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Papers re Samoa

Papers re Samoa

  • AU PMB MS 584
  • Collection
  • 1906-1913

Please see PMB 581 for full entry.

Official and political papers re governorship of Samoa, 1906-13 (7 vols). One volume for 1908-09 concerns the Lauaki revolt.

Solf, Wilhelm Heinrich

Biography, manuscript book, correspondence

  • AU PMB MS 589
  • Collection
  • 1900 - 1949

Please see PMB 581 for full entry.

The papers are:

  1. documents concerning Hanna Solf-Dotti, Solf's widow;
  2. a biography of Solf by Maximilien von Hagen, 1937-39;
  3. correspondence re the publication Solf/Wolff-Metternich correspondence, 1946-49;
  4. a manuscript book entitled 'Elf Jahre in Samoa und andere Aufzeichnungen' (Eleven years in Samoa and other notes), written in 1895 by one von Wolffersdorff, known as Tulafale Falepoumaa.

Solf, Wilhelm Heinrich

Letters, valedictions, publications, speeches, etc.

Letters, valedictions, publications, speeches, etc.

  • AU PMB MS 581
  • Collection
  • 1885 - 1935

Solf (1862-1936) became president of the municipality of Apia, Western Samoa, in 1899, after serving as a district judge in German East Africa. In 1900 he became governor of Western Samoa when that country became a German colony. He remained in that post until 1911 when he became Secretary for the colonies in the German government. After World War I, he served as German ambassador in Japan. The Solf papers have been filmed on reels PMB 581 - 589.

The papers comprise:

  1. letters to family (3 volumes), 1885-1935
  2. personal honours, 1927-34
  3. congratulations on 70th birthday, 1932
  4. publications, speeches, etc. 1886-1932 (Continued on PMB 582)

Solf, Wilhelm Heinrich

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