Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Account of a voyage from Marseilles to New Caledonia and Journal of Roman Catholic Mission at Malekula, 1883-1891, by Father F.X. Gaudet, S.M.

AU PMB MS 53-05
Item
1906-1912

Part of Papers

An account of the Islands of Wala and Rano, Malekula, by Father Casimir Salomon, S.M. c.1906-1908.

AU PMB MS 53-06
Item
1906-1912

Part of Papers

Correspondence, journal, notes

AU PMB MS 61
Collection
1897 - 1926

Papers from the Roman Catholic Mission to New Hebrides (now Vanuatu):

Correspondence of Father J.B. Jamond, S.M. 1897-1926, with calendar.
Notes on Wala (Malekula), Melsisi (Pentecost) etc. by Father Casimir Salomon, S.M.
Journal of Father Jean-Baptiste Suas, S.M., 1895-1896.
Letters from Father Casimir Salomon, S.M. to Bishop Doucere from Wala (Malekula), 1905-1907.

Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides

Demits (Images) To Represent Men Who Have Died.

AU PMB PHOTO 79-144
Item
c.1910

Part of New Hebrides Mission photograph album, 1880-1922

Foreign Missions Committee

Diaries

AU PMB MS 86
Collection
1 June 1901 - 26 April 1908

The Rev. T. Watt Leggatt served as a Presbyterian missionary on Malekula, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), for about 25 years from 1887. See Patrick O'Reilly's 'Bibliographie des Nouvelles Hebrides' (Paris, 1958) for details of his published writings.

The diary gives a day-by-day account of Leggatt's work as a missionary in the New Hebrides. See also PMB MS 87.

Leggatt, Thomas Watt

Dictionaries

AU PMB MS 59
Collection
c.1900-1915

Dictionaries produced by the Roman Catholic Mission New Hebrides (now Vanuatu):

Dictionary of the language of South-West Bay, Malekula, by Father Pierre Chauvel, S.M. (French-South West Bay).
Dictionary of the language of Vao, Malekula, by Father Casimir Salomon, S.M. (Vao-French).
Dictionary of the language of Olal, Ambrym (French-Olal).
Dictionary of the language of Talomako, Big Bay, Espiritu Santo (Talomako-French).
Dictionary of the Talomako language of Big Bay, Espiritu Santo, by Father Alphonse Ardouin, S.M., (French-Talomako).

Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides

Dictionaries and vocabularies

AU PMB MS 60
Collection
c.1909

Dictionaries and vocabulary lists from the Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu):

Dictionary of the language of Aoba (Ambae) by Father J.B. Prin, S.M. (French-Aoba).
Grammaire de Melsisi - Grammar of the language of Melsisi (Pentecost) by Father Joseph Niel, S.M.
Dictionary of the language of Melsisi (Pentecost) by X (French-Melsisi).
Dictionary of the language of Melsisi (Pentecost) by Father Elie Tattevin, S.M. (French-Melsisi) A-D only.
Dictionary of the language of Wala (Malekula) by Father Casimir Salomon, S.M. (French-Wala).
Vocabulary of the Loltong language of Pentecost by Father Pierre Gonnet, S.M. (Loltong-French and French-Loltong).
Vocabulary of the Loltong language of Pentecost by Father Elie Tattevin, S.M. (Loltong-French).
Vocabulary of the Loltong language of Pentecost by Father Elie Tattevin, S.M. (French-Loltong).

Roman Catholic Mission, New Hebrides