Items on Pacific Islands from reports of annual and semi-annual conferences associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Church was active in French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands, and Tubuai, as well as Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Tonga in the period covered.

The papers comprise:<BR>1. 'Samoa: Land of Legends' by Fitisemanu and Viola C. Kelley (privately printed, Apia, 1960)<BR>2. Journal of George Quayle Cannon, 1900, covering his career as a missionary in Hawaii (the journal was dictated to the writer's son, Clauson Cannon)<BR>3. 'Leaves from the Family Tree of Sixtus Ellis Johnson' (a missionary) compiled by David Willis Johnson<BR>4. Diaries of Heber James Sheffield, a missionary in Tahiti in 1900-03<BR>5. Diary of Ephraim Green, a missionary to Hawaii, 1852-56<BR>6. Letters to and from missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands, 1851-60

The Manuscript Mission Histories are, in fact, mainly collections of chronologically arranged newspaper clippings, with some typescript entries, concerning the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Pacific Islands. The histories cover the following territories and periods: French Polynesia (1849-1959), Hawaii (1850-1959), Samoa (1871-1959), Tonga (1891-1959).