A history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Tongan Building Program. Covers the period 1955-59 in Tonga.

Reverend Dr Ernest Edgar Vyvyan Collocott (1886-1970) served as a Methodist missionary in Tonga from 1911 to 1924. During his career in Tonga and afterwards, he wrote numerous papers on Tongan myths, legends, history, language, customs and astronomy for Mankind, The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Folklore, and the special publications of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum.

The correspondence comprises approximately 100 letters relating to a wide range of Pacific subjects, with emphasis on Tonga. Correspondents include many of the leading Pacific scholars of the day, such as Elsdon Best, W.H. Skinner, H.E. Gregory, anthropologists W.C. McKern and E.W. Gifford, and linguists Sidney H. Ray and S. Churchward. Also included is a copy of a speech made by Queen Salote of Tonga at the laying of the foundation stone of the schoolhouse at Nafuala in 1921 and the annual report of the Chief Justice of Tonga for 1921.

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).

Mgr. Pierre Bataillon, 1810-1877. Titular Bishop of Enos, first Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania, 1842-1877. -- A.1- 10: Miscellaneous documents. -- B. 1-3: Miscellaneous documents. -- C. Mgr. Amano I. Amaze, 1833-1906. Titula Bishop of Olympos and Thir

C.2. f: Incoming letters, continued. -- C.3. a-b-c: Lamaze, duplicates of outgoing letters and reports. -- C.4. a-b: Writings by Lamaze. -- C.5. a-b-c: Mission Procurators to Lamaze.

E.5. 10-11-12-13: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 14: Parish of Ma'Ufanga. -- E.5. 15-16-17: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 18-19: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 20-21: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued.

E.5. 44-45-46: Financial matters of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 60: General statistics of the Vicariate. -- E.6. 10: Circular letters. -- E.8. 2: Miscellaneous papers, re: Vicariate.

E.9. 5. -- Tauhua Lelei. -- BOX 2. Olier.

BOX 3. Castagnier, continued.

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.