huahine, 17 Aug. 1862-6 April 1871.

William F. Wilson. ‘Notes on Rev. Charles Wilson, his ancestors in Scotland and his descendants in

Tahiti, Sydney, Samoa, Fanning Island, Honolulu, England and Canada’, 1925. (typescript, 30pp)

Letters of William and Lillian Mills (Apia) to his sister Mrs Duncan (Glasgow), 1838-52. (originals and

typescript copies)

George Turner. ‘Eromanga’, 13 Nov. 1885. (ms, 35pp)

Alfred T. Saville (Alofi) to his parents and sister, 22 Jan. 1867.

King Pomare II (Papeete) to William P. Crook, 7 Feb. 1818. (original and translation)

Extracts from letters of Ernst R.W. Krause to Arthur Tidman and Joseph Mullens, 1840-68.

(typescript, 74pp)

John Ariki (Mangaia) to George Gill, 28 May 1906.

Samuel J. Whitmee. Extracts from ‘My two years in Samoa with Robert Louis Stevenson’, n.d.

(typescript, 3pp)

William E. Goward (Beru) to Miss Balgarnie, 20 June 1901.

Letters to Emmeline Goward, 1894-98, mostly from Margaret I. Stevenson, the mother of Robert

Louis Stevenson.

Box 2

John Williams (Tahiti) to S.J. Williams, 21 March 1839.

John C. Williams (Navigator Islands) to Sir Charles Durkin, 30 Nov. 1842. (original and typescript

copy)

John Williams to Emma, 1838-39.

Aaron Buzacott to R. Fletcher, 19 Dec. 1842.

John Williams to Samuel, 11 April 1838.

Robert Bourne to Prout, 24 Dec. 1840.

Makea to John Williams, n.d. (original and translation)

Benjamin Williams. Notes on his ancestry and family, n.d. (typescript, 3pp)

John Williams (Raiatea) to his parents, 4 Sept. 1819.

John Williams to East, 16 July 1838.

Cuttings, printed ephemera and photographs relating to John Williams.

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A Niue grammar, n.d. (ms, 59pp)

’Aaron Buzacott’, n.d. (ms, 15pp)

Extracts from the diaries of William Harbutt, 1842-57. (ms)

William Harbutt. ‘Report of a tour of the New Hebrides in 1849’.

Sarah Jolliffe. Diary kept at Funafuti and Ellice Islands, 26 Oct. 1912-Dec. 1915.

South Seas odds

Box 1

Samoan District Committee. Statement prepared for the Governor on obstacles to legal marriage

contracts in Samoa, July 1900.

Diary, apparently kept by James Sleigh, 1865-66.

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Box 1 (contd.)

Diary, apparently kept by James Sleigh, 1866-79.

Diei la tusi [Lifuan primer], n.d. (20pp)

Indenture of apprenticeship between James Sleigh and Henry Bruce and Henry Box of Walsall, 15

June 1833.

Letters and documents relating to James Sleigh, 1864-89.

Correspondence concerning the mission of Stephen M. Creagh, James Sleigh and James Hadfield in

the Loyalty Islands, 1863-92, including correspondence with the LMS Foreign Secretary.

Reel M648

Box 2

Engravings and photographs of the missionary ships Camden and John Williams, copy of the title

page and introductory notice of John Williams. A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South

Seas islands (1837) and share certificates of the SS John Williams, 1894-95.

Box 3

Disbursements of the missionary ship Camden, 1840-41. (3pp)

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Box 4

South Seas seminar 1830: papers of five pupils sent to England by Orsmond.

W.W. Bolton. Address given on the centenary of the death of Henry Nott at Arue, Tahiti, 2 May 1844.

