Guide to the Records of the Melanesian Mission (as filmed by the AJCP)

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Series. John Blencowe, 15 July 1862 - 22 July 1874

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Subseries. Miscellaneous correspondence, 15 July 1862 - 22 July 1874

John Keble (Hursley) to James Patteson (London), 15 July 1862 (File)

£400 paid into Mission's ship account; projected new ship Southern Cross.

John Palmer (Norfolk Island) to William Floyd, 12 February 1871 (File)

Schooner Nukalau at Santa Cruz involved in the labour trade. (copy)

William Floyd (Levuka) to [Bishop J.C. Patteson], 27 April 1871 (File)

Labour problem in Fiji; need for teachers for the Fijians and a native missionary or teacher to instruct men of New Hebrides; looks forward to Patteson's visit. (copy)

Bishop J.C. Patteson (Mota) to W. Floyd, 26 May 1871 (File)

Does not expect to visit Fiji before next March; European traders and Fijian labourers; need for Christian teaching of the labourers.

John B. Thurston (Levuka) to [unknown], 5 August 1871 (File)

Account of a meeting with Bishop Patteson to discuss foreign labour in Fiji and the need for a native minister or teacher.

G.W. Underhill (Hobart) to T.C. Tilly (Auckland), 23 December 1871 (File)

A ship to the islands; hopes for the capture of Henry Hayes.

Lord Belmore (Throsby Park, NSW) to T.C. Tilly, 25 December 1871 (File)

A theory on the cause of Bishop Patteson's death told to him by Lord Normanby.

W. Floyd (Ovalau) to R.H. Codrington, 31 January 1872 (File)

Death of Bishop Patteson at a time when they were expecting him hourly; effect on the labour traffic; India and China possible sources of labour.

Capt. Albert Markham (Auckland) to T.C. Tilly, 24 February 1872 (File)

Defends himself against charges of inhumanity; HMS Rosario acted in self-defence; the labour trade; murder of the crew of the Fanny and release of women from slavery.

W. Floyd (Ovalau) to R.H. Codrington (Norfolk Island), n.d. (File)

Has examined the log book of the Nukalau in his enquiry into the death of Bishop Patteson; owners intend to discontinue with labour traffic.

W. Floyd (Levuka) ro R.H. Codrington (Norfolk Island), 12 November 1872 (File)

Cannot leave Fiji as he has no assistant; Langham of Wesleyan Mission considers the Margaret Chessel was the vessel accessory to Bishop Patteson's murder; return of stolen natives; move to create a bishop of Fiji; Church and politics; difficulties with the Welseyans; the labour trade would end if Fijians were not so indolent.

W. Floyd to R.H. Codrington, 22 November 1872 (File)

Hopes of tracing five men stolen when Patteson was murdered; statement by the police that the Emma Bell was the guilty ship; agent of the Margaret Chessel repudiates the charge of complicity; hopes all stolen islanders will be returned to Fiji.

Capt. Harding to [unknown], n.d. (File)

The ship Emma Bell was on a voyage collecting labourers. (copy)

J.M. Fullarton (Levuka) to W. Floyd, 22 November 1872 (File)

Believes that the Margaret Chessel was not the vessel accessory to Bishop Patteson's death; Emma Bell was collecting labourers.

Bishop C.J. Abraham (Lichfield) to R.H. Codrington, 4 February 1873 (File)

Moneys received for the Mission; a disaster off Dunganess; departure of John Selwyn and his party; Brook's article has pained Bishop Selwyn and the Patteson family.

Bishop C.J. Abraham (Lichfield) to R.H. Codrington (Norfolk Island), 4 February 1873 (File)

Money for the Mission; projected new boat Southern Cross; a new chapel; Bishop Edmund Hobhouse; Mary Richards.

Bishop H.J.C. Harper (Christchurch) to R.H. Codrington (Norfolk Island), 22 July 1874 (File)

Appointment of a Bishop of Melanesia; labour traffic in the islands.

Series. Florence E. Combe, June 1903

Notebook kept by Coombe containing translations of Mota phrases (115pp), there are also a few loose pages and two paragraphs, June 1903 (File)

Series. Cole C. Fowler, 1 January 1888 - 3 September 1891

Log book and journal kept by Fowler on HMS Lizard and Rapid and RMS Ballarat, while serving on the Australian Station, 1 January 1888 - 3 September 1891 (File)

Item is mainly a record of courses, latitude and longitude, currents and winds, with very brief notes in the remarks column.

