Mann, a Methodist missionary, served at Piniqidu (now spelt Pinikidu), New Ireland, from 1919 to 1921. The papers comprise:

1. Diary 1919-22
2. Letters, 1920
   3 Letters from missionaries at Piniqidu, 1922-41
3. Notes on the Malagenes ceremony and the influence of government and missions.
4. Stores list, Piniqidu, 1919-20
5. Writings (with translations) by mission staff at Piniqidu describing various local customs including burial practices, the preparation and use of malira (an aphrodisiac), treatment of sickness and insanity, rain making and the presentation of eligible girls.
6. Description of slides.

Sandars, a former officer in the British Army, went to the Solomon Islands in 1928 to join the armed constabulary. He was one of the most important District Officer and District Commissioners on Malaita throughout the 1930s until 1947. He died in NSW in March 1975.

The papers comprise:

1. Autobiography covering the years 1928-43
2. A diary kept from 23 November 1942 - 7 April 1943
3. Autobiography, 1896-1923

Haddon, who was born in 1855, was appointed Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Science in Dublin after obtaining a first in natural sciences at Cambridge. In 1889, he went to Torres Strait and became interested in recording native custom before it was affected by European contact. After his return to Britain, he accepted a part-time lectureship in physical anthropology at Cambridge, and in 1898 he organised the famous Cambridge University Expedition to Torres Strait, which brought him to Papua (then called British New Guinea). He became Reader in Ethnology at Cambridge in 1908 and remained there until his retirement in 1925. After his death, his numerous papers became part of Cambridge University Library.

These documents represent only a fraction of the Haddon collection. Their contents, and Cambridge University Library envelope numbers, are as follows:<BR><P>Reel 1:<BR>1005; Correspondence with J. Chalmers ('Tamate'), 1898, re Torres Strait Expedition<BR>1006; Correspondence of R. Bruce to Haddon, 1892-98 re Torres Strait Expedition<BR>1013; Rev. W.H. MacFarlane's notes on Torres Strait, 1919, 1925, 1927-29<BR>1029; Journal kept on Torres Strait Expedition, 1888-89<BR>1030; Java the Garden of the East, illustrated manuscript by Eliza R. Scidmore, 1898<BR>1039; Private journal of second Torres Strait Expedition, 1898<BR>1052; Correspondence with R. Bruce, J.S. Bruce, J. Chalmers, 1889-92, 1895, 1898, 1905, 1913 (not in chronological order)<BR>2011; Excerpts from the ethnographical and anthropological writings of various observers, including Rev. J.H. Holmes (masks and ceremonies) c. 1892-1925; F.E. Williams, 1923; A.R. Humphries (Man XXI No.165, 1931); G.H. Massy Baker, 1914-15; F.F.S. Baden-Powell (In Savage Isles and Settled Land 1892); J. Chalmers, 1887; and T.T. and D.C. Bevan, 1890<BR>2015; Holmes Ms Distribution history and migration of the Naman people and Ipi tribe.<BR>Reel 2:<BR>2015; Continued - notes on the Gulf district of Papua c.1883-1924, including notes by Haddon<BR>2021; Notes by Rev. Copland King, 1904, and Haddon on Massim area.<BR>2068; Correspondence (1902, 1903, 1906), principally from Holmes re his ethnographic studies; Holmes' notes and manuscript on Gulf of Papua (1903) with comments by Haddon<BR>3078; Two items of correspondence with the London Missionary Society, 1900, 1911<BR>4067; Literature on the teaching of anthropology to missionaries (1910-15), including The Study of Native Culture in Relation to Administration, read by Haddon in Sydney in 1914.<BR>

Jim Ross was an officer of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) during World War II. Based initially at Samarai/Milne Bay in East Papua, in July 1943 he was transferred to Kikori in the Purari District of Western Papua. In July 1944 Ross was again transferred, this time to Kairuku, Yule Island, in the Gulf of Papua. For further information see Ross' autobiography My First Seventy Years (1990).

1. Lists of evacuees from Samarai, December 1941.
2. 10 letters/memoranda relating to Ross' work for ANGAU, 1941-45.
3. Diaries: 1942; 1944; and January-August 1945.
4. Minute book including handwritten and typed drafts of patrol reports for the Samarai/Milne Bay District, February 1942 - May 1943 and for the Purari District, August-December 1943.
5. Ledger book containing rough drafts of patrol reports for the Purari District, 1944. Includes a map of the Purari Distrcit patrol number 13/44.
6. Day book containing newspaper clippings on the war in Papua New Guinea.
7. Photograph album containing wartime photographs of Samarai, Port Moresby, Daru, Kikori and Purari. The photographs include views of Samarai burning as a result of Japanese bombing, native dress and ceremonies, houses, barracks and other scenes.

A detailed inventory is available.

1. Official Diocesan records, consisting chiefly of correspondence, financial records and reports. The records document the full range of the activities of the Catholic Church in the Cook Islands, including such matters as: relations with the Holy See; regional relations with the Delegations Apostolic in Sydney and Wellington, with CEPAC (Conferentia Episcopalis Pacifici) and with neighbouring Dioceses; parish activities; diocesan management and personnel; Catholic education in the islands; theological and liturgical matters; the activities of the lay apostolate and youth clubs; relations with the civil government of the Cook Islands; relations with the Netherlands Province and with the Marist Fathers; relations with other Christian Churches; relations with international mission aid societies; and records of church property. (Reels 1-49 and Reel 11A)
2. Dictionary, Rarotongan/Dutch, by Mgr Ubald Lehman, vol. 2, c.1940s. (Reel 49)
3. Parish registers of baptisms, marriages, deaths, confirmations and school enrolment, 1894-1993. (Reels 50-51)
4. Diaries of Mgr Bernadine Castanie, 1921-39 (in French) and of Bishop Ubald Lehman, 1939-48 (in Dutch). (Reel 52).
   See Finding aids for details.

