Guide to the Papers of Beatrice Blackwood (as filmed by the AJCP)

30 letters and 1 newspaper cutting to Prof. A. Thomson (Beatrice Blackwood's supervisor) from Buka and Bougainville and journeys. Discusses fieldwork etc., 1929 - 1930 (File 2)

Arranged in order of despatch.

9 pages of children's drawings from North Bougainville (File 3)

Collected 1930.

A.E. Collins, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, asking Beatrice Blackwood to provide descriptions of Kieta and encloses comparable descriptions of Fiji. 13p, 27 March 1944 (File 4)

1 notebook. Trip to Tiop and Timputs village, Bougainville 75p (File 2)

1 notebook. Final trip to Buka. This notebook at the back also records the skeleton of a vocabulary which it was clearly intended to collect at Salamaua, New Guinea c50p, September 1930 - July 1936 (File 4)

Physical anthropology record sheets for 65 males aged over 20 and 1 aged under 20. North Bougainville, September 1930 (File 1)

Physical anthropology sheets for 128 females aged over 20 and 26 aged between 15 and 20 years old. North Bougainville, Sept. 1930? (File 2)

Physical anthropology record sheets for 83 females aged over 20. Islands off West coast of Buka (File 3)

Physical anthropology record sheets for 84 males aged over 20. Petats, Proroan and islands off W. coast of Buka, October 1929 (File 4)

Exercise book, giving statistics for various male physical features. N.W. Solomons. 29p (File 5)

Exercise book giving statistics for various female physical features. N.W. Solomons. 29p (File 6)

Letter to Beatrice Blackwood from A.M. Stewart of Numa Numa Plantation, 11 February 1930 (File 7)

Sending stories told by the Aitape people. These had been published in the Rabaul Times, 16 Sept., 9 Dec. and 16 Dec. 1927. 21p.

Also a descriptive piece sent by Gordon Thomas of Pororan entitled 'An Island Initiative'. 5p.

Typed and manuscript accounts of Dreams, most by N. Solomon islanders, but some apparently by Beatrice Blackwood herself (?) (File 8)

Also notes on the classification of dreams. 257p.

Typed papers giving account of plants from Bougainville used for a variety of purposes e.g. contraception, control of menstruation, childbirth, illnesses etc. 46p (File 9)

Lecture (11p.)and draft notes (15p.) on physical anthropology of N.W. Solomons, 20 March 1939 - August 1955 (File 10)

Correspondence with L. Dudley Buxton (?) about the paper Physical Anthropology and his comments. August 1955.

3 letters and 6p.

Letter from Douglas Oliver, 20 Mar. 1939, Kiefa, TNG re: his physical anthropology work in N.W. Solomons; reply by Beatrice Blackwood giving details of her fieldwork. 20 Apr.1939. Assorted working notes. c14p.

Typescript and notes on stories from N. Bougainville collected by Beatrice Blackwood (File 1)

Also notes on material collected by other people. Includes totemic stories, culture origin stories, animal stories, transformation stories and 'real life' stories. Mostly unpublished, kept by Beatrice Blackwood for reference. c507p

Stories in Buka dialect, with English interlinear translation, 1929 (File 3)

13p.

Copy of 'A Methodist Hymn Book' in Pidgin English (10p), 1929 (File)

Papers relating to comparative study of Buka and Bougainville dialects and those of adjacent islands (File 4)

c.181p.

Letters from S.H. Ray, Thorpe Bay, Essex, 27 Nov 1933; 19 Dec 1933; 30 Nov 1934 (File 4)

Material on women for BSBP bearing on the position of women (File 1)

Also 'first draft of chapter on Marriage and Marital Relations': 258p.

Accounts of marital relationships and sexual habits. 66p (File 2)

Stories from Kurtachi relating to marital and sexual matters 183p (File 3)

Material on string figures. 138p (File 4)

Notebook containing a Pidgin and English-Petats vocabulary. 84p, August 1929 (File 1)

Notebook containing Petats vocabulary. 133p, 1 October 1929 (File 2)

Notebook. Petats language. 68p, October 1929 (File 3)

c480 paper slips. Melanesian prescriptions, giving local language terms for medical conditions and points of clinical treatment (File 4)

c151 cards 'Beginning of a vocabulary of Petats and Kurtachi Bougainville (File 5)

5 notebooks containing vocabularies and notes on the Buka and Kurtachi dialects. C280p (File 6)

Compilation of notes on material culture of the Ramu River region. 110p (File 1)

Notebook. Field notes for Bosman region, New Guinea. C100p (File 2)

Diary, 18 October 1937 - 13 December 1937 (File 3)

Bosman villages (unfinished according to Beatrice Blackwood) (Notebook and lists relating to photography removed to photo r.d.f.) 49p.

