Charles Sarka (1879-1960) was born in Chicago. He began a career as an artist in his early teens; visited Egypt in 1902 and Tahiti and Moorea in 1903; and was a frequent contributor to such American magazines as Collier's, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan, Everybody's and Harper's in his later years. An exhibition of water colours which he did in Tahiti and Mo'orea was held in New York in 1963. Examples of his work were bought by some of America's leading art galleries.

Tahiti Nui' is a narrative of Sarka's life during his sojourn in Tahiti and Moorea in French Polynesia. See also an article by Robert Langdon in Pacific Islands Monthly, December, 1966, pp.93-97.

The Reverend James L. Green (1833-1905) served as a missionary of the London Missionary Society in the Society Islands, French Polynesia, from 1861 to 1886. From May 1870 onwards, he was stationed on Tahiti, but made frequent visits to other islands.

The papers comprise:

• A diary for the period January 1, 1874 - December 29, 1879.
• Journal notes for July, 1884, to August 1886.
• A diary for the period November 12, 1884 to September 9, 1886.
• Four letters from the Rev. James Chalmers to Green, written from Rarotonga in 1875.
• Five letters from Chalmers to Green, written from Papua in 1880-84.
• Translations of two letters from a Tahitian missionary, Terai, to Green, written from Aloma, Papua, in 1882-83.

See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, August 1969:13, pp.1-5.

Captain William Driver (1803-1886) was born Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He went to sea aged 14, and made his first voyage to Fiji in quest of beche-de-mer in September, 1872, in the ship Clay under Captain Benjamin Vanderford. He spent 49 months in the South Seas beche-de-mer trade before returning to Salem. Given command of the Charles Doggett, he sailed for the Pacific again in January, 1831. He remained at sea until 1837 when he retired to Nashville, Tennessee.

The logbook is for the voyage of the Charles Doggett. It begins on January 30, 1831, when the ship was 2,098 sea miles from Salem en route to New Zealand, and ends in March, 1832, when the ship was gathering a cargo of beche-de-mer in Fiji. In the interval, calls were made at Tubuai, Tahiti (French Polynesia), Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Tahiti and Niuatoputapu (Tonga). Driver's visit to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti was for the purpose of returning 65 descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who had been moved from Pitcairn to Tahiti four months earlier as it was feared that their island was becoming overpopulated. Driver describes this episode in some detail in an 1871 memoir accompanying his logbook of the Charles Doggett.
See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, December 1969:17.

Records of the Societe de Etudes Oceaniennes:

1. Orders of the day of the Commanding Officer, Iles Sous le Vent, Society Islands, January-February, 1897.
2. Miscellaneous documents on Huahine and Raiatea, 1879-1891.
3. Notes on the ethnology of the Marquesas Islands by C. Noury, Capitaine de Fregate, Commandant of the Nukuhiva station, November 2, 1849. (Human sacrifice and The Origin of Fire in Marquesan and French).
4. Documents on the ethnology of the Society Islands gathered by C.F. Lavaud, Capitaine de Vaisseau, Commissaire de la Republique, Society Islands - dated July 16, 1849, and September 20, 1849 (Tahitian and French).
5. Genealogy of Ma'i, by Rene Calinaud, magistrate, Papeete, July 23, 1966.
6. Report on a mission to the Gambier Islands by Cdt. de la Motte Rouge, February, 1871.
7. Letters on the smallpox epidemic at Nukuhiva and Uapou, Marquesas, 1863. (Originals in Bishop Museum, Honolulu).
8. The Old Orsmond Manuscript.
9. Legend of the Lizard Mo'orea by the Chief of Mai'ao (French and local language).
10. Letter of Commandant Maxime Destremau, December 2, 1914. (Destremau was the commander of the French warship 'Zelee' when the German raiders 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau' bombarded Papeete on September 22, 1914).
11. An official document thanking the men who rescued the victims of the German raider 'Seeadler' from Mopelia Atoll in 1917.
12. Notes on the inland route from Papenoo to Mataiea, Tahiti, by M. Jay.
13. Report on lands owned by the Pomare Family, compiled by a secretary of Queen Pomare IV (in Tahitian).
14. Legends of the Society Islands and other papers.
15. Useful plants of Tahiti, by Edouard Butteaud.