(typescript, 3pp)

‘Story of the Margaret Brender’. (typescript, 5pp)

Alexander Hough. Paper on Samoa, 1909. (typescript, 9pp)

A.W. McMillen. Centenary celebrations in Fiji, 24 July 1930. (typescript, 3pp)

‘E tuatua enua, No te ui Ariki’, 1869. (manuscript notebook, Rarotongan)

S. Tamatoa Williams. ‘The story of my father’s watch’, n.d. (typescript, 3pp)

Queen Pomare to [Tamateni?], 1846. (Tahitian)

Albert Spicer, Joseph King, A.W. Murray. Report of a deputation to the Samoan Mission, 1888.

(typescript draft)

Newspaper cuttings concerning the German missionaries Leopold Mohn and Julius Hones in the

Tubuai Islands, 1851-1936.

Samoan grammar, possibly in the hand of George Pratt. (ms, 93pp)

Samuel J. Whitmee. ‘Samoa and the three treaty powers’, 2 March 1892. (ms, 34pp)

Samuel J. Whitmee. ‘Samoa and the three treaty powers’, 27 April 1892. (13pp)

James E. Newell (Apia) to G.G. Rogers, 11 Aug. 1899.

A. Townley Gill. ‘The story of Tangiia’. (ms, 2pp)

William E. Clarke. Personal recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, April-May 1908.

Extracts from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Vailima letters, 1890-93. (typescript, 3pp)

Photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa.

W.W. Bolton (Papeete) to Chamberlin, 14 July 1944: his address on the centenary of the death of

Henry Nott.

Hymn composed by Sadaraka, a native teacher at Mangaia.

Capt. Roger Turpie. ‘Introduction of the Gospel to Nanomanga’. (ms, 9pp)

Box 5

Notebook recording church meetings at Niue, statistics and membership lists, 1857-1917.

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W. Crosfield. ‘Missionary journey to the South Seas, including Australia and Papua, 1897-98’.

(362pp)

The Book of Jeremiah (Tahitian), with corrections by George Pratt.

Regulations for the establishment of cotton cloth, conducted by Armitage and Blossom at Eimeo, 7

May 1824. (printed, 3pp)

Letters from J.M. Ormund, L.E. Threlkeld and J. Williams, Raiatea, 1819-21. (printed)

Annual circular of the Windward Division of the Tahitian Mission, 13 May 1819. (printed)

King Pomare to Samuel Marsden, 3 July 1817. (printed)

Letters from Tahiti to J.J. Freeman and Arthur Tidman, 1844-60. (266pp)

Box 6

John Davies. ‘A brief history of the Tahitian Mission’. (ms)

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Box 6 (contd.)

John Davies. ‘A brief history of the Tahitian Mission’.

Notebook containing rough notes of meetings of Samoan missionaries, March-Oct. 1915.

Box 8

Papers of Frank Lenwood relating to the mission of Lenwood, A.J. Viner and George Williams to the

South Seas in 1915. They include the proposed itinerary, Lenwood’s correspondence with Francis

Hawkins, missionaries, committees and government officials (1915-16), notes and diagrams, maps of

Papua, minutes of meetings of the Australian Ship Committee, papers concerning the SS John

Williams and answers to the deputation’s questionnaire by William E. Goward (Beru).

Box 9

Further papers concerning the 1915 deputation, including answers to the questionnaire by Carl

Muller (Apia), Conrad Kinnersley and Ernst Heider (Malua). The questionnaire covered such matters

as the geography and population of the mission, evangelistic and church work, pastors and teachers,

training, Sunday Schools, education and literature, social and industrial, mission finance and mission

policy.

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Box 9 (contd.)

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Further papers concerning the 1915 deputation, including letters to the LMS Board, correspondence

with Papuan missionaries and officials, minutes of committees, papers on Papuan Industries Ltd.,

reports of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate, papers on the Gilbert Islands Mission, and C.W.

Abel. The aim and scope of the Industrial Branch of the New Guinea Mission (1903). There are also

completed questionnaires by J. Wilberforce Sibree, Jean Begg, John W. Hills, Alexander Hough, M.

Elizabeth Macey, Valesca Schultze, Elizabeth Moore and Gavin Smith.

Box 10

Further papers of Frank Lenwood including correspondence with missionaries in the Gilbert Islands,

Rarotonga, Niue, Papua and Samoa. There are also completed questionnaires from Benjamin T.

