Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Ethnographic notes on South Pacific Islands

AU PMB MS 121
Collection
1899 - 1900

Townsend and Moore were members of the US Fisheries Commission aboard the U.S. Fisheries Commission Steamer Albatross which made a cruise to the South Pacific in 1899 - 1900 under Commander Jefferson F. Moser, USN.

Ethnographic notes on the Marquesas Islands, Tuamotu Islands, Society Islands (French Polynesia), Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Ellice Islands and Gilbert Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Caroline Islands.

Townsend, Charles H.

Correspondence with LMS stations in the Pacific Islands, Reel 1, pp.802-928

AU PMB MS 141-01g
Item
1903 - 1947

Part of Correspondence with LMS stations in the Pacific Islands

Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in:
Gilbert and Ellice Islands, (Tuvalu and Kiribati) cont. 1903-1947; Niue 1907-1939

Correspondence with LMS stations in the Pacific Islands

AU PMB MS 141
Collection
1877 - 1947

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Reel 1: Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in: Cook Islands, 1910-37 (English, local language); Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), 1877-1940 (some damaged) (English, Gilbertese); Niue, 1907-39; Tokelau Islands, 1907-42; Tutuila (American Samoa), 1908-47. Reel 2: Correspondence with American Samoa, 1908-47 (English, Samoan).

London Missionary Society - Samoan District