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Correspondence with LMS agent, Suva

  • AU PMB MS 142
  • Collection
  • 1907 - 1946

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan district Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Correspondence of the Samoan District of the LMS with the LMS agent, Suva (Fiji).

London Missionary Society - Samoan District

Correspondence with LMS stations in the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 141
  • Collection
  • 1877 - 1947

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Reel 1: Correspondence between the Samoan District of the LMS and LMS Stations in: Cook Islands, 1910-37 (English, local language); Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), 1877-1940 (some damaged) (English, Gilbertese); Niue, 1907-39; Tokelau Islands, 1907-42; Tutuila (American Samoa), 1908-47. Reel 2: Correspondence with American Samoa, 1908-47 (English, Samoan).

London Missionary Society - Samoan District

Correspondence with New Zealand Administration, Samoa

  • AU PMB MS 144
  • Collection
  • 1915 - 1946

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Correspondence of the Samoan District of the London Missionary Society with the New Zealand Administration, Samoa.

London Missionary Society - Samoan District

Correspondence with other religious bodies, including overseas auxiliaries of the LMS

  • AU PMB MS 128
  • Collection
  • 1908 - 1946

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Correspondence of LMS missionaries in Samoa with other religious bodies, including overseas auxiliaries of the LMS.

London Missionary Society - Samoan District

Correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, bibliography

  • AU PMB MS 190
  • Collection
  • 1855 - 1909

Please see PMB MS 184. These papers comprise part of the records of the Vicariate of Samoa which are designated Oceania Navigatores (ON) in the Marist Archives.

The documents comprise material in the following files:

  1. ON 61 208 Apia Epistolae II, (1857-74)
  2. ON 61 220 Apia Domus, (1876)
  3. ON 61 208 Falefa Epistolae, (1860-74)
  4. ON 61 000 Leone (Printed material - 'Nouvelles diverses de l'archipel des Navigateurs', 'Visite du roi et le grand Tololo', Lettre du P. Didier au R.P. Besson, SM, an account of the discovery of bodies of French sailors killed in 1787)
  5. ON 61 208 Leone Epistolae, (1884-5, 1873, 1900)
  6. ON 61 208 Leulumoega (1873)
  7. ON 61 208 Lotofaga Epistolae (1855, 1863, 1871)
  8. ON 61 208 Safotu Epistolae (1872-74)
  9. ON 61 208 Lafotulafai Epistolae (1859-62, 1868-74)
  10. ON 730 Fratres (1874)
  11. ON 910 Administr. Civilis (Notes and newspaper clippings on political events, 1875-1909, bibliography of books on Samoa (ts). List of articles on Samoa in 'Les Mission Catholiques', Copies of Samoan newspapers)

Roman Catholic Church - Samoa

Diary

  • AU PMB MS 150
  • Collection
  • October 1894 - August 1910

William A. Moody was a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Samoa in 1894-98 and 1908-10.

The diary contains an account of Moody's work in Samoa from October 1894 to May 1898 and from April 1908 to August 1910. In the interim years there is an account of his life in Arizona. The diary also contains some information on Fiji in 1908.

Moody, William A.

English summaries of papers relating to the German administration of Western Samoa

  • AU PMB MS 479
  • Collection
  • 1900 - 1914

The English summaries of papers relating to the German administration of Western Samoa were made by Mrs Trudi Newbury for the then Department of Pacific History, to assist the late Mr R.P. Gilson in preparing a Ph.D. thesis on the administration of Samoa. A book by Gilson, entitled 'Samoa: 1830-1900', was published posthumously by Oxford University Press in 1970.

A brief description of the contents appears at the beginning of the microfilm. See also PMB MS 1003 and 1009 which contain Gilson's drafts and research materials.

Western Samoa: German Administration

Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB PHOTO 129
  • Collection
  • 1850s - 1870s

'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

In letters from LMS agent, Sydney

  • AU PMB MS 131
  • Collection
  • 1896 - 1946

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Letters to LMS missionaries in Samoa from the LMS agent in Sydney, Australia.

London Missionary Society - Samoan District

In letters from LMS, London

  • AU PMB MS 126
  • Collection
  • 1896 - 1946

These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan District Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928.

Letters from LMS, London, to LMS missionaries in Samoa.

London Missionary Society - Samoan District

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