Butcher, John H. Holmes and Edward B. Riley.

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Box 10 (contd.)

Papers and correspondence concerning the Gilbert Islands and completed questionnaires from

William J.V. Saville, Charles E. Rich, Charles Abel, Henry M. Dauncey, William N. Lawrence, Robert L.

Turner, Caleb Beharell, Beatrice Simmons, Hubert A. Arnold and James H. Cullen.

Box 11

Further papers of Frank Lenwood concerning the 1915 deputation, including correspondence with

the High Commission for the Western Pacific and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign

Missions (1916-17), printed pamphlets, and the testimony of LMS ministers and teachers working at

Tabeteuka and Nonouti concerning obscene dances and government corruption, Sept. 1918.

Box 12

Minutes of the Hervey Islands Mission, 1845-74. (1 vol., poor legibility)

Account book of the Lifou Mission, 1858-1901. (1 vol.)

Minutes of the Loyalty Islands mission, 1857-87. (2 vols.)

Treasurer’s account, Nengone Mission, 1858-71. (1 vol.)

Box 14

Minutes of the Samoan District Council, 1836-51. ( 1 vol., indexed)

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Box 14 (contd.)

A Niue vocabulary, 1861.

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Minutes of the Fraternal Association of Rarotonga, 1839-45. (2 vols.)

Box 15

Extracts from Hiram Bingham. A residence of twenty one years in the Sandwich Islands. (typescript,

2pp)

Newspaper cuttings concerning the Samoan Conference and a naval disaster in Samoa, 1899.

Box 16

Cecil Northcott. ‘Five small ships: five successive vessels of the London Missionary Society’, Yachting

World, Feb. 1942.

Photographs and drawings of mission ships.

Copies of correspondence and minutes concerning the Duff, 1796-98.

Correspondence and notes concerning the Duff, Royal Admiral and John Williams.

Extracts from J. Campbell. Martyr of Eromanga. (typescript, 2pp)

Papers of James E. Newell

James E. Newell (1852-1910) was ordained in 1880 and arrived in Samoa in January 1881. His wife

died in Matautu in August 1882 and he remarried in July 1884. He visited the Samoan outstations in

1885, 1894 and 1896. He was appointed to the staff of the Malua Institution in 1887 and was the

principal from 1904 until his death. He was a leading authority on Samoan law and customs and was

an adviser to Samoan chiefs and British and German officials. He published extensively in both

Samoan and English. He visited in England in 1891-93 and 1902 and was attending a conference in

Germany in 1910 when he died.

Diaries of James E. Newell

1879

1880

1878

Sept. 1870 – 1871

1872-77

1881

1882

1883

83

1884

1885

1885

1886

25 July 1887 – 21 April 1888

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Diaries of James E. Newell (contd.)

22 April 1888-

1891

1892

1898

1899

1900

1901

1902

March – April 1902 (Berlin)

January – August 1903

1903

1904

1905

June – August 1905 (north-west journey)

1905

1906

1 January - 17 November 1907

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Diaries of James E. Newell (contd.)

18 November – 31 December 1907

1908 (includes a few entries for 1909 and 1910)

1908

Correspondence of James E. Newell

Letterbooks, 1882-1910, containing copies of letters written by Newell. The recipients include his

parents, the LMS Foreign Secretary Ralph Wardlaw Thompson, the Samoan District Committee, and

missionaries and officials such as Victor A. Barradale, Robert Chatfield, William E. Clarke, Arthur E.

Claxton, George Cousins, Stephen H. Davies, William E. Goward, John W. Hills, John J.K. Hutchin,

Archibald W. Murray, Thomas Pratt, J. Wilberforce Sibree, Wilhelm Solf, Robert Louis Stevenson,

James P. Sunderland, Samuel J. Whitmee and Charles M. Woodford. There are also circular letters,

letters to businesses and copies of memoranda and papers on the Samoan Catechism, the war in

Samoa, and the jubilee of the Malua Institution.