3 pads. Notes and texts relating to Ekua, Bosman and Arawe language. C250p (File 4)

Notebook. Field notes and language notes. Arawe. C160p (File 5)

Material relating to New Guinea language: S.H. Ray's list (9p.), 29 May 1933 (File 6)

Letter from Rev. A.H. Cropp from Buka Passage, with news of the area; pamphlet The Papuan Languages by S.H. Ray. 8p.

Notes on Arawe material culture (typescript) 64p (File 1)

3 hand-drawn maps of southern New Britain and Rook Island; meteorological records; genealogical tree (File 2)

Drawing book containing drawings of Arawe canoe paddle designs. (File 3)

6p.

39 rough sketches and notes on Arawe canoe paddles; and list of names for designs. 6p.

2 Arawe children's drawings.

Collected 1937

2 letters. Beatrice Blackwood to H. Balfour. Rabaul, 14 September 1937 - 19 September 1937 (File 4)

Re sending Arawe specimens.

1 letter to Beatrice Blackwood from G. Thomas, Rabaul, 26 February 1934 (File)

Re news of local people.

2 pages of unidentified draft for letter (?) from Gasmata, describing her fieldwork (File)

Notes on Ekua, Manki & Amat vocabulary, comparative word lists etc. 111p (File 1)

Notes on material culture, including Clothing, Weapons, Agriculture, Tools and Musical Instruments. 86p (File 2)

Notes on Fighting etc. Cannibalism and related stories, Spirits, Ghosts and related myths. 134p (File 3)

Notes on Villages, Clans, Marriage, Childbirth, Initiation, Death and Social Structure. 83p (File 4)

46 drawings by Anga children (File 5)

Patrol reports and handdrawn maps relating to activities in the Watut River region. 8p (File 6)

Notes on Anga material culture. 10p (File 7a))

Description of Watut country (typescript) 2p (File 7b))

Diary of Pangi, an elderly man, and Oyendapo, a young man and family. Morobe region. 10p, 1936 (File 7c))

Typescript of letter (?) from Beatrice Blackwood to unnamed recipient (poss. Balfour?), Manki, Morobe district, October 1936 (File 7d))

Letter and geological notes from L.C. Noakes, Rabaul, 29 April (File 7e))

Notes on racial crossing in Melanesia, 2p, also 10 photographs (File 8)

Cards for practical comparison of Melanesia and Polynesia (File 1)

49 5' X 3' cards, some of which have been used as headings or guide cards, some give comparative data for Melanesia and Polynesia.

Borneo and Sarawak, 13 November 1941 - 25 November 1941 (File 2)

Comprises draft papers, booklists, correspondence; rough notes; Subjects include Agriculture; Hunting; Pagan Tribes of Borneo; Dress; Basketry. Correspondence between Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, and W.O. Pidgeon, Secretary British North Borneo (Chartered) Co. concerning information on North Borneo. 4 letters. c63p

Java (File 3)

Comprises drafts and rough notes; subjects include Batiks; Art; Music and Musical Instruments; agriculture. 35p

Sumatra (File 4)

Comprises rough notes on history and ethnology. 6p

Loose material on Pacific, 11 July 1934 (File 5)

Comprises rough notes, booklists, lecture notes, correspondence; Subjects include Ethnology; Secret Societies; Languages; Culture; Migration; Letter, Secretary Prime Minister's Office Canberra to Beatrice Blackwood re reports on New Guinea. C241p

Ethnology Lecture: Asia, Oceania, America (File 2)

Select pages 44-81 and (107)

Ethnological survey of Malay peninsula, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, Oceania, New Zealand.

Oceania and Australia (File 1)

Comprises reading notes, rough notes, press cuttings; Subjects include the Pygmies of German New Guinea; Tasmanian crania; racial comparison. 40p.

