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441390
  • Title
    Lorimer Fison - Papers, 1867-188-?
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PMB 1040
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    441390
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 1040
  • Physical Description
    microfilm reel 35 mm
  • Scope and Content
    Item 1: Manuscript by Fison entitled "Old Fiji" containing notes on Fijian history and customs with descriptive anecdotes n.d. 82 p. Item 2: Manuscripts in unidentified handwriting of biographical essays about South Seas missionary martyrs. 68ff, as follows: A - "Massacre of the Rev. Thomas Baker and party on Sunday 21st July 1867 at Gag dela Vatu Na Vosa, Viti Levu, Fiji." After 1867. 39ff. A(i) - Incomplete account in one handwriting, 20ff. A(ii) - Complete account in two other hands, apparently the version of a planter and store owner who lived at the Rewa River mouth at the time of the massacre. 19ff. B - "John Coleridge Patteson." After 1871 14ff. C - "Rev. John Williams." After 1889. 15 ff. Items 1 and 2 are held by the Dixon Library. Item 3: Press copy book, Sermons, articles and letters, 1867-1873, held by the Mitchell Library
  • General note

    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1040
    Fison Project
    Available for reference
    Microfilm copy of originals held by the Dixon Library and the Mitchell Library, The State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000
    Not to be reproduced for publication without the consent of the holding institution
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