Correspondence between Newell and Francis Harman and receipts concerning the Harman estates

on Malua, 1908.

Correspondence between Newell and the solicitor A.C. Gill (Sydney), 1908-10.

Correspondence between Newell and the builder W. Williamson (Sydney) concerning church

buildings in Samoa, 1909.

Letters received by Newell, 1883-1910. The correspondents include John T. Arundel (Tahiti), Hiram

Bingham (Honolulu), James Chalmers (Fly River, Papua), William E. Clarke (Apia), Arthur E. Claxton

(Malua), Stephen H. Davies, Francis Harman (Tanumapua), Ebenezer Hawker (Fagalele), John W. Hills

(Leulumoega, Apia), John J.K. Hutchin (Rarotonga), Joseph King (Melbourne), William G. Lawes

(Vatorata), John H. Morley (Manchester, Falilagola), Lloyd Osborne (Vailima), Sidney Ray (London),

Valesca Schultze (Papauta), Wilhelm Solf (Apia), M.I. Stevenson (Vailima), Ralph Wardlaw Thompson

(London), George Turner (Apia), Frederick W. Walker (Kwato) and Hedley Weymouth (Hastings).

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Letters received by Newell and his wife Honor Newell, 1890-1910. The correspondents include

James Chalmers, William G. Lawes, Wilhelm Solf and Ralph Wardlaw Thompson.

Letters in Samoan, mostly written to Newell.

Letters from Newell to his sons Herbert and Laurance Newell, 1898-1910.

Mission reports, 1881-1909

Decennial review of the Samoan Mission, 1881-90. (ms, poor legibility)

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Decennial review of the Samoan Mission, 1891-1900 (ms and typescript), including 56th annual

report of the Malua Institution (ms, 24pp)

Christian Endeavour Union, Samoa. Report, May 1906. (typescript, 10pp)

Anthropological papers

Poetry, stories and other writings in Samoan.

Notes and articles by Newell, including notes on the ‘Solo ia Apia’, notes on Samoan proverbs, notes

on names and titles of Samoan kings, vocabulary of a Gilbert islands dialect, Timoteo’s notes on

Kabadi, translated by Newell, and a commentary on a publication by Dr E. Schultz on Samoan

proverbial sayings and figures of speech.

Miscellaneous talks and lectures

The talks by Newell include ‘A missionary’s early impressions’, 1882 (typescript, 4pp), a speech at the

grave of Dr Turner, 1891 (ms, 8pp), a lecture on some South Sea Island kings and chiefs, 1892 (ms,

12pp), an address at the Congregational Union Assembly, Dunedin, 11 Feb. 1907, notes on the

Malua Institution, and ‘Protestant missions in Samoa’, 11 March 1903.

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Miscellaneous talks and lectures (contd.)

The talks by Newell include ‘A missionary tour of the out-stations’, n.d. (ms, 15pp), ‘A missionary

tour of the South pacific’ (ms,6pp), ‘A night and a day on a volcano’ (typescript, 6pp), ‘A visit to the

volcano in Savaii’, Dec. 1905 (ms, 7pp), ‘A visit to the burning mountain in Savaii’ (ms, 7pp) and ‘The

church in the mission field and its workers’, 1910 (ms drafts). Some of Newell’s writings are in

German.

Talks in Samoan.

Talks and notes by other missionaries and officials, including an address by LMS missionaries to the

Governor of Samoa, Wilhelm Solf, 1910.

Printed material

Samoan grammar, n.d. (62pp)

Ko e Fakamauga, Niue, LMS Press, 1915. (8pp)

O Faataoto [fables in Samoan], n.d. , probably by George Pratt. (20pp)

O le Faatasiga tele o le, Samoa, LMS, 1908. (14pp)

O le Faatasiga tele o le, Samoa, LMS, 1909. (15pp)

E. Schultz. Sprichwőrtliche Redensarten der Samoaner , Apia, 1906. (incomplete)

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J.E. Newell. Chief’s language in Samoa. (offprint, pp 784-801)

A comparative view of the Polynesian dialects. (1 sheet)

Die Malayo-Polynesische Voelkerwanderung im Stillen Ozean. (1 sheet)

W.W. Gill. Three papers on myths of the Hervey Islands, 1891-92.

