Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. ROSWELL KING; Shepard; 1886-89; ROUSSEAU; Leuce; 1837-40; Pacific VESTA; Smith; 1841-42; STONINGTON; Pierson; 1830-31; SUPERIOR; McLean/Hart; 1838-40; Pacific TALMA; ?; 1832-33; TEMPEST; ?; 1857; WILLIAM BAKER; Wilcox/Howland; 1834-36; * - Sailed to areas other than Pacific or Indian Ocean.

Correspondence relating to mission management, particularly to financial matters. See also PMB 554 for letterbook of 1924-31.

Reports for the years 1950-56

Minutes for the years 1949-62

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. ALFRED GIBBS; Nichols; 1859-64; Pacific ALFRED GIBBS; Jennings; 1865-69; Pacific MARY AND SUSAN; Jennings; 1877-81; Pacific ALFRED GIBBS; Jennings; 1870-73; Pacific MORNING STAR; Allen; 1868-72; ALMIRA; Smith; 1858-61; Indian Ocean ALMIRA; Osborn; 1864-68; Pacific ALMIRA; ?; 1867; (Accounts) Pacific ALMIRA; ?; 1869-70; (Accounts) Pacific CLARICE; ?; 1871-75; (Accounts) ALMIRA; Marchant; 1858-61; Indian Ocean ALTO; Snell; 1854-57; Indian Ocean AMAZON; Smith; 1839-41; Indian Ocean AMERICA; Chase; 1849; Pacific MARCELLA; Chase; 1865-67; AMERICA; Seabury; 1861; - Sailed to areas other than Pacific or Indian Ocean.

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. CALIFORNIA; Brightman; 1881-85; Pacific CALIFORNIA; Brightman; 1886-87; Pacific CALIFORNIA; Brightman; 1881-85; Pacific CALIFORNIA; Slocum; 1892; Pacific BELVEDERE; Slocum; 1894; Pacific CALIFORNIA; West; 1894-95; Pacific CALLAO; Howland; 1855-58; Pacific CALLAO; Howland; 1862-65; CAMBRIA; Harding; 1842-46; Pacific - Sailed to areas other than Pacific or Indian Ocean.

Please see PMB 581 for full entry.

The papers are:

1. documents concerning Hanna Solf-Dotti, Solf's widow;
2. a biography of Solf by Maximilien von Hagen, 1937-39;
3. correspondence re the publication Solf/Wolff-Metternich correspondence, 1946-49;
4. a manuscript book entitled 'Elf Jahre in Samoa und andere Aufzeichnungen' (Eleven years in Samoa and other notes), written in 1895 by one von Wolffersdorff, known as Tulafale Falepoumaa.

These papers form part of the records of the Vicariate of the New Hebrides, which are designated Oceania Novae Ebudae (OE) in the Marist Archives. They have been filmed as PMB 590, 591 and 592.

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.