Sister Gwen E. G. Shaw papers and textbooks regarding education in the British Solomon Islands, 1929-1976

MLMSS 3105

fonds

1929-1976

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

917474

2 boxes of textual material

Sister Gwen Shaw, a missionary sister from 1925, was trained in London and taught in the Solomon Islands, 1929-1951, at the Anglican Melanesian Mission of the Sisters of the Cross. She later joined the Roman Catholic Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary. For her publications, she used the pseudonym Gwen Cross. Sister Veronica of the Cross was at the Melanesian Mission

Series 01: Papers, 1929-1976
BOX 1
Item 1
a. Biographical information supplied by Sister Gwen Shaw, 1976

b. South Pacific and British Solomon Islands Protectorate, travels 1929
Item 2
i. Photographs set 1

Item 3
ii. Descriptions of photographs 1-60 from film strip no. 0592

Film strip filed at FM4/7140

c. Bunana Central Girls' Boarding School, 1936-1941
Item 4
i. Photographs set 2

Item 5
ii. Descriptions of photographs 1-51 from film strip no. 0581

Film strip filed at FM4/7140

Item 6
iii. Organisation and syllabus of Bunana Central Girls' Boarding School, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1936-1941, compiled 1952

Item 7
iv. Interim report no.7 by W. Groves 1937-1938, dated 14 December 1939, with 'Some corrections to the Groves report'

Items 8-9
v. Articles and notes by Sister Gwen Shaw, 1950

Items 10-11
vi. Notes on books written by Sister Gwen Shaw, 1936-ca. 1967, with list of books and example of 'Simple Housecraft Book'

Item 12
d. Primitive Pacific Island Designs reproduced by Sister Gwen Shaw in New South Wales during 1952

Item 13
e. Suggestions for the organisation in the South Solomons of a Girls' Central Boarding School, compiled 1952

Item 14
f. Notes for a Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, held in 1952

Series 02: Textbooks by Sister Gwen Shaw. Printed, with annotations by Sister Gwen Shaw
BOX 2
Items 1-14
a. Readers for the Melanesian Mission, 1945-1950

Items 15-47
b. Longman's Tropical Library Series, 1949-1964

Items 48-52
c. Textbooks translated into Swahili, Singhalese, Malayalam and Tamil languages, 1953-1964

Item 53
d. The School Island, by Sister Veronica of the Cross, 1949, regarding Bunana, Solomon Islands

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Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-547C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011