Miscellaneous unpublished items
- AU PMB MS 463
- Colección
- c.1894 - 1928
See PMB MS 432, material relating to Roman Catholic Mission Fiji.
The items are:
- Accounts of Fijian secret societies - le 'vaki ou nanaga'; les Kalou Vatu; le keibuca; les kai nakauvadra. (These are contained in a small exercise book and are thought to have been written by Father J. de Marzan, SM.)
- Brief histories of Fiji mission stations - Tailevu, Tunuloa, Naiserelagi, Suva, Ba and Yasawa, Kadavu, Lomary, Rotuma - and lists of principal dates.
- A 'sketch' entitled 'Slavery in Fiji'. It is dated Levuka, Fiji, 22 June 1894 and is said to be a translation of a German 'communication' in the Geographische Gesellshaft (sic) of 1895. The author states that he had spent 23 years in the Pacific, 'the last twelve of them in Fiji'.
- Correspondence, 1903, concerning alleged Bible burnings.
- Church statistics, 1900-19.
- Reports on native clergy, 1921-22.
- An abridged Fijian grammar - 'Petit abrege de Grammaire Vitienne'. It bears the name of Father A. Deniau, SM, but does not appear to be in his handwriting.
- Letters re medical matters to and from Bishop J. Vidal, 1906-10, and Bishop C.J. Nicolas, 1924-28.
- An account of a visit to Lau by Father J.M. Oreve, SM, dated Suva, 30 August 1923.
- 'Notes concernant l'Imprimerie', by Father P. Clement, SM, dated 'retraite 1922'.
- Papers relating to Father J.V. Pujebet's removal from Nukunau Island, Gilbert Islands, 1917-1919.
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