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AU PMB MS 19
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- 1882 - 1939 (Creation)
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1 reel; 35mm microfilm; Digital PDF
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The Reverend Richard Heath Rickard (1858-1939) was a pioneer missionary in New Britain. He published the first New Britain dictionary and grammar in 1889.
Some of the documents in this collection relate only indirectly to the Rev. R.H. Rickard. The documents comprise:
- A copy of a letter dated May 1, 1882, from Rickard to the Wesleyan Church offering his services as a missionary in New Britain.
- A fragment of a diary kept by Rickard's wife in the Duke of York Islands from May 19, 1883, to September 24, 1883.
- Four letters from Mrs C. Phebe Parkinson to Mrs Rickard, written between 1898 and 1939 from various places in the New Guinea Islands. One of the letters, of 1935, was written from the little-known Tingwon Islands, off the western tip of New Hanover, and is one of the fullest descriptions known of those islands. (Mrs Parkinson became a friend of the Rickards during their early years in New Britain. For an outline of her career, see the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, November, 1968:4)
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Person: Miss Nella M. Rickard (1968)
Address: Howarth Rd, Artarmon NSW
Country: Australia
Existence and location of copies
Access this title at PMB Member Libraries or by contacting the Bureau directly: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/accessing.php
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- Rickard, Emma Augusta (Subject)
- Parkinson, Phebe Clothilde Chloe (Subject)
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ms19
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Archivist's note
Microfilm digitised and split into three PDF's for web delivery. Uploaded to catalogue by Kari James and Suliljaw Lusausatj, October 2022.
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Digital_reference_image.pdf
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application/pdf