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Box 1: Papers relating to Loyalty Islands, particularly papers of James Sleigh, 1862-1947
Box 2: LMS Subject file on Nauru Island, 1922, 1930-37; statement of the case of the Rev. John Jones of Mare, 1889
Box 3: Subject files, papers, ms., letters, press cuttings re. Samoa, 1875-1939. Includes material on centenary, files on John Liston and Reginald Barlett, ms. articles and works, including 'Samoan Grammar' & 'Geneaology of the Samoan Kings'
Box 4: Miscellaneous papers and correspondence on the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1900-1946. Includes subject files, papers relating to William Goward & Wilfred Levett, ms. article, 'Introduction of the Gospel to Nanomanga'; materials re. the Church on Niue Island, 1857-1940. Includes church book, church roll, typescripts on history
Box 5: Papers on Cook Islands including subject files, 1929-45; Rarotongan dictionary possibly by H. P. Bradsford; Rarotongan notebook, 1869; correspondence re. Tahiti, 1934-47
Box 6: Mss. history of the LMS in Tahiti, 1830; correspondence and papers re. Tahiti mission, 1830-1936
Box 13: Microfilm of papers in the Nan Kivell Collection (National Library of Australia); microfilm of some William Henry letters in the LMS archive
Box 14: Niue vocabulary book by George Pratt (?) and 'Notes on Niue grammar', by F. E. Lawes; articles on the Gilbert Islands during World War II
Box 19: 'Pacific Islands Monthly', extracts, 1936-1949, with loose cuttings, 1953-54
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