S.J. Whitmee. Two papers published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1875.

Capt. Castle. Round about Samoa, New South Wales United Service Institution, 1890 (12pp)

A defence prepared at the request of H.E. Governor Solf by the staff of the London Missionary Society

in German Samoa, 1910.

New Zealand. General Assembly. Papers relating to the South Sea Islands, their natural products,

trade resources etc., 1874. (55pp)

Notes and talks on Robert Louis Stevenson

J.E. Newell. ‘The late Robert Louis Stevenson’, Australian Christian World, 7 Dec. 1906.

J.E. Newell. ‘R.L. Stevenson as I knew him’, Christchurch Press, 2 March 1907.

J.E. Newell. ‘The late R.L. Stevenson and Hazlitt’. (ms, 6pp)

Papers selected for Norman Goodall’s History of the London Missionary Society 1895-1945

The papers filmed include letters from Newell to C.N.E. Eliot (Apia), 1899, documents in Samoan

written by or to Mataafi, 1898-99, Newell’s translation of the proclamation of the Government of

Samoa, 25 March 1899, cuttings from Samoan and New Zealand newspapers, 1899, reminiscences of

Newell by Charles Phillips (ms, 9pp), notes towards a biography of Newell by Ralph Wardlaw

Thompson, including letters to Thompson by members of the Newell Family, 1914-15, and a

photograph of Newell’s grave in Germany and a letter from Herbert Newell, 27 Aug. 1947.

Newspaper cuttings, 1899-1910

Cuttings concerning Cardinal Moran and Protestant missions in Samoa, 1899-1903.

Newspaper cuttings on general subjects, mainly relating to Pacific missions.

Obituaries and articles about Newell, 1910.

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Papers of John H. Holmes

John H. Holmes (1866-1934) was ordained in 1893 and arrived at Thursday Island in the Torres Strait

in August 1893. In September 1894 he was appointed to the Elema district in Papua and settled at

Jokea. He went on a tour of the South Seas stations in 1896. In October 1897 he moved further

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westwards to Orokolo. Holmes visited England in 1901-2, where he married Alice Middleton. In

1907 they settled at Urika in the Purari Delta. They moved to Sydney in 1917 and returned to

England in 1919. Holmes was the author of By canoe in cannibal land (1923).

Diaries of John H. Holmes

August 1893 – July 1895 (typescript of selected entries)

August 1893 – October 1894

October 1894 – July 1895

January - May 1896

January – December 1896

March - December 1897


January - March 1898

April – December 1898

April – October 1898


January – 28 September 1900

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Diaries of John H. Holmes (contd.)

29 September – 31 December 1900

17 October 1900 – 10 January 1901, including reflections on the state of missions in New Guinea in

general and the Toaripa district in particular. (water damaged)

23 August 1906 – 31 December 1908

1 January 1915 – 16 December 1916

Stories for children (typescripts)

Seeing brown

Stories of Namau (ms and typescript)

Papuan nights in the Gulf of Papua

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Papuan boys of the bush

People and things

Sons of the swamps in Papua (ms and typescript)

Orokolo’s first things

Fishers of men

Outports of Orokolo

Boys and girls of Orokolo

Ipian schools

Fragments (typescripts)

Preparing the way of the Lord

A boy of Namau

God’s elect

Noblesse oblige

The bane of heathenism

A primitive power station

A big job

Lighthouses of the Gulf

Miscellaneous and obituary notes (typescripts)

Obituaries of J.H. Holmes, 1934 (printed and typescript)

A voyage on the John Williams

Learning a language in Papua (printed)

May meetings in Torres Strait

The May meetings of 1895 in the Torres Straits

Address at the memorial service of Edwin Pryce Jones at Grafton Square Church

Sioni of Moru [E. Pryce Jones]

A brief sketch of the life of John Williams

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Miscellaneous notes (contd.)

