Records of the Melanesian Mission, 1847-1968 (inclusive) [microform].

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Records of the Melanesian Mission, 1847-1968 (inclusive) [microform].

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Records pertaining to New Hebrides and Solomon Islands missions, and executive committee minutes; vocabularies, correspondence and prayers; also F. E. Swabey's biography of Elizabeth Colenso, and The Island Voyage, an account of the annual voyages of the mission vessel, Southern Cross.

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Yale University Library

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Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

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Colenso, Elizabeth, 1821-1904

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Missionary, teacher, translator and wife of William Colenso (1811-1899). From the description of Diaries and notebooks, 1862-1895 (inclusive) [microform]. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 81615196 ...

Melanesian Mission

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Member of the Church of England Missionary and Ecumenical Council. From the description of Records of the Melanesian Mission, 1890-1932 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152310 ...

Swabey, Frances Edith.

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Welchman, Henry.

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Fox, C. E. (Charles Elliot), 1878-1974

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The Rev. Dr. C. E. Fox was born in Dorset, England in 1878, and was educated in New Zealand. He joined the Melanesian Mission from New Zealand and was posted to the Mission's school on Norfolk Island in 1902. After being ordained in 1903, he spent some time in the Banks Group of the New Hebrides before going to San Cristobal, Solomon Islands in 1908 where he began a school and started learning the local languages. He remained in the Solomons throughout the Pacific war, living behind Japanese lin...