Service journal kept by Fowler on HMS Lizard on the voyage to Australia, November 1887 - May 1888, and on HMS Rapid, May 1888 - September 1891 (File)

There are detailed accounts of visits to New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, the Solomon Islands, Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, as well as various ports in Australia. At the end of the volume are notes on Australasian defences, distances run, a survey of Apia harbour and a plan of a model prison at Port Arthur.

Series. Charles Elliot Fox, 1849 - 1955

Subseries. Correspondence, 13 October 1952 - 12 September 1953

Fox (Malaita) to H. Bullen, 9 July [1952] (File)

Revisions by Rawncliffe and Fox to his work Lord of the Southern Isles.

Bishop S.G. Caulton to Fox, 13 October 1952 (File)

Comments on his manuscript.

Fox (Tambalia) to H. Bullen, 3 September 1953 (File)

Two notes to be added to the manuscript.

[Fox] (Tambalia) to H. Bullen, 12 September 1953 (File)

Glad of corrections on grammar or facts but not those that will destroy the balance of the book.

Subseries. Typescript drafts of Lord of the Southern Isles

George Augustus Selwyn (33pp) (File)
John Coleridge Patteson (41pp) (File)
John Richardson Selwyn (50pp) (File)
Cecil Wilson (52pp) (File)
Cecil John Wood (35pp) (File)
John Mainwaring Steward (46pp) (File)
Frederick Merivale Molyneux (37pp) (File)

File includes several pages from other drafts with manuscript corrections.

Bishop Dickinson (2pp) (File)
Walter Hubert Baddeley (53pp) (File)
Growth of Christianity in Melanesia: the first six years (14pp) (File)
The Northern New Hebrides (61pp) (File)
The Banks Islands (58pp) (File)
Torres Islands (11pp) (File)
The South East Solomons (60pp) (File)
The Central Solomons (64pp) (File)
Outlying islands (25pp) (File)
The earlier schools (26pp) (File)
The later schools in the islands (47pp) (File)
Healing the sick (22pp) (File)
Ships of the Mission (22pp) (File)
Printing (6pp) (File)

Series. Commodore James Goodenough, 1851 - 1876

Commission of James Goodenough, appointed as lieutenant on HMS Calcutta, signed by Sir Michael Seymour, Hong Kong, 23 June 1851 (File)

Journal of Lieut. Goodenough kept while serving on the China Station, March 1861 - January 1862 (File)

It includes a brief account of his visits to Singapore and Penang in December 1861 on the voyage back to England.

Goodenough to the Secretary of the Admiralty, n.d. (File)

Comments on Parliamentary Paper C1114 on the annexation of Fiji. (draft)

W.R. Malcolm (Colonial Office) to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 26 October 1875 (File)

Report of 13 April 1874 on the annexation of Fiji by Goodenough and Edgar Layard. (copy)

Admiral Robert Hall (London) to Victoria Goodenough, 29 October 1876 (File)

Sends copy of the letter of 26 October on the views of the late Commodore Goodenough on the printed correspondence laid before Parliament on the annexation of Fiji.

Series. Bishop Edmund Hobhouse, 24 February 1868 - 7 June 1870

As well as the original letters there are typescript copies.

Hobhouse (Reading) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 24 February 1868 (File)

Departure of Bishop G.A. Selwyn from New Zealand; difficulty of filling his place; character of Hobhouse's successor, A.B. Suter.

Hobhouse (Reading) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 31 March 1868 (File)

Proposed establishment of chaplains on Fiji and Pitcairn Islands; cheerful letters from Nelson; Bishop Selwyn; his plans to visit Auckland.

Hobhouse (Reading) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 24 February 1869 (File)

Decay of missionary zeal; letter from Robert Codrington; mutual friends; progress of his successor, Andrew Suter; Bishops of Wellington, Lichfield and Lincoln.

Hobhouse (Ashbourne, Derbyshire) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 28 September 1869 (File)

Qualities of Robert Codrington; health of Bishop Selwyn; Hobhouse's move to Lichfield; growth of liberalism.

Hobhouse (Ashbourne) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 24 February 1870 (File)

Remembrance of Patteson's consecration in 1861; Rev. Robert Codrington; news from his old diocese; Lichfield Theological College.

Hobhouse (Ashbourne) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 10 May 1870 (File)

Pascoe; marriages of theological students; his boys.

Hobhouse (Ashbourne) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 7 June 1870 (File)

Thankful for Patteson's restoration from a severe illness...

Edmund Hobhouse (Clevedon) to Bishop J.C. Patteson, 18 May 1870 (File)

His life at Walton Lodge school. With a covering note from his father, Bishop Hobhouse.