Darkness and dawn

A resume of the history of LMS (Papua)

The soul of the Papuan

Primitive men in the Gulf of Papua

The religious ideas of the Papuan

Papua – our problem

Papua – past and present

God’s trysting-place with the Papuan

Significance of the Papuan’s belief in the immortality of the soul

The Papuan – whither bound?

Lighthouses

Jesus of Papua

Anthropological notes and notebooks

An introduction to the tribes of Elema

Correspondence between Holmes and Alfred C. Haddon (Canbridge), 1904-6, 1915

Daily occupations of the Elema tribes

Periodic occupations of the Elema tribes

Introductory notes to a study of the totemism of the Elema tribes

Totem festivals of the Elema tribes

Totem nomenclature of tribal totems

A temporary classification of the Elema totems

Papuan languages

Notes on anthropological subjects, roughly in alphabetical order, typed at Cambridge from Holmes’s

manuscripts, 1914. (184pp) The subjects include ancestry, attitudes, agriculture, astronomy, animals,

burial, birth, clans, Lepu clan, Moaripi clan, Elema, carving, chiefs, dress, mourning, divination,

fishing, games, gods, initiation, illegitimacy, language, legends, masks, medical, ornaments, rivers,

spirits, sorcery, sago, tiparu, totemism, war, villages and population.

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Papers of Edwin Pryce Jones

Edwin Pryce Jones (1866-1928) was ordained in 1893 and served as a LMS missionary at Farafangana

in Madagascar from 1893 to 1898. He joined the Papuan Mission in 1899 where he succeeded J.H.

Holmes at Moru. He remained in Papua until 1926.

Letter-diary, addressed to his wife Minnie Pryce Jones, 3 July 1899-17 June 1900, with additional

fragments for 9 July and 19 July 1900. (303 pp, some pages missing)

Anthropological notes, including birth customs, kinship terms, totems, burials, stories. (ms, 68pp)

Rough diary notes, Orokolo, 1918-23.

South Seas missionary portraits

Portraits of James Hayward, Charles Barff, John and Mary Williams, John Gyles, Elijah Armitage,

Thomas Blossom, Elizabeth and George Pritchard, Charles Pitman, George Charter, Aaron Buzacott,

Alexander Simpson, James Smith, George Stallworthy, John Rodgerson, George Barden, Alexander

Macdonald, Thomas Heath, George Pratt, William Howe, George Drummond, William Harbutt, Henry

Dickson, George Turner, Henry Nisbet, John Jesson, Thomas Mackean, Joseph Moore, Alexander

Chisholm and Thomas Powell.

Europe letters, 1799-1845

Selections from letters of European correspondents, mostly referring to the South Seas missions.

The principal correspondent is the Société des Missions Evangeliques (Paris).

Memoirs and histories

Autobiography of Thomas Blossom, c. 1847 (ms and typescript), with three letters from Blossom,

1846-50.

Samuel J. Whitmee. ‘Recollections of a long life’, 1917, pp. 1-127 (typescript)

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Samuel J. Whitmee. ‘Recollections of a long life’, 1917, pp 128-60.

Journal of Lillie Saville, the wife of Alfred T. Saville, 14 March 1866-17 September 1867. (typescript,

38pp) It describes their voyage from England to Sydney and travels on the John Williams in the

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Pacific, including visits to Tanna, Aneiteum, Lifou, Maré, Savage Island (Niue), Upolu, Tahiti and

Huahine.

Robert Thomson (d. 1857). ‘History of Tahiti’. (ms, 3 vols.) The work was unfinished, ending in 1815.

South Seas pictures

Photographs, almost all undated, mainly of scenes in Samoa, the Cook Islands and the Gilbert Islands.

