Guide to the Papers of Gerald Verner Maxwell

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MS 6221

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Collection Summary

Creator
Gerald Verner Maxwell
Title
Papers of Gerald Verner Maxwell
Date Range
1898-1959
Collection Number
MS 6221
Extent
1.62 metres (4 archive boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 small folio box)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2618872) for the access conditions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Gerald Verner Maxwell, National Library of Australia, MS 6221, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Item Descriptions

Series 1. Correspondence

Small quantity of correspondence. Including letters from A. B. Brewater, J. Britton, Douglas Erumage, J.A. Cable, A.M. Champion, Vernon G. Coles, W.F.G. Campbell, Sir Edward Crowe, W.A. Harrison, Walter Hess, Alex Holm, Sir Herbert Henniker Heaton, Rupert Henested, J.O.W. Rope, Lord Jellicoe, S.H. La Fontaine, Enid Linton, Frederick C. Linfield, Lord Lugard, W. McGregor Ross, Ronald Maclean, John Murphy, J. Maxwell, T.D. Maxwell, V.T. McEusty, Sir Jack Merrick, Sir Geoffrey Northcote, Sir Cosmo Parkinson, Lora Passfield, George Pitcher, Sir Cecil Rodwell, Robert Shaw, Sir Bickham Sweet-Scott, T. Drummond Shiels, R.G. Stone, F. Traill, A. de V. Wade, E. MoI. Ward (File 1)

Series 2. Fiji

Personal file (File 2)

21/2/1898 Probationary appointment as Colonial Cadet Fiji.

23/11/1900 S.M. for colony of Fiji

11/12/1903 Assistant Native Commissioner

8/1/1906 Native Lands Commissioner

23/7/1907 Stipendiary Magistrate and Inspector of Native Taxes

28/12/1909 Commissioner of Customs

19/5/1910 Provisional appointment to Legislative Council

22/6/1910 Appointment as Member of Committee to Inquire Into Liquor Laws

27/3/1912 Appt. as Native Lands Commissioner

30/3/1912 Chairman of Native Lands Commissioner

20/7/1916 Appt. to Legislative Council

Subject files (File 3-4)

(i) Folklore: Manuscript and typescript notes on Fijian folklore including songs, notes or native ceremonies, many in Maxwell's handwriting.

(ii) And Notebooks (in Maxwell's hand) dealing with Fijian vocabulary

(iii) Native Lands Commission Reports. 1914-1917.

Photographs (File 5)

Including a few photographs of Fijian subjects including The Tutuvi-i-Randimban, War Club of Thakomban, King of Fiji and Mace of Fiji, 1871-1874. The Native Lands Commission, 1915.

Books (in separate box) (File)

Handbook for Mariners: containing collision regulations and general information for the use of mariners in Fiji. Issued by the Fiji Marine Board and translated into Fijian by G.U. Maxwell. Suva, 1920 (File 5)

Fison, L. Land tenure in Fiji, a lecture delivered at Levuka when the Lands Commission was about to sit. Suva, 1903 (File 5)

Colony of Fiji. Suva. c, 1920 (File 5)

The Fijian people: economic problems and prospects; report by O.H.K. Spate, 1959 (File 6)

Fijian dictionaries and grammars (File 6)

Series 3. Kenya

Lord Lugard: Letters and replies typescript notes on Lord Lugard's memo on the Kenya Question Typescript table of contents of Kenya memo of Lord Lugard, October 1930 (File 7)

Chief Native Commissioners - Nairobi. Miscellaneous papers (File 8)

Managua - Tana. Electric Power Scheme Tribunal. Minority findings (File 9)

Native Lands Tenure (File 9)

Native Lands. Typescript Miscellaneous Reports (File 10)

Native Segregation (Apartheid) in Africa. Typescript with handwritten (Maxwell's) annotations, plus original Manuscript (File 10)

Kenya. Personal. Chief Native Commissioner (File 11)

Native Affairs Department. Annual Report, 1923 and 1922 Typescript (File 12-13)

Budget papers, 1930 (File 14)

Published reports (File 15)

Books on Kenya. (In separate box) (File)

Native Affairs Department. Copies of memoranda, 1922-1930 (File 16-17)

Memorandum of the Native Tribes attached to Hon. C.N.C. minute to Hon. Col. Sec. of 5 September 1923 (File 18)

Kenya. Organisation of Agricultural Education for Africans. Report of the Committee, 1927 (File 18)

Notes on Native Education Policy with particular regard to the part taken by missions, 1928 (File 18)

Appendix "A" recording evidence at Commission on land tenure, 1929 (File 19)

Photographs of Kenya and published atlas. (in folio run) (File)

Series 4. Miscellaneous

Papers re Order of St Michael and St George; rag water colour of Fiji; and other subjects (File 20-22)

Other miscellaneous papers (File)


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