Extracts on Tahiti, French Polynesia, copied from 'Transactions of the (London) Missionary Society', Vols. II and III.

The 15 manuscript items on this microfilm were bought by the Territory of French Polynesia at an auction of Pacific manuscripts in Paris in June, 1969. They were formerly part of the Ropiteau-O'Reilly collection.

The 15 items are:

1. A six-page account of Tahiti by Chenard de la Giraudais, commander of 'l'Etoile', the consort of Bougainville's ship 'La Boudeuse', which visited Tahiti in April, 1768.
2. Letter written in Tahiti on February 6, 1799, by the L.M.S. missionary John Harris.
3. Journal of the missionaries Henry Nott and James Elder describing a preaching tour, Tahiti in 1802.
4. Letter from King Pomare II to the L.M.S., London, dated January 1, 1807.
5. Journal kept by the missionaries William Henry and John Davies during a preaching tour on the island of Huahine in 1809.
6. Letter from Pomare II dated September 25, 1812, to the missionaries on Moorea informing them of his determination to abandon false gods and ancient rites against evil spirits.
7. Letter from the missionaries John Williams, L.E. Threlkeld and J.M. Orsmond from Raiatea to the L.M.S. in London, dated September 5, 1819. Collective report on affairs at the missions on Raiatea and Tahaa.
8. Letter from the missionary George Platt from Bora Bora, dated May 28, 1828, describing a visit to the island of Maupiti.
9. Letter from Queen Pomare IV and her second husband Ariifaaite to the missionary Henry Nott dated February 4, 1836, asking to be readmitted to church membership.
10. Letterbook (pp71) copies of 19 letters by George Pritchard, British Consul in Tahiti - November 26 1836 to February 15 1837.
11. May 11, 1846 letter from Queen Pomare IV at Raiatea to the directors, L.M.S., stating she would never live under the French protectorate.
12. 94-page report, 'Look Again, or a few observations on the affairs of Tahiti from 1845 to 1849 by an eye-witness' by Rev. J.M. Orsmond to President of France.
13. & 14. Letters from Queen Pomare IV to President of France (August 26, 1851) re government of her country and French Governor (September 18, 1872) re funeral of her small daughter.
14. Account book 1877-1882 by Pomare V Tahiti's last king, d.1891

Alden was an officer in the sloop-of-war 'Vincennes', the flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition which spent four years in the Pacific under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes.

The journal gives an account - but not a day-by-day account - of the Vincennes voyage which took in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, the Antarctic, Hawaii, the Gilbert (Kiribati), Ellice (Tuvalu) and Marshall Islands. See also PMB MS 124-146 and the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, Dec. 1971:25, pp. 4-7.

Sons of the Sea is an account of the origin of the Polynesians based on current theories and the Book of Mormon, an account of the European discovery of Polynesia and early Catholic missionary activity in Tahiti, (excerpts from W.T. Pritchard's Polynesian Reminiscences, 1866), and a history of the Reorganized Church's mission in Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago from 1843 - 1952.

F. Edward Butterworth (born 1908) went to Tahiti in 1944 as a missionary of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints and later became historian of his church. He is the author of Adventures of a South Sea Missionary (Independence, 1961) and The Adventures of John Hawkins (Independence, 1963).

The Saints Herald is an offical publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Vols. 21 to 28, No. 20, were published at Plano, Illinois, USA. From then on, Lamoni, Iowa, was the place of publication. Until the end of 1882 (Vol. 29), the journal was published fortnightly. It then became a weekly publication. The volumes of The Saints Herald prior to Vol. 21 contain no material relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 94 and 109 for Autumn Leaves, PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign, PMB 105 for Journal of History, and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons. See also PMB 89, 93 and 100

The Saints Herald is an official weekly journal of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints published at Lamoni, Iowa, USA.

The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago (See PMB 100 for items not available on this microfilm for the period 1918 - 1931). See also PMB 92.