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Correspondence, 16 October 1873 to 15 October 1878.

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Item 1: Manuscript by Fison entitled Old Fiji containing notes on Fijian history and customs with descriptive anecdotes. n.d. 82pp<BR>Item 2: Manuscripts in unidentified handwriting of biographical essays about South Seas missionary martyrs. 68ff, as follows:<BR>A - Massacre of the Rev. Thomas Baker and party on Sunday 21st July 1867 at Gag dela Vatu Na Vosa, Viti Levu, Fiji. After 1867. 39ff.<br>A(i) - Incomplete account in one handwriting, 20ff.<BR>A(ii) - Complete account in two other hands, apparently the version of a planter and store owner who lived at the Rewa River mouth at the time of the massacre. 19ff.<BR>B - John Coleridge Patteson. After 1871. 14ff.<BR>C - Rev. John Williams. After 1889. 15ff<BR>Items 1 and 2 are held by the Dixson Library<BR>Item 3: Press copy book, Sermons, articles and letters, 1867 - 1873, held by the Mitchell Library

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Typescript carbon copies of 42 letters (Box 3i/1(a)-(g): 35 written by Morgan to Fison during the period 19 August, 1870 to 4 July, 1881; 1 letter from Joseph Henry, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 27 November, 1871; 1 letter from Andrew Mackenzie, 30 December 1871, Maelly, Wandandian; 1 letter from Alexander Falconer, 27 June, 1873, Eildon, near Alexandria; 1 letter to L.H. Morgan from Spencer Baird, Smithsonian Institution, 18 October, 1879; 1 letter to Mrs A.M.H. Watts from L.H. Morgan, 21 January, 1881, Rochester; 2 letters from A.W. Howitt to L.H. Morgan, 16 October 1879 & 4 February, 1880, Rochester.

The Fison project. Material held by St Mark's Theological Centre, Canberra, will appear as PMB 1045, but is not yet available for copying.

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The contents are in two parts.<BR>Part I - A speciment of Fijian dialects, collected and arranged by Lorimer Fison, M.A. (Joint author of 'Kamilaroi & Kurnai'). The volume contains 1. MS of Fijian Dialects, 36pp; 2. Letters from Fison on the subject, 20pp; 3. 2 German leaflets (Albert S. Gatschet) on the subject, 193-208 & 263-276; 4. A cutting from The Nation reviewing a book on The Melanesia Languages, 3pp.<BR>Part II - In the papers of S.E. Peal 2 letters from Fison: 12 September 1893, Melbourne, Comments on communal barracks paper and similar customs elsewhere; 21 June 1894, Oruba, At sea, Request for Naga equivalents for attached list of words; pre-marital sex and other customs in Fiji; projecting houseposts. Typed transcripts of these letters have also been copied.

Lorimer Fison (1832-1909), clergyman and anthropologist, was born in Suffolk, England. He served with the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Fiji from 1863 to 1884. For much of that period he was Principal of the Training Institution for Natives at Navuloa.<BR>This is the first of a series of microfilms The Fison Project was designed to bring together on microfilm the various Fison collections, relating to the Pacific, held in Australian libraries. Fison also wrote extensively about Australian Aboriginal customs but, because of the Bureau's specialised areas of interest, these writings have not been included in the Project. A list of Fison materials in Australia not copied, but made known to the Bureau, has been provided on each reel. See also PMB 1040, 1041, 1042, 1043, 1044.

Reel 1: Letterbook Vol.1, 1 July 1868 to 30 July 1869. Reel 2: Letterbook Vol.2, 10 August 1869 to 25 October 1870; Letterbook Vol.3, 27? October 1870 to March 1873 Reel 3: Letterbook Vol.4, 16 April 1873 to 26 February 1876; Letterbook Vol.5, 26 February 1876 to 1 November 1877 Reel 4: Letterbook Vol.6, November 1877 to 3 August 1879 (over a third of this volume contains texts of sermons); Letterbook Vol.7, 3 August 1879 to 5 May 1883.