Series. Melanesian Mission

List of those who joined the Melanesian Mission from its commencement up to 1895. Arranged chronologically. (3pp) (File)

List of those who joined the Melanesian Mission in the last 30 years (i.e. 1895-1924), arranged chronologically. (8pp) (File)

List of workers of the Melanesian Mission, arranged alphabetically, 193 men and 130 women are listed, of whom 24 were killed or died on active service (33pp) (File)

Series. Eric Ramsden

'Pen pictures' from Melanesia: 15 short articles by Eric Ramsden, E. Williams, N.W. Malaita and others (File)

Typescripts, with a printed cover. Most of the articles are unsigned, or only the initials of the writer are given.

Series. M. Rice, 10 April 1941 - 29 March 1952

Subseries. Letterbook containing typed copies of letters received by Miss Rice (Oxford), 10 April 1941 - 1950

Although described individually, these letters are contained in a bound letterbook. The first or last pages of some letters may be attached to the prior or subsequent descriptive item.

Nell Fagan (Lamalana, Pentecost) to Rice, 15 January 1946 (File)
Sister Margaret of the Cross (Bunana, Solomon Islands) to Rice, 15 April 1941 (File)
Sister Gwen of the Cross (Solomon Islands) to Rice, 16 September 1942 (File)
Nell Fagan (Lolowai, New Hebrides) to Rice, 10 April 1941 (File)
Mother Margaret (Lolowai) to her sister (extract), 21 July 1942 (File)
Emily Sprott (Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands) to Rice, 19 January 1942 (File)
Estelle Field to Miss West, 18 September 1942 (File)
Nell Fagan (Lolowai) to Rice, 28 October 1942 (File)
Emily Sprott (Auckland) to Rice, 2 October 1944 (File)
Estelle Field (Kerepei, Ugi Island) to Rice (extract), 28 October 1945 (File)
Nell Fagan (Lolowai) to Rice, 12 December 1943 (File)
Gwendoline Mason (Christchurch) to Rice, 21 January 1944 (File)
Nell Fagan (Lamalana) to Rice, 16 July 1944 (File)
Nell Fagan (Lamalana) to Rice, 5 January 1945 (File)
Bishop Walter Baddeley (Taroaniara, Solomon Islands) to Rice, 17 December 1945 (File)
Emily Sprott (Santa Isabel) to Rice, 15 April 1947 (File)
Nell Fagan (Lamalana) to Rice, 8 December 1947 (File)
Bishop Sidney Caulton to members of the Melanesian Circle, [1948] (File)
Nell Fagan (Lamalana) to Rice, 19 February 1948 (File)
Emily Sprott (Santa Isabel) to Rice, 9 May 1948 (File)
Lillian Hewell (Kerepei) to Rice, 10 May 1948 (File)
Nell Fagan (Santo) to Rice, 12 May 1948 (File)
Nell Fagan (Lamalana) to Rice, 12 September 1948 (File)
Bishop Sidney Caulton (Taroaniara) to Rice, 13 February 1949 (File)
Elizabeth Pyatt (Lolowai) to Rice, [1949] (File)
Nell Fagan (Auckland) to Rice, 13 September 1949 (File)
Nell Fagan (Torgil, Aoba Island) to Rice, 25 October 1950 - 11 June 1951 (File)

Subseries. Original Letters to Rice, 16 December 1949 - 29 March 1952

Betty Cunnold (East Tamaki) to Rice, 16 December 1949 (File)
Julia (Prescot, Lancashire) to Rice, 15 January 1952 (File)
Fay Stock (Torgil) to Rice, 29 March 1952 (File)
Betty Pyatt (Aoba Island) to Rice, 13 February 1952 (File)

Series. St Mary's Girls School, Pamua, British Solomon Islands

Subseries. Exercise books, undated, containing written work of girls in classes 1-4 at St Mary's School

Cecilia: exercise book (File)
Ethel, Patricia: exercise books (File)
Dorothy: exercise book (File)
Kate, Harriet: exercise books (File)

Series. George Sarawia

Sections from the text of the writings of Rev. George Sarawia on his life. (typescript) (File)

Galley proofs of parts 10-12 of 'Early days in Melanesia' (File)

G. Jasper (Melanesian Mission, Auckland) to Rev. W. Seaton (Northallerton): Sends further instalments of the writings of George Sarawia (File)

Series. Bishop John Selwyn, 9 July 1874

Rev. John Selwyn (San Christoval) to his father Bishop G.A. Selwyn, 9 July 1874 (File)

Voyage among the islands on the Southern Cross with R.H. Codrington, John Still, Brooke and Melanesians.

