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AU PMB MS 499
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- Oct. - Nov. 1877 & May - Dec. 1884 (Creation)
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1 reel; 35mm microfilm
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Archibald Taylor was a magistrate on Taveuni Island, Fiji
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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.
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(1974) Mr A. Thompson, Vanaira, Vanua Levu (C/- PO, Waiyevo, Taveuni) Fiji
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ms499