Melanesian languages - Texts
MSS. Pacific.s.5 - MSS. Pacific.s.41
Date: 1876-1887
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2122
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Church of Melanesia : Selected archives
Date: 1848-1974
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1390
Description: Comprise newspaper clippings of Bishop Walter Baddeley; ephemera relating to Bishop Chisholm, Charles Fox's 'Lord of the Southern Isles'and the Melanesian Mission at Sydney; miscellaneous correspondence 1860-1940; correspondence with the General Secretary 1921-1931; with the Trust Board (NZ) 1928-1963; concerning Honiara Cathedral 1961-1970; with the Australian Board of Mission 1931-1974; with NZ Anglican Board of Missions 1926-1965; registers of the Church of St Barnabas, Alanguala, Ugi 1948-1954; Synod minutes 1953-1965; copies of the Church calendar O Raverare Gagang in the Mota language 1939-1957; O Sala Usuri, a publication; legal papers 1880s-1960s; Ten thousand miles with the Southern Cross, a film by George Herrman Tarr 1921-1936 Language - Also includes many documents in Mota language Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 6 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu for details of the contents of the reels. Provenance: Documents in the pre-1975 archives of the Church of Melanesia have been held since 1981 in the National Archives of the Solomon Islands
Blencowe, John Walcot, 1886-1964 : Papers
Date: 1908-1932
By: Blencowe, John Walcot (Rev), 1886-1964
Reference: Micro-MS-0447
Description: Contain various printed items, a Mota vocabulary, letters to his parents 1909-1911 describing his voyage to the Pacific, his stay on Norfolk Island, and life as a missionary on Santa Cruz; incoming letters including several in a Melanesian language 1910-1915, lists, drafts of speeches and letters, photographs etc relating to the Melanesian mission. Blencowe went to the Solomon Islands as a missionary in 1909 for three years. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 380 pages). Physical Description: Negative microfilm Finding Aids: Inventory available; detailed list of contents at beginning of the reel.