'The Documentary Basis for Pacific Studies: a report on progress and desiderata', 1967, by Henry Evans Maude

MLMSS 1743

fonds

1967

423092

1 folder of textual material

H. E. Maude, Professorial Fellow in Pacific History in the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National University, prepared the report for use during the preliminary negotiations between the Department of Pacific History of the Research School of Pacific Studies and several research libraries which led to the establishment in 1968 of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

Describes resources of manuscript material on the Pacific Islands in the United Kingdom, France, Western Germany, Eastern Germany, Spain, Russia, Italy, U.S.A., Peru, Chile, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Outlines a proposal for a co-operative scheme to locate, catalogue and copy such material. Enclosures include a report by P. Mander-Jones, c.1967, on the Guide to Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia and the South West Pacific, and a report on an attempt in 1956 to copy German Foreign Office records at Potsdam, with list of records re Samoa, 1874-1936

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (9-43C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

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