The subjects include Samoan chiefs, villages, mission houses, schoolhouses, churches, carvings, a

printing plant at Beru, a kava making ceremony, the Malua Jubilee Hall, fishing, indigenous pastors,

the ‘queen’ of Rarotonga, the raising of the German flag in Samoa, the Reverend William Goward

and Emmeline Goward, lava flowing into the sea at Savaii, the Samoan chief Malietoa, Samoan

missionaries with R. Wardlaw Thompson (1897), Apia scenes, a wedding feat in Fiji, Pago Pago Bay,

the John Williams Memorial Church, the raising of the British flag in Apia (1914), the LMS deputation

to Samoa (1915), and a school at Niue.

Papuan pictures

Photographs, almost all undated, of scenes in Papua. The subjects include a British warship off the

coast of Papua (1884), a church at Port Moresby, Christian chiefs at Orokolo, bush villages, the

church at Jokea, South Seas teachers in Papua, mission houses, a tree house, marine dwellings,

masks, a meeting of missionaries, the proclamation of the British protectorate, villages, and Port

Moresby scenes photographed by William G. Lawes.

Ultra Ganges letters, 1805-87

Malacca, Box 1

Letters from missionaries and others in Malacca sent to the LMS secretaries in London, 1815-20.

The correspondents include Thomas Beighton, George H. Huttmann, Walter Medhurst, William

Milne, John Slater and Claudius H. Thomson.

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Malacca, Box 1 (contd.)

Malacca, Box 2

Letters from missionaries and others in Malacca, 1821-29. The correspondents include Thomas

Beighton, David Collie, James Humphreys, George H. Huttmann, Samuel Kidd, William Milne, T.H.

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Moore, Robert Morrison, Miss Newell (Singapore), John Smith, Claudius H. Thomson and Jacob

Tomlin.

Malacca, Box 3

Letters from missionaries and others in Malacca, 1830-59. There are no letters in the period 1845-

58. The correspondents include Samuel Dyer, Martha Edwardes, John Evans, Samuel Garling, Josiah

Hughes, Samuel Kidd, James Legge, Claudius H. Thomson, Jacob Tomlin and Heinrich C. Werth.

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Malacca, Box 3 (contd.)

Letters from missionaries and others, 1837-59.

Penang, Box 1

Letters from missionaries and others in Penang, 1805-23. There are no letters in the period 1806-18.

The correspondents include Thomas Beighton, John Campbell, John Ince, Walter H. Medhurst and

W.E. Phillips.

Penang, Box 2

Letters from missionaries and others in Penang, 1824-26. The correspondents include Thomas

Beighton, John Ince and John Rodyck.

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Penang, Box 2 (contd.)

Letters from Beighton, Rodyck and Samuel Dyer, 1826-28.

Penang, Box 3


Beighton, Samuel Dyer, John Evans (Malacca) and Samuel Kidd.

Penang, Box 4


Beighton and Evan Davies.

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Penang, Box 4 (contd.)

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Letters from Beighton, Davies, Johann G. Bausum, J. Cawthorne, John Chapman, G.F. Gottlieb and

Alexander Stronoch, 1837-69.

Batavia

Letters from missionaries and others in Batavia, 1814-30. The correspondents include Gottlob

Bruckner, Walter H. Medhurst, W. Popkens, John Slater, John C. Supper and William Young.

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Batavia (contd.)

Letters from missionaries and others, 1830-43

Serampore and Rangoon

Letters from missionaries and others in Serampore and Rangoon, 1809-10. The correspondents

include J. Marshman and Edward Pritchett.

Amboyna

Letters from missionaries and others in Amboyna, 1814-31. The correspondents include Gottlob

Bruckner, E.F. Grenier, Joseph Kam (the principal correspondent) and George Levett.

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Singapore, Box 1

Letters from missionaries and others in Singapore, 1819-34. The correspondents include William

Farquhar, Samuel Milton, Robert Morrison, Sir Stamford Raffles, John Smith, Claudius H. Thomson

and Jacob Tomlin.

