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This series consists of research materials generated by Hank Driessen on the topic of Polynesian history from the pre-contact period to mid-19th century, focusing on French Polynesia, Fiji, and Hawai'i. Much of it consists of research notebooks filled with extracts from archival materials handwritten by Driessen during visits to international research libraries. A notable component is an extensive series of index cards of primary source extracts arranged chronologically by year from 1769 to 1852.

Note that the PDF is no longer up to date (use the ATOM list instead) but is retained because it contains a very detailed breakdown of some of the item contents.

3 original copies of the Missionary Register: July 1819, March 1824, July 1824.

Journal, magazine and newspaper articles bound in one volume, some with pasted in photos. Contents list at front.

Long series of index cards of extracts from primary sources, arranged by date. Part 1: 1769-1816; part 2: 1818-1828; part 3 (1830-1852)

1 foldout map: Polynèsie française Tahiti Nord-Est, Paris, Instut Géographique National, 1958; 1 (detached) booklet of map: • Survey Dept. Rarotonga, Maps of the Cook Islands, Government Printer, n.d., 42pp.

3 works by Aarne A. Koskinen, Polynesian Patterns 1-2, and *Kite: Polynesian Insights into Knowledge. Volumes X, XII and XIV of annales societatis missiologicae fennicae, published by the Finnish Society for Missionary Research.

Printout from United States Exploring Expedition with annotations

Photocopy of (seemingly) 19th century printed material

Handwritten lists of correspondence and archival documents, chiefly from Foreign Office, Admiralty and Board of Longitude

Photocopies of printed texts in Mitchell Library: Te Faaite Tahiti: no Taute, 1835; Ture no Huahine: E Ture I-VII; E Ture no Huahine Nei, faatia faahou hia nei, mai te ture-api e raverahi, Huahine, Mission Press, 1835; E Ui Parabole No Roto i te Mau Parabole Iesu Mesia, Huahine, Nenia i te Nenei Raa a te Mau Misionari, 1835; etc

Documents and studies bound into one volume, with annotations and pasted-in photographs

With Jack H. Ward, Supplemental Materials for Tahitian, Utah, Language Training Mission, Brigham Young University, and Honolulu, Indo Pacific Languages, University of Hawaii, 1979

Four versions of tale compared in four columns under headings JPS 1895 Williams’ Raiatean Hono’ura tale; Huguenin version, Raiatea, ca.1900; T. Henry’s Tuamotuan Hono‘ura tradition; Williams’ Hono’ura tradition/legend.

Documents and studies bound into one volume, with annotations and pasted-in photographs

Journal, magazine and newspaper articles bound in one volume, some with pasted in photos. Contents list at front.

Journal, magazine and newspaper articles bound in one volume, some with pasted in photos. Contents list at front.

Photocopies of manuscript letters of 1845-1846

Printed material bound into one volume, with annotations: War in Tahiti (1-87); Fragments from a collection of songs, numbered 321-332; Orsmond manuscript material; Reception of the Gospel.

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.

Notes and transcriptions from research in Archives Nationales, Archives d’Outre-Mer

Notes and transcriptions from research in Archives Nationales, Archives d’Outre-Mer

Printed material bound into one volume. Contents: Daniel Solander, O-Taitean Vocabulary; Otahiti Words from Mr Monkhouse; Sydney Parkinson, Untitled Tahitian vocabulary; Joseph Banks, Vocabularies of the Languages of Tahiti, Princes’s Island, Sulu, New Holland, Samarang, Savi, etc., c.1780, Tahitian sections; Joseph Banks, Observations of Otaheite &c; • H.A.H. Driessen, ‘Dramatis Personae of Society Islanders, Cook’s Endeavour Voyage 1769; Sir Joseph Banks, On the Manners of the Women of Otaheite; Alexander Home manuscript, Mitchell Library. [Untitled Ms. Cook’s Third Voyage]

Printed material photocopied and bound in one volume: Papers relating to Tahiti, and the Leeward, or Society Islands in the Pacific: Great Britain and Ireland Private & Confidential, Correspondence Relative to Society Islands, 1822 – 1847.

Printouts of microfilm of manuscript letters bound in one volume: Letter from John Harris dated Matavai, 6 February 1799; William Henry and John Davis, A Journal of a tour round both the Islands of Huahine, February 1809; Letter to the Directors of the LMS, dated Raiatea 5th September 1819, from John Williams, L.E. Threlkeld and Orsmond.

