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Groups include: W H Edgell and T A Williams with named indigenous church members; Archdeacon R B Comins with Mrs Comins and girls at their house, St Barnabas; girls in Archdeacon Comins' house, with pet cats; group of missionary personnel including Archdeacon and Mrs Comins, Mrs Wilson, Rev G K Moir, Mrs Calder, Miss Ardill, Rev F H Petrie; Mr ?Hurse; Bishop John Selwyn and Mrs Annie Catherine Selwyn, Dr R H Codrington and indigenous male church members, indignous men in mission compound cemetery; men in village; Dr Codrington with Indigenous men outside house; missionary party watching cricket, St Barnabas, including Dr and Mrs Welchman; Archdeacon and W J and A J Palmer, Miss Firmstone, Mrs Robin, Jack, Frank and Mrs Browning, Mrs Comins, ?V Tilly, E Simpson, Mrs Colenso; group outside Rev C Bice's house; Bishop Wood with church procession, including outsde the print shop. People include: Melanesian scholar at Norfolk Island (Carte-de visite given to Rev F H Spencer by Mrs Selwyn, wife of Bishop John Selwyn following garden party in 1877). Activities include: group of ladies cleaning arrowroot including Misses Wilson, Wench Ardill and Hurse; group of men preparing and cleaning arrowroot; men washing arrowroot; H Rossiter and John Curchill Palmer making arrowroot. Places or building include: The Vanua, St Barnabas; Patteson memorial chapel, St Barnabas church; Alalane Paen, married people's quarters; old chapel, St Barnabas; interior of R B Comins study. Prints taken by/received from: D P; Rev F H Spencer; R B Comins; Mrs O'Farrall; H Rossiter; E B S Mercer, Auckland; J W Beattie, including postcards published on behalf of Melanesian Mission.
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