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Miscellaneous (non-local) correspondence of Bishop J. Vidal and Bishop C.J. Nicolas
See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
Correspondence from New Caledonia, Wallis, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Moruroa (Tuamotu archipelago), Sydney, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Naples.
Roman Catholic Mission Fiji
Please see PMB 581 for full entry.
Documents relating to his ambassadorship in Japan, 1928, and papers written in retirement, 1929-32. The latter include 'Refutation' of Count Bulow's memoirs, a proposal to appoint Solf German Foreign Minister, Solf's mission re minorities in Hungary and German committee on Palestine. (Bulow was Foreign Minister of Germany in 1899 when the acquisition of Western Samoa was negotiated as a German colony).
Solf, Wilhelm Heinrich
Correspondence and other papers
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:
Roman Catholic Church - Samoa
Letters, valedictions, publications, speeches, etc.
Solf (1862-1936) became president of the municipality of Apia, Western Samoa, in 1899, after serving as a district judge in German East Africa. In 1900 he became governor of Western Samoa when that country became a German colony. He remained in that post until 1911 when he became Secretary for the colonies in the German government. After World War I, he served as German ambassador in Japan. The Solf papers have been filmed on reels PMB 581 - 589.
The papers comprise:
Solf, Wilhelm Heinrich
Brother Fred Henry, a teacher at Leone Boys School, Tutuila, American Samoa, spent 25 years in Samoa.
This history, a typescript of 127 pages, was apparently intended for the use of schools in Samoa. A statement on page 127 reads: '... as this outline presents the first trial ever made to collect the known historical events and to put them together in a chronological order, I am well aware that it contains errors and perhaps many of them. But if so, such misstatements are the consequence of erroneous information I received. No misstatement has been made wilfully ...'.
Henry, Fred
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 the London Missionary Society in London from LMS missionaries in Samoa.
London Missionary Society - Samoan District
Correspondence with LMS agent, Suva
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 other religious bodies, including overseas auxiliaries of the LMS
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
In letters from LMS agent, Sydney
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
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