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Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939 : Further papers relating to Samoa
- Date
- 1889-1937 nd
- By
- Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939
- Reference
- MS-Papers-5498
- Description
Comprises additional papers relating to the Mau uprising, New Zealand administration of Samoa, biographical pieces on Samoan identities and other aspects of Samoan affairs
Source of title - Supplied
Relationship complexity - See also 82-395
Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 3 folder(s), 0.03 Linear Metres, Business correspondence, Personal correspondence, Drafts (Documents), Manuscripts, Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter
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Samoan personalities
Date: [1880-1930]
From: Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939 : Further papers relating to Samoa
Reference: MS-Papers-5498-1
Description: Additional Westbrook papers: An embarrassing trick that was played on Shirley Baker; two photographic enlargements; `An amuseing [sic] incident'; `Cliphook and Clawhammer'; Sister Bernardetti; Doctor Funk; Captain Harrington and the American consul; untitled ms, ref folder 61 of Westbrook papers; a few character sketches; Herrn Reinhardt, collecctr of Customs; death of Sir Thomas B Cusack-Smith; `An eccentric character'; Dr Thieme; Captain Joshua Slocm; Robert Louyis Stevenson as a citizen; Paul Hoeflich; John Davis; Frank Coffin; notes re Theodor Weber; Murphy's wife; Capt John O'Regan; J C Curry; Count von Wormbrand; B M Haggard, British Land Commissioner appointed by the three great powers; Chief Justice Cedercrantz; his deceased wife's sister; cards relating to sorting of this collection Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Mau period and Samoa and New Zealand
Date: 1902-1937 nd
From: Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939 : Further papers relating to Samoa
Reference: MS-Papers-5498-2
Description: Comprises (1) Correspondence and reports relating to Samoa and the New Zealand administration with a letter from Logan to Westbrook; Western Samoa Legislative Council debates, sessions 1924; several letters to the editor by Westbrook; a report on the pros and cons regarding the Chinese labour question in Samoa; a novel way of filling kerosene lamps; contrast in administrative methods, America and New Zealand; `Final act of the Berlin Conference on Samoan affairs' (1889); copy of photograph of Solf; and (2) Mau period papers including letters from G S Richardson to Westbrook (1928); Memorandum on...Samoan unrest by O F Nelson; extra from the `Samoa Guardian' re Tamasese (1928); order of banishment to Leota (1927); circulars and official papers Also includes letter from the administrator to the three elected members of the Legislative Council (26 Mar 1927); circular to Faipules (1927); Samoan chiefs to Hart (1932); O F Nelson, in the matter of the Samoan amendment Act (1927) and untitled mss re public meeting (Oct 1926) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Samoa before 1900
Date: 1891-1900 nd
From: Westbrook, George Egerton Leigh, 1860-1939 : Further papers relating to Samoa
Reference: MS-Papers-5498-3
Description: Includes drafts of manuscripts and articles on `Ten years after the Berlin Treaty'; `The Samoan war of 1900'; `Forty-two years in Samoa'; `Samoa in 1891'; `The Russian war scare'; `The fight in the banana patch'; `The devil is not half as black as he's painted'; `A Samoan Monaco'; `The Two divers'; `One New Year's Day'; `The battle of Vailele'; `The Centipede'; `A Bit of old Samoa'; extract from Judge Mulligan's accoount of early Samoan history; letters from Westbrook to his mother (1899) and Tilley to the High Chief Fa Vai (1899)