Series. John Still, 22 July 1874 - 29 June 1876

Still (Auckland) to H.E. Wench (Wolverhampton), 22 July 1874 (File)

Voyage of the Southern Cross among the islands with R.H. Codrington, John Selwyn and the Melanesians (24pp). A footnote written at Norfolk Island is dated 17 Sept. 1874.

Typescript extracts from a Wolverhampton newspaper article about Still in Melanesia, 14 September 1875 (File)

Further typescript extracts from a Wolverhampton newspaper, 29 June 1876 (File)

Newspaper cutting of an article entitled 'Letter from a Wolverhampton missionary in New Zealand', the letter being from John Still, Wango, San Christoval, 29 June 1876 (File)

Series. Roger Tempest, 1942 - 15 January 1965

Paper entitled 'Comparisons and contrasts, Melanesia and Suffolk', read to the Guild of St Mary 1939 and Saxmundham R.D. Chapter, (9pp), 1942 (File)

Tempest (Bury St Edmunds) to R. de Voil: encloses a paper entitled 'Melanesia 1877-1919'. (13pp), July 2, 1949 [?] (File)

Paper entitled 'Melanesia', (15pp), c. 1949 (File)

'George Augustus Selwyn and the foundation of the Church of the Province of New Zealand', a paper for the Bury Clerical Society (13pp), 3 February 1953 (File)

'John Coleridge Patteson', paper read at the Guild of St Mary, Ipswich (22pp), 19 February 1957 (File)

'Bishop John Selwyn', paper read at the Guild of St Mary at Charsfield (21pp), 17 October 1960 (File)

'From Dr Fox's book', a paper on Bishop Patteson (pp 1-5, 16-20), n.d. (File)

File also includes the paper 'What makes a good country parson?'.

'Memories' (typescript, 17pp), n.d. (File)

Tempest (Ipswich) to R.P. Garity, Bishop Patteson's chalice, cross and candlesticks, 15 January 1965 (File)

Series. Henry Welchman, 5 December 1887 - 10 November 1908

Subseries. Correspondence, 5 December 1887 - 15 November 1896

All the letters are copies.

Welchman to his mother Charlotte Welchman: voyage of SS Orizaba (part 2 only), [28 Nov. 1887?] (File)
Welchman to Charlotte Welchman, 5 December 1887 (File)

Visit to Naples; description of Port Said, with HMS Serapis bringing home troops.

Welchman (Suez) to Charlotte Welchman, passage through Suez Canal, 8 December 1887 (File)

Details the passage through the canal. Includes an added note from the 9th of December. (Part only)

Welchman (en route to Norfolk Island) to Charlotte Wlechman., [n.d.] (File)

Details a chapel he visited and a stop at Norfolk Island to study the Melanesians there. (Part only)

Welchman (Norfolk Island) to Charlotte Welchman, 4 May 1888 (File)

Daily routine; departure of missionaries on Southern Cross; his life on Norfolk Island; visit of Lord and Lady Carrington; visiting ships.

Welchman (Norfolk Island) to Charlotte Welchman, 24 May 1888 - 16 June 1888 (File)

Departure of Dr Metcalfe for England; illnesses and deaths of Melanesians; teaching in Mota; events at the mission; tropical fruit. (part only)

Welchman (Norfolk Island) to Charlotte Welchman, n.d. (File)

Island boys; adoption of Mota; 'Norfolkers', descendants of Pitcairn Islanders. (part only)

Welchman (Norfolk Island) to Charlotte Welchman, 15 July 1888 (File)

Arrival of mail; bathing places; local happenings.

Fragment of a letter with reference to Welchman's daily life including a new place to swim, n.d. (File)
Welchman (Norfolk Island) to Charlotte Welchman, 29 July [1889?] (File)

Discusses: his first attempt at a Sunday School; he has been at Norfolk Island for over a year.

Helen Welchman (Siota) to Julia Farr, 15 November 1896 (File)

Welchman's school at Siota; behaviour of brides at their weddings; missionary work.

A.E.C. Forrest (Te Motu) to Welchman, n.d. (File)

Dangers encountered on being forced to land on enemy ground.

