Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia records, 1818-1970

MLMSS 11593/Boxes 1-69
MLMSS 11593/Boxes 70X-71X
MLMSS 11593/Volume 72X

fonds

1818-1970

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Cartographic Materials, Clippings

9585696

13.3 metres of textual material (69 boxes, 2 outsize boxes, 1 outsize volume and maps) including one photograph

BOX 1
Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church Annual Conference minutes 1855-1862, 1896-1900, 1909
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1902-1903

BOX 2
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1904-1908

BOX 3
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1909-1912

BOX 4
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1913-1916

BOX 5
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1917-1920

BOX 6
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1921-1924

BOX 7
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1925-1928

BOX 8
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1929-1932

BOX 9
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1933-1936

BOX 10
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1937-1939

BOX 11
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1940-1942

BOX 12
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1943-1945

BOX 13
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1946-1948

BOX 14
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1949-1951

BOX 15
Methodist Church of Australasia Annual Conference minutes 1952-1954

BOX 16
Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Church General Conference minutes 1875-1901
Methodist Church of Australasia General Conference minutes 1904
N.S.W. and Queensland Annual Conference of the Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Church minutes 1874-1895

BOX 17
Wesleyan Methodist Church (U.K.) Annual Conference minutes 1925, 1931
Methodist Church (U.K.) Annual Conference minutes 1939-1941
Wesleyan-Methodist magazine 1839
Missionary register 1820
Jubliee report of the Wesleyan Missionary Society 1863-1868
Wesleyan Missionary notices 1879

BOX 18
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Reports 1818-1820,1824-1831, 1837-1838, 1841-1849, 1856

BOX 19 Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Society Reports 1857-1904

BOX 20
Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Annual Reports 1905, 1908-1923

BOX 21
Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Annual Reports 1924-1945
Wesleyan Missionary Notices (relating to Foreign Missions) 1845-1852, 1854-1858

BOX 22
Wesleyan Missionary Notices (relating to Foreign Missions) 1859-1867, 1869, 1871-1873

BOX 23
English Missionary Notices 1823-1838, 1864-1872

BOX 24
Wesleyan Missionary Notices, relating to the Missions, under the direction of the Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Conference
October 1857-April 1878
Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church minutes of several conversations between the ministers 1858-1875
Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church (South Australia) minutes of several conversations between the ministers 1875-1876
Minutes of several conversations between the ministers of Victoria and Tasmania 1876, 1878-1879,1881-1882, 1888

BOX 25
Wesleyan Methodist Church minutes of several conversations between the Methodist ministers 1875,1877
Wesleyan Methodist Church minutes of several conversations of the people called Methodists 1885, 1899-1890, 1905, 1907, 1910, 1925, 1931
Transcription of Bishops correspondence, 1925

BOX 26
Sydney District Synod minutes 1871,1878, 1902,

BOX 27
Sydney District Synod minutes 1907, 1911, 1918, 1921

BOX 28
Sydney District Synod minutes 1922
Sydney District Synod minute book 1889-1907

BOX 29
Minutes of District Synods 1859, 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905

BOX 30
Minutes of District Synods 1905, 1908, 1915-1916
Methodist Missionary Society of Australia Annual Meeting minutes 1915
North Coast District Synod cashbook 1922-1929

BOX 31
Sydney West District minutes 1895
North Coast District Synod daily record 1881-1902
Letters to Reverend William Billington Boyce 1851-1854
Wesleyan Methodist New South Wales District Annual General Meeting minutes 1857-1864

BOX 32
The Report of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia 1924-1928, 1936-1937, 1939-1942, 1944
Fiji Mission report 1907
Wesleyan Missionary notices 1866
Brief account of Methodist Missions
Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Trust Association
Publications on the Methodist Church and Missionary work in Australia
Cecil Frank Gribble handwritten notebook

BOX 33
Correspondence between the Chairman and missionaries posted in India 1953-1957
Correspondence between Cecil Frank Gribble and missionaries posted in India 1967-1968
Parramatta Circuit quarterly meeting minute book 1852-1900
United Church in Papua, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands minutes 1969
United Church in Papua, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands staff vacancies 1970

BOX 34
Letters to Reverend Stephen Rabone 1857-1869
Letters to Reverend William Billington Boyce 1855

BOX 35
Published volumes on the history of Fiji and missionary work

BOX 36
Published volumes on the history of Fiji and missionary work

BOX 37
Published volumes on the history of Fiji and missionary work, including reports

BOX 38
Published volumes on the history of Papua New Guinea and missionary work
Twenty years among primitive Papuans by William E. Bromilow
Twenty years in Central Africa by Rev. Henry Rowley
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy by A. Montefiore-Brice
Entire sanctification : its nature, the way of its attainment by Rev. John Hunt