Thanks for letter, 10 September 1943 (Item E1)

P.R. Report and booklet about Marett. News of anthropological personalities. The War and its effect on the aboriginal populations. A.P. Elkin's work and plans. 2p

Thanks for letter and Report, 19 April 1945 (Item E2)

Details of A.P. Elkin's work, and developments of anthropological studies in Australia. The process of 'turning the edges' in making stone implements among the Australian Aboriginals. 2p

Asking if Beatrice Blackwood can tell him what the research being done at Cambridge on the ethnology of northern tribes in Australia covers, 3 September 1945 (Item E3)

There might be danger of duplication, as A.P. Elkin's department has done much field-work. 1p

Thanks for letter and Report, 5 October 1945 (Item E4)

Remarks on the making of spear points (see No. 2 above). The lack of a Report by anthropologists on the effects of the War on the natives of Papua. He is working on a scheme to enable those who have previously worked intensively on the S.W. Pacific to return to study the effects of the War. 2p. & index card.

Thanks for letter, 18 January 1946 (Item E5)

Mention of Donald Thompson and the problems he presents. The possibility of an offer being made to Beatrice Blackwood to enable her to revisit the Solomon Islands. 1p

Thanks for letter and Report. News of his son Anthropological news. 1p, 5 July 1949 (Item E6)

Thanks for Report, 8 September 1952 (Item E7)

Anthropological news. His visit to Arnhem Land N. Australia and the material he brough back, as recorded in 'Oceania' Vol. 22, No.4. News of his son. 1p

Thanks for Report. Details of the films and musical records he brought back from his N. Australia visit. 1p, 6 November 1952 (Item E8)

Thanks for Report, 17 June 1954 (Item E9)

His projected journeys.

Anthropological news.

A lot of research is going on in both the Australian and New Guinea.

Melanesian fields.

Thanks for letter and Report. General news of his retirement and son, 3 November 1959 (Item E10)

Thanks for letter and Report. Retirement is an illusion for both of them, 24 October 1960 (Item E11)

Beatrice Blackwood ought to come to Australia next year, and on the way attend the Pacific Science Congress at Honolulu. Asks if she has any notes or recollections of the 1936 P.C.S. 1p

Thanks for letters and Report, 14 January 1964 (Item E12)

He hopes that P.R. does not become too exclusively African.

Anthropology in England has been in danger of that for some years.

The Dept. of Anthropology in Sydney University, and the Australian Museum have both been developed.

Thanks for letters and Reports, 4 August 1965 (Item E13)

Academic and other positions which he occupies.

References to the technique of turning the edge in pressure flaking.

Recordings of Aboriginal music.

News of his son.

Cambridge, 11 November 1931 - 12 November 1931 (Item H2)

Pottery is made by men in Bougainville? Attached is a copy (or draft) of Beatrice Blackwood's reply. She has been misquoted or misinterpreted. It is women who make the pottery.

Cambridge, 14 February 1932 (Item H3)

Commenting on a paper sent to him Beatrice Blackwood He thinks it gives a good general idea of the classics of Melanesia, and adds suggestions. Quotes sources re: pottery making.

Cambridge, 20 November 1932 (Item H4)

Thanking Beatrice Blackwood for a letter, etc.

Cambridge, 30 April 1938 (Item H5)

Can she provide information about some specimens that have arrived at the Museum (presumably in Cambridge)? He assumes that she brought them over.

Brockenhurst, 26 March 1939 (Item H6)

He has undertaken to write an obituary of Balfour for the Royal Society. Now comes a request from Beatrice Blackwood He will try to do both, but will need much information.

Cambridge, 25 May 1939 (Item H7)

He has not made much progress with the appreciation of Balfour for the Memorial Volume.

Cambridge, 6 June 1939 (Item H8)

Enclosing his appreciation of Balfour. Forthcoming visit to Oxford, wants to study the bamboo pipes from New Guinea.

Cambridge, 17 June 1939 (Item H9)

Enclosing his paper on New Guinea pipes and tobacco.

Evanston, 14 March 1928 (Item H37)

Thanks for letter. Reference to problems of skin colour heredity. Various papers are being exchanged.

