Leopold Verguet - Dissertation and letter, 18---1893

PMB 996

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Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

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Verguet went to the Solomon Islands as a Marist missionary in December 1845 and remained there until early 1847. He was the author of two works on the Solomons, Histoire de la premiere mission catholique au vicariat de Melanesie (1st edn, Brussels 1854; 2nd edn Paris 1861) and Grand archipel des Iles Salomon: son etendue, sa fertilite (Marseilles, 1883). At the time of writing the dissertation, he was canon of the Cathedral of Carcassonne, France

1. "Dissertation sur une deuxieme mission aux Iles Salomon". 2. Letter, 1893 Apr. 24 to the Very Rev. Father Monfat. It gives Verguet's views on a proposal to resume mission work in the Solomons, including the type of ship required, mission houses and plantations. There are numerous sketches of harbours and anchorages

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