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REEL LIST

PMB 23 YOUNG James Lyle, Miscellaneous papers – letters, notebooks, articles, 
1878 – 1929. 1 reel. Available for reference.
Original listing transcribed from Pambu newsletter, No.6, Dec 1968.
PMB 23 / Reel 1	Two letters written from San Francisco.	1882	
	Two letters written from Tahiti and Raiatea.	1883	
	A letter to the Sydney Morning Herald on "The Trouble in Samoa", when Young was living in Sydney.	Mar 31 1899	
	A paper on German expansion in the Pacific, written in Tahiti.	1908	
	Half a dozen letters and memoranda on the state of the Pitcairn Islanders, exchanged between Young and the British Consulate, Tahiti.	1911 - 1913	
	A letter from Young in Tahiti.	1919	
	Several articles by Young on Bully Hayes.		
	Comments by Young on an unknown author's typescript dealing with the history of Tahiti.	1921	
	A document of 13 quarto pages headed "Memos. from the Notebooks of J.L. Young." This gives a summary of the main events in Young's career in the Eastern Pacific to the 1890's.		
	A seven-page account by Young of his family's history and his own career, with additions made in 1924 or thereabouts.	1919	

Revised Reel List, 15 June 2009.
PMB 23 / Reel 1	Letter from J.L. Young, from Schooner, Tutuila, Gouap Island [i.e. Yap Island], Western Carolines, to Alice Young, Kyneton, Victoria, Ms., 4pp.	13 Mar 1878	
	“Arab Schooner 1878”. Note from J.L Young to Mrs H. Hudson, High Mycombe, Bucks., re episode on board an Arab Schooner which occurred after Young had written the letter above, Ms., 3pp.	14 Dec 1928	
	Letter from J.L. Young, C/-, Messrs A. Capelle & Co, Bonham Islands, via Samoa, to Alice Young, Ms., 3pp.	24 Nov 1878	
	Letter from J.L. Young, Agana, Mariana Islands, to Alice Young, Ms., 4pp.	5 May 1879	
	Letter from J.L. Young, Ponape, to Alice Young, Ms., 3pp.	10 Oct 1879	
	“Extract from Journal, Schooner Caroline. From Ponape to Nukuoro.” Signed by J.L. Young. Ts., copy, 3pp.	1 Jun 1921	
	Untitled note regarding the Nukuoro incident, signed by J.L. Young, Ms., 1p.	1 Jun 1921	
	Letter from J.L. Young, Agana, Guam, to Miss Alice Young, Ms., 4pp.	28 Mar 1881	
	Letter from J.L. Young, San Francisco, to Alice Young, Ms., 4pp.	14 Jan 1882	
	Letter from J.L. Young, San Francisco, to Miss Alice Young, Abbeyville, Ms., 4pp.	8 Feb 1882	
	Letter from J.L. Young, Papeete, to Alice, Ms., 3pp.	28 Sep 1882	
	Letter from J.L. Young, Brig Jawera, Raiatea Island, to Alice Young, Kyneton, Ms., 3pp.	28 Nov 1882 (?)	
	Untitled note signed by J.L. Young (stamped: “J.L. Young, Papeete, Tahiti”) re meeting on 4 July 1869 off Byron Island (Nikunau) of Barque Anna, out of Melbourne under Capt. Bruce, carrying 159 Gilbert Islanders recruited as labourers for Fiji, and French Barque Modrod (?) under Capt Blackett of Tahiti also seeking labourers, Ms., 4pp.	1884	
	“Two South Sea Statesmen and a King” [“Two Bowers and a King”]. Unsigned draft short story, Ms., 14pp.	22 Feb 1892	
	J.L. Young, “The Trouble in Samoa”, draft copy of letter to the Editor, printed in full in the Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Apr 1899, Ms., 10pp. Dated 31 Mar 1899 at end of Ms.	31 Mar 1899	
	Malanai (pseud.), “In the South East Trades” [“Two Bowers and a King”], written and sent to The Bulletin, 2 Jul 1900, acknowledged 21 Jul 1900 & 28 Jul 1900, Ms., 12pp. Dated 22 Feb 1892 at end of Ms.	22 Feb 1892	
	“Sailing Demons”, Ms., 18pp. (Date, 6 Jul 1900, crossed out.)	n.d.	
	“A Fighting Quaker”, Ms., 8pp. (Date, 7 Jul 1900, crossed out.)	n.d.	
	J.L. Young, “The Eastern Pacific”, Tahiti, Ts., 6pp.	3 May 1908	
	J.L. Young, “Memorandum on the Conditions at Pitcairn Island”, Papeete, Tahiti, Ts., 3pp.	26 May 1911	
	J.L. Young, “Pitcairn”, Ms., 1p.	26 May 1911	
	Letter from J.R. McCoy (formerly Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn), Pitcairn Island, to Mr A. Rowley, British Consul, Papeete, Tahiti, Ts., 2pp.	19 Jun 1911	
	Letter from L. Rowe (?), Papeete, to Mr Young, Ms., 3pp., regarding the letter from Mr Rowley above.	6 Oct 1911	
	Press cutting re Pitcairn Islanders.	Mar 1911	
	Note from British Consul, Tahiti, Society Islands, to Mr Young, Ms., 1p.	19 Jul 1912	
	Confidential letter from H.A. Richards, British Consul, Tahiti, to Mr Young, Ts., 2pp.	17 Jun 1912	
	Letter from H.A. Richards, British Consul, Tahiti, to J.L. Young, Messrs Maxwell & Co, Papeete, Ts., 1p.	28 Jul 1913	
	Confidential letter from J.L. Young, Papeete, to H.A. Richards, British Consul, Tahiti, Ts., 7pp.	12 Jul 1913	
	J.L. Young, untitled biographical notes on William Henry (Bully) Hayes, Ts., 7pp.	20 Mar 1913	
	Untitled notes, Ms., 4pp.	n.d.	
	Letter from J.L. Young, Papeete, Tahiti, to Alice Young, Ms., 4pp.	13 May 1919	
	“Mystic Isles of the South Seas”, notes, Ms., 2pp.	n.d.	
	Letter from J. Frank Stinson, J.L. Young, re A New Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect of the Polynesian Language (1919), Ts, 3pp.	17 Jun 1921	
	Two documents: “The Isles of the Southern Pacific”, Ts., 16pp., annotated by J.L. Young, and “Tahiti”, Ts & Ms., 7pp., annotated, left with J.L. Young in 1920 by an unknown author, together with Young’s, “Memo re proof Tahiti”, 30 Jun 1921, Ms., 10pp.; and further notes by Young, “Memo re Tevas [and the Salmon Family]”, 30 Jun 1921, Ms., 6pp.	1920-1921	
	Transcript, head board, Papeete Cemetery, “Lester Sarle (?), 1913-43. There is another and a better world.” Ms., 1p.	1913	
	J.L. Young, untitled statement about the death of Bully Hayes, Ms., 7pp., in response to article in Adventure, 30 March 1924, pp.177-178.	1924	
	J.L. Young, “Re Fletcher’s Book, Isles of Illusion”, Ms., 1p.	11 Jun 1924	
	J.L. Young, notes, Ms. 1p.	25 Jun 1924	
	J.L. Young. “Bethel Church [Papeete]”, Meramie, Warren, NSW, Ts., 1p.	22 May 1925	
	J.L. Young, “Bully Hayes”, Meramie, Warren, NSW, Ms., 16pp. 	7 Apr 1926	
	J.L. Young, “Bully Hayes”, Meramie, Warren, NSW, Ts., 9pp. Typescript of the above Ms.	7 Apr 1926	
	Notes on epitaph of James McGee, 1844-1890	26 May 1924	
	Extract from a letter from J.L. Young to E. Anderson, Auckland, Ms., 1p.	24 Jun 1927	
	J.L. Young, “Atimaono”, re Tahiti Cotton and Coffee Plantation Company, known as “La Compagnie Soares” and the “Atimaono Company”, 1863-1873, Ts., 17pp. 2 copies.	23 JJul 1928	
	John Sandes, “Blackbirding. A Tragedy of the ‘Sixties”, press cutting.	n.d.	
	Notes from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, Dec 1927 Ms., 2pp.	1927	
	“Notes on Flint, Caroline, and Vostok Islands, by J.L. Young, late Managing Director of S.T. Maxwell and Co., Ltd., contained in Memoranda re Tahitian Business: S.R. Maxwell and Co., Ltd.”, compiled after J.L. Young’s death in 1929, Ts., 18pp.	n.d.	
	“Memos from Note Books of J.L. Young”, Ms., 13pp.	26 May 1924	
	“James Lyle Young”, from an account in his own hand. Copied by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau from a notebook in the possession of Mr Walter M. Young, of St Ives, NSW, 1968, Ts., 7pp. Internal evidence indicates that the account was originally written in 1919 with additions made in 1924 or after.	c.1919-1924	
	“Voyages 1882-1911 of J.L. Young, Tahiti”, Ms., bound, c.56pp.	n.d.	

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