Paris, 21 June 1938 (Item H38)

He enjoyed and valued her book about Buka. The importance of the short 'diaries' she has published, which he hopes to get hold of.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 23 June 1938 (Item H39)

Copy of Beatrice Blackwood's reply to the above. She will be pleased to make the 'diaries' available. She returned to Oxford only just before term, after two years absence in New Guinea.

Paris, 2 July 1938 (Item H40)

M.J.H. will be delighted to get Beatrice Blackwood's 'diaries'. Has she any data in the quantitative form in which Provinse cast his material?

Evanston, USA, 25 May 1939 (Item H41)

He is sorry that his request for some of the 'diaries' has burdened Beatrice Blackwood for so long. General news. Distressed to have had the news of the death of Buxton and Balfour.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 2 June 1939 (Item H42)

Copy of Beatrice Blackwood's reply to the above. She now suggests using some of the diaries material in an article for The American Anthropologist. Information about Upper Watut, New Guinea, and its people.

Prof. C.G. Seligman to Beatrice Blackwood, 13 November 1931 (Item S9)

That he missed her paper on dreams.

Beatrice Blackwood to Seligman, Oxford, 31 December 1931 (Item S10)

Sending him her 'drea material'.

Toot Baldon (Oxford), 4 March 1932 (Item S11)

His consideration of her dream material has been held up.

Toot Baldon, 6p., 19 August 1932 (Item S12)

He has now finished his book, (Pagan Tribes of Nilotic Sudan?) and has started work on Beatrice Blackwood's dream material. He attaches a list of questions on sexual behaviour. Attached is her reply.

Toot Baldon, 25 September 1932 (Item S13)

Thanking Beatrice Blackwood for notes.

Toot Baldon, 9 October 1932 (Item S14)

Asking one more question about Beatrice Blackwood's dream material. Does it betoken a society in which marriage seems generally unhappy?

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 21 May 1933 (Item S15)

She is again turning her attention to her Solomons book. What can best be done with her dreams material? She encloses an outline of a propsed chapter on dreams.

Toot Baldon, 22 June 1933 (Item S16)

His reply to the above. Beatrice Blackwood is the best person to handle the material. Information about his own dream papers.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford (Item S17)

Beatrice Blackwood's reply (copy) to the above. She will be grateful if he will look over her chapter on dreams.

Toot Baldon, 10 July 1933 (Item S18)

He has read her dreams chapter with great interest. Proposals for a visit from her.

Toot Baldon, 30 October 1933 (Item S19)

Will Beatrice Blackwood allow a post-graduate student to read through her dream material, and quote passages?

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 31 October 1933 (Item S20)

Beatrice Blackwood's reply (copy) to the above

Toot Baldon, 8 January 1934 (Item S21)

He has read Beatrice Blackwood's material (title illegible).

Toot Baldon, 4p., 9 May 1935 (Item S22)

References to marriage in Ambrym culture. A suggested alteration to one of Beatrice Blackwood's footnotes The term 'Watchitchio', and its role in marriage.

A copy of Beatrice Blackwood's work on this subject is attached, incorporating the proposed alteration.

An invitation to a sherry party., 27 May 1940 (Item S23)

Dunedin, New Zealand, 6 October 1931 (Item S26)

Forwarding a letter apparently concerning a Mr R.M.S. Taylor who has been doing research on Moriori teeth.

Family news. Developments at the Otago University Museum. Details of his own work.

2p.

Dunedin, 20 February 1932 (Item S27)

Collections and specimens from the Solomons his museum has received.

Asking for a copy of one of Beatrice Blackwood's papers. Understands her wish to go back to Bougainville.

Potential and economic troubles in New Zealand.

News of family, friends and work. 3p.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 22 April 1932 (Item S28)

Beatrice Blackwood writes to say that the boxes of material intended for his museum have not gone off yet.

General work and business matters. The economic situation.

She cannot foresee another visit to Bougainville References to anthropological personalities. 3p.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 26 April 1932 (Item S29)

A second letter reporting that the boxes of specimens, with some of her notes, have now gone off. Attached is a list of the items sent. 2p.

Dunedin, 1 June 1932 (Item S30)

Thanks for her letters and papers. Discusses the qualities needed by anthropologists.

He is delighted with the specimens which have now arrived.

The troubles of New Zealand.

