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Letters from missionaries in French Polynesia
Letters from missionaries in French Polynesia. The last three letters, dated August 1884, are from Joseph Smith III, President of the Reorganized Church, to (1) the French Consul in San Francisco, (2) the US Consul in Tahiti, and (3) the Church Mission in Tahiti.
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Ethnographic notes on South Pacific Islands
Townsend and Moore were members of the US Fisheries Commission aboard the U.S. Fisheries Commission Steamer Albatross which made a cruise to the South Pacific in 1899 - 1900 under Commander Jefferson F. Moser, USN.
Ethnographic notes on the Marquesas Islands, Tuamotu Islands, Society Islands (French Polynesia), Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Ellice Islands and Gilbert Islands (Tuvalu and Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Caroline Islands.
Townsend, Charles H.
Articles relating to the Pacific Islands
To 1969, Improvement Era was being published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City.
The articles mainly concern the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Pacific Islands. The church was largely active in the period in French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands and Tubuai, as well as being active in the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Tonga. For other publications by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints see also PMB 112 for Juvenile Instructor; and PMB 113 for Contributor.
Improvement Era
Letters and articles on the Pacific Islands
Zion's Ensign is a weekly publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Independence, Missouri. Letters and articles on the Pacific Islands.
Letters and articles on the Pacific Islands. In the period covered the church was active largely in French Polynesia, including Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands, Tuba, as well as the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, and Tonga. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 92, 93 and 100 for The Saints Herald; PMB 94 and 109 for Autumn Leaves; PMB 105 for Journal of History; and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons.
Zion's Ensign
Articles and news items on the Pacific Islands
Autumn Leaves is a publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was the church's first children's magazine.
The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church in Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. See also PMB 109 for items from Vols. 22-24 of Autumn Leaves. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 92, 93 and 100 for The Saints Herald, PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign, PMB 105 for Journal of History, and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons.
Autumn Leaves
Items on Pacific Islands from the minutes and reports of the annual general conferences
Items on Pacific Islands from the minutes and reports of the annual general conferences (1879-1964) of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Missionaries and the Church were active in French Polynesia at the time, including Tahiti, Tubuai, and the Tuamotu Islands, as well as being active in the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa and Tonga.
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Miscellaneous papers - letters, notebooks, articles
James Lyle Young (1849-1929) was born in Londonderry, Ireland, and went to Australia with his parents in the mid-1850's. After working in Australia as a station hand, Young, in 1870, went to Fiji where he was associated with a cotton-planting venture at Taveuni. In 1875, he left Fiji on a trading voyage to Samoa, and from May, 1876, to October, 1881, he worked as a trader in the Marshall, Mariana and Caroline Islands. In 1882, Young went to Tahiti to become manager of the Papeete trading store of Andrew Crawford & Co., of San Francisco. In 1888, he went into business in Tahiti on his own account. He was closely associated with the Pacific Islands for the rest of his life, as managing director of S.R. Maxwell & Co., of Tahiti, and owner of Henderson and Macfarlane Ltd., of Auckland. He became recognised as an authority on the life and culture of the region.
Letters, notebooks, memoranda, articles, etc. dealing with Young's career and interests from 1878 to the year of his death. Includes a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald on 'The Trouble in Samoa' (31/3/1899), a paper on German expansion in the Pacific (1908), correspondence on the Pitcairn Islanders between Young and the British Consulate in Tahiti (1911-13) and an account by Young of his family's history and his own career (1919, c.1924). Some letters written in Micronesia as well as materials from French Polynesia. A full list of other items in the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, Dec. 1968:5, p.12 and Jan. 1969:6, pp.10-11. See also PMB 21 and 22.
See Finding aids for details.
Young, James Lyle
Articles relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
The Saints Herald is an offical publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Vols. 21 to 28, No. 20, were published at Plano, Illinois, USA. From then on, Lamoni, Iowa, was the place of publication. Until the end of 1882 (Vol. 29), the journal was published fortnightly. It then became a weekly publication. The volumes of The Saints Herald prior to Vol. 21 contain no material relating to New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
The articles mainly concern the work of missionaries of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. For other publications by the Reorganized Church see also PMB 94 and 109 for Autumn Leaves, PMB 104 for Zion's Ensign, PMB 105 for Journal of History, and PMB 106 for Times and Seasons. See also PMB 89, 93 and 100
The Saints Herald
The Reverend James L. Green (1833-1905) served as a missionary of the London Missionary Society in the Society Islands, French Polynesia, from 1861 to 1886. From May 1870 onwards, he was stationed on Tahiti, but made frequent visits to other islands.
The papers comprise:
See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, August 1969:13, pp.1-5.
Green, James L.
Captain Fowler went to the Pacific in 1868 as captain of the London Missionary Society vessel JOHN WILLIAMS III. He was dismissed in 1871 because of his treatment of Pacific Islanders. The logbook begins on 12 November 1868 when Captain Fowler left London. It continues to 25 February 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III passed Jervis Bay, NSW. It resumes on 30 March 1869 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III left Sydney for a cruise to the Pacific Islands, which extended to Tahiti, back to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and then to Raiatea before returning to Sydney on 31 December 1869. The cruise took in Raiatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Aneityum, Mare, Lifu, Uvea, Tubuai and Savai'i. The logbook resumes again on 4 April 1870 when the JOHN WILLIAMS III was at Huahine. Subsequent calls were made at Raiatea, Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Manihiki, Rakahanga, Pukapuka, Mitiaro, Mauke, Atiu, Tutuila, Niue, the Tokelau, Ellice (Tuvalu) and Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), the southern New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands. The JOHN WILLIAMS III returned to Sydney on 20 December 1870. Captain Fowler returned to England in 1871 in the ship BUCKLEY CASTLE.
Fowler, James