Heinrich Schnee was an official of the German colonial government. He was acting governor of German New Guinea in April-July 1899 and acting governor of Western Samoa in 1902.

The descriptions used in the archives for the correspondence are as follows:<BR>Ministere Marine et Colonies - Monografia (5F 201) - Narrationes (5F 202) which include La Terre Australe de Saint-Esprit, a history of the Marist mission in the New Hebrides, published in 1912, and cuttings from Le Neo-Caledonien, 29/2/1888 relating to the New Hebrides, from Le Journal des Nouvelles-Hebrides, 26/10/1901 and La Quinzaine Coloniale, 25/5/1903; Epistolae Historia (5F 208) Mortui, listing the deaths of missionaries for 1852 and 1898-1931, with date of birth and place of death; SE 330 Relations, including an extract of Council Minutes for 5/10/1887, letters, a report by Fr Provincial on the New Hebrides mission 26/9/1913 (typescript 44pp.) and Visite aux Nouvelles-Hebrides 30 August - 4 November 1919 a report on mission stations and missionaries by J.B. Chevreuil; SE 418 Mgr Doucere, epistolae 1887-1919 (Continued on PMB 591)<BR>The correspondence is not in chronological order.