BOX 39
Published volumes on the history of Papua New Guinea and missionary work, including reports

BOX 40
Published volumes on the history of the Pacific Islands and missionary work

BOX 41
Published volumes on the history of the Pacific Islands and missionary work, including reports
Published volumes on the history of missionary work in Australia, including reports

BOX 42
Missionary review (serial) 1931-1939

BOX 43
George Brown, pioneer-missionary and explorer : an autobiography
Illustrated history of Methodism by James Colwell
Die Bibel oder, die ganze Heilige Schrift Dr Martin Luthers
Kamilaroi and Kurnai by Lorimer Fison

BOX 44
Published volumes on missionary work worldwide

BOX 45
Published volumes by the Methodist Church of Australasia, Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Children of - series
Published volumes on the history of India and missionary work

BOX 46
A dictionary of the New Britain dialect and English and of English and New Britain also a grammar by Rev. R.H. Rickard 1889 (handwritten)
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838, 1840, 1841, 1842 by Charles Wilkes

BOX 47
A dictionary of the dialect spoken in the Duke of York Island by Rev. G. Brown and Rev. B. Danks (handwritten)
A dictionary of the Duke York Is. language, New Britain Group by the Revds G. Brown and B. Danks also a grammar of the same , and an introduction (1882) and (1888) (handwritten)
The languages of the New Hebrides by Sidney H. Ray ; revised by John Fraser (1893)

BOX 48
Published volumes
Methodist magazine for 1809, being a continuation of the Arminian magazine

BOX 49
World missionary atlas, containing a directory of missionary societies Edited by Harlan P. Beach [and] Charles H. Fahs ; Maps by John Bartholomew

BOX 50
Published volumes in languages spoken in New Guinea
A nilai ra dovot 1950-1953 (incomplete) Tolai language
Tapwaroro teterina, Issues 13-18, 20-21

BOX 51
Published volumes in languages spoken in New Guinea

BOX 52
Published volumes in languages spoken in New Guinea

BOX 53
Published volumes in languages spoken in New Guinea

BOX 54
Rotuman language books

BOX 55
Rotuman language books

BOX 56
Published volumes in languages spoken in Papua New Guinea

BOX 57
Published volumes in languages spoken in Papua New Guinea

BOX 58
Published volumes in languages spoken in Papua New Guinea

BOX 59
Ai Vola Tabu
The Bible in the Fijian language

BOX 60
Fijian language books

BOX 61
Fijian language books

BOX 62
Fijian language books
Fiji quarterly letter, numbers 1-5, October 1863-October 1864

BOX 63
Koe tohi hisitolia 'o mamani...
A history of the world in the Tongan language
Koe tohi Tabu katoa ...
The Bible in the Tongan language
Koni koga 'oe Tohitabu motu'a bea moe Fuakava Fo'ou katoa ...
The New Testament in the Tongan language

BOX 64
Tongan language books
A vocabulary of the Tonga language, arranged in alphabetical order, to which is annexed a list of idiomatical phrases By Rev. S Rabone 1845 (handwritten)

BOX 65
Tongan language books

BOX 66
Tongan language books

BOX 67
O le Tusi Paia : o le Feagaiga Tuai ma le Feagaiga Fou lea / ua faasamoaina
The Bible in the Samoan language
O Pese ma viiga i le atua
Hymns in the Samoan language
O le tusi ua faamatalaina ai le tusi paia
Commentary on the Holy Bible in the Samoan dialect by the Rev. George Pratt.

BOX 68
Books in the Samoan language

BOX 69
Published volumes on missionary work with Australian Aboriginals
Published volumes in languages spoken by Australian Aboriginals
They crossed a continent, signed by the author Margaret Somerville
Published volumes in languages spoken in the Solomon Islands

BOX 70X
Photograph of attendees at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference 1861
Sketch and grand plan of the Lautoka Hotel 14th June 1920

BOX 71X
The weekly advocate April 2, 1881-March 25, 1882

Volume 72X
New South Wales and Queensland Conference of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church 1874-1893

MAPS
1 x bundle of rolled maps
Fiji
Methodist Overseas Missions Australasia
Hand drawn plan of Muanisei and Navuso
Hand drawn map of New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea
Hand drawn map of Papua New Guinea highlands
Fold out maps of New Britain, Fiji and the Solomon Islands published by the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia
Koe tohi mabe Map of the world, folded into cover with one other map

Maps are catalogued at:
M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 11593/1
M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 11593/2
M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 11593/3
M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 11593/4
M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 11593/5
M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 11593/6

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Contents list of titles in Pacific Island languages (boxes 51-70) located in BOX 1