Missionaries - Fiji

Date: 1929-1930

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1325

Description: comprises reports and photographs describing missionary work carried out by Rev Lewis Barnard in Fiji, and work of his wife, Winifred, who ran health clinics there Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, 2010

Date: 1860-1902

By: Langham, Annie, -1901?

Reference: MS-1131

Description: Album contains signed contributions by many well known Pacific missionaries, including James Calvert, Joseph Waterhouse and John Eggleston. One of the pages has a watermark that reads: “J Whatman | Turkey Mill | 1858” Rev and Mrs Langham were Methodist missionaries in Fiji, ca 1850-1900 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (188 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (23 cm; black morocco) Finding Aids: Inventory available listing names and date of contributor. Provenance: Formerly the property of Rev H Moulton Photographs and pressed flowers, etc Processing information: Note about watermark added after it was noticed during conservation treatment in 2016.

Date: 14 Oct 1850

By: Hazlewood, David (Rev), 1820-1855

Reference: MS-Papers-11937

Description: Letter by Reverend David Hazlewood dated Auckland, 14 October 1850, addressed to his older brother William in Suffolk, England. Content of the letter acknowledges receipt of letter from the addressee and makes reference to the grief suffered by the writer through the loss of his wife some two years earlier. Mentions the names of his surviving children Sarah, Mary Ann and Joseph McIntyre who were also in New Zealand at the time, being cared for by the wife of another missionary. Also mentions the periodicals 'The Wesleyan Juvenile Offering', and 'The Wesleyan Missionary Notices', both published in London by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. The letter goes on to describe the purpose-built missionary ship 'John Wesley' on which the writer has arrived in Auckland from Fiji together with fellow missionaries Walter Lawry and J G Millard. Also gives an account of the occasion when the vessel struck a reef on a voyage between Somosomo and Rewa in Fiji. Notes that at the time of writing the ship has just left Auckland harbour bound for Fiji with the missionary Joseph Waterhouse on board. The author of the letter makes reference to Governor George Grey, and describes the demographics of the New Zealand population and missionary presence at the time, while also contemplating the possibility of marrying again - "as we need the society and comforts of a wife, in Feejee especially." In the latter part of the letter the writer discusses themes of Christian belief with references to biblical texts and would appear to be preaching to the older brother on the missionary themes of salvation and prospects of eternal life. The manuscript letter is written in a regular cursive hand and bears postal markings in the form of an "Auckland - New Zealand - Oc[tober] 22 1850 A", circular datestamp, and two receiving postmarks, including a green circular datestamp "Bury St Edmunds - M[a]R[ch] 21 1851 A", indicating that the letter arrived at its destination in England some five months after dispatch from New Zealand. Source of title - Supplied by Library English linguist and missionary Reverend David Hazlewood arrived in Sydney in 1842 and served the Wesleyan mission in Fiji from 1844 to 1853, when he returned to New South Wales due to poor health, and died in Maitland in 1855. At the time when the letter in this collection was written, Hazlewood was on a visit to Auckland where he attended the Annual Meeting of the District Auxiliary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and reported on Fiji. (See 'Wesleyan Missionary Meeting', The New Zealander, volume 6, issue 481, 23 November 1850, page 3). Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, holograph letter on folded sheet of wove paper, 34 x 43 cm. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Hordern House, Sydney, April 2015

Date: 1835-1898

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1093

Description: Circuit reports submitted to the Fiji District Synod 1878-1898, annual reports and accounts of the Somosomo (Cakaudrove) Circuit 1839-1847, the Bua Circuit 1848-1859, the Nadi Circuit 1848-1856, the Lau Circuit, Lakemba Branch 1835-1845, and the Viwa Circuit 18401-858. Also, the Swanston Collection on the Ra and Ba military campaigns Source of title - Transcribed Methodist affairs in Fiji were administered by the Wesleyan Missionary Society in London until 1855, when Fiji became part of the New South Wales Conference of the Australasian Methodist Church, administered by the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia in Sydney, and by the District Chairman whose office was in Bau until 1903 and after that in Suva. In 1964 the Methodist church in Fiji achieved independence from its parent body in Australia. Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1997

Date: 1854-1945

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1138

Description: Comprises minutes and journals of resolutions of the Fiji District Annual Synod 1854-1945, as well as correspondence, mainly with the government and Superintending Missionaries, on a variety of topics 1869-1899. Source of title - Transcribed Methodist affairs in Fiji were run by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London until the formation of the Australasian Connexion in 1855, when Fiji became a District of the NSW Conference, and responsibility passed to Sydney and the District Chairman, whose office was first in Bau and, from 1903, in Suva. In 1964 the Methodist Church of Fiji achieved independence from its parent body in Australia. Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1999

Date: 1868-1883

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1039

Description: Volume 6 (on Reel 4) contains texts of sermons. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1992

Date: 21 Aug 1854

By: Calvert, James (Rev), 1813-1892

Reference: MS-Papers-3078

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1913-1975

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1074

Description: Personal papers, photographs and reminiscences collected during the Steadmen's time in Fiji, where they worked as Methodist missionaries among the Indian community Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1994

Date: 1883, 1948

By: Gordon, W M, active 1883

Reference: qMS-0860

Description: Gordon's letters to Rev W Allen and to his Excellency re Allen's part in the trouble between Catholics and Wesleyans on Rotuma Source of title - Supplied (Binder's title) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, blue pam case)

Date: 1832-1972

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1153

Description: "D" Series manuscripts in the Museum Library, including: Swanston papers 1853-1885; Richard Philp, diary, 1872, R A Derrick's History of Fiji, Journal F, 1995; J B Thurston papers; Rev D Cargill, journal, 1842-1843; Rev J Hunt, diary 1839-1841; Sir William allardyce Collection, 1876-1886; Sir Everard im Thurn papers; Gilbert and Ellice Islands Codes of laws 1894-1921; W G Woolnough papers on the geology of Fiji, ca 1907; Brewster papers,; Lomaloma papers, 1874-1959; Boyne papers, 1865-1870; Connor papers, 1903; Rev Thomas Williams papers, 1847; Wesleyan Mission documents, 1838-1878; David Cargill papers, 1832; Fiji Museum papers, 1930-1942. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 5 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1836-1854, 1927

By: Lyth, Richard Burdsall (Rev), 1810-1887; Wesleyan Missionary Society

Reference: fMS-137

Description: Chiefly correspondence by Lyth and others, relating to Lyth's term in Fiji as a Methodist missionary, also includes:- Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society - Instructions to the Wesleyan missionaries, London, 1834. Letter dated 27 Apr 1857, written by Lyth from Auckland - comments on the letters by G C Henderson, 30 Nov 1927. Letters describe mission work and missionaries in Fiji, Fijian social life and customs, and the rise of Cakobau, King of Fiji Quantity: 1 volume(s) (347 leaves). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (44 cm; black buckram)

Date: 1881

From: Highlands of Fiji :Copy Negatives from photographs by Gerrard Ansdell

By: Ansdell, Gerrard, 1853-1936

Reference: PAColl-5530-28

Description: Formal family group. At the back left a young man holds a book to his chest. They are dressed mainly in cotton fabrics, though the older man (left back) seems to have a tapa cloth round his waist. Except for one of the children they all wear shirts or tops of one sort or another Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1867-1873]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1040

Description: Comprises notes on Fijian history and customs with anecdotes; biographical essays on South Sea missionary martyrs, together with anonymous accounts collected by him; and press copy book of sermons, articles and letters. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1992