'Correspondence relating to the Cession of Rotumah'
- AU PMB MS 1214-03
- Pièce
- 30 October 1879
Fait partie de High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
'Correspondence relating to the Cession of Rotumah'
Fait partie de High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
Handley Bathurst Sterndale Drawings of Pacific Islands
'A Paradise of the Gods. Writings and Drawings of Handley Bathurst Sterndale’ (2020) is an unpublished digital edition edited by J.J. Overell. In 1870, Handley Bathurst Sterndale worked as a surveyor on the island of Upolu, Samoa, for the German trading company Goddefroy & Sohn. In this capacity, he made an expedition across Upolu, making notes and sketches about the journey as he went. In 1871, on Motu Kotawa on the islet of Pukapuka atoll in the Cook Islands, he worked these notes into the manuscript ‘Upolu; or, A Paradise of the Gods’, and worked his sketches into finished drawings. Some accounts are not his first hand observations and others are demonstrably wrong. Sterndale sought to have the manuscript published, but was unsuccessful in finding a publisher before his death in 1878. After his death, it was listed in a catalogue among the publications of Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington of London, but the manuscript never made it to print. It is now available as PMB MS 1442.
The original notebooks have since been lost, but the surviving manuscript and drawings have been passed down to Sterndale’s descendants. This collection brings together 73 of Sterndale's drawings of Samoa, Cook Islands and other islands of the Pacific. The images were digitised by photographer Rod Howe. The images are of scenes witnessed or imagined on his journey, including plants and animals, people, nature and village life.
Sterndale, Handley Bathurst
'Prospectus of the Land and General Mortgage Company of Fiji Limited'
Fait partie de Fijian pamphlets collected by Sir Arthur Gordon, Vols.1-5
'Memorial to the Governor from the Fiji Agricultural Society'
Fait partie de Fijian pamphlets collected by Sir Arthur Gordon, Vols.1-5
'Planting and Commercial Directory, 1879, A Handbook of Fiji'
Fait partie de Fijian pamphlets collected by Sir Arthur Gordon, Vols.1-5
Extracts from the ‘Fiji Times’ and the ‘Fiji Argus’
Fait partie de Fijian pamphlets collected by Sir Arthur Gordon, Vols.1-5
'Suggestions by Chief Justice Gorrie'
Fait partie de High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
'Fiji. The Suva Land Quest (by one of the party)'
Fait partie de Fijian pamphlets collected by Sir Arthur Gordon, Vols.1-5