Singapore, Box 2

Letters from missionaries and others in Singapore, 1835-44. The correspondents include Samuel

Dyer, Benjamin P. Keasberry, A. North, Alexander Stronoch, John Stronoch, J. Tracy and Samuel

Wolfe. The box also contains unsorted letters, 1826-87, and an index to the letters, 1817-66. The

correspondents include J.A.B. Cook, Benjamin P. Keasberry, John Smith, Claudius H. Thomson, Jacob

Tomlin and William Young.

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Singapore, Box 2 (contd.)

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Letters from Cook, Keasberry, John Campbell, T. McKenzie Fraser, Capt. C.A. Purvis and Alexander

Stronoch, 1845-67, 1884-85.

Ultra Ganges Outgoing Letters, 1822-54

Volume 1

Letters from William A. Hankey, George Burder and William Orme in London to missionaries and

others in South East Asia, 1822-32. The recipients include Thomas Beighton, Samuel Dyer, Samuel

Garling, James Humphreys, Joseph Kam, Samuel Kidd, Walter H. Medhurst, Robert Morrison, Sir

Stamford Raffles, Claudius H. Thomson and Jacob Tomlin.

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Volume 2

Letters from William Ellis in London to missionaries and others in South East Asia and China, 1832-40.

The recipients include Thomas Beighton, Samuel Dyer, John Evans, Walter H. Medhurst, J.R.

Morrison, Robert Morrison, James Scott, John Stronoch, Samuel Wolfe and William Young.

Volume 3

Letters from Arthur Tidman in London to missionaries and others in South East Asia and China, 1841-

54. The recipients include Johann G. Bausum, Thomas Beighton, Samuel Dyer, William Fairbrother,

G.F. Gottlieb, Benjamin P. Keasberry, James Legge, William Milne, J.R. Morrison,William Muirhead,

Alexander Stronoch, John Stronoch and William Young.

Ultra Ganges journals, 1813-41

John C. Supper. Voyage to Batavia, Dec. 1813-May 1814

Gotlob Bruckner. Voyage to Batavia, Dec. 1813-June 1814

Thomas Beighton. Penang, July-Dec. 1819.

John Ince. Penang, July-Nov. 1819.

John Slater. Batavia, Dec. 1819-March 1820

Walter H. Medhurst. Batavia, Oct. 1820-Jan. 1821

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Ultra Ganges journals (contd.)

Thomas Beighton and John Ince. Penang, Nov. 1822-Feb. 1823

Thomas Beighton and John Ince. Penang, Dec. 1823-Aug. 1824

Walter H. Medhurst. Batavia, Jan. 1825-Dec. 1826

Jacob Tomlin. Singapore, Sept. 1827-March 1828

Walter H. Medhurst. Batavia, Aug.-Oct. 1828

Walter H. Medhurst. Tour of the west coast of Borneo, Oct. 1828-Jan. 1829

Walter H. Medhurst. Tour of the coasts of Java and Bali and an account of the island of Bali, Nov.

1829-Jan. 1830

Thomas Beighton. Penang, Jan.-Aug. 1830

Walter H. Medhurst. Tour of Java, July-Aug. 1830

L. Monton. Voyage round Java and Madura, July-Sept. 1833

Thomas Beighton. Penang, Dec. 1838-Feb. 1839 (extracts0

Alexander Stronoch. Penang, July-Aug. 1841.

Reel M670

James Sibree. London Missionary Society: a register of missionaries, deputations etc, from 1796 to

1923 (London, 1923).

The register gives biographical and service details of LMS missionaries. The entries are arranged

chronologically according to the register numbers of the missionaries. There are three appendices:

Appendix A: Alphabetical list of missionaries (pp 171-93)

Appendix B: List of wives of missionaries, entered under their maiden names (pp 195-206)

Appendix C: Register of deputations (pp 207-14)

The deputations include the South Seas (1821-29), Samoa (1887-88), New Guinea and the South

Seas (1897-98), New Guinea and Torres Strait (1905), Australia and New Guinea (1907-8) and the

South Seas and Papua (1915-16).

The reel was filmed from right to left, with the title page at the end of the reel.

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