Jane Hyde Molen was the wife of a missionary of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who accompanied her husband, Simpson Molen, on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands. They were stationed at Laie, Oahu.

The diary gives a day-by-day account of Jane's life from her departure from Salt Lake City to 12 February 1877, her birthday, which was spent at Laie.

Lina Jones (1890- ) was a school teacher at the Methodist mission, Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, from 1924 to 1949. Her diaries have been filmed as PMB 594 - 599.

The diaries relate to her work at Munda. Diary 1924 - 1926. See also PMB 713-715 for Jones' correspondence, 1924-1942

Please see PMB 594 for full entry.

Diary 1927 - 1929

Please see PMB 594 for full entry.

Diary 1933 - 1935

Please see PMB 594 for full entry.

Diary 1939 - 1942

Peter Parfitt was born in England, the son of Captain William Parfitt, a commander of the P & O Company. In January 1865, at the age of seventeen, he joined the Bank of New Zealand in London. In 1867, he was posted to the Auckland office of his bank as chief clerk, and five years later he was promoted to pro-accountant of the bank in Melbourne. In November 1882, he married Hattie Lord, whose mother was a member of the Colgate toothpaste family. On 4 September 1883, Parfitt, accompanied by his wife, sailed from Melbourne to Sydney to take up an appointment as manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Levuka, Fiji.

The diary covers Parfitt's three years in the Pacific as manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Levuka, Fiji.