Hilda Steadman was the wife of Reverend W. Rex Steadman, who worked as a Methodist Minister in Fiji beteen 1912 and 1940. During their time in Fiji the Steadmans devoted themselves to working with the Indian community. Between 1912 and 1920 they were based at Navua, from 1920 to 1926 they ran the Indian Mission Church and Boys' School at Toorak (Suva), during 1926/27 they worked at Lautoka, after which they returned to Australia for five years. In 1932 they returned to Fiji and spent the next eight years at Rewa organising the Methodist Indian educational system. During her time in Fiji Hilda founded the Indian Women's Benevolent Society. In 1940 the Steadmans retired to South Australia.

The papers include the following items:

• letter by Hilda to her parents written from Naduri, Vanua Levu, 17/10/20 (10p.)
• newspaper clippings, 1920-41 Indian work in Fiji, mss, 6p.
• Navua, 1912, typescript, 3p.
• The Rewa sojourn, t/s, 3p.
• Medical work in Fiji, mss, 6p.
• Welfare work among the women of Fiji, t/s, 5p.
• Reminiscences of Mrs A.J. Small (wife of Methodist Missionary in Fiji) t/s 25p.
• obituary for Mrs Steadman, 1975
• 214 photographs, 1913-40, depicting the following: the work of the Methodist Church in Fiji, students, colleagues, friends and family of the Steadmans, members of the Indo-Fijian community, scenes in various parts of Fiji. Most photographs are identified.

A: Documents selected from Scritti riferiti nei Congressi - Oceania, 1848-1852, Tom. 4;

1. Miscellaneous letters written by Colin, Montrouzier, Marinoni, Salerio, Reina.
2. Booklet (19pp.) - Nouve lettere dei Missionari di S. Calocero dall'Oceania, published in Milan, 1853. Contains two letters each by Salerio and Reina

B: Selected from Scritti riferiti nei Congressi - Oceania, 1853-1857, Tom. 5;

1. Miscellaneous letters written by Marinoni, Reina, Fremont, Mazzucconi, Salerio.

C: Selected from Collegi d'Italia, CV 43, Book 2, Collegio & Seminario delle Missioni Estere in Milano, dal 1850 al 1892;

1. List of students in S. Calocero in c.1850/51 and brief character sketch of each
2. Prospetto del personale del Seminario Lombardo - Veneto delle Estere Missioni in Milano
3. List of seminarians from S. Calocero and their destinations
4. Relazione, sulla morte del missionario apostolico D. Giovanni Mazzucconi a lunno del seminario delle Missioni in Milano, Milan (post 1856). Contains extracts of letters written by Mazzucconi in the year prior to his death.
5. Notizie ed instruzioni per gli aspiranti ad entrare nel seminario delle Estere Missioni in Milano detto di

S. Calocero, Milano, 1864. 8pp.

Dr Briggs (1890-196?), a doctor of science, began his career as a zoologist at the Australian Museum, Sydney, where he was employed from 1912 to 1918. His last appointment was Reader in Zoology, University of Sydney, 1945-55.

Field notebooks of two expeditions which the writer led to the Mandated Territory of New Guinea from 25 June - 12 July 1924 and from 19 December 1925 - 11 February 1926. Dr Briggs was then lecturer in Zoology at the University of Sydney.

Mgr Collomb, of the Society of Mary, was Bishop of Antipheles and Vicar Apostolic of Melanesia and Micronesia

The journal is in three exercise books:

Vol.1: November 1845 - March 1847, includes voyage from Europe to Sydney
Vol.2: April 1847 to Collomb's death in July 1848. It includes an account of the abandonment of the Marist mission at San Cristobal, 3 November 1847, and the arrival at Woodlark Island, 15 November 1847; also the division of the missionaries, 9 May 1848, with Montrouzier, Thomassin and Bro. Aristide remaining on Woodlark, and Collomb, Fremont, Villien and Bro. Optat starting a mission on Rook (Umboi) Island.
Vol.3: A collection of copies of letters and an account of events remembered by Collomb beginning April 1847. (Collomb mislaid his journal for a time and believed it lost. He tried to reconstruct it from memory. Then the journal was found and continued.)

In early 1942 Len Odgers was employed as a clerk in the New Guinea Administration and was based at Wewak.

1. Handwritten diary which initially describes events in Wewak and Angoram in early 1942 at the time of the approach of the Japanese military forces. Unwilling to risk a maritime escape from the approaching Japanese, a party of eight European men undertook an overland evacuation to the Papuan coast. The party, under the leadership of Jack Thurston, departed Timbunki on the Sepik River on 14 April, proceeding up river on the vessel Thetis. On 28 April the party left the Thetis and proceeded up the May River by canoe. On 8 May the party commenced walking and arrived in the Telefomin Valley on 25 May. In late July they arrived at the Fly River where they built canoes and floated down river to the Papuan coast. On 24 September they arrived at Daru, almost six months after their departure from Angoram. The diary concludes in October 1942.
2. Typescript transcript of the diary, complete with an introduction, prepared by Odgers in April 1943.