Please see reel PMB MS 480 for full entry.

Diary of John T. Arundel, 1873 - 1880. During this period, Arundel managed guano digging in the central part of Flint Island, Kiribati. See also PMB MS 14, 498.

Diaries spanning Reverend John R. Metcalfe's entire career as a Methodist missionary and are of particular historical interest for his 37 years in Solomon Islands from 1920-1957. Metcalfe was appointed to Solomon Islands in 1920. After a brief period at Roviana, he was appointed to Choiseul (Lauru island) as assistant to the Rev. V. LeC. Binet. Apart from four years at Teop, he remained on Choiseul (with a break during the war) until 1951. He was then appointed chairman of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons.

See also PMB MS 74 through to MS 80.

James M. Abbott was born on 23 January 1868 at Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA. In 1892 he went to New Zealand as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The diaries cover Abbott's period as a missionary in New Zealand/Aotearoa.

Bishop Wilson (1860-1941) was born in London. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he obtained his BA degree in 1883 and MA in 1886. He was ordained deacon in 1886 and priest in 1887. He was curate of Portsea, Portsmouth, from 1886 to 1891 and vicar of Moordown, Bournemouth, from 1891 to 1894. In the latter year he was appointed Bishop of Melanesia which post he held until 1911, when he was transferred to South Australia. He became Bishop of Bunbury, Western Australia, in 1917. An account by him of his work as Bishop of Melanesia appeared under the title of <I>The Wake of the Southern Cross</I> (London, 1932).

An account of the diarist's work as Bishop of Melanesia. Some of the material was used in The Wake of the Southern Cross. NOTE: No diary was available for microfilming for the period 2 November 1903 - 17 September 1904.

Reel 1: April 20 1894 - September 24 1901
Reel 2: September 25 1901 - September 26 1911; March 15 - October 7 1912 and entries for May, October and November, 1913. Followed by newspaper clippings from The Times Weekly, May 12, 1927 and miscellaneous notes.

Please see PMB 594 for full entry.

Diary 1930 - 1932

Archibald Taylor was a magistrate on Taveuni Island, Fiji. In lending Taylor's diaries to the Bureau for microfilming, Mr Thompson said in a letter dated 5 May 1972: 'I am sorry for the state of the diaries; they are as I received them for safekeeping from Harry Taylor, eldest son of J.G. Taylor, only son of Archibald Taylor. There must have been a great deal of records of this kind in the past, but through nobody taking care of them this is all that remains that I know of ...' The fragment of diary for 1877 is particularly dilapidated. It should be noted that the second date given in this fragment, Thursday, 1 October 1877, appears to be an error for Thursday, 1 November 1877.

Diaries for 31 October 1877 - 15 November 1877, and 1 May 1884 - 30 December 1884.

Please see PMB MS 480 for full entry.

John T. Arundel's Diary 1911 - 1913. At this time Arundel was associated with the Pacific Phosphate Company, which began phosphate mining on Banaba, Kiribati in 1901 and on Nauru in 1906. However, Arundel had already stepped down as deputy chairman of the company in 1909 following a heart attack. See also PMB MS 14, 498

Please see PMB 594 for full entry.

Diary 1936 - 1938

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.