Item 257 - Folder entitled 'Historical Notes'.

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AU ANUA 481-257

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Folder entitled 'Historical Notes'.

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  • 1888 - 1908 (Creation)

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(1852 - 1927)

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Includes a letter from N. Amherst to Woodford, London, 5 July 1888, enclosing sketches to compare with Gallego's Sesarga (Guadalcanal) ; W. R. H. Rivers to Woodford, Cambridge, 10 July 1907 requesting help during his proposed trip to the Solomons in 1908 ; Henry Welchman to Woodford, Mara Na Tabu, 30 March1908 ; J. Edge-Partington to Woodford, nd, with extracts from Dalrymple of Mendana's discovery of the Solomons ; Proclamations and Instructions, Western Pacific High Commission, 1899-1903 (Extension of Protectorate, 28 January 1899 and 6 October 1900 ; Revocation of Protectorate over Tasman Group, 8 January 1902, and others) ; Booklet, 'Australia and the New Hebrides', reprinted from Sydney Daily Telegraph of article by Senator Staniforth Smith, 1904 ; Press clippings ; Article by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The late Dr Hyde, R.L. Stevenson's noble vindication of Damien', The Austral Light, January 1900, pp61 - 4 ; Typescript of article by Senator Pulsford ‘The Western Pacific’, Melbourne, The Senate, 28 November 1905, 6pp ; plus various handwritten notes by Woodford mainly about ships, Betel nut, kava, toddy.

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