Transcrip by Driessen pp.1-61 of the original manuscript (LMS archives, SOAS)

Notes and transcriptions from research in Archives Nationales, Archives d’Outre-Mer

Printed material bound into one volume, with annotations: Te mau arioi / Tahitian Prayers (p.1-64); Beginning of expansion (development) of the London Mission Tahitian Dictionary (p1-56)

Handwritten transcriptions of documents, including: J.M. Orsmond, Griffin Town, to Burker(?), English translation of letter from the 2nd class of scholars at South Sea Academy in answer to Burker’s letter to the Church of Moorea, 20 Sep 1827 (AJCP mf of LMS SS Letters), 5pp.; Orsmond for Jan-Feb 1821 (from AJCP mf of LMS SS Journals), examples of metaphorical poetic speech, 4pp.; Pitman and Williams to Directors, concerning Rarotonga, 6 & 21 Nov 1827, some notes relevant to Society Islands, 3pp.; E.S.C. Handy, ‘Marquesan Legends’, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 69, Honolulu, 1930, 16pp.;  E.S.C. Handy, ‘The Native Culture in the Marquesas’, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1923, 2pp.;  AJCP Reel 1580, PRO Admiralty, Ship Class: Ships Logs, Supplementary Series II, Short Ref. Adm.55/39, Endeavour 26 August 1768 – 20 October 1769, Log (Master’s Log), 11pp. & insert, with Adm.55/40, Journal of James Cook, Endeavour, 27 May 1769– 10 July 1771, list of islands, 3pp., and notes on Adm.55/41 & 42, 1p.; SSL Box 8, folder 3, jacket C (AJCP, LMS, M25), “a few remarks on the happy death of some Church Members 1830 & 1831 (Huahine)”, and other LMS sources, 5pp. SSL [South Seas Letters, LMS, SOAS], P.R.O. Adm. [Admiralty]’

Handwritten research notes and extracts from sources, including Journal Kept on Board of Ship Rose 1837-1841.

Printed material bound into one volume, ~296pp., contents listed at back. Mostly extracts from the Journal of the Polynsian Society.

Handwritten transcription of French documents mostly of the 1840s, most with English facing translation. Heading include voyage of Pomare.

Handwritten list of material in Turnbull Library, extracts from John Reinhold Forster's Observations made during a Voyage Around the World…, 1778

Handwritten notes on geneology in Tahite, Captain Cook. Transcription of parts of journal of J. Byron, 1764-66. Some pages excised.

Contents torn out, except for 6 pages of handwritten notes on ‘Georg Forster’s Werke’

Handwritten transcription of French documents mostly of the 1840s, most with English facing translation. Cross referenced with list in ANUA 776/8. Heading include voyage of Pomare.

Handwritten research notes and extracts from sources, including Captain Finch's Cruise in the USS Vincennes (1826-1830 and papers of Stepehn C. Rowan (1827-1890).

Material pasted and bound into one volume: Robert Thompson, The Marquesas Islands: Their Description and Early History, edited by Robert D. Craig, Hawaii, Brigham Young University, 1978; pp.1-83; David Darling, Remarks about the Marquesas ,1836, LMS South Seas Journals, SOAS, Box 8. Ts., transcript, annotated, Ts. 10pp. ‘Biography – Temoteitei’ [of the Marquesas], Evangelical Magazine, January 1800, pp.1-14, photocopy.

Phd Thesis, ANU

"This is genealogy no.37 … It is ‘taken from a copy made by Armand Leverd (and in the possession of … J. Frank Stimson’, writes K. Emory… It is the largest and most complete Leeward Island genealogy in the collection of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, it is the only one which carries back to the gods”, Ms., generation nos.1-84, annotated in detail, pp.1-59

Raiatean and English, side by side, 256pp

BA Hons thesis, La Trobe University

Folder containing correspondence (between Dreissen and Anne Salmond), notes on Polynesian geographical knowledge, biographical notes and genealogies. Headings include: ‘Teva’ (‘the war between Teva and Te oro-pa’a, Tahiti’, with genealogies); ‘Tupaia’; ‘Tupaia and others geographical knowledge’; ‘Molyneux’s list of islands compared to Cook’s list’; ‘Tupaia & Central Polynesian Geography’, with extensive notes island by island.

Contains copies of manuscripts of J.M. Orsmond (‘Tahitian Texts by John Muggridge Orsmond’), including Te mau arioi / Tahitian Players’, • ‘Cosmogenic chant … omitted by R.G. White [represents] the last four pages of the Arioi manuscript in the Mitchell Library’, ‘Song fragments’, with numerous handwritten annotation and slipped-in notes, plus

Handwritten list of generation nos.1-73 from genealogy no.37 (ANUA 776/3), with notes and detailed genealogies for nos.74-83, with outsize foldout charts and notes added using sticky tape.