Samoa - History - 20th century
Interview with Frank Corner and Gerald Hensley
Date: 2003
From: Being Pa'alagi oral archive
By: Corner, Frank Henry, 1920-2014; Hensley, Gerald Christopher, 1935-
Reference: OHInt-0911-02
Description: Interview with Frank Corner, a diplomat who worked on independence for Samoa in 1962, and Gerald Hensley, a junior diplomat at the time, who helped him. Interviewer(s) - Tony Haas Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHMD-0071 Quantity: 1 MiniDisc(s). 1 interview(s). 1.21 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available agreement form for Frank Corner only. Search dates: 2003
[Ephemera of octavo size relating to Samoa. 1910-1939]
Date: 1914 - 1931 - 1919
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Samoa]
Reference: Eph-A-SAMOA-1910/1939
Description: Includes: 1914: Greetings from Samo[a]. Mouth of crater on Sawaii, Samoa.[1914] 1919: Samoa and indentured labour. "Imperialism", Leaflet no. 2. Printed by the Lyttelton Times Co Ltd, Christchurch New Zealand - 45885 [ca 1919] "Indentured labour"; a ripe fruit of imperialism and war. "Imperialism", Leaflet no. 3. Printed by the Lyttelton Times Co Ltd, Christchurch New Zealand - 45885 [ca 1919] 1931: Farewell to Col. Allen (ex-Administrator of Western Samoa). The addresses from the Samoan Mau (Reprinted from the "N.Z. Samoa Guardian), 16 April 1931) What Samoa wants; a plea from the Samoans to the New Zealanders. November 1931 Other items within this date range have been catalogued and housed separately. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.
Letter from Mata'afa Iosefa to John C Klein
Date: 6 February 1889
From: Klein, John C, active 1870-1890: Papers relating to Samoa
Reference: MS-Papers-12538-1-4
Description: Manuscript letter from Mata'afa Iosefa, Magiagi Village near Apia, to John Klein, California. Iosefa comments on the political aftermath from the civil war, including criticism regarding the German government presence in Samoa. Also requests fundraising support from Klein for the construction of the cathedral in Apia. The letter is written in Samoan and annotated with French translations by Father Eugene Didier, as referred to in MS-Papers-12538-1-8. Title supplied by library. Physical Description: Holograph on paper with manuscript annotations, 32.0 x 20.2 cm.