Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa, pp.132-258
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- 1930 - 1946
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Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa, pp.132-258
Part of Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa
Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa, cont. 1930-1946
Correspondence with publishers re publications and memoirs
Part of Official and political papers, lectures, essays, publications, correspondence
Ethnographical material in French and English
Roman Catholic Church - Samoa
Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands
'A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale’ (2020) is an unpublished digital edition edited by J.J. Overell. In 1870, Handley Bathurst Sterndale worked as a surveyor on the island of Upolu, Samoa, for the German trading company Goddefroy & Sohn. In this capacity, he made an expedition across Upolu, making notes and sketches about the journey as he went. In 1871, on Motu Kotawa on the islet of Pukapuka atoll in the Cook Islands, he worked these notes into the manuscript ‘Upolu; or, A Paradise of the Gods’, and worked his sketches into finished drawings. Some accounts are not his first hand observations and others are demonstrably wrong. Sterndale sought to have the manuscript published, but was unsuccessful in finding a publisher before his death in 1878. After his death, it was listed in a catalogue among the publications of Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington of London, but the manuscript never made it to print. It is now available as PMB MS 1442.
The original notebooks have since been lost, but the surviving manuscript and drawings have been passed down to Sterndale’s descendants. This collection brings together 73 of Sterndale's drawings of Samoa, Cook Islands and other islands of the Pacific. The images were digitised by photographer Rod Howe. The images are of scenes witnessed or imagined on his journey, including plants and animals, people, nature and village life.
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
Rev. John Williams (1796-1839) went to Tahiti (French Polynesia) as a missionary in 1816 and was active in the Society, Hervey, Southern Cook and Samoan Islands. In 1839, he moved to Fasitoouta, Upolu, in Samoa and began a station there. On November 20th of that year, he was killed at Erromango, New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Rev. Robert Bourne (1793-1871) went to the Society Islands as a missionary in 1817. In 1822, he began the mission at Tahaa. He left Tahiti in 1827 and retired to England in 1829.
The principal item on the microfilm is a journal describing a voyage made by the Reverends John Williams and Robert Bourne from Raiatea to Aitutaki, Mangaia, Atiu, Mitiaro, Mauke and Rarotonga, Cook Islands, in July-August 1823, to propagate the Gospel. The journal appears to have been written, or written up, by Bourne. There is a subscription in ink by Williams on the last page. Some passages in the journal are the same or similar to those in William's 'A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands', London, 1837. Other items on the microfilm are:
Williams, John
LMS - Samoa District Committee, Minutes of meetings, pp.1-74
Part of London Mission Society - Samoa Disctrict Committee, Minutes of meetings
LMS - Samoa District Committee, Minutes of meetings, pp.150-194
Part of London Mission Society - Samoa Disctrict Committee, Minutes of meetings
LMS - Samoa District Committee, Minutes of meetings, pp.195-269
Part of London Mission Society - Samoa Disctrict Committee, Minutes of meetings
LMS - Samoa District Committee, Minutes of meetings, pp.270-344
Part of London Mission Society - Samoa Disctrict Committee, Minutes of meetings
LMS - Samoa District Committee, Minutes of meetings, pp.345-419
Part of London Mission Society - Samoa Disctrict Committee, Minutes of meetings