Starting to work on typological studies. 2p.

Dunedin, 15 February 1933 (Item S31)

A query about two items of the Bougainville material sent by Beatrice Blackwood Comments on the collection. Publication of notes? 2p.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 21 March 1933 (Item S32)

Beatrice Blackwood's reply to the above (copy)

Answers to his queries.

Her plans for publication of her book

Shortage of money will prevent her doing much travelling. 2p.

Dunedin, 27 June 1939 (Item S33)

Thanks for letter. He thinks Beatrice Blackwood ought to have been chosen as Balfour's successor. Sorry to hear Beatrice Blackwood's last spell in the field was less successful.

Developments at his museum.

Family news. 2p.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 16 November 1939 (Item S34)

Beatrice Blackwood's reply to the above (copy) Radcliffe Brown who has been trying to abolish all branches of anthropology except Social. 'He is a major disaster to Anthropology in Oxford'.

Interesting details of the struggle and the teaching of Anthropology in Oxford.

Dunedin, 21 March 1940 (Item S35)

Thanks for letter. Sorry to hear of P.R. troubles.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 22 May 1940 (Item S36)

Beatrice Blackwood's reply to the above (copy) P.R. is going on well under Penniman. There is plenty of work and students and materials keep pouring in.

Radcliffe Brown remains a thorn in the flesh.

Dunedin, 26 January 1943 (Item S37)

Sorry for long failure to write.

His War work.

He has published a paper on the classification of fish hooks.

Dunedin, 7 October 1944 (Item S38)

Thanks for letter and Reports.

His War work.

His museum has been able to make great improvements.

He has published some typological papers.

He will write to Knowles and suggest an exchange of Maori stone implements for Lower Palaeolithic.

(Mrs Skinner), 22 November 1944 (Item S39)

Mrs. Skinner writes thanking Beatrice Blackwood for a letter.

Family news. H.D.S. adds a few lines.

Dunedin, 3 September 1948 (Item S40)

Thanks for letter and Report. P.R. has made remarkable progress; his museum has also developed.

Dunedin, 13 August 1951 (Item S41)

Thanks for letter and Report.

Speiser and his good work.

Family news.

Dunedin, 1955 (Item S42)

Thanks for letter and Report. The whereabouts of Pitcairn material.

His museum's work and problems.

His impending retirement.

Dunedin, 7 September 1963 (Item S43)

News of his wife's death.

The opening of the new museum wing Otago. A.D. Litt had been conferred on him.

Family news. 2p.

Dunedin, 23 March 1964 (Item S44)

Thanks for letter. His work. A projected trip. Family news.

Dunedin, 20 August 1964 (Item S45)

Thanks for letter and Report.

Development of the University and Museum in Dunedin.

He is at work on two papers.

Family news.

Dunedin, 30 July 1965 (Item S46)

Thanks for letter and Report.

P.R. is a wonderful institution. Museum news

Family news.

Dunedin, 9 July 1968 (Item S47)

Thanks for Report. News of family and colleagues.

Dunedin, 16 December 1968 (Item S48)

Thanks for letter. Sorry to hear that P.R. progress, on the financial side, has been held up He is writing his memoirs.

Family news.

Progress at his museum. 2p.

Dunedin, 5 August 1969 (Item S49)

Thanks for letter and Report. His museum progresses and still gets accessions.

Centennial celebration of the museum and university.

Family news.

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Dunedin, 21 December 1974 (Item S50)

Thanks for letter and Report. Congratulations to Beatrice Blackwood for her courage in continuing work on the catalogues.

His book of papers has been published by Otago University Press.

He has just had his 86th birthday and says good-bye.

Mrs Skinner, Dunedin, 10 July 19? (Item S51)

A partly dated letter from Mrs S. going back to the early days of their friendship Her husband's work and news of the family.

Jim Specht, ANU Res. School of Pacific Studies, Canberra, 16 February 1967 (Item S52)

Asking Beatrice Blackwood for information and help on the prohistory of pottery-using groups in Papua and New Guinea.

His plans for excavations on Buka. 2p.

Jim Specht, Sydney, 8 March 1973 (Item S53)

Thanking Beatrice Blackwood for her letter about the paper he had sent her on the pottery industry of Buka.

His future plans.

