Item 23 - Pacific Letters

Blue springback binder

Copies and transcripts of various documents, some with annotations: George Charter, extracts from manuscripts held at the Mitchell Library, in particular Charter’s journal (MLMSS 1470) and John Medway, ‘Charge delivered at the ordination of G. Charter as missionary to the South Seas, 6 February 1838’ (C 701), pp.131-5; Orsmond, Letter to friends, 22 Aug 1826 (CWM, LMS, SSL, SOAS), 2pp.; ‘Portion of a letter written by Richard Armstrong … on board the Dhalle in the Pacific, July-Aug. 1833’, from original at the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library, 2pp.; ‘Written by young D.D. Baldwin at Raiatea in January 1851’, description of Raiatea, Ts., 5pp.; J.K. Smith to S.C. Damon, August 1861, re death of John Barff (from S.C Damon Papers, Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library, 1p.; G. Pritchard to Friend, Tahiti, 16 May 1840, 2pp., and James Hunnewell to Levi Chamberlain, Tahiti, 19 Dec 1830, 2pp., both from the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library; John Williams, Letter to Daniel Tyerman headed ‘Raiatea’, May 1827(?), pp.1-20 (marked ‘SSP, Box 2, Item 2’); J.M. Orsmond, Upofara, 1849, letter giving an account of the Tahitian mission, pp.1-9, 21-26; H.A.H. Driessen, ‘Prophéties d’avant les contacts’, Bulletin de la Société des Etudes Océaniennes (Polynésie Orientale), no226, Tome XIX, No.3, Mars 1984; W. Bligh, Log of the Bounty, Vol.II, pp. 76-79, p/c, annotated, with Bligh, Log of HMS Providence, (CY A56Y/-Vol.I, Mitchell Library), pp.282-287; G. Forster, A Voyage Round the World, Vol.II, pp.60-79, 92-97, 128-135, 149-157;  J.R. Forster, Remarks on the Organic Bodies, pp.206-209, annotated; Smith (1813), p/c, pp.40-47, 50-81.