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Journals and correspondence

  • AU PMB MS 38
  • Collection
  • 1874 - 1886

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:

  • A diary for the period January 1, 1874 - December 29, 1879.
  • Journal notes for July, 1884, to August 1886.
  • A diary for the period November 12, 1884 to September 9, 1886.
  • Four letters from the Rev. James Chalmers to Green, written from Rarotonga in 1875.
  • Five letters from Chalmers to Green, written from Papua in 1880-84.
  • Translations of two letters from a Tahitian missionary, Terai, to Green, written from Aloma, Papua, in 1882-83.

See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, August 1969:13, pp.1-5.

Green, James L.

Diary and photographs of Eleanor J. Walker

Diary and photographs of Eleanor J. Walker

  • AU PMB MS 98
  • Collection
  • 1881-1893

Eleanor J. Walker was a member of the Methodist mission at Dobu in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea (then called British New Guinea). The mission was established in June 1891. For details, see George Brown, D.D., Pioneer Missionary and Explorer : An Autobiography, London, 1908, pp485-92.

The diary describes how the diarist came to join the mission and gives an account of her life at Dobu.

Walker, Eleanor J.

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