A catalogue of the ethnographic items collected by the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific (1838-42) led by Commodore Charles Wilkes. The Expedition visited the Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti (in French Polynesia), Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Hawaii. The catalogue was prepared in 1846 by Titian Ramsay Peale, an artist-naturalist with the Expedition. A typescript version, prepared by the PMB, follows the original document on the microfilm. See also the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, October-December 1971:25, pp. 4-7 and PMB MS 89 and MS 146.

The Manuscript Mission Histories are, in fact, mainly collections of chronologically arranged newspaper clippings, with some typescript entries, concerning the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Pacific Islands. The histories cover the following territories and periods: French Polynesia (1849-1959), Hawaii (1850-1959), Samoa (1871-1959), Tonga (1891-1959).

These papers form part of the records of the Vicariate of Tonga which are designated Oceania Tonga (OT) in the Marist Archives.

The papers comprise:

1. 'Conference Avec Projections sur le Vicariat de l'Oceanie Centrale' (ts 13pp)
2. Marine et Colonies, Division Navale de l'Ocean Pacifique, Exercice 1886 (Invoices for missionary travel expenses)
3. 'Explication du blason de Tonga', n.d.
4. 'Kingdom of Tongatabu' (Map)
5. Movement of the Catholic population in the Apostolical Vicariat of Central Oceania (Graph)
6. 'Chronology of the Vicariate Apostolic of Tonga' (ts)
7. 'Traditions Tongiennes' (70pp)
8. 'Pungalototioa et Munimatamabae'
9. 'Government Gazette', Nuku'alofa, 4 November 1876
10. An historical account and chronologies of Tonga, New Zealand, the New Hebrides, Wallis and Futuna (tss) - filed under 'OT 200 Historia'
11. Histories, filed under 'OT 202 Narrationes'
12. Correspondence, 1874-8, 1852-3, 1869, 1859, 1845, 1842-04, filed under 'OT 208 Epistolae variae'
13. List of letters from Tonga

Please see PMB MS 191. These papers form part of the records of the Vicariate of Tonga which are designated Oceania Tonga (OT) in the Marist Archives.

Correspondence - 1870 - 1883 - filed under 'OT 208 Epistolae 1865-72' (SIC).

Papers relating to the reign of King George Tupou II of Tonga. The papers are in files labelled as follows: 1. Customs Audit, 1886-93; 2. Royal Correspondence, 1893-98, including newspaper clippings; 3. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1894-97; 4. Court Proceedings, 1895; 5. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1898; 6. Royal Correspondence, 1900; 7. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1900; 8. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1901; 9. Royal and consular Correspondence, 1901; 10. Correspondence, 1902; 11. Correspondence, 1903; 12. Royal Correspondence, 1904; 13. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1904; 14. Royal Correspondence, 1904-05.

Papers relating to the reign of King George Tupou II of Tonga. The papers are in files labelled as follows: 1. Premier's Department, Correspondence 1905; 2. Royal Correspondence 1906; 3. Premier's Department Correspondence 1907; 4. Consular Correspondence 1907; 5. Royal Correspondence 1907; 6. Correspondence relating to government departments 1907; 7. Royal Correspondence 1908; 8. Consul-Premier Correspondence 1908; 9. Premier's Department - Outward 1908; 10. Premier's Department - Inward 1908-09.