Collection 02: Uniting Church in Australia. Commission for Mission further records, 1947-1971

MLMSS 1893 ADD-ON 1918

sub-fonds

1947-1971

Textual Records, Clippings

897636

0.34 metres of textual material (2 boxes) - manuscript, carbon typescript

Miss Margareta (Reta) Berry, 1911-1989, was born in Great Harwood, England.
From 1947-1968 she served as a missionary for the Methodist Overseas Mission in Papua. She worked in different' capacities - teacher, spiritual leader and secretary to the chairman of the District. She died in Melbourne on 21 June 1989.

This collection comprises the personal papers of Miss Margareta (Reta) Berry

BOX 1
1. Diaries, 1949-1950, 1956-1963, manuscript
2. Teaching Material. Typescript with MS notes. Being scripture teaching material, includes sermon notes.
3a. Miscellaneous related material - ' Extracts from the diary and letters of Miss J. Tinney of the Methodist Mission British New Guinea ', 1892-1902, no date, carbon typescript
3b. Miscellaneous related material - Extracts from letters and reports by various authors, ca. 1947-ca.1963, carbon typescript
3c. Miscellaneous related material - ' Murua or Woodlark Island. A Study of European - Muruan Contact to 1942 ', 1971. Typescript thesis submitted by D.A. Affleck, with cuttings and related material, 1949-1955

BOX 2
4. Correspondence, 1947-1968

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Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Keyword subject:
Missions, Australian -- Papua New Guinea