Philadelphia, 16 July 1943 (Item S54)

Thanks to Beatrice Blackwood for the memorial notices on Marett.

Basel. He is glad she was able to make use of some his ideas. News of his work. 3p, c1931-1932 (Item S55)

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 7 April 1932 (Item S56)

(copy) suggesting the possibility of exchanging specimens. P.R. wants a blow-gun, and could offer a 'tall hat' (upi) from North Bougainville, about which she could offer information and photographs.

Basel, 20 April 1932 (Item S57)

His own results from his visit were only in collecting material. He will be glad to offer a blow-pipe. He would prefer something else from Bougainville? a hafted stone axe.

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 7 May 1938 (Item S58)

Beatrice Blackwood writes to say (copy) that she is just back from two years field work in New Guinea. Details of her programme. Can he help her get anything he has written on Rook Island?

Basel, 10 May 1938 (Item S59)

Reply to the above.

Comments on Beatrice Blackwood's two years field-work. The importance of having a good description of one of the inland tribes. Enquiring about people he had met on his visit there. Sending regards to Balfour.

His own age and health.

His hatred of lecturing.

Developments in his own museum.

Basel, 16 August 1938 (Item S60)

Sends Beatrice Blackwood the 'concept' of his lecture, and his North Britain material. She may use what she likes, without mentioning his name (material not present)

Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford, 18 October 1939 (Item S61)

Beatrice Blackwood's reply (copy) to the above. News of her work and P.R.M.

Basel, 2p., 30 October 1939 (Item S62)

His reply to the above.

The war atmosphere in Switzerland.

He still finds lecturing boring.

The difficulties of the situation for small neutral nations His view of the way the war will go. The war has stopped his museum's plans for enlargement.

Basel, 12 June 1942 (Item S63)

Reference to an exchange of letters.

Problems of war conditions. He has taken charge of his museum.

Shortage of fuel and coal in Switzerland.

No-one doubts the final victory of the allies.

(NOTE: a second sheet of his letter is missing.)

Basel, 11 October 1942 (Item S64)

Thanks for a letter. Life in Switzerland and his military service. References to the 'Anthropological clique' and Father Schmidt, a 'nasty little pope'.

Museum and anthropological news.

General war news. Strong anti-German feeling in Switzerland. Unrest in Germany. Probably post-war problems. 2p.

Basel, 8 May 1945 (Item S65)

The scientific isolation of Switzerland.

He wants news of his English anthropologist friends.

He has been working on the cultural history of the Pacific.

His views on his German colleagues. The linguistic problem of German-speaking Switzerland. German universities had bred the mentality that led to Hitler and the war.

The Swiss are full of admiration for what England has done for civilization.

Museum news and comments. 2p.

Basel, 20 June 1945 (Item S66)

Thanks for a long letter. The deaths of Haddon, Seligman, and Malinowsky. Is the latter such a terrible loss?

The objects evacuated from his museum are now being put back.

Basel, 30 January 1946 (Item S67)

Thanks for letter and Reports. He is envious of P.R. and its constantly increasing rich collections.

'The Melanesians are quite dead now'.

Conditions in Switzerland.

Thanks for letter and Report., 1 June 1949 (Item S68)

He himself is tired and has no enthusiasm for work. He sees that P.R. is to get more room for the library, but not for collections.

The political situation looks hopeless

On the article on which they have collaborated for the Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1 February 1928 (Item T18)

Copy of Beatrice Blackwood's reply to the above. She could readily be available for the Pacific Project Dr. Wissler is arranging (Item T19)

Copy of Beatrice Blackwood's letter. She is to go to work in one of the smaller islands of the Bismarck Archipelago. She asks his opinion of the 'spectrum red' discs, 27 May 1929 (Item T20)

Copy of Beatrice Blackwood's letter informing him of her return from her year in Buka/Bougainville, 20 February 1931 (Item T21)

Thanking Beatrice Blackwood for the above letter. Would be glad to have some of the spectrum red paper, 9 March 1931 (Item T22)

Copy of Beatrice Blackwood's letter sending the spectrum red samples, She is very busy with her Buka material, 20 August 1931 (Item T23)

Thanking Beatrice Blackwood for the above letter and the spectrum red papers, 16 September 1931 (Item T24)