Colonial administrator, author and ethnologist. Grimble went to the Gilbert Islands as a cadet administrative officer in 1913 and became Resident Commissioner in 1926. He spent time while he was there gathering local songs, stories and oral traditions. Author of "Pattern of islands" (1952) and "Return to the islands" (1957).
Grimble, Arthur Francis (Sir), 1888-1956
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Manuscript
Early and personal life, correspondence etc
Date: 1907-1940
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2729
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Manuscript
Grimble, Arthur Francis (Sir), 1886-1956 : Literary drafts
Date: [ca 1955]
By: Grimble, Arthur Francis (Sir), 1888-1956
Reference: MS-Papers-7204
Description: Drafts of Grimble's two books of his experiences on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as Resident Commissioner, `A Pattern of islands' and `Return to the islands'. Consist of heavily annotated typescripts. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations
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Clippings on the Pacific region
Date: [1890-1972]
From: Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand : Records
Reference: fMS-Papers-6064
Description: Comprises clippings on Disappointment Island, the conquest of Western Samoa, `Old man of the Colonial Office' by Arthur Grimble, population explosion in the Pacific by Kenneth Cumberland, `The Story of Pitt's Island' by Edward Wakefield (NZ Graphic 1890), `From Stewart Island to Siberia' about the muttton-bird, `A Coral speck in the Pacific' (Sun, Auckland, 1930), `Castaways of wind-swept isles of the Southern Ocean' and `The saga of the Sinclairs' (Sun, Christchurch, 1931, 1934) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Canoes in the Gilbert Islands / Arthur Grimble
Date: [19--]
From: Fortune, Reo Franklin, 1903-1979: Papers
Reference: 80-323-154
Description: Part of publication only, pages 117-136; includes annotations Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed material