London Missionary Society

Date: 1822-1840

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0035

Description: Includes journal describing voyage by Williams and Bourne from Raiatea to the the Cook Islands in 1823. Also includes copies of letters between the missionaries and their families, a copy of a letter from Tamatoa, Chief of Raiatea, to the President of the United States, and an extract from the minutes of the LMS re the murder of Williams and Harris in the New Hebrides. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 1837

By: Read, James (Rev), active 1800-1837

Reference: MS-Papers-2853

Description: Brief summary of the career of an LMS clergyman who was in Africa from 1800 to 1836 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1844-1929

By: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949

Reference: MS-Group-0064

Description: These papers relate to Rev Percy Hall's period as a London Missionary Society missionary in the Cook Islands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Includes an extensive collection of inward correspondence; a collection of printed material, much by the mission press in Rarotonga; samples of school work; and some early newspapers, serials, maps and photographs, covering his period in the Cook Islands. Also includes writings in Cook Islands Maori written by students at the mission and also collected by Percy Hall and by his predecessor, John J K Hutchin. Much of this material has been transcribed by Bob O'Brien and the transcriptions are available on the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre website (http://www.nzetc.org) Language - Cook Island Maori Relationship complexity - A purchase from Bethune's Auction in June 1987 of Tereora School children's work illustrating legends and customs of Cook Island Maoris, gives some samples from the 1960s and 1970s. This is to be found at 88-22-42 in Drawings and Prints Section Percy Hall, a trained teacher, was appointed headmaster of Tereora Boarding School in Rarotonga in Jul 1900. In 1905 he returned to England where he trained at the London Missionary School Hackney College in theology and was ordained in 1908. From Feb 1908 he worked in Rarotonga, being appointed to the training institution at Avarua in 1916, when he left Rarotonga for New Zealand and resigned from the London Missionary Society. In 1922, after teaching in Taihape, he taught at Marton District High School, retiring in 1940. Quantity: 58 folder(s). 34 volume(s). 2.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Three maps (See inventory for details) - To Newspaper Collection - See inventory for details - To Serials Collection - See inventory for details - To Photographic Archive - Glass negatives (Cook Island scenes).

Date: 7 Aug 1885

By: Green, James Lampard (Rev), 1833-1905

Reference: MS-Papers-3396

Description: Letter referring to mission work at Tahiti Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased 1962 from J Burke, London

Date: 1861-1910

By: London Missionary Society

Reference: Micro-MS-0471

Description: Correspondence, accounts, reports from LMS missionaries stationed on Niue Island, in particular W G and F E Lawes. Also official papers concerning the annexation of Niue in 1900 by Great Britain and correspondence of the Head family. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 700 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1854-1855

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3599

Description: Relating to the annexation of New Caledonia, the annexation of Hawaii by the United States, trade between the Australasian colonies and the French territories, disturbances in Tahiti and Raiatea, French naval movenments in the Pacific, Russian naval movements and other Pacific aspects of the war with Russia, and problems involving British trading vessels. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1946-1968]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0706

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index.

Date: 20 Dec 1854

By: Buzacott, Aaron, 1800-1864

Reference: MS-Papers-1193

Description: Letter from Buzacott to the Rev Mr Berne, describing the distribution of Bibles in return for arrowroot from the natives of Rarotonga; he also describes a measles epidemic. Also a list of books translated and printed at the Mission Press by the London Missionary Society. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 letter). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Removed from his "Mission life in the Islands of the Pacific... " (London, 1866)

Date: 1910-1953

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0701

Description: Correspondence between the local missionaries and the local administration, and overseas LMS representatives. Quantity: 7 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra : PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: This material was filmed by the Executive Officer, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, on Niue in Nov 1974. At that time it was housed in the former residence of the London Missionary Society missionaries.

Date: 1 Sep 1819-Aug 1821, 1845

Reference: Micro-MS-0726

Description: Frames 1-67 consist of journal of Hannah Crook, wife of W P Crook, missionary at Papeete. Frames 68-186 consist of journal of Elizabeth Crook (Hannah's daughter) on voyage from Sydney to Calcutta on the barque Elizabeth & Henry, Jul-Oct 1845. Frames 187-205 are fragments of a journal by an unknown writer. Source of title - transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 160 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1948

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0705

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 1872-1912

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0704

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 18 Aug 1858, n d

By: Nisbet, Henry (Rev), 1818-1879

Reference: MS-Papers-6317

Description: Two letters from Nisbet on Matautu and Malava in Samoa to his wife, `Misi Nisapetiu fafine i Lafotulafai' (1858) and `Misi Nisapeti i Tuasivi' (n d). Nisbet discusses the appointment of a teacher on Aganoa and various administrative matters including the importance of keeping up the Sabbath and Wednesday services; he is concerned for her health, gives instructions on sending some work, 2 Chronicles, requiring corrections, and mentions other matters including the congregation at Faleloloqua which refused to sit while singing Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-Coll-08-0417-1 for further Nisbet papers Nisbet was a missionary with the London Missioanry Society and was based at various stations in the Pacific; these letters were written while he was in Samoa Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Julian Browning, Bookseller, London, Jul 1998

Date: 1774-1900

Reference: MS-Papers-1273

Description: Missionary history of Niue compiled from letters and reports by an incoming Secretary of the London Missionary Society in London about 1910 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (copy)

Date: 1852-1854

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3598

Description: Relating to Tahiti and the annexation of Hawaii by the United States, the establishment of French consuls in Australia and New Zealand, the French occupation of New Caledonia, relations with British missionaries in Tahit, and French naval movements in the Pacific. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1801-1808, 1826-1827

By: London Missionary Society

Reference: MS-Papers-0552

Description: 1801-1808 letters from missionaries in Tahiti including four from John Davies, (including a catechism in Tahitian - the first missionary text in a Polynesian language), and one each from John Youl, John Eyre, Samuel Tessier, and John Clark Jefferson. Also two 1826-1827 letters from Charles Pitman to Joshua Pitman. Other - For discussion of the catechism translated into Tahitian by Davies see J Nicole `The First missionary text in a Polynesian language', Journal of Pacific History 22, 94-101 (1987). Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.

Date: 1871 (translated 1974)

By: Maretu, active 1802-1880

Reference: qMS-1323

Description: Contains illustrations, maps, bibliography and index, biographical notes, background material, annotation and analysis of the original autobiography of Maretu Draft of Mrs Marjorie Crocombe's translation of a Cook Islands history, written in 1871 by Maretu, a convert and missionary for the London Missionary Society from 1833 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (275 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (blue buckram)

Date: 1938

From: Congregational Union of New Zealand : Records

Reference: 91-295-2/05

Description: Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1 Jan 1807

By: Pomare family

Reference: MS-Papers-0827/5

Description: Comprises facsimile translation of a letter from King Pomare to the London Missionary Society agreeing to banish the god Oro, and asking for arms, dated Matavae 1 Jan 1807 Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Same as letter in MS-Papers-0827/4 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: Jun 1811

By: Warner, Gregory, 1779-

Reference: MS-Papers-7427

Description: Account written by Warner in 1811 of his time in Tahiti as a surgeon with the London Missionary Society covering the period from 1805 to 1810. He describes his arrival, first impressions, various practices of the people, religious beliefs, sexual behaviour, medical problems, local disputes, his departure from Otaheite for Huaheine and his subsequent return, and his final departure in 1810. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Copy also in Micro-MS-Coll-20-1962 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)