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Miscellaneous manuscripts

Miscellaneous manuscripts

  • AU PMB MS 1081
  • Collection
  • 1968-1983

Uncatalogued manuscripts held in the archives and library at the Evech‚ in Papeete, including the following compilations by P. Amerigo Cools: <I>D‚buts de la Mission Catholique … Tahiti, 1841-1842: extraits du journal en Aph‚m‚rides du P. Satutnin Fournier; FrŠre Martin Darque, missionnaire des sacr‚s-coeurs [1816-1863]: documentation; L'Evˆch‚ de Papeete et les FrŠres Bƒtisseurs; Le PŠre Germain Fierens et la conversion de Napuka; La lettre du P. Albert Montiton ss.cc. sur les traditions et coutumes de Paumotous; La Mission Catholiques de L'Ile de Pƒques: rapport de Mgr Tepano Jaussen sur la destruction de la mission; les huit lettres du P. Gaspar Zuhmbohm.</I><BR>Together with a history of the Picpus Order in Polynesia, <I>Les Picpusiens en Ployn‚sie</I>, probably by P. Venance Prat, published as four separate pamphlets between 1964 and 1968; Jean Charlot (comp.), <I>Journal de D‚sir‚ Louis Maigret, premiŠre partie Les Gambier, 1834 … 1840</I>; P. Maurice Desmedt ss cc, <I>P. Clair Fouqu‚ ss.cc. et la conversion de l'archipel Tuamotu; Statistiques - marriages, baptˆmes, communions pascales, 1841-1880</I>; L'abb‚ Tryphon Mama Taira Putairi, <I>E atoga Magareva mei te ao eteni roa</I>. Cahier 10; Josepha Teuho a Tepage, <I>Legends and History from the Tuamotus</I>, transcribed (in Tuamotu) by Ignace Estall, with other related material.<P><B>See reel lists for further information</B>

Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete

Miscellaneous papers

  • AU PMB MS 73
  • Collection
  • 1768 - 1882

The 15 manuscript items on this microfilm were bought by the Territory of French Polynesia at an auction of Pacific manuscripts in Paris in June, 1969. They were formerly part of the Ropiteau-O'Reilly collection.

The 15 items are:

  1. A six-page account of Tahiti by Chenard de la Giraudais, commander of 'l'Etoile', the consort of Bougainville's ship 'La Boudeuse', which visited Tahiti in April, 1768.
  2. Letter written in Tahiti on February 6, 1799, by the L.M.S. missionary John Harris.
  3. Journal of the missionaries Henry Nott and James Elder describing a preaching tour, Tahiti in 1802.
  4. Letter from King Pomare II to the L.M.S., London, dated January 1, 1807.
  5. Journal kept by the missionaries William Henry and John Davies during a preaching tour on the island of Huahine in 1809.
  6. Letter from Pomare II dated September 25, 1812, to the missionaries on Moorea informing them of his determination to abandon false gods and ancient rites against evil spirits.
  7. Letter from the missionaries John Williams, L.E. Threlkeld and J.M. Orsmond from Raiatea to the L.M.S. in London, dated September 5, 1819. Collective report on affairs at the missions on Raiatea and Tahaa.
  8. Letter from the missionary George Platt from Bora Bora, dated May 28, 1828, describing a visit to the island of Maupiti.
  9. Letter from Queen Pomare IV and her second husband Ariifaaite to the missionary Henry Nott dated February 4, 1836, asking to be readmitted to church membership.
  10. Letterbook (pp71) copies of 19 letters by George Pritchard, British Consul in Tahiti - November 26 1836 to February 15 1837.
  11. May 11, 1846 letter from Queen Pomare IV at Raiatea to the directors, L.M.S., stating she would never live under the French protectorate.
  12. 94-page report, 'Look Again, or a few observations on the affairs of Tahiti from 1845 to 1849 by an eye-witness' by Rev. J.M. Orsmond to President of France.
  13. & 14. Letters from Queen Pomare IV to President of France (August 26, 1851) re government of her country and French Governor (September 18, 1872) re funeral of her small daughter.
  14. Account book 1877-1882 by Pomare V Tahiti's last king, d.1891

French Polynesia - History

Monuments related to war and the Free French movement in the Pacific

Monuments related to war and the Free French movement in the Pacific

  • AU PMB PHOTO 149
  • Collection
  • 2019 - 2023

This collection of 102 born digital photographs was taken by French-Moroccan historian, Yacine Benhalima, during the course his PhD field research into the Free French (France Libre) movement during the Second World War, particularly in the French Pacific territories of French Polynesia (Tahiti) and New Caledonia. The images depict commemorative monuments to leader of the Free French or France libre movement, General Charles de Gaulle, and others who served in defense of France, particularly in World War Two. It also depicts other sites of significance and commemoration to the first and second world wars in the Pacific, and in France, the United States of America (Hawaii) and Australia.

Benhalima, Yacine

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