01963ntc a22002297i 45000010005000000080041000050400026000461000038000722450054001102640016001643000040001803360021002203370023002413380032002645000017002965060028003135201019003415330077013605350040014375400079014778560177015561363140313k18821939xx            000 0|eng d  aANU:PMBcANU:PMBerda1 aRickard, Richard Heathd1858-193910aMiscellaneous papers - letters and diary fragment  c1882 - 1939  a1 reel; 35mm microfilm; Digital PDF  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  aAU PMB MS 19  aAvailable for reference2 aThe 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: 1. A copy of a letter dated May 1, 1882, from Rickard to the Wesleyan Church offering his services as a missionary in New Britain. 2. A fragment of a diary kept by Rickard's wife in the Duke of York Islands from May 19, 1883, to September 24, 1883. 3. 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)  aElectronic reproduction:bCanberra :cPacific Manuscripts Bureau, d2014  bHowarth Rd, Artarmon NSWcAustralia  aAvailable for referenceuhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/copyright.php41uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/digital/catalogue/index.php/miscellaneous-papers-letters-and-diary-fragmentzView this item in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.