Charles W. Banks - Diaries, 1897-1898

PMB 1067

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

441410

Microfilm : PMB 1067

microfilm reel 35 mm

Born 1839 near Birmingham, England, Banks spent some years in the United States where he fought in the Civil War and was also an employee of Wells Fargo, whose employment he left while under a charge of embezzlement. He settled in the Cook Islands (Atiu) in 1881. He became a trader and lived in Arorangi until his death in 1915. For a period of his life Banks adopted the pseudonym John Scard

Two diaries with daily handwritten notes describing Banks' life and work as a trader in the Cook Islands

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1067
For other Banks diaries see PMB 1068-1070
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held by Cook Islands Library and Museum Society, Rarotonga (MS 51)