Lorimer Fison - Papers 1865-1868

PMB 26

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Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau [19--]

421985

Microfilm : PMB 26

ne microfilm reel 35 mm

Fison, a university-eduated man, with a keen interest in anthropology, was born in Suffolk, England, in 1832. He migrated to Australia in 1856, joined the Methodist Church, and went to Fiji as a missionary in 1864. He remained in Fiji until 1844, when he returned to Australia and became editor of the Spectator, a Melbourne church paper. He died in 1907

Copies of letters, notes on Fiji customs and personalities, sketches of life in Fiji, and an early draft of Fison's book Tales of Old Fiji (London, 1907). The wording of some of the tales, as recorded in these papers, has been much worked over and occasionally differs in its final form from that in the published versions

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 26
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original in private ownership