Anglican Communion - Pitcairn Island
Nobbs, George Hunn 1799-1884 : Papers
Date: 1829-1885
By: Nobbs, George Hunn (Rev), 1799-1884
Reference: fMS-212-215
Description: Papers concern his teaching and preaching at Pitcairn Island, and his removal with the islanders to Norfolk Island, 1856. Includes letters from prominent Pacific missionaries and others. Also includes Nobbs' The Pitcairn Island Recorder: Remarks made at Pitcairn Island during the visit of HMS Curacoa, 1841, by W Gunn: Account of the Marquesas Islands, by W P Crook: I'm not ashamed, by W Epps: The South Seas, a record of three cruises in the islands, Pt 1, the Marquesas, by R L Stevenson. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 volume(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter (photocopies) (40 cm; blue buckram hinged lid boxes) Finding Aids: Index to correspondents at the beginning of Vol 1.
Nobbs, George Hunn, 1799-1884 : Pitcairn and Norfolk Island correspondence
Date: 1821, 1845-1886
From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1256
Description: Letters to Nobbs from John White, consul at Valparaiso (1821); the later letters are from a variety of writers, including masters of whaling ships, Royal Navy officers, other missionaries and clergymen, such as Bishop Patterson in Auckland and family members. They include letters while he was in England in 1852 being ordained, and from 1856 to Norfolk Island where he was stationed. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Letters found in an attic of a house on Norfolk Island. Auctioned by Stanley Gibbons Australia as Sales catalogue No 52 7 Sep 2005, after microfilming. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006
Letterbook - SEL010/4.00/
Date: 1852-1857
From: Selwyn family : Papers
Reference: MSX-8691
Description: Comprises copies of 8 letters from G A Selwyn to his father, to Edward Coleridge, Captain Collinson, the Australian Mission Board, his son, John and his sister. SEL010/4.00/1 To his father, writing from Taurarua, 19 Jun 1852. About to sail on 5th voyage to Islands. To bring back 14 students. illness; death of Toi, baptised as George Nelson Hector. SEL010/4.00/2 To Coleridge 28 Oct 1852, writing from schooner Border Maid in Coromandel Harbour. Gold discoveries; 22 students from Melanesia; ordinations SEL010/4.00/3 To Coleridge 3 Dec 1852, writing from schooner Border Maid, firewooding at Waiheke Island. Colonial Bishoprics Fund. Not neglecting NZ for Pacific Islands SEL010/4.00/4 to Captain Collinson ca 1847 or 1848, writing from St John's College. The murders at Wanganui SEL010/4.00/5 to Rev W B Clarke, Australian Mission Board, Sydney, n d [ca 1853] Reports on 1853 voyage to Islands; French and French missionaries in New Caledonia. Norfolk Island; settlement by Pitcairn Islanders; recommends establishment of Melanesian college there SEL010/4.00/6 To John Selwyn 16 Sep 1856 Describes visit to Norfolk Island and his pastorate of Pitcairn Islanders there.Spiritual guidance SEL010/4.00/7 To his sister, Fanny {Frances?], Landwell Hall, Birmingham UK 24 Aug 1852 Writing from Kawau Island where is repairing Southern Cross. Lists clergymen and laity at College and other mission stations SEL010/4.00/8 To John Selwyn 27 Feb 1857 Decribes his travels in NZ Jul 1855-1857. Lists numbers of confirmations, also in Sydney and Melanesia Quantity: 1 volume(s).