Fragment of a journal (1p), n.d. (File)
Poem beginning 'A sailor's life seemed nice' (2pp) (File)

Subseries. Diaries of Henry Welchman (12 vols.), 1 January 1889 - 10 November 1908

The diaries of Henry Welchman provide an extremely detailed record of his life in the Pacific Islands, as well as his later life in England. The 1892-96 diaries are held elsewhere, but apart from that gap there are entries for virtually every day, ranging from a few lines to two pages or more. The first diaries were written when he was based in Norfolk Island, but from 1890 onwards he was mainly at Santa Cruz, Santa Isabel and Nggela in the Solomon Islands. The diaries deal inter alia with his work as a doctor, teacher, printer, translator and priest, cruises among the islands including visits to the New Hebrides, journeys in the bush, classes, relations with his pupils, household chores, bread baking, cooking, gardening, conversations with Islanders, conflict and disputes between Islander groups, illnesses and deaths, arrivals and departures of ships and travellers, the school at Siota, church services, examinations of catechisms, baptisms, marriages, funerals and the ordination of deacons, fishing, bathing and cricket. There are also accounts of the long illness and departure of Bishop John Selwyn in 1890-91, Welchman's marriage to Helen Rossiter (30 July 1896), the illness and death of Helen (12 January 1897), news of the death of Bishop Selwyn (1898) and the establishment of St Luke's Central School at Siota. The later entries describe Welchman's journey to New Zealand, Australia and back to England (1901), his meetings with members of the Selwyn Family in England and his return to Santa Isabel in 1903. The last entry is dated 10 November 1908, two days before his death...

Diary, 1 January 1889 - 25 May 1889 (File)
Diary, 26 May 1889 - 3 March 1890 (File)
Diary, 4 March 1890 - 14 March 1891 (File)
Diary, 15 March 1891 - 23 July 1892 (File)
Diary, 16 June 1896 - 7 February 1898 (File)
Diary, 8 February 1898 - 23 September 1899 (File)
Diary, 24 September 1899 - 19 February 1901 (File)
Diary, 20 February 1901 - 17 May 1903 (File)
Diary, 18 May 1903 - 31 December 1904 (File)
Diary, 1 January 1905 - 8 February 1906 (File)
Diary, 10 September 1907 - 22 July 1908 (File)
Diary, 22 July 1908 - 10 November 1908 (File)

Series. Anonymous Papers

Manuscript draft of a projected but unpublished history of the Mission.

George Augustus Selwyn, pioneer and statesman. (pp 1-44) (File Chapter 6)

John Coleridge Patteson, linguist and martyr. (pp 45-84) (File Chapter 7)

John Richardson Selwyn, friend of Melanesians. (pp 85-121) (File Chapter 8)

Cecil Wilson, athlete and evangelist. (pp 122-63) (File Chapter 9)

The mission needs. (pp 164-67) (File Chapter 10)

Series. Miscellaneous Papers, 1847 - 1863

John C. Patteson to his sister Joan Patteson, his accommodation at college, April 1847 (File)

Sister Kate (Christchurch) to Alice Comins, death of Carrie. (part only), 27 June 1897 (File)

S.J. Selwyn (Witney) to Warren, : sends a pencil sketch of his grandfather, Bishop G.A. Selwyn, 30 September 1898 (File)

Anonymous article entitled 'Norfolk Island' (typescript copy), 3 November 1863 (File)

St Patrick's School, Lolowai, New Hebrides. Vureas News (File)

Siota Newsletter, no. 1 (typescript stencil) (File)

Series. Photographs

Album of Melanesian photographs (File)

Photographs of The Southern Cross and The Selwyn (Item)
A Gela bride and a crippled foot (2 photographs) (Item)
Mothercraft nurses and trainees (3 photographs) (Item)

Photograph of Mothercraft nurses and two photographs showing Mothercraft nurse trainees with infants.

Photographs of the chapel at the Mothercraft School on Malaita, a native house, and a kitchen (Item)
Native safe for food and a woman peeling yams (2 photographs) (Item)
Grating coconut (2 photographs) (Item)
Mothers' Union festival, Buala Bugolu (3 photographs) (Item)
Mrs Sprott, the founder of the Mothers' Union 'on this island' with two surviving Foundation members (2 photographs) (Item)
Photograph of mission staff and girls on Lepi and photograph of girls performing a 'clap' dance (Item)
Girls of Torgil School, New Hebrides and Mothers' Union group at Raga, New Hebrides (2 photographs) (Item)
Guadalcanal: village and native woman (2 photographs) (Item)
Photograph of infant Judah Butu (Item)
Bishop Patteson (3 photographs - 1 with George Sarawia of Mota, the first native priest) (Item)
Ino Kopuria and brothers of Melanesian Brotherhood (2 photographs) (Item)
Photograph of Bishop Patteson, photograph of Joseph Wate and 1 unidentified photograph (Item)

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